After reading all the letters sent by Zhao Quanyou, Emperor Xin said with emotion: "Although I had expected this, the reaction of these barbarians was much faster than expected."
As the person next to him and the head of the think tank, Xizi knew Di Xin's true purpose.
Hearing Di Xin's emotion, she asked puzzledly: "Your Highness, isn't this good?"
She knew that the real purpose of Emperor Xin's sending troops was to force these barbarians to sue for peace, so after knowing the news, she was not so anxious to report to Emperor Xin.
Di Xin folded the letter and put it away, and explained: "If the barbarian envoys enter Beijing and the negotiations are successful, then at least within the next few years, the border of Dali will no longer have to worry about barbarian intrusion."
"Although such a contribution is not small, you must know that for the imperial court, the greatest contribution has always been to expand territory."
"Therefore, before the negotiation between the mission and the imperial court is successful, the larger the territory we conquer, the more credit we will gain in the end."
Then, the advantage he will have in competing for the throne of Dali will be greater.
Although Di Xin did not say the last words, Xizi also understood the meaning.
After Di Xin paused for a moment, he continued: "Therefore, my initial plan is to destroy the two groups of barbarians before the other barbarians will be completely unable to sit still and send an envoy to the capital to seek peace."
"And during the negotiation process, the expeditionary force continued to attack the outside world. Only now can we maximize the credit we get."
After finishing speaking, Di Xin sighed.
Now that the expeditionary force had only destroyed one Goguryeo, the barbarians could no longer sit still, which somewhat disrupted their plan.
There are two reasons why this happens.
The first is that the strength of these barbarians is much weaker than Di Xin expected.
In the process of conquering Goguryeo, although the results of the expedition were within Di Xin's expectations - without this confidence he would not have dared to lead an army of 30,000 to start the expedition, the resistance from Goguryeo was stronger than he expected.
Much weaker.
Of course, although there is a reason why Goguryeo is not familiar with the fighting method of the expeditionary army, which is adapted from a formation of the heavenly soldiers and generals of the ancient world, it also proves that the resistance of the Goguryeo army is relatively not strong.
Even with the advantage of geographical location, since Goguryeo could survive the scrutiny of other barbarians, the strength of other barbarians would not be much greater.
Under such a comparison of strength, it is not surprising that other barbarians came up with the idea of summary earlier.
As for the second reason, Di Xin suspected that there should be other realm masters contributing to this.
Although there were no realm lords descended in Goguryeo, it did not mean that there were not other barbarian tribes. Regardless of the reason, they must have been involved in sending tribute missions.
Di Xin faintly sensed a hint of conspiracy.
Because there were too few clues, he could only assume this for the time being, but Wu Xiu's intuition told him that his guess should be correct.
However, since the information sent by Zhao Quanyou only showed that the barbarian mission had entered Beijing but there was no result of the negotiations, it meant that the negotiations were not over yet.
After all, even if you demand and surrender, the benefits that should be fought for still have to be fought for, and this is where time is wasted.
But even if the negotiations are over, as long as the results of the negotiations are not delivered to Emperor Xin through official channels of the imperial court, no one can comment on the expeditionary force's crusade.
However, there should not be much time left for the expeditionary force.
After Di Xin thought for a moment, he raised his head and asked, "My beloved concubine, have the troops sent to Hu City come back?"
Xizi shook his head slightly and replied: "Your Highness, you haven't come back yet. According to the previously estimated time, it should be one to two days away."
"One to two days?"
Di Xin muttered these four words.
In other words, if he follows the agreement with Wu Xinhui and returns his consciousness to the clone of the Ancient Moon Realm on the third day, then he may be able to catch up with the return of the 10,000-strong army led by Ouyang Xuan. Even if not, he only needs to wait for one day.
.
Although there is only one extra day of uncertain time, as the barbarian mission has arrived in Beijing and the negotiations will yield results at any time, one day is still a luxury.
Not to mention, after leading back to Khan City, Ouyang Xuan's 10,000 troops will still need some time to adjust their status.
"No wait."
Di Xin said decisively: "Just wait until Ouyang Xuan returns, and after he has rested in the army, he can lead his army to pursue him."
"The army is about to leave early."
Hearing Di Xin's decision, Xi Zi was stunned for a moment, and then quickly said: "Your Highness, isn't this a little too hasty and a little risky?"
Xizi's worries are not unfounded.
Because of the formations and divine generals, the strength of Di Xin's army, as the number of people increased, was not linear, but geometric.
Although the 10,000-strong army led by Ouyang Xuan only accounted for one-third of Di Xin's expeditionary force, the strength of the expeditionary force was reduced by half.
Not to mention, due to the losses of the expedition, there are still two thousand elite troops operating north of Khan City. After excluding the troops left by Liu Jiande, there are currently only a little more than 15,000 expeditionary troops remaining in Khan City.
The strength is not even half of that of the previous expeditionary force.
Although Xizi didn't know much about these things, he still knew a little bit about them.
Di Xin explained: "From Khan City to the small grassland of the Uighur people, there are still some cities that belonged to the original Goguryeo."
"The defenders in these cities are not strong, and the existing expeditionary force in Khan City is enough to attack them."
He said: "Even if the defenders in these cities do not resist, the army will still need to spend a certain amount of time in the process of taking over. This time is enough for Ouyang Xuan to lead the remaining army."
"The one who will deal with the Uighur army at that time will naturally be the assembled expeditionary force."
In this way, Xizi finally understood and no longer had any objections.
Time is running out now, and the think tank needs to participate in the formulation of all city policies, so it must go with the army.
Even if they were talking about business matters, Xizi still enjoyed being with Di Xin, but she also knew the priorities, so after Di Xin finished explaining, she left the hall first.
And since Ouyang Xuan is gone, Di Xin can no longer be the hands-off shopkeeper.
And to be honest, it doesn't seem appropriate to be the commander-in-chief of a personal expedition.
After summoning Wei San and asking him to take the stamped warrant to assemble the army that had been resting for many days, Di Xin also got up and left the hall.
