Qiming 1158

Chapter 1101 Destroy the Jinghu Theater
To be honest, Zhang Yuejing felt that Zhao Yucheng's idea was quite shocking.

After all, it takes a lot of money, strength and manpower to think about fighting all the time. Is this level of expenditure affordable for the Ming Dynasty?
The money and manpower needed to fight all the time are unimaginable astronomical figures. Now, just repairing one Yellow River can bring the Ming Kingdom into a temporary stagnation, not to mention other large expenditures?
From an economic point of view, Zhang Yuejing is not optimistic about Zhao Yucheng's idea.

But from another perspective, Zhang Yuejing had to admit that Zhao Yucheng's idea was indeed the only way that seemed feasible at present.

Because when everyone got together and just started to struggle, before arriving in Zhongdu to establish the Ming Kingdom, they were really single-minded.

All of them are high-spirited. With a deep hatred for the upper class, they launched a comprehensive reform and liquidation in the occupied area. They thoroughly attacked the local upper class, liberated the people, and called on them to follow Su Yonglin to overthrow the oppression and regain freedom. .

Zhang Yuejing still remembers the appearance of people screaming in the sky after breaking free from the shackles in the public trial conferences, the complaints conferences, and the exciting group meetings.

When did the problem start?

From Zhang Yuejing's own point of view, when something went wrong, Su Yonglin decided to temporarily join hands with some more enlightened people to stabilize the situation and quickly destroy the Jin Kingdom.

At that time, Zhang Yuejing did not support this method in his heart, but he felt that it was the only feasible way at that time, because he had too few people and too many enemies, and there was really no better way.

But when you think about it, the first batch of comrades were corrupted, didn't it start at that time?
Su Yonglin himself had anticipated it in advance.

Because of the entanglement with the superior people, it finally led to the concentrated outbreak of the Yellow River case, and the corruption case involving several provinces detonated the contradictions within the Ming Dynasty.

The outbreak of this corruption case finally prompted Su Yonglin to decide to break with the upper class in advance, completely eliminate the threat of the upper class, and swept away the old bureaucrats and gentry within the Ming Kingdom.

Judging from the results, this did greatly purify the official governance of the Ming Dynasty, and also contained the internal problems of the Renaissance Society.

But judging from the series of things that are happening right now, the purge within the Revival Society may not be time to stop.

Zhang Yuejing believes that this is inseparable from the corrupt legacy of the old bureaucrats and gentry who died before on the members of the Renaissance. Although they died, some of the people who were corrupted by them survived secretly and continued to exist within the Renaissance. , not very easy to find.

Su Yonglin may have also discovered that the previous strategy of coexisting with the superiors is not good, and it does more harm than good, so he decides to break up early. Even so, the legacy is too great, so that Su Yonglin has to continue to carry out the revival meeting. Internal rectification, every time to deal with a lot of people.

So in some of the current revival organizations, there is an idea.

This kind of thinking believes that it is precisely because of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty and the pursuit of stability that we chose to compromise, and it is precisely because of compromise that part of the Renaissance Society has deteriorated. Internal problems still exist and are very difficult to deal with.

In order to establish the Ming Kingdom and for this stable foundation, we paid such a huge price and paid so many comrades for the depravity. Is all this necessary?
If we keep fighting, and we keep fighting instead of compromise, can we maintain everyone's high enthusiasm?
In June of the fifth year of Hongwu, Zhang Yuejing fell into deep thinking in Xiangyang City.

While thinking, he waited for the court's arrangements for the next stage of the war communicated by the staff headquarters, and obtained the command of [-] reinforcements.

At the end of June of the fifth year of Hongwu, after a period of rest, the Ming army re-entered the best fighting state, and then began to attack the Jinghu South Road, Jinghu Lake Road, Jinghu South Road, and Jiangnan West Road in the Southern Song Dynasty, and defeated the Jinghu Theater in the Southern Song Dynasty.

参战兵力为河南兵团7万人、神机营5000人、燕云兵团3万人和虎贲禁卫军1万人，加上农民军8万人，总兵力接近20万。

This is the largest military operation of the Ming Dynasty since the founding of the country, and the next one is estimated to be a military operation to destroy Song.

Zhang Yuejing made very proper arrangements.

He ordered the 3-strong Henan Corps to merge into a mobile combat army, with 1 soldiers from the Henan Corps, 5000 from the Huben Imperial Guard, and [-] from the Shenji Battalion. Start a duel with the powerful Sichuan and Shu army, and destroy this Sichuan and Shu army.

Next, the entire Jingxi South Road was handed over to the Henan Corps to defeat the enemy with 3 troops and the cavalry directly under the Corps with 1 troops, a total of 4 people to attack.

Yanyun Corps' 3 Tabai Army and 2 Peasant Army Second Division Xu Tong's Department, a total of 5 people, were responsible for going south to attack Jinghu South Road.

Under the leadership of Zhao Yucheng, the first and fourth divisions of the Peasant Army, a total of 4 people, were responsible for launching an offensive war on Jinghu North Road.

The third division of the peasant army, Lu Chengren, who stayed behind on Jiangnan West Road, consolidated the existing victories and guarded against the death-defying battle that the Southern Song court might launch—of course, this possibility is infinitely close to zero.

Under the current situation, the Ming army has actually entered a state of being driven by thousands of soldiers. There are no formed troops in the four routes in the central area of ​​the Southern Song Dynasty that can threaten the Ming army's attack. Even if they defend the city, they can hardly insist Cities for more than three days.

It is actually a matter of time when these four roads are completely occupied.

Zhang Yuejing, on the other hand, has his eyes on the only mobile field elites in the Southern Song Dynasty. He personally led the mobile combat troops to the Guizhou area, succeeded the previous victory of the peasant army, and was ready for the Chuanshu army in the Southern Song Dynasty. One, it was completely destroyed.

The reinforcements of this Southern Song Dynasty Sichuan army were led by Yao Zhong. Yao Zhong was ordered by the emperor to enter Sichuan to transfer troops, hoping to get Wu Lin's cooperation. [-] troops were handed over to Yao Zhong.

This is the last mobile field army that can be produced in the Sichuan and Shu regions.

Wu Lin clearly told Yao Zhong that it was impossible for him to come up with more troops. In the current situation, he must ensure that there are enough troops in the northern Sichuan defense line to prevent the Ming army in Guanzhong from going south. He is worried that Xiangfan will not be protected. Wu Lin wanted to guard against the [-] Ming army in Guanzhong.

"Of course Xiangfan is important, but once Chuan and Shu fail, the Ming army seems to want to destroy Wang Jun of Soochow. If the boat goes down to Yizhou, the country of Song is really in danger. I don't dare to let Jin Guo go. If you succeed, you don’t dare to let the Ming Kingdom succeed, these [-] troops are really the limit, and I hope you must bring them back as soon as possible.”

Everything Wu Lin said was sincere, and Yao Zhong was also apprehensive.

"I naturally understand the problem, but anyway, Xiangfan must be saved. Xiangfan also has [-] soldiers and horses. If you don't save it, doesn't it mean you will cut your arm?"

Wu Lin sighed.

"The fortune of the country has become so difficult, and I didn't expect it. No matter how difficult the situation was in the past, it wouldn't be enough for the Sichuan army to go out to fight..."

"The Ming army is not only powerful, but also has a large number of people. Ming's finances seem to be very abundant. As far as we know, there are as many as six corps in the Ming army."

Yao Zhong broke his fingers and said bitterly: "Yanyun, Hebei, Qilu, Hexi, Liaodong, Henan, six regiments, each regiment is full of 10 soldiers, which is a full 60 soldiers and horses. How many soldiers and horses are there in the Ming Dynasty? Population? With so many soldiers and horses, how can one be so aggressive? Not only did the people of the Central Plains suffer, but in the end, it also made things difficult for the Song Dynasty.”

(End of this chapter)