The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 470: Preliminary confrontation

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

First of all, the army of Yuguo has undergone a series of simplification and training, removing some old and weak and the original soldiers from the Ming Dynasty, so that the combat effectiveness of the entire army has been condensed superbly, and it has the appearance of some elite soldiers.

Then continue to recruit new troops, select excellent soldiers from all over the country for training, and then enrich them to all armies, greatly expanding the number of empire's troops.

In the past three years, Zhong Yu gained another army by plundering and conquering the heavens and all realms.

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

As for combat effectiveness, the two sides are half-hearted, and there is not much difference.

Even because Yuguo was on the defensive side, it had a certain geographical advantage, and the Ming Dynasty only sent 500,000 troops to the south, and the number was not more or less.

Because the Yuguo is a domestic warfare, facing the offensive of Ming Dynasty, apart from setting up about 300,000 troops to prevent the attacks of the South Korea and Wei in the south. Basically, there are no enemies on the other borders to defend. The only enemy is the Ming Dynasty, so Yuguo can draw out more troops to resist the attack of Ming Dynasty.

When the news of the Southern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty came, Zhong Yu began a nationwide military mobilization.

300,000 frontier troops were left to guard the two countries of Korea and Wei, and another 200,000 were left to guard the place. The remaining one million troops were led by Zhong Yu himself and rushed to the Mingyu border, intending to fend off the enemy outside the country.

The enemy came very quickly. When Zhong Yu had just laid out the defense lines in various places, Daming's 100,000 pioneers had already rushed to the forefront 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 small, basically negligible.

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

Why did Ming dare to attack the imperial kingdom, which has a large number of millions and a defensive position with a mere 500,000 troops, and does not seem to worry about his defeat at all.

Because whether it is Ming Dynasty or Yuguo, they all know in their hearts that the key to the victory of this war is not the soldiers at the bottom, but the game between the high-level combat power of the two sides.

Although the soldiers at the bottom are important, they are the foundation that cannot be ignored in the rule of a country. But the main function was to suppress local security and maintain the imperial taxation.

Soldiers like this are extremely easy to recruit. As long as they have sufficient 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.

Similarly, what the Ming Dynasty was able to do, finally there was no reason why it could not be done. It can be seen from his disbanded and repatriated more than 400,000 Daming Kingdom's descendants and the original old and weak Yuguo.

These people are basically Tier 3 strength, and their strength is not weak. A considerable part of them are veterans who have fought many battles.

So no matter it is Daming or Zhong Yu, the army that can pull up at any time like these cannon fodder doesn't care at all.

The reason that really decides that they can't expand the army on a large scale is that the supply of money and food is not enough.

With the fighting between the forwards of the two sides, the fighting has become more and more intense, and battles are taking place all over the front at any time. 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. The situation can be described as anxious.

The anxiety of this kind of war has not slowly eased over time, but has become more hot with the arrival of the main force of the respective army in the rear.

Especially the arrival of the main force of the Ming Dynasty. Because it was the offensive side, the Ming Dynasty's offensive was extremely fierce. It did not care about the heavy casualties of the soldiers at the bottom level, and did not care about the number of enemies in its own army, and constantly urged the soldiers to attack and attack. Attack again.

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

The urging of these high-level officers is still useful.

Although the soldiers at the bottom had great grievances in their hearts, their grievances disappeared a bit when their leaders supported the offense, and even many people took the lead in the charge.

What's more, whenever a soldier tries to escape from the battlefield and retreat to a safe place behind.

Behind them, the supervising team, which was composed entirely of officers, directly used **** examples to tell them that being a deserter has no future or hope, and will only lose their lives in vain.

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As a general at the rank of 10,000 generals, some ordinary armies have commanders of the fifth-tier peak generals, while the elite are led by the sixth-tier strong.

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

In addition to some other generals, this time Daming’s expedition army has a total of 15 Tier 6, and two lieutenants of the early stage of the seventh stage, plus a head coach of the late stage of the seventh stage, together. This time the luxurious lineup of the Southern Expeditionary Army.

However, although Daming's lineup is luxurious, the imperial army on the opposite side is not in the slightest.

Have the confidence to unify all the sects in the country, plus some of his own cultivation and absorption of some wandering people. Three years have passed, Zhong Yu already has 83 Tier 6s, plus he has three Tier 7s that he has pulled over. Compared with Da Ming's master level, Zhong Yu's strength is even better.

If it weren't for a Tier 8 powerhouse, Zhong Yu would have led an army to attack the Ming Dynasty, completely replacing this decadent dynasty.

This time, in order to resist the aggression of Ming Dynasty, Zhong Yuzuzu brought 40 Tier 6 members, and he also had two Tier 7 members, leaving only one Tier 7 powerhouse to sit in the Imperial City and 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 from the Ming Dynasty came, Zhong Yu hadn't paid attention to these troops at all.

He has this self-confidence. With his strong strength, he can also use people to face the Ming Dynasty army on the opposite side.

It's just that what really worries him is that after defeating these Ming troops, if the founding grandfather of the Ming Dynasty took the initiative himself, how would he respond?