The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 476: Transition

Time passed by, and in a blink of an eye, it was three years since the southern expedition of the 500,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty.

In the past three years, the impact on the situation of Daming has been very far-reaching, and the changes it has brought about are also very great.

First of all, the 500,000 army made a southern expedition, and the morale of the army was fierce. They attacked the city along the way, without any obstacles, and quickly regained the land of the two provinces. And gradually invaded the enemy's Gyeonggi region, causing turmoil in the enemy country, making countless oppressed righteous men rise up against the enemy's tyranny and respond to the imperial court's crusade.

Rebellions in various places soon disrupted the reign of the imperial kingdom that was barely settled down, causing turmoil in the originally stable rear area, and loopholes in the collection of taxes and the maintenance of the situation and the integrity of the defense.

Da Ming's army took this opportunity to attack and achieved great results. It also regained some lost ground and gained momentum.

Things proceeded smoothly. It seemed that it would go on to such an extent that it would not take a year for Daming's army to retake all the lost land in the south and completely drive out the rebellious forces.

But everyone soon discovered that their predictions were wrong.

Although a lot of territory was lost, the territory that Zhong Yu could control suddenly shrank on a large scale, and the strategic space became narrow and difficult to move.

But from another aspect, it also represents the middle area. There are a lot less places to defend. It can concentrate the limited army, defend in more critical places, and have more powerful forces to resist the enemy's attack. , So that the line of defense becomes thicker.

This change makes the crusade army that has become more powerful, and it becomes difficult to make effective breakthroughs in the subsequent offensive.

Although the defense has become stable, the Ming army can slowly seize some fortresses by relying on its superiority in numbers, regardless of loss, and slowly move toward the center of Jiangdu City.

Daming has become stronger since it has captured more and more provinces.

Whether it is a search on the newly regained provinces or the slow provision of some help from the rear of the mainland, the strength of the Ming Crusade Army has slowly increased.

One year after the war began, the six southern provinces had lost four provinces, and the Ming army completely encircled Zhong Yu's territory and began a large-scale general offensive. The number of Ming troops has reached a staggering 1.2 million, while the opposite Yuguo still only has 400,000.

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

Zhong Yu couldn't believe in the locals from all over the south. All of them were oriented towards the Ming Dynasty, treating Zhong Yu as an intruder, a rebel and rebellion, and could not get their sincere support at all.

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

So Zhong Yu could only, and only dared 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 all realms, maintaining the rule of all realms also requires strength. In addition, it is necessary to ensure that the new world can continue to carry out greater plunder, and it is necessary to maintain a large aggressor army.

In this way, although Zhong Yu has a lot of troops, many of them will be divided into various worlds to suppress and rule, or conquer the new world, and bring greater income and resources to Zhong Yu.

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

In fact, because Zhong Yu has been constantly mobilizing troops and horses over the years, which consumes energy and energy, the operation of the small world has already seen a slight load, which is somewhat difficult to maintain.

Even the sites that have been beaten down from all walks of life have gradually seen small-scale hopes and turmoil due to insufficient guarding power.

If it weren’t for Zhong Yu’s ability to quickly mobilize the power of other worlds and 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 territories to maintain and such a big situation to be controlled, Zhong Yu can draw very little power. Up to now, it can only maintain 400,000 troops on the battlefield, which is used to resist the attack of the Ming army three times as large as one's own.

But fortunately, he is now in a defensive position. There is no need to confront the Ming army on the frontal battlefield, and he can use the advantage of the city wall to defend, which greatly reduces Zhong Yu's loss, and it is rare that the battlefield can be maintained.

Now, because there are fewer places to defend, more troops can be concentrated, and the defenses of Zhong Yu's defensive cities are also much stronger. If the enemy wanted to take it, they didn't pay several times the casualties, so they didn't even think about it.

However, the situation is tilted towards the Ming Dynasty after all. How Zhong Yu persists in resisting, it is still difficult to stop the Ming Dynasty's increasing army and continuous supply.

After resisting for half a year, there is only one province left in the two provinces. Even with some supplements, the 400,000 army ~IndoMTL.com~, only 300,000 are left.

Zhong Yu was trapped in Jiangdong Province, trapped in Jiangdu City, where he was doing his last struggle and stubborn resistance.

Da Ming in order to regain the south more quickly. In order to quickly eliminate the remnant enemies in the south, more troops were mobilized to besiege the remnants of the imperial kingdom in Jiangdong Province.

The rest of Zhong Yu's army resisted desperately, because they knew that they had no way of retreating. They were surrounded by enemies, and they had nowhere to escape.

As for surrendering, when the enemy on the opposite side is blushing, it is not necessarily whether he accepts it or not. And no one knows whether he will go back after accepting it.

Fighting for another half a year, when the army of the imperial country was completely killed and wounded, and there was no resistance at all.

Zhong Yu decisively led the domestic high-level evacuation to the eastern land, where he led the army in the next resistance.

The previous wars were placed in the six southern provinces, and the four eastern provinces of the imperial kingdom were not affected too much, not only because the Ming army did not have more troops to attack separately, but also because the imperial kingdoms were all in the south.

According to the prevailing thinking at the time, the country fell, and the country was basically abolished, and the remaining land could be ploughed and swept away 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 power be able to block the powerful enemy who can take down the capital?

So after the six southern provinces were completely captured, the daimyo's crusade army was left with about one million yuan, and they immediately turned their guns to attack the remaining four eastern provinces.

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

Except for the five provinces in the north that were seized by Dajin, all the land can be restored. This is an exciting event.