The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 475

[Chapter 470 Early Confrontation]

After three years of development, Zhong Yu’s own strength has also grown extremely fast. Although it fell to Daming on the whole, it is not much worse.

First of all, Yuguo’s army has been streamlined and trained, and some old and weak soldiers and soldiers from the Ming Dynasty have been eliminated from it, so that the combat effectiveness of the entire army has been condensed and condensed, and it has the appearance of some elite soldiers.

Then, new troops were continuously recruited, and excellent soldiers were selected from all over the country for training, and then they were enriched to each army, which greatly expanded the number of troops in the empire.

And in the past three years, through plundering and conquering in the heavens and the world, Zhong Yu has harvested another batch of troops.

Now, after three years of accumulated training, Zhong Yu has formed an army with a size of about 1.5 million, which is exactly the same as the total number of troops in the Ming Dynasty.

As for the combat power, the two sides have half a pound each, and there is not much difference.

Even because Yuguo is the defensive side, it has a certain geographical advantage, and the Ming Dynasty only sent 500,000 troops to the south, and the number was not much nor much.

And because Yuguo was fighting on the mainland, in the face of the attack of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to dividing an army of about 300,000, it was necessary to guard against the attack of Han and Wei in the south.

There are basically no enemies to defend on the other borders. The only enemy is the Ming Dynasty, so Yuguo can draw more troops to resist the attack of the Ming Dynasty.

When the news that the Ming Dynasty was going to expedition to the south came, Zhong Yu started the military mobilization of the whole country.

300,000 frontier troops were left to guard against the Han and Wei countries, and another 200,000 were left to guard the area. The remaining one million troops were led by Zhong Yu himself and rushed to the border of Mingyu, intending to defend the enemy outside the country.

The enemy came quickly. When Zhong Yu had just laid out the defense lines in various places, the 100,000 people in the vanguard of the Ming Dynasty had already rushed to the front line and started a small-scale confrontation with Zhong Yu’s army.

These small-scale confrontations are nothing, and the impact on the outcome of the entire battle is too negligible to be ignored.

Even if Zhong Yu’s frontline more than 300,000 troops were defeated, or Daming’s 100,000 strikers were defeated, it was nothing to them.

Why did Daming dare to use a mere 500,000 troops to attack Yuguo, which has millions of people, and also has the advantage of geographical defense, and does not seem to worry about losing the battle at all.

It is because whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Imperial Kingdom, they all understand very well that the key to the victory of this war is not the soldiers at the bottom, but the game of high-level combat power on both sides.

Although the soldiers at the bottom are important, they are the foundation of a country’s rule that cannot be ignored.

But the main function is only to suppress local public order and maintain the taxation of the empire.

Soldiers like this are extremely easy to recruit. As long as there are enough resources, the Ming Dynasty can pull up an army of tens of millions in an instant, and its combat effectiveness is not much worse than that of conventional troops.

In the same way, what the Ming Dynasty can do, there is no reason why it can’t be done.

It can be seen from the more than 400,000 Ming Dynasty surrendered troops that he dismissed and repatriated before, as well as the original age and weakness of Yuguo.

These people are basically third-order strength, and their strength is not weak, and a considerable number of them are veterans who have fought a lot of battles.

So whether it’s Daming or Zhong Yu, they don’t care about these cannon fodders that can be pulled up at any time.

The real reason why they can’t expand their army in a big way is just the lack of money and food supply.

As the respective fronts of the two sides fought, the fighting became more and more intense, and fighting took place at any time in various places on the front line.

Every day there is a local battle with a scale of more than 1,000 people, and even a battle with a scale of 10,000 people is fought every few days, and the battle situation can be described as anxious.

The anxiety of this kind of war did not gradually ease down over time, but became even hotter with the arrival of the main force of the respective armies in the rear.

Especially the arrival of the main force of Daming, because it is the attacker, the offensive of the Daming Dynasty is extremely violent, and it does not care about the heavy casualties of the soldiers at the bottom, nor does it care that the number of enemies in its own army is small, and constantly urges the soldiers to attack and attack again.

It seems that there is only one voice from top to bottom in the Ming Dynasty army, that is to defeat the enemy at all costs.

The supervision of these high-level officers still has some effect.

Although the soldiers at the bottom had a lot of resentment in their hearts, their resentment disappeared a little when their respective officers supported the attack, and even many people took the lead in charging.

What’s more, whenever a soldier tries to escape from the battlefield and retreat to a safe place in the rear.

The supervising team behind them, composed entirely of those officers, directly told them with bloody examples that being a deserter had no future and hope, and would only lose their lives in vain.

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Here we are talking about soldiers who command more than 1,000 people, and at least have the strength of the fifth-order.

Some of the more elite troops, their thousand generals are all in the middle or late stage of the fifth rank, and UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com are extremely powerful in the same rank.

As for generals at the level of ten thousand generals, some ordinary armies are commanded by the peak of the fifth-order generals, but the elite are led by the sixth-order powerhouses.

Today, the Daming army has a total of 500,000 troops, of which there are many elites, about 100,000, which means that there are about ten sixth-order generals in the Daming army.

Coupled with some other generals, this time Daming’s expedition army has 15 sixth-order troops, as well as two early seventh-order lieutenants, plus a late seventh-order coach, together to form this time. The luxurious lineup of the Southern Expedition Army.

However, although Daming’s lineup was luxurious, the Imperial Army on the opposite side was not at all disadvantaged.

He has the confidence to unify all the sects in the country, plus some of his own training and adsorption of some stray people.

In the past three years, Zhong Yu has already had 83 sixth-rankers, plus he has three seventh-rankers that he has drawn over, and his strength is even higher than that of the masters of Daming.

If it weren’t for the lack of an eighth-order powerhouse, Zhong Yu would have led the army to attack the Ming Dynasty and completely replaced this decadent dynasty.

This time, in order to resist Daming’s aggression, Zhong Yu brought 40 sixth-order players, plus he had two seventh-order players, leaving only one seventh-order powerhouse to sit in the imperial capital to support the rear.

This kind of strength is naturally more than enough to deal with the opposing Ming Dynasty army.

Since the news of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty came to Zhong Yu, he did not pay attention to these troops at all.

He has this self-confidence, and with his powerful strength, he can also kill the Ming Dynasty army on the opposite side.

What really worries him is that after defeating these Ming armies, if the founder of the Ming Dynasty made his own move, how should he deal with it?

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