Su Yonglin was a little confused.
Logically speaking, it has been more than two months since the uprising, so Wan Yanliang should have known about it by now, and the possibility of not knowing is very low.
But if he knew, why wouldn't he send troops south to put down the rebellion?
But the information from the intelligence unit is not wrong. If Wan Yanliang really sends troops south, there is no way that Hebei will not take any military action.
Issuing troops to serve as cannon fodder and civilians to transport grain are the traditional arts of the Jin Kingdom. They will definitely make people jump up and down, and they will never quietly enter the village to shoot.
So why is there no movement in the Hebei prefectures?
Su Yonglin was puzzled and couldn't figure out why Wan Yanliang didn't send troops south to attack Shandong.
He thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with a few ideas.
There was no movement from Wan Yanliang's side, but Shu Husiji and Tu Danjing, who had been beaten away before, reacted and prepared to fight back, so the problem probably lies with these two people.
Having said that, Su Yonglin did not dare to jump to conclusions about what the problem was.
He could only further send people to continue to monitor the news from Hebei, then share the military intelligence with Zhao Kaishan and Sun Ziyi, and then start to re-plan his military plan.
Although Shuhu Siji and Tu Danjing were not powerful frontier army leaders of the Jin Kingdom, since they could plan a counterattack, they must have regular troops on hand.
Su Yonglin, who had always fought sneak attacks and rarely faced face-to-face battles, was very eager to face each other and defeat the Jin Kingdom's regular army with absolute strength.
That will give him enough confidence and joy to have some control over the upcoming uncertain future.
To what extent does Shengjie's army have combat effectiveness? Does his painstaking efforts and heavy investment have any meaning? Can his new way of running the army be able to build a strong army in the world?
This battle may be a good experience.
That's fine, attack the weak ones first and then the strong ones. If you confront the real elites of the Jin Army from the very beginning, it will be really bad, and you can almost pack it up and prepare to go to Mount Tai to fight guerrillas.
Here, he ordered the troops to prepare. Over there, Su Yonglin called Su Changsheng alone to a deserted place and assigned him a task.
"Ah? Going to Jiaxing?"
Su Changsheng was a little confused: "Alang, the war is coming, how can I leave?"
"What you have to do is as important as fighting a war."
Su Yonglin said: "I want you to go to Huating County, Jiaxing Prefecture, to find a man named Yao Hongfang. On the surface, he runs a hotel called Wanfu Inn, but in fact he is also a private salt dealer."
"Private salt dealer?"
Su Changsheng was very sensitive to this and immediately smelled something different: "Alang, why are you looking for a private salt dealer? Are we selling private salt again?"
"No, I want you to go find him, discuss with him, and ask him to cooperate with us and sell all the captured treasures, jade, and rare antiques in our hands for money."
"ah?"
Su Changsheng was surprised: "Alang, who is he? Why do you want to cooperate with him?"
"He was a friend of my grandfather's and I met him once."
Su Yonglin whispered: "As far as I know, my grandfather once said that the backer behind this person is someone with high authority in the Lin'an court, who is much more powerful than Sun Yuanqi."
"this……"
"Those pearls, jade and antiques are useless in our hands. If they can't be exchanged for money, they have no other use. And we need money very much now to do things. Selling them all for money is the best way. After getting money, You can recruit more soldiers and make more weapons, understand?"
"Then I understand."
Su Changsheng nodded immediately, but then frowned: "Alang, is this Yao Hongfang reliable? Don't let us go find him. If he turns around and informs the Lin'an court, telling us all the information to attract the officers and soldiers, that would not be good. .
Moreover, we have never gone back to the south since we came to the north. We don’t know what is going on in the south. What happened to Sun Yuanqi? Have they found out that we were responsible for this matter? We don’t know about these things, so we went back rashly , the danger is great. "
"That doesn't matter. As long as the main force of the Jin Kingdom is destroyed, the Zhao Guan family will never dare to go north. As for Sun Yuanqi's matter... I don't plan to return to the Southern Song Dynasty anyway. It has no binding force on me. There is no need to be afraid of it. If something happens, please do it as soon as possible. Just run away.”
What Su Yonglin said made sense to Su Changsheng.
Everyone has drawn a clear line with the Southern Song Dynasty. Even if they want to go back, they will lead their troops back in an upright manner instead of going back in despair.
"Should I go to him directly to cooperate?"
Su Changsheng asked.
Su Yonglin shook his head.
"Private salt dealers are very vigilant. You first ask him if he still remembers his old friend from Qingyuan Mansion, and then deal with it randomly. You don't need me to teach you this, right?"
"Of course."
"Well, anyway, bring a few more people to pave the way back. If something happens, you can quickly return north. If this person is trustworthy and can do business, you can make plans to establish an intelligence station for us in Jiaxing Prefecture. Although we are here , and we also need information from the Southern Song Dynasty."
"Understood."
Su Changsheng was a little happy.
Although they cannot stay in the north to participate in the upcoming war, if they can open up the situation in the south, it should be a great achievement.
Without further ado, Su Yonglin gave the order, and Su Changsheng took five subordinates and a small amount of pearls, jade, and antiques on the road overnight.
When they abandoned their family business and headed north, part of the Su family's thirty-odd ships stayed on the salt-making island and hid them, while the rest were brought to Juzhou and found a secluded place to hide on the coast of Juzhou. got up.
Su Yonglin has no spare time to develop the naval force for the time being, but he still keeps the ships and has done some anti-corrosion treatment. He thinks that they can be repaired and used when needed in the future.
It just comes in handy now.
After Su Changsheng left, Su Yonglin also began to prepare intensively to face the counter-rebellion forces of Shu Husiji and Tu Danjing.
At the same time, Shuhu Siji and Tu Danjing were very anxious and uneasy, living in fear.
The reason was simple. They finally discovered that what they were facing was not a bandit with "three thousand troops", but a huge rebel force that had swept through most of Shandong.
The east and west roads of Shandong were already full of rebels, and the government forces suffered heavy losses. The officers and soldiers were retreating steadily, and it was impossible to effectively control the situation.
On their way to Jinan Prefecture, they encountered an attack by a rebel army calling themselves the "Reconqueror Army" under the banner of "Expelling the Hulu and Reconquering China".
At that time, the rebel army asked them to surrender quickly, lay down their weapons, and spare their lives.
Of course, the rebel army of three to five hundred people was completely wiped out by the angry Shuhu Siji who commanded the cavalry around him.
The elite cavalry around Shuhu Siji did not wear armor on their horses at that time, but they still charged the rebels and turned the people on their backs. They suffered heavy casualties. Their heads fell to the ground one by one, and blood spurted from their necks like a fountain. came out, and then the rebel army dispersed.
How can two legs outrun four?
This rebel army of three to five hundred people was brutally slaughtered by the Jin army in an extremely brutal way. Only a handful of people were lucky enough to escape.
The leader of the rebel army was trembling all over as he was raised in front of Shuhu Siji.
Through the "friendly" interrogation, Shuhu Siji learned some information that he desperately needed to know.
For example, the rebels called themselves the Liberation Army, using the name of "Driving out the Barbarians and Restoring China". They used this as a rallying cry to persuade "heroes" throughout Shandong to rebel.
He also learned that the leader of the Liberation Army called himself "Kaishan Zhao".
