The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 478

[Chapter four hundred and seventy third wasteland]

Since Zhong Yu made up his mind to stick to it and the Ming court made up his mind to attack, a protracted war was inevitable.

Jiangdu City is located in the center of the six southern provinces, surrounded by the other five provinces. It is the center of the entire six southern provinces and controls the hub of the south.

If the Ming Dynasty wanted to retake the entire south, it had to first retake Jiangdong Province, where Jiangdu City was located.

Only by controlling Jiangdong Province can we take it as the center and attack the other five provinces that have been isolated from the surrounding area, so as to achieve the effect of quickly regaining lost territory.

Likewise, if Jiangdong Province is not taken down, then no matter how much territory the Ming Dynasty attacks in the south, any province is seized.

Other areas can focus on Jiangdong Province and concentrate all the forces to attack the Ming army, making it difficult for the army step by step.

The battleground of the military family is Jiangdong Province, and its status is roughly equivalent to Jingzhou during the Three Kingdoms period.

If Daming wanted to unify the South, he had to take Jiangdong Province.

Therefore, the goal of the Ming Dynasty at the beginning was to win the Upper Anton Province in the north of Jiangdong Province first.

As the border between Jiangdong Province and Daming, Shang’an Province has naturally deployed heavy defenses, with strong troops, many cities along the way, and dangerous checkpoints can be seen everywhere, making it extremely difficult to attack.

And because he knew the purpose of the Ming Dynasty very well, Zhong Yu had arranged an army of 400,000 here from the very beginning, of which there were 200,000 trusted elites to defend against the attack of the Ming Dynasty, which was enough.

As for some other provinces, except for some places that are so called not to the outside world, they have deployed troops ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 in twos and threes to establish a not very solid line of defense to resist the aggression of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhong Yu could see clearly that as long as Jiangdong Province was not lost, some other surrounding provinces would be occupied by Daming.

Then he can also quickly mobilize enough elite troops to attack and recover the lost land through the central location of Jiangdong Province and the convenient transportation.

Therefore, there is no need to arrange so many defenses in other places to disperse the forces that are already reluctant.

The line of defense has been arranged, and after a tentative decisive battle on the front line failed, Zhong Yu had already given up the plan to confront each other.

Now these defensive facilities that were originally arranged just in case have finally come in handy.

As long as the Daming Dynasty does not retreat, or sends the eighth-order Taizu to take action, then Zhong Yu has the confidence to drag it on, knowing that it will drag Daming to collapse and drag it to its demise.

Even if this world is a mythical world, there are gods and Buddhas all over the sky, but the army of the major dynasties still has requirements and pressures in terms of baggage.

Daming has now dispatched an army of 500,000 troops, and after a round of annexation and recruitment, it has reached a scale of 700,000.

For such a huge army, just to supply him with food, grass and military supplies is an aid with cultivation methods, and it also needs more than 3 million people to help transport materials.

3 million people, and they must be strong men, that is not a small number. Most of the population of a province in the Ming Dynasty was only 10 to 20 million.

If Ming wants to make up the 3 million people, it will take at least 3 to 4 provinces to fully support it without affecting the most basic agricultural production in the province.

And Daming now has a few provinces left, but only a mere 12. The strong man who wants to go out of his territory at once, how long can the national strength of the Ming Dynasty be on the verge of collapse.

Don’t dare to say anything else, as long as he drags him for another two or three years, the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty will starve to death, and they will starve to death first.

Therefore, it is impossible to play for four or five years for a long time.

This is also one of the reasons why the Ming Dynasty is now aggressively attacking.

The attack of the Ming Dynasty was very fierce. In addition to 200,000 of the 700,000 attacking troops allocated to the four sides to act as partial kings and cannon fodder, the main force of 500,000 personally attacked the central part.

The war had just begun, and the situation in the Ontario battlefield was not good.

Although Zhong Yu is not worth the defense of 400,000 troops, there are many twenty-five boys among them, and they are constantly swaying.

There are only 200,000 defenders, not only to guard against the betrayal of the companions, but also to resist the fierce attack of the enemy, after all, it is somewhat insufficient.

Therefore, at the beginning of the battle, under the fierce attack of the enemy, relying on the superiority of its own numbers, regardless of the loss, the entire land of the seven prefectures and one prefecture in Shangang Province lost three whole prefectures, leaving only half of the site. Persevering.

The reason why they lost so quickly when there was a strong city defense was not only because of their own lack of numbers, but also because of the betrayal of some internal personnel.

Countless Daming’s original surrendered armies, as well as the newly incorporated armies, immediately surrendered when they saw the arrival of the army of the Daming Dynasty, or even turned their backs directly, which led to a sudden change in the battle situation.

Just such a confrontation,

100,000 of the 200,000 miscellaneous troops have defected, and the remaining 100,000 are also uncertain, and they may continue to defect at any time.

After two successive defections, UU reading www.uukanshu.com finally made Zhong Yu soberly realize that if he could not completely eliminate the Ming Dynasty, he would defeat the nominal orthodoxy.

Then no matter how much territory they occupy in the Ming Dynasty, the people at the bottom will not sincerely rely on themselves.

Even if they take refuge, it is a false snake. When the Ming Dynasty army has arrived, they will turn their backs.

In this way, no matter how many soldiers and horses you train yourself, you are only spending money to prepare an army for the Ming Dynasty.

The sobered Zhong Yu didn’t dare to trust the rest of the army, so they were transferred away one after another and were no longer arranged on the front line.

These scheming armies will have a job perfectly suited to them.

That is to go to the east of Dongjiang Province in the east, that is, within the thousands of miles of mountains and forests, to expand the territory for Yuguo, and turn forests into fields.

To put it bluntly, it is to let these people use their own lives to forcibly open up countless fertile fields for Zhong Yu in thousands of miles of mountains and forests, and in disguise to increase the land area and enrich the heritage of Yu Kingdom.

Opening up the living area for the human race, compressing the living space of the demon race, and turning the barren forest into fertile land can also gain luck.

Moreover, the luck obtained is not cheap, far faster than slowly compressing and extracting the luck of the people at the bottom.

Throughout the history of the past, all the dynasties that can open up the living space for the human race are in a state of prosperity.

In other words, it is the fate of destiny.

Why is this so?

It is because they have opened up the hidden value of that land, been able to use it, and have been rewarded humanely.

After all, failing to have enough open living space is equivalent to enhancing the power of humanity in disguise.

Humanity then obtained some resources from it, revealing a little bit, and it was enough for a dynasty to be strong for decades.

(End of this chapter)

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