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Chapter 391 Wanyanliang is aggressive

Wanyanliang did not comment on Wen Dunsizhong's death.

When he learned the news of Wen Dun Sizhong's death, he was discussing the latest intelligence and strategic tactics with the officials of the Privy Council. When he learned that Wen Dun Sizhong had passed away, Wanyan Liang was stunned for a while, and then he continued to discuss military affairs with the ministers like nothing else.

After discussing the military affairs, Wanyan Liang instructed the people in the palace to pay Wen Dunsizhong's funeral and deal with the funeral according to the fixed procedure, and did not leave the court for the death of such an important minister as usual.

In the face of major military affairs, everything has to stand aside, and it can't make any difference because of Wen Dunsizhong's death. That's too much delay.

Wen Dunsizhong's funeral ended hastily in the context of Wanyan Liang's southern expedition, and his family was asked to bring Wen Dunsizhong's coffin back to his hometown in Liaodong for burial after only a few days, and then don't come back.

The Wen Dunsizhong family was expelled from the Central Capital by Wanyan Liang as a whole, and from the political center of the Jin Kingdom, and has since become a marginal family.

This situation also made many officials who were promoted and cared for by Wen Dunsizhong feel a lot of sympathy.

However, Wanyanliang didn't care, and put all his energy on the upcoming southern expedition.

According to the latest military intelligence, Wanyanliang learned that the Restoration Army had a tendency to shrink its forces and retreat in an all-round way. The Restoration Army seemed to be retreating in several states along the six-state defense line.

The rangers who went south to reconnaissance intelligence found that only a few soldiers and rangers remained in these areas, and there was no large army, and even the people were moved south.

When the Rangers continued to go south, they encountered the obstruction and attack of the Rangers of the Restoration Army, and it was difficult to continue to penetrate into the south. They were forced to retreat and reported the matter to the Golden State Center.

As a result, the court of the Jin Kingdom judged that the Liberation Army was shrinking its forces, implemented a strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the field, creating strategic depth, trying to avoid a head-on collision with the Jin Kingdom army, and threatening the logistics transportation of the Jin Kingdom.

The Hebei defense strategy of the Restoration Army must be based on Hejianfu and Zhendingfu as the core, to build two strong military defense centers, and to bet on these two important cities that the Jin Army will conquer anyway, and fight the Jin Army to the death.

To be honest, it wasn't until this time that Wanyanliang noticed how easy it was for his ancestors to deal with the Northern Song Dynasty, and how much geographical advantage they occupied.

From Zhongdu to the south, it is almost a flat river. The distance of hundreds of miles is galloping, and it can be finished within a few days. The Song army was also safe in those days, and faced with the Jin army's surprise attack, they were almost powerless to fight back. , did not dare to fight in the field at all, and even the defense of the city was trembling.

Now Wanyan Liang is leading the army to march south. Although the movement of the army is relatively slow, this cannot stop the advantages of the Golden Army's cavalry.

He felt that the original Song Army was no different from the current Liberation Army. As long as she led the army south to launch an offensive, in the face of absolute superiority, the Liberation Army would probably end up like the Northern Song Dynasty.

The only thing that annoyed him was that the harassment of the navy army of the Restoration Army was the same as before, and there was no tendency to stop.

Therefore, the number of soldiers he could go south was reduced again, and he had to leave an army to guard his hometown, so as not to be taken over by Su Yonglin from the sea.

In this way, the Jin Army can curb the Liberation Army's attack on their rear to a certain extent and limit the advantages of the Liberation Army's navy.

The Restoration Army did not have enough cavalry, and the Jin Army could mobilize about [-] cavalry. These cavalry would gallop across the Great Plain of Hebei, attacking everywhere, making the field troops of the Restoration Army exhausted and unable to confront them.

Wanyanliang seized this advantage of the Jin Kingdom and made a special speech, describing the Guangfu Army as the army of the Northern Song Dynasty under the rule of Song Huizong, and the Jin Army was still the invincible army that was invincible all over the world.

He said that he wanted to bring Su Yonglin's family to Zhongdu together, and let him have another "sheep raising ceremony".

Wanyanliang was very confident and believed that under the attack of the Jin Army's sharp cavalry, the defense of the Liberation Army in Hebei would collapse at an extremely fast speed, and their defense in Hebei would be almost non-existent.

In Shandong, although they have been in business for a longer time, except for a Mount Tai, there is no other existence that can stop the cavalry.

Therefore, no matter from which aspect, the [-] cavalry of the Jin Army will be a sharp blade in the hands of the Jin Empire and a nightmare for the Restoration Army.

We have nothing to fear!

We must win!

Wanyan Liang shouted out these boring slogans that were useless, leaving his courtiers speechless.

It was as if Wanyan A-Lin had taken advantage of him at that time.

But in any case, this is also a major matter of their life and death, so this wave, the courtiers still made a lot of effort.

Usually, a lot of military spending is corrupted a little less this time. They all told their subordinates to be more restrained this time, and let the emperor put all military spending into the army to boost the morale of the army. As long as the battle is won, the benefits will be great. .

Don't give your life to Su Thief for a little bit of greed.

They thought they were very worthy of Wanyanliang and Jin Empire for doing so, but they never imagined that Wanyanliang would still attack them.

Wanyanliang excused that the grain supply was destroyed by Su Yonglin, and the grain supply to support the army's continuous operations was insufficient, so he needed support, money and grain support.

The common people have been squeezed dry by him, and there is nothing left. In some places, the tax will be collected after five or six years. If it is squeezed further, a second uprising will break out. They reached out for money.

Wanyanliang publicly stated at the court meeting that he was stretched thin, that he needed the support of money and food, and that if the courtiers did not support it, once the war reached a stalemate, the court would be short of money and food, and the result would be disastrous.

He will not let this situation happen, so he can only use the last resort - sell the official rank and sell it.

"At this time, I'm not going around in circles with you. How much food you have in your hands, we all know in our hearts that you can't use it up and eat it all. If that's the case, why don't you use it to help the army?

You have to know that you have a good life if you have the Great Jin Kingdom. If the army of the Great Jin Kingdom is defeated by the Su thieves and the Great Jin Kingdom is destroyed, what if you have more property?In the end, isn't it still cheap Su Thief? "

Wanyan Liang's sharp eyes glanced at the ministers, and his words were very ugly: "Su thief is different from me, I will negotiate with you in a soft and soft voice, and I will not force you, but Su thief is different, Su thief will directly Kill your whole family!"

The ministers were both frightened and annoyed.

What he was afraid of was that Su Yonglin used the banner of expelling Hulu and regaining China, and made it clear that he would not share the same fate with the ruling class of the Jin Kingdom.

Annoyed that Wanyanliang actually threatened them with this kind of thing at this time, extorting money from them, asking for money and food, such behavior is really not like a monarch of a country.

Despite this, facing the naked threat of the emperor, the courtiers still did not have much choice. They discussed and discussed with each other and decided to take part of their household food and hand it over to Wanyanliang according to the level of their official positions, which was considered to be spending money to buy peace.

Wanyanliang raised a large amount of food in a very short period of time, and immediately shipped them to the front line of the war in batches.

At the same time, the main force of the Jin army also went to the front line of the war one after another, and made the final offensive preparations at the scheduled starting point of the war.

Excluding the actions of the Hedong Jinjun and Kaifeng Jinjun, Wanyanliang's own main force divided his troops into two groups, starting from Bazhou all the way to the south, and all the way from Xiongzhou to the south.

Wanyan Liang divided the soldiers under his command into more than a dozen armies. Each army was led by a commander-in-chief and a deputy commander. Above the army, there were also commanders of the left and right commanders to lead the army.

The commander-in-chief of the left army is the veteran general Wanyan Benjian, and the deputy commander-in-chief of the left army is Li Tong, a confidant.

The right-leading commander-in-chief is the privy envoy He Shilie Liangbi, and the right-leading deputy commander-in-chief is the veteran general Yilicheng.

Then the two sections each set up a supervisor, Shan Yongnian from the right supervisor, and Xu Lin from the left supervisor.

Wanyan Liang himself acted together with the strongest Zuo Army. The Zuo Army was the absolute main force of the entire Southern Expedition Army, with [-] cavalry and [-] infantry, a total of [-] troops.

This troop gathered the strongest elite troops and the most abundant logistical support from the Jin Kingdom.

Wanyanliang's first goal was to take down Hejian, the rumored residence of Su Yonglin.

The remaining [-] soldiers and horses of the Right Army were handed over to the leader of the Right Army under the command of He Shi Lie Liangbi, the commander of the Privy Council, as the second main force.

This army is heading south from Xiongzhou. The goal of the first stage is to take Lizhou, Qizhou and Shenzhou, cut off the connection between Hejian and Zhending, create conditions for the Hedong Jin army to capture Zhendingfu, and avoid Hejianfu. Support each other with the Restoration Army of Zhendingfu.

The [-] Hedong Jin Army, including [-] cavalry and [-] infantry, was led by Wanyan Yiying, the general manager of both troops and horses. The Hejian Mansion conquered together and overthrew Su Yonglin's rule in Hebei.

Then Wanyanliang, Heshilieliangbi and Wanyan Yiying marched south together, quickly attacked, completely destroyed the weak defense of the Liberation Army in Hebei, and strived to end the war in Hebei within two months and fully penetrate into Shandong.

(End of this chapter)