"According to intelligence, the two kingdoms are in peace talks. Niu Youdao suddenly pulled something like this—wasn't he afraid the three great sects of Yan Kingdom would deal with him?"
Inside the hall, Qi Emperor Hao Yuntu paced back and forth, pondering as he slowly asked the question.
Hu Yan Wuhen and Bu Xun had been urgently summoned back because Hao Yuntu wanted to hear Hu Yan Wuhen's views on this war.
Did Yan Kingdom's sudden move mean they were certain of victory? If they were, how long would the war last?
All sorts of questions had to be clarified before timely decisions could be made, and Hu Yan Wuhen excelled at this.
In Hu Yan Wuhen's view, even if the Yan army could defeat Zhao Kingdom, it would lack the strength to annex it.
Annexing a kingdom was not as simple as winning a war. Occupying a kingdom's territory would bring one problem after another. The remnants of the defeated side would surely be unwilling to accept it, and there would also be resistance from the old loyalists of their homeland. Where would Yan Kingdom find the national strength and troops to suppress them?
With such a vast expanse of territory to control, insufficient national strength and dispersed forces, dragging things out would instead drag Yan Kingdom itself down. If an external enemy struck at will, they would find it difficult even to regroup their forces for defense. It was simply unrealistic.
In short, Yan Kingdom was currently weak and frail; it had no strength at all to annex Zhao Kingdom!
Yet Niu Youdao's actions truly left them baffled, which was why Hao Yuntu had asked.
Most laughably, Niu Youdao had previously sent word threatening them, saying that Qi Kingdom cultivators had pursued him in the secret realm and