In short, Wanyan Benjian's tactics were to besiege the city and assault at the same time.
Bypassing the deserted city, while heading south, he mobilized elite soldiers to attack the rural forts encountered along the way, conquer them, and obtain grain, weapons, and money.
As for the people in Wubao, of course they should be killed if they can be killed. When strong men are needed, they will be captured on camera.
Needless to say, although the city of the Liberation Army was as hard as an iron shell and impossible to take down, these rural forts were relatively easy to take.
If you don't blindly focus on the city, you won't get much supplies from the rural fortress, but mosquito legs are also meat. If you don't take it, you won't take it. If you add up a little, it will make a lot of money.
After discovering this fact, Wan Yanliang began to ask the army to vigorously attack the rural forts surrounding the city.
Except for a few Wubao that were lucky enough not to be discovered and some Wubao that fought fiercely and could not be taken down by the Jin army, many rural Wubao were captured and razed by the Jin army.
If you can't conquer a city that looks like a war fortress, why can't you conquer your small country fortress?
Facing the surging main force of the Jin Army, many heroes who followed Su Yonglin fought bravely and resisted resolutely. Many of them fought to the death.
Of course, some of these people accepted the Jin Army's surrender request out of desperation.
They watched the Jin army heavily encircling them and constantly breaking through their defenses. They remembered Su Yonglin's warning to them to enter the city or move south, and couldn't help but regret it.
But there is no regret medicine in the world, so in desperation they can only choose to surrender to save their family.
Basically, those who surrendered were incorporated into the signing army by Wan Yanliang and went on expeditions with the army.
And through their mouths, Wan Yanliang got a lot of information about Su Yonglin himself and the Liberation Army.
For example, the real master of the Liberation Army is Su Yonglin. The apparent leader Zhao Zuoliang is Su Yonglin's father-in-law and is also a tool man recognized by everyone. He cannot lead the direction of the Liberation Army.
For example, the reason why the Liberation Army has been able to lay such a foundation along the way is mainly because Su Yonglin himself is strong and good at fighting. The previous Zhao Kaishan and Zhao Xiang were actually just middlemen, relying entirely on Su Yonglin to support the army, so their death is a big blow to the Liberation Army. On the contrary, it was a good thing. The Liberation Army under Su Yonglin's control became much stronger.
In addition, Su Yonglin himself is very young, but unexpectedly very talented and powerful. He has many very capable subordinates and has high prestige among the people. He can mobilize a large number of people to cooperate with his strategies and tactics in a short period of time.
Furthermore, at this moment, the main force of Su Yonglin's unit is in Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Province, and there are hundreds of thousands of relatively elite soldiers under his command. There are many infantry and fewer cavalry, but there are also more than 10,000 people. They train every day, so it won't be very easy. weak.
Some of these troops must have been deployed to the cities in Hebei, but Su Yonglin could still mobilize a lot of mobile troops.
Su Yonglin is in Jinan Mansion!
There are tens of thousands of elite troops around him--the level of elites that wiped out Wanyan Alin and Yelu Yuanyi's 20,000 troops.
Good guy!
Wan Yanliang became nervous. He had never expected that Su Yonglin's hand was so strong.
After discussing with a group of generals, they realized that although Su Yonglin had great strength, he lacked cavalry. Because of the lack of cavalry, they had to take such measures and turned the entire Hebei into a buffer zone, while he was hiding in Shandong. Jinan.
This is to let the Jin army be exhausted in Hebei, and then he will go north to pick peaches.
Insidious, vicious, despicable, shameless.
Wan Yanliang denounced Su Yonglin for being a bad person, and then made up his mind to use the cavalry to teach him a harsh lesson and uphold justice!
Now everything is clear. As long as the army goes all the way south to Jinan Prefecture, they can find Su Yonglin's main force, fight to the death with them, annihilate his main force, and win this battle!
Once Su Yonglin's field troops are destroyed, and preferably Su Yonglin himself is arrested, then the cities in Hebei will not be able to hold on for long no matter how hard they hold on and no matter how hard they refuse to surrender.
This is the Jin Army's only chance of victory at present.
"From the current point of view, as long as our army passes through Jizhou, Enzhou and Dezhou, we can enter Jinan Prefecture and find the main force of the Soviet thieves for a decisive battle. Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that the Soviet thieves will continue to retreat and our army will continue to pursue them.
But no matter what, the grain road from Jing'an to Jinan Prefecture must be consolidated to make it absolutely safe! The Soviet thief wanted to use Hebei as a diversion and exhaust our army, but I refused to follow his wishes. I just wanted to give him some trouble!
If he wants me to be restrained, I will in turn let him be restrained! As long as our army finds a way to open up the food road from Baoding to Jinan and ensure safety, then the other rebel armies in Hebei can completely ignore it! If the bandits want to attack our logistics, don't they have to take the initiative?
If they take the initiative to attack, our army will defend them. Once they are far away from the city, we will immediately send out cavalry to kill them! The bandit army lacks cavalry. Once they leave the city, what can they do to compete with my cavalry? Is there any suspense about this battle? "
Wan Yanliang said with an expression full of excitement that he was about to win: "Next, our army must change its tactics. We cannot be led by the Soviet thieves. Just eight words, secure the food route and march southward with all our strength!"
Wan Yanliang completely planned the Jin Army's next military operations, and he seemed to have found the way to victory.
He decided to gather all the scattered main forces of the Jin Army and then gather a large number of soldiers to do three things.
The first thing is to occupy all the cities that the army needs to pass along the way from Baoding to Jinan and guard them heavily.
The second thing is to surround as many cities as possible around the cities occupied by the Liberation Army from Baoding to Jinan and carry out encirclement tactics.
The third thing is that the elite main force took turns to protect the grain roads and food.
The Liberation Army was able to carry out general mobilization throughout Hebei with strong organizational and mobilization power, so Wan Yanliang felt that it was necessary to use the same method to deal with the Liberation Army.
To defeat magic with magic.
Wan Yanliang believed so.
If you try to strengthen the walls and clear the fields, then I will do the opposite. I will also do my own "strengthening the walls and clearing the fields."
I won't attack the city anymore. I only need to ensure the absolute safety of a grain road, which can support my main cavalry force to go south into Jinan Prefecture. As long as I capture your main field force, I will win.
I beat Su Yonglin!
Wanyan Liang told Wanyan Benjian, Heshi Lieliangbi and other senior officials and generals about his overall strategies and tactics, and asked them to provide detailed information for him.
Wanyan Benjian, Heshi Lieliangbi and others looked at each other, but no one knew how to get the details.
At first glance, this tactic seems to be full of problems, but if you think about it carefully, it seems that there is nothing that can be changed.
This tactic is actually very rigid, rigid, and not flexible at all. What is required is that there are many people and the soldiers obey orders. As long as these two points are met, you can do this, just like Su Yonglin's strategy of clearing the field with a strong wall.
If we really succeed, indeed, the situation between ourselves and the enemy will immediately change.
You stand firm and clear the wilderness, and I stand firm and clear the wilderness. So, is it you who stands firm and clears the wilderness, or I stand firm and clears the wilderness?
This becomes a philosophical question.
"Your Majesty, although it is possible to do this, it will take a lot of time to make arrangements, and it is hard to say whether each army can complete your Majesty's request within the specified time..."
After Wan Yanliang made the task assignment, Heshi Lieliangbi tentatively expressed his doubts.
Wan Yanliang's face turned dark immediately.
"I want you to solve the problem for me, not for you to raise the problem and let me solve it!"
Heshi Lieliangbi immediately shut up and said yes again and again.
Wan Yanliang added: "In short, this law must be implemented. Our army does not have much time. All armies must be in place within a month, and food routes must be guaranteed!"
