The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 479

[Chapter 474 Food]

Because of the betrayal of the motley army, coupled with the distrust of the clan, the stability of the battle situation is even more guaranteed, so as to avoid greater changes.

Zhong Yu had to reluctantly send these hundreds of thousands of carefully trained troops to the eastern forest as cannon fodder to squeeze their last remaining value.

As for these cannon fodders are all innocent, what do you think.

From the moment they were shaken before and failed to work hard on the battlefield, the current outcome has been doomed.

Zhong Yu is not a benevolent lord, and the means he used to deal with betrayers in the past were far more ruthless than the gentle wasteland he used now.

Now it’s just a punishment to open up wasteland for farming, which can be regarded as a very open side.

In this way, under the order of Zhong Yu, the remaining number of about 200,000 miscellaneous troops, all received the order to mobilize, and rushed to Dongjiang Province. Under the coercion of him, he set off towards Sanlin for thousands of miles.

There, they will go through countless trials of life and death, and after many obstacles, only one in ten will survive.

Thousands of miles of mountains and forests are not the place to talk and laugh.

The land within the mountains and forests is certainly fertile, and all of them are developed, which is almost equivalent to most of the Ming Dynasty.

This is a piece of fat under the situation of the mainland where the basic turf has been allocated and it is difficult to expand the turf.

But it is such a piece of fat that will not move. No matter it is the Ming Dynasty or other dynasties adjacent to the mountains and forests for thousands of miles, no one has a bite on this fat.

The reason for this is not that the emperors of the major dynasties do not want to, but it is because the situation in the mountains and forests is too dangerous.

Within a thousand miles of mountains and forests, poisonous smoke is dense, poisonous insects and snakes can be seen everywhere, and even the water you drink is poisonous. You can touch a swamp or a subsidence if you take two steps, and if you touch a leaf or grass, you may be poisoned.

The situation can be described as extremely dangerous, and it is extremely difficult for ordinary humans to survive in it even if they have a certain level of cultivation.

Even some powerful cultivators of the fourth and fifth rank may be killed by these small tricks due to one carelessness.

Even some monsters who grew up in the mountains and became elites, if they were not familiar with the situation in their original basic site, they might die if they went far, and they were extremely dangerous.

Even the Yellow Mountain Demon King, who guarded the school for thousands of miles of mountain forests, was only able to run rampant in most areas. There were four or five secret realms in the mountains and forests. He didn’t even dare to break through, because it was too dangerous.

Now that these 200,000 troops are filled in, Zhong Yu estimates that he will be able to open up 2 to 3 counties for him, which is equivalent to a small prefecture in the Ming Dynasty.

It can support an army of 200,000 people, but it needs the full support of a province, which consumes most of the financial resources.

With so much energy invested, there is only so much to gain. Whoever counts it is a loss-making business. Naturally, the great imperial courts, where countless smart people gather, will not foolishly go to do such a thankless thing.

The miscellaneous army was transferred, and the Ming Dynasty on the opposite side was naturally impossible as before. Everywhere there were countless traitors leading the way, so as to win the cities smoothly.

As I said before, the total army of the Imperial Kingdom is about 1.5 million.

Today, among them, the previous battle losses, as well as countless defections, and the 200,000 army who have just been used as cannon fodder and transferred to the mountains and forests to open up wasteland.

Zhong Yu still has about 800,000 troops left, all of which can be trusted, and the fighting morale is relatively high.

These troops guard the southern border, and part of them maintains law and order in the provinces. In the end, there are probably about 400,000 troops left.

Zhong Yu planned to use these 400,000 elites to slowly take advantage of the city’s defense and consume Daming’s strength little by little.

As I said before, the logistical pressure of the Ming Dynasty was actually very great. To maintain an army of hundreds of thousands, the Ming Dynasty must be able to do it with the strength of the whole country.

And because of the prediction of the current situation, Zhong Yu mobilized the strategic materials from various places to the rear early and strictly controlled them.

After several years of preparation, countless people who wanted to hide strategic materials were all dealt with. After a series of killings, the remaining people became honest and did not dare to openly disobey.

Up to now, the most important strategic materials in various places, that is, military rations, have been dispatched by Zhong Yu early, and there is not much left at all.

If the Ming Dynasty wanted to obtain supplies in various places, it was impossible, unless they took the risk of offending everyone and grabbed the month’s rations left by Zhong Yu from the people and forced them to Dead end.

If it really does that, even if Daming can get enough food rations to support a longer war,

Zhong Yu will also feel very happy.

Because this means that the people of the Ming Dynasty have completely dissipated, and in the future, Zhong Yu will rule those areas that have been scourged, and there will no longer be any obstacles and difficulties. UUkanshu www.uukanshu.

The soldiers recruited by com will not be turned on the battlefield as before.

Even because the Daming army is full of a large number of surrendered soldiers who have defected, these surrendered soldiers may turn back again because their relatives were harmed by the Ming Dynasty.

In order to avoid the same fate for themselves, the people in the back will really start to fully support Zhong Yu.

The Ming Dynasty captured seven or eight prefectures on various fronts, adding up to one province’s territory, and even the army expanded by more than 100,000, reaching a scale of more than 900,000 and nearly one million, which is extremely huge.

However, although the number of troops has increased, it also means that the logistical pressure has further expanded.

Every time the Ming Dynasty captured a treasury, it could be found that there was not much military ration in it at all.

Then I went to the major grain stores in the city to buy, but found that those who sold grain were not much, and the grain they sold was official, and there was not much.

The entire Imperial Kingdom has implemented a food rationing system, even the army.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has occupied many prefectures and counties, it is natural that they cannot lay down the territory and then leave it aside.

They are the teachers of justice in the court, and naturally they have to send officials down to train people’s feelings and stabilize people’s hearts.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty did not lay down a site, and all officials who accompanied the army acted as local parental officials, and then set up a basic administrative framework, and slowly began to restore people’s livelihood.

But the first problem in front of them is that the local food is not enough, and it can only last for half a month or a month.

If the grain cannot be transferred during this time, then there will be famine in the local area, and all the people may starve to death.

In addition to millions of troops, the Ming Dynasty added millions of civilians waiting for subsidies, and the burden was even heavier.

(End of this chapter)

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