The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 481

[Chapter 476 Transition]

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, three years have passed since the 500,000-strong army of the Ming Dynasty went south.

In the past three years, for the situation of Daming, the impact can be described as very far-reaching, and the changes brought about are also very large.

First of all, the 500,000-strong army marched south, and the morale of the army was fierce. On the way, they attacked the city and conquered the land without any obstacles, and quickly regained the land of the two provinces.

And gradually invaded the enemy’s Gyeonggi land, causing turmoil in the enemy country, causing countless oppressed righteous men to rise up against the enemy’s tyranny and respond to the imperial court’s crusade.

The rebellion in various places quickly disrupted the reluctantly settled rule of the Imperial Kingdom, causing turmoil in the originally stable rear, and loopholes in the integrity of the defense for the collection of taxes and the maintenance of the situation.

Daming’s army took this opportunity to attack, and achieved great results, regaining some lost ground and increasing its momentum.

Things went very smoothly. It seemed that if things continued to such an extent, it would not take a year for Daming’s army to regain all the lost land in the south and completely expel the rebellious forces.

But everyone soon discovered that their predictions were wrong.

Although a lot of territory has been lost, the territory that Zhong Yu can control has shrunk on a large scale, and the strategic space has become narrow and difficult to move.

But from another aspect, it also represents the Central Region. There are fewer places to defend. It can concentrate the limited army, defend in more critical places, and have stronger strength to resist the enemy’s attack and let the defense line. become heavier.

This change makes the crusade army, which has become stronger, difficult to make effective breakthroughs in the next attack.

However, although the defense has become more stable, the Daming army can still slowly capture some fortresses by virtue of their numerical superiority, regardless of losses, and slowly move their footsteps towards the center of Jiangdu City.

Since Daming conquered more and more provinces, its strength has also become stronger.

Whether it was looting the newly recovered provinces, or slowly providing some help from the mainland at the rear, the strength of the Ming crusade was slowly increased.

One year after the start of the war, the six southern provinces had lost four provinces, and the Ming army completely surrounded Zhong Yu’s territory and began a large-scale general offensive.

The number of Daming’s army has reached an astonishing 1.2 million, while the opposite Royal Kingdom is still only 400,000.

The reason for this is mainly that Zhong Yu has the resources of a small world, and can continuously draw troops from all walks of life to make up for the consumption on the battlefield.

Zhong Yu couldn’t trust the locals from all over the south.

All of them had their hearts on the Ming Dynasty, and regarded Zhong Yu as an intruder, a traitor and rebellious, and could not get their sincere support at all.

Recruiting them to serve as an army is only used to send troops and equipment to the Ming Dynasty on the opposite side. It is of no use at all, but it will increase the strength of the enemy.

So Zhong Yu can only, and dare to recruit people from his own small world.

However, the resources of the small world are limited after all. Although it has the support of the heavens and the world, it takes strength to maintain the rule of all circles.

And to ensure that the new world can continue to carry out greater plunder, it is necessary to maintain a large army of aggressors.

In this way, although Zhong Yu’s army is large, many of them have to be divided into various worlds to suppress and rule, or to capture new worlds, bringing more income and resources to Zhong Yu.

There are not many forces that can be drawn to support Zhong Yu’s battle in the world of Liaozhai.

In fact, due to Zhong Yu’s continuous deployment of troops and horses over the years, consuming the energy of air transport, the operation of the small world has already experienced a slight load, which is somewhat difficult to maintain.

Even the sites that have been conquered by all walks of life have gradually experienced small-scale hopes and turmoil due to the lack of guarding strength.

If it weren’t for Zhong Yu’s ability to quickly mobilize the power of other worlds to come to those turbulent worlds to quell the rebellion and stabilize the situation, maybe these worlds might be out of Zhong Yu’s control again.

Because there are so many sites to maintain and such a big situation to be controlled, Zhong Yu has very little power to mobilize.

Up to now, it can only maintain an army of 400,000 on the battlefield to resist the attack of the Ming army that is three times its own.

Fortunately, he was in a defensive position now, so he didn’t have to confront the Daming army on the frontal battlefield. He could use the advantages of the city wall to defend, which greatly reduced Zhong Yu’s wear and tear, and it was rare that the battlefield could be maintained.

Now, because there are fewer places to defend, more troops can be concentrated, and the city defenses of Zhong Yu’s defense cities are also much stronger.

The enemy wanted to attack without paying several times the number of casualties, but without even thinking about it.

However, the situation is tilted in the direction of the Ming Dynasty after all.

No matter how Zhong Yu insisted on resisting, it was still difficult to stop the increasing number of troops from the Ming Dynasty and the continuous supply of supplies.

After insisting on resisting for half a year, there is only one province left in the two provinces. Even if the army of 400,000 people is supplemented, there are only 300,000 people left.

Zhong Yu was trapped in Jiangdong Province and Jiangdu City, where he was struggling to resist.

In order to recover the south faster, Daming.

In order to eliminate the remaining enemies in the south more quickly, more troops were mobilized to besiege the remnants of the Imperial Kingdom in Jiangdong Province.

Zhong Yu’s remaining troops fought to the death to resist, because they knew that they had no way out, they were surrounded by enemies, and they had nowhere to escape.

As for the situation where the enemy on the opposite side of the surrender is red-eyed, it is not certain whether to accept it or not.

And no one knows if he will regret it after accepting it.

After fighting for another half a year, when the army of Yuguo was completely dead and wounded, and there was no longer any resistance.

Zhong Yu decisively withdrew to the eastern territory with the top domestic leaders, where he led the army to carry out the next resistance.

The previous wars were all in the six southern provinces, and the four eastern provinces of Yuguo were not affected too much, not only because the Ming Army did not have more troops to attack separately, but also because the capital of Yuguo was in the south.

According to the general idea at the time, if the capital of the country fell, then most of the country would basically be abolished, and the remaining land could be ploughed down in one fell swoop.

So as long as the capital that gathers most of the power of a country is taken down, how can the remaining residual power be able to stop the powerful enemy who can take the capital?

Therefore, after the six southern provinces were completely captured, there were still about one million daimyo’s crusades left, and they immediately turned their guns and attacked the remaining four eastern provinces.

There were also 200,000 remnants of Yuguo entrenched there. After sweeping them away, Daming truly regained the territory that was taken by the traitors.

Except for the five provinces in the north that were taken away by the Great Jin, all the land can be restored. This is an exciting event.

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