The Snow Empress asked, "Where is your next target?"
Chen Ping spread out the map, first pointing to Aoke City, then moving his finger east to another city. Judging by the map, this city was much larger than Aoke City.
"Dongyang City, the largest city in the northern Sun Moon Empire, and the only one that qualifies as a major city."
"Aoke City was only a trial run for me. Dongyang City is the top priority of my northern offensive this time. As long as I can breach Dongyang City, I can withdraw from the north."
"Dongyang City is the north's largest granary and storage center for all kinds of supplies. Twenty thousand regular troops are stationed there. It also has some soul tool defenses and very likely has the capability to deploy linked soul tools."
"In theory, if Xu Tianran hadn't needed supplies from the Sun Moon Empire's key northern cities, Aoke City's garrison should only have numbered a scant thousand men. There shouldn't have been a Soul Engineer Corps there."
"But since even Aoke City now has a Soul Engineer Corps guarding it, Dongyang City, already the most important stronghold in the north, will almost certainly have one stationed there."
"Well, that's not entirely certain. The Sun Moon Empire's deployment of its army to wage this war of aggression has left its rear undermanned. Dongyang City's Soul Engineer Corps may well have been transferred away. Even if some remain, there might not be many soul engineers."
Dongyang City was a key northern stronghold of the Sun Moon Empire. It lay in the northeastern part of the empire, a little under a thousand kilometers from the border with the former Heaven Dou Empire.
Of course, the Heaven Dou Empire's territory in that direction had now been incorporated into the