With such determination, Su Yonglin widely opened state-owned handicraft workshops nationwide.

He first introduced the industrial production model to the Ming Dynasty, expanded the group of proletarian workers, cultivated beneficiaries of the secondary industry, and supported them to strengthen their political power and give them the ability to safeguard their own interests.

At the same time, a large amount of funds were injected to expand the scale of the factory, increase the production capacity of handicrafts, and carry out technological innovations simultaneously.

He needs to compress this process to a relatively short period of time, otherwise he may not be able to lead the people of Ming Kingdom to change the world when he is still alive.

This is not easy, not easy, but for Su Yonglin, he has no choice.

Since you have embarked on this path, you have to go to the end and you must not give up halfway.

The power of one battle destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, completely eliminated its main force of the army, and laid the foundation for the subsequent comprehensive southward movement...

In Su Yonglin's view, the significance of this battle is no less than that of the Battle of Qin and Zhao Changping.

The difference is that the Zhao State could still attract 400,000 people to fight the Qin State. How many people can the Zhao Song regime pull out to fight the Ming army?

Of course, this is not important to Zhang Yuejing on the front line.

On the way to the second city of Xiangfan, he led the army south to Henan. When he saw the dark smoke rolling up to the sky, he knew that the Song army informed the Xiangfan defenders and they were coming through beacon towers.

The previous strategic reconnaissance had already let him know the tactical preparations of the Song army, but all this was of little significance to the Ming army. It would be meaningless to know whether there was a beacon tower or whether it was known in advance. Anyway, the Ming army would not be able to launch a surprise attack under such circumstances.

So if you have it, it's no big deal.

Moreover, Zhang Yuejing felt that this battle should be a hard battle, and the battle would be very difficult. The defensive state of Xiangfan City made him worried, worried that a bloody battle would cause too much loss to the elite veterans of the Henan Corps, thus losing the possibility of continuing to move south.

However, when he saw the Shenji Camp that went south from Zhongdu and dozens of general artillery that they carried as many as ten feet long, his doubts slightly subsided.

And when he saw the test firing of the general's gunners by the Divine Machine Camp, this concern quickly dropped to a completely bearable level.

This level of terrifying bombardment... Not to mention those wooden military camps, even the solid and thick cities of Xiangyang and Fancheng, how long can they last?

Su Yonglin did such a big thing quietly, which really surprised Zhang Yuejing.

Then he began to be excited.

At first, he thought it might take two years to conquer Xiangyang and Fancheng, but later he thought that it would be fine for one year. But now it seems that if the power of the new artillery is strong enough, then he will almost win the important town of Xiangfan in two or three months.

However, even if he could win, Zhang Yuejing didn't want to win so quickly, because he needed the two cities of Xiangfan as bait to attract the reinforcements of the Song army to support him. He wanted to have a battle to fight aid and completely destroy the main force of the Southern Song army.

On the second day of April of the fifth year of Hongwu, Zhang Yuejing, commander of the Henan Corps, led the army of the stalking forces, and the cavalry team and Shenji Battalion, a total of 45,000 troops headed along the Bihe River to reach fifteen miles northeast of the second city of Xiangfan.

Then Zhang Yuejing arranged troops and arranged the troops of the three divisions of the Shattering Army in the north, east and west directions of the Fancheng Defense Circle north of the Han River, building a larger encirclement circle to counter-encircle the Fancheng Defense Circle.

Then Zhang Yuejing took He Feihu, commander of the Shenji Camp, to climb up the hill to watch the Song army's defensive formations, and learned about the specific situation.

"There are still powerful people in the Song army, and the defense of Xiangfan is indeed powerful. There are so many military camps and trenches. If you attack for a strong force, you will have to pay a considerable price."

He Feihu smiled slightly at this.

"The artillery appeared for the arrival of this day, especially the general artillery. Commander Zhang may not know that since the Shenji Camp was established, all sizes have participated in nearly twenty battles, but he has never used the general artillery.

Because the general's artillery is a strong city like Xiangfan City, and such a strong city can not be encountered at any time. This time, His Majesty gave us the opportunity to attack Xiangfan, and everyone was ready to try it out."

Zhang Yuejing laughed and patted He Feihu on the shoulder.

"Then let me see how powerful your Shenji Camp is!"

He Feihu gave the order and immediately ordered the twenty-five general artillery groups of the Shenji Camp to start building artillery positions and prepare to launch an attack on the outermost military camps in the Fancheng defense circle. Fifty chariot and cavalry general artillery groups also made preparations.

Before the battle started, Xu Tong's troops of the southern peasant army sent someone to pay homage to Zhang Yuejing and received Zhang Yuejing's hospitality.

Zhang Yuejing took them to visit the artillery positions of the Shenji Camp, introduced them to the Ming army's new killing weapons, and told them that they just need to stand firm in the new city and wait for news, and leave the rest to them.

Xu Tong was very surprised when he learned the news, so he temporarily handed over the command of the army to the instructor Zhou Qiang, and took a guard to the Henan Corps barracks to prepare to observe the battle of the new firearms.

What kind of new firearm can give the Henan Corps so much confidence?

He was very curious.

After Xu Tong arrived at the current garrison of the Henan Corps, he was greeted by Zhang Yuejing himself.

"You are the Xu Tong who brought 4,000 troops to Lin'an to intimidate Zhao Guan's family, right? I know you!"

Zhang Yuejing laughed: "I'm so brave. Liu Bei said that Zhao Yun was full of courage. I think you kid was full of courage. You can dare to travel thousands of miles to Lin'an for 4,000 people, which is amazing!"

Xu Tong praised Zhang Yuejing a little embarrassedly, so he quickly became modest.

"It's not that I am awesome, but the Southern Song Dynasty court is too useless. Any comrade can take someone to kill him like me."

Xu Tong is quite proud on weekdays, but he also knows who he can be proud of, and who he must hold his tail in front of.

Zhang Yuejing, one of the five tiger generals of the Ming Empire, was the first general to fight with Su Yonglin, and was also the first general to stand alone. His Henan Corps was the first to successfully form a corps-level combat power and an elite corps with outstanding military achievements.

He was able to beat the Henan Jin army as soon as he was established and expelled all the Henan Jin army. Later, he participated in the Battle of Guanzhong and the First Ming and Song War one after another, with brilliant results. Zhang Yuejing himself was therefore rated as the most capable of fighting among the Five Tiger Generals.

Although this evaluation is still somewhat controversial at present.
Chapter completed!