In the following days, the Khitan Restoration Army took Xianping Prefecture as the core of the base and prepared for defensive operations.

They destroyed roads everywhere, destroyed bridges, dug traps, implemented the tactic of strengthening walls and clearing the fields, and then placed the cavalry outside and were ready to go against the Jin army's logistics forces at any time.

On March 16, the Jin army divided into two groups, and Xiao Huaizhong led 10,000 people to attack Guiren County. The remaining 20,000 people took Pingguo County, Xianping Prefecture under the leadership of Xiao Tula.

Of course, military operations were not easy, and they experienced all kinds of difficulties and obstacles along the way.

This Khitan rebel army seemed to be everywhere, digging many pits for them on their way to march, seriously hindering the speed of the Jin army's advance.

Not only that, whenever night falls, they often appear around the Jin army camps and launch various harassing military operations, so that the Jin army cannot even rest well and is very unethical.

Moreover, the march would occasionally receive risks in the food supply routes in the rear. It seemed that a considerable number of Khitan cavalry appeared on the Jin army's logistics route, posing an extremely serious threat to the Jin army's logistics.

Xiao Huaizhong faced relatively few difficulties in the direction of the attack, and Xiao Tula faced particularly many kinds of harassments.

As a last resort, Xiao Tula had to use part of his troops to protect the logistics routes, and tried to place the logistics routes on the official avenue to facilitate defense.

Because of such delaying tactics and fatigue tactics, it was already March 21 when the Jin army finally arrived in Pingguo County. The Khitan Restoration Army had already prepared here.

The tall, wide and deep city made Xiao Tula feel very troubled. Looking at the various flags erected on the city wall, Xiao Tula had to choose to fight the Khitan Restoration Army here.

The two sides launched a fierce city offensive and defensive battle.

Because he was very concerned about this war, Wanyan Liang basically sent a military inquiry letter to ask about the latest battle situation five or six days later. If there is progress, he would be satisfied. If there is no progress, he would angrily accuse Xiao Tula of incompetence and let him attack immediately.

So Xiao Tula also learned his lesson.

Today, he will annihilate dozens of enemies, tomorrow he will annihilate more than a hundred enemies, and the day after tomorrow he will repel the enemy's attacks several times, and the day after tomorrow he will remove several of the enemy's military strongholds. In short, he will make progress every day.

I dare not tell big lies, but small lies... in fact, it cannot be considered lies. It is just that writing a little about the number of enemies that have been wiped out is not considered lying. At most, I can just look at a few more heads at that time.

Anyway, just deal with it.

In this way, Xiao Tula painted a very good military strategic map for Wanyan Liang, making Wanyan Liang truly believe that Xiao Tula is moving forward every day and that quelling the Khitan rebellion is just around the corner.

Then he continued to accelerate the orders for female real soldiers from all over the country to gather in Zhongdu, and increase the efforts to recruit troops to make larger-scale strategic mobilization preparations.

Because considering that the first destination of this southbound trip was Kaifeng, Kaifeng's reconstruction and palace construction cannot be postponed and must be carried out at the same time. Therefore, while the conquest, Kaifeng's expansion must also continue and cannot be interrupted.

Otherwise, he would have no attack on the advance base of the Southern Song Dynasty and the future capital.

This made Wanyan Liang feel quite busy.

It feels like everything is a matter, it is a matter of trouble.

There are wars in the south and wars in the north, and palaces and construction are needed. In short, there are endless things to do and endless money to spend.

Because many things that require fiscal expenditure are in progress simultaneously, Wanyan Liang found that he was not very rich.

Wanyan Liang, who has made money through various means since he ascended the throne, is actually quite rich. He will plunder their property if he kills a political enemy, and annex all his property if he kills a person who is unhappy. So Wanyan Liang is really rich, richer than his predecessor.

But no matter how rich he has, he can't stand the use of troops on both sides and then build a large-scale construction. With astronomical expenses, Wanyan Liang also felt a little difficult.

Officials from the Ministry of Revenue have repeatedly told him that the treasury is empty and that if the remaining deposits continue to be used, Jin Ting will be unable to deal with it if there are any natural disasters and man-made disasters in the future.

The current bad situation made Wanyan Liang realize that even if he wanted to optimize the fiscal system, he could not do it. The only point of breaking through is war.

Eliminate war through war, plundering the property of losers to make up for gaps and blocking the fiscal gap is the fastest and most effective action plan.

As for actions such as reform, it will happen a long time later. When he eliminates the Southern Song Dynasty and unifies China, he will naturally have the prestige to promote any reform, and everything will be better naturally.

So he asked Xiao Tula to resolve the Khitan rebellion even more eagerly, and he chose to temporarily tolerate the attacks of the Southern Liberation Army.

The southern defense line is mainly defense and is not allowed to attack no matter what. He also ordered that once he knew who attacked rashly, he would be sentenced to death even if he won a battle, and he would never receive a reward.

Under such circumstances, the six state defense lines are moving towards a more conservative state.

Su Yonglin, who was feinting attacks on Xiongzhou and Bazhou, noticed that the Jin army's defense became increasingly conservative. Although it did not hurt Su Yonglin, it also made him almost unable to find loopholes to dig into.

So he changed his mind.

He himself did not want to fight the Jin army to the death here, but to attract Jin Ting's attention and prevent Jin Ting from attacking the Khitan Restoration Army with all his might. At present, Jin Ting's actions are obviously to attack the north and defend the south, and pretend to be dead in the south. Unless he concentrates his main force and breaks through with all his strength, he will definitely not be able to achieve results.

No, if this continues, it will not be beneficial to the newly established Khitan Restoration Army.

Since the land-based attack cannot allow Wanyan Liang to make more mistakes, wouldn’t it be better to launch an attack from the sea?

I received information before that Wanyan Liang built warships in the coastal areas of Daxing Prefecture and was ready to be used on the southern expedition.

This is a very good opportunity.

I couldn't take advantage of the loopholes on land, so I launched an attack from the sea and destroyed your unformed naval army from the sea.

Anyway, it consumes Wanyan Liang's war potential, and it is the same on the land and Shanghai.

Moreover, Su Yonglin felt that it was indeed necessary for him to start building a naval army that could conquer and fight well.

The Southern Song Dynasty's naval army was much more elite than the Jin army, and it was almost a strategic force that saved the Southern Song regime many times. In the future, it would be almost impossible not to use the navy army without the destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty.

And the main force on my side is still the well-deserved army, and the navy has not used it many times.

Of course this will not work.

Su Yonglin was also a private salt dealer. The earliest military group was also an armed private salt dealer team at sea. It can be said that it started with the navy.

At that time, the more than 20 useful sea boats in the Sujia Private Salt Team were placed by Su Yonglin in the coastal areas of Shandong and on the small island, and they had never had time to use them.

Isn’t this the best time?

Moreover, there are also people who are familiar with naval warfare here. The old brothers who were following him were all good naval warfare players. Just a few can be drawn to build the skeleton of the naval officer.

As for the navy soldiers, they drew a group of soldiers in Sun Tzu's rebel army who had water battles in the rivers before and put them on the navy, and they looked decent.

They all started almost from scratch, but their water war experience and water war ability were stronger than that of the Jin army. Even the early Jin army was often defeated by the Song army's naval division in an era when they were almost invincible on land, which shows how incompetent the navy was.

As soon as he thought of this, Su Yonglin, who had a strong sense of action, immediately ordered to prepare for the start.
Chapter completed!