Chapter Seventy-Eight: Soldiers Forced Xuanfu
During the few days of rest in Zhangjiakou, Fang Yuan paid Sun Chuanting 1 million taels of military expenses for moving the division in accordance with his previous promise, which stabilized the morale of the army.
The reward of 50,000 taels for the soldiers of the three major battalions of the pro-army army was also secretly distributed.
Fang Yuan deposited all the 250,000 taels of gold and 100,000 taels of silver he had withheld into the Yue Bao account in the Taobao system, charging a lot of interest. There are also 50,000 taels of silver allocated to Jing Jie as the military expenses of the new-style army.
promised Cai Maode and Zhou Yuji's silver, because the two were loyal to the country, they did not dare to divide the silver privately, so they decided to return to the capital by Fang Yuan and report to Emperor Chongzhen before distributing it.
As for the other jewelry and jade, Fang Yuan divided it into ten parts, one for Sun Chuanting, Cai Maode, and Zhou Yuji, one for himself, and the rest was to be brought back to the capital to be used to deal with the father-in-law of the celebrant and the eunuch.
After distributing the spoils of war in Zhangjiakou Gong City, Fang Yuan ordered Jingjie, Chigutai, and Li Zongze to stay in Gong City, and selected 500 elite soldiers who were good at fighting on horseback, had courage, and dared to fight for their lives among the 20,000 young and strong homeless people to enter the cavalry battalion, and 100 homeless people who had used firearms and artillery to enter the artillery battalion, expanding the establishment of the new-style army to 1,000 people.
Due to the continuous consumption these days, Fang Yuan checked the consumption points of the system again, and it has reached 115,300 taels of silver, which can be upgraded to VIP2 users.
System VIP2 users can open the 'Huabei' function. This Huabei function, similar to the credit card of the system, can be overdrawn equal to the amount of consumption to purchase the system's goods.
The repayment setting of this Huabei function is that the repayment will be made within one month, and no installment handling fee will be charged; If you can't repay the loan within one month, you can choose to repay the loan in installments of two, three, six, nine and twelve installments, and charge the corresponding interest.
As long as you use the Huabei function and repay the loan on time, you can increase the host's sesame credit points. The improvement of Sesame Credit Score can increase the amount of Huabei installment overdraft.
After confiscating the Jin Shang's family wealth, Fang Yuan is now wealthy, and his family wealth exceeds Chongzhen's imperial silver treasury, so he does not need to use the overdraft of Huabei installments for the time being.
But using Huabei shopping and interest-free functions within a month made Fang Yuan find a way to earn some interest.
In the future, every time you shop, you can use Huabei to shop, no interest within a month, and return it after a month.
In this way, you can not only earn some pocket money interest, but also brush the system's sesame credit points, which can be used if you need to make large-scale overdraft purchases in the Taobao system in the future.
Fang Yuan chose Huabei shopping in the system, advanced 115,300 taels, and purchased 500 explosion-proof suits again to arm his new army.
With such a large amount of business, Fang Yuan has become a platinum VIP customer of this explosion-proof equipment store, and the merchant generously gave Fang Yuan a 50,000 yuan voucher for an indefinite period of time. With this 50,000 yuan voucher, some daily necessities, and even home decoration, can be spent without spending a penny.
Fang Yuan left Jing Jie and others in Gong City, and he led Qin Zhan's 100 brocade guards, as well as the drone team commanded by Su Hongyu, Zhou Yuji's 5,000 Taiyuan Mansion cavalry, and Sun Chuanting's 90,000 elite army to the north, and slaughtered Xuanfu Town, one of the nine border towns of the Ming Dynasty.
Two days later, the army marched to the territory of Xuanfu Town.
Xuanfu Town is one of the most important border towns in the Ming Dynasty. Since its initial establishment, it has been the most important gateway to defend the Mongols from the south and defend the Beijing Division.
The people of the Ming Dynasty often praised the Xuanfu Teaching Field, Datong Mother-in-law, and Jizhen City Wall side by side.
Jizhen was the front line against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the city wall built was the largest, thickest, and strongest wall.
Datong mother-in-law is the number one prostitute in the country, and is famous for her 'heavy family'.
The Xuanfu Teaching Field refers to the large teaching field in Xuanfu Town, which can accommodate 150,000 soldiers to assemble and train at the same time, which shows the grand scale of the Xuanfu Teaching Field.
Before Wanli and the Apocalypse, the center of gravity of the defense of the northern Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty was in Xuanfu and Datong Second Army Town, and more than 100,000 troops were stationed in Xuanfu and Datong all year round, which was where the strongest border army of the Ming Dynasty was.
However, since the apocalypse and Chongzhen, the Manchu Qing Dynasty in eastern Liaodong rose sharply, and the focus of defense of the Ming Dynasty was shifted from the Xuanda Military Region to the Jiliao Military Region.
A few years ago, when Lu Xiang was promoted to the governor of Xuanda, Xuanfu and Datong still had about 50,000 to 100,000 troops. After Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, and after the loss of the Battle of Songjin, the total strength of Xuanfu and Datong is now less than 50,000.
The armies of Fang Yuan, Sun Chuanting, and Zhou Yuji traveled all the way, and most of the soldiers in Huai'anwei, Baoanwei, Wanquanwei, and the military forts of Xuanfu Sanwei along the way were only one or two thousand old and weak soldiers.
These guards and military forts in Xuanfu Town saw Fang Yuan's army coming, and they couldn't figure out what had happened, so they were so frightened that they closed their doors one by one, and sent sergeants to send wine to the army to show their goodwill, and sent a decadent atmosphere of who would attack who was the master, and was ready to open the door and surrender at any time.
Fang Yuan secretly sighed that this kind of border army with extremely low morale could resist the tiger and wolf army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Li Zicheng's fighting for his life was strange.
Wang Chengyin is a person who occupies the pit and does not, only knows how to embezzle and take bribes, and fills his own pockets to bring disaster to the country and the people, and it seems that there is a long way to go to rectify the military morale and morale of Shanxi and Xuanda Military Regions!
Sun Chuanting's 90,000 elites were stationed at the door of Xuanfu Town, and outside the range of the cannons on the city wall, there were 20 company camps, and they set up camp in a defensive formation.
The sergeants of Fang Yuan and Zhou Yuji set up camp on the right flank of Sun Chuanting's department as cover.
The huge city gate of Xuanfu Town was closed, flags fluttered on the city wall, the sergeants were neat, and even more than ten cannons were put out, completely entering a state of combat readiness.
Fang Yuan sent Qin Zhan to lead the Jinyi Guards and went to call the door in the name of the decree, but the sergeants on the city wall turned a blind eye, neither fought back nor responded to the sound, just pretended to be deaf and dumb, and treated Qin Zhan's Jinyi Guards as air.
And Sun Chuanting's 90,000 elites can only be pretentious, and attacking Xuanfu Town, one of the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, without authorization, will only be more guilty than Yuan Chonghuan's unauthorized killing of Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town.
For seven consecutive days, the two sides were so silently consumed and stalemate.
Fang Yuan knew very well that this was not actually a military struggle, but a political struggle. Here and Wang Chengyin had a military confrontation at the gate of Xuanfu Town; In the capital, there must be countless officials who represent the interests of the Donglin Party and Jin Merchants in front of Chongzhen to impeach him for how arrogant and careless he was.
Whether it is Fang Yuan or Wang Chengyin, the officers and soldiers of the Xuanfu are waiting for the other party to make the first move, and if the other party makes the first move, who will stand on the commanding heights of public opinion.
Fang Yuan summoned Sun Chuanting, Zhou Yuji, Qin Zhan, and Su Hongyu to discuss countermeasures.
Sun Chuanting believes that since the officers and soldiers of Xuanfu Town did not take the initiative to attack our army, they used the trick of procrastination, that is, they did not dare to tear their faces. Anyway, the Jin merchants' family wealth was confiscated, and there was so much grain and grass that they were piled up, and they were consumed, waiting for specific instructions from the imperial court.
Zhou Yuji wanted to immediately attack the city and catch Wang Chengyin's grandson for trial, but he also knew that the current situation was indeed very weird, and he still agreed with Sun Chuanting's procrastination.
Fang Yuan knew that the more he dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be for him, because he was only Chongzhen in the backstage of the court, and there were some fathers-in-law who could not interfere in politics; And Wang Chengyin and Fan Yongdou have a lot of support in the court, and after a long delay, once Chongzhen can't withstand the pressure of the ministers one day, it will be a failure.
The reason why Wang Chengyin and Fan Yongdou dared to use the procrastination trick at this juncture was that they had a vicious vision and saw their own seven-inch slamming.
After Fang Yuan consulted with everyone, even if he wanted to delay, he had to take the initiative, instead of waiting passively, and decided to take the initiative to attack and focus on breaking the hearts of the officers and soldiers of Xuanfu.
In two days, Sun Chuanting's sergeant wrote thousands of surrender letters, stating that Wang Chengyin was the only one who was guilty, and had nothing to do with other officers and soldiers in Xuanfu, as long as Xuanfu Town handed over the chief soldier Wang Chengyin, the culprit, as well as Jin merchant Fan Yongdou and his family, they would not be blamed for the past; If anyone resists again, he will be guilty of the same crime as Wang Chengyin and Fan Yongdou.
Fang Yuan was going to stir up the troubled waters of Xuanfu Town, the officers and soldiers of the other guards in Xuanfu were all wise and self-protective, he didn't believe that the officers and soldiers in Xuanfu Town would accompany Wang Chengyin on the road together, Wang Chengyin, the head of the corrupt and bribery army, where did he get such a great appeal?
Fang Yuan ordered the drone team commanded by Su Hongyu, ten drones carrying written letters of persuasion to surrender, with a loose formation that could effectively dodge bow and arrow attacks, and flew towards the head of Xuanfu Town.
The officers and men of Xuanfu Town had never seen strange birds that could line up in formation and fly in the air, and they were so shocked that they came to watch one after another.
These sergeants had already received the military order from above, so they could only hold on, not attack, and did not dare to attack these drones hovering in the sky with bows and arrows, and could only watch the drones continue to throw letters of surrender in the military town, and their curiosity was even more than fear.
After throwing thousands of letters of persuasion, none of the drones were lost, and they formed a formation of geese marching in formation, hovering over the city wall for several weeks, and demonstrating, only to return safely under the watchful eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Xuanfu on the city wall.
Fang Yuan was stunned and looked at Su Hongyu's skilled command and operation skills, she was only able to reach a higher level of operation than herself and Jing Jie in just one or two months, it seems that this woman has really spent her time studying various tactics of drones, and she also has a deep talent for drone air combat, which is worthy of being a tiger girl!
Fang Yuan couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he had won another heroine!