From Soldier To Emperor

Most importantly, the prisoners of war and soldiers of this auxiliary army are all looking forward to retaking the fertile land west of Congling and earning their first family business!

You must know that 50 acres of fertile land is only a guarantee for the auxiliary army officers and soldiers, and the Han people who serve as officers can get more. Similarly, the prisoners of war who have made military merits and promoted on the battlefield can also get more!

Under the power of the Ming army's great victory, no matter whether it was a Han officer or an Ottoman soldier in the auxiliary army, there was no doubt that the Ming army could retake the area west of Congling!

My family knew about my family affairs. After the Battle of Shule, any soldier at the bottom of the auxiliary army knew that the main force of the Ottoman Expeditionary Army was nearly destroyed, and the total force was almost two-thirds, and most of the rest were still responsible for logistics and transportation. Team!

The combat effectiveness of the Ottoman Expeditionary Army, which has a number of more than 300,000, is also divided into grades. In addition to the Semu Legion led by Linden Wan who rested in the rear, You An brought all the main front-line combat troops to Shule Army Town, and then He was almost wiped out by Richard's team!

In this way, Richard led the newly formed more than 30,000 auxiliary army and undead army to the defense line of the Ottoman Expeditionary Army.

In fact, Ming Kingdom, which has just gone through the war, is not suitable for immediate expedition.

After being exploded by the Ottoman Empire, Ming State lost all the population and territory west of Congling. The attack on Ming State, which was already brutal and military, was quite severe!

This is equivalent to a sudden loss of nearly half of the population and resources in the Western Regions, which was operated by Ming Guo as the basic disk!

Not to mention economic losses...

The original maintenance of the battle line with the green leather has caused the Ming State’s fiscal deficit year after year, and now it has increased by one...

Fortunately, Richard's Ming Dynasty is a feudal country with a centralized system. What are the biggest characteristics of a feudal country?

Of course it's reckless!

It doesn't matter if a centralized country has no money. If the court is ordered to make a blank note, the merchants below dare not ask for interest?

Occasionally a showdown with those wealthy households or something, shouldn't it be proper to support national wars?

what? You have no money?

Very good, there are so many detailed rules for treason, and there is always one that can be deducted on your head. The court wants to make you, even if you are the richest man, you will become the first loser every minute!

Maybe the whole family will be convicted of traitors and go to the execution ground together!

As for fleeing to foreign countries, with the traffic of this era, you will be intercepted by Ming dynasty officers and soldiers before you run out.

Of course, you can also choose to run lightly, but if you go abroad without your wealth, you are a pauper. On the contrary, the Ming court can confiscate the ‘unowned’ property in a fair manner. What’s the point?

Therefore, the wealthy class of the Ming country had to pay for the imperial government’s fiscal deficit. This is also the reason why Ming’s fiscal losses have been sustained over the years.

It is also a characteristic of a feudal country!

The more centralized a feudal country, the more unreasonable it is. The people are treated equally no matter whether they are the poor or the rich. The privileges that the rich can enjoy in a capitalist country are not mentioned in a feudal country, and they need to be anytime, anywhere. Be a good sheep, ready to be slaughtered by the iron fist of feudalism...

The feudal imperial court that did not copy the family and annihilated the family was actually very kind, so Richard always felt that his way of raising money was very kind...

It's just to add a lot of war taxes to the wealthy, and then occasionally showdown some of the imperial loss-making supplies. It's all too normal!

The strict household registration system implemented by the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty was actually used to supervise the rich, and to distinguish who is the first-class fat sheep, the second-class lamb, and the poor people who can't squeeze the oil and water...

Of course, compared with Richard's previous life, the household registration system of the Ming Dynasty is still quite backward, but it is enough to only use it to detect wealth.

The Ming Dynasty, with such a bad financial situation, is naturally not suitable for taking the initiative in a two-line battle!

You must know that in this era, the offensive and defensive sides of war have consumed materials one by one.

The defender can get supplies on the spot, there will be no transportation loss, the cost is naturally not high, and even the source of troops can be supplemented on the spot, after all, the Ottoman Empire is an invasion by foreigners!

But the offense is different. The Undead Army does not need to eat or drink, but the more than 30,000 auxiliary troops are all living people!

The longer the front is drawn, the more it consumes supplies!

Therefore, the active offensive at this time is detrimental to Ming from a strategic point of view.

However, Richard's family knows his own account. The more than 30,000 auxiliary troops seem to be better than those. They suddenly made up for the defeated Han troops in the Western Regions, but they also incurred huge military expenditures!

After all, the auxiliary army is a ‘regular army’ preparing to receive 50 acres of fertile land, not slave soldiers. When the land is not allocated, Richard will naturally provide them with military supplies.

Even if the military pay is very low, it is not a small number to add more than 30,000 people, let alone among them there are a large number of Han officers!

Therefore, the cabinet settled an account for Richard, so that Richard realized clearly that if the more than 30,000 auxiliary troops and the Ottoman Empire stood up and rehabilitated, Ming Guo himself would be the first to collapse!

It is better to take advantage of the large quantities of materials and supplies seized in the Battle of Shule to send out more than 30,000 auxiliary troops!

Whether it's winning or defeating, it's better than emptying Mingguo!

If you win, you can naturally use a large number of unowned fertile fields to the west of Congling to place auxiliary forces, and you can even gather the oppressed Han people to the west of Congling who have survived to expand the auxiliary army.

If the auxiliary army is defeated, it will naturally disappear, and Mingguo’s financial burden will disappear...

Richard will still calculate this account...

Most importantly, Richard didn't care about the number of deaths and injuries among the prisoners of war in the auxiliary army.

It is as if the dark elf on the opposite side, Youan, did not shed a tear for the nearly 100,000 human soldiers who died tragically in the Battle of Shule~www.wuxiahere.com~ Even the destruction of the Anatolian Legion only made Youan feel It's a little regretful, I haven't been sad at all, not to mention the vain self-blame...

However, You An deserves to be the old general among the dark elves. After he received the news that the Ming army was constantly attacking, he immediately deduced Richard's strategic intentions, opened the map and glanced a few times, and then led the army to the rear. Retreat in great strides and throw large areas of abandoned cities and uninhabited land to the Ming army!

Before leaving, You An also took away all the young Han Chinese, leaving no help to the Ming army in the slightest!

As for the old and weak women and children with poor mobility, they were very miserable, and they were all executed by You An's orders!

Finally, a fire is added, and the Ottoman-style strong wall clearing tactic is completed...

In order to more thoroughly complete the fortified walls and clear the fields, You An even sent tens of thousands of human servants to delay the Ming army's offensive!

Of course, some of these tens of thousands of people were incorporated into the auxiliary army, and the other part became Genevieve's source of magic...