Li Rusong and Chai Guozhu.
They truly were ferocious generals, but so what?
Li Rusong and Chai Guozhu were no fools. At this delicate moment, no one knew what sort of decision they would make.
Xiao Ruxun looked at the map and fell into deep thought.
"If I cut off the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, Shen Yicheng will assuredly send his main force south to seek a decisive battle. At this moment, the capital's defenses won't be as tight, right? If I use a navy to launch a surprise attack on the Tianjin Garrison, I can directly threaten the capital. Even if I can't capture it, I can cut off that old thief's retreat! "
Yuan Huang and Mei Guozhen froze. When they looked at the map again, they realized that this was indeed the case.
"To think that the use of the navy would reach such a level. We've all underestimated the navy!"
Yuan Huang sighed.
"Then what if Shen Yicheng is on guard? If he sees that my navy is launching a surprise attack from the southeast on land, will he be on guard against another surprise attack from the Tianjin Garrison? If he's on guard, won't that be bad? "
Xiao Ruxun shook his head.
"There's no general in the world who can only rely on sneak attacks to win a battle."
Mei Guozhen blinked, suddenly realizing that Xiao Ruxun was the best general in the Daming.
"So what if Shen Yicheng is on guard? How many soldiers can he mobilize to deal with our attacks on land and sea? He doesn't have a navy, and besides the Guangdong Navy, which can still pose some threat to me, is there any organized navy on the Daming coast that can compare to my Southern Garrison Navy? If he can't stop me on the sea, he can forget about stopping me on land! "
Xiao Ruxun punched the Tianjin Garrison's seat as he viciously said this.
Mei Guozhen and Yuan Huang had no objections.
They just felt that Shen Yicheng would be unable to withstand a single blow.
Indeed, compared to Myanmar, the Great Ming Dynasty was very big and strong. However, this was also the fatal weakness of the Great Ming Dynasty. The grass-roots government of the Great Ming Dynasty was too weak. It was completely unable to mobilize the huge human, material, and financial resources of the Great Ming Dynasty into national power.
The ancient governments of China had the strongest mobilization power of the Qin and the early and middle periods of the Western Han. The Qin's mobilization power could be said to be unparalleled in ancient China. Its ability to single-handedly sweep through the Six Kingdoms of Shandong was enough to prove that it had reached the pinnacle of mobilization.
The Western Han had mobilized the entire nation on a northern expedition to resist the Xiongnu, and the ten-some years of high-intensity warfare had halved the population. Yet, Emperor Wu of Han was still able to launch a decisive battle in the Mobei. One could see just how powerful the mobilization power of the Western Han was.
On the other hand, the Daming only had a hundred million people and the special skill of. of, the Daming, and had a solid foundation, but it had not had Wu of, and and and could to say, it, it. Ming, it, it, it, Wu.
And this was the deadlock that the Shen Yicheng and the others had created for themselves.
They had set up an empty local government, treating the place as their own independent kingdom. They were the local tyrants and rich people, oppressing the villagers, resisting the Ming government's taxes, and for decades, they opposed any decision of the imperial court to increase the number of local governments. From the central government to the local governments, there was no one who did not oppose them.
Only the central government could mobilize the power of the entire nation, but when the central government's power was weakened, could the nation mobilize?
Up until now, the Daming had been controlled by the gentry class. They were the real local government, but could they mobilize for war? Could they do census and organize manpower? Could they protect the people and defend against external humiliation?
They only hoped that the people would work for them like livestock and create profits for them.
Mobilization for war required the cooperation of all the departments of the nation and the local governments. The gentry class, who controlled the land, property, and human resources of the region, made the Ming government a mere figurehead. Therefore, the huge amount of human, financial, and material resources were their private property, destined to be unable to be turned into their fighting power.
If they wanted fighting power, they would have to bleed, would they agree?
The Manchurian Qing's butcher's knife was already on their necks, how many of them would take action?
Yan Yingyuan was one of them.
Therefore, they played themselves to death.
This was the fundamental reason why Xiao Ruxun was not afraid of the gentry class. In terms of fighting power, they were not Xiao Ruxun's match at all.
Even though their human, material, and financial resources were a hundred times greater than Xiao Ruxun's, the resources that could be used to fight against Xiao Ruxun was not even one percent. It was just like in the future, when they were threatened by Li Zicheng and the Manchurian Qing, they would do those stupid things that made them not know whether to laugh or cry.
Xiao Ruxun was busy making arrangements for a joint operation with Deng Zilong and Liu Da, and in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, the Black Water that Xiao Ruxun had sent had successfully made contact with Chen Lin and Cen Dalu.
Chen Lin and Xiao Ruxun had fought side by side and made great contributions during the naval battle against the Japanese pirates. After the war ended, she continued to lead the Guangdong Navy, but in reality, she was the commander of the Guangdong Navy as the Daming of the nation's navy.
After the war ended, the Ming government had no intention of rebuilding the navy, so they gave the few hundred warships that Xiao Ruxun had taken from him to Chen Lin, and let Chen Lin command them. Because there was no war, the navy did not have any missions, and gradually fell into disuse.
Chen Lin was also quite helpless.
A general was only useful in times of war. At other times, in the eyes of the civil government, they were useless.
It was very clear that Chen Lin was currently in a state of idleness, and there was no place for the navy to be used. If this situation continued to develop, he, General Chen, would really be depressed for the rest of his life.
After a long time, not only him, but the entire navy was bullied in Guangdong, and having their pay deducted was a common thing. The navy dared to be angry, but did not dare to say anything, and Chen Lin himself also lost face.
At that time, Xiao Ruxun was doing very well in Burma, and he himself was a favorite of the Emperor. Chen Lin had fought side by side at a young age, so he asked Xiao Ruxun for help, and Xiao Ruxun also agreed to help him.
Naturally, it was effective, and the situation of the navy improved significantly. However, without war, the navy would continue to decline, and he could not see the future. Chen Lin even planned to find another position, and he also wanted to use Xiao Ruxun's connections to find the Minister of War, and was preparing to write a letter!
It was at this time that the situation suddenly changed. News came from the capital that Xiao Ruxun had rebelled and plotted to usurp the throne. Fortunately, he was stopped by Shen Yicheng, who was then the Second Minister of the Cabinet. Now, Xiao Ruxun had been executed, and the Emperor had abdicated in shame, passing the throne to his own son, who had become the Emperor Emeritus.
This news was like a bolt from the blue that smashed into Chen Lin's head.
Like almost everyone else, he also took a long time to realize that this matter had really happened.
The Emperor had changed, and Xiao Ruxun was dead.
Chen Lin's situation was clearly about to undergo a drastic change.
Not only was Chen Lin good at naval warfare, but he was also good at analyzing the situation. He knew that after Shen Yicheng came to power, he would definitely move to clean up Xiao Ruxun's remaining forces. Burma Town was only the first step. All the remaining generals who had risen in the three major battles would become Shen Yicheng's targets, and almost no one would be spared.
Jiubian might be slightly better. After all, it was an important town, and as a naval admiral who did not fight, he would definitely be the first to be killed.
Chen Lin began to live in a constant state of anxiety.
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