It is said that the scale is huge, and it is indeed huge, but this battle is not fierce.
Because the vitality of Hejian City has been exhausted.
After a long siege, the people in the city did not have much morale and ordnance to resist. They were basically exhausted and extremely war-weary. If Hejian Prefecture had not allowed them to surrender for the sake of their own wealth and life, it is estimated that the people who surrendered would not have surrendered. There will be very few.
During this period, it is said that several civil strife broke out in Hejian City. It should be a conflict between those who wanted to surrender and those who did not want to surrender. The two sides fought to the death, but the results were not satisfactory.
Anyway, Hejian City did not surrender.
It was supported until Su Yonglin led the main force of the corps to attack.
Facing the mighty main force of the regiment, the defenders of Hejian City must have been in despair. Despite this, they still resisted for two days, causing Su Yonglin's regiment to suffer minor losses before the city tower was breached.
The first to ascend the city and capture the towers was Wei Kexian's Xuanjia Army.
With red eyes, the young men rushed up to the tower without fear of death and fought with all their might. Even though they were wearing numerous wounds, they continued to fight. Finally, they defeated the Jin army on the tower and broke through the west gate of Hejian City in one fell swoop.
The Xuanjia Army immediately opened the city gate, and the army poured into the city. They started a less fierce street battle with the last Jin soldiers in the city, and won the victory after half a day, annihilating all the Jin soldiers in the city who dared to resist, and won the victory between the rivers. The final victory of the battle.
Jin Ting's second nail in Hebei was finally pulled out after a long delay. Even the possibility of symbolically maintaining Jin Ting's rule was gone. Jin Ting's rule in Hebei came to an end.
According to Wei Kexian, Su Yonglin gave his troops such a majestic bugle as the Xuanjia Army, so naturally he had to make corresponding achievements.
Otherwise, what dignity would the department have to be called the Xuanjia Army?
Su Yonglin was very happy and commended Wei Kexian's Xuanjia Army and recorded a military merit for the group of soldiers who first climbed onto the city.
Taking care of Sun Ziyi's mood, Su Yonglin handed over the captured Hejian Fuyin to Sun Ziyi.
Sun Tzu Yi was very grateful, and then he cut off the man's head with his own hand and let out a fierce breath.
At the beginning, Hejian Prefecture Yin led his troops to defend the city, which caused him a lot of losses, and he persisted until Wanyan Alin led his troops, causing him huge losses and the current situation.
It's impossible to say that you don't hate it.
After this battle, the remaining 80,000 or so female true prisoners in the city were all captured, and no one escaped from the city.
Su Yonglin vetoed the request of some radical officers to kill them all and use their heads to build a temple in Beijing. He thought it was too wasteful, so he made another deal.
First, all young, fertile, and decent-looking women are gathered together and registered. After a physical examination, these women will be assigned to unmarried single soldiers in the army.
After this decision was announced, it was widely welcomed by the soldiers. Everyone thought this method of disposal was interesting, not disgusted, and even a little excited.
However, due to the relatively small number of women in this category, only a little over 8,000 in total, and the number of single soldiers among the 100,000 main combat soldiers was too large, so we could only set rules and distribute them according to their military merit.
Soldiers with high military merit will be allocated first, and those with insufficient military merit will be moved to the back row. If there are similar captures in the future, they will be allocated again as a benefit for soldiers who are single and inconvenient to marry.
The Corps will help you find a wife, and it won’t cost you any money. Not only will you be given holidays and benefits on your wedding day, but you will also be given money!
The whole army rejoiced.
The remaining more than 70,000 people were all turned into slaves and sold to wealthy people such as landlords and businessmen throughout Hebei.
Yes, sell.
All prisoners of war have clearly marked prices, and they can be bought back as long as they spend money. The money is paid and the goods are delivered, so no one can deceive them.
It's not that Su Yonglin has never thought of using them as coolies, but firstly, Hebei is not a base area yet, and there is no shortage of labor in the base area. Secondly, it is very troublesome to manage so many people.
It would be true that castration would bring some relief, but there won't be that many craftsmen who master the technology for a while, and castration technology is a set of professional processes. If you want to ensure the survival rate and subsequent exploitation, you will have to increase the cost investment.
It would be better to just kill him if he castrates him randomly, which makes no sense.
Su Yonglin didn't have the conditions yet, so he decided to sell it and sell it to the wealthy people in Hebei for local digestion.
Lin Jingchun also suggested to Su Yonglin that he could find some beautiful women to sell specifically to big landowners and businessmen to satisfy their desires that they had accumulated for a long time but could not vent.
In this way, you may be able to earn more money.
This suggestion was adopted by Su Yonglin, so more than a hundred beautiful and real women were selected and given various strange identities, such as the wife of a commander, the daughter of a county magistrate, the granddaughter of a state governor, etc. .
After fabricating their identities, the value of these captives instantly doubled. They were sold exclusively to big landowners and businessmen, and were highly welcomed by them.
There was even competition during the sales process.
The final sale price was also an astronomical figure, which greatly eased the Corps' tight finances.
The logistics and financial staff breathed a sigh of relief, and there were more smiles on their faces. They were worried that there was no money for a lot of things that needed to be spent. Now that they are better, there is no financial crisis in sight for the time being.
Seeing the real benefits, Su Yonglin can almost understand why Western civilized people are so obsessed with triangular trade, and why triangular trade can provide the soil for primitive accumulation for the industrial revolution.
What a huge profit.
As long as you win the battle and find a buyer, you can then lie down comfortably and earn money.
The profits from this wave are as much as selling antiques for several months.
For antiques, you still need to find a buyer, and you also have to worry about being lowered in price. It is not easy to negotiate a business deal with the elites of the Southern Song Dynasty.
But there is no price negotiation in the business of buying and selling prisoners of war. The price is whatever you say. You don't want it. Some people need it, whether it is for the actual needs of labor or for emotional catharsis. Anyway, the business of buying and selling prisoners of war is extremely hot.
So much so that the officials in the food and salary department who were in charge of this matter all asked Su Yonglin to sell the women who were originally assigned to the soldiers, so that they could definitely make another huge profit.
This time Su Yonglin refused and scolded them, telling them not to get carried away by the money, otherwise he wouldn't care if the soldiers came to trouble them!
Only then did the officials of the Food and Rating Department cease their activities.
However, the income was so huge that Su Yonglin immediately had sufficient funds to continue building the army, which made Su Yonglin feel that this business could continue.
It was such a waste to kill so many before.
After the Hejian Mansion was breached, Hebei was officially under the control of Su Yonglin. The power of the Jin government was uprooted and completely liquidated. The people's morale in Hebei was twisted into a rope, and the person holding the rope was Su Yonglin.
There were no enemies inside Hebei, and Su Yonglin, who was stationed in Hejian Prefecture, began to seriously think about the next strategic goals.
The current situation, if we only look at the Liberation Army in Hebei and the Jin Army in the Yanyun area, can basically be regarded as the confrontation between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom.
Of course, the situation of the Northern Song Dynasty was far better than that of Su Yonglin now, and the situation of the Liao Kingdom was also far better than that of the Jin Kingdom now.
Both sides can be regarded as degraded versions of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom.
At that time, Zhao Guangyi launched two strategic attacks against the Liao Kingdom, and the strategies and tactics adopted were basically the same.
One army set out from the north of the Taihang Mountains, detoured around the Yanshan Mountains and attacked eastward, threatening the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun from the flanks. The other army attacked from the plains and directly attacked Youzhou, following the same path planned by Chai Rong during the Northern Expedition.
In fact, from the perspective of the terrain, attacking like this is a upward attack, which lacks impact power. However, if the cavalry is held on the opposite side, attacking southward is a dive, which has strong impact power. Therefore, there are very few examples of successful conquests from south to north since ancient times.
Thinking of this, Su Yonglin couldn't help but sigh with emotion at Chai Rong's untimely death.
If Chai Rong had not fallen ill at the critical moment of the Northern Expedition, maybe he would have captured the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, and then he would have gone on to the Northern Expedition to Liaodong and the Jinhe Hetao, and maybe the barrier to the Central Plains would have been fully restored.
Zhao Kuangyin's later path was equivalent to Chai Rong's path, but because the emperor changed in the Central Plains, he had to go through it again, which completely consumed Zhao Kuangyin's vitality.
Zhao Kuangyin wanted to subdue all the Zhou officials who were unwilling to surrender, eliminate the Southern Tang Dynasty, organize the internal affairs, confiscate the excessive power of his own people, and reverse the political situation of "the emperor takes turns to come to my house next year".
This struggle lasted almost twenty years.
