The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 474: Food

Because of the betrayal of the miscellaneous army, coupled with the distrust of the clan, the stability of the battle situation has been ensured, so as to avoid greater changes.

Zhong Yu had to bear the pain to send these hundreds of thousands of carefully trained troops to the eastern forest as cannon fodder for consumption, squeezing their final surplus value.

As for the innocence of these cannon fodder, what do you think? From the moment they were shaken before and did not work **** the battlefield, they have been doomed to the end now.

Zhong Yu is not a benevolent master, and the methods used for the betrayers in the past are far more ruthless than the gentle land reclamation now.

Now it's just a punishment to open up wasteland and farm, it's already a very open side.

In this way, under the order of Zhong Yu, the remaining miscellaneous troops with a number of about 200,000 all received the order of transfer and rushed to Dongjiang Province. Under the persecution of 50,000 elites, they headed towards Sanlin for thousands of miles.

There, they will go through countless trials of life and death, and through many obstacles, less than one in ten will survive in the end.

Thousands of miles of mountains and forests are not a place for talking and laughing.

The land within the mountains and forests is fertile, and all developed, almost equivalent to most of the Ming Dynasty. This is a fat meat in the mainland situation where the basic turf has been allocated and it is difficult to expand the turf.

But it is such a fat that is placed there that will not move. No matter it is the Ming Dynasty or the other dynasties adjacent to the Thousand Miles of Mountains and Forests, none of them have a bite on this piece of fat.

The reason for this is naturally not that the emperors of the major dynasties don't want to, but it is because the conditions in the mountains and forests are too dangerous.

Thousands of miles of mountains and forests are densely covered with poisonous smoke and air. You can see poisonous insects and snakes everywhere, and even the water you drink is poisonous. You can run into swamps or ground sinks with just two steps, and you can even touch a leaf or grass. Possibly poisoned.

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

Even some powerful monks of Tier 4 and 5 may be killed by these tricks because of a carelessness.

Even the monsters who have grown up in the mountains and cultivated into spirits, if they are not familiar with the situation in their original basic territory, may die if they go farther, and they will be extremely dangerous.

Even the Huangshan Demon King, who had guarded the school thousands of miles of mountains and forests, was only able to run rampant in most areas. There are four or five secret realms in the mountains and forests. Danger.

Now that the 200,000 army is filled in, Zhong Yu estimates that he will be able to open up the territory of 2 to 3 counties for him, which is equivalent to a small state in the Ming Dynasty.

It can support an army of 200,000, but it needs the full support of a province, costing most of the finances.

So much effort has been put into it, but the gain is only so little. It is a loss-making business for anyone else. The major courts gathered by countless smart people will naturally not go stupidly to do this thankless business. thing.

The miscellaneous army was transferred away. Naturally, it was impossible for the Ming court on the opposite side to be like before. Everywhere there were countless traitors leading the way, they seized every city with smooth wind.

As I said before, the total strength of Yuguo is about 1.5 million.

Now, among them, the previous battle damages and countless defections have been shaved off, and there is also the 200,000 army that has just been used as cannon fodder to open up wasteland in the mountains and forests.

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

Of these troops guarding the southern border, and part of them to maintain law and order in various provinces, there will be about 400,000 troops left in the end.

Zhong Yu intends to use these 400,000 or so elites to slowly use the advantage of city defense and consume Da Ming's power a little bit.

I said before that the logistical pressure of the Ming Dynasty was actually very high. To maintain an army of hundreds of thousands, the Ming Dynasty must be able to do so with the power of the whole country.

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

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

Now, the most important strategic material in various places, that is, military rations, has been drawn up by Zhong Yu early, and there is not much left at all.

When the Ming Dynasty wanted to obtain supplies from various places, it was simply impossible, unless they risked offending everyone and forcibly snatched the one-month ration left by Zhong Yu from the common people. They were driven to a dead end.

If you really do that, even if Daming can get enough rations to support a longer battle, Zhong Yu will be very happy.

Because this represents the complete dispersal of the people’s minds in the Ming Dynasty. In the future, Zhong Yu will rule those areas that have been harmed, and there will be no more obstacles and difficulties~ IndoMTL.com~ The recruited soldiers will not be like before. In that way, turn around on the battlefield.

Even because the Ming army was filled with a large number of deficient soldiers who came back because their relatives were harmed by the Ming Dynasty.

In order to avoid the same fate, the people in the rear will truly start to fully support Zhong Yu.

The Ming Dynasty captured seven or eight state capitals on various fronts, and together there was a province’s territory. Even the army expanded by more than a hundred thousand, reaching a scale of more than 900,000 and nearly one million. .

Although the number of troops in the army has increased, it also means that logistical pressure has further expanded.

Every time the Ming Dynasty captured a treasury, one could find that there was not much military rations in it. At most, it could only maintain the defenders of the city. The consumption of half a month to a month would be nothing.

I went to buy from the major grain shops in the city, only to find that those who sold food didn't have much, and the food they sold was all officially allocated, and there was not much.

A food rationing system was implemented in the entire Yuguo territory, even the army.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has captured many prefectures and counties, it is of course not possible to lay down the territory, and then leave it aside. They are the teachers of justice for the imperial court, so they naturally want to send officials to educate the people and stabilize people's hearts.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty did not lay a ground, and there were officials who accompanied the army to serve as local parent officials, and then set up a basic administrative framework, and slowly began the work of restoring people's livelihood.

The first problem facing them is that the local food is not enough to eat, and it can only last for half a month or a month. If the food cannot be transferred during this period, there will be a 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 became even heavier.

(End of this chapter)