Wanyan Alin hasn't had this terrible feeling that everything is out of control for a long time.
The army is still moving forward and is still taking action according to the established plan, but Wanyan Alin is no longer sure of victory.
He even believed that the best strategy would be to abandon Zhending City at this time and retreat to the Xiongzhou line to redefine and prevent the Liberation Army from continuing to move north.
If we continue to attack southward, we will be dragged into a more dangerous situation and risk suffering heavy losses.
And if we can abandon the two undefeable important towns, concentrate our troops on the front line of Xiongzhou to wait for work, and wait until the Liberation Army takes the initiative to leave the city and go north before launching an attack, the effect will definitely be better!
But he really didn't dare to report this kind of thing to Wan Yanliang.
After thinking about it, he felt uneasy and decided to rush the matter five hundred miles back to Zhongdu to let Pusanhutu know and see how Pusanhutu viewed the matter.
If possible, he hoped that Pusan Hutu could persuade Wan Yanliang to change the strategic goals and change the identities of both sides of the war from the offensive side to the defensive side, which would be more beneficial.
With a glimmer of hope, Wanyan Alin ordered the army to slow down its advance a little, so as to gain more room for maneuver in the future.
The five-hundred-mile expedited service was quite impressive. Under the desperate speed of the postal system, Pusanhutu learned about the matter a day later.
Then his mental journey was similar to that of Wanyan Alin, and he also felt like he was going to die.
If Wan Yanliang found out about this, wouldn't Wan Yanliang go crazy?
He had just set a deadline for Wanyan A'lin to resolve the Hebei Rebellion years ago. Now that the city is really in trouble, Wanyan A'lin still wants to bargain with him?
is it possible?
Pusan Hutu felt that he was in danger now - Wanyan Alin was recommended and protected by himself, and it was obvious that Wanyan Liang had registered him.
If Wanyan A-lin loses his chain, not only will he not be able to escape, but he will also be unable to escape. Once Wanyan Liang decides to stay together, will he be able to reap the benefits?
No, we must win the battle. We must win the battle. If we don’t win the battle, it will be over.
Still want to retreat?
Pusanhutu personally wrote an extremely harsh letter and asked people to rush it five hundred miles to deliver it to Wanyan Alin quickly, putting pressure on him to give up this unrealistic fantasy.
One day later, Wanyan Alin got the letter.
After taking it apart and looking at it, Wanyan Alin's heart dropped.
If he had listened to Liangliang's song, he would definitely feel that it had become his theme BGM at this moment.
Pu Sanhu Tu told him not to have such wishful thinking, and immediately go south to attack to break the siege of Zhending, and use as many people as possible, and at the same time, he should wipe out all the rebels as much as possible, so that he could offset his sins. If he couldn't do it, then Just come and see me.
After reading it, Wanyan Alin silently burned the letter, and then ordered the army to advance quickly, with the goal of Dingzhou.
There was no other way for him to go.
It was December 14th, which was also the day when Wanyan Alin's partial division was attacked by the Liberation Army's navy on the Hutuo River.
Xin Qiji volunteered and personally led the hastily assembled navy of the Liberation Army down the river.
Dozens of small warships ignored the cavalry on the shore and just launched a fierce attack on the Jin army's grain fleet.
Although the Jin Army's sentries discovered the Liberation Army's warships in advance and issued a warning, the response of the Jin Army was not satisfactory. Although they tried to escape, they were quickly overtaken.
The naval force led by Xin Qiji carried a large amount of kerosene and other fire starters, and worked hard to launch rockets and throw kerosene onto the Jin army's ships, burning many important grain and fodder ships of the Jin army, making the Jin army's fleet in chaos and unable to control it. .
The Jin Army did not have a naval force in this expedition, and the ships were not warships. The people driving the ships were all local civilians, and they did not have any combat effectiveness. They certainly had no power to fight back against the naval attack of the Liberation Army.
As a result, many Jin Army ships were forced to dock and urgently transferred supplies to the shore to avoid being damaged by the Liberation Army ships. The troops on the shore quickly fired arrows to cover these docked ships.
But there were only a few such ships, and most of them were either burned or rammed and sunk by ships of the Liberation Army.
In the end, the Liberation Army destroyed more than 70 Jin Army ships at the cost of losing 13 ships, and then the remaining Liberation Army ships sailed away.
The Jin army on the shore was busy packing up the remaining supplies and had nothing to do about it.
Xin Qiji led his troops to fight independently for the first time and achieved great success, destroying a large number of important supplies for the Jin army.
In fact, the Jin Army learned a lesson during this march.
Wanyan Alin asked the Jin army to carry as much rations as possible during this march. Anyway, it was a pair of horses, and the transport capacity of one horse was not used. Why did they rely so much on logistics?
In this way, the Jin Army can somewhat hedge some risks. If an emergency occurs, it will not be the same as last time. There is no way to deal with it and they can only retreat quickly.
But lessons often do not allow a person who is used to making mistakes to correct them immediately. It is better to say that the possibility of falling down again is very high.
People's rations were carried by horses, while horses' rations basically relied on logistical water transportation, and only a small part of them accompanied the army on land.
The preparation time for dispatching troops was short, and the main land transport capacity was taken away by Wanyan Alin's main force, and only a small part was allocated to the partial division.
Now that a large number of ships have been destroyed, not many can be rescued. The leader of the Golden Army did some calculations after the war and found that the current rations for the soldiers were still sufficient, but the rations for the war horses could only be guaranteed for three to five days.
After five days at most, the horse has nothing to eat.
This is the Great Plains, and there is no rich pasture for the horses to eat. They can only eat grain. However, the appetite of horses is much greater than that of humans, and soon they will not even be able to eat humans.
People are just like horses. If there is nothing to eat, they will not be able to run and will get into moods.
Moreover, after this active attack by the navy, Li Su had already sensed that there might be a large number of Liberation Army soldiers in front of him, and it was absolutely impossible for him to pass quickly and easily destroy the Liberation Army's logistics.
The possibility of a quick victory is no longer high.
He sent people to continue to spy on the information, and sure enough he found that in the Gucheng County area, the Liberation Army had set up company camps stretching for several miles on the main transportation roads, and also artificially created many mounds to create a condescending posture.
Not only that, the roads along the way have been damaged to varying degrees, with many sinkholes. The wooden bridges over the small rivers have also been demolished. The villages along the way are also deserted, and there is nothing to eat.
After the ships of the Liberation Army were replenished, they were still very ungrateful and marched arrogantly eastward, ignoring the land forces of the Jin Army behind them and moving straight forward, as if they had nothing to do with this war.
The farther east they go, the more they push the Jin Army's logistics to the limit.
With strong walls and clear terrain coupled with a logistical offensive, Li Su really felt that he had fallen into the trap of the Liberation Army.
They are not trying to kill or injure many people at all, but just to slow down their progress, drag down their logistics, and kill the logistics to make it difficult for them to move forward.
However, the most important thing in a march is logistics. If this is targeted, the battle will be really difficult to fight.
The Jin Army's cavalry has strong combat effectiveness and deterrence, but it is so stretched in terms of logistics that its combat effectiveness cannot be used at all.
It was like throwing a punch with all your strength and hitting cotton. It felt very uncomfortable.
After Zuo Su quickly observed the situation, he thought rationally, ordered to stop the advance, and slowly retreated.
If you don't want to commit all your troops here, it would be wiser to retreat.
Unless the threat from the Liberation Army on the water can be eliminated or land transportation capabilities can be improved, this battle will not be fought.
People will starve to death, and horses will starve to death.
If the horse starves to death, the cavalry becomes infantry. What advantage does it have?
Compared to being questioned by Wanyan Alin but able to save the army, the ending of recklessly advancing and being surrounded by heavy siege is more terrible, and his life may not be saved.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang decisively decided to retreat and break away from the Liberation Army.
After retreating, Lisu sent people to report the news to Wanyan Alin all night long, hoping to get guidance on what exactly he should do to complete the mission.
No matter how he looked at it, he felt that this mission was a huge trap.
At the same moment, Wanyan Alin was also caught in a huge tangle.
