954 Act When You Should (1/2)

Chapter 954 – Act When You Should

It was carefully planned by the Yanhuang Alliance to accept Caiyun City at this moment. If they did it too early, their target would be revealed, and Great Xia would be on alert. If they acted too late, they would not be able to threaten Great Xia.

If Great Xia chose to attack Caiyun City, Yanhuang Alliance could teleport over to help at any moment.

What Ouyang Shuo did not know was that Di Chen and the others had made a decision in their hearts. They would rather sacrifice Swordsman City to protect Caiyun City. There were two reasons behind this.

First, the Feng Family of Swordsman City had been drifting outside of the Yanhuang Alliance system. This time, they sought protection from the Shu Han Dynasty, which totally threw away the face of the Yanhuang Alliance.

Di Chen had already planned to chase Swordsman City out of the alliance after the battle.

Compared to the Feng Family, Caiyun Zinan was a commoner and was much easier to control.

Secondly, compared to Swordsman City that took up only two prefectures, the Caiyun City that occupied an entire province was undoubtedly a better ally, and it had a greater ability to curb the expansion of Great Xia.

Hence, this move also ensured the safety of Pill Sun City, which was why Chun Shenjun would willingly send out troops to help Caiyun City attack Changsha Prefecture and Changde Prefecture.

With the above two points, it was enough to let Di Chen and the others support Caiyun City.

However, in the end, they had underestimated the determination of Ouyang Shuo and the resilience of Great Xia.

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10th month, 11th day, Shanhai City.

The flames of war rose up in Xiangnan Province, but Shanhai City was as prosperous as usual. They were totally unaffected by everything. Even the players living in Shanhai City were not worried about the battle matters.

Within the Imperial Reading Room, Ouyang Shuo summoned Du Ruhui to discuss the matter of Caiyun City.

”Keming, should we attack Caiyun City?”

Du Ruhui's attitude was really resolute, ”My king, I think we should attack immediately!”

”Why?”

”First, Xiangnan Province is a core area to the south. If Caiyun City is able to unify the province and merge into the Yanhuang Alliance system, it would be difficult for us to unify the south region. It would even affect our ability to make plans for the southwest. Secondly, the presence of Xiangnan Province would be a huge burden on our border, and we would need to double the troops there.”

Du Ruhui concluded, ”Rather than be afraid every day, why not just fight one battle to solve the Xiangnan City-State problem once and for all?”

As expected from Du Ruhui, he was just so clean and decisive.

Ouyang Shuo nodded; his idea was the same as Du Ruhui. He followed by asking, ”The Leopard Legion Corps only has three legions at the north border. We need to defend against Chuanbei City-State while also entering Xiangnan Province. How do we do that?”

The 4th legion was in Stone City, while the 5th was in Tianjing City to keep a watch on the Satellite City. Hence, only the 1st three legions were arranged at the border.

Not to mention Yanhuang Alliance reinforcements, but there were two Caiyun City War Fighting Legions and two Pill Sun City ones.

To take down Xiangnan City-State with the Leopard Legion Corps alone was not going to be easy.

Du Ruhui said, ”The Satellite City outside of Tianjing City is already on the right track, and it is under the control of Blood Shadow Alliance. We can move the 5th legion to the border to monitor Chuanbei City-State.”

”Ma Chao's Tiger Leopard Cavalry have completed their mission, and he can leave the rest to the 4th legion of the Guards Legion Corps. I suggest the remaining 40 thousand cavalry teleport over to Consonance City and go up north together with Ma Chao's forces.”

Ouyang Shuo nodded. With the help of the two legions, the Battle of Xiangnan City-State would be much easier. Ouyang Shuo always liked to settle things quickly, and he did not want to drag out the Battle of Xiangnan.

It was already the middle of the 10th month, and they needed to end all the war matters by the 11th month. If not, Ouyang Shuo's planned second voyage would be delayed.

A day ago, the Navy Headquarters had already followed Ouyang Shuo's requirements and completed the construction of the Emperor Squadron.

Based on the organization, the squadron was one navy division with 40 Z1 Type Warships, 160 Mengchong warships, 500 Cima boats, and the rest were grain ships and the like.

Apart from that, there would be Ouyang Shuo's new flagship, The Emperor, which was made from the black dragon bones taken from the dragon island. As a result, the ship had special specialties.

The entire squadron had a total of 22 thousand men, three thousand sailors, which was one-fifth of a proper squadron.

Although that was the case, the commander was still a Fleet Admiral, which was similar to the commander of the other five squadrons; this was done to show the special position of the Emperor Squadron.

Thinking about it, Ouyang Shuo decided to promote the Nanjiang Squadron chief general Gan Ning. Just yesterday, he was ordered to return to Beihai City to accept his squadron and get ready for the voyage.

Thinking about this, Ouyang Shuo said, ”It's time to use West Gate Big Official.”

Before the war started, West Gate Big Official had sent a letter where he agreed to help Great Xia take over Chuanbei City-State.