This captured logistics team was basically a Han Chinese signing army team, and the grain officer leading the troops was also Han Chinese.
When he saw Su Yonglin's flag and Su Yonglin's cavalry, he knelt down and begged for mercy. He wanted to dedicate all the food to Su Yonglin, and begged Su Yonglin to spare the lives of their signatory troops.
"General, spare your life! General, spare your life! We are not regular soldiers, we are just signing troops! Signing troops! We are not fighting!"
"Don't worry, of course I won't kill you. We are the liberation army of the Han people. We will not kill Han people, only Jurchens."
Su Yonglin patted the grain officer's shoulder pleasantly, and then asked with a smile: "We just came from Baoding, are you sending us to Wen'an?"
The grain officer was shocked, then full of fear.
"yes……"
"Are you going to the big city?"
"also go……"
"Then I will arrange for a group of brothers to transport grain to Wen'an with you. They won't be discovered, right?"
Looking at Su Yonglin's heshan face, the grain officer swallowed.
"Absolutely not."
"That's good."
Su Yonglin nodded, then took the grain transport team, gave them a speed boost, and rushed to Wen'an County. When they reached the north of the county, he replaced most of the escort team with his own people and went to deceive the city gate.
This grain officer was quite cooperative and led the grain transport team slowly into Wen'an County. Then naturally there was a burst of killing. The city gate was taken down. Soldiers from the Huben Battalion quickly rushed into the city and fought for a while, killing more than a thousand gold soldiers who were left behind in the city. Collapse quickly.
The county seat was lost and found again.
But Su Yonglin did not defend. After wiping out the defenders, Su Yonglin continued to lead the food transport team to the big city pretending to be a food transport team.
At the same time, Yelu Yuanyi was making his own little plans, sending people to Hejian Mansion to search for information and explore the military setup of the Liberation Army.
Then he learned that the Hejian Prefecture area seemed to have completed the construction of strong walls and clearing the country. Going a little deeper, he discovered the military facilities of the Liberation Army.
The Liberation Army did set up defenses in Hejian Prefecture, but it seemed to be maintained in the Hejian City area. Leaving Hejian City to the east and Dacheng County to the west, it became a no-man's land for a long distance.
The population density of the Jin Kingdom is certainly not high these days. As a traditional Han land, Hebei was severely damaged by the flooding of the Yellow River, and its production status also plummeted. The population was far less dense than before the collapse of Hebei.
Yelu Yuanyi also heard that when the Song Dynasty still ruled Hebei, Hebei was still a very fertile agricultural land, but it was later destroyed by their own efforts.
Despite this, the centipede is dead but not stiff, and the broken ship still has three thousand nails. Even if Hebei collapses, it is really too much to say that such a large area is no man's land.
The only explanation is that Jianbi Qingye was also completed in Hejian Mansion.
This is interesting. This group of Han thieves have very strong execution capabilities. The previous counties have been cleared, and Hejian Prefecture has also been cleared?
If a fight breaks out, the main force of the Jin Army will probably capture Hejian City and attack it fiercely.
But Hejian City was originally an important town, a big city. It was built very tall, wide and deep during the Northern Song Dynasty. In the Jin Kingdom, its status was not reduced and it was still an important town.
Falling into the hands of the rebels, for military purposes, the city defense must have been strengthened, and the city wall may have been made higher and thicker to what extent.
As an important town in Hebei Province, Hejian City has both military and political significance. It is a city that cannot be bypassed or ignored in a state of war and must be captured.
I don't know how many lives it will take to win this fight.
Yelu Yuanyi secretly speculated that Wan Yanliang would inevitably hit his head and bleed bloody at the foot of Hejian City.
I'm afraid this battle won't be easy.
The war has not yet begun, but Yelu Yuanyi already feels that this battle is difficult to fight from a military point of view.
If this battle were to start, first of all, the logistics requirements would be particularly high, and then the rest.
Immediately afterwards, on October 18, he received the latest news about the defense of the Liberation Army near Hejian City, and learned that everything he had guessed was not unfounded.
"According to the general's request, my subordinates investigated the situation of Hejian City. The walls of Hejian City were indeed heightened and the moat was widened. There were originally two barbicans and now there are four.
A large number of equipment can be seen at the top of the city, there are many flags erected on the city, and there are many soldiers coming and going. The Hejian City looks very powerful from a distance and can be called the strongest city in the world. "
The spy told Yelu Yuanyi exactly what he saw.
"This is not good."
Yelu Yuanyi frowned: "These traitors do know how to defend the city. If Hejian City is really so strong, even if the siege force is ten times more than his defenders, it will be a hard battle. As long as there is enough food in it, , this battle will take at least three months.”
Yelu Yuanyi's subordinates looked at each other but said nothing.
Of course they didn't want to fight this battle, they were all forced and had no choice.
Although they had captured two county towns without any bloodshed, they did not feel like they had won at all. Instead, they were worried.
After Yelu Yuanyi judged the situation on the front line, they became even more worried.
They don't want to be assigned the task of siege.
Although the highest level of military merit in the army is called "First Ascension", if you win the first military merit, most of the soldiers will become officers, and the officers will become generals. As expected, the family will basically have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.
But the reason why its gold content is so high and the rewards are so generous is that it is much more difficult to attack a city than to fight in the field.
There are countless corpses lying behind a first-in-command military merit. A first-in-command made with human lives is never the kind of military merit that normal people in the military long for.
They would rather compete with the Liberation Army on the field battlefield than be beaten to a bloody head below the city.
But of course this kind of thing is not something they can decide.
Yelu Yuanyi's trusted general Yelu Xian thought for a moment and said, "General, do we need to inform the court about this matter so that the court can prepare early and prepare more trebuchets and so on?"
"Of course the notice needs to be given, but I don't want to attack the city here. I will give you a hundred trebuchets and let you attack the river. Are you willing?"
Yelu Yuanyi looked at his subordinates.
The subordinates looked at each other and shook their heads, indicating that they did not want to cause trouble in this city.
Anyone who really wants to be appointed to attack such a city must burn incense and pray to God to be kind to him. Otherwise, there will be no credit for losing troops and generals. Not to mention the emperor, the generals of each army will probably want to tear him alive.
Yelu Yuanyi nodded and began to think about ways to escape.
But before he could think of anything, someone suddenly came to report that a bandit army dressed as a Jin army was pretending to be a grain transport team to rob the north city gate. The gate defenders were fighting fiercely with them. The situation was very critical and they requested reinforcements.
This scared Yelu Yuanyi to death.
"North of the city? What's going on? Why are the rebels coming from the north? Aren't there no rebels in the north?!"
Yelu Yuanyi shouted hysterically.
But no one could answer him because everyone was in a panic.
However, after so many years of ups and downs in the officialdom, Yelu Yuanyi had not never encountered big waves and small waves. He quickly took deep breaths several times and forced himself to calm down.
While he sent people to urgently support the city gate, he walked around thinking about what happened and what he should do.
Then, a terrible idea quickly formed in his mind.
The bandit army came from the north, pretending to be Jin soldiers, pretending to be the Jin army's food and fodder transportation team...
To the north, there is grain.
Will my food supply be cut off? !
Nothing will happen to Wen'an County, right?
broken!
Yelu Yuanyi's heart was shaken - the rebel army had cut off my food route from the north and cut off my retreat. If another army came from the south to attack from the north and south, wouldn't I be doomed?
Moreover, I have already attacked Dacheng County. Instead of retreating to Hejian, they attack instead?
Then why do they go everywhere to clear the country?
Isn't it just to gain strategic depth and offset the cavalry advantage of the main force of the army?
Is not it?
Are they just trying to confuse me and make me think they are going to retreat?
Is this all a trap set against me?
It’s over!
It’s over, it’s over, it’s over!
Yelu Yuanyi swallowed, his heart beating wildly.
Some of his subordinates immediately asked him what to do next, whether to defend the city and wait for reinforcements or to retreat quickly.
Yelu Yuanyi thought nervously for a while and made a decision.
"Leave one force behind, and the rest retreat quickly! The whole army retreats quickly! If we don't retreat, we will be surrounded by the bandits, and none of us will be able to get back!"
