Qiming 1158

Chapter 243 Wanyan A Lin Ends His Life
Wanyan Alin's death seems to be an inevitable result.

He was not killed by Su Yonglin, nor was he killed by any soldier of the Shengjie Army, nor was he killed by some ill-intentioned traitor beside him.

It was he who killed himself.

On the way to flee in a hurry, thinking about his defeat of the main force in the first battle, Wanyan A-lin knew that he would not be able to get Wanyan Liang's forgiveness, and that he would even bring disaster to his family, causing them to be cruelly treated, and the end was bleak.

If you die in battle, you might be able to save your family's lives...

With such a desolate state of mind, Wanyan A-lin drew a knife and killed herself under despair and pressure.

In this way, even if the family cannot get good living conditions, they can at least survive. This is his last expectation.

He committed suicide very simply, and the personal soldiers around him wanted to save him, but failed to take his knife away in time.

He wiped his neck so simply, then clutched his neck and fell straight from the horse, his body trembled and twisted for a while, and died.

He died simply, he didn't even want to fight Su Yonglin again and avenge himself by the way.

After he committed suicide, the Golden Army cavalry, who had further lost their backbone, didn't know what to do.

Especially the personal soldiers who are responsible for protecting him, don't know what to do.

The Lord is about to die, but they are still alive, which is simply absurd to the higher rulers.

Either die together, or live together, how can there be a reason why the generals can still be alive when the generals die?
So some of the personal soldiers committed suicide together in desperation, but some of the personal soldiers were not willing to die, so they embarked on the road of escape with other cavalry.

As to where to flee to, their attitudes vary.

Some tried to run north to see if they could find a way out.

Some tried to run west, thinking that if they ran north, they would die, and the court would not let them go.

Some plan to run to the seaside, try to find a boat and escape directly to their hometown in Liaodong, where they can live incognito in their hometown, and maybe they will be able to live better.

The less than [-] defeated soldiers who followed Wanyan A-Lin out of the battlefield quickly dispersed, lost their establishment, and went their separate ways.

This point, Su Yonglin did not expect.

That difficult opponent actually ended his life so simply, without even the idea of ​​revenge. If he was defeated normally, shouldn't he think of making a comeback and be ashamed?

Is the trial and error cost of Jin Guo so high?
Of course, there were still many things he could not have imagined. Just like Zhao Kaishan, Zhao Kaishan could not have imagined that Su Yonglin could achieve such a major victory.

It took nearly three months of work for Zhao Kaishan to finally break through Nanle County, and it was impossible for him to think that Su Yonglin and Sun Ziyi had completed the merger at this moment.

Su Yonglin has really become the director of Hebei in his mouth, and even the king of Hebei. He has gained a firm foothold in Hebei and won the admiration and obedience of the rebels, and is about to cause even greater waves here.

When Su Yonglin galloped into the bloody battle, Zhao Kaishan was also in the bloody battle, but he didn't advance.

Nanle County is like an iron wall, and Zhao Kaishan really feels that he may never be able to defeat this county.

It's obviously just a county town, and it's not that high, and it doesn't have such a wide and deep moat, but why is it so difficult to fight?
He used all means to throw all kinds of firearms and huge stones into the city desperately. He even thought that the city should be all ruins, but he still couldn't take the county seat.

He almost filled up the moat, and the army repeatedly attacked the city and defended the city in bloody battles, but every time he was beaten back, he could never break through.

He also tried to dig tunnels and attempted night raids, all of which were seen by the golden army in the city, and the lost soldiers would be nothing.

Due to the excessive loss of the army, he had to transfer the wounded and sick back to the base in Shandong, and then sent people back to continue conscription to supplement the excessive loss of troops due to siege operations, so that the strength of the troops has been maintained at around 8. .

In the past few months, many troops have changed from officers to soldiers. Many troops have died in battle, died of illness, and frozen to death, but this is not a problem in Zhao Kaishan's eyes.

Anyway, he never regarded the army composed of ordinary people as a human being. Except for a few personal soldiers and elites, everything else in the army was expendable.

But people's hearts will not change because of Zhao Kaishan's indifference.

The whole Shandong's view of Zhao Kaishan and the Restoration Army is changing.

Because the strong men were dispatched to the battlefield many times, the people who came back were either dead or wounded. The miserable appearance made many people doubt Zhao Kaishan.

Moreover, Zhao Kaishan's promised rewards and pensions were not in place. Civil families who lost their families did not get the pensions and war bounties they should have received, and the wealth that their families exchanged for their lives did not get.

So people felt deceived. The Restoration Army was no different from other armies, except that the slogans were shouted loudly. They no longer actively responded to the recruiting order of the Restoration Army, and even expressed resistance to it.

When officials appointed by the Restoration Army issued a recruitment order, the local people who were willing to respond positively were no longer willing to join the army, so that the recruiting efficiency of the Restoration Army was greatly reduced.

This directly affected the frontline warfare.

When Zhao Kaishan could not recruit enough soldiers, he followed Zhao Xiang's bad idea and decided to forcefully recruit people from all over the country to join the army.

He ordered Zhao Xiang to be in charge of this matter, and asked Zhao Xiang to bring his troops back to Shandong and recruit troops to see who dared not come.

All in all, you have to come, and you have to come if you don’t, just to see if you come or not.

At the same time, he gave a lot of money to the powerful landlords in Shandong, and from them he bought a lot of strong men under their control to join the army.

With the two-pronged approach, the number of troops was guaranteed, and the main force of the siege was maintained.

While Zhao Kaishan stormed Nanle County, the [-] Restoration Army led by Zhao Zuoliang as the coach and Zhao Kaihe as the chief army achieved great strategic results in Huazhou and Xiangzhou.

This part of the army successively occupied Huazhou, Xiangzhou, Weizhou and other states that were almost abandoned, and made great progress.

Zhao Zuoliang obeyed the earliest policies of the Restoration Army, attacked the Jurchens, and treated the rest of the ethnic groups kindly, so he was very popular among the people.

Zhao Zuoliang doesn't have much military skills, but he has an advantage, that is, he knows how much he has.

He can't command blindly, and he can't do the things that a layman commands an expert. He is not good at commanding operations, so he will let someone who is good at commanding operations do it. He watches silently and does not intervene.

What he brought to the expedition was his own Tabai Army and Zhou Zhi's You Yi Army as the commanding officer.

Zhou Zhi had a bit of military talent, and he commanded properly all the way without making any mistakes. He led the Restoration Army all the way smoothly, which made Zhao Zuoliang very satisfied.

So these battles are actually commanded by Zhou Zhi.

But not everyone sees themselves as clearly as Zhao Zuoliang and sees reality openly.

They often don't know how much they have, and they always want to show off their "ability" in front of professionals, then pat their butts and leave, leaving a mess for professionals to clean up for themselves.

Zhao Kaihe is such a person.

During the battle, Zhao Kaihe wanted to re-show his "talent" several times, wanted to use his status as the commander-in-chief to do something, commanded blindly, refuted the marching route and battle plan planned by Zhou Zhi, and asked to take his own. practice.

The relationship between Zhao Kaihe and Zhao Kaishan is very close, Zhou Zhi's personality is not strong and dare not refute, the rest of the generals are in awe of Zhao Kaihe's identity and strength, and they dare not argue with him, so they can only resign.

But Zhao Zuoliang was not afraid of Zhao Kaihe.

As an elder, Zhao Zuoliang still has a certain deterrent power to Zhao Kaihe. In front of him, Zhao Kaihe can't turn the sky.

"If you don't understand what you don't understand, don't join in blindly, toss and toss, and toss this army away. Let's see how Kaishan will deal with you!"

He criticized Zhao Kaihe's blind command, suppressed Zhao Kaihe from the decision-making circle of military operations, and supported the thoughtful plan.

Although Zhao Kaihe was annoyed, he did not dare to refute Zhao Zuoliang.

It turns out that Zhou Zhi was right.

Therefore, the actions of the Restoration Army along the way were much smoother than the main force of Zhao Kaishan's headquarters.

At the end of November, when it was approaching December, after hearing the news that Zhao Zuoliang had successfully made a great contribution to the army, Zhao Kaishan, who was short of a major general, ordered Zhao Zuoliang to bring the main force of the army to Nanle County.

Zhao Zuoliang joined forces with Zhao Kaishan in mid-December and was very dissatisfied with the tragic situation in Nanle City at that time.

He couldn't get in on the military aspect, but in other aspects, Zhao Zuoliang had some opinions.

"Things like forced recruitment can be done. Kaishan, what are you thinking about? If we force the people to join the army like the golden thieves, what is the difference between us and the golden thieves?

If we are no different from gold thieves, how can we win the support of the people when the enemy is strong and we are weak?Without support, how can we continue to develop? "

When he learned that Zhao Kaishan recruited the common people because of lack of troops, he disapproved very much and went directly to Zhao Kaishan to argue for it.

(End of this chapter)