Taking into account the loyalty relationship in the traditional feudal dynasty, promoting the concept of loyalty, and at the same time, because the senior officials of the Chu Empire did not have a good impression of the high-ranking civil servants of the Ming court, and thirdly, it was considered that there were too many Ming court dignitaries in Youzhou City.

, it is expected that the confiscated income will not be small. If too many surrenders are accepted, the subsequent confiscated income will definitely be significantly reduced.

Chen Xingkai from the Taxation Department also strongly suggested that this time in the attack on Youzhou City, it is better to charge less for demotion or not charge so much. After all, once the other party accepts surrender, he will turn around and become an official of Dachu, and the Taxation Department will not

What a fair and open house raid.

The loss will be huge!

Based on these conditions, before Li Chengtong led his army to the Northern Expedition, after discussion with the senior leaders of the Chu court, Li Chengtong, who was leading the expedition, gave Li Chengtong a task that was not a formal task. After conquering Youzhou City, he would send the Ming court ministers and Chongzhen together.

When you go to see the Lord of Hell, don't come back with a bunch of high-ranking officials from the Ming Dynasty. It will make you feel sick just looking at it...

What we pay attention to is "when the country dies, the king will die and his ministers will follow him", so that the kings and ministers of the Ming Dynasty will go to hell together, and no one can be missing.

As a result, the Chu army that entered the city basically refused to accept the surrender of the Ming court dignitaries. They carried out purge operations and ransacked their homes.

The amount of money and food confiscated from Youzhou City was the largest ever by the Chu army. Just from the home of Zhou Kui, the father-in-law of Chongzhen, more than 500,000 taels of cash were confiscated!

And in the capital, there are many more rich and powerful people than Zhou Kui!

The final summary showed that the amount was so large that even General Li Chengtong, who had witnessed the storm, was amazed: the gold, silver, copper, cash and various types of jewelry they confiscated totaled more than 30 million taels!

This is only talking about cash and cash-like things, and does not include various fixed assets, bulk materials, antiques and treasures.

If all are counted, the value of the many things confiscated in Youzhou City is inestimable!

Because there was so much confiscated gold and silver, General Li Chengtong had to send troops to escort him. Otherwise, with the thousands of armed tax policemen from the tax department, he was afraid of being robbed on the way...

The Taxation Department wants to transport a large amount of gold and silver and a large number of treasures confiscated from Youzhou City all the way back to Jinling City. This is a huge amount of money worth tens of millions. Everyone will be jealous of it. There is no guarantee that no one will do anything bad.

I want to attack the armed tax police who are escorting them directly...

Especially as the Chu army marched northward, although they could not fight many battles, the early battles were mainly conducted by Ming court officers and soldiers, and they did not have time to attack many local landlords, bandits and thieves with great force.

From Youzhou City all the way to Huai'an, there are still a lot of illegal armed forces remaining in such a large area, including many super landowners who can bring thousands of people here.

Although the possibility of a large amount of funds being robbed is extremely small, no matter how small the possibility is, we must be on guard against it.

Furthermore, directly dispatching the army to cooperate with the armed tax police to escort them is also to supervise each other and prevent anyone from the armed tax police from having evil thoughts.

When Li Chengtong personally took charge of Youzhou City and presided over the plan to confiscate the property, the huge Chu army did not stop. Except for the 20th Division who stayed behind to guard Youzhou City, the spouses and armed tax police continued to conduct house raids and wiped out many remaining stubborn resistance in the city.

Outside the enemy.

The rest of the Chu army has already taken its own actions.

The troops attacking Youzhou City this time mainly include the 10th Division of the Third Army, the 8th Division, the 20th Division of the Second Army, and the 3rd Cavalry Brigade.

The Battle of Youzhou cannot actually be called a battle, because it was not fought at all. The Ming troops stationed in the city gradually surrendered. Along the way, the Ming troops took the initiative to open the city gates and welcome the Chu troops into the city.

, even in the Forbidden City.

Because there were no combat losses, Li Chengtong ordered the division of troops the next day after his troops captured Youzhou City.

The 20th Division of the Second Army was stationed in Youzhou City, cooperating with the armed tax police in clearing operations. The Fourth Division divided its troops and went to the Xuanfu line in the north to recruit surrender and take over the various places in Xuanfu, and to take over the checkpoints of the Great Wall along this line.

If there are people in the city who are unwilling to surrender, they will also be responsible for attacking them.

The 10th Division and the 1st Cavalry Brigade went to Miyun and Jizhou Town in the northeast. They also recruited surrender and took over the defense of local cities. If they refused to surrender, they would be killed.

As for the direction of Shanhaiguan, the Chu army sent troops to this direction long ago.

Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa, deputy commander of the Third Army, had already led thousands of cavalry to pursue the fleeing cavalry of the Ming Army before the Battle of Tianjin was over. Finally, two days later, he forced more than 3,000 cavalry of the Ming Army to surrender.<

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At that time, the physical fitness of the more than 3,000 Ming army fleeing cavalry had already reached its limit, and at least two to three hundred horses had been exhausted.

The leading cavalry generals discussed it and found that if they continued to escape like this, they would starve to death sooner or later... and all their horses would also die.

In addition, Zhu Xingfa made a promise to them after he caught up with them. The leading generals gave them various military ranks, and promised to organize their troops into three cavalry brigades and let them continue to lead them.

As a result, these cavalry generals gritted their teeth and surrendered, and with more than 3,000 cavalry under their command, they transformed into the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, the Fifth Cavalry Brigade and the Sixth Cavalry Brigade under the Chu Army.

After recruiting more than 3,000 cavalry, Army Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa continued to lead the two cavalry brigades of his headquarters and the three newly recruited cavalry brigades, plus the reinforcements of the 1st Division, 11th Division and several independent units, a total of

Forty thousand people continued to march westward, aiming directly at Shanhaiguan.

Their mission is to rush to Shanhaiguan as soon as possible. If they can seize Shanhaiguan, it is best. If they are too late to seize Shanhaiguan, then they will block Shanhaiguan directly to prevent the Liaodong armies and even the Eastern Capture forces from fighting out of Shanhaiguan.

This idea is the same as the 16th Division's blockade of Tongguan. Even if Tongguan cannot be captured, Tongguan must be blocked directly to prevent Sun Chuanting's new Qin army from getting out and to avoid disturbing the Chu army in the Central Plains and North China.

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At this time, the eastward marching troops led by Army Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa had successfully captured Kaiping Zhongtun Acropolis, Luanzhou and Yongping Fucheng Lulong as well as Qian'an on the side.

We are currently heading towards Funing City, and behind Funing City is Shanhaiguan.

When the Chu army was heading towards Shanhaiguan, Zu Dashou, who had just escaped back to Shanhaiguan with four thousand cavalry, found that the Chu thieves were about to kill him before he could take a breath.

Immediately, they quickly mobilized their troops and generals to try to keep the Chu thieves out of Shanhaiguan.

This time, he cannot continue to escape, because the Liaoxi area behind Shanhaiguan is the home base of Zu Dashou and other generals of the Liaodong faction. If he retreats, even the home base will be taken away by the Chu thieves.<

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However, within two days, Zu Dashou, who was in Shanhaiguan, received another surrender letter from the Chu thieves on the opposite side. The other contents of this surrender letter were nothing but the same old tune, asking him to lead his troops to surrender to the great Chu Yunyun.<

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The point is, the Chu thieves said in this surrender letter that the Ming Emperor Chongzhen was dead and the Ming Kingdom was completely finished...

This news made Zu Dashou unexpected and even a little confused!

Although Zu Dashou had little respect for the big shots in the Ming court, or even Chongzhen, no matter what, his Zu Dashou was still an official in the Ming court.

But now... Mingting is finished, and what should I do?

What else can I do? Just hold on!

His ancestor Dashou fought against the Chu bandits not for the sake of the Ming court, but for his own territory in western Liaoning.

He is fighting for himself, not for the Ming Dynasty!

This is actually no different from his fight against the Eastern Capture. Zu Dashou also fought very hard in Liaodong against the Eastern Capture. Although he failed to defeat the Eastern Capture in the middle, he was surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but it didn't take long before he ran away and continued to lead his army to fight against the Eastern Capture.

It's okay to surrender if you can't fight. Normal people can understand it.

Why did you rebel after surrendering?

Because the Eastern Capture wants to seize Jinzhou and other large areas in western Liaoning, which are all the territory of his ancestor Dashou... If you want to seize the territory of his ancestor Dashou from the Eastern Capture, his ancestor Dashou will definitely not do it.

Not to mention Zu Dashou, other generals in western Liaoning are also not doing it!

Zu Dashou was not fighting alone in western Liaoning, but he was fighting with his entire family and even married relatives like Wu Xiang and his son. The cities in western Liaoning were their foundation.

Of course it's not okay for you to seize their territory.

It’s the same now when it comes to the Chu army!

Faced with the Chu army's persuasion to lead his troops to surrender, Zu Dashou refused without even thinking about it!

A mere so-called army major general and a Liaoxi uncle want to capture his ancestor Dashou and his tens of thousands of Liaodong troops, and also want to wipe out the foundation that their Liaoxi generals have cultivated for hundreds of years in western Liaoning.

How can there be such a good thing in the world!

It is not impossible to seize my foundation in western Liaoning. Send a large army to kill me, and kill me like a river of blood. You defeat me and capture Shanhaiguan, Jinzhou and other places. This western Liaoning belongs to you.

Otherwise, there will be no door!

It's all about appeasement. If you look at people's looting, the first move is like a king's title, and the backhand is like a real title.

Yesterday, the Dong captives sent envoys to Shanhaiguan to persuade Zu Dashou to surrender to the Eastern captives, and promised to make him the king of Liao. If he enters the customs in the future, he can also choose several provinces in the south as the land of permanent enfeoffment, the kind of real seal.

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You, the Chu thief, want to use an army major general to get rid of me for such a big deal?

No sincerity at all!

In fact, Zu Dashou wrongly blamed the monarchs and ministers of the Chu Empire.

The monarchs and ministers of the Great Chu Empire, considering the importance of Liaoxi and the elite cavalry under Zu Dashou's command, have already shown a lot of sincerity.

For example, Zu Dashou and his main generals were allowed to retain part of their private property except for large tracts of land, and Zu Dashou was given the title of Army Major General and the title of Earl of Western Liaoning.

The rest of the generals will also be awarded military ranks ranging from colonel to lieutenant, as well as viscount or baron...
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