Although the decision-makers were unable to discuss the southbound issue with Wan Yanliang, the decision-makers and Wan Yanliang did not see the problem from the same perspective.
They did not have Wan Yanliang's sense of urgency and anxiety about losing his throne and his life. Even if they were defeated, as long as they could save their lives, they could still preserve their glory and wealth.
So they are more sensible.
They were really worried about the safety of the rear. They were really worried that the rear would not be able to withstand the devastation of the Liberation Army, which would trigger a terrible chain reaction and make the Jin army lose their retreat.
If it really comes to this, they will be doomed.
To be honest, the Jin army's march southward has been completely driven by Wanyan Liang's status and authority as emperor. If Wanyan Liang relents even slightly, the officials will strongly demand that Wanyan Liang return north immediately.
After leaving Shandong, even if you just focus on conquering Hebei, you can win a few cities in a down-to-earth manner, kill a few generals of the Liberation Army, and get military honors and achievements.
Rather than a false [Penetrating through Hebei].
What kind of piercing are you?
Has the main force of the Hebei Liberation Army been damaged?
Have the fortified cities been breached?
Did the Liberation Army inside surrender voluntarily or were all killed?
If not, what are your actual achievements?
They have really never fought such a battle.
Not a single city held by the enemy was captured, and they actually penetrated directly from Yanyun to Shandong!
If he were not the emperor, if he were a general who dared to fight like this, he would have been sprayed to death by the officials.
But he was the emperor, and the war got to the point where he couldn't control it at all, and he didn't listen to his advice.
In Wan Yanliang's eyes, there was only Su Yonglin standing in front of him, and only Su Yonglin's main force. If he could defeat Su Yonglin's main force, everything would get better.
As long as he launches an attack and defeats Su Yonglin's main force, all problems will be solved!
Yes, just defeat Su Yonglin's main force!
He continued to persuade himself in this way, so that he could feel relieved.
He has no intention of wasting time on other useless cities.
So he sent troops to surround Yucheng again, bypassed Yucheng and continued southward.
Licheng is on the south bank of Beiqing River, and there is Qihe County on the north bank of Beiqing River. General Wei Kexian of the Liberation Army stationed five thousand troops here, so Wan Yanliang divided his troops to surround Qihe County.
After surrounding two cities in succession, he prepared to cross the frozen Beiqing River and launch an attack directly on Licheng.
The Pioneer Army reported that Licheng was heavily fortified, and the surrounding towns of Shangluokou, Fengji, and Wangsherendian also had city walls and a number of garrisons to assist with the defense of the main city of Licheng. If the army directly attacked Licheng is afraid of being attacked from both sides.
Wanyan Liang sent people to see Su Yonglin's fortifications in Licheng again. The people who came back looked solemn and told Wanyanliang that if they attacked by force, they might not be able to capture Licheng even if they smashed all the troops here.
If the army wants to attack the main city of Licheng, the defenders of the other three towns must take care of it, and they must always be on guard against the defenders of Yucheng and Qihe behind them.
Therefore, a large number of troops must be used to divide and surround it.
Su Yonglin's defense was indeed too tight. He was like a curled up hedgehog. The spikes on his body were full of fire, making it painful to touch him.
Wan Yanliang was so anxious that he got angry, and his oral ulcers became much more serious. In the past few days, he could only drink white porridge and could not eat anything. Eating was as uncomfortable as killing him.
In a hurry, he had an idea and sent someone to send a set of women's clothes and a letter to Su Yonglin.
In the letter, he scolded Su Yonglin for being a shameless person. He asked him to come to fight but actually didn't go out of the city to fight in the field. He huddled in the city like a woman without balls, and asked Su Yonglin to go home in women's clothes and hold the child.
This set of women's clothing was once worn by his beloved concubine. If Su Yonglin is satisfied, he can wear it. Of course, if Su Yonglin has his own ideas, he can surrender in women's clothing. If he has good features, Wan Yanliang doesn't mind spending a night with him. .
Good guy, Wan Yan Liang is not taboo on meat and vegetables?
Su Yonglin looked at Wan Yanliang's handwritten letter and the joking expression on the messenger's face, and suddenly had many thoughts about Wan Yanliang's private life.
"Does your emperor have such strong tastes? Even men are not spared?"
The messenger sneered.
"Your Majesty is rich all over the world and is the lord of the world. He can have anything he wants, whether he is a man or a woman. Longyang's good taste has been around since ancient times and he is quite elegant. Why not? I wonder if General Su has such an idea?"
The generals around Su Yonglin were furious. Many of them drew their swords from their scabbards and cursed the messenger. The messenger looked calm and unworried.
Su Yonglin folded the letter and put it aside. He looked at the women's clothing and found that it was a gorgeous palace dress. It combined the elegance of the Central Plains and the wildness of the north. It was very revealing. It looked like Wan Yanliang was a very good person. People who enjoy.
"Yes, this women's clothing is pretty good, and it should cost a lot of money. Why don't you... put it on?"
Su Yonglin looked at the messenger with a smile.
The messenger was stunned.
"What?"
"Put it on and let me see."
"General Su is joking."
The messenger's face turned cold: "The Emperor of Jin is outside the city, and hundreds of thousands of troops are waiting for him. Is the general really not afraid at all? This is the last warning, General Su, don't mislead others or yourself."
"If I were afraid, I wouldn't rebel. Rebellion means rushing forward with your head in your hands. It's normal to lose your head anytime. I would have looked away."
Su Yonglin waved his hand: "The envoy doesn't want to wear it. Please help him put on this beautiful palace dress."
Su Yonglin gave the order, and the generals took notice. They immediately laughed and pushed the messenger to the ground. Then they took off his clothes and put him into women's clothes.
The messenger screamed repeatedly and struggled desperately, but to no avail.
Then Su Yonglin ordered the messenger to be tied into a rice dumpling and brought to the top of the city, and stuffed into the net bag of the trebuchet. Looking at the horrified eyes of the messenger, he smiled like a devil.
"That's it. This is my reply. You go first and I will send Wan Yanliang down to accompany you soon."
Then Su Yonglin tore Wan Yanliang's letter into pieces, turned around and walked down the tower.
He pretended that he could not hear the messenger's heart-rending cries.
So the soldiers of the trebuchet launched the messenger directly out of the city with a look of bad humor on their faces, allowing him to experience the feeling of flying.
The screams suddenly stopped as the messenger crashed to the ground.
Wan Yanliang finally broke out when he looked at the messenger who was thrown to death in women's clothing.
"Go down with the order, cross the river, and attack the city!"
If the number of infantry is not enough and the cavalry is not good at attacking the city, then the cavalry should dismount and turn into infantry to participate in the siege.
The defenders of Luokou Town, Fengji Town, and Wangsherendian Town were divided and surrounded by the Jin army and could not support each other, so Licheng was isolated. Wanyan Liang concentrated 20,000 troops and attacked Licheng from all sides. main city.
All kinds of siege equipment were deployed in all directions, including eight-oxen crossbows, trebuchets, and chariots. The heavily-armed siege troops were surrounded by black people and were besieged on all sides, which was very powerful.
The Liberation Army launched a decisive and resolute counterattack, fighting back the Jin Army with heavy ordnance that was not weaker than the Jin Army. They also used rockets and thunder cannons that the Jin Army did not control to attack the Jin Army, beating the Jin Army to disgrace.
Within a few days, the Jin army was repulsed four times without making any progress.
Wan Yanliang had no choice but to order the army to camp around Licheng and use a large army to surround Licheng, assuming a fight-or-die attitude to put maximum pressure on Su Yonglin.
Then he wrote another letter and shot it into Licheng with the eight-oxen crossbow to finally persuade him to surrender - if you rein in your horse from the brink, I will protect you from death.
Wan Yanliang said.
Su Yonglin stood on the tower and watched with clairvoyance the Jin army's posture of building forts on all sides and planning to besiege the city for a long time, and sneered again and again.
He has full confidence in Sun Ziyi and Su Jue whom he sent to Hebei. They will definitely turn Hebei upside down and cut off Wan Yanliang's logistics and retreat.
Just like this, you still want to besiege the city and attack me for a long time?
Su Yonglin ignored him and ordered the troops to stand firm.
Wan Yanliang's last attempt to persuade him to surrender failed. He was so angry that he desperately ordered his troops to besiege Licheng with all their strength.
However, the defense of Licheng remained as stable as Mount Tai.
After the reconstruction of Licheng, the walls were tall and the pits were wide and deep. It was not easy for an army to capture it. All the old, weak, women and children in the city had been moved by Su Yonglin to the Taishan Mountains in the south for temporary shelter. There were only troops and militia in the city.
In order to concentrate the main force for combat, Su Yonglin kept the core main force of the five main forces with him.
He also included the three armies of the enemy-breaking army, the Tabai army, and the selected front army into the city defense forces, and asked them to deploy troops to garrison Luokou Town, Fengji Town, and Wangsherendian Town respectively as a response.
Although the Jin Army can rely on their numerical advantage to isolate all communication between them, the Jin Army's stall is getting bigger and bigger. If there is a crotch, the whole thing will inevitably collapse.
Su Yonglin made this very clear at the military meeting.
"You all say that gold thieves are not scary. If we have to fight a decisive battle with gold thieves face to face, I also don't think that we will definitely fail if we fight a decisive battle with gold thieves. But there is no need for us to fight a decisive battle with gold thieves here. If we don't fight, the golden thieves will also will fail on its own."
Su Yong and Su Haisheng, who advocate direct confrontation, expressed dissent.
Su Haisheng advocated a decisive battle with the Jin army and destroyed the Jin army in one go. "
"Alang, let's go all the way south and stretch the Golden Thief's food path longer and longer. The Golden Thief must be at the end of his strong crossbow. According to the art of war, a strong crossbow is at the end of its strength and cannot enter Lu Zhen. I thought that at this time, the Golden Thief is already at the end of its strong crossbow."
Su Yonglin did not deny this view.
"I know that Golden Thief has reached his limit. His ability to reach this point is all thanks to Wan Yanliang's personal prestige. His role as emperor for more than ten years was not in vain, but I still want to say that now is not the time to take the initiative.
I have deployed so many military strongholds in Hebei not only for defense, but also to stop the Jin army from going south. When the Jin army cannot stop it from going south, they will become the main force of the counterattack. When the main force moves all the way south, all of them will attack and cut off their retreat. He Liang Dao.
Now it seems that I made the right arrangement. The main force of the gold thieves has been attracted to Jinan by us. Its food route is hundreds of miles away. If any link is broken, its main force will face a desperate situation. To be honest, I'm still surprised that Wan Yanliang actually came all the way to Jinan. "
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