It can be said that the Great Uprising of the Liberation Army had an inspiring effect on the entire Central Plains.
Because of the short distance and getting the news quickly, Shandong's success greatly stimulated the locals in Hebei and made them have the idea of "making their own decisions about their own destiny".
Forget it if it was the Han Dynasty. Living under the rule of the Northern Song Dynasty, the life of the landlords and gentry should not be too prosperous, and no other ethnic groups would come to compete for the land.
But the Jin Kingdom was different. The Jurchens went south on a large scale to compete with them for land, which touched their core interests and made them very dissatisfied.
Su Yonglin still followed the old routine of appointing the most famous and influential local people to official positions and controlling local power. All he wanted was military obedience and economic support.
All the local landlord armed groups that started fighting were incorporated by Su Yonglin into the groups within the Liberation Army, placed under his own command order, and acted together with the Victory Army.
He wanted nothing but their obedience and support.
Of course, the food, weapons and equipment needed by the 30,000-strong Shengjie Army were mainly provided by Hebei to avoid excessive logistical consumption.
In this regard, the local people who became officials were often very cooperative. They organized many subordinates to transport food to the Victory Army and ensure their logistics.
There are also many people who choose to fight with Su Yonglin and fight by his side to gain his appreciation.
They all believed that the Liberation Army, which was so powerful, would be able to occupy Hebei just like it occupied Shandong, overthrow the Jin Ting, and establish a new dynasty.
The leader of the Liberation Army, Zhao Kaishan, who calls himself Kaishan Zhao, will become the new emperor.
And they are the ministers of Conglong.
If you don’t follow veterans like Su Yonglin to conquer the world now and hug your thighs tightly, when will you wait?
Su Yonglin accepted all these people, incorporated them into his command, and marched north together with the Shengjie Army.
And then of course there is the hate propaganda against the Jurchens.
This was the old trick used by the Liberation Army to incite people's hearts in Shandong, arousing all people's hatred for the Jurchens. Based on the slogan of expelling the Huru and restoring China, they called on all those who hated the Jurchens to launch a major counterattack against the Jurchens.
So wherever the victorious army went, there was a wave of resistance. A large number of Han people and even the Khitan and Xi people who lived together with the Han people were mobilized.
Whether they were sincere or fishing in troubled waters, after learning that only the Jurchens were the targets, people from these ethnic groups also followed the Liberation Army to launch an attack on the Jurchens.
The Jurchen villages and the Zhenfangmeng'an camp, which were the tentacles of the Jin Empire's ruling base, suffered an almost devastating blow.
Due to long-term neglect of training, even if they had weapons and horses, it was difficult for them to launch an effective counterattack. In a short period of time, they were drowned in the frenzy of human sea tactics.
Then all the weapons and equipment they owned were cheap for the Liberation Army.
There was daily fighting in various prefectures along Hebei West Road, and eventually it even got to the point where the Jurchens dragged their families and fled north.
The Jurchens in Cizhou, Xiangzhou, Weizhou and other places further south fled westward desperately, fighting for their lives.
In short, as soon as they heard that the Liberation Army was coming, the local Jurchens were terrified and ran away with their families and their families, while other local people were excited and sharpened their swords to launch attacks on the Jurchen villages that they usually dare not touch.
The situation on the entire Hebei West Road tilted towards the Liberation Army at an extremely fast speed, and Jin Ting's ruling power was almost uprooted in various state capitals.
Even the landowners and gentry who did not support the Liberation Army were forced to remain silent and kept their mouths shut, and did not dare to oppose the Liberation Army at this time.
The propaganda power Su Yonglin invested in these places played a great role.
He dispatched a group of political cadres from the army and sent them to various local counties and towns to vigorously promote the Anti-golden policy of the Liberation Army. He preached that as long as the Jurchen villages and the defense and Meng'an camps were conquered, everything would belong to the victors. The Liberation Army took no money.
As long as the Liberation Army wins, all benefits will be given to everyone!
The Liberation Army is here and they don’t want everyone’s food and money!
As long as everyone follows the Liberation Army to fight against the Jin and attack the Jin soldiers and Jurchen villages together, everything will belong to us.
Su Yonglin waved his hand——
Go to villages and military camps and take back what originally belongs to you!
Take back all your property, women, and land!
This is where the magic of language and the power of public opinion lies.
Su Yonglin personally wrote easy-to-understand and highly inflammatory copywriting and gave it to political cadres to memorize, and then used speeches to preach to landlords, gentry, and armed groups in various places to stimulate their fighting spirit.
The political cadres of Shengjie Army were everywhere, and the whole situation was out of control.
Even some local armed groups who were originally waiting to see the situation couldn't hold back their neutral stance when they saw other armed groups enjoying success. They couldn't help their greedy desires, and then they went out in person and joined the battle royale. .
More and more people were coerced by Su Yonglin's slogan of "Drive out the barbarians and restore the Central Plains" and boarded the pirate ship of the Liberation Army.
No matter what their inner political stance is, whether they support the overthrow of Jin Ting, greed is universal, so those who get on the pirate ship will not be able to get off for a while.
The huge profits even made them forget that the main force of the Jin Kingdom was still in the north and had not gone south.
In late October, as November approached, the Shengjie Army commanded by Su Yonglin and the local armed coalition of more than 60,000 men almost penetrated the road from Jizhou to Zhending Mansion. Almost all of the line south of Zhending Mansion was occupied by Su Yonglin. occupy.
The coalition forces experienced more than ten large and small battles, annihilated more than 3,000 Jin troops from various places who dared to resist, and captured more than 20,000 Jurchen soldiers and Han soldiers.
There were countless villages and towns destroyed along the way, and there was no need to count them.
According to the information Su Yonglin knew, Sun Tzu Yi's attack on Hebei East Road was also quite smooth. They were advancing rapidly all the way, and there was no Jin army that could stop them. The landlord armed groups on Hebei East Road also strongly supported the Liberation Army.
So far, the Liberation Army's Hebei strategy has been half successful.
Su Yonglin led the coalition forces to march to Luancheng County in Zhending Prefecture. Here, he teamed up with the locals to conquer the county seat and kill the county magistrate. He used this place as an advance base to advance towards Zhending Prefecture and sent people to explore in the direction of Zhending Prefecture.
In early November, the weather gradually became colder. Su Yonglin spent money to buy winter clothes for the troops while paying attention to the movements in the direction of Zhending Mansion.
He soon learned that more than 10,000 troops had been gathered in Zhending Mansion, and they were determined to defend Zhending Mansion. They did not seem to intend to abandon the city and flee.
Almost all the Jurchens in Zhending Prefecture gathered in Zhending County out of fear. More than 100,000 people poured in at one go, so that Zhending City was overcrowded.
Even so, there are still Jurchens who survived from other places rushing to Zhending Mansion to seek asylum.
Taking into account many factors such as the subsequent defense of the city and the reserve of resources in the city, the governor of Zhending ordered the expulsion of non-Jurchen people such as the Han, Khitan, and Xi people, forcing them to leave their property and leave Zhending County in order to make room for more people to settle there. of Jurchens.
Of course, those who left did not include non-Jurchens who were officials, clerks, and soldiers. Those Han Chinese and Khitan people who were officials still had to stay, and they could not do too much.
This decision aroused strong dissatisfaction among a large number of Han, Khitan and other people in the city.
They protested one after another and went to the government to seek an explanation from Zhending Prefecture Yin. As a result, they were killed by the Jin soldiers in the city.
Zhendingfu Yin had little patience under the huge pressure. Facing these noisy guys, he directly ordered to kill them and answered their doubts with a knife.
After a brutal massacre in which hundreds of people were killed and thousands injured, the Jin soldiers then went door-to-door to expel these people who were not Jurchens or official figures and drove them out of the county.
Of course, when people leave, it is not easy to take away their belongings.
Many Jin soldiers regarded this matter as a way to make a fortune, extorting money or simply robbing people who were about to be evicted.
For example, they deceive them into using money to buy the right to stay, and then drive them away after they pay the money, squeezing out the last of their wealth.
Or simply draw a knife to kill people and rob their property, wives and daughters.
Not to mention ordinary civilians, even some originally wealthy businessmen lost their property and fell into abject poverty overnight, with nothing but their lives.
