Qiming 1158

Chapter 435 The strategic counteroffensive of the Restoration Army has begun vigorously
No one cares about New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve this year.

At least among the various groups participating in the war, no one cared about the New Year, because some people were busy marching, some people were busy attacking, some people were busy defending, and some people were busy quarreling.

December passed like this, and the first day of the first lunar month passed like this.

Jin Jun just gave the soldiers a dry meal, and it was considered a festival.

The Restoration Army was okay. It was a festival for the soldiers to eat a solid meal of meat.

But no one really cares whether it is a holiday or not.

The Jin army was thinking of going south to Jinan to fight the main force of the Liberation Army, and the main force of the Liberation Army was thinking of a decisive battle with the Jin army, but the Hebei army kept destroying the grain reserves of the Jin army all the way north.

On the third day of the first lunar month, Sun Ziyi led his troops to conquer Gaoyang County and Renqiu County, which were occupied by the Jin army.

Gaoyang defenders and Renqiu defenders saw the Restoration Army counterattack, and thought Wanyanliang was finished, so they were terrified and surrendered without resistance.

A small number of the main soldiers in the city were all beheaded, and the remaining soldiers and civilians became prisoners.

Then the army was divided into two groups, Sun Ziyi led the way, Jiang Liangping led the way, and captured Guixin and Baoding on the sixth and seventh day of the first lunar month respectively.

Conversion and Baoding are also the same outcome.

Seeing the Restoration Army's counterattack, they mistakenly thought that Wanyanliang was defeated, and the main force of the Jin Army was wiped out. The Restoration Army counterattacked Yanyun in a big way. Defeat a small number of regular soldiers and open the city gate to welcome the Restoration Army into the city.

After the Restoration Army entered the city, they beheaded all the female real soldiers, then surrendered and signed the army, and then continued north.

On the evening of the eighth day of the first lunar month, Jiang Liangping led his troops to take Yijin without stopping.

Yijin defender Yila Yuncheng was a Khitan native, and when he saw that the Liberation Army was attacking, he was shocked. He also thought that the Jin Army's southern expedition had completely failed, and the Jin Kingdom was about to fall, and resistance was meaningless, so Kaesong surrendered.

Jiang Liangping fully occupied Yijin Pass, controlled the defense, and surrendered the army.

Sun Ziyi's capture of Waqiao Pass was not so smooth. The guard of Waqiao Pass would be a Jurchen. Although he was shocked and very scared, he did not surrender and insisted on resisting.

As a result, after a day and a night, the Han people in the city rioted and opened the city gate to welcome the Restoration Army into the city.

Sun Ziyi successfully occupied Waqiao Pass and controlled this important pass.

So far, Yijin Pass and Waqiao Pass, which once blocked the way of the Restoration Army to the north, were occupied by Sun Ziyi and Jiang Liangping respectively. The way of the Restoration Army to the north to Yanyun has been fully opened. It doesn't make any sense anymore.

At the same time, the road of the Jin army's southward transportation of grain and fodder was also completely cut off, the north and south were out of order, and the main force of the Jin army's southward movement was completely alone.

However, at this moment, Wanyanliang did not know that he had become a lonely army.

Even in the south of Hejian and Zhending, all parts of the Jin army did not know that they had become a miserable and lonely army with no way out.

Similarly, although Sun Ziyi and Su Jue instigated a full-scale counterattack in the first-tier cities, the second-tier and third-tier defensive cities in Hebei are still unclear about this.

At this critical moment, there were no telegraph calls, so no one but the parties knew what was going on.

After the counter-offensive troops occupied Waqiao Pass and Yijin Pass, they got a lot of gold and rations. Sun Ziyi and Su Jue both hoped to immediately lead their troops north into the Yanyun siege area to complete Su Yonglin's strategic goal and overthrow Jinting.

But they found that they were short of troops, and they had less than [-] troops that could be dispatched, so they could not rush north.

But they couldn't let this great opportunity go unnoticed.

What if there is a lack of troops?
It doesn't matter, as long as you agree with our thoughts, as long as you are willing to resist the Golden Kingdom and fight against the Golden Soldiers, there will be usable and capable soldiers everywhere!
Therefore, Sun Ziyi, Su Jue and others decided to fully mobilize the instructors to liberate a large number of captured Han Chinese to sign the army, instigate them to fully join the Restoration Army, and together with the Restoration Army, counterattack Yanyun, and even attack Zhongdu in one go, overturning Jin Court rule in the homeland of China.

Vigorous complaints conference and public trial conference raced against time.

The Jurchen soldiers, Jurchen officers, and generals who were captured but not killed will be subject to public trials. They will accept unprecedented severe trials and thorough reckoning. They will use their lives as sacrifices to summon the unyielding spirit of the Han Chinese signing troops. .

From the tenth day of the first lunar month, a large number of captured Han Chinese signed up to join the Restoration Army enthusiastically, and the instructors responded to the call.

In a few days, the number of the Restoration Army under Sun Ziyi and Su Jue swelled from [-] to [-], and from [-] to [-], and this number continued to increase.

But it is a coincidence that the Restoration Army has seized a large amount of golden army rations, weapons and equipment, and it does not lack the ability to fully arm these new soldiers who joined the Restoration Army, nor does it lack the ability to lead this army northward to attack Yanyun.

A brand new army is being fully armed. After the arming is completed, this army will have the strength and qualifications to launch an attack on the land of Yanyun, and Sun Tzu and Su Jue are conducting strategic consultations on this issue.

It can be said that the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, which have been separated from the Central Plains regime for 200 years, are on the eve of returning to the embrace of their mothers.

At the same time, Sun Ziyi and Su Jue ordered Ma Weiying, Duan Yi, Xu Ang and others to lead a small number of troops to the south, instigating more garrisoned cities in the south to leave the city to launch a strategic counter-offensive.

While going north is important, going south is also very important. They can't sit back and watch Su Yonglin fight against the terrifying cavalry regiment of the Jin Army alone. They must do something to help Su Yonglin as much as they can.

The task of Ma Weiying and others is to instigate more troops to go south all the way, destroy the strongholds where the Jin Army stores food, cut off their back roads, and threaten the main force of the Jin Army from the rear.

Just imagine, when the main force of the Jin army discovered that a large army of the Restoration Army suddenly attacked behind them, how much will they still have to fight?

The main force of the Jin army is indeed very large, and the size of the cavalry is terrible, but what will happen if they lose the will to fight?

Being a bird and beast is the best ending.

After Ma Weiying, Xu Ang and Duan Yi led the order, they divided their troops into three groups and rushed to Luancheng County, Jing'an County and Dongguang County respectively to start a comprehensive strategic counter-offensive.

They will gather the troops of the Restoration Army all the way, attack the siege troops and logistics troops of the Jin Army, and while annihilating the Jin Army, they will continue to develop and strengthen their own troops.

The Restoration Army's strategic counter-offensive had already begun vigorously, and at this critical time point, Wanyanliang knew nothing about it.

After being resolutely resisted by the Restoration Army under the Jing'an City of Shenzhou, the disgraced Wanyan Liang finally gave up the idea of ​​capturing a well-defended city in a short period of time.

Wanyan Benjian picked out the words and told him, fight, you can fight, conquer, and conquer, but—

It would take at least two to three months to capture such a city.

If the defenders in the city do not surrender, judging from the weapons, equipment and military strength of the defenders in the city, unless all the defenders, food, and weapons in the city are consumed bit by bit, and the city is crushed with more powerful forces, Otherwise, it will be difficult to obtain the final victory.

Jin Jun almost only has the advantage in military strength, and has no other advantages.

The Restoration Army was not an ordinary thief army at all, it was a regular army that had undergone rigorous training, had combat experience, and could face off against the Jin army.

You want to take down a well-defended and high-spirited city guarded by regular troops within ten days, that is wishful thinking.

And more importantly, the logistics supply of the entire army can only be maintained until mid-to-late February at most, and if there is no end to the war or other income in the future, it will be exhausted.

Well aware of the lack of logistical capabilities and food reserves, Wanyanliang never mentioned the matter of sieging the city again.

He successively sent troops to surround Jing'an, Hengshui, Xindu and other cities, and finally "penetrated" Hebei and entered Pingyuan County on the ninth day of the first month of the second year, completing the initial strategic goal.

At this moment, the distance between Wanyanliang's main force and the main force of the Restoration Army led by Su Yonglin was already very close, and the battle between the two sides was about to break out.

(End of this chapter)