At this moment, a messenger rushed into the hall in a hurry and knelt on the ground.
His body was covered in scars, and his armor had already been soaked with blood. He must have come back from the front line.
"Your Highness, King Drow's army is less than twenty miles away from here!"
Zhao Rui frowned slightly, he had never heard of the Drow King.
Ziyun next to him quickly pulled out a pile of information and handed it over.
"Your Highness, King Drow is the most powerful vassal king in the Cochin Kingdom. He controls half of the entire empire's troops."
Zhao Rui was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Ziyun had already sorted out all the information about the Jiaozhi royal family.
"I didn't expect that there would be a fish that slipped through the net. If that's the case, then I will sacrifice his head to heaven to celebrate my great merchant's victory over the entire Cochin Kingdom."
"No, Your Highness!" The messenger gasped, his face full of anxiety: "King Drow not only has the army of Cochin in his hands, but also has 300,000 Khmer troops."
Zhao Rui's pupils suddenly dilated. He did not expect that the Khmer Dynasty was also involved.
It can be seen from the map that the Cochin Kingdom and the Khmer Dynasty are the two most powerful dynasties in this land, and the rest are small countries. As long as these two empires can be conquered, then this land can
Completely integrated into Dashang territory.
Originally, Zhao Rui wanted to solve all the troubles in the Cochin country before attacking the Khmer country, but he didn't expect that they would take the initiative to come to his door.
"In other words, this Drow King has an army of 600,000 to 700,000 people?"
"Six hundred and eighty thousand!" The ordering soldier nodded firmly.
Zhao Rui admired it very much. He looked at the messenger in front of him. He was injured like this but could still send the information here so accurately. He could be considered a warrior.
"Go down and receive the reward!"
After sending away the messengers, Zhao Rui immediately ordered the army to assemble and advance westward.
Dai Qisi was shocked. They had just conquered the Kingdom of Cochin. If they led their troops to leave now, wouldn't they give the other party a chance to recover?
"Your Highness, is there something wrong with this? How about we postpone sending troops and fight a defensive battle? If this is not possible, we have to leave tens of thousands of troops to defend the city anyway."
Zhao Rui laughed loudly and pulled Dai Qisi out of the palace.
The common people around the imperial capital were gathering under the city at this moment, taking their men, women, old and children there to receive supplies. Many people directly joined the Great Merchant Army.
"My dear concubine, you can't just think about fighting. Sometimes you also have to learn how to govern a country."
"Now the people of Jiaozhi are all under our control. They will not betray us and will even help us defend the city!"
"They had nothing before, and the land under their feet had nothing to do with them. It didn't matter who was their master. But now that they have property, the land under their feet has something to do with them, and they will spare no effort to protect it.
"
Dai Qisi looked at the people under the city and suddenly realized that this was indeed true after thinking about it.
In a daze, she suddenly understood Zhao Rui's way of fighting, which was a strategic level method!
Although she also uses some wonderful formations and strategies when fighting, in the final analysis they are just small strategies. It is okay to have dozens of cities in the middle, but if she wants to truly conquer a land, she still needs some time.
Zhao Rui is different. He can make the people of his country surrender to the great merchants wholeheartedly.