The number of soldiers is always limited. The Jin Army claims to have an army of 400,000 going south, but it is not easy to pull out 160,000 truly usable soldiers.
The remaining soldiers were either encircling and suppressing the remnants of the Khitan rebels in Liaodong, or dealing with the dual threats of the Southern Song Dynasty and Xixia in Guanzhong. They were all unable to support the front line.
What Wan Yanliang can bring out is all for now.
Under the current situation, Wan Yanliang did not have the time or sufficient reserves to conquer all the cities one by one, nor could he use limited elites to surround so many cities, but he had to send troops to surround those cities that could not be breached.
Therefore, the only possible situation is to use military uniforms to show off. At worst, it can be paired with some elite foxes and fake tigers. It will look like a large army is besieging the city, so that the defenders in the city will not dare to move rashly.
However, without the pressure of the main force of the Jin Army, can the Liberation Army in the city really not be able to deal with the fake and powerful Jin Army outside the city?
Won't they discover the clues and rush out to tear apart the appearance of the Jin Army's strength?
Once a city breaks through the siege, the Jin army's logistics will be in danger. If all the cities break through the siege, Wan Yanliang's main force going south will face a dead end.
In this case, he still chose to go south.
Therefore, Su Yonglin is determined, Wan Yanliang...
What a gambling monster!
Is he gambling on the fate of the country?
Putting everything on a war, and making such a bold move, ignoring military common sense, and going south to find the main force of the Liberation Army, is there really nothing wrong with this guy's head?
The staff officers looked at me and I looked at you, and they were all shocked by Wan Yanliang's boldness.
It's not that Su Yonglin can't understand this.
"According to Yelu Yuanyi, Wan Yanliang is in a very bad situation at this moment. He has to fight this battle, he has to fight, and he has to win. If he loses, he will die without a trace. Hell, he actually has no way out."
Su Yonglin slowly told the staff about the current political situation of the Jin Kingdom that Yelu Yuanyi told him, and explained Wanyan Liang's dangerous situation thoroughly, so that the staff knew the reasons and psychological factors for Wan Yanliang's actions.
Finally, Su Yonglin made a summary and took the opportunity to teach the staff political lessons.
"When considering the behavior of an enemy, we should not only look at his military actions, but also not forget to consider his political situation. Why did Yue Fei die? He did not die because of military issues, he died because of political factors. Because of politics, Yue Fei could not Immortal.
When everyone wants to negotiate peace, but only he chooses to fight, all his actions are wrong. This situation is called political incorrectness. For the emperor, this is a great taboo. Yue Fei's death, It was the collective conspiracy of the entire Southern Song Dynasty court.
But if this politically incorrect person is the emperor himself and represents political correctness, then the problem becomes simple. Political correctness and incorrectness contradict each other, so it depends on who has a harder fist. "
Su Yonglin raised his fist: "Wan Yanliang defeated us, proving that his fist is strong, then all his incorrect actions will become correct. If he loses, even his correct actions will become correct." If this is not correct, this is called a zero-sum game, where the winner takes all and the loser gets nothing.”
The staff officers all fell into deep thought, thinking about what Su Yonglin said.
After a while, Xin Qiji nodded slowly.
"So, Wan Yanliang is betting that he can win this battle, and then use the power of victory to quell all dissatisfaction with him and prove that he is powerful. He will be able to secure the throne. If he If he fails, he won’t even have a chance to admit his mistake, and he will inevitably die without a burial place.”
"Right, that is it."
Su Yonglin nodded: "We don't need to worry about whether this is a conspiracy. Wan Yanliang no longer has the qualifications and ability to use conspiracy. He must be very anxious, angry, and nervous now. He will definitely do a lot of stupid things that we can't imagine." decision.
And as long as we seize every opportunity to continuously weaken him, make him tired, and make him weak, so that the huge advantage of 80,000 cavalry turns into nothingness and becomes a drag on him, then our army will definitely win the final victory! "
"victory!"
The staff members were aroused with the will to win, and there was an excited expression on everyone's face.
They stand at the crossroads of history, and they are playing a historic game that few people can succeed in.
Whether they can escape from the situation of "thief army" and complete a magnificent reversal and become a regular army representing orthodoxy depends on the outcome of this war.
If they win this war, they can push the Jin Kingdom back, attack Yanyun in one go, recover Yanyun and the Great Wall, and drive the Jin people back to their hometowns.
But even at this point, the Jin Army still had a huge advantage, and Wan Yanliang still held the trump card that could turn the tide - a huge number of cavalry.
On the field battlefield, this is a strategic force that is difficult to destroy.
In mid-to-late December, Wanyan Yiying rushed from Zhending City to Hengshui, met up with Wanyan Liang, and handed over the cavalry to Wanyan Liang, allowing Wanyan Liang to control a large number of terrifying cavalry.
However, this did not make Wan Yanliang feel very excited.
His Jing'an attack failed. The Jing'an defenders showed great courage in the face of Wan Yanliang's ferocious siege. They repeatedly defeated Wan Yan Liang's attacks and held on for more than ten days, but did not let Wan Yan Liang take over. A little cheap.
In the end, Wan Yanliang was forced to have no choice, because the infantry troops were not strong enough to rotate the siege, so he had to dismount the cavalry and switch to infantry to participate in the siege battle, in order to facilitate his rotation siege tactics.
Of course, it was not successful in the end. Instead, it lost the lives of more than a thousand soldiers and caused an even greater number of wounded soldiers.
Faced with huge losses, unanimous opposition from ministers, and his own anxiety, Wan Yanliang had to give up the Jing'an strategy, leaving an army of 5,000 men to surround Jing'an City, and then led his troops south to Hengshui.
But he still held his breath in his heart, and he still wanted to fight. Seeing that the scale of Hengshui City was even worse than Jing'an City, Wan Yanliang was tempted again.
He wanted to vent his anger, but he didn't believe that he couldn't conquer even a city.
So despite the dissuasion of Wanyan Benjian and Heshi Lieliangbi, Wanyan Liang once again ordered the army to attack Hengshui County.
In fact, according to the opinions of the ministers, you are ready to go south for a decisive battle with Su Yonglin's main force. Then implement your tactics to the end. You have to attack the city and go south. Do you want to go south or attack the city?
Is siege a city that simple?
The vigor of the Jin army continued to weaken after repeated siege failures, so that when they arrived at Hengshui City, their morale was very low.
The promise of a three-day plunder after the capture could no longer arouse morale, because they had never succeeded. Wan Yanliang could only rely on rewards and extra meals to boost morale, but this would greatly increase the cost and make logistics more difficult.
Heshi Lieliangbi repeatedly persuaded Wan Yanliang to pay attention to the attrition of the Jin army, especially since the army carried a large number of horses, and the attrition of these horses was an astronomical figure.
If you want to go south, hurry up, hurry up, finish the fight as soon as possible, don't continue to torment the army and logistics personnel, everyone is already suffocated to the point of explosion, suffocated to the point of wanting to kill you!
But Wan Yanliang always goes in one ear and out the other.
It was always like this, which made Heshi Lieliangbi feel so depressed that he didn't want to say anything anymore. Wanyanliang could just do whatever he wanted. He was tired.
So Wan Yanliang personally commanded the army to attack Hengshui City, saying that he would give the Liberation Army some color and let the Liberation Army know how powerful he was.
But will the Liberation Army care about his threats?
Hengshui guard general Zhong Xuemin was a regiment commander of the Tianxiong Army and led two thousand regular troops to defend Hengshui City.
Facing the siege of the Jin army, he relied on Hengshui instructor Mo Liang to mobilize 13,000 militiamen to assist in the defense. He fought bloody battles with the Jin army for five days and nights, directly killing more than 800 Jin soldiers. He successfully blocked the enemy several times, leaving the Jin army unable to Attack the city wall.
Amidst the roar of thunder cannons and rockets, Wan Yanliang really lost his patience.
Just at this time, Wanyan Yiying arrived with his troops, and Wanyan Benjian took the opportunity to persuade him to go south. He didn't care how embarrassing it was, so he went down the slope and continued south with the army.
He gave up the Hengshui offensive and defensive battle so hastily.
