After making the decision, the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty were busy studying the Liberation Army and paying attention to the war situation in the north, and never responded to Wan Yanliang's credentials.
Wan Yanliang received no reply and knew that the Southern Song Dynasty would probably not obey his wishes and send troops to help in the war.
He was very angry, angry that Zhao Gou's timid old man dared to refuse his order.
But then I thought about it, this was good, at least it gave him an excuse to send troops to attack Song Dynasty.
If you don’t obey the orders of the overlord, then it’s natural for me to beat you!
Wan Yanliang was furious and ordered the entire court to speed up operations and complete the southern expedition as soon as possible. He could not wait to set off for Hebei and Shandong.
Of course, it was impossible for Su Yonglin not to know about such a big military trend.
Starting from September 9th and 10th, he continued to receive information about the large-scale mobilization of Jin soldiers in the Zhongdu area. The emergence of this information made Su Yonglin judge that the Jin Kingdom was about to mobilize troops.
The number of the first batch of attackers was not too large. Judging from the number of logistics personnel, the number was about 20,000, with few cavalry and many infantry.
The direction of travel is to leave Xiongzhou or Bazhou, arrive at Baoding, and go south along the Hutuo River. The front seems to be pointing directly at Hejian Mansion. It feels like we are going to face Su Yonglin head-on.
Su Yonglin placed his residence in Hejian Mansion, which itself has a symbol of "the emperor guards the country's gate".
At that time, some subordinates also suggested that Su Yonglin should not be so stubborn and arrange his base in Hejian Mansion. Hebei was originally a flat river, and the cavalry attack was coming in an instant. Hejian Mansion was so close to the Jin Kingdom's occupied area, and there was no strategic depth at all. .
When the time comes, the Jin army chooses the cavalry to quickly break through to Hejian Mansion. In about two or three days, Hejian Mansion will be attacked by the Jin army.
However, Su Yonglin didn't mind. He just wanted to be so stubborn and wanted everyone in the world to know that he, Su Yonglin, had the courage to confront the more powerful Jin Guozhongmen.
Don’t be a coward!
He wanted to adopt a completely different attitude from the Southern Song Dynasty, so that the hearts of the Han people in the Central Plains would belong to him, not the Southern Song Dynasty.
Obviously, his strategy was very successful. At least according to the current folk survey, the attitude of the people under his rule towards the Southern Song Dynasty was quite negative. This is enough.
The current battle is a battle to prove to all the Han people in the Central Plains that he has the strength to protect his own regime and people. Once he wins this battle, he will officially establish his position in the entire Central Plains and eliminate people's suspicion of him. The last glimmer of doubt.
At that time, it will be the time of real harvest.
By that time, the last trace of the Southern Song Dynasty's return to the Central Plains may be completely cut off by him.
And for this battle, he must try his best to use all the advantages he has accumulated and spent money to fight to the death with Wan Yanliang!
Since the Jin soldiers are ready to move, they will never stop. This great battle will continue until they are completely defeated.
Before this, Su Yonglin had issued an order to strengthen the walls and clear the country, and at this moment, Su Yonglin issued a general mobilization order in Hejian Mansion.
He ordered 30 urban defense headquarters and Shandong state capitals to quickly enter a wartime state. The armies in various regions entered full first-level combat readiness and were ready for war at any time.
The intelligence organization fully entered the state of military intelligence exploration, gave up other intelligence exploration, and fully investigated the possible movements of any unit of the Jin Army.
Targets include Jin Jun on Henan Road, North Road and Nanjing Road.
Once Wan Yanliang goes on an expedition, the Jin Army in Hedong and the Jin Army in Nanjing Road will never sit idly by and ignore it, and will definitely send troops along with him.
According to Su Yonglin's own speculation, the Liberation Army would be attacked from at least three directions.
The terrain in Hebei and Shandong is suitable for offense but not defense. They are suitable as the main logistics base of the unified regime, but they cannot be used as the foundation for long-term defense.
If we cannot rely on offense to open up the situation, the regimes in Hebei and Shandong will not last long.
Su Yonglin's plan of strengthening the wall and clearing the field is not for defense, but for bottoming out after defense - a major counterattack.
In order to implement the major counterattack plan, Su Yonglin needed to secure the wall and clear the country to buy him time and wear down the Jin Army's strength.
Because the Jin Army's vanguard army formed and advanced first, the time for Hebei's strategy of clearing the wilderness became more urgent. In order to buy more time for the strategy of strengthening the wall and clearing the wilderness, Su Yonglin decided to personally lead his troops north to face the Jin Army vanguard.
He was prepared to defeat the vanguard of the Jin Army and frustrate the Jin Army's spirit.
Based on the intelligence, Su Yonglin knew that the Jin army planned to use the Hutuo River water to transport grain, grass and troops, so that they could go south along the river and reach Hejian Mansion smoothly.
In this case, Su Yonglin would use traditional skills to send his superior naval forces northward along the river to block the advance of the Jin army's fleet.
Speaking of which, Su Yonglin didn't know how much Jin Jun knew about him, or maybe they didn't understand him at all, or they didn't care.
You have suffered so many losses in the navy, and you have suffered so much losses, but you still dare to use ships against him?
If they honestly wait until the rivers freeze in winter before heading south, the Jin Army will certainly lose the fast channel for transporting grain, but Su Yonglin will also lose the weapon of the navy, and will have to use infantry to confront the Jin Army head-on.
And now going south, his navy will never be lenient.
His navy can not only gallop on the sea, but some small boats can also swim smoothly in inland rivers. The navy soldiers can not only drive large boats to swim on the sea, but also row up and down the river, catching fish and shrimps by the way. Improve the food.
Following Su Yonglin's order, Navy Vice Admiral Zhou Mancheng led more than 80 smaller ships and more than a thousand Navy soldiers, all the way north along the Hutuo River to find the Jin Army's baggage ships and prepare to give them a good ride. Energetic.
The Jin Army does not seem to know what the Liberation Army is doing.
The Jin Army's 20,000 vanguard troops headed south from Zhongdu under the leadership of the general and Minister of War, Yelu Yuanyi.
Along the way, he did not move quickly, and it could even be said that he was a little slow. He led the army to Yijin Pass on September 26th, and then marched towards Baoding, preparing to go further south.
To be honest, Yelu Yuanyi didn't want to be the leader of the vanguard army. He could even be said to be resisting the position of leader.
But there was nothing he could do about Wan Yanliang's request and forced order.
From the bottom of his heart, he was full of complaints about Wan Yanliang.
He was a relative of the Emperor of the Liao Kingdom. His father earned great merit by betraying the whereabouts of the last emperor of the Liao Kingdom to the Jin Kingdom. Wanyan Aguda gave him the surname Wanyan, thus transforming him from an embarrassing Liao royal family into a wealthy family. Become the royal family of the Kingdom of Jin and enjoy the treatment of the royal family of the Kingdom of Jin.
So he was originally a very glorious Wanyan Yuanyi.
But something unexpected happened, and he didn't know which tendon in Wan Yanliang's head was suddenly broken, so he actually ordered the people who were given the surname Wanyan for various reasons during the war to return to their original surnames, and they could not continue to have the surname Wanyan.
This caused Wanyan Yuanyi to change back to Yelu Yuanyi, from a member of the Jin Kingdom's royal family to a descendant of the Liao Kingdom's royal family who was in an embarrassing situation.
This made Yelu Yuanyi feel that Wan Yanliang was trying to burn bridges.
It is true that after Wanyan Liang came to the throne, he went on a killing spree against Wanyan's people and killed many members of the Jin Kingdom's royal family. At this time, changing back to his original surname might be more beneficial to his career, so his career has been good. Position.
But Yelu Yuanyi was not happy.
He is the descendant of a person who betrayed his country and his ethnic group. He has lost his way out and can only focus on getting closer to the Wanyan family. Relying on his identity as the Wanyan family, he can be popular and popular in the Kingdom of Jin and enjoy endless happiness.
And more importantly, when his surname was Wanyan, he felt that he was one of the Jin Kingdom's own. He felt that he was a Jurchen, not a Khitan in an embarrassing situation.
He felt proud and proud every time he saw those former Khitan nobles who could not bear the surname Wanyan looking at him with envy.
But Wan Yanliang involuntarily turned him back into Yelu Yuanyi, making him a Khitan in an awkward situation again.
Those who once envied him ridiculed him and ridiculed him, saying that he was just a dream and had not been accepted by the Jin people at all, which greatly hurt his emotions and made him feel betrayed.
This feeling is very uncomfortable, very uncomfortable and unpleasant.
He went to court several times hoping to change his surname back to Wanyan to show his loyalty to the Kingdom of Jin, but Wanyan Liang did not support this.
