Chapter 408 Completion of initial strategy

Chapter 408 Completion of initial strategy

Zhong Yu has 500,000 troops under his command that he can mobilize, but these 500,000 troops have actually lost more than 70,000 people after repeated battles in the world of Liaozhai.

After all, whether it was the previous siege of the city or the head-on confrontation on the battlefield, it is impossible for Zhong Yu to take down two provinces with a large number of places without any loss.

Now Huaixi Province has lost another 70,000 people, and a total of about 150,000 troops have completely withdrawn from Zhong Yu's army sequence.

Although another 50,000 recruits were recruited in Dongjiang Province, it may be a bit reluctant to use these 50,000 recruits for combat, but maintaining local law and order in Dongjiang Province can still be done with due diligence.

In this way, Zhongli only has about 400,000 troops left in the entire Liaozhai world.

Of the 400,000 people, another 160,000 will be allocated to garrison in various places, and only 240,000 people can really be used for combat.

Although the strength of the troops seemed large, Zhong Yu reckoned that such a small number of troops would be enough for him to conquer two or three provinces, and if there were more, he would be powerless.

So now, Zhong Yu hated the Governor of Huaixi Province who killed 70,000 of his soldiers.

Although it was only the lives of 70,000 soldiers, it was nothing in Zhong Yu's eyes.

But without these 70,000 people, the progress of Zhong Yu's attack on the entire Ming Dynasty will inevitably be slower than it by two to three months, or even longer.

This made Zhong Yu a little hard to accept.

In order to respond to the provocation of the governor of Huaixi Province, and to revive the prestige of the army, so as not to let the defenders of the Ming Dynasty overcome their fear of their own army because of this big defeat, they strengthened their determination to crusade against rebellion. idea.

Zhong Yu decided that, except for the 100,000 troops in Huaidong Province, they would stay where they were and not attack any more, as long as they maintained the current basic territory and waited for their own support.

The remaining 140,000 troops that can be mobilized will all be taken to Huaixi Province, and they are going to take down this difficult bone in person.

This time the attack was quite smooth. In just five days after entering Huaixi Province, it invaded most of the prefectures and counties, all the way directly approaching the capital of Huaixi Province, Shouzhou City.

At this time, there are only more than 10,000 defenders in Shouzhou City, and the defense has more than doubled compared to before.

Although the army of Huaixi Province, under the leadership of the governor, defeated Zhong Yu's 100,000 troops before, their losses were extremely heavy.

More than ten thousand troops were buried on the battlefield, and half of the army was completely lost. This also made the defense force of Huaixi Province greatly weakened.

Arriving at the city of Shouzhou, Zhong Yu didn't give any orders to surrender because he was annoyed by Governor Huaixi's ignorance, and directly ordered the army to attack.

The 140,000 army, like the previous Pingyang City, formed a formation to continuously bombard the city of Shouzhou, and because Zhong Yu did it himself, the defense time of the formation was not as long as that of Pingyang City.

In just two days, the protective array of Shouzhou City collapsed, and the entire city completely opened its arms.

The governor of Huaixi in the city went out to fight, but was beheaded by Zhong Yu's sword within 30 rounds, and then all the defenders in the city resisted to death. The governor of Huaixi committed suicide and died under the city of Shouzhou.

Although angry at the defenders of Shouzhou City, he didn't open his eyes, and had the idea of ​​angering the people in the city, Zhong Yu calmed down rationally.

After all, with the breach of Shouzhou City, the city fell into his own control, and the people in the city became his own people. Killing them would undoubtedly damage his foundation and wealth, which would be unwise.

Therefore, Zhong Yu only limited his anger to the family members of the defenders in the city, executed some of them, exiled them, and even a large number of female family members were dragged into the army as a vent, which was extremely miserable.

Zhong Yu's actions not only restored the morale of the heavily damaged army under his command, but also deterred other factors who dared to resist the city defenders.

Zhong Yu wanted to use this cruel method to make all the city defenders who wanted to resist think about the consequences.

Is it worth it for the court and the life of my whole family?

Perhaps those high-ranking generals and officials will disregard their personal lives for their so-called dedication to their duties, because they have received the grace of the emperor and naturally have due responsibilities.

But the soldiers at the bottom didn't have this idea.

They joined the army just to earn a share of military rations, and even many of them were conscripted by force, not out of their own will.

Moreover, after joining the army, the generals always deducted the military salary harshly, beat and scolded the soldiers at the bottom like slaves, and suffered all kinds of bullying.

Under such circumstances, it is uncertain how many soldiers are loyal to the imperial court.

After all, cases like the Shouzhou city defenders are still very rare.

Not everyone can be like the governor of Huaixi, who has a clean and strict government, is deeply loved by the soldiers at the bottom, and can die for him.

However, these soldiers also got the end of their resistance to the end, and the whole family was implicated.

With Zhong Yu's order that all the enemy generals and defenders should be held accountable, the effect was produced very quickly.

Although most of the generals in the city wanted to resist, the soldiers at the bottom were afraid of the enemy's subsequent revenge and resisted one after another.

They didn't work hard in the war, and they even turned against each other directly, which made Zhong Yu's next strategy go smoothly, and recovered the entire Huaixi Province in less than half a month.

After taking Huaixi Province, Zhong Yu left behind 80,000 guards, appointed some officials of his own, established a basic administrative rule, restored local order, and led the remaining 50,000 troops toward the Huaidong Province rushed away.

The case of the annihilation of the entire army in Huaixi Province is still vivid in his memory, and Zhong Yu has also received his own painful lesson, which still makes him regret it.

Now that the 100,000 troops of Huaidong Province are hanging out alone, and there is a sixth-rank governor leading 40,000 Huaidong Province defenders on the opposite side, how can he be relieved.

I'm afraid that when this 100,000 army will end up like the previous army of Huaixi Province, the whole army will be wiped out.

However, what surprised Zhong Yu was that when his 50,000 troops rushed to Huaidong Province, the defenders in the province did not even organize a counterattack. Instead, they all huddled in the capital of Huaidong Province, unable to hold out.

After Zhong Yu arrived, he had already received the news that Huaixi Province had been captured and the governor had been killed. The governor of Huaixi Province, a sixth-rank martial artist named Lin Ye, actually led the whole province's army to surrender.

This surprised Zhong Yu quite a bit.

You must know that Zhong Yu's current identity is nothing more than a rebel, although it seems that he is as powerful as he is now, occupying three provinces of Daming.

But many people thought that as long as the imperial court was able to free up their hands, no matter how big the storm Zhong Yu caused was, he would be nothing but a clown and would not be able to get on the stage.

After all, Daming has an eighth-level master in charge, and Zhong Yu is the highest on the surface, but he is a sixth-level master, and there is only one person, no matter how you look at it, the gap is too big.

But no matter what, it is something to be happy to have an extra sixth-level master under his hands.

This means that the high-level combat power under Zhong Yu's command has gradually become more abundant with the addition of the natives of this world.

Moreover, many of the fifth ranks under Zhong Yu's hands have already reached the peak state, basically the breakthrough is not far away, and now it is just the accumulation of bad time.

It is estimated that in another one or two years, there will be nearly ten more sixth-level breakthroughs under Zhong Yu's command.

And Zhong Yu himself also felt that with the expansion of the territory he occupied in this world, his cultivation base also faintly showed signs of breakthrough, and he would soon break through the bottleneck of the sixth-order peak and reach the seventh-order realm.

At that time, with the seventh-level cultivation base and more than a dozen sixth-level people under his command, he can basically wrestle with any power in the world without making any moves at the eighth level, although the outcome is unpredictable explain.

This is an important breakthrough.

With the situation so good, Zhong Yu's fear of this world has also become much weaker, and he has gradually gained a bit of confidence and confidence.