Speaking of which, Su Yonglin also found it funny.
The Southern Song Dynasty government had such an economic trump card but didn't know how to use it. It had economic strength but no strong force to match it, so it couldn't even make money by collecting seigniorage.
A strong currency that can circulate in dozens of countries and regions has failed to bring any economic advantages to the home country. Instead, it has to face deflation caused by the massive outflow of copper coins.
If Su Yonglin could grasp such an economic advantage, he would have started economic colonization operations against Japan and Southeast Asian countries long ago.
Its development and construction require a large amount of manpower, material and resources from these countries.
The Southern Song Dynasty was actually still having headaches over financial problems and struggling with the outflow of copper coins. It was like sitting on a golden mountain begging for food.
The private salt trade started at the end of June. By the end of July, in just one month, the salt division teams in the border states had brought Su Yonglin a net profit of 2.08 million yuan. It was really exciting.
With this income, Su Yonglin no longer worried about lack of money for the crusade against Liaodong, so he asked Lin Jingchun to confidently and boldly provide food and wages to Su Jue and Wei Kexian, so that the Liaodong Corps that had just completed training could march boldly.
In this case, Wan Yanyong could be killed by throwing money at him.
Su Jue and Wei Kexian's initial plan was just to capture Liaoyang Mansion, but with the subsequent collection of intelligence, they believed that they could capture not only Liaoyang Mansion, but also Linhuang Mansion.
Linhuang Mansion is the hometown of the Khitan people. Capturing Linhuang Mansion will help appease the Khitan people in the Liberation Army and make them grateful to Su Yonglin.
After thinking about it, Su Yonglin felt that this was possible, and it was almost impossible for Wanyan Yong to defend Linhuang Mansion with heavy troops. For the Guangfu Army, it was just a matter of dividing the troops to capture it.
The main battlefield for both sides must be in Liaoyang Mansion.
The idea of Su Jue and Wei Kexian is that the strength of both the enemy and ours has undergone tremendous changes in the past few months, so this time they can give full play to the strength advantage of the Liberation Army, conduct a complete crushing in strength, and use absolute superiority to capture Liaoyang Mansion, leaving the remaining members of the Jin Kingdom in complete despair.
For the Jin Army in Liaodong, which was already in an absolutely weak position, the Liberation Army could use the huge advantage of sea transportation to transport grain and fodder, reduce logistical costs and pressure, and achieve a rapid attack and encirclement of Liaoyang Prefecture.
Moreover, according to intelligence, the so-called emperor Wanyan Yong is now setting up defenses in Liaoyang Mansion, trying to stop the Liberation Army from entering Liaodong. Su Jue and Wei Kexian both feel that they need to give him a head-on blow to make him realize the reality.
Su Yonglin agreed with this.
After this strategic plan was finalized, Xin Qiji suggested to Su Yonglin that the Jin Kingdom's Dading Mansion in Beijing should also be captured. This would eliminate the threat of the Jin Army north of Yanyun in one fell swoop, allowing the Liberation Army to head east towards Huanglong with all its strength and conquer the Jin Kingdom. The old nest was overturned.
Regarding Su Yonglin's concerns, Xin Qiji gave his own thoughts.
"Training and education are important, but actual combat experience is also important. The Huben Army and the Liaodong Corps are different from the Henan Corps. They have many veterans and many excellent instructors. If we do not seize this opportunity to quickly defeat Dading and Liaoyang Prefectures, It would be very detrimental to us if Wanyanyong is allowed to breathe."
After listening to Xin Qiji's suggestion, Su Yonglin looked at the map again, thought for a while, and then ordered Lin Jingchun to calculate whether the expenditure on food and fodder could sustain the dispatch of the Huben Army.
After receiving the accurate reply, Su Yonglin nodded and approved the battle plan.
So while the Liaodong Corps was advancing, Su Yonglin ordered Xin Qiji and Su Yong to cooperate, leading an army of 20,000 tiger soldiers to attack Dading Prefecture and annihilate the remnants of the Jin Kingdom north of Yanyun.
On July 11, Huben's army sent troops to Dadingfu.
On July 13, the Liaodong Corps received the order to advance and began to attack Linhuang Mansion and Liaoyang Mansion.
The process of the war was no different from the pre-war deduction. The main battlefield of both sides was in Liaoyang Mansion.
Wanyanyong did not have the extra troops to open multiple battlefields with the Liberation Army at the same time.
Especially after the defeat of Yuguan, Wanyan Yong lost his troops and lost his generals. Under Wuyan Puluhun's suggestion, he was forced to abandon Dading Prefecture and Linhuang Prefecture, and fully shrink his troops to Liaoyang Prefecture.
As long as the Liberation Army can be stopped in Liaoyang Mansion, there will still be time to mobilize more Jurchens from the rear to join the army. Therefore, when the Liberation Army launched its action, he had already mobilized almost all the troops from Dading Mansion and Linhuang Mansion.
After the defeat of Yuguan, Wanyanyong and Wuyan Puluhun had no other choice but to concentrate their forces on Liaoyang Prefecture, use the solid city defenses of Liaoyang Prefecture to fight defensive battles, and at the same time send people to Huining Prefecture to recruit more troops. The girl came to join the army.
Although Wan Yanliang destroyed Shangjing, Huining Mansion is still there, and the Jurchens' hometown is still there. There are still hundreds of thousands of people living in the hometown. As long as they act in time, they can still raise tens of thousands of troops to fight against the Liberation Army and save Liaodong. It shouldn't be difficult.
This is how they think about it.
However, it is more difficult to recruit troops. Especially after the news of Wanyanyong's defeat spread, many people did not believe that Wanyanyong could succeed. They felt that sooner or later, Liaodong belonged to the Liberation Army. The more intense the resistance now, it would only trigger the recovery later. The army carried out more intense massacres.
So it is better to surrender.
Although Wanyanyong and Wuyan Puluhun spread a lot of "atrocities" committed by the Liberation Army in Yanyun, such propaganda not only aroused the hatred of the Jurchen people, but also had some negative effects and contributed to the birth of the surrender faction. .
Some internal officials and even generals were desperate for the future of the Jin Kingdom. They believed that voluntarily surrendering might be able to obtain different treatment. It was foolish to continue to resist, so it was better to surrender.
This was something Wanyanyong and Wuyan Puluhun had not expected. Of course, they could not tolerate such a person in the team.
But before they could sort out their internal affairs and reorganize their troops, the Liberation Army quickly launched a full-scale attack, with the troops directed at Liaoyang Prefecture. Wanyanyong and Wuyan Puluhun had to brace themselves and go all out to fight the Liberation Army. A decisive battle of fate.
Because the troops were concentrated in Liaoyang Prefecture, Dading Prefecture and Linhuang Prefecture could only put up a symbolic resistance, and then the city, which was not tall, wide and deep, was breached.
The siege process went smoothly without any setbacks. Not long after the Liberation Army arrived, the city was successfully breached, and then they began to sweep away the remaining Jin Army strongholds in the surrounding areas, plundering all the Jurchens who had no time to evacuate.
The offensive and defensive battle in Liaoyang was quite fierce.
Wanyanyong and Wuyan Puluhun gathered a main force of 30,000 people to defend here, repaired a large number of peripheral works, widened the moat, and raised the city walls, giving Liaoyang Mansion the appearance of a war fortress.
If you want to advance into the depths of Liaodong and attack Huining Mansion, the home base of the Jurchens, you must pass through Liaoyang Mansion. Without pulling out this nail, you cannot truly conquer Liaodong.
Su Jue, who was well aware of this truth, decided to have a good fight with the Jin army under Liaoyang City.
And he also has the idea of training troops on the front line.
He also knew the news that Zhang Yuejing of the Henan Corps failed to attack Tongguan.
The Liberation Army internally evaluated that the failure of this battle was due to the uneven quality of soldiers caused by rapid military expansion, which led to a decline in the army's combat effectiveness.
The solution given was to temporarily stop the march, strengthen training and education, and train new recruits and surrendered soldiers into strong Liberation Army soldiers as soon as possible.
Su Jue believed that time did not wait for us. The current situation in Liaodong did not give the Liberation Army time to train leisurely. If Liaodong was not conquered as soon as possible and the remnants of the Jin Kingdom were destroyed, it was very likely that they would revive, so he insisted on requesting Su Yonglin to start a war.
You can train troops, and train troops on the line of fire.
Enlightenment can also be carried out. Wouldn’t it be more effective on the battlefield?
Su Yonglin supported Su Jue's views against all opinions, took the lead in reorganizing the Liaodong Corps, and provided considerable resources of veterans and outstanding instructors to help the Liaodong Corps form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.
Feeling Su Yonglin's trust and expectation, of course Su Jue also wanted to win a good battle, and he couldn't just come down in despair and smear Su Yonglin's face.
Su Yonglin gave him a lot of support in this battle. He only gave him two months' supply of firearms. The quantity was staggering. He had never fought such a rich battle since he started following Su Yonglin.
If this fight fails, the commander of the corps will stop being a commander and just go home and farm.
This is a battle that cannot be lost.
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