Chapter 418 Preparations for the Jin Army
"This battle must be fought."
Wanyan Zongwang gritted his teeth and said:
"If you don't fight, let Hangou easily occupy Gaizhou, and Liaoyang will not be able to think of peace for a moment in the future!"
"Cut all the wheat seedlings in the fields and feed them to horses! Kill all the livestock and eat meat! We can go out and grab them if we win this battle!"
This is not easy to make a decision, but I have to make a decision.
If the Qi army occupied Gaizhou, then in the future, the Qi army can attack the Liaozhong Plain at will. If they can't beat it, they can run away.
This is a fatal strategic disadvantage and no one is willing to accept it.
"Then let's fight!"
Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Zongbing also made up their minds. They seemed to have returned to the era thirty years ago. The young Jurchen princes rode on horseback, waved maces and spears, and followed Emperor Taizu to attack the Liao army.
At that time, the entire Jurchen army had only 30,000 people, which was even smaller than now.
And the Liao army had a total of 700,000!
The winner is still the big gold.
The winner is always big gold! It will always be! Since then!
"Mobilize all males over 13 years old!"
Wanyan Zonggan announced loudly:
"Tell those Ahas that if you win this time, you will release their Aha identity and the master will give them land!"
"Every Dingkou, every grain of grain, and every sheep in Dajin will be used in this battle!"
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At this time, Wanyan Zongfu had already died of illness a year ago. Emperor Dajin was the eldest grandson of Taizu Wanyan Hela, but the emperor himself had no rights, and the Bojilie Conference was in charge.
Now, there are still five Bojilie left in the Jurchens, namely the third princes of the Jurchens: Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongbi.
Then there were Wanyan Zonghan, who belonged to the Dajin royal family, and Heshilie Zhining, a general of the foreign surname.
Among the five extremely fierce brutes, Wanyan Zonghan shocked the Jurchens in the north, while Heshilie Zhining defended Xu Shiyang in Yaozhou in southern Liaoning, so the national affairs of the Jin Dynasty were still under the leadership of the three princes.
After decisive battle with the Qi army in Gaizhou, the Jurchens began to mobilize in the country.
Any man over 13 years old, whether it is the Jurchen or any other ethnic group, must participate in the war.
In this way, the Jin army could mobilize 40,000 Jurchens and 150,000 Ah Ha.
The number of people is not small, but the equipment is very sad.
Even the Jurchens had only half of them at this time, and almost half of them had horses among the armored soldiers.
As for Aha, even if there is an iron knife or an iron-headed spear, most of them actually have only a sharpened wooden stick.
The only advantage in terms of equipment is that the Jin army has built a lot of guns and cannons. Bo Jilie believes that Aha, who is equipped with these weapons, can at least support the Qi army's firepower strike for a period of time, and create a fairer opportunity for hand-to-hand combat for the Jurchen armored soldiers.
What if they can't do this, no one wants to think about it.
What is more sad than equipment is the supply supply of the Jin army.
In order to prepare for the decisive battle, the Jurchens forced to confiscate all the remaining grain and seeds of all the people - no matter which one was Aha or Jurchen.
At the same time, the seedlings that were about to mature in the field were harvested and most of the livestock, including young animals, were slaughtered.
This multi-pronged approach made the Jin army raise a lot of food, but these foods are probably only enough to support one battle. Regardless of the victory or defeat of the battle, if the Jin army cannot grab enough food after the battle, many people will starve to death in the Jin Dynasty this winter.
Many, many people!
Even so, the actions of the Jin army were restricted everywhere due to food problems.
First of all, their main force cannot be too far away from Gaizhou, because a little further away, the food consumed on the marching road will be enough for the erectile dysfunction people to have a headache.
But you can't sit and wait, because the Qi army protects the immigration convoy and is not fast, so you can't sit and eat food.
Therefore, Wanyan Zonggan proposed to concentrate some food for a few elite cavalry, treat them as mobile troops, take the initiative to attack, bypass places with heavy cover, and attack those convoys behind the main force of the Qi army that lack the cover of the main force.
If you are lucky, these mobile troops can conquer one or two vehicles. I guess the food they give them will not only not lose money, but also make more money back.
In order to motivate the soldiers to fight bravely, the three princes Bo Jilie took out a lot of money to reward the soldiers. After decades of robbery, food and other essential items were consumed very much, but most of the gold, silver and jade that could not be eaten were concentrated in the hands of a few nobles.
The rewards given to the Qi army by the Jurchens were: one militia's head three stakes, one field soldier's head five stakes, and one officer's head ten stakes!
This reward type sounds very good, even more than the rewards offered by the Great Zhou court to the Jurchen heads during the Zhou and Jin war more than ten years ago.
But in fact, the domestic economy of the Jin Dynasty was on the verge of collapse. The large accumulation of precious metals and silk satin did not have much positive significance for the Jurchens who were blocked on all sides and had no foreign trade at all.
After the Jurchens began to mobilize in full, the domestic grain prices in the Jin Dynasty soared again, until 80 yuan per stone!
In other words, a Jurchen armored soldier can only earn enough money to buy one stone of food if he kills 16 Qi army field soldiers in a row!
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Lin'an, the imperial city.
"Is the Qi army going to recapture Liaodong?"
The young Emperor Longdao asked his close ministers straightforwardly:
Bachelor of Zizheng Hall, Deputy Minister of Political Affairs Wen Zhong;
Bachelor of Longtu Pavilion, Bao Zheng, assistant to the political affairs;
And the Privy Councilor Tong Guan.
The real prime minister, who was the same as the minister of the Central Secretariat, Ping Zhang Shiwen and Fu, was sick at home because of his policies that were contrary to the emperor. Now he has been no longer involved in political affairs for almost three months.
Neither the emperor nor Wen Zhong tried to keep it. One of them felt that Wen Zhong had too deep a collusion with Qi Sheng and was not trustworthy.
The other one felt that my dad was always pressing on his head, which was very uncomfortable.
Instead, they felt much more happy when Wen Zhong was not here.
When Tong Guan, who heard the emperor asks military questions, was qualified to be the magistrate to suppress Fang La and quickly stepped forward and lowered his head and replied in a low voice:
"I don't think I can."
Tong Guan was born as a eunuch. Although he was ranked as the chief for his military merits, he was still able to call himself a slave in front of the Tian family.
What's more, Tong Guan was an eunuch promoted by the Supreme Emperor. He was a member of the lord and peace faction in the Longdao Dynasty. He could only be careful when he was a person with his tail between his tail. He himself knew very well that the government had not dealt with him, but he just didn't want the lord and war faction to completely control the court.
"Oh? Why? Tell me." Emperor Longdao asked with interest.
"Now the Jurchens claim to assemble an army of 600,000. Even if this is a bragging, there is still half of them. The 300,000 gold army is an invincible Jurchen!"
Tong Guan chose what the emperor liked:
"I think that the Governor's Office wants to expand its control area in Liaodong this time, so that they will not intend to regain Liaodong in the future."
"Just not now?"
"this……."
Tong Guan raised his head and looked at Wen Zhong and Bao Zheng.
However, neither of these two people meant to help him.
However, he could only tell the truth helplessly:
Chapter completed!