In mid-May, Sun Ziyi, the commander of the East Route Army of the Liberation Army, and Su Yonglin, the commander of the West Route Army, wrote to each other as if they had made an appointment, asking Zhao Kaishan to call himself the General Manager of Shandong.
Together, they suggested that Zhao Kaishan shift the target of the strategy from Shandong East Road to Shandong East Road, covering the entire Shandong, and openly challenge Jin Ting.
As the absolute leader of the rebel army, Zhao Kaishan should step forward to lead everyone, accept everyone's allegiance, and lead everyone to overthrow the Jin Kingdom.
Zhao Kaishan was very happy after learning about it and decided to publicly declare himself the general manager of Shandong and the commander-in-chief of the Liberation Army. He seized military and political power and became the absolute leader of the entire Shandong uprising force.
At this point, the momentum of the Shandong Uprising reached its peak again.
Throughout Shandong, the government offices of the Jin Kingdom, the town defense barracks, and civilian households in Meng'an villages in the countryside were repeatedly attacked and besieged by rebels from all walks of life.
The fire of rebellion in Shandong began to burn brightly in mid-to-late May.
Su Yonglin didn't care about how the fight between Zhao Kaishan and Sun Ziyi was, and he wasn't too interested. Apart from praising Zhao Kaishan so that he could attract firepower, Su Yonglin only cared about strengthening his direct lineage.
After the Taian Prefecture strategy plan was arranged, Su Yonglin marched into Zizhou.
After capturing Zichuan County, he divided his troops and advanced in Zizhou. He ordered Li Xiao, the commander of the Youyi Army, to continue his rapid attack and attack the remaining counties in Zizhou. He himself took 800 troops and Chen Qiaoshan, the commander of the enemy army, to attack Jinan.
Before the army moved, Su Yonglin arranged for intelligence troops to enter Zizhou and Jinan, and followed up on the Liberation Army's message that had been circulated before to persuade local landlords and gentry who had connections with Zhao Kaishan to raise troops to support the Liberation Army.
At first, many people were waiting and watching, worried that the rebellion would not be able to grow and would soon fail.
Who would have thought that this rebellion would really start.
With the advance of the Liberation Army, more and more landlords and gentry were interested in joining the Liberation Army. Those local landlords and gentry who were dissatisfied with the Jin people because their land had been occupied by the Jin people or were threatened by such threats decided to join the Liberation Army.
After entering Jinan, basically following the footsteps of Su Yonglin's offensive, wherever he attacked, the landowners and squires responded in large numbers, mobilizing their own troops to lead troops to assist in the battle.
They helped the Liberation Army capture the city and territory, so Su Yonglin invaded Jinan from Zhangqiu with less than 3,000 troops. By the time he conquered Jiyang, he had gathered more than 10,000 troops.
When Shunbei Qinghe attacked all the way to Shangluokou Town, the number of troops following him in the attack had reached 15,000.
The number of the Liberation Army continued to grow like a snowball, and the more people came to seek refuge, the more people came to seek refuge, and the number continued to increase.
Until May 19th, when Su Yonglin's troops entered Licheng County, the seat of Jinan Prefecture, there were already more than 20,000 troops around him, and their momentum was so huge that it shocked Jinan.
Su Yonglin held the banner of "Expelling the Huru, Recover China" and marched all the way. Wherever he went, the officials and Jin soldiers fled one after another. When the Jin people in the village heard the news, their livers and gallbladders were split, and they fled in panic with their elders and young ones, heading north one after another. escape.
None of the officials and generals in the huge Jinan Prefecture dared to fight. Instead, they took the lead in fleeing. Many counties and towns were captured without a single blow.
Local landowners, squires and other prominent figures organized people to prepare food and drink on the streets to welcome the Liberation Army led by Su Yonglin. The scene was so spectacular that it was dazzling and impossible to take in at a glance.
Suddenly, it seemed that everyone was ready to drive away the golden thieves and successfully recover the Central Plains.
Yes, Su Yonglin, who was riding on the horse, did see such a scene in a trance.
Then he realized that this was not the case, this was just a dream.
There is always a time to wake up from a dream, and what you see after you wake up is the most real.
At first, Licheng County pretended to be closing the city and mobilizing nearly a thousand people from the grain shooting army and the town defense army to try to defend the city. When Su Yonglin had decided to lay siege to the city and attack fiercely, there was sudden chaos in the city.
Everyone in the Liberation Army was puzzled, but soon the city gate opened, and a well-armed and heroic young man rode up to Su Yonglin and presented him with the heads of the Licheng County Magistrate and the city guard.
"Did you do this?"
Su Yonglin looked at the two bloody heads and the young man with a heroic face, and couldn't help feeling admiration in his heart.
"Exactly!"
The heroic young man is tall and very majestic. The armor cannot hide his strong muscles. His weapons are majestic and his eyes are not squinting.
Su Yonglin was even more happy.
"Who are you? What's your last name? How old are you?"
The young man saluted seriously.
"Xin Qiji, a native of Licheng, is eighteen years old!"
The sun shone on Xin Qiji's armor, reflecting a sharp brilliance.
And the brilliance in his eyes was as sharp as this light.
That night, Su Yonglin spent the night in the county town.
He placed the army outside the city and ordered everyone, including himself, to bring only a small number of soldiers into the city to avoid disturbing the people. He also stipulated that those who disturbed the people would be dealt with according to military law before entering the city.
After entering the city, Su Yonglin held a banquet in the county house to entertain the "heroes of the Central Plains" who had followed him all the way from Zhangqiu.
To be honest, Su Yonglin himself had not fully expected how smooth the fight had been.
When he was in Tai'an and Zizhou, Su Yonglin had not yet received a collective response from the landlords and gentry.
But since the attack on Zhangqiu and Jinan began, it seemed that the Liberation Army's actions had reached a certain critical point, which was felt by this group of landlords and gentry, so the entire landlords and gentry in Jinan seemed to be mobilized.
They rebelled one after another and joined the Liberation Army. They fought with him, provided him with food, led troops and followed him to hunt for gold. They were full of momentum.
When attacking Jinan towns, Su Yonglin hardly had to do anything of his own. He only had to give orders. Soon he would get news that the Jin people were fleeing and did not dare to fight, and that heroes from a certain place rebelled and joined the Liberation Army.
Su Yonglin really wanted to laugh.
Wan Yan showed off so many enemies for himself, but in the end, they all took advantage of the Liberation Army.
As soon as the Liberation Army came, regardless of whether the interests of Jinan were harmed or not, as long as they felt threatened, everyone who could rebel would rebel. For the sake of their own land and property, they all rebelled.
I have to say this is a very funny thing.
Su Yonglin thought that he would have to fight several bloody battles in Jinan and eliminate some of the Jin soldiers before he could mobilize the landlords and gentry to join forces.
The result was that they just issued a message and asked people to contact them, and hundreds of responses were received, and tens of thousands of rebels were mobilized to rebel together in minutes.
What does one call and a hundred responses mean?
Su Yonglin finally understood.
The rule of the Jin State in Jinan was overturned in a short period of time, which fully exposed the roughness of its ruling technology and shallow foundation, as well as the cliff-like decline in the Jin people's military power after more than ten years of peace.
The precipitous decline of the Jin people's military power was fully exposed in this battle of Jinan.
Although it has been exposed before, it is different in every place. This time it is exposed to the eyes of Jinan locals.
Is this okay?
People like to pick weak persimmons. I didn’t know it at the beginning, but the result was unexpected. As time went by, you, Jin Guo, actually became a weak persimmon?
The landowners and gentry crushed the fear in their hearts and united tightly under the banner of the Liberation Army.
They found an organization and found psychological comfort - they rose up!
But after being happy, Su Yonglin was still a little unhappy.
