The Tianjin Acropolis was easily taken, and the manpower lost by the Hongtang army was not worth mentioning, and the only thing wasting was time.

However, at this time, Wu Jie, as the commander, was not in a hurry, for Hongmen, steady and steady progress was the best way for their army to exert its true strength.

At this time, on the battlefield of the Beijing Division, the two sides were still in a stalemate under the city, after all, in the case that the main force of the Hongtang army had not arrived, and it was not good to use artillery on a large scale, with Shang Kexi's less than 50,000 troops in their hands, it was difficult to capture the Beijing Division.

The reason why the Hongtang army has not decreased but increased, compared with the size of thousands more than before the siege of the Beijing Division, is that they are still gratifying, through ideological education and profit temptation, through ideological education and profit temptation, more than 5,000 usable people selected from the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty army captured before have filled their lost troops into their ranks to enrich themselves.

The military service system used by the army of the Ming Dynasty was controlled by the guard, which meant that most of the soldiers in their regular main army were military households, and their identity could never be changed.

Especially the Gongwei army in the Imperial City of the Son of Heaven, such as the Xuanfeng Battalion and the Fenyong Battalion, is even more so.

Although compared with the army of the Ming local guard, the military households of the Beijing Division lived a relatively better life, but they were not too rich, so when the Hongtang army usually dismissed the soldiers and taught them knowledge and learning, the non-commissioned officers showed their eloquence, starting from both ideological and material aspects, and soon selected soldiers from this group of captives who were willing to turn against each other and serve the Hongtang army.

Of course, the material temptation in this is bound to be greater, after all, in a short period of time, if you want to enlighten this group of military households who can't read a few big characters through ideological education and other means, it can be said that they are playing the piano to the cow, and it is rare that there are a few learned people who are not helpful.

But the material temptation easily moved this group of soldiers who were still loyal vassals of the Ming Dynasty a moment ago.

The erosion of the military household system has long been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, although the Ming Dynasty began a few years ago, has changed, the famous Qi family army, Yu family army, etc., during the Jiajing period, are all mercenaries trained with silver money, they fight for money, and can break away from the army at any time, so when they fight, they are brave and take the lead, and the combat power is amazing.

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, these military households still had a little bit of tuntian, and their lives were much better than those of ordinary households, but now the tuntian handed down by the older generation of military households is still cultivated in their hands, and almost all of them have been annexed by those prominent families in the current dynasty.

Therefore, up to now, the life of the military households in the Daming Guard is becoming more and more difficult, and it is very difficult to support a family.

And the Hongtang army persuaded the non-commissioned officers, just when persuading those soldiers, they said that they could abolish the identity of the other party's military household and live like ordinary households, and this reason alone had already made the other party ecstatic, not to mention that after Hongmen occupied a large area of land and villages outside the city, special government staff followed up and began to measure the land, and the Hongmen's land distribution system on Dayuan Island was slowly implemented on the land they occupied.

Hongmen now has a complete set of political programs, the most important of which is also in the hands of the Hongmen propaganda department, which is the program on land distribution: All Hongmen citizens, regardless of the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, will have their own land, the laborers will have their salaries, and their private property will be sacred and inviolable.

Although these are only part of the simplified political program of the Hongmen propaganda department when it was publicizing to the outside world, there is no more acceptable policy for those people at the bottom than such a policy.

"My lord, Tianjin Wei is lost!"

Some soldiers finally passed the blockade of the Hongtang army outside the city and sent the news of the Tianjin Wei incident more than 100 miles away to the Beijing Division, and some people hurriedly reported it to the Zuo Shilang of the military department who was firmly guarding the Beijing Division.

"When?"

Plug Yinxi was not surprised at all, but was quite surprised that Tianjin Wei had not been captured by Hongtang's army until now.

What is the strength of Hongtang's army, Cao Bianjiao's 30,000 troops went out of the city to fight earlier, and finally only escaped back to more than 10,000 people, which has given them a general understanding of the real combat effectiveness of Hongtang.

With an army of 20,000 or 30,000 in Tianjin Weina District, they were able to hold on for twenty years in front of Hongtang's real main force, which had already exceeded their expectations for the Tianjin guards.

"At noon yesterday, the Tianjin Acropolis was broken by the Hongtang army and the naval fleet, and then the Hongtang army was sent into the city to fight our defenders."

"This morning, my Tianjin Wei left, center, and right three guards commanded the stubborn resistance left in the city, but the strength was also weak, and finally was blocked in the city by the Hongtang army, as far as my Jinyi Wei spy knows, he has become a prisoner of the Hongtang army."

Su Bingtian, the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town, is the eyes and ears of Jingshi Du Yinxi, and a lot of information is obtained through their Jinyi Wei's channels.

"It's a pity that Ni Bin and them, there is no need to stay in the Tianjin Acropolis, with what they do, compared to other generals, they are already too strong!"

It is also a pity that there are not many soldiers in the Ming Dynasty army who can do this as Ni Bin commanded them.

When they heard that they were finally captured, they were naturally very sorry, and they were also full of worries and helplessness about their future future.

"That's not right, Ni Bin's command makes it understandable for them to be Fu and us, after all, they have done their best, can even Mei Yingwu's command be obediently captured?"

Cao Bianjiao has been in the army for a long time, and he also has a lot of friendship with the generals of the army near Jingshi, and in the face of Jinyiwei's intelligence, he didn't even say that he had a hot temper, and the stubborn Mei Yingwu commander had other actions, but it made him a little surprised.

"The Hongtang army is too cunning, they besieged Tianjin City at the beginning, and deliberately let Tianjin Weinan City have a way out, so after seeing that it was hopeless to defend Tianjin City, General Ni Bin and they thought about sending their relatives out of the city first, so that they would have no worries."

"But I didn't think that this Hongtang army arranged an army of more than 15,000 people more than 50 miles south of the Tianjin Acropolis to specifically surround the people who were lonely and helpless after escaping from Tianjin, and just happened to arrest General Ni and his relatives who were sent out of the city."

"In the end, the Hongtang army used General Ni and his relatives as a threat to force General Ni and them to give up resistance and be captured."

Su Bingtian told the inside story, and at the same time quietly exonerated Ni Bin and others, who had already been fu.

"Ni Bin and they are also confused, in fact, they should have sent their family members to Beijing or Nanjing from the beginning, but now they have become a bargaining chip to hinder them!"

Du Yinxi was quite ashamed of Ni Bin's unwisdom in making arrangements, and then nagged twice, but he didn't see that many of the generals under his command had changed color slightly.

Who dares to send their relatives to Beijing or Nanjing before the war, isn't this just sending their relatives into the tiger's mouth in disguise, which is just convenient for the imperial court to use this as a threat to force a general like himself to die and make his will?

If you die, you will die, and you are afraid that your relatives will have no use value after your death, and you will become the pawns and prey of other magnates.

"But General Ni Bin and they have done their best, about the matter of their being fu, before it is rumored that they have returned to Hongtang, you Jinyi Wei will not report it!"

However, it is rare for a literati who has much respect for the martial artists under his command, and under the deliberate misdirection of Su Bingtian before, he can also understand Ni Bin's situation very well, so he did not forget to give Ni Bin and them a good aftermath.

"Yes!"

In fact, even if there was no order to block Yinxi, Su Bingtian was not prepared to report Ni Bin and their Fu in time, among the Ni Bin who was Fu, there was also a Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi of their Su family, and he naturally hoped that when the Ming Dynasty Emperor broke the siege, he could give his own children and nephews a chance.

"Since Tianjin Wei has fallen, it will not be long before my Jingshi will become the next Tianjin Wei."

After chatting about the matter of Tianjin Wei, Du Yinxi quickly began to discuss the matter of Jingshi's side with the soldiers around him.

"The situation of our Beijing division is not optimistic now, and the messenger sent for help has been south to Nanjing for more than half a month, and there has been no return so far."

"For the reinforcements of the imperial court, we need to hold out for at least two to three months before we can see the true face: whether it is recruiting ordinary people to form an army, or mobilizing troops from other local guards, it will take time."

"Even if it is from the Chengdu Plain in the southwest to recruit the counterinsurgency army of Lord Sun, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, the journey north to Beijing will take at least two months."

Du Yinxi began to describe their current situation as if calmly, but in fact, everyone knew that the probability that the Ming Jingshi might send troops north was very small.

The Hongmen people are too cunning, and their base camp is placed on the vast sea of the South Sea, which directly threatens the foundation of the Ming Dynasty in Jiangnan; The Hongmen people sent troops to land on the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but the direction of the attack was placed in the north of the Ming Dynasty, which made the Ming Dynasty in a state of flanking in disguise, and it was still very difficult for the Ming Dynasty to take into account the huge threat in both directions.

Since Chongzhen ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty has been in a situation of constant disputes, and has strangled and pacified the peasant rebels again and again, but they have resurfaced again and again like weeds; The Jurchen barbarians of the Qing Dynasty have always been eyeing the rich land of China in Guannei, and almost every year there are trips to disturb the border, forcing the Ming Dynasty to have to garrison the army in Liaodong and other places, so that the Ming Dynasty Hall has an extremely heavy burden.

And it's just that God can't get along with Chongzhen, he has been the emperor for more than 20 years, and the entire Ming Dynasty can be said to be unique in the years of wind and rain, and there are all kinds of disasters in all provinces.

After a long period of consumption, the original powerful torso of the Ming Dynasty was gradually hollowed out, and it was not easy to wait until the strong men of the Ming Dynasty broke their wrists, giving up the heavy burden of disasters and barbarians coveting in the north, so that the Ming Dynasty could live and recuperate south of the Yellow River.

But it didn't come to pass, everyone originally thought that they were not strong in coveting the Ming Dynasty, at least on the surface, Li Tianyang, the king of the South China Sea, and Hong Tang, who was under his command, suddenly raised the anti-flag and waved their weapons towards the Ming Dynasty when their Ming Dynasty was gradually recovering its strength and recovering the lost territory.

The opportunity for the Hongmen people to choose was excellent, just in time for the Ming people to recover the northern land, and when the Dashun Li Zicheng, who eliminated one of the great troubles, and mobilized the army to prepare to take down the demon king of the chaos in one go.

At this time, not long after the northern land was recovered from the hands of the Qing people, Sun Chuanting, who was originally stationed here, requisitioned a large number of elites stationed in Beijing and other places to march westward, making the Henan garrison of Beijing Division weak; After a series of major battles, the imperial court has not much grain and grass in stock, so it is already a little stretched to support Sun Chuanting in the southwest to eliminate Zhang Xianzhong in the west, and where are the surplus troops and materials to support the northern Beijing division.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty had given up on this capital before, but it was reborn, and before regaining the northern homeland, although because of the destruction and looting of the Jurchen barbarians of the Qing Dynasty, let themselves get a poor and white, but there is no burden in the north, but it also allows the Ming Dynasty to face up to and accept the loss of the north being occupied again.

Of course, all the civil and military officials present here knew these thoughts, but none of them dared to speak out and pierce them.

"As ministers, we have been blessed by the emperor, and at this time of national crisis, we are coming out of stealth to contribute to my Ming Dynasty. Even if you can't see death as if you were home, this official also hopes that you can stick to Beijing for March until the Nanjing cabinet gives support or answers! ”

Gu Yinxi is not a nerd who doesn't know how to change, and he still knows roughly what kind of little Jiujiu is in the hearts of the group of civil and military ministers around him.

Even he himself did not dare to guarantee that he would live and die with Jingshi when the city of Jingshi was broken, but as a minister, he also hoped to be able to fulfill his duties as a courtier before he was completely defeated.

"Wow!!"

"The subordinate officer receives the order!"

"Lord Xue, from today onwards, the grain and grass in the capital will be managed by you, and the daily expenditure will be provided according to the capitation, and you can't squander it wantonly!"

"The subordinate officer receives the order!"

"General Cao, the deployment of troops in the city and the handover of the city defense, you will make a comprehensive plan, as well as the security in the city, and the curfew will be implemented from tonight, and you will be asked to come up with a charter in the afternoon for the specific arrangement!"

"Whoa!"

“…………”

Because of the fall of Tianjin City, although the Beijing division had been strictly guarded before, everyone was nervous again and began to wait for an upcoming difficult battle.

(End of chapter)