Su Yonglin doesn't plan to stay here any longer.
The conversation with Zhao Kaishan made him clear that Zhao Kaishan would not implement an offensive strategy with him. This guy just wanted to occupy the territory and concentrate on development, and then leave the big enemy in the north to him to deal with.
What's more, he may be expecting a lose-lose situation.
How stupid, how short-sighted.
Su Yonglin's last bit of expectation for him was gone.
Zhao Kaishan is just a withered bone in the grave. It is impossible for him to achieve anything. There is no need to have any hope in him.
He only needs to carry the banner of the Liberation Army to help the Victory Army share the pressure, and at the same time, do not let the Liberation Army under his command become a boost to either of the Song and Jin parties.
Anti-Jin has made Zhao Kaishan a must-kill person in the Jin Kingdom, and his expectations for the Southern Song Dynasty were shattered by Su Yonglin using the fact that Zhao Gou was an eunuch, so at least until he was desperate, he would not have any wrong ideas.
This is enough.
This conversation can also be regarded as a de facto family separation conversation. Zhao Kaishan decided to go west, but he could only go north.
But he didn't expect that Zhao Kaishan would actually give him the title of General Manager of Hebei.
Does he really know what this title means?
In the narrow sense, Hebei is the Hebei East Road and Hebei West Road of the Jin Kingdom, but in the broad sense, Hebei can be counted as the entire north of the Yellow River.
Now that the Yellow River has been diverted from the Huai River to the sea, even Shandong can be counted as Hebei, and more than half of China can be counted as Hebei.
What kind of position is the general manager of Hebei? Has Zhao Kaishan really considered it seriously?
Therefore, Zhao Kaishan did not even explain the word "Hebei" used by the Hebei general manager, and gave the right of interpretation to Su Yonglin himself for no reason.
Su Yonglin sneered at this.
Okay, okay, that’s great.
Although Zhao Kaishan is indeed an incompetent person, there are indeed some capable people among his subordinates.
For example, Chen Qiaoshan, Li Xiao and Zhao Yucheng, who were chased from the military tent, are all aggressive, courageous and daring people, but with his personality, can he make good use of this group of people?
Can he tolerate these people, including his son, being stronger than him in military merit?
Su Yonglin expressed deep doubts.
These three people caught up with Su Yonglin and expressed their support and encouragement to him. They believed that Su Yonglin's method was right and could ultimately succeed.
"What the general said was inspiring. I was very inspired after listening to it. I only hope that the general can achieve great success!"
Chen Qiaoshan and Li Xiao sent their blessings to Su Yonglin.
Zhao Yucheng had a more straightforward desire.
"How great would it be if I could fight alongside Uncle Yuting?"
Su Yonglin patted Zhao Yucheng on the shoulder.
"Your father may not be too willing to do this, but I think we still have a chance to fight side by side. Yucheng, don't be discouraged and have confidence in yourself. I believe you can eventually become a famous general."
"I certainly will!"
Zhao Yucheng held Su Yonglin's hand tightly.
After that, Su Yonglin announced that he was organizing his army and preparing to leave here.
After Zhao Kaishan learned about it, he didn't say anything.
Of course, he didn't have the nerve to ask Su Yonglin for the Dongping Mansion and Yanzhou that he cherished.
Of course, there was another thing that he cared about more, which made him feel like he was stuck in his throat and couldn't feel at ease.
"The Kong family in Qufu has a great influence on scholars all over the world. If I can get the support of the Kong family, I will definitely get greater help, but now this help goes to Su Yonglin!"
Privately, Zhao Kaishan complained loudly to Zhao Zuoliang.
Zhao Zuoliang had nothing to do about it.
"We can't really fight with him, right? No matter what, the Liberation Army is still the Liberation Army, and you are still the leader, and the Qufu Kong family will not easily become anyone's help.
At least for now, the golden thief is his loyal target, and if the world really changes, you can go directly to Qufu to talk to them. You don't necessarily need Su Yonglin's consent, right? "
"Indeed, whoever wins will be helped by the Kong family. The talented people in this family will not get involved with anyone so easily. If Su Yonglin wants to get involved with the Kong family now, it is simply impossible."
Zhao Kaishan thought about what Kong had done, as well as the dissatisfaction and ridicule towards Kong in the circle of landlords and gentry, and suddenly felt that Kong was not so necessary.
Anyway, if he could become emperor in the end, Kong would definitely seek asylum with him.
Therefore, the top priority is to expand its power, recruit more troops for its own use, and conquer more territories.
He must occupy Shandong West Road, Damingfu Road, and all places that Su Yonglin has no influence on. He must attack more territory before Su Yonglin and occupy more territory. He must not fall behind!
Then prepare an army of 200,000 people and launch a strategic attack on the Jin Army with the majestic momentum of an army of 200,000 people.
That scene is intoxicating just thinking about it.
"Uncle, we can prepare for the next march. The army happened to be gathered here. Let's take a short rest and prepare to attack! After all, we have to capture the Shandong East and West Road, and then attack Damingfu Road immediately. I need more troops !”
Zhao Zuoliang nodded.
What can quickly stabilize Zhao Kaishan's status and power at this moment is military exploits and more troops.
As he was thinking this way, Zhao Kaishan suddenly asked again: "Have Li Xiao and Chen Qiaoshan gotten too close to Su Yonglin recently?"
"ah?"
Zhao Zuoliang was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect Zhao Kaishan to ask this question again.
"This...isn't that important?"
"Of course it's important!"
Zhao Kaishan said: "Uncle, no matter what, you ask your people to help me monitor Li Xiao and Chen Qiaoshan to prevent them from betraying me. They have military power. Once they betray me, the consequences will be disastrous. Those two bastards Wu Xing and Miao Zhong are even more terrifying."
Zhao Kaishan's expression was very cold when he said this, which made Zhao Zuoliang feel shuddering.
He decided to say something.
"The two of them have always been loyal, and they probably just have a good relationship with Su Yonglin. They are capable, and the Liberation Army will still need their abilities in the future."
"Good relationship? Simple? Uncle, forget about the others, but Li Xiao and Chen Qiaoshan hold military power, especially Li Xiao, who is the commander of Beiwei Army and the commander of my pro-army! If he betrays me, I will die!"
Zhao Kaishan looked sinister and uttered terrifying words.
"The gold thief wants my life, and there are people within us who want my life. The more so, the less I will let them succeed! Whoever wants my life, I will kill him first!"
Zhao Kaishan has made up his mind, and Zhao Zuoliang cannot influence this.
Zhao Zuoliang was deeply worried about this, always feeling that Zhao Kaishan's arrogance would one day kill him.
But he couldn't stop it.
Zhao Kaishan was busy preparing for the attack and internal purges, and Su Yonglin did not waste any time.
After reorganizing his army, he quickly left Yizhou, planning to go to Dongping Prefecture through Yanzhou, capture all the areas that Yanzhou and Dongping Prefecture had not captured, deal with all the official forces of the Jin Kingdom that had not been dealt with, and then integrate the forces that could be integrated in the two states. , to expand the military strength of Shengjie Army.
In the next period of time, he will turn Dongping Mansion into the focus of his work and start work in Dongping Mansion.
While expanding the military strength of the Victory Army, we must also form alliances with local landlord armed forces, unite their armies, and increase the number of troops that we can mobilize.
The northward strategy that will be carried out soon will require a lot of troops and a considerable number of political workers. Su Yonglin also plans to speed up training in this regard.
There is a lot to do and a lot of time.
So Su Yonglin took action against the clock.
He first led his army to Sishui County, but the main force had not arrived yet. When Su Yonglin was hesitating whether to attack the city, the city gate opened on his own initiative.
A team that was eating pots of pulp took the initiative to go out of the city to meet Su Yonglin's team. This made Su Yonglin very interesting. He wondered if the county magistrate who had been intimidated before had clearly understood the strength comparison between the two sides and decided to surrender.
So he sent someone to inquire.
The results returned from the inquiry are actually similar, but there are differences in key issues.
The one who surrendered was not the county magistrate, but the acting magistrate. His surname was Yang, and his name was Yang You. He was the head of the Yang family, a local wealthy family. He was elected as the acting magistrate because of his high moral character. Now that he saw Su Yonglin coming, he decided not to resist and took the initiative to attack. City, begging Su Yonglin not to treat the people of the county cruelly.
Su Yonglin thought for a while and decided to meet the acting magistrate.
