The marriage is basically done, but it's still a secret for now.
Su Yonglin and Zhao Zuoliang still have unfinished business.
Zhao Kaishan would definitely not watch Zhao Zuoliang marry his daughter to Su Yonglin without any reaction. In order to implement the matter, Su Yonglin needed to bring Zhao Zuoliang's family to him.
Therefore, he did not announce this matter to the outside world, or even tell the people around him about it.
In order to achieve this goal, Su Yonglin dispatched all the soldiers of the second platoon of the Huben Battalion and the entire fifth action group of the intelligence force.
This special operation was headed by Zhou Shaoning, leader of the fifth action team.
It is not difficult to take Zhao Zuoliang's family away, but Zhao Zuoliang's son Zhao Xiuye is currently being held in a prison in Linyi County as a political bargaining chip. It may take a little effort to get him out.
Of course this is not difficult.
Zhao Kaishan is not in Yizhou, nor is he personally watching this matter, so Yizhou is temporarily in a state where the sky is high and the emperor is far away.
According to the habits of those officials, unless Zhao Kaishan comes in person, as long as they have money, they can talk about anything. As long as the money is in place, they can even take certain risks to help with things.
So Su Yonglin specially approved a fund and planned to use the tried-and-tested bribery method to exchange the civet cat for the prince and rescue Zhao Xiuye.
"Of course, after rescuing him, my father-in-law must strictly control him. The laws and regulations on my son-in-law's side are far more stringent and enforced than those on Commander Zhao's side, and they are very selfless."
Su Yonglin gave Zhao Zuoliang a final warning.
In response to such a warning, Zhao Zuoliang took a deep breath and nodded slowly.
"I promise you, I won't make the same mistake twice."
"That's very good."
Everything ended here, Zhao Zuoliang quickly went south under the protection of the personnel arranged by Su Yonglin.
Later, during the general training of the entire army, Su Yonglin wrote a symbolic letter to Zhao Kaishan, asking Zhao Kaishan to formally appoint himself as the commander-in-chief of the Corps and appoint Sun Tzu Yi as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Corps to facilitate his subsequent military operations.
There is no discussion or request in the words, it is just a notification, a symbolic notification, which means I will do this regardless of whether you agree or not.
Anyway, Zhao Kaishan can't influence Su Yonglin.
After Sun Tzu Yi surrendered, the entire Hebei and half of Shandong actually fell into Su Yonglin's sphere of influence. Su Yonglin's actual power was already greater than Zhao Kaishan.
No matter what Zhao Kaishan said, the sphere of influence created by Zhao Kaishan's practical strength could not be replaced by Zhao Kaishan's words. If Zhao Kaishan wanted to do something, the first thing he had to face was not Su Yonglin, but the doubts of his subordinates.
It is true that the number of fighting troops under Su Yonglin's command is indeed not as ruthless as that of Zhao Kaishan.
Su Yonglin slightly streamlined the various units, weeding out the old, weak, sick and disabled. Those who were willing to go home went home, while those who didn't want to go home were included in the auxiliary army establishment. They were dedicated to doing some chores for the regular soldiers, transporting food and grass, etc. It can be regarded as making the best use of people.
The main combat troops are basically young and middle-aged people, and there is no such thing as the old, weak, sick and disabled.
Before the downsizing, during the great chaos in Hebei, Hebei's army could always make up 230,240,000.
After Su Yonglin streamlined the army, he reduced the number of 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers, and all of them were sent home or turned into auxiliary troops. The number of combat troops was clear.
Even if young adults have not received formal military training, their combat effectiveness is generally stronger than that of the old, weak, sick and disabled.
But Zhao Kaishan doesn't do this.
He recruits troops from all walks of life, even armed conscription. In addition to his own army's total strength of more than 100,000, there are also approximately 120,000 to 30,000 from other autonomous armed groups.
Counting some of the Jinting's grain-shooting troops who had originally remained in the cities of various states and surrendered to him, his total military strength could reach the scale of 250,000, which was indeed huge.
These troops are nominally under the command of Zhao Kaishan, but except for the armies of Zhao Kaishan's headquarters, the organization and command of the other armies and battalions are very unclear.
To a considerable extent, these armies are just stragglers who exist under the banner of the Liberation Army. Whether Zhao Kaishan knows of their existence is a question, let alone unified command.
Zhao Kaishan has no interest in helping these landlord armed groups retrain and clarify their organization, as long as they can exist as a military force.
It seemed as if as long as they existed, they would definitely obey Zhao Kaishan's orders and fight bravely for his orders.
He didn't care whether they were truly anti-gold or fishing in troubled waters.
Therefore, when attacking Nanle County, Zhao Kaishan lost more than half of his army. In order to maintain his strength, he had to recruit troops instead of recruiting the remaining hundreds of thousands of ready-made troops.
The main reason is that he has no way to contact and coordinate the landlord armed groups in a short period of time, so he can only use the simple and low-cost method of direct recruitment to maintain the number.
In this way, the quantity is guaranteed, but the quality is not necessarily guaranteed. The strong men can run away, leaving behind the old, weak, sick and disabled.
There was no way, even the old, weak, sick and disabled, as long as they were men, they were recruited to make up the numbers and sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder, which was considered to be a purge of the useless population.
When Nanle County reached the rear, due to the real shortage of logistics personnel, Zhao Kaishan even allowed some young and strong farm women to be used, and even the women were not spared.
So after this battle, Zhao Kaishan tried every means to increase the number of directly affiliated troops, trying to solve all solvable problems by himself.
He directly recruited troops from the entire Daming Prefecture and expanded the army by 30,000 in one go. He was so complacent that he would soon have an army of 300,000.
Then Su Yonglin's notification letter was sent.
In the letter, Su Yonglin told him rudely that he and Sun Tzu Yi had joined forces and were going to establish a corps and become the commander-in-chief. He asked Zhao Kaishan for permission and issued a formal order.
It's not like asking for instructions at all, just a very direct notification.
This made Zhao Kaishan so angry that he almost vomited blood.
Fortunately, Zhao Xiang completed the task of armed recruitment and returned to Zhao Kaishan. He comforted Zhao Kaishan with kind words and gave him peace of mind.
"Su Yonglin is arrogant and ignorant, and has no leadership. This is his crime. The leader should not be angry with him. What matters is his body."
Zhao Kaishan pushed Zhao Xiang away.
"Su Yonglin! Sun Tzu Yi! The wolfish ambitions of these two people have finally been exposed! The two of them joined forces to occupy Hebei, and even raised a corps to be the commander-in-chief! Why didn't he just ask me to take over my identity as the leader of the Liberation Army? Forget it! I’ll give it! I really will give it!”
Zhao Kaishan gritted his teeth and punched the table hard, filled with annoyance.
"The evil intentions of these two people are not something that happened in a day or two, and the commander didn't just know about it just now. The key problem now is that these two people have joined forces and their strength has greatly increased. Hebei and half of Shandong are controlled by them. So First of all, it will be very detrimental to us."
Zhao Xiang whispered: "Su Yonglin defeated the Golden Thief Cavalry and his prestige has greatly increased. It seems that these days, there are many people in our army who admire Su Yonglin. Many people even publicly praise Su Yonglin's military exploits."
"Are there many people like this?"
Zhao Kaishan's expression tightened.
"It can't be too little."
Zhao Xiang gave a high emotional intelligence answer.
Zhao Kaishan was silent for a while, and then looked at Zhao Xiang.
"If we fall out with Su Yonglin now, what are our chances of winning? Can we win?"
Zhao Xiang is indeed a little clever and likes to come up with bad ideas, but he is not low in IQ. Of course he can see how capable Su Yonglin is. If he confronts him head-on, isn't it just waiting to die?
"Commander, Su Yonglin is a man who can defeat the golden thief's 20,000 cavalry. If we confront him head-on...and he is both a member of the Liberation Army, and he has not blatantly rebelled,"
"this……"
When Zhao Xiang talked about these things, Zhao Kaishan was also a little embarrassed. He remembered how he was pressed to the ground and rubbed by the Jin Army cavalry, and how he was dragged down by a county town for almost three months. He suddenly stopped talking to Su Yonglin. Confronting ideas.
But he really couldn't swallow this breath. He always felt that if he couldn't do something this time, once Su Yonglin really won the strategic decisive battle with the Jin Army, everything would really be over.
His prestige will directly overwhelm everything else. Zhao Kaishan will not even have a chance to struggle. With just one word from him, he can decide the fate of Zhao Kaishan and the Zhao family.
How can this be accepted?
