Facing the powerful navy of the Liberation Army, Wan Yanliang even felt helpless.
So he discussed with Heshi Lieliangbi. Both of them believed that water transportation of grain was no longer feasible. In order to protect the army's grain, the more expensive land transportation could only be used.
But this will take some time to prepare.
Heshi Lieliangbi made some calculations and told Wan Yanliang that even if there were food and people on the front line, it would take more than ten days to prepare, which would be mid-October.
So simply stop advancing and stay in Baoding to collect intelligence and do work for the main force. Stop fighting. If we fight, it will affect the main force's food and fodder preparation plan.
Wan Yanliang thought for a while and shook his head.
"Just a small victory, one! One is enough! At most ten days, before the main force of the army goes out, Yelu Yuanyi must send troops. If you can't do this, you can do it yourself."
Wanyan Liang coldly handed over this task to Heshi Lieliangbi, and Heshi Lieliangbi had no choice but to accept the appointment.
In fact, he could easily fulfill Wan Yanliang's request.
It's just that his long-term experience in dealing with Wan Yanliang made him think a little longer and make the matter a little longer.
Wan Yanliang would definitely not agree to give him so much time. After Wan Yanliang cut it off in a big way, it would be the time that he could accept, and he would still be a little rich and have a little more to spare.
If he had accepted the task right away, Wan Yanliang would have felt that he still had room to spare and would have continued to compress his time.
That would be the end of it.
He can do good things and get rewards. Anyway, it is impossible for Wan Yanliang to know about his deception, so there is no harm in doing so.
If a subordinate can only tell the truth when facing a superior, then the problem will be too serious.
Your superiors always emphasize being pragmatic and telling the truth, but don’t take it lightly.
If we were to tell the truth, the first person to fall out would be his superiors.
When to tell the truth, when to tell lies, and when to mix truth and lies, that is the art of being a subordinate.
If you master this art well, you can please your superiors, accumulate popularity, accumulate merits, and be promoted to superiors.
If this art is not well managed, at best you will stand still with no hope of advancement, or at worst you will become a casualty of political struggles.
Since he became an official at the age of seventeen, Heshi Lieliangbi has been in officialdom for twenty years. In these twenty years, he has seen too many such victims.
They may be smart, talented, and of noble birth, but they all fall into the category of "being a human being."
Being from a wealthy family can reduce the possibility of becoming a victim to a certain extent, but as a minister of Wan Yanliang, you may become a victim at any time even if you are from a wealthy family.
So Heshi Lieliangbi learned well under Wan Yanliang's rule.
Be able to do things.
But the prerequisite for being able to do things is to be a good person.
After walking out of the palace gate, Heshi Lieliangbi sighed deeply.
The final handling of this matter satisfied Heshi Lieliangbi and Wanyanliang, but Yelu Yuanyi was very dissatisfied.
He received a document from the Privy Council, telling him that the emperor deeply blamed him, asked him to perform meritorious service, and asked him to wait until the logistics and food supplies were in place to send troops immediately.
A small victory.
This is something he must do before the army goes out for battle. If he can't do it, the Minister of War will stop doing it.
Yelu Yuanyi put down the Privy Council document and sighed deeply, full of helplessness and resentment.
Small victory, small victory.
Even a small victory is a victory, and there is also a battle to be fought.
Is victory that easy?
If it were that easy, Wanyan A-lin wouldn’t have died!
I finally returned to Baoding and now I have to continue fighting?
Yelu Yuanyi waved his hand and threw the Privy Council document far away, feeling secretly annoyed.
But this is an order, an order that must be obeyed. If he does not obey this order, he is disobeying the order and disrespecting it. It is very possible that Wan Yanliang cut off his head in order to scare the monkeys.
What else can be done?
Before the grain team arrived, we quickly conducted an investigation.
Yelu Yuanyi continued what he had not finished before and sent a large number of capable scouts south to investigate the enemy's situation along the way, looking for traces of the enemy's main force.
Then he got the information that the Liberation Army had a considerable army stationed in Renqiu, Mozhou.
There is nothing strange about this. It is normal to be stationed in Renqiu to guard the waterway. If there is anything abnormal, it is probably that there are no traces of people in Wen'an County and Dacheng County in the south.
There was no one in the city, and the villages outside the city where people could be found were also empty. Not only the people, but also the daily necessities were gone. They walked around but couldn't find anything to eat.
nobody?
Have all the people been moved away?
What a great effort, playing with strong walls and clearing fields!
Yelu Yuanyi sighed a little, feeling that in order to win the war, these rebels would really do anything and take away everyone. In this way, the Jin army would face supply line problems when they went south. If they could not obtain food locally, the problem would be It's really serious.
Thinking about this, he thought about the news he had received before, saying that before he led his army to Yijin, the Liberation Army that attacked Xiongzhou Bazhou retreated. Now thinking about it, the people from these two counties should have been taken away at that time. .
At almost the same moment, officials from Suizhou, Ansu and other places who were confronting the Liberation Army in Baozhou, Anzhou and other places also reported that the local Liberation Army was reorganizing their armaments and seemed to be showing signs of retreat.
From this point of view, it is estimated that the Liberation Army is carrying out a relatively large-scale operation to strengthen the wall and clear the country.
Is this an attempt to move away all the people and materials on the front line of the confrontation and increase difficulties for the Jin Army?
But the main force of the Jin army was not him, but the cavalry of nearly 60,000 people. That was Wan Yanliang's trump card.
And there were more than just Wan Yanliang's cavalry in his army.
Hedong Wanyan Yiying also had cavalry under his command.
Kong Yanzhou in Kaifeng Prefecture also had cavalry under his command.
Adding the three aspects together, 80,000 cavalry is actually quite a lot. If we make a little announcement to the outside world and talk about the number of 100,000, no one will say that it is not the case.
That is really the foundation of the Jin Kingdom’s family.
According to Yelu Yuanyi's statistics, except for a few warning cavalry to deal with the Mongols, basically all the cavalry that could be mobilized on the northern front had been mobilized by Wan Yanliang.
In order to deal with the Liberation Army, Wan Yanliang also tried his best and took out all his family resources. Basically, if he could not win this battle, it would basically declare the end of the Jin Kingdom's rule in the Central Plains.
Without the superior cavalry, the Jin Army had no advantage at all against the Guangfu Army.
But then again, although the Liberation Army is very strong, whether it is infantry or navy, it can be considered strong, but the cavalry is a really advanced technical arm. In just over a year, you can organize 100,000 cavalry. It's an empty frame, I can't help but fight.
Although the cavalry of the Jin Army was also mixed with a lot of water, and there were also many fake Yus, the majority were genuine cavalry.
Able to fight hand-to-hand immediately, capable of riding and shooting in roundabout ways, he is the real deal.
The land of Hebei is flat and there is no danger to defend. There is no place under the iron hooves of the cavalry that cannot be attacked at dawn and dusk. Unless you can clear all the strong walls in Hebei, otherwise under the rapid assault of the cavalry, any strong walls and clearing the fields will be meaningless.
You can clear out the defenses of several states along the line, but with a quick cavalry assault, the defense lines in these states can be quickly penetrated and pushed to the back. Isn't it still a good place for us to "get food on the spot"?
But then again, there is no point in targeting the main force of the Jin Army, and he is not the main force. Facing the elite main force of the Liberation Army, his 20,000 people are simply not enough.
What battle to win? Where can we go to win the battle?
What the hell...
Wait a moment!
Isn't there no one stationed in Wen'an County and Dacheng County?
Why don't I avoid these two places and directly attack Wen'an County and Dacheng County where no one is garrisoned? Wouldn't this be equivalent to victory?
And to capture these two places, there is no need to fight for Renqiu. You can directly threaten Hejian Mansion from the flanks. Isn't this great?
Um! This is a good idea!
So Yelu Yuanyi ordered his spies to investigate Wen'an County and Dacheng County to ensure that there were no ambushed Liberation Army troops there, so that he could conquer the two cities without any bloodshed.
The final result of the investigation was indeed like this. There was indeed no Liberation Army. The two places were completely empty. Both the Liberation Army and the people were gone.
It seems that it has really been abandoned.
Yelu Yuanyi was overjoyed, feeling that he saw the light of hope from despair.
