With the death of Li Cheng, the entire Pingyang City defenders completely lost their determination to resist. Everyone threw away their weapons and knelt down begging for surrender.
Zhong Yu didn't have too much trouble with these people who surrendered.
After all, as Zhong Yu takes over the entire Xijiang Province, these surrendered people will also become his subjects, and because all family members are in Zhong Yu's hands, it is not impossible to use these surrendered troops for his own use again.
Although Zhong Yu relies on the small world, he can use it to travel through various realms and conquer, collect resources from it for his own use, and use this to gather a million third-level army.
But this is not a wise choice or long-term wisdom.
Although there are many millions of troops, they are nothing compared to the vast world of Liaozhai.
And most of them are low-level forces. If they really face the seventh-level and eighth-level masters at the top of the world, they will basically end up with their entire army annihilated.
A truly wise person should recruit local indigenous people, slowly expand his influence and strength, and then invade the entire world.
Just like Zhong Yu is now accepting surrendered troops.
First accept the surrendered armies of the Ming Dynasty, slowly reorganize and transform them, and finally turn them into troops loyal to themselves and capable of fighting.
Then recruit new soldiers from among the people, and select people with level three or above strength as soldiers. He also distributed recruitment lists widely, asking for strange people and deeds from all over the world. The strong and capable people would come to help.
Now this policy has been carried out in Dongjiang Province.
As an army that rescued the entire Dongjiang Province, Zhong Yu's order was not resisted by the residents of Dongjiang Province.
After all, building a strong army, whether used to maintain rule or defend against foreign enemies, will help stabilize Dongjiang Province.
Dongjiang Province, which has already experienced a demon army disaster, no longer wants a bigger chaos to happen again in this already dilapidated land.
Therefore, the remaining people in Dongjiang Province strongly support the establishment of an army that is conducive to local stability.
Now, as a month has passed, Dongjiang Province has recruited a group of third-level legions with approximately 50,000 people.
Many of these people were originally defenders of Dongjiang Province, but after being defeated by the demon soldiers, they scattered among the people and hid everywhere.
Now I heard that the demon soldiers have been expelled, and a new force has conquered the entire Dongjiang Province and is still recruiting soldiers. These people who were originally soldiers came to join the army one after another and joined the army again.
The remaining people are the original residents. After enduring the pain of war, he did not want war to happen again in his hometown, so he took the initiative to join the army, intending to protect his family and country and defend his country from enemies.
Among these 50,000 people, there are many fourth-level ones, and many fifth-level ones, but it is a pity that there is not a single sixth-level one.
But come to think of it, based on the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, each province only has one governor, and the remaining ones are gathered in the capital as a mobile force, which can be said to be extremely cherished.
Every sixth-level powerhouse can be called the ancestor of a clan and create a lineage anywhere.
How could a person like this be so easy to debase himself and become a dog under the imperial court
In the days that followed, Zhong Yu was busy reorganizing the surrender troops in Pingyang City, and at the same time dispatched 200,000 troops under his command to conquer the remaining areas of Xijiang Province.
However, this busy day did not last long, and a sudden news interrupted his work.
When the Huaixi Provincial Front Army was attacking Huaixi Province, the Governor of Huaixi Province took the initiative to attack and with 30,000 men, he held back Zhong Yu's 100,000-strong army.
Although the Huaixi Army has a small number of people, their leader is a sixth-level powerhouse who has a huge advantage in high-level combat power.
Although Zhong Yu's army has many people, there is not a single sixth-level one. The entire army is commanded by more than ten fifth-level strong men. The high-level combat power is far from the Huaixi Army's opponent.
After the battle began, although Zhong Yu's army was blessed with formations and could resist the Huaixi Army for a period of time without falling behind, as the sixth-level master continued to make big moves, more and more places were being destroyed. , in the end because the damage was too serious, the entire formation was completely destroyed.
The 100,000-strong army without formations, faced with a sixth-level powerhouse, was slaughtered like chickens and dogs at will.
In the end, Huaixi's 100,000-strong army was defeated, and 70,000 of the 100,000 troops were killed by the opposite side. 30,000 of them were killed by the governor, and the remaining 30,000 people returned to Dongjiang Province to defend themselves.
When this news came, Zhong Yu was extremely angry.
Since he came to the world of Liaozhai, although he did not dare to take action at will because of his strength, he was afraid that some powerful force would come and deal with him.
But this doesn't mean that others can stand on top of him and bully him arbitrarily.
The current governor of Huaixi Province is like this. He actually dares to rely on his sixth-level cultivation to arbitrarily slaughter his own army, which eventually caused the collapse of the entire Huaixi Station and severely dampened the momentum of his army's current winning streak. , how not to make Zhong Yu feel angry.
Moreover, the loss of 70,000 troops also made Zhong Yu feel very distressed.
You must know that although Zhong Yu has an army of millions under his command, this is only theoretical.
There are hundreds of worlds under his command, and each world must be guarded by an army to ensure that each world is under his control.
And although Zhong Yu's main focus is now on the world of Liaozhai, the plunder and development of other worlds does not mean that he has stopped. He still sends troops to other newly searched world strategies.
As a result, half of his million-strong army was hampered and could not be mobilized to conquer Liaozhai World for him.
This also means that the actual army Zhong Yu can use is only about 500,000.
And the territory during the Liao Zhai World strategy also needs people to garrison it in order to stabilize its rule.
For example, Zhong Yu had just captured Dongjiang Province. The basic local defenders alone cost him 80,000 troops, and he could barely stabilize his basic rule over Dongjiang Province.
Now there is another Xijiang Province, and then another 70,000 to 80,000 troops will be lost.
These are only two provinces. When Zhong Yu's territory becomes larger and larger, and the areas where the army needs to be stationed become wider and wider, the number of local troops to maintain public security will be extremely terrifying.
This is the reason why today's Ming Dynasty, although it seems that it has more than one million troops, can only fight with three to five million troops.
It's not that the Ming Dynasty didn't want to send more troops to fight, but that once all the troops stationed in the local area were mobilized, his rule in that place would basically come to an end.
Even if we win the war, what's the difference between losing and losing
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