No one cares about New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve this year.
At least among the groups participating in the war, no one cares about the New Year's Day, because some are busy marching, some are busy attacking, some are busy defending, and some are busy quarreling.
December has passed like this, and so has the first day of the first lunar month.
The Jin army just gave the soldiers a meal of dry food, and it was considered a holiday.
The Liberation Army was fine. They gave the soldiers a solid meal of meat, which was considered a holiday.
But no one really cares whether they celebrate the festival or not.
The Jin Army wanted to go south to Jinan and fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Liberation Army. The main force of the Liberation Army wanted to fight a decisive battle with the Jin Army, but the army in Hebei kept destroying the food and fodder reserves of the Jin Army all the way north.
On the third day of the first lunar month, Sun Tzu Yi led troops to capture Gaoyang County and Renqiu County occupied by the Jin army.
When the defenders of Gaoyang and Renqiu saw the Guangfu Army's counterattack, they thought Wanyan Liang was doomed. They were horrified and surrendered without resistance.
The few regular soldiers in the city were all beheaded, and the remaining soldiers and civilians became prisoners.
Then the army was divided into two groups, one led by Sun Ziyi and the other led by Jiang Liangping. They captured Guixin and Baoding respectively on the sixth and seventh day of the first lunar month.
Conversion and Baoding have the same ending.
Seeing the Guangfu Army's counterattack, they mistakenly thought that Wanyan Liang was defeated. The main force of the Jin Army was wiped out. The Guangfu Army launched a massive counterattack on Yanyun. The fall of the Jin Kingdom was imminent. The guards in the city still wanted to resist, but the Han signed troops were unwilling to resist and launched a surprise attack. Defeat a small number of regular soldiers and open the city gate to welcome the Liberation Army into the city.
After the Liberation Army entered the city, they beheaded all the Jurchen soldiers, then accepted the surrender and continued northward.
On the evening of the eighth day of the first lunar month, Jiang Liangping led his troops straight to Yijin without stopping.
General Yijin Yuncheng was a Khitan. He was shocked when he saw the large-scale attack by the Liberation Army. He also believed that the Jin Army's southern expedition had completely failed and the fall of the Jin Kingdom was imminent. There was no point in resisting, so Kaicheng surrendered.
Jiang Liangping fully occupied Yijin Pass, controlled the defense, and collected the surrender troops.
Sun Tzu Yi's capture of Waqiao Pass was not so smooth. The guard of Waqiao Pass was a Jurchen. Although he was very frightened, he did not surrender and persisted in resisting.
As a result, one day and one night later, a riot broke out among the Han Chinese soldiers in the city and the city gates were opened to welcome the Liberation Army into the city.
Sun Tzu Yi successfully occupied Waqiao Pass and controlled this important pass.
At this point, Yijin Pass and Waqiao Pass, which once blocked the Liberation Army's northward march, were occupied by Sun Ziyi and Jiang Liangping respectively. The Liberation Army's northward march to Yanyun has been fully opened. Even if the defense of Guannan is still maintained, It doesn't make any sense anymore.
At the same time, the Jin Army's southward transportation of grain and fodder was completely cut off, and the north and south were out of order. The main force of the Jin Army's southward movement became a lone army.
However, at this moment, Wan Yanliang did not know that he had become a lone army.
Even in the south of Hejian and Zhending, various parts of the Jin army did not know that they had become a tragic and lonely army with no way to retreat.
Similarly, although Sun Ziyi and Su Jue launched a comprehensive counterattack from the first-line cities, the second-line and third-line defensive cities in Hebei were still unclear about this.
At this critical moment, there were no telegraphs or phone calls, so no one except the person involved knew what was going on.
After the counterattack troops occupied Waqiao Pass and Yijin Pass, they obtained a large amount of food for the Jin army. Both Sun Ziyi and Su Jue hoped to lead their troops northward into Yanyun to capture the city and capture the territory to complete Su Yonglin's strategic goal and overthrow the Jin Dynasty.
However, they found that they lacked troops. They had less than 20,000 troops and horses at hand, and they could not rush northward.
But they couldn't let this great opportunity go by.
What to do if we lack soldiers and horses?
It doesn't matter, as long as you agree with our thoughts, as long as you are willing to resist the Jin Kingdom and fight against the Jin soldiers, then there will be usable and capable soldiers everywhere!
So Sun Ziyi, Su Jue and others decided to fully mobilize the instructors to liberate the thoughts of a large number of captured Han people who signed the army, and instigated them to fully join the Liberation Army. Together with the Liberation Army, they launched a massive counterattack on Yanyun, and even captured Zhongdu in one go, overthrowing the Jin Dynasty. The imperial court ruled in its homeland of China.
A vigorous grievance meeting and a public trial were launched against the clock.
The Jurchen soldiers, Jurchen officers, and generals who were captured but not killed became the subjects of public trials. They will undergo unprecedented severe trials and thorough liquidation, and their lives will be used as sacrifices to summon the unyielding spirit of the Han soldiers. .
Starting from the tenth day of the first lunar month, a large number of captured Han soldiers actively requested to join the Liberation Army. The instructors responded to the call, and the number of troops led by Sun Ziyi and Su Jue expanded rapidly.
In a few days, the number of the Liberation Army under Sun Ziyi and Su Jue swelled from 20,000 to 40,000, and then from 40,000 to 50,000, and this number continued to increase.
However, it was a coincidence that the Liberation Army captured a large amount of food, weapons and equipment from the Jin Army. It did not lack the ability to fully arm these new soldiers who joined the Liberation Army, nor did it lack the ability to lead this army north to attack Yanyun.
A brand new army is being fully armed. After the arming is completed, this army will have the strength and qualifications to launch an attack on Yanyun Land, and Sun Tzu and Su Jue are conducting strategic consultations on this issue.
It can be said that the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, which has been separated from the Central Plains regime for two hundred years, is on the eve of returning to the embrace of its mother.
At the same time, Sun Tzu Yi and Su Jue ordered Ma Weiying, Duan Yi, Xu Ang and others to lead a small number of troops south, and mobilized more garrison cities in the south to leave the city and launch a strategic counterattack.
It was important to go north, but it was also important to go south. They couldn't sit back and watch Su Yonglin fight against the Jin Army's terrifying cavalry regiment alone. They had to do something to provide Su Yonglin with the help they could.
The task of Ma Weiying and others was to mobilize more troops to go all the way south, destroy the strongholds where the Jin Army stored food, cut off their retreat, and threaten the main force of the Jin Army from the rear.
Just imagine, when the main force of the Jin Army discovered that a Liberation Army force suddenly attacked behind them, how much will they still have to fight?
The main force of the Jin Army is indeed large in number, and the size of the cavalry is terrifying, but what will happen once they lose their will to fight?
The separation of birds and beasts is the best ending.
After Ma Weiying, Xu Ang and Duan Yi gave the order, their troops divided into three groups and rushed to Luancheng County, Jing'an County and Dongguang County respectively to start a comprehensive strategic counterattack.
They will gather the troops of the Liberation Army along the way, attack the Jin Army's siege troops and logistics troops, and annihilate the Jin Army while constantly developing and strengthening their own troops.
The Liberation Army's strategic counterattack had begun with great vigor, but at this critical time point, Wan Yanliang knew nothing about it.
After encountering resolute resistance from the Liberation Army at the foot of Jing'an City in Shenzhou, the disgraced Wan Yanliang finally gave up the idea of capturing a well-defended city in a short period of time.
Wanyan Benjian made it clear to him that he could fight and conquer, but——
It would take at least two to three months to capture a city of this level.
If the defenders in the city do not surrender, judging from the weapons, equipment, and military strength of the defenders in the city, unless the defenders, food, and weapons in the city are wiped out bit by bit, and a more powerful force is used to crush the city, Otherwise, it will be difficult to achieve final victory.
The Jin Army almost only has the advantage of strength, but has no other advantages.
The Liberation Army is not an ordinary bandit army at all. It is a regular army that has received strict training, has combat experience, and can confront the Jin Army head-on.
It is wishful thinking to take down a well-defended and high-spirited city garrisoned by regular troops within ten days.
And more importantly, the logistics supply of the entire army can only be maintained until mid-to-late February at best. After that, if the war is not ended or other progress is made, the fuel will be exhausted.
Wan Yanliang, who was well aware of the shortage of logistical capabilities and food reserves, never mentioned the siege of the city again, and went south honestly, hurried on his way, and gave up all thoughts of siege the city and territory.
He successively sent troops to surround Jing'an, Hengshui, Xindu and other cities, and finally "penetrated" Hebei and entered Pingyuan County on the ninth day of the first lunar month of the following year, completing his initial strategic goal.
At this moment, the distance between Wan Yanliang's main force and the main force of the Liberation Army led by Su Yonglin was very close, and a confrontation between the two sides was imminent.
