Hua Yuan's sudden visit made everyone wary.
Han Yu, Yang Si, and the rest had similar thoughts as Jiang Pengji. An Cui suggested an alliance at this time, most likely because there was a major change in Nansheng. They could form an alliance, but they had to figure out the whole story. They didn't want to be betrayed by their ally without knowing it.
Thinking of this, they couldn't help but turn their attention to Wei Ci. Wei Ci was nicknamed "Know-It-All" and was well-informed.
They didn't know that the Nansheng that Wei Ci was familiar with was the Nansheng of his previous life. He had only been to Nansheng once in this life, and that was when he had the mission of forming an alliance with Yang Tao. How could he have had the time to understand anything else? To Wei Ci, the current Nansheng was an unfamiliar existence.
However, a big shot was a big shot. Even without the advantage of being a prophet, Wei Ci could still analyze from other aspects without affecting his pretentiousness.
With the experience from his previous life and the information from this life, his understanding of Nansheng was incomparable to that of others.
Wei Ci said, "I heard that the forces in Nansheng met and prepared to form an alliance to attack Nanman."
Han Yu nodded. "I've heard of it."
Everyone had heard of the news, but they didn't pay much attention to it. Nansheng was another country. They had to take care of their own territory first.
Therefore, no one knew the outcome of the Nansheng meeting.
"Although the four factions of Nanman are cruel, they have a fatal weakness. They don't have many people. Their people live in barren and dangerous lands full of miasma. It's difficult for them to produce crops, "Wei Ci said with certainty." In the early years, they conquered Nansheng and reaped great wealth, but they lost too many people. According to what I know, the four factions of Nanman had at most 1.7 million people before they attacked Nansheng. Including those who died in the war, I'm afraid … "
Without waiting for him to finish, Jiang Pengji asked a question she was curious about.
"The population of the four factions of Nanman … is only 1.7 million?" Jiang Pengji's expression was a little stiff. How weak was Nansheng? It was actually defeated by the four factions of Nanman, which had such a small population. "Deducting the children under the age of ten who can't participate in the war, the elderly, women, and children, it would be difficult for the four factions of Nanman to gather 300,000 strong young men. Why was Nansheng destroyed …"
Although the total population of the five countries was only 60 million, it was not difficult for Nansheng to gather a population of 10 million.
A country of ten million people was destroyed by a small tribe of 1.7 million people. Nansheng was really a noob.
Wei Ci shook his head. "My lord doesn't know about this. The situation of the four factions of Nanman is unique and cannot be measured and calculated with common sense."
Jiang Pengji was surprised and asked, "What's so special about it?"
Han Yu was well-read and knew a lot of information. He immediately understood what Wei Ci meant.
"I heard that the four factions of Nanman have some strange customs." Under Wei Ci's gaze, he opened his mouth to explain, "One of the customs is to abandon the old customs. The land of the Southern Barbarians is not easy to cultivate and there is a shortage of food. Regardless of men or women, as long as they are over forty-five years old and are unable to carry a load of two stone, they will move to the mountains and wait for death in a cave of death, just to save food for the young and strong. Another custom was that everyone was a soldier, regardless of gender. The people of the Southern Barbarian Tribe could go to the battlefield at the age of ten. Their bravery and ferocity were not inferior to ordinary adults. The destruction of Nansheng is expected. "
Therefore, don't be fooled by the fact that the Southern Barbarians only had 1.7 million soldiers. The number of soldiers that could actually go to the battlefield was definitely more than one million!
The destruction of Nansheng was not only due to the lack of combat power, but also the internal aristocratic forces that were holding each other back. Naturally, the four factions of Nanman became more and more courageous as they fought.
They also knew that they were weak, so the tribal chief never restricted the warriors in the tribe from sowing seeds outside. Instead, he encouraged this behavior. Every time they conquered a city, they would gather the captured women together and hold a celebration party so that the warriors could thoroughly enjoy their spoils of war. For the Southern Barbarians, the captured women were their livestock. They provided the palace with a moving machine to give birth to their people.
However, how could their sowing catch up with the speed of population depletion during the war?
It would take at least 11 years for a woman to give birth to a baby that could grow to the extent of being able to go to the battlefield!
The feudal vassal forces within the territory of Nansheng kept contending with the four factions of Nanman. Over the past few years, the war had been incessant. The population continued to plummet and fell below the one million mark!
The current population of one million, including the newborns that had been born during the years of sowing seeds, their real combat power was less than half of their peak.
As the saying goes, "Strike while they are weak." If they did not counterattack now, would the new generation of children of the four factions of Nanman grow up?
"The four factions of Nanman could not withstand such losses, and the power of Nansheng gradually turned the tables." Wei Ci continued, "In order to not give the southern barbarians a chance to rise from the ashes, they gathered all the feudal vassal forces to work together and destroy the southern barbarians in one fell swoop. This was expected."
In his previous life, Nansheng was even worse. Nansheng was ravaged by the four factions of Nanman in various ways. There were almost no decent feudal vassal forces.
It was different in this life. First, An Cui joined the war earlier. He had Lu Zheng and Hua Yuan by his side to assist him. Yang Tao, who should have been operating in Dongqing, went to Nansheng. This caused the battle line of Nansheng against the southern barbarians to be more stable. The situation of the war was naturally more optimistic than in his previous life.
Wei Ci collected these thoughts and continued, "Previously, Hua Yuan proposed an alliance. He said, 'If the two families form an alliance and help each other, when An Cui drives out the southern barbarians, the lord will live in Dongqing, and An Cui will live in Nansheng.' This shows that the situation of the alliance is very clear. Hua Yuan also helped An Cui obtain a million dans of rations. Compared to the other feudal vassals, An Cui naturally has a greater advantage. "
Even if the forces of the alliance were very united, there was a prerequisite for unity — the four factions of Nanman were their common enemy!
Once the four factions of Nanman were destroyed, the external reason for the various forces to unite would be gone. The alliance would only exist in name, and it would be the turn of internal strife.
If An Cui could obtain the support of Dongqing's winner, Jiang Pengji, during the internal strife, the chances of sweeping away the other feudal vassal forces would be higher.
Wei Ci said, "Hua Yuan's alliance is real, but it's hard to say if he will turn against us after the alliance benefits."
Jiang Pengji sneered. "What's the point of turning against us after the alliance?"
Wei Ci was speechless.
That's true. My lord loves to turn against us during the alliance period. She's very good at killing people she's familiar with!
The salted fish in the livestream became more and more confused as he listened.
Luoyu Treading on Flowers: "Streamer, have you decided to form an alliance with An Cui? What about the little cutie Yang Tao?
Wasn't Yang Tao Jiang Pengji's previous ally? In any case, he brought troops from Nansheng all the way to Dongqing to help her restrain Huang Song and Xu Bei. Even though Yang Tao's motive for doing this was to avenge his father, even if there was no hard work, there was still hard work. She also benefited from it. "
Toudu Feiqiu: "Don't you know that Yang Tao is still occupying Zhangzhou in Dongqing? Making friends from afar and attacking from close quarters. Serves Yang Tao right for being closer to the streamer than An Cui. "
Free Lemon: "You only know now that she's a heartless woman?"
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