Will it fail?
No doubt about it.
Because idealists are constantly being eliminated.
So Su Yonglin nodded without hesitation.
"It's very possible, absolutely possible, or in other words, the possibility is more than 90%."
After eating a piece of mung bean cake and taking a sip of tea, Su Yonglin smacked his lips and smiled: "But at the same time, I also believe that even if our efforts fail in the end, the fire has been preserved, and future generations will do better than us. , and finally make our dreams come true.”
"Really? Can future generations really do it?"
"Of course, when they suffer again, they will naturally feel the same and know that we are right. When the time comes, they will awaken again."
Hearing Su Yonglin's judgment, Xin Qiji suddenly felt a little funny.
"I feel like a lazy donkey here. He won't move forward without a whip. You are too harsh on future generations."
"I'm not lying, I really think so."
Su Yonglin smiled and said: "Future generations will forget everything we have done, but future generations will remember that it is the so-called mantis stalking the cicada, with the oriole behind, right? And the meaning of our existence is to tell future generations Which path is the right path, tell them how to go, and use our failures to teach them how to prevent failure.”
"You really have high hopes for your descendants..."
Xin Qiji felt a little speechless: "Are you really convinced that if future generations are unworthy, future generations will do better?"
Su Yonglin was stunned for a moment, and then laughed out loud.
"Actually, not necessarily. I don't know if future generations will do better than us. Times will change at any time, but who knows what the times will look like? Will they be more ambitious...I I don’t know.”
"so……"
"That's why I work so hard and do everything I can while I'm alive and still in control of the overall situation. Otherwise, I'm really worried that they won't live up to their expectations and won't do as well as us.
So I want to give them a sample. I want them to know what revolution is. They have to know before they know what to do, right? Thinking about it this way, I immediately feel that there is still hope for the future. The scenes that we cannot see may be taken for granted by future generations. "
After saying that, Su Yonglin suddenly laughed loudly for a while.
Xin Qiji was stunned for a moment, finally reacted, and couldn't help laughing.
The two laughed together for a while before slowly stopping.
It was late at night, and bursts of cool air made Su Yonglin and Xin Qiji feel comfortable. As summer approached, the dull weather in the past few days seemed to have dissipated.
"I have said a lot, and I feel much better. You'an, please be my audience."
"Such an audience will never get bored no matter how many times."
Xin Qiji smiled and said: "Although I may not agree with everything you said, I will not object. You have taken this path, and you naturally have the greatest say. My words..."
"There's no need for you to think that I'm always right. Maybe I'm wrong?"
Su Yonglin laughed: "If I am wrong about this matter, and if our cause can continue without recurrence, then I will be very happy. If there is no me in the future, our Renaissance will be able to continue to correct its mistakes. , I would be happier.”
"Most definitely."
Xin Qiji said without any doubt: "It will definitely happen. All of this is too precious for us. Someone will be vigilant and someone will persist. If there is no one else, then let me take this path. I have come all the way, so I will never do it again until death."
"Remember what you said today, You'an, I have great expectations for you."
"must."
"Okay, if you have nothing to do, you can go back and rest. These days, you have to worry about the revival meeting and the war. It has really exhausted you. Take a good rest."
Seeing that the night was getting darker, Su Yonglin asked Xin Qiji to go home and rest.
However, this incident made Xin Qiji think that he still had something to say to Su Yonglin.
"I talked so much that I almost forgot to report the happy event to you."
Xin Qiji took out the battle report of the Henan Corps from his arms: "The latest battle report, on May 27, the main reinforcements of the Song Army Li Xianzhong were defeated by our army, and the entire army was wiped out. Our army killed nearly 20,000 Song troops and captured six More than 10,000 people.”
"Oh? Such a big victory? There are 80,000 people in total. Can they be considered the main force of the Song Army?"
Su Yonglin suddenly became happy and quickly took the battle report. Upon seeing it, he was overjoyed.
On April 21, the Song army, with General Li Xianzhong as the main general and General Wang Chong as the deputy general, led the Lin'an Forbidden Army and the Jianghuai War Zone troops, a total of 80,000 people, to rush to Xiangyang.
In order to reach Xiangyang as soon as possible without wasting extra time, they gave up the waterway to entangle the Ming army and the peasant army, and instead chose to take the land route that is still under the control of the Song Dynasty, that is, the Huainan West Road.
After marching through the Yangtze River Waterway to Anqing Mansion on Huainan West Road, the Song Army landed, gathered at Anqing Mansion, and then headed to Lu'an, and then from Lu'an to Xinyang.
There is still some affection between Li Xianzhong and the Sichuan-Shu generals.
Li Xianzhong was born in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, and originally belonged to the Western Army, and the current Sichuan-Shu generals are basically from the Western Army, but Li Xianzhong did not enter Sichuan with them after their failure in the Battle of Fuping.
His experience was rough.
First, he pretended to surrender to the Jin people, and after some maneuvers, he almost killed the Jin army commander. Then he fled to Xixia, and was appreciated by the Xixia emperor, who was able to borrow troops to attack the Jin people. Later, because of internal conflicts that were not tolerated by the Xia people, he set up his own mountain. Recruiting soldiers and horses defeated the Xia army's Iron Kites.
Later, because it was difficult to gain a foothold in Guanzhong, he had to bring more than 40,000 recruited Guanzhong warriors into Sichuan and return to the Southern Song Dynasty. He was received and comforted by Wu Jie, the then Sichuan Xuanfu envoy, and then arrived in Lin'an and entered the direct lineage of Zhao Gou.
It can be said that the Sichuan-Shu generals were helpful to Li Xianzhong. They also belonged to the Western Army, a large group that no longer existed, and had a special connection. Therefore, Li Xianzhong was relatively hard-working on the issue of supporting Xiangfan.
He led his troops to gallop forward and entered Xinyang at a relatively fast speed. In Xinyang, Li Xianzhong found out that the Ming army had a garrison in Zaoyang, so he made some analysis.
He believed that the Ming army deployed troops and horses in Zaoyang to prevent reinforcements from assisting Xiangyang. Therefore, the defenders of Zaoyang should always be vigilant about the Song army in the direction of Xinyang. Maybe they already knew that a Song army was coming from the direction of Xinyang and were waiting for it.
In this way, if a battlefield is opened in Zaoyang to confront the Ming army, the first thing they have to face is the Zaoyang defenders and the reinforcements of the Ming army. It is not known how long the battle will take and how much troops will be consumed.
Li Xianzhong knew that the Ming army was very powerful. He only had 30,000 elite troops that he could rely on. If they were all in Zaoyang, going to Xiangyang would be like serving food.
We can't waste too much troops in Zaoyang. It's best to defeat Zaoyang in one battle and easily capture it, and then the army will go directly to Xiangyang for a decisive battle with the Xiangyang Ming Army.
But the Ming army general was not a fool. He had to find a way to convince them that the Song army's main attack direction was not in Zaoyang, but elsewhere.
The way to use troops is not to fight wherever the enemy is, but to find ways to open up the battlefield myself and find ways to make the enemies follow my pace to fight, so that they have no idea what I want to do.
Li Xianzhong is a very capable general. He is not a mediocre person like Tian Shizhong. This time to assist Xiangfan, the Privy Council gave him greater autonomy. He also made full use of his autonomy and decided to open another battlefield.
Where will it be opened?
Nanyang.
