The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 473: Develop wasteland

Since Zhong Yu made up his mind to stick to it and the Ming court made up his mind to attack, a long-running battle inevitably occurred.

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

If the Ming Dynasty wants to recapture the entire southern part, it must first recapture Jiangdong Province, where Jiangdu City is located.

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

Similarly, if Jiangdong Province is not captured, no matter how much territory the Ming Dynasty attacks any province in the south. In other regions, Jiangdong Province can be the center, and all the forces can be concentrated on the Ming's army, making the army difficult step by step.

The most contended place for military strategists is Jiangdong Province, whose status is roughly equivalent to Jingzhou in the Three Kingdoms period. If Daming wants to unify the South, he must take Jiangdong Province.

So the goal at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty was to capture Shang'an Province in the north of Jiangdong Province.

As the border separating Jiangdong Province and Daming Province, Shang'an Province is naturally equipped with heavy defenses, with strong troops and numerous cities along the way. Difficulties in checkpoints can be seen everywhere, making it extremely difficult to attack.

Because he knew the purpose of the Ming Dynasty very well, Zhong Yu deployed 400,000 troops here from the very beginning. Among them, there were 200,000 trustworthy elites to defend against Ming's offense. That was enough.

As for some other provinces, except for some so-called not-to-outside areas, they have deployed troops ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 in twos and threes to establish a not-so-sturdy line of defense to resist Ming’s aggression. .

Zhong Yu can see clearly that as long as Jiangdong Province is not lost, some other surrounding provinces will even be occupied by Daming. Then he can also quickly mobilize enough elite troops through the central location of Jiangdong Province and the convenient transportation to attack and recover the lost land.

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

The defensive line has been laid out. After a tentative decisive battle on the front line failed, Zhong Yu has given up his plan to fight head-on. Now these defensive facilities, which were originally arranged just in case, have finally come in handy.

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

Even if this world is a mythical world, there are gods and Buddhas in the sky, but the marching armies of the various dynasties still have requirements and pressures in terms of their own needs.

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

Such a huge army, just to supply him with food and munitions is the aid of cultivation methods, and it also needs more than 3 million people to help transport supplies.

There are 3 million civilians, and they must also be strong. That is not a small number. The population of a province in the Ming Dynasty is mostly only one to 20 million.

If Daming wants to make up the 3 million civilians, without affecting the most basic agricultural production in the province, at least 3 to 4 provinces will be able to support it.

And there are still a few provinces in Daming, but only 12, and the strong men who are going to go out of one-third of his territory all at once, with the national power that the Ming Dynasty is now on the verge of collapse, how long can it last?

I dare not 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 everywhere, and they will starve to death first.

So it's impossible to fight for a long time for four or five years.

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

The Ming Dynasty's offensive was very fierce. In addition to 200,000 of the 700,000 offensive troops who were allocated to the four sides as the king and cannon fodder, the 500,000 main force personally attacked the central part.

The war has just begun, and the situation on the battlefield in Upper Ontario is getting worse.

Although Zhong Yu is not worthy of a 400,000 army to defend, there are many twenty-five boys among them, and there are constantly swinging ***. With only 200,000 defenders, it was not only necessary to guard against betrayal by their companions, but also to withstand the ferocious attacks of the enemy. After all, it was somewhat inadequate.

So at the beginning of the battle, under the fierce attack of the enemy, relying on the advantage of its own numbers, and the strong attack regardless of loss, the whole province of Upper Ontario lost three provinces in the land of seven provinces and one state, and only left The bottom half of the site is holding fast.

The reason why he lost so quickly with a strong city defense was that in addition to his lack of numbers, there were also reasons for the internal defections.

Countless Ming’s original descendants, as well as the newly incorporated armies, saw the Ming Dynasty’s army kings coming, and immediately surrendered one after another, or even reverted directly. This led to a sudden change in the battle.

In such a confrontation, 100,000 out of the 200,000 miscellaneous troops have turned against each other, and the remaining 100,000 minds are also ups and downs, and it is possible to continue to turn against each other at any time.

Two consecutive defiances~IndoMTL.com~ finally made Zhong Yu soberly aware that if the Ming Dynasty cannot be completely eliminated, this nominal orthodoxy will be defeated.

Then no matter how much land they occupy in the Ming Dynasty, the people at the bottom will not really take refuge in themselves.

Even if they take refuge, they are hypocritical snakes. When the Ming Dynasty army has arrived, one after another will turn around.

In this way, no matter how many soldiers and horses I train, I'm just spending money to prepare an army for the Ming Dynasty.

Zhong Yu, who was sober, didn't dare to trust the rest of the army, and moved them away from the front line.

These ghost-inspired troops will have a job that suits them perfectly.

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 open up the territory for the imperial country and open up forests for 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 the thousands of miles of mountains and forests, and in a disguised form to increase the area of ​​the country and enrich the heritage.

Expanding the living area for the human race, compressing the living space of the demon race, and turning barren forests into fertile fields, can also obtain luck. Moreover, the air luck obtained is not cheap, much faster than slowly compressing and extracting the air luck of the people at the bottom.

Throughout the past history, any dynasty that can open up the living space for the human race is not at its peak, with great ancestors and good officials emerging in an endless stream, and the country's military strength is extremely powerful. To put it another way, it means that luck is overwhelming and destiny ends.

Why is this so? It is because they opened up the hidden value of that piece of land, were able to use it, and received a humane reward.

After all, the lack of an open living space is tantamount to enhancing the power of humanity in a disguised form.

Then the humanity has obtained some resources from it, and a little bit of it is exposed, which is enough for a dynasty to be strong for decades.

(End of this chapter)