Failure is indeed real.
However, according to the analysis of the top Jinjun officials, although Wan Yanliang was primarily responsible for the failure of this battle, someone else might not have done a better job than Wan Yanliang.
Wanyan Yiying sees this quite clearly.
"To be honest, even if this battle was not directed by the Hunjun, someone else might not be able to get a good outcome."
Wanyan Yiying smiled bitterly and said: "The entire Hebei and Shandong were fortified and cleared by him. The soldiers who defended the city would rather die than surrender. They are extremely powerful. How did Su Yonglin, a rebel who started the uprising less than two years ago, do this? Everyone, you guys Can you help me clear up my confusion?"
No one could explain it to him.
Because the other people didn't know how Su Yonglin did it.
How did he mobilize millions of people to achieve a comprehensive clearing of the country?
How do you get them to obey orders without objecting?
How do you arrange their food and clothing so that they don't get hungry?
Coercion?
If it was forced, how many troops would it take to do it?
From the perspective of a veteran general like Wanyan Benjian, it would be absolutely impossible for the Jin Army to handle the same thing.
But for another purpose, for example, if it is to implement the three-guang policy, the Jin Army can definitely achieve the same level as the Liberation Army. Not to mention ten rooms and nine empty rooms, ten rooms and ten empty rooms can still be achieved.
The Jin soldiers can go from house to house, killing everyone, taking away every property, taking away every beauty or handsome man they like, razing every house, and soaking every inch of land with blood.
They're very good at this.
As long as there are enough people and the emperor allows it, they can turn Hebei into a hell on earth in one month. Not a single living person, not even a living creature, may be seen.
However, the Liberation Army used the same level of organizational power as the bestiality of the Jin Army to organize this unprecedented clearing of the country, turning the entire Hebei into its own strategic depth, forcing Wan Yanliang to force himself onto a dead end.
The Jin army was not defeated by the combat effectiveness of the army, but by the super organizational power of this group of thieves.
"This group of rebels is very unusual. Other rebels are running around and destroying everywhere, doing things similar to gangsters, but this rebel army seems... as if it is..."
Heshi Lieliangbi hesitated and said: "The imperial court?"
The other three looked at each other, but they all wisely did not continue.
Because they have all realized it.
They are no longer able to stop the development of the Liberation Army.
What they are thinking about now is escaping. After escaping, they have to consider survival. Once the Liberation Army reaches Yanyun, they will continue to flee.
Who will be the master of the Central Plains?
Will it still belong to the Kingdom of Jin?
No one can predict it.
Time is running out, and they have no more time to think about the future. They must seize every moment to complete the retreat deployment and get most of the elite soldiers to leave the siege camp. All important figures will leave the siege camp together and head to the north of Beiqing River. The cavalry camp assembled.
Then prepare to run away.
The commander of the signing army camp still made the current arrangement. Instead of breaking it up, he would just abandon them here, hide all the information from them, and let them know nothing.
Anyway, most of them are Han people. If they give up, they will give up. There are a few Jurchens left... It is their bad luck that they were assigned here. If you don't abandon them, who will you abandon?
Just like the few Jurchen soldiers who surrounded the three towns outside Licheng, Yucheng and Qihe City, this group of Jurchens who couldn't be taken away had to give up. If you don't blame others, blame them for their bad luck.
The siege camp must keep people to show off. We can't withdraw all the high-level officials and just leave a bunch of little shrimps. Then anyone can tell that something is wrong.
It is necessary to leave a high-level commander and an elite force to hold down the battle, and then deceive the Liberation Army in the city for a few days to buy enough time for the army to retreat.
In short, we cannot let the main force of the Liberation Army catch up with them. It is best not to let the main force of the Liberation Army discover them.
Who should entrust this task to do it? That is a question.
The army has left, and he has to stay behind until the last moment, and he has to continue to fight with the Liberation Army, dancing on the tip of the knife. If he is not careful, he may be a ghost.
Who wants to do it?
Everyone is smart, and they all know how risky it is here, and they are likely to die here, so no one wants to get into trouble.
After an embarrassing silence, Heshi Lieliangbi stood up.
"Let me do it."
Wanyan Benjian frowned, with a look of intolerance on his face.
"Liang Bi, you are the privy envoy of the current dynasty, and you have heavy responsibilities. You cannot take risks yourself."
"Then who will come?"
Heshi Lieliangbi looked at Yan Yiying and Yi Lacheng and smiled: "I'll do it. At least I'm willing."
Wanyan Benjian looked at Yan Yiying and Yi Lacheng, and when he saw their evasive eyes, he knew that they would not be willing to stay and take risks.
In desperation, Wanyan Benjian could only nod his head and said: "I will give you two hundred of my soldiers. At the critical moment, they will protect you from the siege. Remember to bring enough food and run all the way. All of us will goodbye."
"See you in Zhongdu."
Heshi Lieliang Bi Gong handed over and took over the important task of staying behind.
Yi Lacheng and Wanyan Yiying felt a little guilty, so they each allocated 150 elite soldiers to He Shi Lieliangbi, making up a total of 500 people. Together with He Shi Lieliangbi's own soldiers, they felt that they could almost protect him.
Time was running out, so Wanyan Benjian immediately started arranging the evacuation, dispatched the elite troops of the siege camp to leave the siege camp, and transferred 10,000 people from the signing army camp to fill the vacancies.
Subsequently, senior generals and civil servants from the DPRK and China left the siege camp one after another under the cover of night and went to the cavalry camp to gather.
Generals and officers of various armies announced orders to the soldiers to prepare for retreat.
The soldiers were already tired of fighting and did not want to continue fighting. They were extremely happy when they heard this order, and they all prepared according to the officer's order.
But the content of the command is a bit strange.
Except for food, armor and weapons, don't bring anything else with you. Try to reduce the number of items you carry, because the speed of retreat is very high, so don't overwork the horses.
The soldiers didn't understand why this was happening. They couldn't take so many tents, daily necessities, and the property they looted with them?
The explicit order is indeed this, don't bring anything except food, armor and weapons.
However, many officers themselves were very dissatisfied with such an order. They felt that the higher-ups were fooling around. They were not allowed to take away the money they had worked so hard to earn from going south?
joke.
So the officers turned a blind eye and let everyone figure it out on their own.
So some soldiers put money in food bags, reducing the food and bringing more money.
Or hide a few extra bags on your body, filled with belongings.
Or fill the horse pocket with arrows with money, fill the shoes with money, etc.
Along the way south, many soldiers made a small fortune and made a lot of money. They were unwilling to throw away these belongings. They would rather bring less food and arrows with them, but also bring the money.
The departure time was a quarter past noon the next morning. After dinner, the troops were divided into three groups and retreated northward.
The signing army camp and the siege camp south of the Beiqing River did not receive any relevant news. They were still preparing the same, waiting for the order from above to send them all to the battlefield to die.
They are sad and numb, and don't know how to change the status quo.
Heshi Lieliangbi was busy preparing for the next defense, thinking of causing as much trouble as possible to the Liberation Army and organizing some small-scale attacks, so he sent his own soldiers to give orders to the officers who signed the army. , getting them ready to attack.
In order to look more like them, these signing troops were given weapons used by regular soldiers, hoping that they would be more powerful.
