TO ACHIEVE IMMORTALITY, I CULTIVATE USING QI LUCK

Chapter 925: Chapter 388 Jiangdong Issue_2 Chapter 925: Chapter 388 Jiangdong Issue_2 With three hundred thousand soldiers and five hundred thousand county soldiers at hand, under normal circumstances, unless I personally take action, it would be extremely difficult for Chu State to swallow Ning Country.

Without a bloody and bruising fight, spending a dozen or more years, and the death of a million people, they probably really can’t take it down.”

Lu Yuan recalled the recent activities of Liang Country in Ning Country and couldn’t help but snort coldly, his heart filled with anger.

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Clearly, as Chu State gradually began to unify Yangzhou and defeated Ning Country, the Liang Country, which dominated half of Central State to the north, had already started to dread the rising power of Chu State in the south.

This assistance to Ning Country is exactly for this reason.

With the aid of Liang Country, Ning Country could not only maintain its current strength of eight hundred thousand soldiers, but it might be possible to train them to a more elite level.

Once the two countries go to war, Liang Country will also provide substantial funds and provisions to help Ning Country sustain its army and keep the war dragging on.

Liang Country might even send troops directly to aid Ning Country in defending against Chu State, or attack Chu State’s homeland, drawing Chu State’s strength away from other battle fronts.

With the strength of Liang Country, this is entirely feasible.

According to what Lu Yuan knows, or rather the military strength that Liang Country has openly displayed, they have three million regular soldiers, most of whom are elite combat troops.

Moreover, Liang Country has also gained full support from the two major Daoist sects within their country, Dan Ding Path and Cang Long Way, which have cultivated an extraordinary number of Inborn Grandmasters in recent years.

Considering their accumulated prowess over the years, the current number of Inborn individuals in Liang Country has reached as many as forty-three.

And who knows if there are more hidden in the shadows?

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Additionally, there should be about ten or so Inborns remaining within the Dan Ding Path and Cang Long Way, who haven’t taken service with Liang Country.

These can all be considered the core strengths of Liang Country.

Therefore, the number of Inborn individuals within Liang Country may well be over sixty, or even possibly as high as seventy.

With this power, even after accounting for the soldiers needed to stay behind to manage the local areas and the necessary defense of their borders against other countries, Liang Country can easily deploy twenty or so Inborn individuals and millions of soldiers to initiate a war against Chu State.

Chu State hasn’t engaged in a war with Liang Country because first, they dread the great strength of Chu State, which openly shows a standing force of over a million regular soldiers, with twenty-two direct Inborn subordinates.

In addition, Chu State has eleven vassal states, which can mobilize another five or six hundred thousand troops and eleven Inborns.

With such strength, even if Liang Country sends troops to attack, they’re not guaranteed victory and heavy losses are a certainty.

Second, because now attacking territories outside Central State is a losing proposition, where even if they are conquered, they cannot be defended for more than a few years.

Therefore, while risking the expenditure of money and provisions by the billions, accepting military losses in the millions, and potentially sacrificing several or even more than ten Inborn individuals, embarking on a war against Chu State—

The ultimate gain would just be a piece of land usable for only a few decades, one that’s been so ravaged by war it is practically desolate.

Faced with such an outcome, the monarch and ministers of Liang Country, even if their minds were caught in a wild frenzy, would not engage in such a losing trade.

And that’s if they even win.

If the war were lost, and Liang Country suffers the loss of a million troops on the Southern Line and the deaths of more than ten Inborns, losing one-third of their military power, it could almost be said their national foundation would be shaken.

Without these military forces, not only would their domestic rule become problematic, but neighboring countries, too, would likely act like sharks sensing blood, following in Chu State’s wake to pounce and feast on the succulent meal that is Liang Country.

Chu State, which has nearly unified Yangzhou, stands almost equal to Liang Country in both strength and potential.

Facing such a formidable enemy, Liang Country, no matter how much they dread it, would not rashly provoke border conflicts and start a national war.

Even Lu Yuan understands the terror of Liang Country, yet he also doesn’t launch a Northern Expedition against it immediately.

Both countries know that a battle between them is inevitable, yet both are avoiding the onset of war.

Lest they both end up worse for wear, dressing others in their bridal robes.

So Lu Yuan is waiting, wishing to unify Yangzhou first, and then wait for the countries such as Wei, Zhou, Zhao, Xu, and others, forced southward by the cold tide, to initiate warfare against Liang Country first.

By the time these Liang foes have drawn Liang Country’s fire and drained its military, that will be Chu State’s moment for the Northern Expedition.

After all, the calamity of the Four Extremities also follows a sequence.

First comes the cold tide of Northern Dark City, followed by the earthquakes in the west, the poisonous fires in the south, and the storms in the east.

This great calamity of Heaven and Earth must be transcended by the northern people first, before it’s the turn of Chu people in southern Yangzhou.

Time is on Lu Yuan’s side; he needn’t be in a hurry to be the first bird to take flight.

And the same goes for Liang Country.

They know that there is no immediate life-or-death conflict with Chu State, and even if Chu State did want to fight, it would be decades or even a hundred years from now.

Waiting for Liang Country to be drained by battles with its powerful northern adversaries is the opportune time for Chu State to reap the benefits.

Right now there is no need for the two to engage in a life-or-death struggle.

Because even if Chu State fought to the death and took Qingzhou from Liang Country, it would then have to face the continuous southern advance of various countries and tribes.

The resulting endless wars, lasting hundreds of years of life-and-death struggle, would be daunting for any empire to contemplate.

For Chu State to now eliminate Liang Country would mean taking over Liang Country’s troubles.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to let Liang Country bear the brunt, waiting until they have fought each other to a standstill before Chu State steps in.

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