The plan is generally formed, and details can be added later, but the specific plan will not be changed.
The shipwreck blockage area was located in a river west of the preset battlefield, about half a day away from the preset battlefield.
This section of the river is actually within the jurisdiction of Yanzhou, some distance from Tai'an Prefecture. The river is relatively narrow and the water flow is slow, making it a good place to set up a blocking zone.
Su Yonglin gave an order, and the soldiers and civilians of the Shengjie Army worked together to set up a big trap for the Jin Army.
This project is quite time-consuming. Su Yonglin requires the sentry troops to report the whereabouts of the Jin Army twice a day to judge whether there is enough time.
He was a little worried that if the Jin army moved too fast, he would not have enough time to set up the battlefield and practice tactics.
Fortunately, the Jin Army's advance speed is really not that fast.
It rained heavily for a few days, so Su Yonglin personally went into battle and led the soldiers and civilian laborers to work despite the heavy rain. Everyone worked overtime, and the hot water and ginger soup never stopped, and finally the plan was not delayed.
According to the subsequent intelligence transmission, Su Yonglin learned that the Jin Army did not march at all in those days.
The slow marching speed of the Jin Army bought Su Yonglin enough time, and even allowed Su Yonglin to rest for a few days. He was able to recharge his batteries and formulate tactics calmly. He even pulled the soldiers out to rehearse the tactics and held several rounds of simulation exercises. .
This is wonderful.
In fact, it's not that Jiagu Asu is unwilling to march at high speed, it's just that the army can't move at a high speed.
This army is just a temporary army that has been pieced together here and there. It cannot be said to be elite or not, and it has little cohesion or centripetal force.
Most of them are signed troops, and among the remaining Jurchen soldiers, only a small part are regular troops, and most of them are Jurchen men recruited temporarily.
Jiagu Asu didn't care about the life and death of the Han army and the slaves who accompanied it, and could let them move as quickly as possible, but the marching speed of the Jurchen soldiers was too slow.
One or two were able to walk for a few days at first, but those who followed began to complain incessantly, saying that their feet were covered in blood blisters and could not walk at all, chewing and shouting to slow down the march.
Jiagu Asu was furious and planned to use Shuhusiji's method to kill a group of people to establish his authority, but when he saw it, hey, the soles of the feet of those female real soldiers were really full of blood blisters.
The army doctor warned not to rush on the road forcibly, otherwise the soles of the feet will be worn out, which may further aggravate the problem. In severe cases, the feet may even ulcerate and die.
Now the atmosphere in the army was even less conducive to high-speed marching.
Jiagu Asu hates it. He hates that these young people are so pampered. One or two of them have tender skin and tender flesh. They have blisters on the soles of their feet after just a few steps.
He thought of his fathers and the veterans who followed Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong to destroy the Liao Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.
The hands and feet were all covered with thick calluses, and the whole body was covered with marks of glory.
Even without shoes, a pair of big feet can walk smoothly on gravel ground without frowning. A pair of big hands are as big as cattail fans, and a slap can kill him half to death.
Nowadays, a generation has changed. It is called a golden person. If you walk a few more steps, the soles of your feet will be worn out.
Have they ever had even a month of military training?
Jiagu Asu was angry, but he also knew that he could not force them to march, otherwise the morale of the army would be unstable and mutiny would easily occur.
Some armies cannot solve problems by killing people, that is, the mud cannot support the wall. Once there is a mutiny in the army, the army will collapse first before the war begins.
So Jiagu Asu pinched his nose and reluctantly made a compromise.
Let this group of soldiers board the ship and follow the ship without walking.
Jiagu Asu thought that there would be no problem, but something happened again.
A group of those pampered old soldiers were seasick.
After they got on the boat, they were vomiting till they died. They said they had to get off the boat and never stay on the boat.
This isn't a stormy ocean. Do you get seasick on a smooth river?
What body is this?
Jiagu Asu was so angry that he drew his knife on the spot and was about to kill someone, but in the end he took the overall situation into consideration and did not kill anyone. He gritted his teeth and let the soldiers with blood blisters on their soles ride forward on horseback to speed up the march.
But this also caused protests from some cavalry.
The cavalry said they were cavalry, so why should they give up their horses to those losers?
Those who were called useless were naturally unhappy and pointed at the cavalry's noses and started scolding them.
The two sides were in a heated mood, with words flying and spit flying, and they almost came to blows with weapons.
Seeing that the army was about to have internal strife, Jiagu Asu decided with a huge headache to ask the Han people to sign the army to pull the cart, and pulled the Jurchen soldiers with blood blisters on the soles of their feet forward. At the same time, he gave the cavalry a wave of money to solve the problem within the army. conflicts and quell the dissatisfaction of the cavalry.
In this way, we are walking, but our marching speed has slowed down again.
He couldn't expect the Han soldiers to pull the carts to keep up with the cavalry.
What's more, those Han Chinese soldiers also had the task of transporting grain and military supplies for the army, and they also had to deal with some chores. It was not easy to find a group of people to pull the carts to serve the old soldiers.
As a result, the army's march speed never increased.
More misfortune is yet to come.
During the march, the weather was hot, but it also rained for a few days, not all day long, but with intermittent thunderstorms.
There were times when the rain was extremely heavy, as if you were pouring water on the ground from a basin. Not only was it heavy, but it also rained very fast. It rained as fast as you could tell. In the blink of an eye, the rain poured down so hard that it was almost blurry. The line of sight leaves no time for defense at all.
When it rained heavily, Jin Jun hurriedly prepared shelter items or hid in sheltered places.
But the heavy rain stopped after a while - the shelter from the rain had not been erected, and the raincoat had not yet been taken out and put on the body.
It's a good thing that the food was stored properly on the ship, otherwise a heavy rain would cause damage to the food.
The food supply is not affected now, but a burst of rain left many people soaked in water.
Jiagu Asu didn't feel anything bad at first, but he learned early the next morning that the soldiers were falling ill and had a fever on a large scale.
It’s not like the Han signed the army. Most of the Han signed the army have nothing to do. At most, they sneeze a few times and then they’ll be fine. They just follow along honestly.
On the contrary, a large number of the Jurchen soldiers did not get up in the morning, lying on the bed humming and feeling hot all over.
The military doctor looked at it and said that it was because of the rain, and the cold air entered the body but could not be dispelled in time, so that it caused a fever and a cold, which needed to be treated with medication, otherwise the consequences would be quite serious.
Jiagu Asu covered his eyes.
It’s these pampered uncle soldiers again!
For a moment, Jiagu Asu really wanted to leave these uncles alone and let them fend for themselves.
However, considering the need to stabilize the morale of the military, he still bit the bullet and issued the order.
The army needs to arrive at the front line within a time limit to start fighting, and cannot stay too long. Soldiers who are sick cannot fight and can be transferred to nearby villages or counties for proper treatment.
For this reason, Jiagu Asu allocated part of his transportation capacity to send these uncle soldiers away.
It's now quite clean and ready for the march.
Despite this, some Jurchen soldiers deserted and tried to escape during the march.
But the plan was relatively crude, and when he was discovered and caught, Jiagu Asu was furious and killed more than thirty people to put things right, which shocked the morale of the army.
I thought this was the end, but there were still more than a dozen female real soldiers who somehow fell into the water and drowned during the march. Jiagu Asu then mentioned that the number of soldiers was not reduced due to combat.
As a result, rumors such as "This troop dispatch is ominous" even spread in the army, which made Jiagu Asu very angry, but after many investigations, the source of the rumors could not be found.
The morale of the Jin army fell to the bottom before the war started.
If it weren't for a relatively elite cavalry unit to follow orders and supervise the army's advance, and if Jiagu Asu occasionally sprinkled money to boost morale, he even doubted that the female real soldiers in the army would be gone before he arrived in Tai'an Prefecture. Going to run out.
He felt that it made sense for Yelu Chenghui to prepare hundreds of thousands of dollars for him before setting off...
