According to Su Yonglin's understanding, neither Chen Qiaoshan nor Li Xiao were born as landlords or squires.
Their origins are relatively ordinary.
Chen Qiaoshan was originally a farmer, but he turned into a bandit during the famine years when he had no food to eat. One time, he led a group of people to rob Zhaojiazhuang, but was defeated by Zhao Kaishan's private armed forces.
He was loyal, and he protected others from escaping by himself. He fought to the death and refused to retreat. Zhao Kaishan took a fancy to him, and he and the entire bandit team were included in the Zhao family's private armed forces.
Li Xiao originally helped businessmen carry out armed escorts to transport goods.
During an escort, the escort team was surrounded and annihilated by bandits. Li Xiao escaped by chance and lived in Yizhou. He relied on his skills to join Zhao Kaishan and eat a bowl of rice.
Both of these two people are the kind of super thugs with rude backgrounds. Their education may not be very high, but they are loyal and loyal. They always think of Zhao Kaishan's interests when encountering problems, so they are especially trusted by Zhao Kaishan.
This is different from the family status of Zhao Xiang, Zhao Kaihe and others.
In various senses, these two people should act in accordance with Zhao Kaishan's interests. They are not like Zhao Xiang and Zhao Kaihe who have their own Xiao Jiujiu. This is very different.
It seems that Zhao Kaishan does not pay attention to the personnel relations within the team.
In this case, Su Yonglin boldly guessed that Chen Qiaoshan and Li Xiao would not be in conflict with him, deliberately finding faults and disobeying orders.
And no matter what, fighting is a matter of life and death. If you are nervous, they may not be nervous. They want to escape unscathed when playing Xiao Jiujiu on the battlefield. Without high-strength skills, they dare not act like this.
Chen Qiaoshan and Li Xiao did not have such high-strength abilities, so naturally they would not think about doing anything with Xiao Jiujiu. At most, they would just run away for their lives.
But when dealing with local troops that are not the main force of the Jin Army, you don't need to be so afraid. Be more ruthless, kill more fiercely, and kill more. The people you should be afraid of are the Jin people.
Before sending troops, Su Yonglin held a military meeting of the West Route Army.
At the meeting, he determined that the army would set out from Yizhou to capture Xintai. From Xintai, the troops would be divided into two groups, conquering the entire Tai'an Prefecture along the way, heading north from Xintai into Zizhou, and then turning from Zizhou to attack Jinan. Complete the tasks given by Zhao Kaishan.
The officers had no objections to this military plan.
Su Yonglin further emphasized the essence of this military operation-quickly.
"The focus of this battle is to be quick. Not to mention the other prefectures, Jinan Prefecture alone has a very large number of Jin people. There are more than 40 villages and four strong security guards. Once they are prepared, we will fight. It’s very difficult, so we have to defeat them one by one before they can react and organize their forces.”
Su Yonglin pointed to the mountainous area on the map and said: "In this march, according to the changes in the situation, you must be prepared for a rapid march and strive to defeat it quickly instead of being reluctant to fight. Once we are in a stalemate with the gold thieves, Jin Ting will mobilize troops and horses to conquer Be prepared to come, and by then, we will be in danger."
All the generals thought this was right.
If they really want to fight in a stalemate, Jin Ting can easily overwhelm them with hundreds of thousands of troops, which is like overwhelming the Liberation Army.
This number, even one hundred thousand pigs, is not that easy to deal with.
Chen Qiaoshan and Li Xiao had no more objections.
They accepted Su Yonglin's plan, organized their troops and horses, and arrived at Shenjing Village where Su Yonglin was located in the evening of the next day. The three troops merged and prepared for the expedition.
Needless to say, leading more than a thousand troops to break up the attack at the base camp and leading eight thousand troops to leave the base camp for the Northern Expedition are two completely different things. The series of preparations before the war are very heavy.
As the commander-in-chief, Su Yonglin undoubtedly has to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
Military supplies, daily supplies, medicinal supplies, logistics transfer personnel, travel routes, etc., Zhao Kaishan actually had no relevant preparations.
He handed over the relevant tasks to the people below him. He only reviewed the materials that needed to be distributed and nodded in approval.
Su Yonglin only had five days, but he had to prepare for the Northern Expedition of 8,000 troops. Even the most basic and minimum preparations were enough to make him anxious and with smoke in his head.
Fortunately, nearly 700 of his old subordinates were able to write and do calculations, so he pulled them all out to help with the expedition. Even in this situation, they were extremely nervous, so he had to pull out all the literate people from the Po Enemy Army and the Youyi Army to help him. Work.
In terms of rations, considering that the army might be marching in a hurry and unable to light a fire for cooking, the Huotou Army was ordered to work overtime to make large pancakes and distribute them to the army as emergency rations.
This kind of large pancakes are durable in storage and easy to carry. A person can carry a few pancakes, which can save a lot of time when marching in a hurry. During the break, drink some water and eat some pancakes, and it can be a meal.
Time, still time, as long as they seize the time, they can do a lot of things before the main force of the Jin army comes to suppress them.
At a time of great distress, Su Yonglin had reason to suspect that Zhao Kaishan had not scientifically assessed the difficulty of this military operation at all. If it were placed elsewhere at other times, Zhao Kaishan's operation would most likely suffer a setback.
But at this moment in this region, this military operation will not cause any problems, just because the local government is too corrupt and inefficient.
So this world is really a worse world.
The Liberation Army was so amateurish, but it was still able to organize military operations, and could even grind the Jin Kingdom's professional army and government to the ground.
Su Yonglin sighed helplessly.
It should be about accumulating experience to become an efficient and professional organization in the future.
After working overtime, the minimum logistical preparations for the Northern Expedition were almost ready.
The only problem was the shortage of logistics personnel, which was solved by Su Yonglin by giving me an IOU.
Su Yonglin ordered the 41 administrative villages under his control and called on the people to mobilize to help the Liberation Army with logistics work.
Although the Liberation Army cannot pay them much, in return for helping the Liberation Army, they can get a white slip issued to them by the Liberation Army.
They can exchange their labor for IOUs, which can be used to deduct taxes.
The longer the transshipment work takes and the longer the distance, the higher the tax deduction amount of the white notes. When the tax collection season comes, farmers can use the white notes as tax and deliver it to the staff of the Liberation Army, which is equivalent to paying the tax.
After this policy was issued, and after publicity by the Liberation Army's special commissioners and farmers' association staff, farmers expressed considerable enthusiasm.
Although it is still the busy farming season, every household has negotiated and dispatched available adult men, and even some women in good health and boys aged 11 or 12 have signed up to help the Liberation Army transport food. In exchange for a tax-deductible note.
As a result, the West Route Army had enough manpower for logistics transfer work.
