It had been a month since Su Yonglin defeated the Shandong Jin Army. The matter was so big that Su Yin had already intercepted more than a dozen letters, not to mention others that had not been intercepted.
There must be quite a few who have successfully arrived in Zhongdu. Wan Yanliang may have already heard the news that the bandits in Shandong are very powerful.
However, there should be some time before he launches an attack. It can be as short as three months or as long as half a year. He will not be able to launch an attack.
This precious time must be seized and must not be wasted.
With such an idea, Su Yonglin decided to take over Dezhou, Enzhou and Bozhou within one month. In another month, he would break into Hebei and gallop across Hebei. In another month, he would join forces in Hebei and pull up the initial victory. A group of rebel allies.
Then he faced the first wave of powerful Jin army in Hebei and tried to defeat it, forcing Wan Yanliang to send his army south, so that he launched a personal expedition early.
He quickly completed the strategic plan with the assistance of the Staff Division, and assigned the tasks to each unit. It was agreed that each unit would officially send troops northward on September 27.
Because Sun Tzu Yi still needed some time, he decided to send troops northward on the first day of October.
Su Yonglin didn't want to waste these days. He had to race against time and not waste a second.
On September 27, the victorious army vowed to launch the Northern Expedition. Except for the White Tiger Regiment, which stayed behind at Dongping Prefecture under the leadership of the regimental training envoy Su Jue, all other armies were dispatched.
The second battalion of the fourth regiment, with a total of more than 20,000 victorious troops, embarked on this journey with high morale. On the first day of October, they captured Liaocheng, the seat of Bozhou, and annihilated more than 1,000 Jin troops, making a good start.
Liaocheng was once occupied by the rebels, but was later recaptured by Shuhu Siji, who massacred all the rebels in the city.
Su Yonglin used an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, wiped out all the Jin soldiers in the city, beheaded the Jin generals, the governor of Bozhou, and the magistrate of Liaocheng County, avenging the martyrs of the local rebels, and won the hearts of the locals.
Subsequently, the victorious army conquered Tangyi, Boping, Qingping and Gaotang counties one after another. On the sixth day of October, the army divided into two groups, one going to Enzhou and the other to Bozhou.
The victorious army was so sharp and unstoppable that Enzhou and Bozhou had almost no enemies. By October 16, Su Yonglin captured Zaoqiang County in Jizhou, Hebei, and was eyeing Hebei from here.
The invasion plan, which was expected to be completed in one month, was completed in only half a month.
The further back they go, the more the local Jin soldiers are on the verge of collapse.
Cities all over the place opened automatically and did not resist.
The local tycoons responded with troops and followed the victorious army to fight. After the war, Su Yonglin was appointed as the local county magistrate, county lieutenant and other important official positions, entrusting them with local ruling power in exchange for their obedience.
As a result, Su Yonglin's followers became more and more numerous, and there were countless responses.
With their support, Su Yonglin even achieved a brilliant record of defeating two cities in one day, establishing a great reputation in the local area.
When Su Yonglin gathered troops in Zaoqiang County, in addition to the main force of the Victory Army, he also gathered more than 20,000 local armed forces. These local armed forces expressed their willingness to follow him in the Northern Expedition.
The situation is excellent.
On the same day, Su Yonglin also learned that Sun Tzu Yi had successively conquered Cangzhou and Jingzhou after his Northern Expedition, and captured the important town of Nanpi, where he erected the banner of the Liberation Army. It was famous, unstoppable and unstoppable.
The Liberation Army sent troops to the Northern Expedition on both sides and achieved great victories, and all parts of Hebei were plunged into violent turmoil for a while.
Hebei was in turmoil, and a large amount of intelligence showed that it was caused by rebel attacks from Shandong. Bureaucrats across Hebei were frightened and could no longer turn a blind eye, so they sent reports to the central government asking for help.
Although the members of the Shengjie Army intelligence team tried their best to stop the army as it penetrated into various parts of Hebei, they were unable to intercept them all due to the large number.
Therefore, Wan Yanliang finally learned that the rebellion in Shandong had begun on October 14 of that year, six months after the Liberation Army uprising and two days before Su Yonglin captured Zaoqiang County and set his sights on Hebei. Uncontrollable.
When Wan Yanliang first heard the news, he was surprised and couldn't understand. How could Hebei be attacked on a large scale by rebels from Shandong?
This unscientific!
However, more and more reports for help entered Zhongdu and came to his palace, letting him know that this incident was not a lie or a joke, but actually happened.
how so?
Wan Yanliang was confused and suddenly remembered that he had received a report from Shandong not long ago, saying that there was a rebellion in Shandong, but it was within a controllable range. Beijing has dispatched troops to carry out an extermination operation and is about to win.
He seemed to have mentioned that he would report to him after the war was over.
But then there was no news.
Wan Yanliang had many things to do, and he was currently busy preparing for the expedition south to conquer the Song Dynasty. He was miserable with all kinds of government affairs, so he actually forgot about this matter.
And more importantly, no one mentioned this matter to him at all.
After Wan Yanliang was puzzled, he became extremely angry. He immediately sent someone to call the Privy Council Envoy Pu Sanhutu and the Privy Council Deputy Apostle Shan Zhen.
Especially Tu Shanzhen, he vaguely remembered that Tu Shanzhen was responsible for following up on this matter. Pu Sanhutu was ill at the time, and Tu Shanzhen was responsible for many things in the Privy Council.
Tu Shanzhen knew the news earlier than Wan Yanliang. Because the matter was huge, he did not dare to hide it and could not hide it, so he had to report the matter to Wan Yanliang, who had already turned pale with fear.
Tu Danjing actually wrote several letters to him, secretly talking about the scale and extent of the rebellion in Shandong, which gave him a certain understanding. Therefore, he knew that the scale of the rebellion in Shandong was not small, and there were probably several states. Such a large scope.
Originally, Tu Danjing would receive news from him every once in a while, letting him know the extent of the chaos in Shandong, but in the past two months, such reports had suddenly been interrupted.
This made Tu Shanzhen a little confused. He thought something had gone wrong, so he took the initiative to send someone to inquire, but the person he sent had no news and did not come back.
Just when he felt something was wrong, turmoil broke out in many places in Hebei, and a large number of rebels attacked. Several states in Hebei could not resist and fell. Only at this time did Tu Shanzhen realize that something big had happened.
This was a major event that he could not and did not dare to hide. He could only hand over the news with his heart pounding and hand it over to the emperor to let the emperor know.
So half a year after the uprising, Wan Yanliang finally knew that this uprising was not a small matter, but a major event.
Major events sweeping Shandong and Hebei.
After holding back his anger and summoning Pu Sanhutu and Tu Shanzhen, Wanyan Liang sat on the throne and stared at the two of them, and then turned his main attention to Tu Shanzhen, his favorite.
