Su Yonglin took out the latest battle report he had received on the 15th of the first lunar month, before the Jin soldiers laid siege to the city.
This battle report contains the reasons for his judgment.
"What I know so far is that when Sun Ziyi and Su Jue went to Hejian, the siege of Hejian had been broken by Jiang Liangping, the defender of Hejian. Sun Ziyi and Su Jue's soldiers and horses joined forces with Jiang Liangping. They Already have the strength to take the initiative.
Although I don’t know what happened next, I believe that since Hejian City dared to lift the siege, it is definitely not just one Hejian City that dares to do so. I am willing to believe that many cities have moved.
The golden thief went all the way south and encountered a city that could not be conquered. He surrounded it with soldiers and horses and pretended to attack. This way he surrounded the city and prevented the soldiers and horses in the city from leaving. Then he exchanged the main force for his rapid southward movement. If not, he would not have been able to come to Jinan for half a year.
And he came to Jinan with such a strategy. What does it mean? It means that his food reserves and material reserves are not enough to support him in such a large-scale southward war. Our previous attacks and the Khitan Rebellion have been greatly damaged. The national power of the Jin Kingdom.
At this point, this is the last stand of the Jin Kingdom. Everything they have is here. It can be said that if this last stand fails, the Jin Kingdom will collapse! They simply cannot bear the consequences of failure in this attempt. "
When Su Yonglin said this, Su Yong became even more excited.
"So, Ah Lang, let's take the initiative. Isn't it the last thing that breaks the camel's back as you said...what is it?"
Seeing Su Yong scratching his head and ears, Zhang Yuejing, who was sitting aside, suddenly had a bad taste.
"wood."
Su Yong suddenly realized.
"Yes! Wood! The last wood that breaks the camel's back, so we have to attack even more!"
"You're a piece of wood! That's the straw that breaks the camel's back!"
Su Yonglin patted Su Yong's head angrily, looked at Su Yong's aggrieved look, and said angrily: "Look at the head and not the bottom! How many times have I told you to counterattack Yanyun! Counterattack Liaodong! Counterattack key points! We want it. Destroying the Kingdom of Jin is not just about winning this battle!
We won this battle, and almost half of the 100,000 elite troops were destroyed! What else can be used to counterattack Yanyun? If I don't care, why go south to Jinan? Can't we just fight the decisive battle with the Jin army directly in Hejian Zhending? What are you here for? Just to make him explode on the spot! "
"Self-destruct on the spot?"
Su Yong touched his head and looked confused.
"Just holding a bucket of gunpowder and using a fire sickle to make a fire. Do you think this is called self-destruction on the spot?"
Su Yong thought for a while and nodded slowly.
"really."
"Isn't that right? Wan Yanliang took such a big risk and brought the army to Jinan to fight me in a decisive battle. I didn't want to fight, so I just delayed it. When he knew that his food route was cut off and his retreat route was cut off, What do you think he will do?"
Su Yonglin couldn't hold it back and said with a smile: "Everyone, I really didn't expect that Wan Yanliang would actually come like that. I thought he should at least capture a few cities and eliminate some hidden dangers, but in the end he really did it Not even."
Everyone laughed together with Su Yonglin.
After laughing for a while, Su Yonglin returned to his serious face.
"Our soldiers are really brave. After this war, all the soldiers who defended the city must be rewarded. I will personally give them the best rewards and honors. Because of their persistence, we were destroyed at the minimum cost." An opportunity for the main force of the Golden Thief!
Everyone, once the main force of the gold thieves is destroyed, it will be time for us to go north to Yanyun! It has been more than two hundred years since Shi Jingtang ceded Yanyun to Khitan. China has no longer gained Yanyun. How can Yanyun be allowed to be occupied by Yi Di for a long time, which is the land of China?
The Song court was incompetent and could not recover Yanyun, so Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Ji hurriedly went north. One was defeated twice and escaped in a donkey cart, while the other seemed to have obtained Youzhou, but in fact he bought Youzhou back with money.
Zhao Guangyi's defeat completely destroyed Song Ting's spirit. From then on, Song Ting never dared to challenge the Liao Kingdom again. Zhao Ji's defeat simply destroyed half of Song Ting's country.
It doesn't matter if they lose, it doesn't matter if the Zhao and Song royal family lose everything. This is the price they should pay, but why do the people suffer? Why should he be burned, killed, and looted by the Jin people along with them?
Times have changed, and now, the Song Dynasty is incompetent and cannot shoulder this responsibility, so let's come, let's expel the barbarians and restore China! This battle is the final battle for us to regain Yanyun and wash away our shame! "
"Recover Yanyun! Wash away the shame! Drive out the barbarians! Recover China!"
Su Yonglin raised his arms and shouted.
The generals blushed and chanted again and again. Their spirits were high. The shouts spread from the conference room to outside the conference room. Everyone who heard them cheered. In the end, the entire city's defenders were shouting the same slogan.
Recover Yanyun! Wash away the shame! Drive out the Huru! Recover China!
After hearing the slogans shouted by the soldiers guarding the city of the Liberation Army, the Jin soldiers were so angry that the leading Jin generals looked strange and didn't know how to deal with this kind of thing.
They felt that the morale of the Liberation Army was high and their momentum was overwhelming, while their own morale was low, so the Jin soldiers could not take Licheng no matter what.
Not to mention Licheng, we couldn't even take over the three surrounding towns.
After Wan Yanliang learned about this, he became furious, smashed things in the military tent, pointed at Licheng and cursed, saying that if he wanted Yan Yun, he would step over his body, and so on. The generals were asked to continue to lead troops to storm Licheng.
The Jin Army was always in an attacking position, seemingly suppressing the Liberation Army in the city and unable to attack. However, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Liberation Army was able to do so with ease. The big problem was the Jin Army itself.
The longer the time goes by, the lower the morale will be, the less likely it is to successfully attack the city, and the losses will become greater and greater, and the soldiers will become more and more tired. If they continue, they will die of exhaustion here sooner or later.
When things got to this point, Wanyan Benjian and Heshi Lieliangbi reached a consensus. The two of them visited Wanyan Liang together and asked Wanyan Liang not to continue fighting here. He asked Wanyan Liang to withdraw his troops and move back slightly so that the troops could rest and get reply.
In order to persuade Wanyan Liang, Wanyan Benjian also came up with an interesting rhetoric.
"Our army wants to completely annihilate the main force of the thief army. The thief army does not want to destroy the main force of our army. The thief army arranges the battlefield in this way. It is just to let our army go deep alone and stretch out supplies, so that our army will be in trouble. Then our army and Why not do the opposite?
If the rebels hold firm, our army will retreat. If the rebels don't know why, they must send people to follow them. Our army will attack the rebel troops who are out of the city and kill as many as they come. In this way, we may be able to catch the thieves. military weakness. "
Wanyan Liang had just asked the doctor to apply medicine to his mouth that was full of ulcers. He was enduring the pain and was irritated. He was worried that he had nowhere to get angry. As a result, Wanyan Benjian and He Shi Lieliangbi bumped into each other.
Wanyan Liang roared angrily and drove Wanyan Benjian and Heshi Lieliangbi out of his commander's tent. He further asked Wanyan Benjian and Heshi Lieliangbi to personally command the army to attack Licheng.
The two of them take turns, one for one day. If they cannot capture Licheng within ten days, they will be killed!
This scared the two of them to death.
When the news came out, not only Wanyan Benjian and Heshi Lieliangbi, but many other people also felt inexplicable panic and their military morale was unstable.
After half a day, Wanyan Liang realized that he had made a mistake, so he sent someone to find Wanyan Benjian and Heshi Lieliangbi who were frightened, and told them that he was just talking out of anger and that they could just follow their own pace.
But you can't retreat or show weakness.
This attitude did not solve the Jin Army's dilemma at all. Facing Licheng's overly tight defense, the Jin Army suffered heavy losses and made very little progress. In a few days, except for an outpost military camp that the Liberation Army voluntarily abandoned, there was no progress.
On the contrary, the fortress surrounding Licheng has made a lot of construction progress, and the troops responsible for the siege and attack have subsequently moved in.
Some distance to the north of the siege camp is the signing army camp, across the Beiqing River. The military camp originally located north of the Beiqing River was used as a cavalry camp to house cavalry and war horses.
The cavalry camp is very large. To the north, it can deter Yucheng and protect grain roads and grains. To the south, it can deter Licheng and Qihe, and can rush to the siege camps around Licheng at any time.
The siege camp and the cavalry camp sandwiched the signing army camp can ensure that the signing army cannot escape, dare not resist, and are obediently squeezed to the point where the last trace of flesh and blood is completely gone.
After making such an arrangement, Wan Yanliang felt that he was very safe, so he left the cavalry camp and went to the south bank of the Beiqing River, where he stationed himself in the Chinese army's tent in the siege camp for overall command.
He really planned to fight to the death with Su Yonglin here.
He ignored the persuasion of his ministers, just like a gambler who lost his mind and stubbornly made the final gamble in his own way.
He even thought about besieging the city here until the beginning of spring. After the Beiqing River thawed, he would fill the city with water and flood all of Su Yonglin's defenses with floods, leaving him without a place to die.
To this end, he has begun arranging to sign troops as hard labor to dig reservoirs and prepare for water storage.
His reasons are very good.
"Licheng is south of the Beiqing River, and the terrain is low. As long as the water storage is successful, Licheng will definitely be submerged. By then, even if the Su thief has the ability to reach the sky, he will be unable to fly!"
The ministers were speechless about this - indeed, the river will freeze after the beginning of spring. If you can successfully store water, you can indeed flood Licheng.
But the question is, can our logistics allow you to persist until spring?
Wan Yanliang didn't care about this, he wanted to bet that he would be more durable and stronger than Su Yonglin.
However, it turned out that Wan Yanliang was not that durable and strong.
On the 23rd of the first lunar month, shocking news came from the rear of the Jin army.
Shulu and Wuqiang, important grain-gathering node cities of the Jin Army, were defeated by unknown troops from the north suspected of being the Liberation Army.
The grain in the city was robbed and the defenders were killed. Two grain roads were cut off from Shulu and Wuqiang, making it impossible for grain trucks to pass south of Shulu and Wuqiang.
Immediately afterwards, the defenders surrounding Jing'an in Shenzhou were defeated by the Jing'an Liberation Army defenders who left the city. The Jing'an defenders continued to move south toward Hengshui with evil intentions.
Wan Yanliang finally realized how dangerous his situation was.
