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Chapter 1044 Eat the Southern Song Dynasty like rice

The two armies of the enemy-breaking army and the formation army together have a main force of 6 people.

This is the main force of the Henan Corps who played this time.

In addition, the Henan Corps also has a [-]-person cavalry team directly under the corps as a mobile combat force to join the battle.

And the Shenji Battalion with 5000 people was also in place in time, and under the command of Zhang Yuejing, they set off with the fallen army.

This time going south to Xiangyang, the Ming army dispatched a total of 5000 troops, which was [-] more than the [-] troops during the first Ming-Song War.

In addition to the 4 troops of the two divisions of the peasant army who were able to enter the Xiangfan battlefield from the south to the north, the total strength of the Ming army in the Xiangfan battle or the Jinghu battle exceeded 11, reaching 5000. largest war ever waged.

Of course, for the land of Xiangfan, the number of troops of this size is more appropriate.

Because the Southern Song Dynasty's management of the land of Xiangfan was indeed very strong, when the Mongols attacked Xiangfan, they gathered more troops than the Ming army, and it took six years to break through Xiangfan.

For such a tight defense system, if the Ming army is too big and too confident in its own powerful firepower, it will inevitably suffer in Xiangfan.

Therefore, Su Yonglin was very cautious and directly ordered Zhang Yuejing to dispatch the main force of the Henan Corps.

And because the You Yi Army of the Henan Corps was stationed on the territory ceded by the Song Kingdom in Huainan, Su Yonglin also prepared to dispatch the Yanyun Corps and the Hu Ben Army to the south to support him once the troops were insufficient.

If the Song army dispatches the main force, then Su Yonglin will not be stingy with the force, and he will also dispatch the main force of the motive force to fight a strategic decisive battle with the Southern Song Dynasty in the land of Xiangfan.

Xiangfan is very important, and what is important is not necessary. The Southern Song Dynasty will definitely do its best to rescue Xiangfan and relieve the crisis in Xiangfan.

This also means that as long as the army is stationed in Xiangfan, it will be able to hit the main force of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Maybe the Southern Song Dynasty will pull out the main force of the Chuan-Shu Theater for this purpose, and then pull the main force of the Jianghuai Theater to support Xiangfan together to ensure that Xiangfan is not lost.

But even if it really came to that point, the strength of the Ming army of more than 10 has already given Su Yonglin full confidence. Su Yonglin does not think that the [-] Ming army cannot wipe out the main force of the Song army.

Even if the most elite of the Song army from Sichuan and Shu joined the battle, it would not change the situation.

In this world, there is no military existence that can defeat the [-] Ming army.

Su Yonglin can put his words here. In this era, any army on earth is confronted with the [-] Ming army, no matter how many people there are, there is no possibility of defeating the Ming army.

Su Yonglin has enough confidence in the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, coupled with the powerful magic battalion and new firearms, he has enough confidence to eliminate the main force of the national army in the Southern Song Dynasty in the land of Xiangfan.

Although the Ming Kingdom is not yet ready to fully swallow the Southern Song Dynasty, it will start to prepare from now on.

It's like eating a bowl of rice, eating this bowl of rice named Nan Song one by one, chewing a few more bites, maybe it's better than swallowing the whole bowl of rice in one go.

At the very least, it's easier to digest and won't burden the stomach and cause indigestion.

Zhang Yuejing was very aware of Su Yonglin's strategic goals, so he knew that Su Yonglin did not expect them to be able to quickly conquer Xiangfan, even if the Shenji Battalion, which was temporarily assigned to him, was equipped with a great general artillery that could be called a human killer.

Zhang Yuejing had heard of the prestige of the Shenji Camp, but for the specific combat capabilities, he said that he would have to see it with his own eyes before he could confirm it.

It can only be said that in Zhang Yuejing's view, the Battle of Xiangfan and even the Battle of Jinghu will be a long-lasting strategic battle, a battle he has been looking forward to for a long time.

And destined to win, just say it will take a little longer to win.

So this time, the war savings of the entire Henan province over the years will all come in handy.

All human and material resources except for the Yellow River Project are open to Zhang Yuejing and Henan Corps.

In order to further enhance the combat endurance of the Henan Corps, Su Yonglin also ordered Hedong Province, which has never had any military difficulties, to provide ordnance, grain and manpower support to Henan Province.

In addition, he also pulled up a field medical team to Henan Province, and prepared a sufficient number of doctors and medicinal materials to provide necessary medical support for the Henan Corps.

It means that Su Yonglin used years of accumulation in the two provinces and a part of the medical force from the centrally-administered areas to provide logistical support for this war.

The cost is exorbitant.

According to normal circumstances, Lin Jingchun is about to lose his hair again.

However, because of the large amount of financial revenue obtained from the previous Great Revolutionary Action, this time Lin Jingchun did not raise any objection to Su Yonglin's initiation of the Battle of Jinghu.

It can be seen that he is very rich, and he is rich enough that Su Yonglin can face it calmly when he initiates a battle.

Indeed, after the rentier class was swept away, the Ming state's fiscal revenue showed a rising trend.

As time passed, Lin Jingchun felt that the taxation of the Ming Kingdom would never make him feel stretched again, and maybe there would be a large-scale financial balance in the future.

Lin Jingchun couldn't help but feel happy when he thought of having a large sum of money in his hand.

Even if the money doesn't belong to him and he can't use it at will, he still feels happy.

He likes the feeling of the purse bulging, likes saving, likes to treasure, but does not like to spend.

After all, I was once poor and afraid, and there were sequelae.

However, for Su Yonglin, the financial balance is good, but it is better to do more things and invest more money in industrial upgrading.

He renovated the superstructure so that the superstructure of the Ming Kingdom would not interfere with the basic economic growth of the Ming Kingdom, and would not hinder the broadening of the way of class jumping brought about by the industrial upgrading of the Ming Kingdom.

To put it bluntly, it is to prevent the superstructure from reacting to economic development.

The Ming Dynasty needs to get rid of the situation where the primary industry dominates the national economy in the future, and needs to build a secondary industry to boost productivity and domestic demand and break the ceiling of development.

Only by stepping into the threshold of the development of the secondary industry and allowing people to truly see the great changes brought by the development of the secondary industry to the Ming Kingdom can the Ming Kingdom be truly driven to embark on an unimagined path.

Only relying on agriculture to stimulate domestic demand and productivity is limited.

When the productivity of agricultural production units liberated after the eradication of the old rentier class has been lifted to the extreme, it cannot continue to make the cake bigger.

At this moment, if a new breakthrough point of productivity cannot be found, the country will inevitably embark on the road of involution again, and then a new rentier class will be born.

This is how the past dynasties came, and then walked into a dead end, and came back again.

Su Yonglin can guarantee that if such signs appear while he is alive, he can immediately suppress them, continue the revolution, and maintain the status quo, but he cannot guarantee that such a situation can be maintained after he is dead.

The successor did not have his strong personal prestige and personal charm, and could not be able to unite the entire oppressed class like him to launch a decisive battle against the oppressor, sweep away the rentier class, and maintain the maximum state of existing productivity.

So by then, the situation will be very dire.

The window period left for industrial upgrading will definitely not be too long. If the window period is closed due to the selfishness of the rentier class, then what is left for the Ming Kingdom is to re-enter the period of the first empire of Qin and Han and the second empire of Sui and Tang Dynasties. Old way.

That was definitely not what Su Yonglin wanted to see.

What he wants is not only unification, not only the security of the country, but more importantly, the development of a new secondary industry.

(End of this chapter)