Chapter 448: Vasudeva I's Hesitation
"Where are we going next?" Li Bai took a sip of the wine in the wine gourd and was a little speechless. Li Que insisted on taking him out, but he obviously wanted to stay in Congling to engage in construction.
"Rest in peace! These new Xiliang Iron Cavalry need some training!" Li Que said casually. To be honest, he would rather fight with the Undead Guards. Such sandbags are very beneficial to the growth of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.
There are only 2,000 Qiang auxiliary troops, and they can only play the role of exploring and finishing. It is better to rely on those new Xiliang Iron Cavalry than to rely on them to fight.
"Why don't we go over here? I sensed the presence of many powerful people here before, maybe we can find some supplies here!"
Li Bai rolled his eyes. After being with them for a long time, he had become accustomed to the irresponsible attitude of Li Que and others. If he was not a good fighter, he would have died on the battlefield with such a casual attitude.
"Strong? How strong?" Zhang Xiu was a little curious. Like Li Bai, he was basically abducted by force. It was indeed a bit boring to do the construction at the same time, so he also wanted to come out for some fresh air.
"I don't know, it should be a breakthrough in the realm, the aura feels very extraordinary!" Li Bai took a sip of wine and said indifferently. The distance was too far, he could only feel that he was a strong man. As for how strong he was, he would have to fight him to know.
"It's decided, let's go this way!"
Li Que began to tell fortunes. He believed deeply in supernatural things and usually liked to do some divination before going on an expedition. If the fortune was good, he would accept it. If it was bad, he would just kill the fortune teller to eliminate feudal superstition.
"A very good fortune? May all your wishes come true and everything go well?"
Li Que was a little confused. This was the first time he had seen such a good lot. In the past, he usually drew medium or bad lots. He had never even seen a good lot. This time, he actually drew a very good lot.
"Let's go, let's go over here. There must be good stuff here!" Li Que was overjoyed. He felt like he was about to take off. He firmly believed in witchcraft and divination.
The good ones are believed in firmly, and the bad ones are broken by physics. This is very Central Plains.
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The Kushan Emperor Vasudeva I was in high spirits, although the North-South issue remained unresolved and there was still a lot of friction between the two sides.
But the situation he faces now is different. The healthy competition caused by the deployment of the two armies in the north and the south has rapidly consolidated his position.
Moreover, after the birth of the monarch's talent, the superficial harmony between the North and the South allowed the empire to begin to develop rapidly.
The empire, which was originally on the verge of disintegration, seemed to be reborn from the ashes after annexing dozens of small countries.
However, the shadow of the North-South confrontation still lingers in his heart, because the gap between the two sides is too big.
The current superficial harmony will ultimately only postpone the conflicts. Once there is no goal of war in the short term, domestic conflicts will only erupt more violently.
There are many gods and Buddhas in the South, but when it comes to fighting, the South’s army is no match for the North.
The last time the North and the South confronted each other, even though the Military Soul Corps stood on the South's side, the Northern generals were thinking about joining in. If it weren't for Arvind's inexplicable steadiness, the confrontation would have remained a confrontation.
After the previous battle broke out, the North and the South turned against each other, and the Kushans were about to announce their withdrawal from the empire.
In order to balance the gap between the North and the South, he mobilized the shipyards along the southern coast to work at full capacity in order to rapidly strengthen the strength of the South and at least maintain a balance of power between the North and the South.
But he also understood that it was all in vain. The strength of the North was too strong, and the North was more turbulent and desolate than the South. Such an environment would naturally be more conducive to tempering one's will.
Even though the South has the Military Soul Corps standing guard and Hular with Peacock on the platform, the North is fully capable of winning if a real fight breaks out.
Hullar is very capable, and Arvind is no pushover either. Judging from the performance of both sides, Hullar is even slightly behind Arvind, not to mention that Arvind has a wise man like Mahind by his side.
As for the military spirit, the military spirit is everyone's military spirit. How much strength can be exerted when dealing with the north is really an intriguing question.
In any case, Vasudeva I had no intention of conducting the experiment. For him, the experiment was too heavy, so heavy that even though he was the king of the empire, he did not dare to try it.
"We need to find a common enemy for both sides!" Vasudeva I looked back and forth among the several empires in front of him.
"The Parthian Empire is too weak, and it is still fighting against Rome. If the Kushans intervene, it is likely to cause the Parthian Empire to collapse rapidly. By then, there will still be no enemies to fight in the north."
"Rome and Great Britain are too far away, and the Northern Huns are even farther away. So the last option is only..."
Vasudeva I's gaze kept changing, and finally stopped on the Han Dynasty.
"Han Dynasty..."
Vasudeva I was very troubled. Now this was a problem he had to face: whether or not to fight another Battle of the Pamirs with the Han Empire.
He knew the news that the Han Empire had sent troops to conquer the Western Regions and attack the strategic Pamir Mountains, but he was very hesitant. The Han Dynasty was not an easy enemy to defeat, and his ancestor King Yan Gaozhen had already experienced this.
The area of Central Asia is actually a buffer zone where no one is in charge, which is a buffer zone between the three empires of Kushan, Han Dynasty and Parthia.
Although the Han Dynasty had always used the Western Regions as a buffer zone because it had given up the Western Regions, the real buffer zone is actually Central Asia.
Now his northern army has returned to Central Asia, and the Han Dynasty has occupied the Pamir Mountains again. This has forced him to consider whether or not to go to war with the Han Dynasty .
Vasudeva I did not want to offend the Han Dynasty. Unlike the visibly weak Parthia, the Han Dynasty had always been very powerful according to the Kushan records.
Moreover, the relationship between the two sides was actually quite good in the past, especially the relationship between the northern predecessor Dayuezhi and the Han Dynasty was really good. When the relationship was at its best, the Han Dynasty's Silk Road was transported by Dayuezhi.
None of this matters. The friendship between countries is just a blank piece of paper in the face of interests. It has no value at all and can be torn up at will.
The biggest problem was the history that happened not long ago, which made Vasudeva I very hesitant.
The Han Dynasty's military record was so horrific that any country that saw its military record would be wary of it.
For the Kushans, the Han Dynasty had two most important military achievements.
The first one was that they overturned the Hun Empire, which gave them a great relief.
The Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu were sworn enemies, and the Dayuezhi and the Xiongnu were also enemies. The head of the Dayuezhi king was even chopped off and used as a wine cup. It goes without saying how deep the hatred was.
To this day, the northern Kushan Empire is very hostile to the Northern Huns, and once there is an opportunity, no one will show mercy.
However, they were separated from the Northern Huns by Central Asia and Parthia, so they had no interest in traveling long distances to fight the Northern Huns, not to mention that the Northern Huns were not weak in strength.
