The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

With Li Cheng's death, the defenders of Pingyang City completely lost their determination to resist. All the people threw away their weapons and knelt down to beg for surrender.

For those who surrendered, Zhong Yu was not too embarrassed.

After all, as Zhong Yu took over the entire Xijiang Province, these surrendered people will also become his subjects, and because all the family members are in the hands of Zhong Yu, it is not impossible to use these surrendered troops for his own use again.

Although Zhong Yu is backed by the small world, he can use it to travel through all walks of life to conquer, collect resources from it for his own use, and use this to gather millions of Tier 3 troops.

But this is not a wise choice, long-term wisdom.

Although there are millions of troops, they are nothing compared to the vast world of Liaozhai.

And most of them are low-level powers. If you really face the top seventh-level and eighth-level masters in this world, you will basically be wiped out.

A truly wise person should recruit local aborigines, slowly expand their influence and strength, and then invade the whole world.

Just like Zhong Yu is receiving surrendered troops now.

First accept the troops that surrendered from the Ming Dynasty, slowly reorganize and accept transformation, and finally become loyal troops that can be used for combat.

Then recruit recruits among the people, and select people with strengths above the third level as soldiers. And spread the recruitment list widely, seeking strange people and strange things from all over the world, the strong and powerful will come to help.

Now this policy has been carried out in Dongjiang Province.

As the army that rescued the entire Dongjiang Province, Zhong Yu's order was not resisted by the residents of Dongjiang Province.

After all, forming a strong army, whether it is used to maintain rule or resist foreign enemies, will help the stability of Dongjiang Province.

Dongjiang Province, which has already experienced the disaster of demon soldiers once, has long since hoped that greater chaos will happen again in this already dilapidated land.

Therefore, the formation of an army, which is beneficial to local stability, is strongly supported by the rest of Dongjiang Province.

Up to now, with the passage of a month, Dongjiang Province has recruited a group of third-tier legions with a population of about 50,000.

Many of these people were the original defenders of Dongjiang Province, but after being defeated by the demon soldiers, they scattered among the people and hid everywhere.

Now it is heard that the demon soldiers have been expelled, and a new force has ruled over 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.

Some of the remaining people are the original residents. After enduring the suffering of the war, he did not want war to happen again in his hometown, so he took the initiative to join the army, intending to defend his family and country, and keep the enemy out of the country.

Among the 50,000 people, there are quite a few of the fourth rank, and many of the fifth rank, but it is a pity that none of them are of the sixth rank.

But thinking about it, with the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, there was only one governor in each province, and the rest were gathered in the capital as a mobile force, which was extremely cherished.

Every sixth-order powerhouse is placed anywhere, and he is a person who can be called the ancestor of Taoism and create a lineage.

How could a person like this easily condescend to become a dog under the imperial court?

In the following days, while Zhong Yu was busy reorganizing the surrendered army in Pingyang City, he also dispatched 200,000 troops under his command to attack the remaining areas of Xijiang Province.

But this busy day didn't last long, and a sudden news interrupted his work.

When the Huaixi Provincial Front Army was attacking Huaixi Province, the governor of Huaixi Province led the army to take the initiative to attack, with 30,000 people to fight Zhong Yu's 100,000 troops.

Although the Huaixi Army is small in number, their leader is a Tier 6 powerhouse, who has a huge advantage in high-level combat power.

Although there are many troops under Zhong Yu's command, none of them are of the sixth rank. The entire army is commanded by more than a dozen strong men of the fifth rank.

After the battle started, although Zhong Yu's army had the blessing of the formation, it resisted the Huaixi Army for a period of time without losing the wind, but as the sixth-level master continued to make big shots, 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 army without formations, facing a sixth-level powerhouse, slaughtered them like chickens and dogs at will.

In the end, the 100,000 army in Huaixi was defeated, and 70,000 of the 100,000 people were killed by the opposite side, 30,000 of which were killed by the governor, and the remaining 30,000 returned to Dongjiang Province to stick to it.

When this news came out, Zhong Yu was very angry.

Ever since he came to the world of Liaozhai, although he didn't dare to take action at will because of his strength, he was afraid that some great power would come and clean him up at once.

But this does not mean that others can stand on his head at will to bully and shit.

Now the governor of Huaixi Province is like this, he dared to use his sixth-level cultivation base to wantonly massacre his army, and finally caused the collapse of the entire Huaixi station, severely frustrated the momentum of his army's current winning streak , How not to make Zhong Yu angry.

And the loss of 70,000 troops also made Zhong Yu feel very distressed.

You must know that although Zhong Yu has millions of troops under his command, this is only theoretical.

There are hundreds of worlds under his command, and each world must be guarded by a large army to ensure that each world is under his control.

And although Zhong Yu's main energy is now on the world of Liaozhai, the plundering and development of other worlds does not mean that he has stopped. He still sent troops to other newly searched worlds to attack.

As a result, fully half of his million-strong army was held back and could not be dispatched to help him conquer the world of Liaozhai.

This also means that the army that Zhong Yu can really use is only about 500,000.

And the territory during the Liaozhai World Raiders also needs people to be stationed in order to stabilize their rule.

For example, Zhong Yu had just won Dongjiang Province not long ago. The basic local defenders alone consumed his 80,000 troops, and only then barely stabilized his basic rule over Dongjiang Province.

Now there is one more Xijiang Province, and another 70,000 to 80,000 troops will be gone by then.

These are only two provinces. When Zhong Yu's territory becomes bigger and bigger, and the places where troops need to be stationed become wider and wider, then the number of troops just to maintain law and order in the local area will be an extremely terrifying number.

This is why the current Ming Dynasty, although it looks like it has an army of more than one million, can only take out three to five million troops to fight.

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 deployed, his rule in that place would basically come to an end.

In this way, even if the war is won, what is the difference between that and losing?

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