Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2637 Yu Chun Destroys Southern Chu Again, Miao Xun Cleverly Uses a Counter-Espionage Scheme

After three consecutive battles, Xu Cheng, as the defeated party, naturally suffered greater losses than Wu Zixu, especially in terms of battlefield losses, which were almost twice that of Wu Zixu.

However, the Jin army was powerful enough that even after losing one warship, they still had spares in their own ships.

If they wanted, they could even build warships like dumplings being dropped into boiling water.

In contrast, how could Wu Zixu and the remnants of Zhu Yuanzhang's faction have such capabilities?
They lost a warship, and it won't be easy to replace it in a short time!

In particular, those capable of sailing at sea are all large warships, or even super-large warships.

Given the supply capacity of Zhu Yuanzhang's remnant forces, if a warship were sunk and could not be repaired, building a new one would definitely take years.

Therefore, although Wu Zixu was clearly the victor, after three consecutive battles, he was the one who ran out of stamina and could no longer sustain the fight.

Moreover, in these three instances, Xu Cheng was willing to sacrifice one or two more warships to ensure the safety of the grain transport ships.

Although Wu Zixu won three battles in three separate campaigns, he failed to achieve his initial strategic goals.

From this point on, Xu Cheng fully demonstrated to Wu Zixu what it meant to have overwhelming national power. At the same time, he used this overwhelming national power to ensure Chang Yuchun's logistical supply.

Following that, Chang Yuchun made steady progress in Southeast Asia.

Although Chang Yuchun's advance was slower than at the beginning as the main battlefield shifted from the north to the south, he was still making effective progress.

After all, the Southeast Asian people on the southern front are much more docile than those on the northeastern front.

The people of Southeast Asia in the northeastern part of the northern front fully demonstrated what it means for the entire population to be soldiers. When the Jin soldiers went out on the street, they had to be wary of even a child.

Over the years, they fought their way from the Central Plains to the grasslands and back again, but they had never encountered anything as outrageous as the people in that region.

On the southern side of Southeast Asia, the people are generally much more normal and docile.

It cannot be ruled out that some people would fight to the death, but these people are at least a minority in the occupied territories.

Moreover, Chang Yuchun was far more ruthless than Yang Su.

Most importantly, Yang Su was not only a military strategist but also a politician, so he had to consider many more issues.

In contrast, Chang Yuchun didn't consider things as much as Yang Su. But precisely because he didn't consider so much, he was easily provoked and resorted to violence.

Even if too many people were killed and the population declined drastically, it was not within his consideration.

Anyway, he relies on the local area to maintain his logistics. Even if he is wiped out and no one grows food for him, he doesn't care. In fact, it saves him a lot of trouble.

At the very least, what about the problem of how to manage a small population in the future? Is that something he should be considering? That's something the officials in charge here should be thinking about when the time comes!
After securing his rear, Chang Yuchun led 50,000 troops against overwhelming odds, directly confronting the Southeast Asian coalition. Thanks to the ferocity of the Jin army, despite being outnumbered, they spent half a year conquering the remaining half of Southern Chu. This left the remnants of the Xiang clan, who had finally managed to rebuild their power in Southeast Asia, without a base of operations, reduced to a homeless, wandering force.

Although Chang Yuchun's forces were fewer than those of the Southeast Asian coalition, this kind of thing is not about quantity but quality.

Chang Yuchun's situation simply means there isn't enough quantity, not that the quality is poor.

Chang Yuchun's troops were mostly veterans of the Southern Expedition, having seen bloodshed firsthand. Moreover, the two sides were not evenly matched in terms of equipment.

In contrast, in Southeast Asia, in order to stop Bai Qi in the early stages, they sacrificed a large number of veteran soldiers with combat capabilities. Now, the soldiers who can fight against Chang Yuchun are mostly those who have been in the army for about a year, and some soldiers have not even been in the army for a year.

Although the Southeast Asian coalition obtained a batch of high-quality weapons and equipment from the Kushan Empire, the Kushan Empire's asking price was not low, and the Southeast Asian coalition could not buy them indefinitely.

As for getting the Kushan Empire to provide support for free?
If the Kushan Empire had been this generous, or even half as generous, then during the three years of the pandemic, it wouldn't have caused such a rift between the Jin Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty in the north.

In the past two years, the Southeast Asian coalition has armed a large number of new troops. How could they have so many weapons and equipment from the Kushan Empire?

Therefore, Chang Yuchun's troops were only outnumbered on the surface; in reality, he was the one with the advantage in combat strength.

Besides, the Southeast Asian coalition is ultimately just a coalition, not a single force!
When the main battlefield shifted from the northern front to the southern front, and Nancy's main battlefields were mostly on the territory of Southern Chu, even if they couldn't win, these were still Southern Chu's territories that were lost.

Therefore, some of the forces in the Southeast Asian coalition are clearly not as motivated as before, and many have even begun to conserve their strength to varying degrees.

Ultimately, these people didn't consider the people of Nan Chu as their own. Deep down, they still regarded the people of Nan Chu as outsiders.

Many things simply exclude them from the scope.

How could such a coalition possibly defeat Chang Yuchun?
Not to mention, although Xu Cheng's East China Sea navy did not land and participate in the battle in most cases, Southeast Asia could not ignore the existence of this force and had to devote some energy and troops to guard against the possibility of this force suddenly attacking.

Therefore, Chang Yuchun spent half a year gradually conquering the remaining half of Southern Chu.

With Southern Chu falling into the hands of the Great Jin, it meant that two-thirds of Southeast Asia had actually fallen into the hands of the Great Jin.

Moreover, this excludes those island groups far from the mainland; if those island groups were included, the proportion would be much larger.

Southeast Asia today has very little strategic depth left.

After all, the Jin army in the north had occupied a large amount of territory. Although they were hampered by pressure from the Kushan Empire and the occupied areas in the rear, and had a large number of troops tied down, their advance was slow.

However, with the complete loss of Southern Chu, Southeast Asia, with its limited strategic depth, now faces the risk that Chang Yuchun could open a passage, allowing the northern and southern armies to reunite.

Under these circumstances, Miao Xun also began to plot an internal split within the Southeast Asian coalition.