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16. Pay attention to the enemy, not fear the enemy

Su Yonglin roughly introduced Jin Ting's main military force in Shandong to his starting team.

This is a very terrifying force, which is thousands of times more terrifying than the Su family’s starting team.

So after hearing this, these people looked surprised, most of them frowned and looked not relaxed at all.

Yes, although these Jin people have poor combat power, their scale is at least large enough. As the saying goes, many ants bite the elephant to death. If the number gap is too large, the Jin army can drown Su Yonglin and his group of people with one mouthful of saliva.

So everyone was a little worried.

Su Yonglin continued to tell.

"Once we are in trouble, we will face the first thing we are going to do is the grain shooting army of Zhuzhou Prefecture and the two towns stationed in Yizhou, as well as the Jurchen households mixed between the countryside. The number of people is not large. Just for those two towns, there are at least 600 regular troops.

Zhao Kaishan, the camp of Meng'an, was visited by Yizhou defense officer An Zhen, who took him to see it, probably to show off his martial power. He said that those who were riding tall horses looked quite majestic and mighty."

After saying this, everyone became even more nervous.

Seeing this, Su Yonglin laughed.

"What are you worried about? That's all a flowery air, have you forgotten? When Su Yin came to Shandong for investigation the next year, he saw them practicing troops, shaking on horses one by one. Five out of ten people could fall off their horses, and seven out of ten people could not pull their hard bows. The Central Plains Flower World has stolen them."

After Su Yonglin's words, the following group of people remembered the things that Su Yonglin had told them before.

It is said that after a long period of peace in the Central Plains Jin army, it has long been degenerated. It is not as strong and good at fighting as before. It is not as good as the horses and cannot ride, the bows and arrows cannot be pulled away, and the combat skills are almost zero. There are not too many people who are willing to degenerate.

Is such a person worth fearing?

Not worth fearing at all!

Therefore, the officials and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty were all cowards. Facing the strong enemy decades ago, they did not know how to examine this enemy with a dynamic perspective and could not find that they were declining.

Of course, the Southern Song Dynasty itself was also constantly declining.

Instead of curbing land annexation, they continue to protect the interests of the landlords and deprive tenants of their personal rights - it is simply a big roc spreading its wings on the verge of death.

What else can I do?

Let them die!

Su Yonglin clenched his fists.

"We must pay attention to the enemy, not fear the enemy. I never worry about the strong safety of these towns. As long as our army can take the initiative to launch an attack and force them to fight offensive and defensive wars instead of field battles, it will be no difficult to win the battle! And once they win, their horses will belong to us."

The Song people lacked horses, while the Jin people did not lack horses.

Not only did the town guards Meng'an camp have horses, but there were also horses in the villages under Mouke and Mouke, which were mixed between the countryside, and there were many horses. According to the Jinting regulations, the Jurchen household registration must bring their own horse equipment to fight.

In this way, although not every Jurchen household has a horse, the number of units owned by this horse cannot be underestimated. If the accumulation of small amounts and the number of cavalry of the rebel army is almost born, the first cavalry of the rebel army will be almost born.

"Our cavalry is here!"

Su Yonglin's words made many people secretly excited.

If we can really win a battle, the team will of course grow stronger and stronger. At that time, everyone will have a horse and everyone will play with iron cavalry. It will not be difficult.

At this time, the tall Su Jue raised his hand.

"Alang, you just said that in addition to the town guards Meng'an, Yizhou also has the Jurchen family Meng'an, with a total of 360,000 yuan. So how many are there in Yizhou? Where are they separated?"

Everyone looked at Su Yonglin.

Su Yonglin nodded.

"A Jue's problem is very good. You have not read your military books in vain. You know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be lazy in every battle. We must keep this in mind. Before the war begins, we must always find ways to understand your enemies, instead of blinding our eyes and making trouble."

As he said this, Su Yonglin took out a map and hung it on the wall.

"This is the map of the strongholds of the town guards and the civil servants set up by Jinting in Yizhou. Each stronghold has its markings, so you can see it clearly at a glance."

The map was unfolded, and everyone looked closer and looked embarrassed.

There is a town guarding Meng'an and thirteen villages around Linyi County, and there is a town guarding Meng'an and thirteen villages around Fei County, scattered among the vast surrounding villages.

According to Jinting's policy of land-raising, some villages came early and controlled more land. The Jin people in one village may control two to three villages.

Some Jin people came late, so a village may have to control a village.

In the entire Yizhou area, about one-quarter of the villages controlled by the Jin people in the village accounted for about one-quarter of the village, and three-quarters of the remaining were self-cultivated farmers, and the others were occupied by landlords and powerful people.

This is the agricultural ecology of the entire Yizhou.

Despite this, what was placed in front of Su Yonglin and others was still a seemingly unshakable behemoth.

“There are quite a lot.”

"yes."

"I didn't expect that there were so many golden men, and it was difficult to fight."

"We only have one thousand people, how should we fight?"

Su Yonglin clapped his hands and asked everyone to sit back to their original positions.

"Indeed, we only have one thousand people, and the Jin people between the countryside, even in a village with fifty households, there are about five hundred people. It is really not easy to fight, but they didn't gather together to fight us.

We are actively attacking the side, we can launch a raid, and we can actively choose who to attack. At that time, we are the side where the more is more and less. In addition to the level of the Jurchens neglecting training, is it difficult for us to attack the town defense Meng'an and Jurchen villages?"

The group looked at me and I looked at you, and I thought Su Yonglin’s words were very reasonable.

"The Jurchens in the civilian households often do not live together, but are 50 households as a village, scattered among many villages. The number is indeed large, but on a single point of view, aren't they just weak? Besides men, there are also elderly, weak women and children!

How many people can fight in a village with 500 people? So what is really worth worrying about is that the two towns have about 300 to 500 soldiers there. Despite this, they are negligent in training and cannot stand the battle formation. Is it terrible?"

Su Yonglin presented facts and reasoned, which eliminated a lot of doubts in everyone's mind.

With this story, future officers also had a general understanding of the uprising and outlined their own outline in their minds.

Su Haisheng took the lead in giving his own opinions.

"Alang is right. The Jin people seem to have a large number of people, but they are scattered in various places. Their connections are not very close. They have the possibility of breaking each other. Besides, except for the two towns, most of them are civilian households, with a large number of people and not many males. When we rush over, they will find it difficult for them to resist."

Su Jue also agreed.

"We are in trouble, the Jin people don't know. Maybe when we fight in front of them, they are still eating, drinking, having fun or gambling. How can they lose such a battle?"

Su Haisheng and Su Jue took the lead, and the others also gave their own opinions, basically all of which were the problems with the Jin people's arrangement.

The number of people is indeed quite large, and it seems very strong, but the negligence of training and supervision makes them no longer as brave as they were back then. This is the biggest chance of victory for the rebel army.

More importantly, they learned to think, began to think, and could analyze the problems themselves, which made Su Yonglin very happy.

These subordinates are no longer just private salt dealers and sea thieves, they are transforming rapidly towards a very positive image.

Of course, he still has a lot to do while he is happy.

In the limited preparation time, he had to gather the men under his command and train them separately.

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