Six corpses, 600,000 main forces, are extremely huge and terrifying force.

This is the military power that the Ming Empire, which was founded for only five years.

This overly powerful military force made Wu Lin frown and sigh.

When the Jin Dynasty was in existence, there was no such powerful oppressive power or deterrence. At least the Jin Dynasty had the northern grasslands and the northwest Xixia as a restraint, and it could not handle the Southern Song Dynasty with all its strength.

However, the Ming Dynasty annexed the Western Xia and subdued the grasslands. The north was basically stable and there was no enemy that could restrain them. Now all the power can be sent to the Southern Song Dynasty.

But where did they get such a strong strategic reserve after just five years of their founding?

Is Jiangbei really troubled by the Jin Dynasty?

Wu Lin was very confused.

"It is said that Jiangbei is destroyed, the country is not used enough, Jiangnan is rich, the country is rich, the people are rich, speaking of the Song Dynasty, the soldiers and horses should be more than the Ming Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty has only 400,000 soldiers and horses, and there is no more. The Ming Dynasty has a broken Jiangbei with 600,000 soldiers. Is it really a powerful army?"

Yao Zhong shook his head.

"What else? In addition to military force, there are other possibilities? Without military force, the destruction of Jiangbei can support up to 400,000 soldiers, but the Ming Dynasty has a total of 600,000.

This reminds me of the weak people of Ji Han when he was destroyed. When he was destroyed, he raised 100,000 soldiers and 40,000 officials. How terrible? Compared with Ji Han, the Ming Dynasty was probably even better than that…”

Obviously, Yao Zhong did not know how Zhuge Liang built and left Ji Han a military and political system that could greatly suppress the powerful and mobilize the people's strength.

He didn't know why the Southern Song Dynasty had a population of more than 60 million, but it could only have 400,000 troops. Even so, the court officials always cried poorly, saying that the cost of raising soldiers was too high and the country's financial difficulties were in trouble.

Generals don’t understand these things, and they don’t need to understand them. Of course, it’s best not to think about understanding these things at all, otherwise the Zhao Song family law is not a joke.

Faced with Yao Zhong's doubts, Wu Lin was silent for a while and spoke slowly.

"In addition, there is another possibility, that is, they have a strong control over the people and can do things we cannot do... Have you read "Hongwu Political Commentary"? It is the book written by Su Yonglin, which has been published in two volumes now."

"You still see this?"

Yao Zhong said in surprise: "I heard that Lin'an has ordered this book to be cast as a banned book, saying that Su Yonglin's words confusing the public, and whoever dares to read it will be executed. The handling is quite strict.

Previously, a son of a fourth-rank official in Lin'an read this book and publicly claimed that Su Yonglin was right, but his head was chopped off and his head was still hanging on the city gate for public display. As a general of the state, you must be careful."

"I know that as a general of the state, I shouldn't have said these words, but I always feel that this is wrong."

Wu Lin sighed and said, "I have read these two books. I have to say that there are indeed some evil words that confuse the public. You can see Su Yonglin's cruelty and incompetent aspects, but in other aspects, especially Su Yonglin's governance, there are really many things worth learning from in the Song Dynasty. For example, in terms of taxation, I suggest you take a look at it when you have time.

It is said that stones on other mountains can be used to attack jade, Ming Kingdom can destroy Jin Kingdom, successfully dominate the Central Plains, and even defeat the Song Dynasty many times, which is enough to prove that Ming Kingdom is also worthy of it. If he is an enemy of us, he would be too biased.

I think many of the difficulties of the Song Dynasty may be solved from them. Since Su Yonglin succeeded, it means that the Song Dynasty can also make some changes. What do you think?"

As he said that, Wu Lin presented the two volumes of "Hongwu Political Commentary" he had obtained to Yao Zhong.

Yao Zhong hesitated for a moment, then took the two books and put them away.

"If the siege of Xiangfan is successfully lifted and the Ming army is repelled, I will naturally read it. If the siege of Xiangfan is unable to lift the siege of Xiangfan, the generals will be damaged, and the Song Dynasty will probably have no future. There is no need to read this book. Do we have the face to surrender to the Ming Kingdom?"

Wu Lin was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly.

"It is reasonable that the Song Dynasty does not exist. As a general of the state, how can there be a reason to survive in vain? If this battle is not won, Sichuan and Shu will definitely be unsafe. But before that, I will definitely fight to the end and never survive in vain, destroying the name of my loyal and martyrdom of the Wu family."

"That's it, that's it."

Yao Zhong pointed his troops and generals with a little tragic mood, and then led his army to Fengjie area with the support of the Sichuan Xuanfu envoy.

When he returned to Sichuan and Shu, he was already facing the situation of the great defeat of the Song army in the Jinghu War Zone, so that the peasant army on Jiangnan West Road occupied Yiling at that time. He relied on his familiar mountain roads to bypass the peasant army's advantages, returned to Sichuan and Shu to dispatch troops, and then prepared to kill a resurgence.

When he led his army back, he learned that Guizhou was also occupied by the peasant army. The peasant army used Zigui as a garrison point to deploy defenses everywhere, obviously guarding against the Sichuan and Shu troops along the Yangtze River waterway to the Jianghan area to threaten the rear of the Ming and peasant army.

Yao Zhong didn't find it very strange. It was not unexpected that Guizhou was occupied in the past few times. It was just that there was a war before entering the Jianghan Plain, which made Yao Zhong feel anxious.

He didn't know how long his old subordinates in Xiangfan area could last, nor did he know if Wang Yan was powerful enough. He was very worried about his subordinates and hoped that they could support him until he led his army back to aid.

Although the Ming army was powerful, the peasant army was just a group of mobs, not in Yao Zhong's eyes. Even if they defeated the two Song army in the Jinghu War Zone, Yao Zhong still looked down on them.

Because Yao Zhong also looked down on the Jiujiang Army and the Ezhou Army, they were two completely new troops, and their combat effectiveness was even worse than that of the Ezhou Army under Tian Shizhong. At least there were some veterans in that army, and the new army was all novice, and they dared not say that they had any decent combat effectiveness.

What's so great about defeating them?

With absolute confidence in the elites of Sichuan and Sichuan, Yao Zhong led his troops out of Fengjie, advanced along the water and land, and advanced towards Guizhou, and then captured Badong County without any effort.

The troops stationed in Badong County retreated as soon as they saw him coming and did not resist at all. Yao Zhong was very happy and immediately entered Badong County.

Although all the residents of Badong County have been taken away, leaving only an empty city, Yao Zhong did not take it seriously. He just felt that victory was right in front of him and the enemy was fleeing in a panic.

However, when the Pioneer's Champion told him that he saw infantry and navy troops holding Ming army battle flags in the area of ​​Zigui County ahead, it was quite large.

"Ming Army Battle Flag? Although there have been rumors that the Jiangnan West Route Army had collusion with the Ming State, they blatantly fired the Ming Army Battle Flag... no?"

Yao Zhong was shocked and immediately thought of a possibility.

Xiangfan has been lost, he is late, and the Song Dynasty is about to end.

But it was only June at this time, and it was less than three months before the war in Xiangfan started. With the strength of the two cities of Xiangfan, it was impossible to fall in less than three months.

It would take three or four months for him to rush back to Sichuan and Shu to rectify the army. He rushed to travel day and night, causing the army to be exhausted, and then he controlled the time. It was actually very fast for him to lead the army to aid.

It was impossible for the Ming army to take down Xiangfan in such a short time.

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

Yao Zhong was unwilling to believe this outrageous answer, so the next answer was already very obvious.

Either the peasant army learned that his army was approaching and snatched the Ming army's battle flag to confuse him, or the Ming army drew a team of troops at the stall of attacking Xiangfan to go south to cooperate with the peasant army in an attempt to stop the Sichuan-Shu army from leaving Sichuan to disrupt the situation.

What a sinister intention!

Yao Zhong sneered and ordered the army to move forward slowly.

Through the report of the sentry detective, he learned that the army suspected of the Ming army had relatively strict defenses, the infantry guarded the main rush on the land, and the navy guarded the waterway passage, and pretended to be blocked by the road, which was quite intimidating.

"Just bluffing, our army is flowing down, and they are going upstream, and the military strategy clouds are high and out of the way. They are certainly guarding the key rush, but as long as our navy breaks through the navy, they can land behind them and directly break down their land defenses, what else can they do?"

Yao Zhong knew his advantage at this moment.

The upstream impacts the downstream and the lower level at a high level.

The advantage lies in me!

So Yao Zhong decided to take the initiative to attack, use the navy to break through the Ming army's water defense, and then land directly in their rear, and eat all the Ming army or peasant army troops in one breath!
Chapter completed!