After attacking the six southern provinces, Zhong Yu stopped attacking and instead stopped to recuperate and build up strength.
It wasn't that Zhong Yu didn't have the power to attack, nor that he didn't have the ambition to capture the city, but that he was forced by the situation at the time.
The reason why Zhong Yu dared to attack the six southern provinces this time was because the southern provinces were far away from the capital of the Ming Dynasty and out of reach, making it difficult to support them.
What's more, the neighboring countries in the six southern provinces are weaker than the Ming Dynasty, and they are also caught in the flames of war. They have no time to protect themselves, let alone external expansion.
With these two extremely important reasons, Zhong Yu dared to send troops south to add insult to injury to the Ming Dynasty.
But that's all.
The eastern and southern parts of the Ming Dynasty are now basically in the hands of Zhong Yu's empire. A total of ten provinces are connected into one area, which greatly increases Zhong Yu's strength and heritage in this world, and has greater strategic depth.
These are not the most important things. The most important thing is that Zhong Yu has a name and can recruit the indigenous people of this world from a righteous perspective, and use their power to speed up the pace of conquering this world.
Except for the southeastern two sides, the northern part of the Ming Dynasty was peeped by the Jin Dynasty. Now most of it has fallen, and the rest has become a place burned by war. It is a death vortex, and whoever touches it will die.
The five provinces in the west are close to the three major powers, namely Ba, Shu and Song.
Although these three countries are not the most prosperous among all the princes in the world, they are still in the middle. Their strength is equivalent to that of South Korea and Wei. They all have millions of soldiers and dozens of strong men above the sixth level.
The most important thing is that these three countries have formed a strategic alliance, and there are no powerful enemies nearby to attack. They can mobilize millions of troops to attack other countries at any time, which should not be underestimated.
Although Zhong Yu now occupies ten provinces and has a military strength of one million, he still needs to stay in as many places.
Not to mention anything else, the local garrison alone is worth 800,000 people. The only 200,000 troops that can be mobilized to adapt to changes and resist foreign enemies are too weak.
The ten provinces are newly occupied territories, and their identification with the imperial kingdom is not deep. They even have strong rejection and hatred, and their foundation is shallow.
Now the people in many places controlled by Zhong Yu are looking towards the Ming Dynasty and are looking forward to the return of the Ming Dynasty King to quell the chaos and regain their homeland.
There is only one Dongjiang province that was abandoned by the Ming Dynasty, but because it was saved by Zhong Yu, it wholeheartedly supported Zhong Yu's rule.
But Dongjiang Province is only a small province, and it has suffered from the chaos caused by demon soldiers, and its strength has been greatly reduced. It is less than 21% compared to other provinces, and it is far from being a foundation place.
In fact, these are not big problems. The rise of new dynasties has always faced this situation.
As long as you spend some time to adjust slowly and dispatch capable officials to the local areas, you will be able to straighten out the people's sentiments in more than ten years and completely take these places for your own use.
But in this era of great strife, more than ten years is too long, and other countries will not give Zhong Yu this time.
The most important thing is that Zhong Yu doesn't have a demonstrable eighth-level master sitting here, so he can't stop the prying eyes of those evil wolves at all.
In the eyes of many powerful forces, Zhong Yu is just a temporary clown.
They just don't have time now, and they will have their hands free later. Zhong Yu is just a piece of fat for them to rub and eat.
But all this is temporary.
As he slowly accumulates strength and enhances his foundation in this world, Zhong Yu is of course not as good as those imperial sects in the country.
But don't forget that Zhong Yu also has a small world that can travel through the heavens and the world, and can plunder the resources of the world and feed himself back. This is far better than the natives of this world.
It has only been about two years since he came to this world, but in proportion to the time in the small world, it has been several years, or even more than ten years, for other legions to go to the major planes to fight, and they have already accumulated a large number of troops again. Fei’s army and strong men.
Now in the small world, there are about 500,000 troops on standby, and about 5,000 fourth-level mystical arts legions have been trained, and there are more than 30 fifth-level troops who are also waiting for orders.
The only pity is that there are no existences above level six.
With these, Zhong Yu already has about 700,000 troops ready to go out at any time, including about 15,000 Xuanzhu divisions who are the trump card to suppress the national destiny. The strength of the bottom army has been expanded by more than half.
Coupled with the number of sixth-order people reaching 23, the strength is not inferior to that of countries on the mainland such as South Korea and Wei. It's just that the masters of the seventh and eighth levels are somewhat rare and far apart.
However, in just a few years, about three years, Zhong Yu estimates that his current strength will increase several times, even if his territory in the Liaozhai World has not expanded at all.
As long as there is a small world, the plundering of all the worlds will not stop, and batch after batch of low-level armies will be continuously cultivated and sent to the Liaozhai world.
As time goes by, the masters of the sixth level will inevitably undergo qualitative changes along with quantitative changes, showing an explosion in the form of a spurt.
It is not impossible for the number of people to reach more than 50 by then.
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In the Ming Dynasty in the north, with the loss of the eastern and southern provinces, the Ming Dynasty's important economic sources were completely cut off. The entire court fell into a situation of money and food difficulties, and even the military pay and material rations for the frontline army could not be supplied.
The nearly 400,000 troops on the front line of the imperial court were in short supply of food and clothing, and military pay had not been paid for a long time. The military morale was slack, morale was low, and they had no ability to fight back.
Now, even the defense can barely be done, and the initiative in the war has been completely lost.
Among the seven provinces in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, only two provinces with 400,000 troops stationed as barriers were left, and the rest fell into the hands of other countries. Even the remaining two provinces were driven wildly by the Jin army, as if they were in an uninhabited land.
Now the power that the Ming Dynasty can control is only the five provinces in the west, the remaining province in the east, the four provinces in the center, and the two provinces in the north, a total of 12 provinces.
As for the army he needs to support, in addition to the 400,000 troops in the north, there are also 300,000 in the west, 200,000 in the center, and 100,000 in the east, totaling one million.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that supporting such a large army on such a small territory would be considered a militancy.
Not to mention that among the territories controlled by the Ming Dynasty, except for the relatively wealthy central part, they were all barren lands, which were often invaded by wars and had little food supply at all.
It even required supply and rescue from the imperial court, which could not provide much help to the Ming Dynasty at all, except for adding some strategic depth.
In general, with the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, it is basically difficult to deal with the Jin Dynasty's additional southern expedition army of 600,000.
I’m too tired from work today and really don’t have the energy, so I’ll post one first and I’ll make up the second chapter tomorrow. By the way, does anyone still read this book? If there is any, squeak.
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