To be honest, Zhang Yuejing felt that Zhao Yucheng's idea was quite shocking.

After all, if you keep fighting like this, you have to pay a lot of wealth and manpower. Is this level of expenditure affordable by the Ming Dynasty?

The money and food that need to be paid and the manpower that is spent on the fight are unimaginable astronomical figures. Now, just building a Yellow River can cause the Ming Dynasty to fall into temporary stagnation, let alone other large expenditures?

From an economic perspective, Zhang Yuejing is very optimistic about Zhao Yucheng's ideas.

But from another perspective, Zhang Yuejing has to admit that Zhao Yucheng's idea is indeed the only way that seems feasible at the moment.

Because when everyone got together and just started to struggle, they were really devoted to the establishment of the Ming Kingdom before they arrived.

Everyone was full of fighting spirit, and with deep hatred against the superiors, launched a comprehensive reform and liquidation in the occupied land, completely cracked down on the superiors, liberated the people, and called on them to follow Su Yonglin to overthrow the oppression and regain their freedom.

At those public trial meetings, complaint meetings, and heart-wrenching collective meetings, the way people whistled up to the sky after breaking free from the shackles made Zhang Yuejing still remember it fresh.

When did the problem start?

If Zhang Yuejing looked at it himself, when something went wrong, it would be when Su Yonglin decided to temporarily join forces with some more enlightened superiors to stabilize the situation and quickly destroy the Jin Kingdom.

At that time, Zhang Yuejing did not support this method from the bottom of his heart, but he felt that this was the only feasible path at that time, because he had too few people and too many enemies, so there was really no better way.

But when you think about it carefully, didn’t the first group of comrades be corroded from that time?

Su Yonglin himself had predicted it in advance.

Because of the entanglement with the superiors, the Yellow River case eventually broke out, and the major corruption cases involving several provinces triggered conflicts within the Ming Dynasty.

The outbreak of this corruption case eventually prompted Su Yonglin to decide to break with the superiors in advance, completely eliminate the threats of the superiors, and eliminate the old bureaucrats and gentry in the Ming Dynasty.

Judging from the results, this did greatly purify the administration of the Ming Dynasty and curb the problems that arise within the Revival Society.

But judging from the series of things that are happening right now, the internal purge of the Revival Society may not be at the end...

Zhang Yuejing believes that this is inseparable from the corrosive legacy of the old bureaucratic gentry who died before to the members of the Revival Society. Although they were dead, some of the people corrupted by them secretly survived and continued to exist within the Revival Society, which is not easy to discover.

Su Yonglin may have also discovered that the previous strategy of coexisting with the superiors was bad and had more harm than good, so he decided to break up early. Despite this, this legacy was too great, so Su Yonglin had to continue to carry out internal rectification of the Revival Association, and he had to deal with many people every time.

Therefore, there is an idea in some organizations of the current Revival Society.

This idea believes that it is precisely because of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty and the pursuit of stability that we chose to compromise, and it is precisely because of the compromise that part of the Revival Society has deteriorated. Although this behavior has stopped, the compromise has not stopped, and the internal problems of the Revival Society still exist and are difficult to deal with.

In order to establish the Ming Kingdom, to pay such a great price and so many comrades' depravity, is all this necessary?

If you keep fighting and use battle instead of compromise, can you always maintain your enthusiasm?

In June of the fifth year of Hongwu, Zhang Yuejing fell into deep thoughts in Xiangyang City.

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While thinking, he waited for the imperial court's arrangements for the next stage of war conveyed by the Privy Council, and obtained the command of 40,000 reinforcements.

At the end of June of the fifth year of Hongwu, after a period of rest, the Ming army re-entered the best combat state, and then began to attack the Jinghu War Zone of the Southern Song Dynasty, Jinghu North Road, Jinghu South Road, and Jiangnan West Road, breaking the Jinghu War Zone of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The troops participating in the battle were 70,000 in Henan Corps, 5,000 in Shenji Camp, 30,000 in Yanyun Corps and 10,000 in Huben Imperial Guards, plus 80,000 in peasant army, the total force was close to 200,000.

This is the largest military operation in the Ming Dynasty since its founding. The next time, it is probably the military operation to destroy Song.

Zhang Yuejing made very proper arrangements.

He ordered the Henan Corps, which had the strongest combat power, to merge 30,000 troops in the battle, 10,000 troops in the Huben Imperial Guard and 5,000 troops in the Shenji Camp into a mobile combat army, and to use the strongest combat power to go to Guizhou area, to confront the Sichuan and Shu army, which had the strongest combat power in the Southern Song Dynasty, and to destroy the Sichuan and Shu army.

Next, the entire southwest Jinglu Road was handed over to the Henan Corps to defeat 30,000 enemy troops and 10,000 cavalry teams directly under the Corps to make a strategy.

Yanyun's army stepped on the 30,000 White Army and 20,000 troops from Xu Tong, the second division of the Peasant Army, with a total of 50,000 people, responsible for heading south to attack Jinghu South Road.

The First and Fourth Divisions of the Peasant Army, a total of 40,000 people were responsible for launching a strategic war on Jinghu North Road under the leadership of Zhao Yucheng.

Lu Chengren, the troops of the third division of the peasant army left behind Jiangnan West Road, consolidated the existing results and prevented the dying struggles that the Southern Song Dynasty court might launch. Of course, this possibility is infinitely close to zero.

Under the current situation, the Ming army has actually entered a state of driving ten thousand troops. There are no established troops in the four roads in the central southern Song Dynasty that can threaten the Ming army's attack. Even if they are defended by the city, there is almost no city that can last for more than three days.

It is actually a matter of time before these four paths are completely occupied.

Zhang Yuejing targeted the only field elite in the Southern Song Dynasty who was still maneuvering. He personally led the mobile combat army to Guizhou area to replace the previous achievements of the peasant army, and was ready to fight with the Southern Song Dynasty's Sichuan Army at any time and was ready to completely destroy it.

The reinforcements of this Southern Song Dynasty Sichuan Army were led by Yao Zhong. Yao Zhong entered Sichuan and was ordered by the emperor to enter Sichuan to mobilize troops, hoping to get Wu Lin's cooperation. Wu Lin hesitated for a long time but did not violate the emperor's orders. He and the Sichuan Xuanfu Envoy rectified 30,000 troops and handed them over to Yao Zhong.

This is the last mobile field army that can be taken out in the Sichuan-Shu area.

Wu Lin clearly told Yao Zhong that he could no longer take out more troops. In this situation, he must ensure that the northern Sichuan defense line has enough troops to prevent the Ming army from going south. He was worried that Xiangfan would not be protected, but Wu Lin had to guard against the 100,000 Ming army in Guanzhong.

"Xiangfan is important, but once Sichuan and Shu are in trouble, the Ming army will be like Wang Jun who wanted to destroy the Eastern Wu that year. When the ship was in Yizhou, the Song Dynasty would be really dangerous. I dare not let the Jin Kingdom succeed in this kind of thing, nor do I dare to let the Ming Kingdom succeed in this way. The 30,000 troops are the limit, and I hope you must bring them back as soon as possible."

Every word Wu Lin said was sincere, and Yao Zhong was also worried.

"I naturally know the problem, but no matter what, Xiangfan must be saved. Xiangfan also has 40,000 troops. If he doesn't save it, isn't it equivalent to cutting off his arms?"

Wu Lin sighed.

"I didn't expect that the country's destiny has reached this point. No matter how difficult the situation in the past, it would not be necessary to fight in Sichuan and Sichuan..."

"The Ming army not only has strong combat power, but also has a large number of people. The Ming Dynasty seems to be very rich in finance. As far as we know, the Ming Dynasty army has as many as six corps."

Yao Zhong leaned his fingers and said bitterly: "Yanyun, Hebei, Qilu, Hexi, Liaodong, Henan, six corps, one corps has a total of 100,000 soldiers and horses. This is a total of 600,000 soldiers and horses. How many people in the Ming Dynasty have? With so many soldiers and horses, how can one be so powerful? Not only did it hurt the people of the Central Plains, but in the end it was a difficult situation for the Song Dynasty."
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