Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

In fact, it makes sense for Takeda Hiroshi to order troops from various places to assemble towards Pyongyang.

First of all, Pyongyang was the capital of the original Goryeo Dynasty, and its city walls were built according to the capital.

Secondly, Pyongyang has more geographical advantages than Seoul.

Seoul is too close to the sea and does not have much strategic depth. As long as the enemy comes from the sea, there is almost no way to defend Seoul.

At the same time, the terrain of Seoul is flat and there is no dangerous terrain to defend.

But Pyongyang is different.

Pyongyang is farther from the sea than Seoul, and it is surrounded by hilly areas and mountain peaks. You can defend according to danger.

Therefore, if it is peacetime, Seoul can develop very well as the capital, but once it enters wartime, Seoul is not suitable as the core of defense.

Takeda Hiroshi only ordered to assemble Sakura soldiers. This was mainly because he felt that those Korean soldiers were not useful.

The morale of these people is too low and can easily affect the imperial soldiers. If it were a smooth battle, it would be good to say that these Korean soldiers could also act as a servant army.

But once they enter a headwind battle, it will definitely be these Korean soldiers who collapse.

Takeda Hiroshi knew that the next defensive battle in Pyongyang would be an arduous battle, and he needed to kick out all the unstable Korean soldiers.

By the way, let them station themselves in various places to slow down Daxia's advance.

Takeda Hiroshi began to actively plan the defense war in Pyongyang, and his telegram also caused an uproar in the base camp of Sakura Country.

It’s the same conference room, the same group of people.

However, at this time, the faces of this group of people were much uglier than when they were discussing how to attack Daxia.

Shinzo Yamada, Prime Minister of the Sakura Empire, looked ashen.

His pair of inverted triangular eyes kept glancing at Sakata Mio and Shimazu Koki, who were sitting on the left and right sides.

"You two, His Majesty Tianhuang needs an explanation as to why we lost so miserably in this battle?"

"The empire's thirty years of hard work were all in vain?" Yamada Shinzo suppressed the anger in his heart.

As the initiator of Tianhuang's New Deal, he has been following Tianhuang for more than thirty years.

In the past thirty years, he personally participated in the Overturning War and liberated the Sakura Empire from the ignorant and backward shogun.

During these thirty years, he actively promoted the Sakura Empire's New Deal, hoping to catch up with the prosperity of Western countries.

In these thirty years, he also led the empire to defeat Daxia and overturned the mountains that had been pressing on the empire for thousands of years.

Originally, he thought that after he defeated Daxia, the empire would rise and compete with the Western countries.

But what about reality?

Daxia was just asleep before, but now Daxia woke up and gave him a hard slap.

This slap not only woke him up, but also brought out the empire's fear of Daxia again.

In this war, in Yamada Shinzo's view, the biggest loss was not the battleships at all, let alone the soldiers.

Instead, Daxia slapped the empire almost to the point of losing its confidence.

Just imagine, the Sakura Empire worked hard to catch up for thirty years, thinking that it had surpassed Daxia, but Daxia gave itself a slap in the face in less than three years.

It also defeated the empire’s thirty years of hard work.

Isn't this enough to make the subjects of the empire despair?

Now Shinzo Yamada is already thinking about how to end this war with dignity.

Because, in his opinion, as long as the war can be ended decently, the empire's confidence will not be completely lost.

This also left a spark of fire for the empire, giving the empire the confidence to continue to catch up.

Thinking of this, Yamada Shinzo looked at the officers present again.

"Weren't you very good at speaking before? Why are you all mute now?"

"You are sinking here without saying a word, while the warriors of the Empire are still on the front lines, bleeding and dying for the Empire."

"We can afford to wait, but those soldiers can't afford to wait. So, I hope you can negotiate a result today."

"Is it necessary to continue the war? If we want to continue, how should we fight? If we cannot persist, then what reasons should we use to end this war?"

Yamada Shinzo said slowly, but his eyes never left Sakata Mio and Shimazu Koki.

The two military bosses also lowered their heads after hearing Yamada Shinzo's question.

Although the two of them are arrogant, they are not stupid either. They all know that the war has reached this point and there is no need to continue it.

Unless they can accept bringing the war to the Sakura Empire itself.

There is no way, they don't have many battleships in hand now, and the remaining four battleships have no hope of defeating the Daxia fleet wandering in the waters of Sakura Kingdom.

If there is no way to defeat or contain Daxia's fleet, then there is no way to transfuse blood to the Goryeo region.

Therefore, if the war does not end, the flames of war will sooner or later reach the empire itself.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, I think it will be difficult for us to break through the blockade of Daxia people and transfuse blood to Goryeo and Yizhou."

"For the future of the empire, I suggest that we talk to Daxia and restore the territories of both parties to before the war." Shimazu Koki thought for a while and said to Yamada Shinzo with a very bad expression.

When Yamada Shinzo heard Shimazu Koki's words, he was not angry. He just nodded slightly.

Then, Yamada Shinzo looked at Sakata Mio.

"Sakata-kun, what's your opinion?"

"Your Excellency, although I don't want to admit it, the Imperial Army has no good way to deal with the Daxia people's attack."

"The new weapons of the Daxia people are too effective on the battlefield. The warriors of the empire cannot defeat the Daxia people head-on."

"So, I also suggest that the empire can temporarily have a truce with Daxia, and then increase investment in the development of new weapons. We need to surpass Daxia in terms of weapons and equipment." Sakata Sanwei lowered his head and poured out the thoughts in his heart. Thoughts spoken.

"Your Excellency, the Imperial Navy also needs to build or purchase new warships!"

"This time, the Imperial Navy suffered a lot from the Daxia people in the battle! Especially their battleships, our naval guns were unable to blast through the opponent's armor."

"So, the Imperial Navy needs larger battleships and develops more powerful naval guns!"

Shimazu Koki also looked at Yamada Shinzo and said.

Apart from anything else, as long as the Army wants new weapons, the Imperial Navy must also have them.

After hearing the remarks from both sides, Yamada Shinzo lowered his head slightly and pondered for a moment.

Sakata Mio and Shimazu Koki had similar ideas to him, they both wanted to end the war as soon as possible.

Now the empire has no hope of victory. In order to preserve its strength, the best way is to end the war early.

"I understand, I will discuss this matter with His Majesty Tianhuang."

"In addition, what I want to say is that Daxia has a saying that is right. Failure is not terrible. What is terrible is losing hope and losing the understanding of things."

"Although we are at a disadvantage now, as long as we still have hope in our hearts and you guys can continue to stay sober, it will be only a matter of time before we catch up with Daxia."

"Look, didn't it only take us thirty years to catch up? Since we can make up for the thousand-year gap between the empire and Daxia in thirty years, what about another thirty years?"

"By then, will we be able to completely surpass Daxia?"

"So, gentlemen, the great cause of the empire has not yet been completed, gentlemen, let us work together!"