A bloody human head is always the best tool to intimidate.
A thoughtful person sees a human head placed in front of his eyes, and instantly all thoughts that he shouldn't have are gone.
Everyone cherishes life. When they saw that the officer had really killed someone, no matter how reluctant they were, most people still took action.
Taking Mouke as a unit, the chief of each Mouke issued a death order to the village envoys in each village organization under his jurisdiction. They must hand over a certain number of strong men to participate in the war within a time limit. They must be equipped with certain weapons, equipment and war horses, otherwise Shuhusi will Ji does not kill people, they kill people first.
The chief officials of Muke put pressure on the village envoys, and the village envoys were under great pressure.
In desperation, for the sake of their lives, they had no choice but to recruit enough strong men and hand them over to Shu Husiji.
At this time, they don't care whether the "strong men" being recruited are willing or not, and they don't care whether these strong men have any special relationship with them.
Anyway, you have to go if you want to go, and you have to go if you don’t want to go.
Under such pressure, by late June, Shuhusiji had gathered about 4,000 female real soldiers and had begun to take shape.
The recruitment process has been put into process, and as time goes by, more Jurchen men will surely be recruited to join the war.
On the other side, Yelu Chenghui also successfully signed more than 6,000 Han Chinese soldiers to prepare for the war.
Shuhu Siji counted on his fingers and found that we had almost ten thousand people, so we could go to war.
Although Yelu Chenghui suggested that he gather more troops before going, he refused.
He really couldn't wait any longer, so he sent the 10,000 newly formed troops to Jiagu Asu, and asked Jiagu Asu to take these 10,000 people to attack in the direction of Tai'an Prefecture, and first recapture Tai'an, which directly threatened Dongping Prefecture. State, establish an advance base, and then discuss the following matters.
He himself stayed in Dongping Prefecture to continue supervising the recruitment, preparing to gather more troops to march from other places, and march on multiple routes to counterattack the Liberation Army, in order to regain the entire Shandong East Road.
Although the situation is dangerous, there is also a glimmer of hope. If this situation is handled properly, there may be a chance to save it!
There was light in Shuhu Siji's eyes, the kind of light that contained a strong desire to survive.
More than 10,000 Jin Army soldiers with a very complex organization hurriedly attacked in the direction of Tai'an Prefecture on June 24.
Their equipment was not complete, and many of them did not have complete armor.
Some soldiers had body armor but no helmets, or helmets but no body armor. Some soldiers had no armor at all, just put a piece of leather bag on as armor, and set off.
This is true for the Jurchen soldiers, and it is even more unthinkable for the Han people to sign the army.
What is armor?
They said they didn't know.
Not only was there not enough armor, there were not enough horses either.
Shuhu Siji originally wanted to gather some war horses to form a powerful cavalry, but time was too tight. He only managed to gather a total of more than 2,300 war horses for the army, as well as some rogue horses that could only pull carts.
The armor used by the war horses only amounted to more than 200 pairs.
The army's logistical support is also not reliable.
There are not many stores of consumables such as swords, guns, arrows, and medicines, and the transportation of grain and grass also requires a lot of manpower.
Han Chinese troops originally used to transport grain and grass were mobilized to the battlefield in large numbers, and grain and grass transportation became a big problem.
Fortunately, the Wenshui River reached Tai'an Prefecture directly, so Shuhu Siji decided to have the army attack along the Wenshui River and use water transportation to reduce the logistical pressure.
Still, manpower remains tight.
Let's talk about the army. The army has just been formed and the level of organization is not high. Some teams have ready-made officers, but some teams have not even appointed officers.
Jiagu Asu even needed to reorganize his organization while marching, and temporarily appointed some officers to relevant positions to lead the soldiers.
There was no way, Shuhu Siji's desire for survival was too strong, and he wanted too much to pacify Shandong as soon as possible.
Jiagu Asu had no objection because his desire to survive was stronger than Shuhu Siji.
When Shu Husiji decided to send troops, he was overjoyed and took the initiative to ask for a fight.
In this way, he attacked with this poorly prepared army.
On June 27, Su Yonglin learned that the Jin Army's army of about 10,000 people began to march toward Tai'an Prefecture.
The operations of the Shengjie Army Intelligence Group were very sharp and efficient. Of course, it would be difficult for them to know whether Shuhusiji had made such a big move.
Not only did he know the specific number of people, Su Yonglin also knew that the Jin army had about two thousand cavalry, and the army was huge.
After Su Yonglin learned that the Jin army was marching to Tai'an Prefecture first, he rushed back to Tai'an Prefecture decisively and handed over the defense of Jinan Prefecture to Qin Yuanzhi for coordination. Zhang Yuejing led his army as a mobile force.
The task of training soldiers was handed over to Xin Qiji.
Recruitment for the Heavy Ax Force had just begun, and Su Yonglin could only hand over this job to Xin Qiji. Xin Qiji swore that he would never let him down, otherwise he would chop off his own head to apologize.
There is really no way not to trust this kind of determination.
He came to Tai'an Prefecture and decided to personally command the battle against the Jin army's counterattack.
The intelligence team brought back relatively detailed information, which was of great help to him. After learning that most of the team was signed by Han people, Su Yonglin did not relax, but frowned.
"Even if most of them are signed troops, there are still more than two thousand cavalry, and we have collected horses from various sources to train the cavalry. At the moment, there are not a thousand cavalry in total. Among the less than a thousand cavalry, more than half of them are not trained enough.
At present, among our cavalry, there are no more than five hundred who can barely fight on horseback, and the opponent has two thousand. With the same training level, five hundred versus two thousand is a huge disadvantage. "
Saying this, Su Yonglin pointed at the map and said seriously: "Not to mention the Wen River connecting Dongping Prefecture, Yanzhou and Tai'an Prefecture. The Jin army marched along the Wen River, which was of great benefit to logistics and transportation. We can have a smooth road all the way to the hinterland of Tai'an Prefecture, but we have no danger and must fight in the field."
Su Yonglin analyzed the entire situation and put forward the view that defensive operations in Tai'an Prefecture were not feasible.
Many military officers who attended the military meeting also felt that the problem was serious.
The Shengjie Army can currently use up to 6,000 combat troops. It is insufficient in numbers to face the 10,000 Jin Army. Now it also faces a shortage of cavalry and a situation where there is no danger to defend.
Therefore, all the officers couldn't help but feel that the Jin Kingdom was still a big family. It could easily attack 10,000 people and more than 2,000 cavalry. However, the victorious army had almost no time to strengthen itself and could only passively face the enemy.
But when Su Yonglin educated them, he told them that there was a solution to everything, but they just couldn't find it for a while.
Their study is about finding solutions to problems.
A group of people looked around the map and brainstormed.
The officers expressed their opinions and discussed the feasibility of their own tactics, but they were all overturned and considered to be unfeasible.
Only the strategy proposed by Su Yonglin to weaken the enemy was widely approved by everyone.
"Since the Golden Thief is powerful, we must find ways to weaken it. Even a slight weakening is still a weakening. Any slight change on the battlefield may be magnified indefinitely."
Su Yonglin pointed at Wenshui and said: "Since the gold thieves marched along Wenshui and used Wenshui to transport grain and fodder logistics, we must find a way to prevent them from using Wenshui and increase the difficulty of their logistical transportation."
"Can't use Wenshui?"
Su Yong frowned and said: "Alang, you mean to send out all our troops to cut off the flow of Wenshui River so that Wenshui River cannot flow into Tai'an Prefecture? Isn't the amount of the project too large?"
When Su Yong said these words, Su Yonglin almost lost his breath.
