"It has been found out that Dashang only has 600,000 soldiers and horses gathered here, and most of them are savages from the nearby mountains and forests!"
Ashoka jumped up from his chair.
"Are you telling the truth?"
The scout was shocked. He was considered King Asoka's personal soldier. He had always been responsible for external surveillance and had never made any mistakes. King Ashoka would never question him like this.
"Of course it's true. Our team has been exploring there for several days and figured out all the situations in the merchant camp!"
With that said, the scout took out a map from his body and sent it up.
The excitement in King Asoka's eyes reached the extreme. The drawing in his hand was exactly Dashang's military formation arrangement.
"Okay, great. It seems that those who participated in the hunt before were probably all the elites of Dashang. They just wanted to gather those people together and give us a shock."
Having come to this conclusion, King Ayu no longer hesitated and immediately ordered the army to assemble and mobilize troops from the mainland at the same time.
This place is not very far from the homeland of the Maurya Dynasty, and even if it mobilizes several million troops, it only takes seven or eight days.
However, the Great Shang was engaged in serious military expeditions, and there was no way to mobilize troops from the mainland in a short period of time. Moreover, this was not their territory, and the savages they had summoned might rebel at any time.
Taken together, all the conditions will be a great benefit to the Mauryan Dynasty!
The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, who had been frightened out of his wits before, also gained confidence again.
In the merchant army's water stronghold, Zhao Rui frowned as he looked at the map on the wall.
So he has conquered a large area of local land, but he does not yet have the ability to actually control it.
Although there might be trouble in the short term, it was not an option in the long run, and he knew that there would definitely be a big war with the Mauryan Dynasty, and the battlefield would be here.
Once something goes wrong, the territory that has been fought so hard may be lost again.
"Your Highness!" Ziyun hurriedly entered the house with a bunch in his hands: "This main river has been completely dredged. Baihua City's grain and grass baggage can be transported here in three days."
Zhao Rui suddenly became excited. The food and grass supplies could arrive within three days, and the subsequent reinforcements could also arrive within three days.
Moreover, this main river has been connected to the canal in Dashang, which means that after leaving Luocheng, you can reach here directly by water.
In this way, the mobility of the backup was greatly increased, allowing them to defeat the Maurya Dynasty in the shortest possible time.
But Chen Fei had another idea in his mind.
Sometimes, a large-scale war is exactly the catalyst for economic and technological development.
If the current war can last for a long time, or if the two armies continue to face each other here, then the waterway transportation from Luo City to here will not be cut off.
During this process, we can increase the construction of surrounding water village wharves and dredge various rivers at the same time, so that waterway traffic can extend in all directions.
At the same time, a large number of people and materials will be transported here for local construction, and an appropriate amount of immigrants can be immigrated here from the Central Plains.
If all goes well, when this war is over, the land beneath our feet will completely become the territory of the Great Shang, and all tax-paying population will be included in the statistics.