In the present state of Chu, whether it is the emperor or the minister, it is very clear that the country has reached its last moment. In addition to those prefectures and counties that have publicly rebeled and surrendered to the enemy, there are probably not many prefectures and counties that are still hung with the Fire Phoenix Banner. I am afraid that as soon as the Ming army's Sun and Moon Banner arrives, most places will fall in the wind.

Under such a general trend, the final struggle of Chu State was more like a trapped beast fighting. When a rabbit was anxious, he had to compete with the eagle with two short legs. It was even more common for the dog to jump over the wall when he was forced to jump into the wall. What's more, Min Ruoying still has 100,000 Fire Phoenix Army in his hands and has the capital in his hands?

Of course, even if the trapped beasts still fight, they still have to hold the best hope. This most beautiful hope is naturally that the Chu army can win a huge victory in this final duel, defeat the Ming army in the future, and defeat them, and take them back to their hometown.

The Ming Dynasty was not without enemies, and their enemies were not weaker than them at all. If they could defeat the Ming army in Shangjing and let them lose a lot, then his enemy would definitely take advantage of this opportunity to rush up and bite the opponent. In this way, the Chu State naturally won precious breathing time. When the Ming people fought with the Qi people, the Chu people could hide in the corner and lick the wounds on their bodies.

Of course, the power balance between the two countries is different now. If you don’t think about taking the initiative, you can only use passive defense and seek fighter opportunities in defense. Then the scheduled battlefield cannot be too large, otherwise the troops will be dispersed and will be easily defeated by the Ming army one by one. Therefore, after repeated discussions with his important officials, Min Ruoying set up a war zone within a range of 100 miles around Shangjing City.

The entire war zone is centered on the capital, including the surrounding Xiangzhou, Wenzhou and Junzhou. These three places are close to Shangjing, and the imperial court rule is still strict, and they are still loyal to the Min Dynasty.

However, loyalty alone is obviously not possible. As soon as the chief minister Ma Xiangdong and the emperor made a plan to lose their families.

The people are organized into soldiers. Not only Xiangzhou, Wenzhou, Junzhou, but also Shangjing City is also listed here. Men over the age of sixteen and under the age of sixty are all assigned to military households. Being able to become military households is the credential for your family to survive in these places. There is no longer any conscription principle of three Dings and two Dings, but not one Dings. If you want to continue living in Shangjing City, you must become a soldier.

As for the family who can no longer leave a man to join the army, there is only one fate, and you are expelled from the city and let you make a living. So in the capital, except for soldiers and officials, the rest are only the relatives of soldiers and officials. Of course, these soldiers and their relatives are usually responsible for all the guarantee work of daily life in the city.

Without markets and business, everything was adopted, and the court supply system was used, and food was distributed according to the human hair every day. If you can't eat enough, you can save your life.

The entire Shangjing City exists in an extremely deformed way.

Compared with Shangjing City, the situation in Xiangzhou, Wenzhou and Junzhou is slightly better, but as long as there are soldiers in the family, their families must move to places where they are guided by the city or outside the city.

The Chu court maintained the last lifeline in an extremely cruel way.

They placed all their hopes on the final battle. If they wanted to win this battle, they naturally needed soldiers who fought bravely. They had no other way to fiercely fight bravely, so they could only use this method of taking their relatives as hostages to force the soldiers to fight to the death.

Although this cruel method maintained the military's stability, it greatly damaged productivity. The concentration of a large number of soldiers and relatives relied on the court to maintain survival through a supply-based method, which required huge consumption. In order to own these things, the army of the Chu court in the past year did nothing else, just looting.

If you can't plunder others, you will naturally have to plunder your own people.

The Chu State, which is not in this last defense area, needs to supply a large amount of supplies, including food, if not? Then the Fire Phoenix Army of the imperial court will visit. Once they come, they will not only grab food, they will definitely make you poor and loser, and even the beams and citrons of the building houses will be taken away by you. At this time, no matter what your identity was in Chu State before, it will be the same. Officials, merchants, and scholars will treat you equally.

That is to use this extremely vicious practice, the Chu court gathered a large amount of supplies and food in one year. This is also where Ma Xiangdong dared to tell his son that the food in Shangjing City was sufficient for two years to eat under the supply system. Because except for Shangjing City and Bingzhou Xiangzhou Junzhou, the other Chu prefectures and counties were basically about to turn white.

Controlling all the soldiers' families to force all soldiers to fight to the death to protect their families is the ultimate method after Ma Xiangdong's slaughter. Then ensuring that these soldiers' families can survive at least becomes the most basic guarantee, so he cannot tolerate anyone doing damage on this. In his opinion, this is to draw the cornerstone of the last little hope of victory in the Great Chu.

The supply system can only ensure that everyone can survive, but if someone tampers with it and makes money from the national crisis, the soldiers and relatives who are injured will be in great trouble. If these people are gone, what will the court use to control those troops? If those soldiers think that the court will not be able to protect their small family, why should they still fight for this goal?

It was precisely because of this idea that after hearing what Ma Yunlong said, Ma Xiangdong burst into thunderous anger and summoned the Lei Guard, the Ministry of Justice, the Censorate and other departments. After scolding these people to the point of being terrified, a major purge began to begin.

A murderous craze was once again set off inside and outside the capital, but the officials were killed earlier, and this time they were more of the clerks. When bloody heads were inserted into bamboo poles for public display, the already turbulent situation calmed down again, and the clerks who were re-elected to implement this policy became honest, because this time, they killed not only the clerks and officials who committed the crime, but also their families, according to the law of even plagiarism, they all became dead souls under the knife.

Such things will definitely not happen in peacetime, but they will be greedy for a little food, or use their power to take advantage of it, at most they will be a reprimand or a stick. However, there is no reason to say in war. After all, the lower-level officials of Shangjing, who had been peaceful for too long, finally realized the cruelty of military law, they all became as honest as quails. After all, it is really unworthy to throw away their own heads and family heads for such a little food, property or short-term joy.

The Chu court was doing its best to prepare for this war. At the end of March, Qin Feng, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty in Jinghu, finally issued an edict to fight against Chu, rectified the gathered three armies, and began to march up to the capital.

The main force of the middle lane was personally led by Emperor Qin Feng, and was composed of the Emperor's personal guards of the Liehuo Death Camp, Canglang Camp, Ruijin Camp, Miner's Camp, and 10,000 cavalry under Jiangshangyan, and an inland waters. Through Jinghu, he went to Jinzhou and directly pointed to Xingzhou and Xiangzhou. The destination was naturally Shangjing City. This was also the shortest distance among the three types of armies, and it was also the main defense of the Chu army. The Chu people completely gave up the defense of Xingzhou and concentrated the main force in Xiangzhou. The general of Chu State Sun Chenglong led a 150,000 army to garrison, including 30,000 Fire Phoenix Army.

The second route was led by Yang Zhi and Zhou Jiyun, including four battle camps under Zhou Jiyun, the Mingwei camp in Guanning, the Han Huafeng camp in Han Dynasty, and the two battle camps under Yuan Zenglin were reduced. The team formed 5,000 cavalry under Huang Gang and Huang Qiang. They set out through Xiangzhou, headed towards Yingzhou, Mizhou, Caizhou, Ezhou, and Wenzhou, and finally arrived in the south of Shangjing. The journey that this army had to go was twice the distance that the Emperor of the East Road personally led the army, but wherever they passed, they captured almost all the prefectures and counties in the south of Shangjing.

The third army was led by Chen Zhihua, and was an enhanced infantry and cavalry battle camp under his command, including Chen Zhihua, Jumuying, Zhuifeng Camp, and Mahou. Two battle camps under Lu Dayuan were ruled by him. Two battle camps under Bian Wenkang set out from Anyang and advanced along the directions of Xuzhou, Yingzhou, Pingzhou, Dingzhou, Lanzhou, Xiazhou and Junzhou. The final goal was to the capital and completely encompassed the prefectures and counties in the northwest of Chu.

The ultimate goal of the three armies is to encircle the capital.

The last battle against Chu State of Ming State finally officially kicked off after Qin Feng's decree was issued. At the same time, Chu State also began its final preparations, and Min Ruoying visited Xiangzhou in person to inspect the defense of Xiangzhou.

Sun Chenglong built a defense line with Xiangzhou City as the center, with Xiangshan Mountain as the protruding point, and the Gaoliang River and Qingxiang River in Xiangzhou as the natural defense lines. These two rivers flowed through both sides of Xiangshan Mountain and wrapped Xiangzhou in the shape of eight, thus forming the unique alluvial plain of Xiangzhou. This was originally an important grain-producing area, but now, there are no crops that should have grown lushly. Only barracks, fortresses, and along the river, are densely packed with troops.

"Your Majesty, I will let the Ming army shed enough blood in Xiangzhou." Standing in a castle with steel and concrete on Xiangshan, Sun Chenglong told Min Ruoying.

He didn't say that he would defeat the Ming army in Xiangzhou, because not only him, but Min Ruoying would not believe it. Their purpose was to make the Ming army pay a huge price for every step he took. The final decisive battle would still be under the capital. The 100,000 Fire Phoenix Army, that is, 30,000 were deployed in Xiangzhou, and the rest were all in Shangzhou.

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