While the storm was raging in Zhongdu, there were also some new moves after Sun Tzu Yi led the army to surround Zhongdu.
He knew that it would be difficult to storm the central capital with his current strength, so he adopted the strategy of siege but not attack. While besieging the city and consuming the food, water and various living supplies in the city, he strengthened his own army.
This is the opinion of Mao Lexin, the chief instructor of the operation who followed Sun Ziyi northward.
He believes that the Liberation Army has expanded too many troops in a short period of time, and its combat effectiveness seems to have increased. In fact, this cannot be said. Maybe the large expansion of the army in a short period of time will weaken the combat effectiveness of the Liberation Army.
Most of the new soldiers who joined the Liberation Army were locals from the Yanyun area. Although they had a deep hatred for the Jin Kingdom and the Jurchens and had undergone ideological education, they still had many limitations.
They need further political and ideological education and military training. Otherwise, with the current situation, it may be okay to fight with the Liberation Army. Once they encounter setbacks, they will most likely want to go home.
Sun Tzu Yi was very interested in this and supported Mao Lexin's suggestion, so this suggestion was adopted and implemented. All instructors in the army were responsible for providing cultural education to the recruits and taking political classes by the way.
Of course, military training cannot be left behind. The officers of the Liberation Army need to provide particularly strict military guidance to the new recruits, and their life and learning indicators must be completely close to those of the veterans of the Liberation Army.
As a result, under Zhongdu City, just outside the capital of the Kingdom of Jin, while besieging the city, the Liberation Army began training and educating new recruits, preparing to completely assimilate them into the large group of the Liberation Army.
The army is the best at assimilating people, not to mention that most of these soldiers are honest farmers, and their obedience is quite good.
The city of Zhongdu has entered a strategic stalemate stage, and the situation on Su Jue's side is not much different.
After splitting up with Sun Tzu Yibing, Su Jue did not hurry. Instead, he asked the locals in Yanyun who were following him. He took the military map of the Yanyun area and fumbled with the locals for a while, and finally found a feasible route. route.
Su Jue believed that although it would be possible to attack all the way from land, the losses would be high and the logistics requirements would be high.
At the moment, the logistics of the army he leads are not that superior. The fighting in the rear has not yet ceased, and the outcome has not yet been decided. Too much reliance on this unstable logistics may lead to disaster.
Therefore, Su Jue decided to find another way and planned to rely on the Liberation Army's superior navy to reach Yuguan by water.
Try to take Yuguan by surprise, then attack along the inside and outside of the Great Wall, continuously seize this section of the Great Wall, gradually sweep away the surrounding Jin Army military strongholds, and open up a new base area to be self-sufficient.
This plan is quite feasible, and the Liberation Army has many navy ships, which can not only carry people, but also transport food. The logistics route is much safer than the land route, and safety can basically be guaranteed.
Marching by sea and transporting food are the unique advantages of the Liberation Army. The Jin Army without a naval force cannot sabotage this action, let alone discover this action, and will not put Su Jue's raiding force into crisis.
Just do it and do it quickly. Su Jue thought that it would be best to capture Yuguan before the news of the Liberation Army's advance on Yanyun reached Yuguan.
Su Jue has always had a strong ability to take action. He takes action as soon as he is told and has no procrastination at all.
On the same day that Sun Tzu Yi besieged Zhongdu, that is, the 28th of the first lunar month, he led a surprise attack force of 3,000 troops by sea. After several days of running on the sea, he unexpectedly raided Yuguan and successfully captured Yuguan.
There are not many Jinjun defenders in Yuguan, because there is no warning of war. The defenders are about 2,000 people.
This number is still due to the previous Khitan rebellion. In order to prevent the Khitan rebels from attacking the Yanyun land and to protect the food route, they temporarily added troops to guard Yuguan.
Yuguan itself was built to prevent foreign regimes from the Northeast from entering North China. However, the Jin Kingdom itself was established by the Northeastern regime that took over the Central Plains. There was no need to guard against its own lair, so it never cared much about Yuguan.
As a result, they had no preparation for the attack of the Liberation Army. Facing the attack of the Liberation Army, they did not put up effective resistance like a fool, and Su Jue soon captured Yuguan.
As a result, Su Jue successfully took control of this important northeastern town that had been lost to foreigners since the Five Dynasties period.
After taking Yuguan, Su Jue did not stop and quickly expanded the army's living space north and west, laying the foundation for the arrival of follow-up troops, and quickly captured Funing.
Using Funing and Yuguan as strongholds, Su Jue deployed defenses here and waited for the arrival of follow-up troops. After the follow-up troops arrived, Su Jue ordered the army to continue attacking north and west to eliminate surrounding threats and strive to capture the entire Pingzhou.
By early February, due to the rapid actions of Su Jue's troops, the Jin government and troops in Pingzhou were unable to resist and fled westward in large numbers. Almost none of them persisted in fighting with the Guangfu Army in Pingzhou.
So the Liberation Army successively captured Lulong, Hai'an, Changli, Qian'an and other counties, quickly pacified Pingzhou, annihilated more than a thousand Jin troops, and captured many people.
Not only were there local seizures, but a batch of grain and young men that seemed to be transported to Liaodong were also seized.
This made Su Jue feel as comfortable as swallowing a big piece of meat in one bite.
After pacifying Pingzhou, Su Jue had a reliable temporary base and continued to march towards Luanzhou and Jizhou to expand his living space. At the same time, he stepped up training and recruiting troops.
Because the specific news has not yet reached the Pingzhou area, in addition to the fact that the military crisis is not intense for the time being, the Jurchen fierce Anmou Kehu living in this area have not had time to move.
So Su Jue decisively started a large-scale liquidation in various counties in Pingzhou.
He sent troops to the countryside to wipe out all the households in Meng'an, and wiped out the local bureaucrats and Jurchen dignitaries in the county. He confiscated their property, money and food for his own use, and took them on a tour between counties and villages. , trial, and accumulate the prestige of the Liberation Army and establish the dominance of the Liberation Army.
Ordinary local people are of course happy to see this happen.
Taking advantage of this wave, Su Jue began to distribute the confiscated land held by Meng'an Mukehu and Jurchen dignitaries to their original tenants and poor farmers, register them, build new villages, and quickly build a new base for the Liberation Army.
In this aspect, Su Jue, as an elite brought out by Su Yonglin, is quite good and quite professional.
As a result, a large number of lower-class farmers who had obtained land quickly accepted the Liberation Army and supported the Liberation Army very much.
When the Liberation Army was recruiting soldiers and food, they were very willing to send their children to join the Liberation Army, and they were also willing to use their own food to support the Liberation Army.
After the local farmers were pacified, Su Jue was able to smoothly develop the Liberation Army's power in this area.
It was at this time that Su Jue led people all the way north and finally saw the legendary Great Wall in the Yanshan Mountains.
After more than two hundred years, the Han army from the Central Plains finally saw the Great Wall left to them by their ancestors.
The Great Wall was built on the mountains and relied on the dangers of mountains and rivers to successfully protect the northern part of China.
Standing on Guancheng, Su Jue reached out and touched the ancient bricks, feeling a mixture of emotions in his heart.
"Alang always said that if you don't see the Great Wall, you are not a hero. Now that we have seen the Great Wall, we are considered heroes, right?"
Su Jue looked at the group of generals following him.
The generals were all so excited that they couldn't help themselves. They were stroking around the city and were overjoyed.
Sure enough, what is lost is the best, but when it is grasped, it is not cherished. At present, the officers of the Liberation Army are looking at Guancheng, touching everything on Guancheng, feeling the emotion of being lost and found, and their hearts are filled with emotion.
After more than two hundred years, the Han army from the Central Plains finally returned.
However, this is just the beginning.
The horn of the overthrow of the Jin Kingdom has just sounded. The Jin Kingdom has not yet been destroyed. The Jin Kingdom still has a certain degree of strength. In Hedong, Guanzhong, and Liaodong, the Jin Kingdom still has a certain basis for rule.
So now is definitely not the time to celebrate. After a little emotion, you can start thinking about the next action.
So Su Jue quickly returned to Yuguan, stood on the Yuguan Pass, and ordered the repairs of Yuguan to prepare for defense and respond at any time to the Jin army that might return from Liaodong to aid the Central Plains.
At this moment, Su Jue's eyes turned to the northeast.
"Do you know who built Yuguan?"
Su Jue asked his lieutenant Lu Tang.
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