The two armies, the enemy-breaking army and the trapped army, together had a main force of 60,000 people.
This is the main force of the Henan Corps in this battle.
In addition, the Henan Corps also has a cavalry team of 10,000 people directly under the Corps as a mobile combat force to join the battle.
The Shenji Battalion of 5,000 people also arrived in time and went out with the trapped troops under the command of Zhang Yuejing.
This time when they marched south to Xiangyang, the Ming army dispatched a total of 75,000 troops, which was 15,000 more than the 60,000 troops during the first Ming-Song War.
In addition to the 40,000 troops of the two peasant army divisions that could enter the Xiangfan battlefield from the south, the total strength of the Ming army in launching the Battle of Xiangfan or the Battle of Jinghu exceeded 100,000, reaching 115,000. Launched the largest war since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, for the land of Xiangfan, an army of this size is more appropriate.
Because the Southern Song Dynasty's management of Xiangfan was indeed very strong, the Mongols gathered more troops than the Ming army when they attacked Xiangfan, and it took them six years to conquer Xiangfan.
For such a tight defense system, if the Ming army was too overconfident and overconfident in its powerful firepower, it would inevitably suffer in Xiangfan.
Therefore, Su Yonglin was very cautious and directly ordered Zhang Yuejing to dispatch the main force of the Henan Corps.
And because the Youyi Army of the Henan Corps was stationed in the territory ceded by the Song State in Huainan, Su Yonglin was also prepared to dispatch the Yanyun Corps and the Huben Army southward for support if the troops were insufficient.
If the Song army dispatches its main force, Su Yonglin will not be stingy with his troops. He will also dispatch his main force for mobile warfare to fight a strategic decisive battle with the Southern Song Dynasty in Xiangfan.
Xiangfan is very important, and the Southern Song Dynasty will definitely make every effort to rescue Xiangfan and relieve the crisis in Xiangfan. .
This also means that as long as the troops are stationed in Xiangfan, they can run into the main force of the Southern Song Dynasty's army.
Maybe the Southern Song Dynasty would pull out the main forces from the Sichuan-Shu War Zone for this purpose, and then pull the main forces from the Jianghuai War Zone over to support Xiangfan together and try to protect Xiangfan.
But even if it comes to that point, the Ming army's strength of more than 100,000 people has given Su Yonglin full confidence. Su Yonglin does not think that the 100,000 Ming army cannot annihilate the main force of the Song army.
Even if the most elite Sichuan and Sichuan troops of the Song Army joined the battle, they could not change the situation.
There is no military presence in this world that can defeat a hundred thousand Ming army.
Su Yonglin can put his words here. In this era, if any army on earth confronts a hundred thousand Ming army, no matter how many there are, there is no possibility of defeating the Ming army.
Su Yonglin had enough confidence in the combat effectiveness of the Ming army. Coupled with the powerful Shenji Battalion and new firearms, he had enough confidence to eliminate the main force of the Southern Song Dynasty's national army in Xiangfan.
Although the Ming Dynasty was not yet ready to fully engulf the Southern Song Dynasty, it started to prepare from now on.
Just like eating a bowl of rice, eat this bowl of rice named Southern Song one by one. Chewing a few more mouthfuls may be better than swallowing the whole bowl of rice in one go.
At least, it will be easier to digest and will not increase the burden on the stomach and cause indigestion.
Zhang Yuejing knew Su Yonglin's strategic goals very well, and knew that Su Yonglin actually did not expect them to conquer Xiangfan quickly, even if the Shenji Battalion temporarily assigned to his command was equipped with a general cannon that could be called a lethal weapon in the world.
Zhang Yuejing had heard of the reputation of Shenji Camp, but he said he had to see it with his own eyes before he could confirm its specific combat capabilities.
It can only be said that in Zhang Yuejing's view, the Battle of Xiangfan and even the Battle of Jinghu will be a long-lasting strategic battle, a war that he has been looking forward to for a long time.
And it is destined to win, it just means that the event of winning will be a little longer.
Therefore, all the war savings of the entire Henan Province over the years will be put to use this time.
All manpower and material resources, except those needed for the Yellow River Project, are open to Zhang Yuejing and the Henan Corps.
In order to further enhance the combat endurance of the Henan Corps, Su Yonglin also ordered Hedong Province, which had never had any military difficulties, to provide ordnance, grain, and manpower support to Henan Province. War savings were fully open to the Henan Corps and were not allowed to be hidden for personal use.
In addition, he also organized a field medical team and marched to Henan Province, preparing a sufficient number of doctors and medicinal materials to provide necessary medical support to the Henan Corps.
Su Yonglin used years of accumulation from two provinces and part of the medical force from the centrally-administered areas to provide logistical support for this war.
The cost is sky-high.
According to normal circumstances, Lin Jingchun is going to lose his hair again.
However, because of the large amount of financial revenue obtained from the previous revolutionary actions, Lin Jingchun did not raise any objections to Su Yonglin's launch of the Jinghu Battle this time.
It can be seen that he is very rich, so rich that Su Yonglin can face it calmly even if he initiates a battle.
Indeed, after the rentier class was eliminated, the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty showed a rising trend.
As time goes by, Lin Jingchun feels that the Ming Dynasty's tax revenue will never make him feel stretched again, and maybe there will be a larger fiscal surplus in the future.
Lin Jingchun couldn't help but feel happy when he thought about having a large amount of savings in his hand.
Even though the money does not belong to him and he cannot use it as he pleases, he still feels happy.
He likes the feeling of a bulging wallet, likes to save, and likes to collect, but he doesn't like to spend.
After all, I was still afraid of being poor and had sequelae.
However, for Su Yonglin, the financial balance is good, but it is better to do more things and invest more money in industrial upgrading.
He transformed the superstructure so that the superstructure of the Ming Dynasty would not interfere with the improvement of the Ming Dynasty's economic fundamentals and the broadening of the paths for class advancement brought about by the Ming Dynasty's industrial upgrading.
To put it bluntly, it means preventing the superstructure from affecting economic development.
The Ming Dynasty needs to get rid of the situation where the primary industry dominates the national economy in the future, and needs to build a secondary industry to stimulate productivity and domestic demand and break the ceiling of development.
Only by stepping onto the threshold of developing the secondary industry and allowing people to truly see the tremendous changes that the development of the secondary industry brought to the Ming Dynasty can the Ming Dynasty be truly pushed onto an unimagined path.
Relying solely on agriculture to boost domestic demand and productivity is limited.
When the productivity of agricultural production units liberated after the old rentier class is eradicated is raised to the extreme, it will no longer be possible to continue to make the pie bigger.
At this moment, if a new breakthrough point in productivity cannot be found, the country will inevitably embark on the road of involution again, and then a new rentier class will be born.
This is how the past dynasties came through, and then they walked into a dead end, and then reincarnated again.
Su Yonglin could guarantee that if such signs appeared while he was alive, he would immediately suppress them, continue the revolution, and maintain the status quo, but he could not guarantee that such a situation could be maintained after his death.
His successor does not have as strong personal prestige and charisma as he does, and is unable to unify the power of the entire oppressed class to launch a decisive battle against the oppressors, wipe out the rentier class, and maintain the current state of maximizing productivity.
So by then, the situation will be very serious.
The window period left for industrial upgrading will never be too long. If it is hindered by the selfishness of the rentier class and the window period is closed, then what will be left for the Ming Dynasty will be to resume the process of the First Empire of Qin and Han and the Second Empire of Sui and Tang Dynasties. The old way.
That was definitely not what Su Yonglin wanted to see.
What he wants is not only unification, not just the security of the country, but more importantly, the creation of a new secondary industry.
