The Gudo Dynasty could not even take care of themselves and ended the last chance of survival for the Peacock Dynasty.
With the cooperation of the Great Xia and the Ashoka Dynasty, the eastern and western armies launched a pincer attack on the Peacock Dynasty. For a time, the Peacock Dynasty could not attend to one thing and their territory fell at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The Peacock King was anxious, but it was of no use.
On the contrary, against the Gudo Dynasty in the south, the Great Xia army and the Ashoka Dynasty tacitly adopted a relatively conservative strategy of harassment and restraint.
As long as the Gudo Dynasty did not reinforce the Peacock Dynasty, everything was fine.
The Gudo King was not a fool. He knew that the enemy did this not to let the Gudo Dynasty go, but to destroy them one by one. When the Peacock Dynasty was destroyed, it would be the time for the Gudo Dynasty to suffer.
However, with the military strength of the Gudo Dynasty, they had enough defense but not enough counterattack.
The situation was already very clear. In this 2v2 life and death battle, the powerful alliance of the Great Xia and the Ashoka Dynasty had suppressed the Peacock Dynasty and the Gudo Dynasty.
Victory was only a matter of time.
… …
July 20th, Tianzhu.
Just as the allied forces of the Great Xia and the Ashoka Dynasty were winning, a piece of discordant news spread within the Tianzhu district, causing a crack to appear in the close cooperation between the two sides.
The matter had to be explained from a week ago.
After the Great Xia Western Army invaded the Peacock Dynasty, every time they occupied a city, they arranged for people to loot all the supplies in the city and transport them to the nearby He Tao Province.
Not only that, even the people in the north of the city were 'looted' and forcibly moved to He Tao Province.
The strange actions of the Great Xia were suspicious.
Because this was not in line with the usual practice of the Great Xia army. According to the discipline of the Great Xia army, they had never offended the people and mainly appeased the local people and gentry.
They had never heard of the Great Xia having such a practice of 'draining the pond to catch the fish'.
Outsiders did not know the inside story, but when Ashoka received the news, it was clear.
According to the covenant signed between the Great Xia and the Ashoka Dynasty, the territory of the Peacock Dynasty would be ceded to the Ashoka Dynasty in the future. The Great Xia naturally wanted to reap the benefits.
"It's just that the way they eat is a little too ugly." Ashoka was a little unhappy.
A few days ago, because the cooperation between the two sides was still in the honeymoon period, Ashoka did not say anything and endured of the war.
Unexpectedly, because of Ashoka's tacit approval, the Great Xia army's "looting operation" became even more unbridled.
According to the scouts at the frontline, the Great Xia army was practically scraping the ground.
After the war, when the Ashoka Dynasty took over those cities, they would probably get empty cities. This would be a huge violation of the Ashoka Dynasty's interests.
When King Ashoka received the report, he couldn't help but report the situation to Emperor Xia himself.
After receiving King Ashoka's message, Ouyang Shuo attached great importance to it. He first expressed his apologies before saying, "The frontline soldiers acted recklessly and disobeyed orders. It was my fault. I will definitely give your country an explanation."
This made Ashoka very confused.
"Could it be that the actions of the Great Xia army were not instructed by Emperor Xia?"
Ashoka would never believe it.
Everyone knew that the Great Xia army was known for its strict discipline. If it wasn't for the imperial court's instructions, they wouldn't have dared to loot like this.
"Or could it be that a certain minister of the imperial court of the Great Xia Dynasty instructed him to do so?"
Ashoka judged others by himself and did not rule out this possibility. Of course, the greatest possibility was that the Xia Emperor himself was pretending to be deaf and mute in order to avoid losing face.
He, Ashoka, had played such tricks many times.
Fortunately, with the Xia Emperor's promise, regardless of the truth, this matter should be able to come to an end.
Ashoka was also very tactful and did not mention the issue of compensation for the looted cities. As long as the Great Xia army could stop the looting, this little loss was nothing.
In fact, it was not worthwhile for Ashoka to fall out with Great Xia just for this little benefit.
In any case, although the situation of the war in India was advantageous to them, before complete victory was achieved, any variables could happen.
At this time, the most taboo thing was to have internal conflicts and cracks in the alliance.
Ashoka was very clear about the principle of righteousness!
After the incident, Ashoka was very happy because he handled this matter reasonably and calmly without losing his rationality.
…
Unfortunately, it turned out that it was too early for Ashoka to be happy.
After Ashoka personally appealed, on the surface, the Great Xia army did indeed stop the looting, which made Ashoka heave a sigh of relief.
Just a week later, there was a new situation.
According to the reports from the frontline spies, the looting of the Great Xia army turned from overt to covert. Although they didn't openly plunder money and supplies, they "invited" merchants to Hetao Province to invest and do business.
Faced with the personal visit of the soldiers, how could those merchants not agree?
At the same time, the Great Xia Southern Border Protectorate also brazenly recruited talents in the occupied areas under the guise of recruiting outstanding talents.
Although they didn't sweep away all the commoners, they took away all kinds of talents, which were the essence of the population.
Great Xia's method was very clever.
Under the banner of voluntary "looting", there was not a single flaw.
Not to mention, due to the continuous years of war, the merchants and all kinds of talents in the occupied areas extended an olive branch to Great Xia, and not all of them were forced. A large portion of the commoners voluntarily settled down in the Southern Border Protectorate.
After all, it was human nature to pursue an easy and comfortable life.
In contrast, the commoners weren't very interested in the Ashoka Dynasty.
When Ashoka received the report, he was so angry that his face turned black, but he couldn't flare up. Because of the active cooperation of the commoners in the occupied areas, Ashoka really didn't have the face to complain to Emperor Xia.
As an emperor, Ashoka also had self-respect.
He couldn't be like a peddler and argue with Emperor Xia until his face was red and ears were red. In the end, he was like a little wife who had been wronged, crying and saying, "You can't do this."
Ashoka couldn't afford to lose face like this.
"No, we must take measures!"
Ashoka was a proud person. After suffering a loss, he wanted to get back at them.
Not being able to complain didn't mean that Ashoka had no way.
"Come!" Ashoka shouted.
"Here!"
Ashoka ordered, "Pass the order to my personal army, I want to personally lead the troops to the frontline to supervise the battle."
"Yes!"
Ashoka's plan was very clear. Since he couldn't stop the little tricks of Great Xia, then he could only rely on strength to speak. He concentrated the troops on the Peacock Imperial Court's battlefront and started a race with the Great Xia army.
The earlier the Peacock Imperial Court was captured, the less losses for the Ashoka Dynasty; the more cities they captured, the less cities Great Xia would have to capture.
This method seemed very clumsy, but it was the only countermeasure that Ashoka could think of.
"I want to see how many cities the Great Xia army can capture."
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