Wanyan Alin's death seems to be an inevitable result.
He was not killed by Su Yonglin, nor by any soldier of the Shengjie Army, nor by a traitor with evil intentions around him.
He killed himself.
On the way to escape hastily, thinking about his failure in defeating the main force in the first battle, Wanyan Alin knew that he would never be able to get Wanyan Liang's forgiveness, and would even bring trouble to his family, who would also be treated cruelly and end up miserable.
If he died in battle, he might be able to save the lives of his family...
With such a sad state of mind, Wanyan A-lin drew a knife and committed suicide under despair and high pressure.
In this way, even if his family cannot get generous living conditions, they can at least survive. This is his last expectation.
He committed suicide very simply. The soldiers around him wanted to save him, but failed to take away his knife in time.
He simply wiped his neck, then covered his neck and fell straight down from the horse. His body trembled and twisted for a while, and he died.
He died so cleanly that he didn't even think about fighting Su Yonglin again and avenging himself.
After he committed suicide, the Jin Army cavalry, who further lost their backbone, didn't know what to do.
Especially the soldiers responsible for protecting him didn't know what to do.
The Lord is dead, but they are still alive. To the higher rulers, it is simply treason.
Either die together or live together. How can there be any reason for the general to die and his own soldiers to still be alive?
So some of the soldiers committed suicide together in despair, but some of the soldiers were not willing to die, so they embarked on the road to escape with other cavalry.
They had different opinions as to where they should flee.
Some tried to run north to see if they could find a way out.
Some tried to run west, thinking that they would die if they ran north and the court would not let them go. If they went west to Guanzhong and lived anonymously, they might still have a chance of survival.
Some plan to run to the seaside, try to find a boat and flee directly back to their hometown in Liaodong. They may live a better life in their hometown incognito.
The less than 3,000 defeated soldiers who followed Wanyan Alin and escaped from the battlefield quickly dispersed, lost their organization, and went their separate ways.
Su Yonglin didn't expect this.
That difficult opponent actually ended his life so simply without even the thought of revenge. Normally, after being defeated, shouldn't he think about making a comeback to avenge his past humiliation?
Is the cost of trial and error so high in the Kingdom of Jin?
Of course, there were many things that he could not imagine. Just like Zhao Kaishan, Zhao Kaishan also could not imagine that Su Yonglin could achieve such a major victory.
Zhao Kaishan, who spent nearly three months to finally conquer Nanle County, could not have imagined that Su Yonglin and Sun Ziyi had completed the merger at this moment.
Su Yonglin has really become the general manager of Hebei in his mouth, and even the king of Hebei. He has established a foothold in Hebei, gained the respect and obedience of the rebels, and is about to cause greater waves here.
While Su Yonglin was galloping forward and the bloody battle continued, Zhao Kaishan was also fighting bloody battles, but he just didn't move forward.
Nanle County is like an iron wall. Zhao Kaishan really feels that he may never be able to conquer this county.
It's obviously just a county town, not that high, and doesn't have such a wide and deep moat, but why is it so difficult to defeat?
He used all means, including all kinds of firearms and huge stones, and threw them desperately into the city. He even thought that the city should be in ruins, but he still couldn't take the county seat.
He almost filled up the moat, and his troops repeatedly attacked the city and fought bloody battles with the defending gold soldiers, but they were beaten back every time and could never break through.
He also tried digging tunnels and attacking at night, but they were all discovered by the Jin army in the city, and they lost soldiers and gained nothing.
Because the army suffered too much attrition, he had to transfer the wounded and sick back to his base in Shandong, and then sent people back to continue recruiting troops to supplement the troops that were lost due to siege operations, so that the number of troops remained at around 80,000. .
In the past few months of siege, many troops have changed from officers to soldiers. Many troops have died in combat, illness, or freezing, but this is not a problem in Zhao Kaishan's eyes.
Anyway, he has never regarded an army composed of ordinary people as human beings. Except for a few soldiers and elites, everyone in the army is expendable.
But people's hearts will not change just because of Zhao Kaishan's indifference.
The entire Shandong's view of Zhao Kaishan and the Liberation Army is changing.
Because strong men were sent to the battlefield many times, the ones who came back were either dead or wounded. The miserable appearance made many people doubt Zhao Kaishan.
Moreover, the rewards and pensions promised by Zhao Kaishan were not in place. The civilian families who lost their family members did not receive the pensions and war bounties they deserved, and the wealth that their families had sacrificed for their lives did not receive.
As a result, people felt that they had been deceived. The Liberation Army was no different from other armies, except that they shouted slogans loudly. They no longer actively responded to the recruitment order of the Liberation Army, and even expressed resistance to it.
When officials appointed by the Liberation Army issued a recruitment order, the local people who were the first to respond positively were no longer willing to actively join the army, so that the recruitment efficiency of the Liberation Army dropped significantly.
This directly affected the frontline war.
When Zhao Kaishan could not recruit enough soldiers, he followed Zhao Xiang's bad idea and decided to force people from all over the country to join the army.
He ordered Zhao Xiang to take charge of this matter, and asked Zhao Xiang to lead his troops back to Shandong to recruit troops with arms to see who dared not come.
In short, you have to come if you come, and you have to come if you don't come. I just want to see if you can come.
At the same time, he gave a large amount of money to the powerful local landlords in Shandong, and obtained many strong men from them to join the army.
With a two-pronged approach, the number of troops was guaranteed and the main siege force was maintained.
While Zhao Kaishan stormed Nanle County, the 20,000 Liberation Army led by Zhao Zuoliang as the coach and Zhao Kaihe as the commander-in-chief achieved great strategic results in Huazhou and Xiangzhou.
This part of the army successively occupied Huazhou, Xiangzhou, Weizhou and other almost abandoned states, and made great progress.
Zhao Zuoliang complied with the earliest policy of the Liberation Army, attacked the Jurchens, and treated other ethnic groups well, so he was very popular among the people. He also took the opportunity to expand the army to more than 40,000 troops, with great momentum.
Zhao Zuoliang does not have much military ability, but he has one advantage, that is, he knows how much he weighs.
He will not give blind orders, nor will he do what a layman can do to command an expert. If he is not good at directing operations, he will let those who are good at directing operations do it. He will watch silently from the side without intervening.
He brought his own Tabai Army and Zhou Zhi's Youyi Army to the expedition. He was not good at commanding, so he asked Zhou Zhi to take command on the battlefield.
Zhou Zhi had some military talent, and he commanded properly without making any mistakes. He led the Liberation Army forward smoothly, which made Zhao Zuoliang very satisfied.
So these battles were actually directed by Zhou Zhi.
But not everyone can see themselves and reality as clearly as Zhao Zuoliang.
They often don't know how much they weigh, and they always want to show off their "ability" in front of professionals, and then walk away, leaving a mess for professionals to clean up.
Zhao Kaihe is this kind of person.
During the battle, Zhao Kaihe wanted to show off his "talent" several times. He wanted to use his status as commander-in-chief to do something, and he gave blind orders. He criticized the carefully planned march route and battle plan, and demanded that he take his own actions. practice.
Zhao Kaihe and Zhao Kaishan have a very close relationship. Zhou Zhi is not strong in character and does not dare to refute. The other generals are intimidated by Zhao Kaihe's identity and strength and do not dare to argue with him. They can only accept it.
But Zhao Zuoliang is not afraid of Zhao Kaihe.
As an elder, Zhao Zuoliang still has a certain deterrent effect on Zhao Kaihe. In front of him, Zhao Kaihe cannot change the world.
"Don't get involved in things that you don't understand. If you mess around and mess with it, you'll destroy this army. See how Kaishan handles you!"
He criticized Zhao Kaihe's blind command, suppressed Zhao Kaihe from the decision-making circle of military operations, and supported the thoughtful plan.
Although Zhao Kaihe was annoyed, he did not dare to refute Zhao Zuoliang.
Facts have proved that Zhou Zhi did the right thing.
Therefore, the actions of the Liberation Army along this route were far smoother than those of Zhao Kaishan's main force.
At the end of November, approaching December, after learning that Zhao Zuoliang's march had successfully achieved great success, Zhao Kaishan, who was short of major generals, ordered Zhao Zuoliang to bring the main force of the army to Nanle County.
Zhao Zuoliang joined forces with Zhao Kaishan in mid-December and was very dissatisfied with the tragic situation under Nanle City at that time.
He couldn't comment on the military aspect, but in other aspects, Zhao Zuoliang had some opinions.
"You can do such things as forced conscription, Kaishan, what are you thinking about? If we, like the gold thieves, forcefully recruit people into the army, what is the difference between us and the gold thieves?
If there is no difference between us and a gold thief, how can we win the support of the people when the enemy is strong and we are weak? How can we continue to develop without support? "
When he learned that Zhao Kaishan was conscripting people into the army because of lack of troops, he strongly disagreed and went directly to Zhao Kaishan to argue with him.
