The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 474

[Chapter 469 Daming’s Counterattack]

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, three years had passed since Zhong Yu unified the domestic forces, completely summed up all the sectarian forces under his command, and completed the real monarchical centralization.

In the past three years, many things have happened in all parts of the world, but they have remained relatively stable in general, and nothing has shaken the world.

However, the whole world is still too far for Zhong Yu, all he cares about is the Ming Dynasty and the situation in the surrounding countries.

After three years of recuperation, the originally faint-hearted Emperor of the Ming Dynasty worked hard to rectify some corrupt officials in the country. Although the problem was not fundamentally solved, it also made these corrupt officials look a lot better when they were corrupt, and they did not search before. so cruel.

And because of the crisis of subjugation of the country, the Ming emperor was resolute, took out a large amount of money from his private small treasury, and trained an army of 300,000 people.

This army is well-equipped, well-trained, and relatively strong. All of them have reached the peak of the third-order cultivation base, and even 50,000 people are already fourth-order.

Equipped with powerful and incredible, it fully reflects the heritage of the Ming Dynasty as an empire.

You must know that Zhong Yu plundered the heavens and the world, and searched for an unknown amount of resources, only to reluctantly form a 15,000-strong mysticist army.

Even after suppressing the sect, collecting the elite children in the sect, and attracting a group of powerhouses who wandered outside, they would only organize a world army of 40,000 people.

These are all the teams that Zhong Yu sacrificed his speed of attacking the heavens and the world and risked being attacked by the surrounding sects of the empire.

It can be seen that the Ming Dynasty, a mere empire at the end, did not even have half of the territory before the war. It was able to easily pull out a new world army of 50,000 people. The strength suddenly reached the level of Zhong Yu’s painstaking efforts.

And this is not all the strength of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to the new army of 300,000, the Ming Dynasty has an old army with a scale of 1.2 million, and there are many fourth-order troops.

Take it all together, it’s probably around 100,000.

From this, we can see the gap between Yuguo, as a new country on this continent, and the old empires in the world.

This is just a Ming Dynasty that is going to the end. If it is replaced by other Great Jin, Great Han and Great Wei, these empires that have not experienced civil strife, suffered external disasters, and lost their strength, I am afraid their strength will be even more terrifying.

After three years of rectification of officials, the people’s voice in the Ming Dynasty has recovered a lot, and the people’s life has been able to go on a little, no longer complaining like before, and it is possible to rise up at any time.

And because of the emperor’s ruthlessness, he donated his own internal library.

In addition, the princes, nobles, and local gentry officials who had just been closely related to the Ming Dynasty contributed funds and donations, adding some surplus to the Ming Dynasty treasury, which had been completely exhausted, and had a reserve of money and grain.

In addition, the completion of the training of 300,000 new troops gave the emperor and his ministers a great sense of security and confidence.

Therefore, he felt that his strength was almost restored, and Emperor Ming, who had a certain amount of spare energy to recover the lost territory, made up his mind to go to war.

And the target of the war is not the Dajin Empire, which is close at hand, nor the imperial kingdom established by Zhong Yu, a rebel that the Ming Dynasty considered to belong to the soft persimmon.

In addition to the fact that the north is close to the Jin Dynasty, the remaining two provinces with 500,000 frontier troops do not move, plus the 300,000 frontier troops in the west need to defend the enemy country and cannot move lightly.

The remaining 400,000 old troops except the 100,000 banned troops will stay in the imperial capital, and 100,000 troops will stay in the local area to maintain basic security.

The remaining 200,000 troops were all selected, and after a little training, they formed a 500,000-strong Southern Expedition Army with the 300,000 new troops.

The target is Jiangdu City, which is located in the six southern provinces and is the imperial capital of the imperial kingdom.

When the news of the rebellion of the Ming Dynasty’s southern expedition came, the entire original area of the Ming Dynasty was shaken, and they all discussed the strengths and weaknesses of the two armies and the outcome, as well as how the war would affect the people everywhere.

What the local aristocrats care about is whether they choose to take refuge or wait and see after the Ming Dynasty army comes over.

As for helping Yuguo to resist the Ming Dynasty’s attack, that’s just a joke, even Zhong Yu didn’t dare to think so.

Zhong Yu ruled this land for only a mere 45 years, which was very short-lived. Compared with the rule of the Ming Dynasty for thousands of years, the poor local influence can be ignored.

What’s more, everyone could clearly see that the Ming Dynasty had an absolutely overwhelming advantage over this newly established imperial kingdom.

Not only does it have a quantitative and qualitative advantage in the army at the bottom, but it also does not fall behind in terms of combat power at the top.

The most important thing is that the Ming Dynasty had an eighth-order master in charge, but the opposite Yuguo did not.

That’s the most important thing.

Unless there is also an eighth-rank in the imperial kingdom, it would be nothing more than talk.

As long as the eighth-tier powerhouses of the Ming Dynasty make a move, all the resistance of the imperial kingdom will become useless. This is the absolute quality over the quantity.

For a while, all the forces in the Imperial Kingdom moved frequently, and began to connect with each other, trying to find a way back for themselves.

However, they did not dare to make big moves. After all, with the deterrence of Zhong Yu’s extermination of those sects, these forces did not dare to act rashly.

For fear that before the Ming Dynasty came over, they would be wiped out by Zhong Yu as an internal hidden danger. At that time, it was too late to cry.

In fact, regarding the aggression of the Ming Dynasty, or the suppression of the rebellion, Yuguo had already anticipated it. When things really happened, although there was a certain amount of fear, there was no panic on the whole.

Just think about it.

For today’s Ming Dynasty, whether it is in the north, because of the annexation of the five provinces of the Ming Dynasty, the strength of the greater Jin, or the surrounding other empires that have no loss of strength and ensure the basic strength of the dynasty.

Under the condition that the eighth-tier powerhouses agreed not to interfere in the military and politics of other countries at will, only the military strength of each country could not move the broken Ming Empire.

So after thinking about it, whether it is for the sake of self-interest or to maintain the orthodoxy of the dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably take action against the weak and anti-thief Yuguo.

However, no matter how powerful Daming is, Zhong Yu, who has an extraordinary origin and is extremely confident in himself, cannot be easily captured and let Daming be slaughtered.

In order to cope with the attacking army of the Ming Dynasty, they finally began to mobilize the domestic army and actively prepare for the battle.

He also continuously ordered officials from all over the territory to guard the generals, to maintain local stability during the war, to ensure that the local people could live normally, and to prevent those tyrannical sects from making trouble and secretly colluding with Daming.

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