After this order was conveyed, in order to concentrate his forces to attack Su Yonglin's main force, Wanyan Liang even ordered Wanyan Yiying, who was besieging Zhending City, to stop the attack.
Wan Yanliang asked him to send a small number of troops to besiege Zhending, and then immediately lead his troops south to join the main force of the army, giving him more troops to use.
Once this plan is implemented, there will be no need to separate the troops. As long as we march all the way, we will have enough troops and food.
All the way south, the troops pointed directly at Jinan, chasing Su Yonglin and fighting him to the death. If they win, they can end the chaos in Hebei and Shandong in one fell swoop and quell the rebellion within the Jin Kingdom.
By the way, it can also greatly consolidate his authority as the emperor and allow him to firmly sit on the throne.
The emperor's order is absolute. No matter how problematic the order seems to be, the ministers only need to be responsible for executing it.
In order to eliminate other unstable factors besides the city, while the main force of the Jin army was advancing all the way to Jing'an City, they dispersed their forces and raided the rural forts on a large scale.
Wan Yanliang issued an order that any army that conquered the rural forts could take their own money and kill people at will. There were no taboos except that the food had to be turned over.
As long as they turn in the food, they can do whatever they want with everything else!
This is the emperor's promise!
This order further stimulated the Jin army.
As a result, the Jin army's morale was high, and they went all the way south, capturing more than 20 rural forts in Shenzhou, and went on a killing spree, with rivers of blood flowing and corpses piled up like mountains.
Because of this order, very few Wubao were allowed to surrender. After nearly thirty Wubao were destroyed, only three Wubao were allowed to surrender.
Moreover, the Jin army became more ferocious. Almost no local fort could hold out until the Jin army gave up, and almost all of them were destroyed.
However, in just a few days, the Jin Army's animalistic desires basically wiped out all the human settlements in Shenzhou except Jing'an City.
So the Jin army came to Jing'an City with a large amount of seizures and food and full morale.
Arriving at the foot of Jing'an City, seeing that Jing'an City was not as large and powerful as Hejian City, Wan Yanliang suddenly felt that he could do it again, and he suddenly wanted to try to attack the city again.
"Jing'an City is far inferior to Hejian City. Wouldn't it be great if it could be captured? Although cities that cannot be captured can be temporarily besieged, besieging ten cities is not as good as conquering one city, and there are no Wubao along the way. After the clearing is completed, how about waiting for a while while attacking?"
Wanyan Liang has not personally commanded an army to conquer a city since he went south. Now he really wants to conquer a city personally.
What can the ministers say?
They no longer opposed, but supported Wan Yanliang's decision.
So Wan Yanliang happily ordered preparations to attack the city.
Before attacking the city, Wan Yanliang symbolically erected a Jingguan outside the city, and then sent people to shoot the surrender letter into the city.
The letter told the people in the city that they had no future. The entire Wubao in Shenzhou had been wiped out. Su Yonglin was far away in Jinan and could not save them at all.
If they surrender immediately, they can avoid death. If they resist even a little, even if they hurt a golden soldier, they will be massacred behind the city slope.
Jing'an guard Song Xinbo and Jing'an instructor Wen Tianrui were very surprised after reading the surrender letter.
What surprised them was of course not Wanyan Liang's arrogance and cruelty, but that Wanyan Liang actually knew that the main force of the Liberation Army was in Jinan.
That is to say...
Someone leaked the news?
Wen Tianrui pointed to the letter and said: "The golden thief already knew that Alang was in Jinan. In other words, someone who knew about this matter surrendered to the golden thief and told the golden thief about it."
"There are quite a few people who know about this. It's very likely that the powerful landowners surrendered because they couldn't defeat the gold thief, and then told the gold thief, so that the gold thief could determine where Alang was."
Song Xinbo shook his head: "This matter must be told to A Lang immediately, so that A Lang can prepare as soon as possible."
"Um!"
Wen Tianrui nodded and immediately ordered his subordinates to go to work.
As a military response, Song Xinbo ordered his subordinates to launch a rocket directly. The rocket was nailed directly in front of the Jin army's formation and exploded with a bang, expressing the determination of Jing'an City to be shattered rather than destroyed.
So what's there to wait for?
Wan Yanliang gave an order, and the fierce and powerful main force of the Jin Army began to push all kinds of tall and heavy heavy siege weapons towards Jing'an City.
The churro covered a large number of soldiers and quickly threw sandbags into the moat ditch.
A huge wooden curtain was opened in front of the formation to resist various attacks by the Liberation Army at the top of the city.
The large crossbow fired huge arrows one after another towards the city.
The huge trebuchet threw terrifying stone projectiles towards the city head one after another.
Even though Jing'an City, which is not very wide in radius, has undergone thickening and heightening reconstruction, compared to the overly large scale of the Jin army's siege, it is still like a rock in the huge waves, being beaten heavily and submerged. It won't be weird if it breaks.
Despite this, the 3,000 Liberation Army regulars and 13,000 militiamen in Jing'an City did not feel fear or despair. They only had strong anger in their hearts.
Before the war started, Wan Yanliang's pile of Jingguan in front of Jing'an City stimulated the defenders of Jing'an City, and the soldiers were stunned.
Later, under Wen Tianrui's tearful accusation, the soldiers shared the same hatred and were filled with overwhelming anger towards the Jin army. They all expressed their determination to avenge the massacred people rather than destroy them.
Their strength is not that strong, but their hearts are extremely strong.
Facing the incoming Jin army and overwhelming attacks, the Jing'an defenders were not afraid and used the same weapons to fight back. The attacks of bed crossbows and trebuchets were very sharp. After all, they would also use weapons that the Jin army had not mastered. Firearms attack.
The extensive use of thunder cannons and rockets caused the Jin army to be blown to pieces. Although this was not enough to stop the Jin army's offensive, it could increase the Jin army's casualties.
Clouds of white smoke and blood mist rumbled out from the Jin Army's position. People were constantly killed or injured due to the explosion. In turn, the firearms used by the Jin Army could not bring greater damage to the Liberation Army.
This made Wan Yanliang very unhappy.
According to the soldier's description, he knew that the rockets of the Liberation Army were ordinary large arrows with gunpowder tubes tied to them, filled with gunpowder, while the so-called Thor Cannon was made of a spherical iron shell, filled with gunpowder, and ignited with a fuse. Used to detonate.
The Jin Army can also do this. The Jin Army can also attack with rockets and similar iron artillery, but the explosive power is far inferior to the firearms of the Liberation Army.
Wan Yanliang tried to seize some of the Liberation Army's firearms for research, but so far he has not succeeded.
So far, more than a month into the campaign, he has yet to conquer any city.
Among the captured forts, none of them had firearms.
This made the Jin Army completely unaware of why the Liberation Army's firearms were so powerful and powerful.
The Jin Army followed the same example, but only its form but not its spirit was of little significance.
As a result, the Jin Army could only run away with their heads bruised and bleeding by the Liberation Army, but they could not cause the same damage to the Liberation Army. They could only attack the city wall with cold weapons that were numerically superior. They could not fight back against the Liberation Army's firearms. method.
Wan Yanliang repeatedly asked the craftsmen accompanying the army to make firearms as powerful as those of the Liberation Army, but the craftsmen were helpless. This made Wan Yanliang very angry and killed several "incompetent" craftsmen.
The offensive and defensive battle in Jing'an City entered a feverish state from the beginning, and the fighting situation was extremely fierce.
A few days later, Su Yonglin received the same message from the intelligence force and Jing'an City.
