The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 446: Preliminary strategy completed

Zhong Yu's subordinates can mobilize 500,000 troops for him, but these 500,000 troops have actually lost more than 70,000 people after repeated battles in the world of Liao Zhai.

After all, whether it was the previous siege or the head-on confrontation on the battlefield, Zhong Yu was able to lay down two more provinces, and it was impossible for him to lose nothing at all.

Now Huaixi Province has lost another 70,000 people. In total, about 150,000 troops have completely withdrawn from Zhong Yu's army sequence.

Although another 50,000 recruits have been recruited in Dongjiang Province, these 50,000 recruits may be somewhat reluctant to use for combat, but maintaining local law and order in Dongjiang Province can still be done with due diligence.

In this way, Zhong Li has only about 400,000 troops left in the entire Liao Zhai world.

Among these 400,000 people, 160,000 will be allocated to be stationed in various places, and only 240,000 can be used for combat.

Although it looks like a lot of troops, Zhong Yu estimated that such a small number of troops would be enough for him to lay down two or three provinces. No matter how much he had, he would be powerless.

So Zhong Yu now hates the Governor of Huaixi Province who killed him 70,000 soldiers.

Although it was only 70,000 soldiers' lives, it was nothing in Zhong Yu's eyes.

With these 70,000 fewer people, Zhong Yu’s progress in scoring the entire Ming Dynasty will inevitably slow down by two or three months, or even longer.

This makes Zhong Yu somewhat unacceptable.

In order to respond to the provocation of the Governor of Huaixi Province against him, and to reinvigorate the prestige of the army, so as not to let the defenders of the Ming Dynasty overcome their fear of their own army because of this defeat, and strengthen their minds. Fight against rebellious ideas.

Zhong Yu decided that except for the 100,000 army in Huaidong Province, stay in place and stop attacking, as long as he maintains the current basic site and waits for his own support.

The remaining 140,000 troops that can be mobilized will all be taken to Huaixi Province, ready to personally take down this difficult bone.

This time the offensive went quite smoothly. Just five days after entering Huaixi Province, he invaded most of the prefectures and counties, and approached the capital of Huaixi Province, Shouzhou City.

At this time, Shouzhou City had only more than 10,000 defenders, and the defense had more than doubled compared to before.

Although the Huaixi Provincial Army defeated Zhong Yu's 100,000 troops under the leadership of the governor, their losses were extremely heavy.

More than ten thousand troops were buried in the battlefield, and half of the troops were completely lost, which also made the defense force of Huaixi Province greatly weakened.

At the bottom of Shouzhou City, because of the ignorance of Governor Huaixi before, Zhong Yu did not issue any orders to surrender, and directly ordered the army to attack.

The 140,000 army, like the previous Pingyang City, formed a large formation that constantly bombarded Shouzhou City, and because Zhong Yu personally started it, the defense time of the formation was not as long as Pingyang City. .

In just two days, the great defense formation of Shouzhou City collapsed, and the entire city completely opened its arms.

The governor of Huaixi went out of the city to fight and was chopped under the sword by Zhong Yu within 30 minutes. Then all the defenders in the city resisted to death. The governor of Huaixi committed suicide and fell under the city of Shouzhou.

Although the irritated defenders of Shouzhou City couldn't open their eyes, and there was an idea of ​​angering the people in the city, Zhong Yu calmed down rationally.

After all, as the city of Shouzhou was breached and the city fell into its own control, the people in the city became their own people. Killing them would undoubtedly damage their foundation and wealth. Which one is unwise.

So Zhong Yu only limited his anger to the relatives of the defenders in the city, put them to death, exiled them, and even a large number of female relatives were drawn into the army as vent items, which was extremely miserable.

In this way, Zhong Yu not only restored the morale of the army that suffered heavy losses, but also used to deter other factors that dared to resist the city's defenders.

Zhong Yu wanted to use this cruel method to make all the city defenders who want to resist think about the consequences.

For the court and the life of my family, is it worth it?

Perhaps those high-level generals and officials will disregard their lives for the sake of their so-called loyalty, because they have received the emperor's grace and naturally have their due responsibilities.

But the soldiers at the bottom don't have this idea.

They only want to earn a share of military rations when they serve as soldiers, and even many of them are recruited by force, not out of their own intentions.

Furthermore, after joining the army, the generals always deducted the army's salary, beaten and scolded the soldiers at the bottom like slaves, and suffered all the humiliation.

Under this situation, how many soldiers are loyal to the court?

After all, situations like the defenders of Shouzhou City are still very rare.

Not everyone can be like Governor Huaixi, with a clean and honest government, and is deeply loved by the soldiers at the bottom, and can serve his life for him.

However, these soldiers also got their resistance to the end, and the whole family was implicated.

As the Zhong Yu commanded that all enemy generals and defenders were to be held accountable, the effect soon came into being.

Although most of the generals in the city wanted to resist, the soldiers at the bottom were afraid of the enemy's subsequent revenge and resisted.

They didn't work hard in the war, and even made a direct attack, so that Zhong Yu's next strategy went smoothly, regaining the entire Huaixi Province in less than half a month.

After taking Huaixi Province, Zhong Yu left a guard of 80,000 soldiers, appointed some of his own officials, set up a basic administrative rule, restored local order, and led the remaining 50,000 The army rushed towards Huaidong Province.

The previous case of the annihilation of the Huaixi Province army is still vivid, and Zhong Yu has also received his own painful lesson, which has made him feel awkward.

Now the 100,000 army of Huaidong Province is hanging alone, and there is a sixth-tier governor leading 40,000 Huaidong Province defenders watching him. How can he let him relax?

I'm afraid when this 100,000 army will end up with the previous army of Huaixi Province, and the whole army will be wiped out.

But what made Zhong Yu feel strange. When his fifty thousand troops arrived in Huaidong Province, the province’s defenders did not organize any counterattack. Instead, they all shrank in the capital of Huaidong Province and stood firm. Not out.

After Zhong Yu arrived at ~IndoMTL.com~, we have received the news that Huaixi Province was captured and the Governor was killed. The Governor of Huaixi Province, a Tier 6 martial arts master named Forestry, has directly led the entire province. The army descended.

This is quite surprising to Zhong Yu.

You must know that Zhong Yu's current identity is just an anti-thief, although it seems to be the same as it is now, he has fully occupied the three provinces of Daming.

But many people think that as long as the court can free up, even if the storm that Zhong Yu is setting off now is no more than a clown, he will not be able to get on the stage.

After all, Da Ming has an eighth-level master, and Zhong Yu is the tallest one here, but he is a sixth-level master, and there is only one person, no matter how you look at the gap, it is too big.

But no matter what, it would be a joy to be able to have a Tier 6 master under his hand.

This means that the high-level combat power under Zhong Yu's command gradually became abundant with the addition of the natives of this world.

Furthermore, many of the fifth ranks under Zhong Yushou have reached the peak state. Basically, the breakthrough is not far away, and it is not too late for the accumulation of time.

It is estimated that in one or two years, Zhong Yu's command will have nearly ten new breakthrough sixth ranks.

And Zhong Yu himself also feels that as the territory occupied in this world expands, his cultivation base also shows signs of a breakthrough, and he will soon be able to break through the bottleneck of the sixth-order peak and reach the seventh-order realm.

At that time, there will be a seventh-tier cultivation base, and there will be more than a dozen sixth-tier under the hand. It is basically possible to break the wrist with any force in the world without taking a shot at the eighth stage, although the winner is Unexpectedly.

This is an important breakthrough.

As the situation is getting better, Zhong Yu's fear of this world has also become much weaker, gradually gaining a bit of confidence and self-confidence.