This marriage has basically been achieved, but it is still a secret at the moment.

Su Yonglin and Zhao Zuoliao have nothing to do.

Zhao Kaishan would definitely not have watched Zhao Zuoliang marry his daughter to Su Yonglin without any reaction. In order to implement the matter, Su Yonglin needs to bring Zhao Zuoliang's family to him.

So he did not announce this matter to the public, nor even told the people around him about it.

In order to achieve this goal, Su Yonglin dispatched all the soldiers of the second row of the Huben Camp and all the fifth operation team of the intelligence force.

This special operation is headed by Zhou Shaoning, the leader of the fifth action group.

It is not difficult to take Zhao Zuoliang's family away, but Zhao Zuoliang's son Zhao Xiuye ​​is currently being detained in the prison of Linyi County as a political bargaining chip. In order to get him out, it may take some thought.

Of course this is not a difficult task.

Zhao Kaishan is not in Yizhou, and he does not personally focus on this matter, so Yizhou is temporarily in a state of being high and far away from the emperor.

According to the habits of those officials, unless Zhao Kaishan comes in person, as long as he has money, everything is easy to say. As long as the money is in place, they can even take certain risks to help.

So Su Yonglin specially approved a funding, preparing to use a bribe method of trying to replace the prince with a trick to save Zhao Xiuye.

"Of course, after rescuing him, my father-in-law asked to strictly restrain him. The strictness and enforcement of laws and regulations on the son-in-law's side are far more serious than the strictness and enforcement of laws and regulations on the Zhao Lingshuai's side, and they are very selfless."

Su Yonglin gave Zhao Zuoliang the final warning.

In response to such a warning, Zhao Zuoliao took a deep breath and nodded slowly.

"I promised you, I won't make the same mistake a second time."

“So very good.”

Everything ended here, and Zhao Zuoliao quickly headed south under the protection of the personnel arranged by Su Yonglin.

Subsequently, during the training of the entire army, Su Yonglin symbolically wrote a letter to Zhao Kaishan, asking Zhao Kaishan to formally appoint himself as the commander-in-chief of the corps and Sun Ziyi as the deputy commander of the corps to facilitate his subsequent military operations.

There is no intention of negotiation or request in the words, it is just a notice, a symbolic notice, which means that I will do this regardless of whether you agree or not.

Anyway, Zhao Kaishan cannot affect Su Yonglin.

After Sun Ziyi surrendered, the entire Hebei and half of Shandong were actually Su Yonglin's sphere of influence. Su Yonglin's actual power was already greater than Zhao Kaishan.

No matter what Zhao Kaishan said, the sphere of influence created by practical strength is something that Zhao Kaishan cannot replace with words. If Zhao Kaishan wants to do something, the first thing he has to face is not Su Yonglin, but the doubts of his subordinates.

It is true that the number of combat troops under Su Yonglin's command is not as crazy as Zhao Kaishan.

Su Yonglin did a little bit of streamlining the troops, eliminating the elderly, weak, sick and disabled. Those who are willing to go home and those who do not want to go home earn the auxiliary soldiers. They specialize in doing some chores for the regular soldiers and transporting food and grass, which is also considered as the best use of people.

The main combat troops are basically young and middle-aged, and there is no such thing as the elderly, weak, sick and disabled.

Before streamlining, during the chaotic period of Hebei, all the troops in Hebei could make up 230,240,000.

After Su Yonglin's simplification, he dismissed 60,000 to 70,000, and all of them were allowed to go home or be converted into auxiliary soldiers, and the combat soldiers were clear.

Even if young and middle-aged people have not undergone formal military training, their combat effectiveness is generally stronger than that of the elderly, weak, sick and disabled.

But Zhao Kaishan doesn't do this.

He recruited soldiers from the dead, and even recruited troops with armed forces. In addition to the total strength of more than 100,000 in each army of his headquarters, he also had other landlord armed groups of about 120,000 to 30,000.

Including some of the grain shooting troops that were originally Jinting who surrendered to him in the cities of various prefectures, his total strength could reach a scale of 250,000, which was indeed great.

These troops are nominally subject to Zhao Kaishan's command, but except for the troops in Zhao Kaishan's headquarters, the organizational command of the other troops is very unclear.

To a considerable extent, these armies are just scattered soldiers and scattered soldiers under the banner of the Restoration Army. Whether Zhao Kaishan knows their existence is a problem, let alone unified command.

Zhao Kaishan was not interested in helping these landlord armed groups to train and clarify the organization, as long as they could exist as a military force.

It seemed as if as long as they existed, they would definitely obey Zhao Kaishan's orders and fight bravely for his orders.

As for whether they are truly against gold or fishing for troubled waters, he doesn't care.

Therefore, when attacking Nanle County, Zhao Kaishan lost more than half of the army. In order to maintain his strength, he had to arm the army instead of recruiting the remaining tens of thousands of ready-made troops.

The main reason is that he has no way to contact and coordinate those landlord armed groups in a short period of time, and can only use the simple and low-cost method of direct recruitment to maintain the quantity.

In this way, the quantity is guaranteed, and the quality is not certain. The strong men run away and run away, leaving the elderly, weak, sick and disabled.

There is no way. Even if the old, weak, sick and disabled, as long as they are a man, they will be brought to make up for the numbers and sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder. They will only treat it as cleaning up useless people.

Nanle County fought to the back, because there was really a lack of logistics personnel, Zhao Kaishan even allowed some young and strong peasant women to use, and even women were not spared.

So after fighting this battle, Zhao Kaishan tried every means to piece together and increase the number of direct troops, trying to solve all the problems that could be solved by himself.

He directly recruited troops in the entire Daming Mansion and expanded 30,000 troops in one go. He was content with his sense of satisfaction and felt that he would soon have an army of 300,000.

Then Su Yonglin's notification letter was sent.

In the letter, Su Yonglin told him bluntly that he and Sun Ziyi had joined forces, and that he would establish a corps and become the general commander. He asked Zhao Kaishan to allow it and issued a formal order.

It's not like asking for instructions at all, it's just a very direct notification.

This made Zhao Kaishan angry and almost vomited blood.

Fortunately, Zhao Xiang completed the task of armed conscription and returned to Zhao Kaishan, comforted Zhao Kaishan with kind words and gave him a sense of happiness.

"Su Yonglin is arrogant and ignorant, and has no eyes on the commander. This is his crime. The commander cannot be angry with him. The body is important, or the body is important."

Zhao Kaishan pushed Zhao Xiang away.

"Su Yonglin! Sun Ziyi! The wolves ambitions of these two people were finally exposed! The two of them occupied Hebei in one place, and they also formed a corps to be the general commander! Why didn't he just ask me to take away the identity of the leader of the Restoration Army! I'll give it! I really give it!"

Zhao Kaishan gritted his teeth and pounded the table hard, his heart full of anger.

"It's not a matter of a day or two for these two people to make a mistake. The leader didn't know just now. The key problem now is that these two people join forces and their strength has increased greatly. Hebei and half of Shandong are controlled by them. This will be very unfavorable to us."

Zhao Xiang whispered: "Su Yonglin defeated the Jin thieves' cavalry and his prestige has increased greatly. Judging from these days, there are many people in our army who admire Su Yonglin, and many people even publicly praise Su Yonglin's military achievements."

“Are there many people like this?”

Zhao Kaishan's face tightened.

"It can't be considered small."

Zhao Xiang gave a high emotional intelligence answer.

Zhao Kaishan was silent for a while, then looked at Zhao Xiang.

"If we turn against Su Yonglin now, what is the chance of winning? Can we win?"

Zhao Xiang is indeed a little clever and likes to come up with bad ideas, but he doesn’t have a low IQ. Of course, he can see how capable Su Yonglin is. If he fights him head-on, isn’t he just waiting to die?

"The leader, Su Yonglin is a man who can defeat the 20,000 cavalry of the Jin thieves. If we fight him head-on... and they are both part of the Restoration Army, he did not rebel blatantly,"

"this……"

When Zhao Xiang talked about these things, Zhao Kaishan was also a little embarrassed. He remembered how he was pressed to the ground by the Jin cavalry and how he was dragged down by a county town for almost three months. He suddenly lost the idea of ​​confronting Su Yonglin head-on.

But he really couldn't swallow this. He always felt that if he couldn't do anything this time, once Su Yonglin really won the strategic decisive battle with the Jin army, everything would be over.

His prestige will directly overshadow everything. Zhao Kaishan will not even have the chance to struggle. He can determine the fate of Zhao Kaishan and the Zhao family in just one sentence.
Chapter completed!