Maurya Kingdom, Kantil City.
This is a city with an extremely important strategic position!
It guards the middle of the Gansuoya Mountains and serves as the southern barrier of Huayue City, the imperial capital of the Peacock Kingdom.
Back then, Fu Xiaoguan did not attack the city of Kantil, but went along the Gansuoya Mountains towards the Hoz Plain. As a result, he did not reach the city of Hoz, but instead made a long raid around the Gansuoya Mountains to raid the city of Huayue.
Now the city of Kantil is in the hands of Kuchan.
At this moment, Ku Chan was frowning as he looked at the huge map in the City Guard's Mansion.
He now knew almost everything about Fu Xiaoguan's battle in the Peacock Kingdom. After all, many of the people who came to join him were former soldiers of the Peacock Legion.
"Why didn't he just attack Kantil City? It's at least three days' journey from here to Huayue City. If that were the case, the Marines wouldn't have encountered the Peacock Legion coming back to support them, and would have captured Huayue City two or three days earlier."
"The Marines can definitely wait until the main force of the Great Xia Army arrives. By then, they can hold Huayue City... Asoka won't have the slightest chance!"
Yu Shurong, who had taken off her disguise, laughed, "After all, you still don't understand him as well as mother does."
"Fu Xiaoguan displayed exceptional military talent as early as the Yu Dynasty. When Xue Dingshan, a general of the western border army, rebelled, he trapped Hong Niangzi's troops at Qipan Pass on the Jinniu Ancient Road, preventing them from connecting front and rear, and then divided and killed them."
"Xue Dingshan retreated to Jianmen City, but Fu Xiaoguan easily defeated him with a single song of Chu. He beheaded Xue Dingshan in Jianmen City, thus quelling the rebellion."
Yu Shurong also stood in front of the map and pointed. "Official Fu brought 400,000 soldiers with him. Although Prince Sangjiayi, who was guarding Kantil City at the time, had a million soldiers, he obviously knew that the million soldiers he had recruited on short notice were a motley crowd."
"Fu Xiaoguan's 400,000-man army can easily capture Kantil City and continue north, aiming for Huayue City."
"Besides, the king of the Maurya Kingdom was leading a large army towards Hoz City. If he conquered Kantil City, Asoka would have no choice but to return to support him. The main force of his army would have just encountered Asoka, and he could have wiped Asoka out in one fell swoop. Huayue City would have been his."
"But why did he abandon the seemingly formidable Kantil City and head for Holtz City? But he didn't even make it to the Holtz Plains battlefield. Instead, he took a long detour and ordered He Sandao's 20,000 special forces to raid Huayue City?"
"That's because He Sandao must die!"
Ku Chan was shocked, "He Sandao is His Majesty's right-hand man!"
"You don't know, He Sandao's personality is too erratic. Looking across the entire Great Xia, there are very few people who can control He Sandao."
"Fu Xiaoguan has long intended to abdicate. Although he has not yet appointed a crown prince, his sons are still young."
"Once he really leaves Daxia, even if his eldest son Wu Tianci succeeds him, he will only be twelve or thirteen years old."
"Aside from Zhuo Bieli and Bai Yulian, no one else in the army can hold a candle to He Sandao. But Bai Yulian is thinking of retiring with Fu Xiaoguan. He Sandao has made great military achievements. If the Peacock Nation wins another great victory, Fu Xiaoguan will have to confer a knighthood on He Sandao."
"He Sandao also controls the most elite Marine Corps in Daxia and serves as the commander of the Third Marine Corps. His reputation within the military is very high, so high that even Fu Xiaoguan has to consider what He Sandao will do after he leaves Daxia."
"So, the annihilation of 20,000 Marines in Huayue City wasn't He Sandao's fault, but Fu Xiaoguan's... using someone else's knife to kill someone!"
Ku Chan was stunned. He swallowed his saliva, pondered for a few breaths, and shook his head: "He is not that kind of person!"
"Mother knows he's indebted to you. Mother also knows that when he went to the Wu Dynasty to participate in the literary gathering, he was still a relatively simple young man. My son, he is the emperor now. He has been the emperor for so many years. Do you think he can still be as simple as before?"
"People will eventually change their minds as their status changes. What he's thinking about now is paving the way for Daxia's future and creating the best and most stable situation for Daxia's successor."
"I'm making a bet with you. If Fu Xiaoguan finds out what I've done in Daxia, he'll definitely send someone to assassinate us, and you... are no exception!"
Kuchan was silent for a long time before he sighed, "You shouldn't have done those things, and I... I just wanted this place to become more peaceful so that I can spread the Dharma here."
Yu Shurong chuckled and looked at Ku Chan's now full head of black hair. "Buddha can only save people in prosperous times! In troubled times like this, only humans can save people!"
"You now command an army of 200,000 men, and you have dozens of cities behind you. In this now peaceful land, there are still tens of millions of civilians, and their lives now depend on you alone!"
"Do you think that if you shave your head and give up the power you are about to acquire, the person holding the power will worship you like a Buddha?"
"Why did Fu Xiaoguan leave the Yu Dynasty to inherit the throne of the Wu Dynasty? Because my brother, the emperor, couldn't tolerate him. If he didn't leave, he would eventually die in the Yu Dynasty. So he is a truly clever person. He bought the hearts of the people of the entire Yu Dynasty and made everyone in the Yu Dynasty believe that it was my brother who forced him to leave."
"When he conquered the world, no one, whether the people or officials of the Yu Dynasty, stood up to oppose him. Instead, they all submitted to him."
"Has he ever given up his power? He never gave it up again, and he even held on tighter!"
"Son, reality is often so cruel. You can only make your heart as hard as iron and hold on to that authority even tighter to be qualified to realize your ideals."
"Just like Fu Xiaoguan, he built a powerful Great Xia, and he can retire to be a small landowner. If you gain this world, when your children grow up, you can spread your Buddhist teachings!"
"Do you understand?"
"So-called mercy comes after killing!"
"Without killing, how can there be mercy!"
Ku Chan was speechless, because what Yu Shurong said was extremely realistic.
When he became the village chief in the Taier Mountains, he simply didn't want those people to starve to death or freeze to death. He led those people to recruit bandits from all over the Taier Mountains, then went down the mountain and captured the town.
This fight will never end. It has reached this point. In more than a month, we will be able to reach Huayue City.
"Are you really not using me to avenge Yu Chao?"
Yu Shurong smiled slightly: "Why should I seek revenge for the Yu Dynasty? I just want you to become stronger and become a powerful emperor like Fu Xiaoguan!"
"But the most important thing is to survive! Son, we need to speed up the unification process. I estimate that the people sent by Fu Xiaoguan will be here soon."
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