Qiming 1158

Chapter 758 Waging war with the war mode of nomadic cavalry
The news that Honglu Temple brought back made Su Yonglin furious, feeling that the bastards of the Kelie and Qiyan groups were tired of living.

Su Yonglin thumped the table at the military meeting.

"Now all the ministries in the grasslands are waiting for Daming's response. If Daming doesn't respond, it is estimated that they will be looked down upon. If there is a reaction, but the reaction is not violent, it is estimated that they will not be satisfied. In this battle, at least they will be beaten. Only when they are disabled can they understand that Daming is not easy to mess with."

The General Staff, represented by Xin Qiji, was obviously also very annoyed by the actions of the Kelie and Qiyan Departments, thinking that they were playing lanterns in the toilet and looking for trouble.

If they didn't let them experience the power of Daming's steel knives and iron cavalry, they thought Daming was a paper tiger.

The arrow was on the line and had to be released. Su Yonglin immediately convened a joint meeting of the Staff Council, the Privy Council and the Ministry of Finance, asking each department to provide a war charter according to its own requirements, and the Ministry of Finance to give the amount of financial expenditure required for the war and make a plan. .

As a result, Lin Jingchun's eyes had a few more wrinkles.

"Your Majesty, the current financial situation of Daming is really not optimistic. A lot of human, material and financial resources have been tilted towards the Yellow River Project. The reserved materials and money and grain left behind are all used for emergency. If there is a natural disaster or man-made disaster or something, we can If you can't get the money to handle it, there will be an accident..."

"Isn't this a man-made disaster?"

Su Yonglin interrupted Lin Jingchun's words and waved his hand: "Don't hold on to the past experience of not panicking when you have money in your hand, it is important to have money in your hand, but things are more important.

When you need to do something, you have to spend money decisively. If you don't do something, what do you keep the money for?Can big money make small money?No, you have to spend money to see results and gain benefits, understand? "

"Oh, my Alang, this is not the way of saying that, you don't know that repairing the Yellow River spends a lot of money, every day a lot of money goes out, you don't know how much I feel in my heart when the money is spent what a..."

Su Yonglin decisively interrupted what Lin Jingchun was going to say next.

This guy talks a lot when it comes to spending money. I really let him say that he can talk to you for more than half an hour without drinking water. Give him water and he can talk to you for a whole morning.

"Okay, ah, Jingchun, you have been with me for more than ten years, I understand your temperament, and you understand my temperament, they have slapped my face, if I don't stab them, They will be very rampant in the future.

Remember how I said that?This is called hitting a punch, lest a hundred punches come, we can't imitate the Song people to give year-old coins, fighting is a one-time expense, and if you win, you can make a lot of money.

But if the money is not spent, people will look down on you, often come to bully you, and come back again and again, whether it is the annual currency or other losses, it will make you regret it, so this battle is not Can't beat! "

Su Yonglin's will is very firm and obviously irreversible.

Lin Jingchun has indeed been with Su Yonglin for a long time, and he knows Su Yonglin very well. He knows that Su Yonglin's warm and jade-like appearance hides a fiery and absolutely not cowardly heart. He always slaps him and stabs others. Pie, never suffer.

Now that Kelie and Qiyan have actually bullied him, they can only say that they are tired of living and want to do something exciting, to open their eyes and see the world.

According to Su Yonglin's style, of course, the knife stabbed the buttocks to open their eyes.

Of course, Lin Jingchun did not disobey Su Yonglin's orders. Although there was a lot of reluctance in his heart, his heart felt as if he had been stabbed with a knife, but he quickly approved the money and supplies needed for the [-] cavalry troops to go on the expedition, putting the finance of the Ministry of Finance on the line. All were taken out.

Therefore, the total number of troops sent for this military operation was determined to be at a scale of 5, all cavalry, not infantry.

The Ming Kingdom, which owns the Yanshan Racecourse and the Liaodong Racecourse, currently has the strength to dispatch up to [-] cavalry.

However, due to geographical factors, there are only 5 cavalry that can be mobilized and can go out.

The total strength of the Kelie and Qiyan troops probably far exceeds this figure, but the well-armed Daming cavalry is obviously not comparable to the grassland cavalry, which is dominated by light cavalry.

In order to improve the mobility of the Ming army's cavalry, Su Yonglin approved the system of one person and two horses, and even approved this cavalry expedition to follow the example of nomadic cavalry expeditions, allowing them to bring cattle, sheep and livestock together as emergency rations for the army.

At the same time, each cavalryman can get ten catties of dried meat and twenty catties of cheese before the army sets off, as rations for the cavalry's rapid assault.

After Su Yonglin owned Yanshan Racecourse and Liaodong Racecourse, he not only raised a large number of war horses, but also raised a large number of grassland cattle and sheep with surrendered Khitans and Han people willing to herd. This purpose is naturally to prepare for future grassland wars.

Su Yonglin still respects the war mode of the grassland tribes.

Historically, when the prairie cavalry went south, they were very advantageous in terms of logistics. Compared with the Han army, the number of logistics personnel was larger than the number of soldiers at every turn.

On the one hand, the steppe cavalry was good at fighting to support war, and on the other hand, it was also special in logistics.

They usually prepare air-dried meat before going out, kill a whole cow, and air-dry the meat, and a whole cow can get about twenty or thirty catties of dried meat.

These jerky will become their military rations. When the army is resting, set up a pot and cook the jerky and water together, and they can eat meat and drink broth, which is very nutritious.

More common military rations than jerky are dairy products, such as cheese. Although the taste is indescribable, not everyone is used to eating it at first, but high calorie and high protein can quickly replenish physical strength, increase satiety, and make soldiers feel full. more durable combat capability.

When the whole army is moving fast or needs to attack a certain target, it can complete high-speed maneuvering with water and dairy products, which is a very good high-speed maneuvering ration.

Of course, the most important thing is that there are many grassland cavalry and horses, and there are many grasslands. There is no shortage of horses. One person has three or four horses at every turn. When the Mongolians went west, there were even more than a dozen horses per person.

These are the logistical advantages of the steppe cavalry, which are beyond the reach of the Central Plains Dynasty army.

After Su Yonglin seized the horse farm and owned a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, he began to consciously develop the technology of making jerky and dairy products.

He tried every means to improve the storage performance and taste of these two things, so that they could become excellent cavalry rations and improve the combat effectiveness of his cavalry.

At this point, I really want to thank those Khitans who originally ranch for the people of the Jin Kingdom and now turn to Daming to become citizens of Daming.

They mastered this technology and passed it on to the imperial court, so that the imperial court could organize a large number of manpower to concentrate on production, and soon they became large-scale and produced cavalry rations with excellent taste and storage performance.

Although the cost is indeed not low, because of these preparations, Su Yonglin can greatly reduce the traditional logistics preparation, and can complete the strategic logistics preparation of [-] cavalry without mobilizing more civilians and auxiliary troops, without mobilizing the civilian population on a large scale.

Compared with the traditional war mode of the general mobilization of civilians and auxiliary troops, this war mode greatly reduced the cost of war launched by the Ming Dynasty as a whole.

This was the first time that Su Yonglin used the war mode of nomadic cavalry to start a war.

If it turns out to be feasible, and the war losses are really greatly reduced, then Su Yonglin will carry forward this model and greatly increase the amount of investment in animal husbandry in the future.

For this expedition, Su Yonglin's request to the army is to try to support the war through warfare, learn a new mode of warfare in the grasslands, get rid of the old mode of warfare in the Central Plains, reduce the large demand for logistics, and open up a new way of survival.

In addition, large-scale destruction of the living strength and living environment of the Kled and Qiyan tribes was required, and a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, iron products, leather products, etc. were captured, and the primary task was to combat their living strength and survivability.

Not to mention killing them all in one go, that's not realistic, but at least one battle will make their heads shattered, and they will kneel on the ground and call their fathers, so that all the tribes on the grassland can see the fierceness and fierceness of the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty. bloody.

The status of the Daming Kingdom and the majesty of the Daming Emperor will be realized through this battle.

(End of this chapter)