Qiming 1158

Chapter 672 The banner of Daming will eventually be planted all over the world
The leader of an army is indeed the soul of an army. The leader is excellent, and the army is not far behind.

So Xin Qiji took the information and took a closer look to see what was so special about this Southern Song naval general named Li Bao.

This look really shows some clues.

"Indeed, this Li Bao is a person who once went south to surrender to the Yue family army, then went north to Shandong to contact the rebel army to resist the Jin army, cooperated with the actions of the Yue family army, and then went south again to belong to Han Shizhong... This feeling is somewhat similar to His Majesty's previous actions. place."

Xin Qiji raised his head and looked at Su Yonglin, his face full of interest.

"There are still talents in the Southern Song Dynasty, and they usually don't need it. Now, at a critical moment, Zhao Gou is not stupid. He was promoted quickly if he was a talent. This Li Bao is capable, and he should not be underestimated, including Liu Qi, that is also the case. our great enemy."

Su Yonglin took a few steps forward slowly, looked at the setting sun, and sighed: "But so many military and political talents can't be used by me, but they were restricted by Zhao Gou to the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, and I can only watch the whole life. The Central Plains lamented again and again, how sad is it?"

"After all, Your Majesty is going to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, the talents of the Southern Song Dynasty will be in His Majesty's hands."

Xin Qiji respectfully said.

Su Yonglin looked back at Xin Qiji and smiled.

"That's right, my goal is not limited to the Southern Song Dynasty, my goal is the world, and it is a wider place. The talents of the Southern Song Dynasty will serve this goal sooner or later. A good meal is not afraid of being late, just wait! Daming's The flag will eventually be planted all over the world!"

Su Yonglin's lofty sentiments and ambitions are by no means groundless, and the professionalism and toughness of the Ming army is one of his biggest reliances.

The first to take action was the Central Metropolitan Imperial Army.

The Central Capital Guards were the Hu Ben Army, not the same system as the Yanyun Corps, and the Guards were basically cavalry.

In addition to the [-] immature cavalry that were distributed among the various corps, the Huben Army itself also had [-] elite cavalry.

With the completion and operation of the Yanshan Racecourse and more and more cavalry training, the establishment of the Tiger Ben Army has also been expanded. It has now expanded to [-], and it may continue to expand in the future.

Su Yonglin's demand for cavalry is very huge, which is related to the future strategy of the grasslands and the strategy of Xixia and Xiliao.

This time, of course, Su Yong, who was the main general, could not go south, so the General Staff Council dispatched Su Yong's deputy, Geng Xingwen, to lead [-] Zhongdu cavalry to the south to assist in the battle.

After receiving the order, Geng Xingwen was very excited. After receiving the order to transfer troops issued by the General Staff, he immediately went to transfer troops, leaving the envious Su Yong complaining beside Su Yonglin.

It's just that Su Yong's complaints are useless.

On the other end, Kong Zhende and Zhou Mancheng split into two immediately after receiving the order.

The Council of Staff decided that Zhou Mancheng would lead 200 soldiers and more than 500 inland river warships to Haizhou to cooperate with the land group's offensive. Kong Zhende personally led more than [-] main warships and [-] main sailors to set sail. State Navy.

Then, there is the action of You Yijun of the Henan Corps.

After the dispatching order of the staff council was sent to Kaifeng, Zhang Yuejing called Zhou Zhi enviously and handed over the dispatching order of the staff council to Zhou Zhi.

"Since the Battle of Guanzhong, Daming hasn't raised swords again, but this time it started from you."

Zhou Zhi was overjoyed when he received the order to transfer troops.

"It's all thanks to His Majesty's trust and the commander's cultivation that the subordinates are today."

Zhang Yuejing laughed.

"Okay, don't say such things, go get ready, I will arrange for other troops to switch defenses with you, you should be more careful."

"As ordered."

Zhou Zhi will be ready soon.

According to the order of the General Staff, Zhou Zhi needed to lead the army to transfer from the garrison Fuli to Haizhou to join [-] cavalry and navy troops, and then go south together, break the Southern Song Jiangfang from Zhenjiang Prefecture, set foot on the Jiangnan land, and then go all the way to Lin'an. .

In this battle, Zhou Zhi, as the main general and commander-in-chief, has the right to arbitrarily decide on the occasion. The staff council gives strategic goals and tactical suggestions, but how to fight it will be arranged by the chief general Zhou Zhi according to the specific situation on the front line of the battlefield, and the staff council will not restrict it.

This is a decision made by Su Yonglin after absorbing the failure experience of the Song Dynasty military generals in the rear of the court to restrain and disorderly command, giving the front-line generals full decision-making power, and not arranging for the existence of a supervisory army.

But correspondingly, if the war fails, the Lord will have to take on a huge responsibility.

Even if you die, if you live, you will be punished, punished, demoted or even dismissed. According to the current atmosphere of the Ming army, if a general is defeated, it is basically equivalent to dying in the army. It is easier said than done.

In various senses, under this rule, the test of the front-line generals is very large.

When Zhou Zhi failed to attack Tongguan for the first time before, he was punished by some rules, but at that time everyone knew that Tongguan was very difficult to beat, and it was normal that an army could not take it, so Zhouzhi was dealt with relatively loosely.

And this time, Zhou Zhi realized what kind of burden he was shouldering as the commander-in-chief of the [-]-strong army, and also knew what the consequences would be if he failed, so he was excited and nervous at the same time.

When Zhou Zhi started arranging the troops to go to Haizhou, it was already mid-February of the second year of Hongwu. When the army fully arrived in Haizhou for preparation, it was already the first ten days of March of the second year of Hongwu.

When Zhou Zhi's You Yi Army arrived in Haizhou, the cavalry of the Central Capital Imperial Army had already arrived.

With an inexplicable nervousness, Zhou Zhi took the order issued by the General Staff to find Geng Xingwen, the deputy general of the Hu Ben Army, and established the affiliation with him, and confirmed Zhou Zhi's command of the Central Capital Imperial Army.

Geng Xingwen immediately stated that he would obey the rules of the General Staff Council and strictly abide by Zhou Zhi's military orders.

Zhou Zhi is relieved.

What he feared might have happened did not happen, which was indeed a happy event for him.

Geng Xingwen was born in a farm family, and his personality is not strong. Compared with the war madman like Su Yong, he is calmer and more talkative. Compared with his colleague Ding Siyuan, he is relatively more reasonable. Therefore, for Zhouzhi, who is not in the same system, he is still Rather candid.

But in general, there is not much conflict between the five corps of the Restoration Army and the Hu Ben Army.

Their respective commanders are all old men brought up by Su Yonglin, and most of them are the old people of the Su family who have been with Su Yonglin since the Southern Song Dynasty.

Only Li Xiao, who succeeded Sun Ziyi as the commander of the Yanyun Corps, was not an old man of the Su family, but the former Zhao Kaishan's former clan who followed Su Yonglin later, and belonged to a native of Shandong.

Broadly speaking, in the former Shengjie Army group, most of the middle- and upper-level officers were the old Su family who followed Su Yonglin to the north to rebel, while the middle- and lower-level officers and grassroots soldiers were mostly locals who followed Su Yonglin later.

But with the passage of time, the number of troops continued to expand. In the era of the Restoration Army, there were not many elderly people in the Su family. Except for the top generals, most of the officers and soldiers were also from the Central Plains.

In addition, Su Yonglin has always used class division to educate the army, using the distinction between the upper class and the bulls and horses to horizontally cut the society, so in addition to the geographical identity, there is also a class identity in the Restoration Army group, that is, everyone is a hard worker. identify.

In addition, Su Yonglin has always been deliberately downplaying geographical differences, and promoting officers and awarding military merit will not consider geographical differences, so in this regard, there are generally no unreasonable contradictions within the army.

The old Su clan faction, the Shandong faction, the Hebei faction, etc. After the Liberation Army was generally dispersed and reorganized to form the current Ming army, such a distinction did not exist.

(End of this chapter)