As an emperor, Wan Yanliang would sometimes feel that he could not help himself.
Therefore, in areas where he can make decisions at will, he will indulge himself in order to hedge against the necessity brought by his status as emperor and let himself feel satisfied.
But there are always some things that he can't do as he pleases.
Such as war.
"Whether to go to war or not is no longer something I can easily decide. The Han traitor army has bullied others too much. It is impossible to continue to tolerate it. We must fight. We have to fight. Even if we just launch an attack and achieve some results, It’s also necessary.”
Wan Yanliang sighed and said: "I know your worries, the vanguard army, just send out 20,000, the goal...even if it is just to defeat a small band of thieves, or capture a small city, at least, there must be Let me know if you have good news."
Heshi Lieliangbi and Tu Shanzhen looked at each other, and both breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Wan Yanliang had not lost his mind after all.
The troops were sent to deal with the growing dissatisfaction between the DPRK and China towards Wan Yanliang.
Wan Yanliang could suppress the ministers and prevent them from openly opposing them, but the main reason why the Jin Kingdom was in the state of internal and external troubles still had to be attributed to Wan Yan Liang. The country has become so embarrassed and full of crises.
No one is blind or stupid, and they know the reason clearly.
People dare not speak out, but they dare to get angry.
Once this kind of anger has accumulated enough, there will be no need to speak. At that time, the knife will replace the mouth.
So even an emperor like Wan Yanliang, who ascended the throne by killing, would still feel panic.
In fact, Wan Yanliang was also riding a tiger and had to face the Liberation Army with the most determined and tough attitude.
Although this tiger was raised by him alone.
After Heshi Lieliangbi and Tu Shanzhen returned to the Privy Council, they held some discussions and decided to follow Wan Yanliang's order to mobilize a force as the vanguard of the army and take the lead in launching an attack on the Liberation Army.
According to current intelligence, Su Yonglin, one of the leaders of the Liberation Army, is stationed in Hejian Mansion. Therefore, the goal of the Pioneer Army is to enter Hejian Mansion, an important town in Hebei Province, and try to open a hole in the defense line of the Liberation Army.
Of course, this is a superficial combat strategy announced to the outside world to strengthen the military power of the Jin Kingdom.
In fact, it is enough for the vanguard army to send troops and win a small victory or capture a small city.
Wan Yanliang had no other needs. All Wan Yan Liang needed was a small military victory to stabilize people's hearts.
Moreover, at least this means that the Southern Expedition has officially begun. Most of the attention of the courtiers will be attracted by this battle, and the political crisis faced by Wanyan Liang himself will be reduced accordingly.
After this army was dispatched, the remaining main force of the Southern Expedition still needed to make some preparations to complete the final preparations for the attack.
The deployment of a huge military group of more than 400,000 soldiers, more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians, and more than 400,000 soldiers required an astronomical amount of food, ammunition, daily necessities, money, etc.
Driven by Wan Yanliang, the entire imperial court mobilized on a large scale to prepare for the upcoming all-out southern expedition.
And now that the Central Army has launched an attack, the troops on Hedong and Nanjing Road cannot stay there without attacking.
The previous task Wan Yanliang gave them was to defend the local area and not attack, but now that the main force of the imperial court was ready to attack, they had to be ready to attack.
So Wanyan Liang ordered Wanyan Yiying, the commander-in-chief of the troops and horses of the South and North roads of Henan, and Kong Yanzhou, who was left behind in Kaifeng, to prepare for the attack. When his army was ready, they would dispatch together.
Wan Yanliang's tactical arrangement generally formed a three-pronged attack situation, trying to annihilate the Liberation Army in one fell swoop.
General Wan Yanliang led the main force of elite troops to attack from the due north. The army used pressure to deal with the main force of the Liberation Army.
Wanyan Yiying, the general manager of the military and horse capital in Hedong, led the army to Zhending Mansion and recaptured this important town in Hebei.
Kong Yanzhou's troops were the weakest, so he would attack from the south, targeting the states bordering the Southern Song Dynasty. This would sting the Restoration Army in the back, making it vulnerable to enemies from both sides and unable to concentrate on fighting against the Jin Army.
Wan Yanliang, with a faint worry and the ambition to rule the world and become the Holy Lord, prepared to launch a powerful offensive against the Liberation Army.
At the same time, Wan Yanliang remembered that he had sent people to the Southern Song Dynasty to ask questions, so he went to ask Heshi Lieliangbi, and learned that the Southern Song Dynasty had not responded yet, which made Wan Yanliang a little angry.
"How dare Zhao Gou disobey my order? He really won't send troops? Okay, okay, if he doesn't send troops, I will have an excuse to attack Song Dynasty!"
Wan Yanliang snorted heavily, as if he was treating the Southern Song Dynasty as a piece of meat in his words.
In fact, Zhao Gou was still quite confused.
In mid-September, Zhao Gou received news of civil strife in the Liberation Army at the same time and Wan Yanliang asked him to send troops north to attack the Liberation Army.
The civil strife in the Liberation Army seemed to be quite big, and the leaders changed twice in a row.
After the first leader Zhao Kaishan died of illness, he was replaced by one named Zhao Xiang, who also sent a seal to Zhao Gou, indicating that he had inherited Zhao Kaishan's status and would continue to exist as a minister of the Song Dynasty.
Before Zhao Gou had time to decide whether to agree to continue being a minister of the Song Dynasty, he was finished, and a man named Zhao Zuoliang became the new leader.
He also sent a memorial to Zhao Gou, saying that Zhao Xiang was rebellious and had Zhao Kaishan killed. He had brought order to the chaos and had now become the official leader of the Liberation Army.
He is also willing to be a minister of the Song Dynasty, obey the orders of the Song Dynasty, and hopes to get assistance from the Song Dynasty, such as money, materials, anything. Anyway, the Liberation Army wants everything, and he will not despise it.
This obvious gesture of reaching out for money made the Southern Song Dynasty court worried.
Two consecutive leadership changes caused the Southern Song Dynasty court to have strong doubts about the stability and durability of the Liberation Army Group.
Zhao Gou's feeling of insecurity suddenly increased, and he suspected that the Liberation Army was almost doomed, so under his instructions, the Southern Song Dynasty unilaterally cut off any contact with the Liberation Army, and did not respond to the Liberation Army's active contact and treated it coldly.
In addition to continuing to collect intelligence, basically Zhao Gou no longer intends to have any contact with the Liberation Army Group.
Immediately afterwards, Wan Yanliang's credentials were delivered.
Wan Yanliang commanded from a high position, and as the emperor of the suzerain state, he asked the emperor of the vassal state Zhao Gou to send troops north to assist his army in quelling the rebellion of the Liberation Army and fight with his millions of troops.
After the achievement is completed, he will reward the Southern Song Dynasty with four border states as a reward.
This is the benefit.
If Zhao Gou disobeys the request of the suzerain and does not send troops to assist in the battle, then it will be regarded as disrespectful, disrespectful, and rebellious, and violates the peace treaty concluded between the two countries. Then after Wanyan Liang finishes the liberation army, , it is necessary to attack the Southern Song Dynasty and teach Zhao Gou a lesson.
Zhao Gou was very angry at the time, but more importantly, he was afraid. He summoned some of his close ministers to discuss the matter secretly and asked them whether they should refuse or obey the wishes of the Jin Kingdom and go to war.
Faced with this request and the naked insult to Song and Zhao Gou, even Tang Situi, who had always advocated peace, did not dare to say that he would listen to the Jin, let alone the radical Northern Expeditionist Chen Kangbo.
Chen Kangbo was so angry that he insulted Wan Yanliang's ancestors in court. He was not concerned about his parents, wife, children's birth, old age, illness, death, birth, child rearing and a series of other issues. He was worried that they would live with a beast for so many years. Personal safety issues.
Then Chen Kangbo asked the Song Dynasty to use the army to reply to Wan Yanliang, letting him know how angry the Song Dynasty's reply was.
