"I really plan to do a Corell version of besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao," Li Wei couldn't help but wonder when he heard this.

Li Wei has never underestimated the intelligence of the aboriginal people in this world, so he has no feeling that Kelben took into account the overall weakness of the coastal city-states in terms of maritime combat power, and thus formulated such a 'switching family' strategy.

Too surprised.

After all, it’s not their ‘home’ that they’re replacing.

In fact, Levi had this idea the first time he heard about Luskan's surprise attack on Moonshadow Island, but the problem was that he was not very optimistic about it.

The biggest reason is that in Li Wei's already somewhat vague memory of Blue Star, even a true encirclement of Wei and rescue of Zhao was actually a failure in terms of actual strategic goals.

On the surface, Sun Bin, the commander-in-chief of Qi, successfully defeated the Wei army who returned for reinforcements, captured his mortal concubine Pang Juan, and successfully took revenge. It seemed to be a perfect victory of the strategy.

But in the real historical results, it is not so perfect:

When the Qi army besieged Daliang, the Wei army had already conquered Handan of Zhao and successfully achieved its military goal. When he heard that Qi was besieging Daliang and Wei commander Pang Juan led his army to return to aid, he did not follow Qi's plan.

As imagined, all Wei troops were withdrawn from Handan, but only a small part of them.

Judging from the results of the battle, the encirclement of Wei and the rescue of Zhao failed to defeat the main force of the Wei army. Qi did not formally attack Wei Daliang. Handan, the capital of Zhao, was still occupied by the enemy. The result of this strategy seemed to have no other substantial results except Sun Bin's successful revenge.

effectiveness.

No, it seems that even Pang Juan was returned to the Wei State in the subsequent mediation and is still a general appointed by the Wei State.

Even in the Three Kingdoms, which Li Wei was more familiar with, Yuan Shao had used a similar strategy against Cao Cao in the stalemate Battle of Guandu, but it also ended in failure.

If we use these two examples to reflect on the current situation, we will find that they are indeed very similar.

If the Kendik dynasty on Moon Shadow Island can hold on, instead of being defeated by Luskan, Levi may still be inclined to adopt this plan, but the problem is that in the face of the absolute strength gap, Moon Shadow Island simply cannot hold it.

ah.

And the facts also proved Li Wei’s guess:

The Iron Fortress was defeated by Luskan in three days!

At this point, Luskan is now like the Wei State in another world. It has completed its most important strategic goal. Even if it hears that its backyard is on fire, with the habits of those pirates who started their business, most of them will not

Give up the victory already achieved.

In addition, there is another problem

Regardless of Kelben's words, when it comes time for them to send troops to Luskan to attack Luskan, it is probably no different from constipation. If he can squeeze out a lump, he is considered to be "open-minded".

In addition to the high mountains and long roads, whether it is the City of Water, Silvermoon City or their Minas Tirith in Zeelandia, if they want to attack Luskan from the mainland, they must pass through Sentinel Hill and the Mirar River.

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What kind of place is Shaoyagang?

It is the extension of the Neverwinter Mountains, a steep hilly peak raised by a large piece of limestone. Legend has it that the Mirabar dwarves originated from there.

However, after the Mirabar dwarves excavated all the minerals there, they abandoned it without any regret, leaving only countless worm tunnel-like holes, which became the natural nests of some monsters.

From goblins and goblins to jackals and stone giants, it seems like there is nothing but stones, but it has almost the most complete 'monster guide' in the entire North.

In that complex mountainous area, there was only a narrow and rugged valley for carriages to pass through.

Therefore, it has almost become the most notorious bandit den in the entire Northland.

Nowadays, except for those merchants in Miraba who have to hire a large number of adventurers to protect them every time, and the drow who engage in surface smuggling, who is willing to go there without any trouble.

Li Wei was sure that as long as they gathered troops here, Luskan would definitely send a large army to blockade the entire sentry cliff immediately, and the defensive effect would be comparable to that of the 'Hulao Pass'.

Even more maliciously, I am afraid that I don’t need to send many main forces, just beat gongs and drums at Shaoyagang, and tell the monsters that as long as I help them defend Shaoyagang and take care of one meal a day, they can probably mount the horse immediately.

A monster army of several thousand people is coming

"I know, let's wait until Kelben and the others come tomorrow to discuss this matter. Now, there is a more difficult matter at hand, and I need to refer to your opinion."

Levi asked as he rubbed his forehead with a headache.

It was the first time that Ige heard the word "thorny" from Levi's mouth, and he couldn't help but become serious. He put down the paper and pen in his hand, cast a sensory shield around the three of them, and said respectfully:

"That's my honor."

After Levi motioned for Ige and Fisher behind him to take their seats respectively, he talked about his accidental encounter with Tiamat's arrival during this trip, and his subsequent plan to cooperate with 'Jennesar' in Kalishan to realize the 'Southern Exit Northward Move'.

Daolai hopes that Igor, as a Netherese scholar-mage, will evaluate the risks and benefits behind this matter.

Tiamat's sudden appearance and covetousness really made him feel worried, but Calishan's population really made him covet, which put him in a dilemma.

Compared with today's invisible gods, the mages of the Netherese era undoubtedly knew the gods better, and maybe they knew some of their own secrets that they didn't know.

Unexpectedly, Iger's first words were: "My original inclination and some opposition to rashly launching a war on Luskan itself, now it seems that your Majesty, Tiberius, is right to do so.

, the war against Luskan is now inevitable."

Li Wei raised his eyebrows slightly, wondering when did he agree with Kelben's bad idea?

I heard Ige continue: "Taking the entire continent of Corell as a whole, on the main material plane, except for the East Continent which has been uneasy and the war-torn Kalishan, there has not been a substantial catastrophe for a long time.

There was a large-scale war, especially in the Northland.

"And every war is a chessboard where gods compete to spread their faith, and it is also a feast for dividing souls with the lower planes.

"The sudden outbreak of such a war in the Northland, which has been peaceful for nearly a century, will inevitably attract the attention of many gods.

"According to the speculations of the great arcane masters, the gods should have maintained an agreement or a tacit understanding since the war of the gods to not interfere face-to-face with the main material plane, so as to avoid the main material plane again in the short term.

The war escalates to a divine war."

"So if I guess correctly, Lord Tiberius, you should be planning to use this war to legitimately contain Luskan's expansion on Moonshadow Island, and increase your say in the Northland and even the Sword Coast in the future.

, on the one hand, you can put yourself under the gaze of the gods, so that Tiamat can temporarily stop thinking about dealing with you, right?"

After Iger's analysis, not only did Fischer look at Levi for a moment, but even Levi himself was stunned.

'What? No, is that what I originally thought?'

"Well, that's right, that's what I thought about it."

Li Wei glanced at Ige, one of his chief confidants, with approval, and admitted without blushing or heartbeat.

He thought about it carefully, but he had to admit that this idea was indeed the correct solution to the problem!

Tiamat is indeed an extremely powerful god, but on the surface he is still just a god with weak divine power, especially a god whose kingdom is located in the Baator Hell, a god who belongs to the five-color dragon.

Now that a human war has broken out in the Northland continent, why do you, a dragon god who has long withdrawn from the center of the historical stage, come to the main material plane to join in the fun with such fanfare?

Haven’t you seen that we righteous gods are still cheerleading in the audience and shouting ‘666’?

This is equivalent to the fact that although you accidentally offended a certain Hedao elder sister, you even slapped her in the face when the other party made a video threat, and then the other party held a grudge and threatened to kill your whole family.

But now I have got a ticket to the LPL competition that is attracting worldwide attention, and I have become a contestant under the spotlight who is watched by countless people and brings glory to the country. How dare the other party come to the arena with a knife in such an open and honest manner?

Are you causing trouble for yourself?

Even if his eyes are red, he still has to wait for a while, at least until he finishes the game.

The wonderful thing about his identity is that he is obviously a giant dragon, but he is actually the lord of a metahuman city-state.

You may be able to cause trouble for me secretly, or even hire a killer to assassinate me, but you don't dare to bring your little brother to the office building to smash up my company and kill my employees.

When I think about it while standing in Tiamat's force field, hey, I'm so angry!

Iger naturally had no doubt about Li Wei's 'wisdom' and immediately praised:

"I have to say that His Majesty Tiberius is indeed very visionary and thinks about the long term more than I do.

"With Zelandia's established 'world factory' development model, we can rely on our technological leadership and product output to continuously exchange various needed resources from the entire Corel Continent.

“The only thing we can’t keep up with right now is population.

“With population, we have everything.

“And this plan is equivalent to filling the biggest shortcoming in our future development program for Zeelandia.

"When we expand to the limit in the Northland in the future, we can stop population migration and directly support 'Jenissa' as our agent in Kalishan to integrate some relatively low-tech, labor-intensive industries.

The chain will be moved directly to Kalishan in the south, which can save a lot of transportation costs for exporting goods to the south."

Hearing this, Li Wei seemed to recall Blue Star's memory again, and couldn't help but sigh:

"That will be at least fifty years or even a hundred years from now. Let's consider the present first."

In another world, this industrialization process lasted for more than two centuries, and we don’t know what trajectory it will draw in this magical world.

Eagle suddenly became alert and brought the topic back:

"Then as the established policy for the next fifty years, there are only two problems left with this 'Southern Exit to the North' plan."

That is how to effectively suppress Luskan, and how to smoothly develop an outpost in Calimshan and successfully gain a foothold.

After a pause, what Ig originally wanted to ask was, 'His Majesty Tiberius seems to have some concerns about Kelben's plan to besiege Luskan itself?"

But thinking that since Li Wei had previously said that we would talk about it when the three parties meet tomorrow, he held back and mentioned Kalishan instead:

"I don't think sending troops to Kalishan is a big issue."

Levi raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Ige.

Originally, according to his idea, if he did this openly, he would almost certainly suffer massive backlash from Kalishan, so he only planned to use the method of "smuggling elite soldiers" to disguise himself as a member of the Jenissare rebellion.
To be continued...