In this strategic decisive battle, Su Yonglin provided enough food and money to Hebei City.
For this battle, Su Yonglin opened up his treasury, grain storehouse and arsenal, unreservedly increasing the defense power of each city.
Lin Jingchun advised him not to give so much, but to keep more for himself in case of emergencies.
Su Yonglin completely disagreed.
"If I win, I will get more. These are not worth mentioning at all. If I lose, what's the point of having so much? Save it to buy a coffin?"
One sentence blocked everyone's comments.
With his best efforts to provide supplies, the defensive durability of each city is relatively reliable, especially for the truly big cities such as Hejian and Zhending, the reserves of supplies are calculated on a yearly basis.
Needless to say, in addition to Su Yonglin's own reserves obtained from formal channels, the wealthy families he eradicated also made extremely important contributions. They used their family's wealth to support half of this war for Su Yonglin.
Without the huge wealth they had accumulated, Su Yonglin's family would have been easily wiped out.
Fortunately now, after giving so much, I can still have some left for the field troops to use, and have the reserves to launch a decisive battle.
The large allocation of reserve materials gave good confidence to this operation of clearing the wall.
Therefore, Yelu Yuanyi, who followed Su Yonglin all the way south, was stunned when he saw the active actions of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields throughout Hebei.
It took him a while to realize that Su Yonglin's strategy of strengthening the wall and clearing the field was not a strategy specifically aimed at luring the enemy, but a real tactic, a tactic aimed at Wan Yanliang.
The 20,000 of them were not worthy of Su Yonglin's aggressive war. Su Yonglin's purpose in doing this was just to target Wan Yanliang and his southward army.
Isn't he going to clear up the entire Hebei area?
Where can he find the manpower and material resources to carry out such a large-scale effort to clear the country?
Yelu Yuanyi felt that his knowledge had been subverted.
So he swallowed and carefully asked Su Yonglin to what extent he had done Jianbi Qingye.
"I planned to use the whole of Hebei as a buffer to disperse the Jin Army's forces. I cleared the country in the entire Hebei Province and concentrated all the manpower, material and financial resources in thirty cities, and stationed troops separately, so that the Jin Army could not have any supplies to replenish it.
Of course, this is not absolute. They can hunt, go into the mountains to get some delicacies and game, or fish and catch shrimps, but I don’t think that will reduce the pressure on logistics. And it will be winter later. Do they want to farm? Field? "
Su Yonglin smiled and said to Yelu Yuanyi: "Originally, I thought that my confidence in fighting Wan Yanliang came from my 100,000 elite troops, but now I know that is not the case.
One hundred thousand elite troops gave me the confidence to confront Wan Yanliang head-on. However, it is not enough to overthrow the Jin Kingdom with one hundred thousand elite troops. The confidence to overthrow the Jin Kingdom comes from those who believe in me and are willing to obey my orders. people.
When I give an order, they can cooperate with me, transport grain for me, produce food for me, expand the city for me, and leave my hometown for me. Their trust is my strongest weapon against the Kingdom of Jin. "
Yelu Yuanyi was horrified.
"Have the people's hearts surrendered to the general to this point? How did the general do it?"
"If you treat people with integrity, you will naturally gain the trust and loyalty of the people. Why are you so surprised? Is what I did so incredible? Why is it incredible?"
Su Yonglin shook his head: "If you find it unbelievable that it is not me but you who are wrong, you should reflect on what you have done for the people since you took power to make them ignore you so much and have no feeling for you. Even to the point of hating you."
Yelu Yuanyi was horrified, but did not dare to say anything more.
What Su Yonglin said does make sense, that's why there is a saying of loving the people like children. It's not like there are no officials who can do this, but no matter how much they love the people like children, this situation has exceeded the normal limit.
Is this the highest form of strong walls and clear fields?
He was actually able to get the entire Hebei Province to carry out such large-scale war mobilization. Millions of people obeyed his orders and cooperated with him to clear the country. The war mobilization was completed in a few months and they were ready for the war.
This level of solid walls and clear fields made Yelu Yuanyi's scalp numb.
Judging from his professional military level, if the Liberation Army turned the entire Hebei into thirty war fortresses, what on earth would Wan Yanliang do to win the battle?
Siege?
How many troops does Wan Yanliang have?
How many cities can be attacked?
How many cities can his logistics support him to wage war on at the same time?
He knew that when the imperial court was planning the details of the southern expedition, it had already included the local supplies of grain, fodder, ordnance and other supplies in the army's supplies.
They believe that they can obtain a larger amount of resources by defeating the Liberation Army and punishing the heroes and common people who cooperated with the Liberation Army. In this way, they can reduce the logistical pressure. At the same time, they can shock people's hearts through brutal killings and warn the people of the world to betray the Kingdom of Jin. fate.
If all logistics is used to transport grain, the 160,000 to 70,000 Jin troops on the northern front and a larger number of sign troops and civilians will consume a lot of strategic reserves, and the grain prepared by Wan Yanliang in advance will not be able to last for long.
They needed to "get grain and fodder on the spot" along the way as a supplementary means to support the war. Without this means, the grain and fodder that Wan Yanliang could use would only last for about four months.
But in the current situation, with no one around, except for the gifts of nature through hunting, fishing, woodchopping, etc., other materials are almost completely unavailable.
In this way, if the situation cannot be opened up in Hebei within four months, Wan Yanliang must be prepared to be completely wiped out if he does not withdraw his troops.
No matter how powerful you are if you lose food and fodder, once you are hungry, you will be at your wits end.
There are many cavalry, right?
A cavalry unit with men and horses needs to consume more than five times the food of a normal infantry unit.
The war is worth gold and silver.
It took Yelu Yuanyi a long time to calm down. He stared at the young general of the Liberation Army silently, feeling that there were layers of mystery surrounding him. Even if he was standing next to him at this moment, he would not know. What's on his mind.
I don’t even know what means he used to achieve all this.
How powerful are the soldiers and officials under his command?
Is this something an average bureaucrat can do?
Yelu Yuanyi was in the huge bureaucratic machine of the Jin Kingdom. He was exposed to all the bad habits and scandals in this machine. He completely did not believe that a human bureaucracy could accomplish such efficient things. In his opinion, this was simply a miracle. .
But this miracle appeared in front of him, which made him unable to believe it but at the same time he couldn't help but believe it.
This is very distressing.
But Su Yonglin didn't care about his troubles. While marching, he continued to arrange various strikes against the invading Jin army.
Climb the wall and clear the country, but the Liberation Army is definitely not without mobile forces. In addition to the 12,000 cavalry, another important mobile force of the Liberation Army is the naval force.
The Kingdom of Jin did not have a navy and could not deal with the navy of the Liberation Army. The Liberation Army could not face the Jin Army's powerful cavalry on land, but it could make up for the shortcomings to a certain extent with its navy.
Let the navy ships carry elite cavalry and infantry to land at any place, go directly to find the logistics supply base of the Jin Army, attack their logistics supply routes, or simply go to Zhongdu.
You can attack from the front, but I can make your backyard catch fire. If you have the ability, you can seal off the entire coastal area. Then I will call you ruthless. If you can't do it, then I'm sorry. I have no solution for you. .
If Su Yonglin said it, he would definitely do it.
When he went north to deal with Yelu Yuanyi, Su Yonglin asked Sun Ziyi to lead the navy to dispatch, preparing to land in the coastal area of Daxing Prefecture, march inland, directly harass and intimidate Zhongdu, and shake the hearts and minds of the Jin army.
In the early morning of October 10th, at dawn, the navy launched a surprise attack on the Jin Army's military camp in the coastal area of Daxing Prefecture.
A certain front-line military camp of the Jin Army was caught off guard. The cavalry of the Liberation Army quickly broke into the camp and killed them. The military camp of a thousand people was quickly defeated.
But before the defeat, they lit beacon fires to alert other military camps, which made Sun Tzu Yi immediately order the entire army to retreat.
By the time military camps located elsewhere responded and came to support, the Liberation Army had successfully retreated with the captured supplies and captured Jin soldiers.
They looked at the ocean and sighed.
