On the eighth day of October, Heshi Lieliangbi "quickly" solved the food and fodder transportation problem of Yelu Yuanyi's 20,000 vanguard army.
In order to express his "loyalty, bravery and fearlessness", Yelu Yuanyi officially sent out troops on the same day, and the troops were directed towards Wen'an County.
On October 10th, Yelu Yuanyi's vanguard captured Wen'an County, and on October 12th, Yelu Yuanyi's vanguard captured Dacheng County.
He "managed troops like a god" and exceeded the enemy's expectations. He attacked the "weak spots" of the Liberation Army's defenses with lightning speed, defeated two cities of the Liberation Army in one fell swoop, "recovered" Bazhou, and directly threatened the People's Liberation Army. Hejian Mansion got a good start.
In this way, they not only occupied the territory, but also threatened Hejian from the side, which would inevitably force the Liberation Army in Renqiu to go south to Hejian Mansion to return to defense. In this way, the north of Hejian was basically recovered.
Yelu Yuanyi felt that he had made a great contribution and was enough to report to Wan Yanliang. He was very happy and had no intention of moving forward. Instead, he stationed troops in Dacheng County to watch the situation and wait for the emperor's "further orders."
By the way, he reported a victory and let the emperor know that he had won the battle.
Regardless of whether this victory was given to him by the Liberation Army or whether he got it cheap, anyway, this is a victory, and this is the victory the emperor wants him to fight.
At this point, he will not continue forward. Anyway, Hejian Mansion is ahead of him. The legendary bandit leader Su Yonglin's residence must be heavily defended, and it is impossible for him to defeat it.
Rather than being stubborn and provoking Su Yonglin's main force, it would be better to stay here and wait for Wan Yanliang's main force to arrive - counting the time, it's almost time.
Before that, if the main force of the Liberation Army came to attack him, he would have to "fight hard", and the worst he could do was "lose the enemy and retreat".
Anyway, as long as he can save the army, even if he is defeated, it is not a serious crime.
Yelu Yuanyi's abacus was making a lot of noise, and his mind was full of business matters, but he kept saying "I am loyal and sincere", which further added more uncertainties to Wanyan Liang's plan that was already full of uncertainties. .
Su Yonglin had long expected this situation.
When he led the Huben camp cavalry and Wei Kexian's Xuanjia army to go north to prepare for a battle with the Jin soldiers, he learned that the navy army had made great achievements and destroyed all the food and fodder of the Jin army, and then the Jin soldiers withdrew.
Su Yonglin stopped in Renqiu County, which had completed the task of clearing the country. After thinking about it for a while, he felt that this golden soldier was very interesting.
Unlike other stubborn Golden Soldiers, this Golden Soldier immediately retreated as soon as their food and fodder were destroyed. It seemed that they were not even unwilling to give up, but rather seemed to be relieved.
The neighboring states and counties along the Jin Kingdom's six-state defense line were too close to each other. It would be too difficult to fight directly against the Jin army's front and difficult to retreat. Therefore, Su Yonglin decided to give up directly and did not plan to station troops for defense.
His first line of defense consisted of eight cities from west to east: Zhending, Anxi, Wuji, Puyin, Boye, Hejian, Leshou and Qingchi.
Therefore, Wen'an County and Daqiu County were both strategic areas that were directly abandoned. Anyway, all the people and materials were taken away by him, and even a lot of wood was cut down by him, leaving very little for the Jin Army.
Being captured by this golden soldier was completely within his expectation. The only thing Su Yonglin was curious about was why this golden soldier avoided his front and was unwilling to confront him head-on, even for a brief moment. ?
Are they afraid?
Is Jin Bing afraid of him?
This is interesting. Ever since Yue Fei died, Su Yonglin felt that the Kingdom of Jin had never been afraid of a Han or a Han army. Are these Jin soldiers really afraid this time?
After thinking about it, Su Yonglin felt that it would be better to play it safe.
According to the current intelligence, the main force of the Jin army has not completed preparations to go south. There has been such a long time between this vanguard army and the main force. It is obvious that it is not just the vanguard army.
According to general practice, it is normal for the main force of the army and the vanguard army to be dispatched three to five days apart. It has been more than half a month here, and whether it is the vanguard army is even more debatable.
Su Yonglin secretly speculated that this was probably the army sent by Wan Yanliang, the irritable old man, who couldn't stand his naval offensive, so he sent out to attract his attention.
I want to use this force to deal with him, so that he can only deal with the army and forget about the navy's offensive. Don't send the navy to harass him anymore.
But Su Yonglin did not forget it.
The advantage of the Jin Army is too great. He finally has a military advantage that can overwhelm the Jin Army, so how can he give up so easily?
While sending troops north, he ordered Sun Ziyi to dispatch 10,000 soldiers, land in the coastal area of Daxing Prefecture, and launch an attack directly in the direction of Wuqing County to contain the Jin Army's strength and test the Jin Army's defensive strength in this direction.
Now that the war is about to begin, of course it must be mobilized in all directions, so that Wan Yanliang will not dare to go south with all his strength no matter what. There must be a left-behind army to protect the home base, and there must be no less left-behind troops.
As for the frontal battlefield, since the Jin soldiers have a vanguard coming, of course he cannot turn a blind eye. Such a good opportunity to defeat them one by one cannot be let go.
After detecting that Yelu Yuanyi's troops were advancing into Dacheng County, Su Yonglin directly led the Huben battalion to Baoding without saying a word.
Since you dare to go south to Dacheng County, I dare to go north to Baoding County. Let's trade the extremes, and I'll bet you don't dare to attack Hejian Mansion!
If he was lucky, he might be able to capture Baoding, which would severely dampen Wan Yanliang's energy and further intensify the conflicts within Jin Ting.
Do you think I backed away because I was afraid of you?
Yes, I am indeed afraid of your main force.
But hasn’t your main force not arrived yet?
Since I didn’t come, what should I be afraid of?
regular army? Elite?
What I am fighting is the elite!
The Huben Battalion is composed of all elite members. They are cavalry on horseback and infantry on dismount. They are the only fully-organized cavalry regiment under Su Yonglin. They are Su Yonglin's accompanying troops. Basically, Su Yonglin will take Huben Battalion into action if anything happens.
Although their riding skills are not yet mastered, a considerable number of them cannot master horse fighting skills well and can be called mounted infantry. Only a small number of them can really compete face-to-face with the Jin Army cavalry.
However, the mounted infantry is also more mobile than the infantry. In the Liberation Army Group, which generally lacks mobile troops, the taller one among the dwarfs has to put up the airs of the cavalry regiment.
The Huben Battalion is his important mobile force, but it cannot be ignored just because the Huben Battalion is important.
The more elite the army is, the more they have to fight, tempering their spirit and will in blood and fire, so that while their bodies are strengthened, they have an iron will, accelerating their pace to become truly elite.
They are the seeds of Su Yonglin's future cavalry regiment that will gallop across the grasslands and dominate northern Xinjiang.
The fight must be fought.
Su Yonglin led the troops to Baoding very quickly. The whole army carried seven days of rations and did not stop on the way. No logistics were arranged. It was a surprise attack and they advanced lightly. The bet was that the Jin soldiers' logistics team in Baoding would not be able to respond in time.
The Jinbing logistics team in Baoding did not have time to react. The cavalry led by Su Yonglin arrived and destroyed several grain and grass storage camps in succession. The smoke from the raging fire billowed and the smell of burnt grain floated far and wide.
However, the gates of Baoding City were closed in time, and the defenders watched in horror as half of the Liberation Army trembled like divine soldiers descending from the sky. They did not dare to attack and could only defend.
Su Yonglin, who was advancing lightly, did not carry any siege equipment, so the army did not have the ability to siege the city, and of course he did not intend to siege the city.
The purpose of his coming here is just to take advantage, destroy the Jin army's food and crops as much as possible, and attack their war potential.
So after using superior force to kill the Jin Army skirmishers and logistics teams outside the city, Su Yonglin led his troops to set fire to them, then turned around and left without any regrets.
It was a surprise attack. Since Baoding cannot be taken by surprise, then don't be reluctant to fight and withdraw! Evacuate quickly!
But instead of retreating to their home base, they retreated towards Wen'an County.
How would the Wen'an County defenders feel when they discovered that Su Yonglin was coming from behind?
Su Yonglin didn't know, and he didn't care, but since this golden army had gone deep alone, how could he not give the other party a surprise?
Su Yonglin was lucky enough to catch up with a grain transport team that had just set off not long ago. Su Yonglin directly surrounded the team with cavalry and captured them completely.
