Qiming 1158

Chapter 286 Su Yonglin wants to build a navy
In the days that followed, the Khitan Liberation Army made preparations for defensive operations with Xianpingfu as the core of its base.

They destroyed roads everywhere, destroyed bridges, dug traps, practiced the tactics of clearing the walls and clearing the fields, and then placed the cavalry on the periphery, ready to line up with the logistics forces of the Jin Army.

On March 1th, the Jin army divided into two groups. Xiao Huaizhong led 2 people to attack Guiren County, and the remaining [-] main force, led by Xiao Tula, went straight to Pingguo County, Xianping Prefecture.

Of course, military operations are not easy, they have experienced various difficulties and obstacles along the way.

The Khitan rebels seemed to be everywhere, digging a lot of holes for them on their way, seriously hindering the advance of the Jin army.

Not only that, when night falls, they often appear around the Jinjun camp and launch various harassing military operations, so that the Jinjun can't even rest well, and he doesn't talk about martial arts.

Moreover, as we marched along the way, we would receive information from the rear regarding the risk of food routes from time to time. It seems that a considerable number of Khitan cavalry appeared on the logistics route of the Jin Army, posing a very serious threat to the logistics of the Jin Army.

Xiao Huaizhong faced relatively few difficulties in the direction of the attack, and Xiao Tula faced a lot of various harassments in particular.

As a last resort, Xiao Tula had to dedicate a part of his troops to protect the logistics route, and try to place the logistics route on the official road to facilitate defense.

Because of such delaying tactics and fatigue tactics, it was already March 21 when the Jin army finally arrived in Pingguo County, and the Khitan Restoration Army had already made preparations here.

The tall, wide and deep city gave Xiao Tula a headache. Looking at the various flags erected on the city wall, Xiao Tula had to choose to fight recklessly with the Khitan Restoration Army here.

The two sides launched a fierce city offensive and defensive battle.

Because he was very concerned about this war, Wanyanliang basically sent a handwritten letter of military inquiries every five or six days to inquire about the latest war situation. If there was progress, he would be satisfied. Attack now.

So Xiao Tula also learned to behave.

Today he annihilated dozens of enemies, tomorrow he will annihilate more than [-] enemies, repel several enemy attacks the day after tomorrow, and remove several enemy military strongholds the day after tomorrow. All in all, he has made progress every day.

Don't dare to tell big lies, small lies... In fact, it can't be called a lie, just making a fuss about the number of enemies killed is not a lie.

Anyway, just deal with it.

In this way, Xiao Tulu gave Wanyanliang a very good military strategy map, which made Wanyanliang truly believe that Xiao Tulu was advancing every day and that the Khitan rebellion was just around the corner.

Then he continued to speed up ordering female real soldiers from all over the country to gather in the Central Capital, and intensified the levy of signing troops to prepare for a larger-scale strategic mobilization.

Considering that the first destination of this southward trip is Kaifeng, the reconstruction of Kaifeng and the construction of the palace cannot be postponed, and must be carried out at the same time. Therefore, at the same time as the expedition, the expansion of Kaifeng must continue and cannot be interrupted.

Otherwise, his forward base and future capital to attack the Southern Song Dynasty would be gone.

This made Wanyan Liang feel quite busy.

It feels like things are happening everywhere, and it's an eventful season at all.

There are wars in the south, wars in the north, and there are palaces to be built, and construction projects to be carried out.

Because many things that require financial expenditure are going on at the same time, Wanyanliang finds that his money is not enough.

Wanyanliang, who has accumulated wealth through various means since he ascended the throne, is actually quite rich. Killing a political enemy will plunder their property, and killing a disgruntled person will annex all his property, so Wanyanliang is really rich, Richer than his predecessor.

But no matter how rich he was, he couldn't afford to use troops on two fronts at the same time to start a major construction project. Under the astronomical expenditure, Wanyan Liang also felt a little difficult.

The Ministry of Household officials have repeatedly told him that the national treasury is empty and unusable. If he continues to use the few remaining deposits, Ginting will be unable to deal with any natural and man-made disasters in the future.

The current bad situation has made Wanyanliang realize that even if he wants to optimize the financial system, he can't do it, and the only breaking point is war.

Eliminating war through war, plundering the property of the losers to make up for the shortfall, and plugging the financial gap is the fastest and most effective action plan.

As for reforms and other actions, it will be a long time later. When he eliminates the Southern Song Dynasty and unified China, he will naturally have the prestige to promote any and all reforms, and everything will be fine.

So he asked Xiao Tula more urgently to solve the Khitan Rebellion, and he chose to tolerate the attack of the Restoration Army in the south, which was quite useless for the time being.

The southern defense line is mainly defensive, and no attack is allowed under any circumstances. He also ordered that once he knows who is rashly attacking, even if he wins the battle, he will be sentenced to death, and he will never be rewarded.

Under these circumstances, the six-state line of defense has moved toward a more conservative state.

Su Yonglin, who pretended to attack Xiongzhou and Bazhou, noticed that Jin Jun's defense was becoming more conservative. Although it did no harm to Su Yonglin, it also made him hardly find any loopholes to drill.

So he changed his mind.

He himself didn't want to fight with Jin Jun here, but to attract Jin Ting's attention, so that Jin Ting could not attack the Khitan Restoration Army with all his strength, and now Jin Ting's actions are obviously to attack the north and defend the south, and pretend to die in the south. Unless he concentrates his main force to break through, he will definitely not be able to achieve victory.

No, if it goes on like this, it will not benefit the newly established Khitan Restoration Army.

Since a land-based attack cannot make Wanyan Liang make more mistakes, why not launch an attack from the sea?
I had received information before that Wanyan Liang was building a warship in the coastal area of ​​Daxing Prefecture, ready to use it in the southern expedition.

This is a very good opportunity.

If I can't take advantage of it on land, I will launch an attack from the sea and destroy your unformed navy from the sea in one fell swoop.

In any case, it was all about consuming Wan Yanliang's war potential, and it was the same on land and on sea.

Moreover, Su Yonglin felt that it was indeed necessary for him to start building a navy capable of fighting well.

The navy in the Southern Song Dynasty was much more elite than the Jin army, and it was almost a strategic force that saved the Southern Song regime many times.

And the main force on his side is still the well-deserved army, and the navy has not used it many times.

Of course it won't work like this.

How come Su Yonglin was also a smuggler of salt. The earliest armed group was also an armed smuggling salt team at sea. It can be said that the navy started out.

At the beginning, the more than 20 sea-going ships of the Su family's private salt team were placed by Su Yonglin in the coastal area of ​​Shandong and on the small island, but they never had time to use them.

Isn't now the best time?
Moreover, there are also people who are familiar with naval warfare. The old brothers who followed him at the earliest are all naval combat experts, and they can build the skeleton of a naval officer by randomly selecting a few.

As for the soldiers of the navy army, they took a group of soldiers from Sun Tzu's army who fought in the waterway in the river to enter the navy army, and prop up the shelf of the navy army, and it looked like a present.

The same is almost from scratch, but the experience and ability of water warfare on my side is stronger than that of the Jin Army. Even the early Jin Army, in the era of almost invincible land, was repeatedly shriveled in the hands of the Song Army Navy. You can see the incompetence of his sailors.

As soon as he thought of this, Su Yonglin, who was very active, immediately ordered to go down and prepare for the opening.

The Su Yonglin Corps will add an army-level unit for naval warfare, build a naval force, and prepare to dominate the East Asian waters.

(End of this chapter)