Time advances again, and it has been two years since the Ming Dynasty attacked the four eastern provinces.
In the past two years, despite the Ming Dynasty launching several ferocious attacks, the defenses of the four eastern provinces were still extremely strong. The Ming Dynasty could not even invade the hinterland and could only create some unrest on the periphery of the four provinces.
Long before the war started, Zhong Yu had mobilized his soldiers and told them clearly that if the enemy was blocked outside the four provinces, the people in the four provinces would be able to find peace.
And if the Ming Dynasty's army entered the four provinces, even if all the newly recruited troops surrendered, the business would become the next southern one and be completely reduced to ruins.
All the newly recruited local armies from the four provinces are extremely convinced of this.
With its strong strength, the 400,000 direct legions of Zhong Yu himself were able to let the armies of these four provinces know their own differences, thus extinguishing their inappropriate thoughts.
Therefore, in order to prevent their hometowns and relatives from suffering from the war, these newly recruited troops can only fight desperately to firmly block the enemy from the four provinces and defend the enemy from the country.
With all the armies working hard, how could the 600,000-strong Crusader Army of Damingna defeat the enemy and achieve victory when it had a geographical advantage, with numbers as high as one million
Even because of their numerical advantage, the Ming Dynasty's army often suffered defeats and lost many men.
After engaging in a ferocious offensive for a period of time, these crusade troops found helplessly that they were not able to push all the way through with their ferocious offensive like in the south.
Therefore, the preparations for replenishment after establishing the territory were completely in vain. When the Ming Dynasty army suffered heavy losses and its number dropped to 300,000, it had no choice but to retire and rest, and the war came to a standstill.
Counting the time, it has been five years since the Ming Dynasty raised its troops to attack Yuguo.
In such a long time, more than half of the entire Ming Dynasty has been reduced to ruins.
The northern part of the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the confrontation between the Jin Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. The southern part has also become a land of ruins due to the crusade against the imperial kingdom, and it has not yet recovered.
The eastern part was also ravaged by military disasters due to the war that had just begun. Except for the four provinces of Yuguo, they were less affected because they firmly blocked the enemy from their borders. The remaining two provinces of the Ming Dynasty were harmed by their own armies and suffered terribly.
In this way, looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, since the Huangshan Demon King's uprising seven years ago, there has never been a year of peace of mind.
Now, due to years of war, coupled with successive large-scale disasters and the spread of plague, it can be said that the Ming Dynasty has completely become a hell on earth.
I would rather be a peace dog than a person in troubled times.
This is the voice of all the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty.
Due to the serious damage to the domestic economy, the Ming Dynasty was no longer able to raise troops to attack, especially when the war in the east was unfavorable. It did not obtain certain supplementary benefits from the east, and it was even more powerless to succeed, and completely lost the power to launch a war.
Even because of the persistence of the east and the huge military power, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was already thinking about asking his ancestors to take action and personally use his powerful force to wipe out the rebel in the east, and then use the wealth in the east to subsidize Ming Dynasty already had a fiscal deficit.
However, due to various reasons and concerns from surrounding countries, this proposal was ultimately not passed and was shelved. However, they have not stopped discussing the matter of attacking and conquering Yuguo. They are just slowly accumulating strength.
However, just as everyone in the Ming Dynasty was full of unwillingness and had no choice but to retreat, Zhong Yu's imperial kingdom was also slowly accumulating enough strength during this long period of recuperation.
First of all, the low-level corps trusted by Zhong Yu himself has slowly accumulated a certain amount through plunder in all realms over the years, and now it has reached a scale of one million.
Although it is not much, it is still possible to control half of the Ming Dynasty.
Then there are those sixth- and seventh-level masters. The number of local masters has not increased much. Even because of Zhong Yu's current situation, some sixth- and seventh-level masters left Yuguo's camp without saying anything. trace.
However, the number of masters recruited from other worlds has gradually increased, and they have even surpassed the local strong men in this world.
The number of sixth-level experts reached 137, of which there were only 46 local experts and 91 other experts trained by Zhong Yu himself.
The number of seventh-level experts has reached 25. There are only two local ones, and the rest are experts recruited from all walks of life.
It can be seen from these data that as the development in other worlds slowly proceeds, the final counterattack will become larger and larger, and it will not even be possible to directly form a sixth-order legion to completely suppress all the strong men in this world. Again, falsehood.
And Zhong Yu himself, with the support of countless resources, has reached the peak of the seventh level. He is only one step away from the eighth level and may enter at any time.
However, for some unknown reason, it may be because of the limitations of the emperor's cultivation. Just like the founding emperors of various empires in this world, their cultivation level is all at the eighth level and their lifespans are eternal.
However, these emperors who suppressed a generation all abdicated and passed the throne to their heirs a few years after establishing the empire. They themselves became the Supreme Emperor, akin to a worshiping existence, silently guarding the empire they founded.
Is it true that these emperors are selfless and have no attachment to power? Of course not, they started the army because of their pursuit of power.
There must be some restriction that does not allow a strong man who has reached the sixth level of cultivation to become the emperor of a dynasty.
As for the reason, Zhong Yu is not sure. It may be the restriction of heaven, or it may be some other reasons.
However, these emperors did not dare, or could not reach the eighth level, so Zhong Yu did not have so many worries. After his cultivation reached the bottleneck, he had a feeling in the dark.
As long as Zhong Yu can establish an empire in this world, and the scale must at least reach the basic level of the Ming Dynasty, then he can rely on the power of this empire's personality to support him, and his cultivation level can break through the eighth level in one fell swoop.
I don't know where this premonition came from, but Zhong Yu had a feeling of great trust, as if this premonition was originally like this.
Therefore, now, Zhong Yu finally had enough confidence to compete with the major dynasties at that time.
Previously, Zhong Yu was worried that he did not have an eighth-level warrior and was completely defeated in terms of high-level combat power, so he had to give in to the Ming Dynasty's attack.
Now that he knew that he would also break through the eighth level of cultivation, he could not hold back any longer. He immediately decided to attack with his army and launch a massive counterattack.
(End of chapter)