As Nan Hua and Long Qian Xing regrouped with their soldiers, they started to make their preparation towards the east. Based on the information gathered, this location had several tribes and families who were in power and might not welcome strangers so much.
"Shi Long Kingdom hadn't reached this area for some reason." Long Qian Xing looked at the map in front of him.
Nan Hua looked at the picture and nodded silently. It seemed that the situation in this area was quite chaotic but they all resisted strangers' intervention. Even if Shi Long Kingdom has been working hard to expand their territory to the south, they were not completely focused lately.
With the reduced focus and soldiers in this area, the people who lived in this area had more room for maneuvering.
"They should be able to reach this area soon." Nan Hua looked at the distance. Shi Long Kingdom has been more active than Fei Yang Kingdom in terms of the conquest to the south. There were many villages that was previously unowned by either of the big kingdoms now belonged to them.
It was also because of their focus to expand their territory that they technically ignored Fei Yang Kingdom's ruckus for the past few years. From their point of view, it was a good thing.
"It's already past summer." Long Qian Xing pursed his lips. "By now, Fei Yang Kingdom should have also started their attack towards Shi Long Kingdom."
"Who's the leader?" Nan Hua asked.
In terms of the people in Fei Yang Kingdom's court, Long Qian Xing has more than hers. She didn't really focus in the Capital City because she knew how deep these people had their connections were. It was harder than other cities that didn't have much connections and so on.
This was one of the reasons why Nan Hua chose not to focus on the Capital City.
Instead, she focused on the other cities east of the Capital City. With this, she would still be able to receive some news that was spread outside. But for faster and more accurate news, it was not quite possible.
On the other hand, Long Qian Xing has been working close to Emperor Yang Zhou. Naturally, he also planted more of his people in the court in order to help him dealing with some moths in the court. In addition, they would deliver the piece of news to him from time to time.
This allowed him to know the exact situation of the court at the fastest speed possible.
Their current distance from the Capital City was extremely far.
Even with the road that Emperor Yang Zhou had built over the years, it was not enough for them to receive instant news. It would still take a few days at the very least to reach this area even if the horse were to run at the fastest speed possible.
"General Shangguan is selected to lead three new temporary generals to attack Shi Long Kingdom." Long Qian Xing was calm.
"Temporary generals?" Nan Hua repeated, not feeling surprised.
There were many other commanders who had actually earned enough merit to be promoted, but they hadn't had the luck so far because those who were at the forefront were much better than them.
Now that the war against Shi Long Kingdom required more soldiers and commanders, they were promoted.
"General Feng will also make an attack from the north of Shi Long Kingdom in order to create pinch attack. General Yu will be rushing towards the south after destroying Shi Long Kingdom's cities." Long Qian Xing nodded when he saw this.
Nan Hua knew that this meant Yu Jin will be helping them in the next battle as their reinforcement.
But for this reinforcement to arrive, it might take a week or two before they arrived or even longer. It would depend on how tight Shi Long Kingdom assimilated these areas that finally belonged to them.
"It'll get busy." Nan Hua nodded.
"General Hong is with General Shangguan, so it's estimated that we won't be able to avoid staying at the south for the time being." Long Qian Xing laughed. He felt that he was being tossed here and there during this war.
From the very beginning, he didn't have his fixed place. Even if he had turned some cities into his territory, their distance from one to another was quite far. This was caused because he didn't have any fixed location.
From one side, this will allow him to accumulate more experience from fighting various opponents.
But from the other side, he would not be able to truly accumulate power.
Long Qian Xing knew that Emperor Yang Zhou was still cautious of him and this way of covert things were much better than blatantly blocking his dream. At the very least, it didn't really cause him much harm.
After all, he still had his own power aside from those territory methods that other generals used.
"Let's head to the east. There's a large valley there."
"It's a dried river." Long Qian Xing had seen it and calculating the distance and location from the frozen river up in the mountain he had seen before, he guessed that the water used to flow to this way. But because it was now frozen to build some kind of mountain on its own, the water never reached this place anymore.
"There's an even wider valley up front. The area is very low compared to other areas, so it might have been a lake before." Long Qian Xing rubbed his chin. "But if the water is to flow at high speed to the lake, it might even create a path to the sea."
East of Shi Long Kingdom is sea. So even if they wanted to run away from the battles, they couldn't really go anywhere.
Their ship technology didn't allow them to really sail to the sea and go everywhere.
But of course, the first thing they needed to do was to block Shi Long Kingdom and force them to surrender.
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