The news brought back by Honglu Temple made Su Yonglin furious. He felt that these bastards from the Kelie and Qiyan tribes were tired of living.
Su Yonglin slammed the table at the military meeting.
"Now all the grassland ministries are waiting for Daming's reaction. If Daming doesn't respond, he will probably be looked down upon by them. If he does respond, even if the reaction is not violent, he probably won't satisfy them. In this battle, we will at least defeat them. Only when they become disabled can they understand that Ming Dynasty is not something to be trifled with."
The General Staff Council, represented by Xin Qiji, was obviously very angry with the actions of the Kelie Department and the Qiyan Department, thinking that they were just lighting a lantern in the toilet and looking for trouble.
If they don't let them experience the power of the Ming Dynasty's steel swords and iron cavalry, they will think that the Ming Dynasty is a paper tiger.
The arrow was on the string and had to be fired. Su Yonglin immediately convened a joint meeting of the General Staff Council, the Privy Council and the Ministry of Finance, asking each department to provide a war charter according to their own requirements. The Ministry of Finance provided the amount of financial expenditure required for this war and made a plan. .
As a result, Lin Jingchun's worried eyes had a few more wrinkles.
"Your Majesty, the current financial situation of the Ming Dynasty is really not optimistic. A lot of manpower, material and financial resources have been tilted towards the Yellow River Project. The remaining reserves of materials, money and food are used for emergencies. If there is a natural disaster or man-made disaster, we can I won’t be able to get the money to handle it, something will happen..."
"Isn't this a man-made disaster?"
Su Yonglin interrupted Lin Jingchun's words and waved his hand: "Don't let go of your past experience of not panicking when you have money in your hands. Having money in your hands is important, but things are more important.
When you need to do things, you must spend money decisively. If you don't do things, what will you keep the money for? Can big money still produce small money? No, money has to be spent to see results and gain benefits, do you understand? "
"Oh, my Alang, that's not what you said. You don't know how much it costs to build the Yellow River. A lot of money is thrown out every day. You don't know how much I feel when the money is spent. How..."
Su Yonglin decisively interrupted what Lin Jingchun was about to say.
This guy talks a lot when it comes to spending money. If you really ask him to say, he can talk to you for more than half an hour without drinking water, but if you give him water, he can talk to you all morning.
"Okay, okay, Jingchun, you have been with me for more than ten years. I know your temperament, and you also know my temperament. They have slapped me in the face. If I don't stab them, They will be very rampant in the future.
Remember what I said? This is called hitting with one punch to avoid hundreds of punches. We can't imitate the Song Dynasty people and give annual coins. Fighting is a one-time expenditure, and you can make a lot of money if you win.
But if you don’t spend this money, people will look down on you and often bully you. If they do it over and over again, whether it is a yearly coin or other losses, it will make you scratch your head and regret it. Therefore, this battle is very important. Can't be beaten! "
Su Yonglin's will is very determined and obviously irreversible.
Lin Jingchun had indeed been with Su Yonglin for a long time and knew Su Yonglin very well. He knew that hidden under Su Yonglin's gentle and jade-like appearance was a fiery and unfailing heart. He always stabbed others when others slapped him. Pie, never suffer a loss.
Now that the Kelie tribe and the Qiyan tribe were actually bullying him, it could only be said that they were tired of living and wanted to do something exciting to open their eyes and see the world.
According to Su Yonglin's style, of course he would stab his butt with a knife to open their eyes.
Of course, Lin Jingchun did not disobey Su Yonglin's order. Although he felt a lot of reluctance in his heart and felt as if he had been stabbed by a knife, he quickly approved the money, food and materials needed for the expedition of 50,000 cavalry, and put the financial resources of the Ministry of Finance They were all taken out.
Therefore, the total number of troops dispatched for this military operation was determined to be 50,000, all cavalry, no infantry.
The Ming Dynasty, which owns two major racecourses, Yanshan Racecourse and Liaodong Racecourse, currently has the strength to dispatch up to 100,000 cavalry.
However, due to geographical factors, only 50,000 cavalry can be mobilized for the expedition.
The total strength of the Kelie and Qiyan tribes probably far exceeds this number, but the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty cavalry, which is well-armed, is obviously not comparable to that of the prairie cavalry, which is mainly light cavalry.
In order to improve the mobility of the Ming army's cavalry, Su Yonglin approved the system of one man and two horses, and also approved the cavalry expedition to follow the example of the nomadic cavalry expedition, allowing cattle and sheep to be brought along as emergency rations for the army.
At the same time, before the army goes out for battle, each cavalry can receive ten pounds of dried meat and twenty pounds of cheese as combat rations during the cavalry's rapid attack.
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 who were willing to herd. This purpose was naturally to prepare for future grassland wars.
Su Yonglin still admires the war model of grassland tribes.
The grassland cavalry has always had advantages in logistics when they went south. Compared to the Han army's war model where the number of logistics personnel was often larger than the number of combat soldiers, the grassland cavalry obviously went into battle lightly.
On the one hand, the prairie cavalry is good at supporting battles with battles, and on the other hand, it is also the particularity of logistics.
They usually prepare dried meat before going on an expedition. They kill a whole cow and dry the meat. A whole cow can get about twenty or thirty kilograms of dried meat.
These dried meats will become their military rations. When the army is resting, they will set up a pot and boil the dried meats and water together. Then they can eat meat and drink broth, which is very nutritious.
The more common military rations than dried meat are dairy products, such as cheese. Although the taste is hard to describe and not everyone is used to it at first, its high calories and protein can quickly replenish physical strength and increase satiety, making soldiers The combat ability is more durable.
When the entire army is advancing rapidly or needs to rush to a certain target, it can complete high-speed maneuvers with water and dairy products. It is an excellent high-speed maneuver ration.
Of course, the most important thing is that there are many horses on the grassland cavalry, there are many pastures, and there is no shortage of horses. One man has three or four horses at every turn. During the Mongolian expedition to the west, there were even one man with more than ten horses.
These are the logistics advantages of the prairie 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 manufacturing dried meat 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 own cavalry.
At this point, I really have to thank those Khitans who were originally herders for the Jin people and now joined the Ming Dynasty and became citizens of the Ming Dynasty.
They mastered the technology in this area and passed it on to the imperial court, which allowed the imperial court to organize a large number of manpower to concentrate on production. They quickly scaled up 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 preparations, and can complete the strategic logistics preparations of 50,000 cavalry without mobilizing more civilians and auxiliary troops, without mobilizing large-scale civilians.
Compared with the traditional war model of general mobilization of civilians and auxiliary troops, this war model greatly reduced the cost of waging war in the Ming Dynasty as a whole.
This was the first time Su Yonglin used the nomadic cavalry's war mode to launch a war.
If it proves feasible and war losses are greatly reduced, then Su Yonglin will carry forward this model in the future and greatly increase the amount of investment in animal husbandry.
During this expedition, Su Yonglin's requirements for the army were to try to support war with war, learn the new war model of grassland war, get rid of the old Central Plains war model, reduce the heavy demand for logistics, and develop new survival methods.
In addition, it is necessary to destroy the vitality and living environment of the Kelie tribe and the Qiyan tribe on a large scale, and capture a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, iron products, leather products, etc., with the priority of attacking their vitality and survival ability.
Not to mention killing them all at once, that would be unrealistic, but at least they would be beaten to a bloody head, and they would kneel on the ground and cry daddy, so that all the tribes on the grassland could see the ferocity and fierceness of the Ming Dynasty cavalry. bloody.
The status of the Ming Dynasty and the majesty of the Ming Emperor will be realized through this battle.
