Due to the shortage of military supplies, the Ming Dynasty's army had to step up its offensive and launched a more violent attack on the imperial defense line.
Doing so can not only reduce the number of their huge army, but also reduce the consumption of military rations. It is even more possible to take advantage of the Yuguo's greatly reduced military strength and turbulent military morale to achieve more results.
Just when the Ming Dynasty army launched several waves of ferocious attacks, they were shocked to find that the defense line of the opposite imperial country became extremely strong after the number of people decreased. No matter how they attacked, they did not waver at all.
The commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, who did not believe in evil, desperately urged his troops to attack several times, but still failed.
In the end, even he had to admit that the defense on the other side was indeed countless times stronger than before.
In this way, after more than 100,000 troops were killed or injured, the morale of the Ming Dynasty's army dropped sharply and they had to rest. The fronts of both sides fell into calm for a while.
The reason why there was such a result was mainly because there were too many leading parties in the previous defense line, and there were many rebels in the Imperial Army, all of whom were devoted to the Ming Dynasty Royal Division on the opposite side.
As a result, as soon as these royal troops arrived at the city, they all surrendered anyway. This resulted in the Ming Dynasty army attacking dozens of cities in less than a month and seizing nearly a province.
In fact, this result is not unexpected. The reason why the imperial kingdom quickly lost cities and territory in the past was mainly because there were too many traitors in the army. Most of the troops had no fighting spirit and did not want to fight with the Ming army on the opposite side. This led to a sudden The territory of eight prefectures was lost, and the situation deteriorated greatly.
But now that these uneasy soldiers have been transferred away, the remaining soldiers are loyal to the imperial country. It is naturally very safe to use them to defend the solid city wall.
The war on the front line slowly continued like this, with both sides going back and forth. Although the Ming Dynasty's army was in an advantage overall, and as the war progressed, it slowly encroached on the Jade Kingdom's territory, but the speed slowed down significantly. They are not as fast as they were before the war started.
At present, the progress of annexing one province's territory is about one month, which is not too slow, but not too fast either.
Zhong Yu's imperial kingdom has a territory of 83 prefectures. Excluding the nine prefectures previously occupied by the Ming Dynasty, there are still 74 prefectures left.
By slowly losing one house a month, Zhong Yu could sustain him for six years. Even if more and more territory is lost, the speed of the Ming Dynasty will increase significantly in the future, but no matter what, it can last for 34 years.
The war on the front line was going on slowly like this. Both sides only maintained the level of the war at low-level soldiers, and the strongest ones were only at level five.
The masters on both sides were like strong men above the sixth level. None of them took action at all. They all acted as commanders and directed the cannon fodder soldiers to fight.
This is their tacit understanding.
Keep the scale of the war limited to ordinary people, and do not attract the respective sixth-level experts, so as not to expand the war to an uncontrollable level.
The Ming Dynasty has even fewer sixth-level experts, and their strength is no match for Yu Guo, so they dare not trigger a war above the sixth level.
On the Yuguo side, they were afraid of the eight-level warrior from the Ming Dynasty who had not taken action, and did not dare to lead the battle above the sixth-level warrior. They were afraid that one bad move would lead to the eighth-level warrior on the opposite side. At that time, no one could deal with.
In this way, the top management of both parties is extremely harmonious and maintains a unique tacit understanding. Even the high-level generals who knew each other well would sometimes invite the generals from the opposite army to come out for chats and gatherings. It was impossible to tell that the two sides were at war and were life-or-death enemies.
However, the top brass were chatting happily, but the soldiers at the bottom were in dire straits.
Because he was not in danger, but there was an order from above to show some achievements, so the generals put the merit on the soldiers.
What is an achievement? Naturally, it is conquering a city on the battlefield, destroying an army and slaughtering a city.
With such a goal, the soldiers at the bottom, driven by the generals, kept moving forward towards this goal.
Because they control too much power beyond the soldiers, the generals are not afraid of the soldiers' resistance at all. Their military rebellion is of no use. The generals themselves can suppress it with all their strength.
Most of the soldiers in this world are originally used to maintain law and order. They can deal with those extraordinary beings above the sixth level only because of the blessing of this formation.
But the only ones who know these formations are generals. The soldiers at the bottom don't know any of them at all. They can only use the formations by following military orders, which is of no use in setting up a formation on their own.
What's more, someone can arrange it, and they don't have the prestige to gather enough soldiers to obey orders and let them rebel against their commander.
Therefore, the resistance of the soldiers is really useless, and those soldiers dare not resist. They have seen countless killings on the battlefield in the past, and those sixth-level extraordinary powers have long been like gods and demons in their eyes, and they cannot produce any at all. of resistance.
Because without the power of resistance, it is impossible to use one's own will to force the general to retreat.
Not wanting to die under military law because of disobedience, those soldiers had no choice but to fight hard towards the enemy on the opposite side in order to survive. Place your destiny on your ability to survive this battle, then survive another battle, and survive until the end of the war.
Therefore, every war between the two sides was extremely tragic, with a death rate of more than 90%, and they basically ended with the complete annihilation of the other side.
Time passed slowly.
The war lasted for half a year, and Zhong Yu lost territory in two provinces. The Ming Dynasty's army also advanced into the hinterland of the Yu Kingdom, placing the battlefield in Jiangdong Province, and slowly approached Jiangdu City.
However, here, the Ming army encountered extremely determined resistance. Every time it advanced, it had to pay countless lives, costs, and more time.
The capital of a country can easily be surrounded by others, and even troops can besieged the city. That would cause a huge blow to a country's prestige, causing domestic subjects to question the country's strength and give rise to ambition.
Therefore, throughout ancient and modern times, any country that can be forced to reach its capital is basically facing the crisis of national subjugation. Moreover, after the capital is lost, the country will not be destroyed, but its vitality will be severely damaged, and its national power will decline, far less than before.
Zhong Yu's imperial kingdom had only been established for a few years, and the people's support was already unstable and its foundation was not strong. If the enemy is allowed to attack the capital city again, those with evil intentions who were originally suppressed will definitely take the opportunity to jump out and cause trouble.
Moreover, the capital being besieged was a very demoralizing thing in itself. Zhong Yu would naturally not let others attack the city easily, so it was normal to deploy heavy troops to guard the city along the way.
(End of chapter)