Housekeeping dog?
Su Yonglin did not expect Xin Qiji to evaluate the Southern Song generals like this.
But after thinking about it, he felt that what Xin Qiji said might not be unreasonable.
Under the leadership of an emperor like Zhao Gou, and with the support of the Southern Song Dynasty's small court's logistical supply capabilities, it was not easy for the Southern Song generals to be good household dogs. How could we expect them to become tigers that expanded their territories?
On the other hand, Su Yonglin was very happy to feel the strong confidence in Xin Qiji's heart.
He led the Liberation Army to sweep through the Central Plains, destroy the Jin Kingdom, and then established the Ming Dynasty. Everyone knows how the Ming Kingdom was established, and everyone knows what the establishment of the Ming Kingdom means.
It means that the Ming army is invincible.
Su Yonglin is very happy that his persistence and hard work have given the leaders of this country such strong self-confidence, and this self-confidence will inevitably become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people over time and become the self-confidence of every Ming Dynasty citizen.
This kind of self-confidence is a self-confidence that the Han people have rarely had since Zhao Guangyi failed in the Northern Expedition to Yanyun. This kind of self-confidence relative to foreign races and enemy countries is a self-confidence that the Han people have not had again for a long time.
Now, Su Yonglin has rebuilt this self-confidence through iron and blood, just like when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used iron and blood to make Han an eternal name for the nation.
Of course, this level is not enough. Only when the Ming Dynasty once again brings unification back to the land of China through the unification war, will this kind of self-confidence become complete, and the self-confidence of the Celestial Kingdom will return to people's hearts again.
This kind of self-confidence is much more important than the outcome of a war, although this self-confidence itself comes from the war.
War, especially a victorious war, can bring too many benefits to a country and a nation.
Seeing the extremely confident expressions of the staff officers following Xin Qiji, Su Yonglin was very happy.
So he nodded and agreed with Xin Qiji's tactics.
"Okay, then let's put the main target of attack on Zhenjiang Mansion. If Wang Quan is a mediocre and incompetent person, once Liu Qi is defeated, King Quan will definitely flee without fighting, and Jiankang Mansion will fall in an instant. Once our army controls Zhenjiang Mansion and Jiankang Mansion, In Kangfu, it is a smooth road to Lin'an.
At this time, the cavalry can be used to carry out a surprise attack. If the cavalry is fast enough, it will be able to attack in about three days. It will surely reach Lin'an City, penetrate the Southern Song Dynasty, and make the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty panic. Then all the targets of our army will be defeated. Achieved. "
The staff members cheered loudly, as if everything was under control.
But things are not that easy.
"It's not over yet, don't be too quick to be happy. Although the Southern Song Dynasty's horse infantry has little ability, their navy is very strong. If they cannot defeat the Southern Song's navy and ensure that the Yangtze River ferry is under my control, my army heading south will be cut off by the Southern Song's navy. road risks.
In other words, if we cannot defeat the Southern Song Navy before crossing south, we will not be able to cross south safely at all. Therefore, in any case, the prerequisite for realizing a land raid is to defeat the Southern Song Navy on the water. Not to mention total annihilation, at least heavy damage. Are you sure? "
Su Yonglin looked at the staff officers.
This time, the staff officers were not as high-spirited as before.
Because it is a fact that the Southern Song Dynasty's horse infantry has a poor field combat ability, and it is also a fact that the Southern Song Dynasty's navy has a strong ability to fight hand-to-hand on the water.
The navy of the Ming Dynasty was all derived from the navy of the Southern Song Dynasty. You can imagine how strong the tactics of the navy of the Southern Song Dynasty were.
According to the research of the Water Warfare Section of the General Staff Department, water warfare technology in the Southern Song Dynasty made great progress compared with the previous dynasties.
The first improvement is that warships make more use of wind power, and the sea-going ships have a wide surface and a sharp bottom. When the wind is downwind, the sea-going ships are fast and have large cargo capacity. They are suitable for transporting troops and can realize some tactics that cannot be achieved by the previous dynasty. , such as landing on the beach.
The second progress is the popularization of vehicles and boats. Although the prototypes of vehicles and boats have already appeared in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the fully mature and practical combat pedal boats still appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty.
The navy of the Southern Song Dynasty had ships equipped with large and small ships ranging from eight to twenty wheels. They also built wooden castle watchtowers on these large ships and installed trebuchets and racquet sticks.
This kind of giant building ship equipped with a racquet stick and a catapult is suitable for long-range attacks and short-range defenses. For long-range attacks, you can use the trebuchet to smash enemy ships, and for close-range attacks, you can sink or incinerate your opponents. It is relatively versatile in function.
Of course, such ships are of little use when there are strong waves on the sea, but in inland rivers and lakes, such ships are obviously more suitable for combat than sea-going ships.
The third advancement is the use of gunpowder weapons, such as thunder cannons mixed with gunpowder, arsenic and lime powder in porcelain jars, which were the magic weapons of the Southern Song Dynasty against the Jin army. Others include water warfare firearms such as gunpowder arrows. It can be said that the use of these firearms was also a specialty of the Southern Song Dynasty navy.
Therefore, the navy of the Southern Song Dynasty was very strong, and the water warfare technology including gang fighting was also quite powerful. When dealing with the Jin soldiers, the army did not dare to fight with the Jin soldiers, but the navy was very brave. They fought with the Jin soldiers on the ship and defeated the Jin soldiers. The soldiers were defeated one after another.
But this does not mean that the PLA Navy cannot win.
All the progress of the Southern Song Dynasty Navy was inherited by the Ming Army Navy, including sailing ships, inland river battle ships, water warfare firearms, etc. Everything the Southern Song Dynasty had, the Ming Army Navy had.
Especially in terms of firearms, Su Yonglin enhanced the explosive effectiveness of gunpowder. Before artillery technology was pointed out, rockets fired with crossbows had become one of the main battle firearms of the Ming army and one of the most powerful gunpowder weapons in the world.
When Su Yonglin made a surprise attack on the Jin Navy, he relied on large rockets to knock the Jin Navy out of control, and then successfully annihilated the Jin Navy and won the victory.
At present, large rockets are the unique main battle firearms of the Ming army, and gunpowder granulation technology is also a unique war technology of the Ming army. It has not been learned by any country. And as the proportion of gunpowder becomes more scientific, the Ming army's gunpowder The power continues to increase, and it is more powerful than when Su Yonglin made granular gunpowder.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, gunpowder was still in powder and paste form.
Although the artillery skills have not yet been revealed, the Ming army's gunpowder technicians have moved further and further along the way to the explosion. Su Yonglin can be sure that the gunpowder used by the Song army is far less powerful than the gunpowder used by the Ming army.
This is one of the important reasons Su Yonglin believes that the Ming army can win the war.
I have what others don’t have, and this is my advantage.
Other than that it's quantity.
During the gang war, the navy could still win with numbers. Su Yonglin had a navy of more than 300 ships before the founding of the country. After the founding of the country, it expanded to more than 500 ships. Now it is still increasing, including Including logistics and supply ships, the total number exceeds one thousand.
The navy has a full strength of 30,000. It is not yet full, but now the Ming Navy has more than 13,000 qualified sailors. It can be said that a powerful navy has begun to take shape.
There are many reasons why Wanyan Liang's navy lost miserably. Not to mention his own command issues, Wanyan Liang only started building the navy a year before the Song Dynasty was destroyed. Both the ships and the sailors were new and he had no combat experience. There is nothing else, it depends entirely on luck and quantity of violence.
The Ming Navy was different. Although they did not have rich combat experience, they did have it, and the sailors were all professionals.
Although the Ming Navy has no combat missions at the moment, it often travels to and from the sea to perform various non-combat missions. It will also hunt down pirates when it encounters them. Even if it is not that rich in experience, it is definitely not a new recruit. .
With such a navy, Su Yonglin did not think that he would lose to the Southern Song Dynasty navy.
For now, the only thing Su Yonglin doesn't know is the current number of the Southern Song Navy and the number of sailors, and how many ships the Southern Song Navy can quickly dispatch to fight in an emergency.
After more than ten years of peace, did the Southern Song Dynasty Navy still maintain its former strength, or did it become as useless as the Ma Bu Army because of the long-term peace?
But in any case, Su Yonglin is not a computer game player, and he cannot use cheating devices to open up the map in one move. Marching and fighting is a process of clearing away the fog, and there is no one who knows everything.
"Although I don't know whether we can have the upper hand in a water battle, there is no doubt that if our navy can win the water battle and defeat the Southern Song Dynasty navy, we can land directly through Suzhou Yang, directly threaten Lin'an City, and directly attack the Southern Song Dynasty. At the core, this deterrence is very huge.”
Su Yonglin pointed to the location of Hangzhou Bay on the map.
"If we can do this, we can directly seal the victory. With Zhao Guan's virtue, he will probably run away again, right?"
Xin Qiji thought of some interesting stories he knew about those years, and said with a smile: "When the Jin army went to the south of the Yangtze River to attack, they claimed to search the mountains and seas to capture Zhao Gou. The Zhao family was so frightened that they fled to the sea by boat and did not dare to establish a foothold on land. It can be said to be extremely cowardly.”
Han Tai also smiled and said: "If our navy can win and Zhao Guan's family escapes again, that will be great."
"I'd love to see this too."
Su Yonglin nodded and said: "But if we want to see Zhao Guan's family flee, the key lies in whether the Ma Bujun or the Navy threatens Lin'an, and the prerequisite for the Ma Bujun to threaten Lin'an is the destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty Navy, so the key lies in the Navy. "
Su Yonglin determined the key point of this war-the destruction of the Southern Song Navy.
