The Gupta Dynasty was too busy to take care of itself, cutting off the last shred of life of the Mauryan Dynasty.

With the cooperation of the Great Xia and the Ashoka Dynasty, the eastern and western armies launched a flanking attack on the Mauryan Empire, and for a time, the Mauryan Dynasty lost the other, and the territory fell at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The Peacock King was in a hurry, but to no avail.

On the contrary, against the Gupta Dynasty in the south, the Bactrian army and the Ashoka army were very tacitly compatible, and adopted a relatively conservative combat strategy, focusing on harassment and containment.

As long as the Gupta dynasty does not reinforce the Mauryan dynasty, everything is fine.

King Gupta is not a fool, knowing that the enemy is doing this, not to let go of the Gupta Dynasty, but to break them individually, and when the Mauryan Dynasty falls, it is when the Gupta Dynasty suffers.

However, the strength of the Gupta Dynasty is more than enough defense and insufficient counterattack.

The situation is already obvious, in this 2V2 life-and-death duel, the strong alliance between Great Xia and the Ashoka Dynasty has overwhelmed the Mauryan Dynasty and the Gupta Dynasty.

Victory, it's only a matter of time.

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July 20, Tianzhu.

Just when the alliance between Great Xia and the Ashoka Dynasty was victorious, a discordant news spread within the Tianzhu District, causing a slight rift between the two sides that worked closely together.

It all started a week ago.

After the Western Route Army of Great Xia invaded the Mauryan Dynasty, every time they occupied a city, they arranged for personnel to loot all the materials in the city and transport them to the neighboring Hetao Province.

Not only that, but even the people in the north of the city were "looted" and forcibly relocated to the Hetao Province.

Great Xia's strange approach is inevitably suspicious.

Because this is not in line with the consistent practice of Great Xia, according to the discipline of the Great Xia army, it has always been innocent of the people, and the local people and gentry are also mainly appeased.

I have never heard of such a practice of "drying up the river and fishing" in Great Xia.

Outsiders don't know the doorway inside, but Ashoka got the news, but he knew it at once.

According to the covenant signed between Great Xia and the Ashoka Dynasty, in the future, the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty will be ceded to the Ashoka Dynasty.

"It's just that this appearance is a little too ugly." Ashoka was a little upset.

A few days ago, because the cooperation between the two sides was still in the honeymoon period, considering the overall situation of the war, Ashoka did not say anything and endured it.

I never thought that because of Ashoka's acquiescence, the "looting operation" of the Great Xia Army became more and more unscrupulous.

According to the front-line spies, the Great Xia Army is simply scraping the ground.

After the war, when the Ashoka dynasty took over those cities, it was estimated that they were empty cities, which was a huge violation of the interests of the Ashoka dynasty.

Ashoka got the report, and he couldn't help it anymore, and personally reported the situation to Emperor Xia.

After receiving Ashoka's communication, Ouyang Shuo attached great importance to it, first expressed his apologies, and then said: "The front-line sergeant acted recklessly and did not obey the order, I was out of control, and I will definitely give you an explanation." ”

This made Ashoka very puzzled.

"Could it be that what the Great Xia Army did was not instructed by the Xia Emperor?"

Ashoka would never believe it.

Who doesn't know that on a global scale, the Great Xia army is known for its strict discipline, and without the instructions of the imperial court, they would never dare to loot like this.

"Or was it instructed by a certain minister of the Great Xia Imperial Court?"

Ashoka treated others for himself, but he did not rule out this possibility. Of course, the biggest possibility is that Emperor Xia himself is pretending to be deaf and dumb, so as not to lose face.

This kind of routine, he Ashoka has not played less.

Fortunately, with Emperor Xia's promise, no matter what the truth is, the matter should be able to come to an end.

Emperor Ashoka was also very knowledgeable, and did not mention the issue of compensation for the looted city, as long as the Great Xia army could stop the looting, then the current loss was nothing.

In fact, Ashoka couldn't be guilty of turning his face with Great Xia for the sake of this benefit.

In any case, although the situation in the Tianzhu War was favorable to them, anything could happen before a complete victory was achieved.

At this time, the most taboo thing is that there are contradictions and rifts within the alliance.

Ashoka understood the righteousness very well!

Afterwards, because he handled this matter reasonably, calmly and moderately, and did not lose his mind, Ashoka was very happy.

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Unfortunately, it turned out that Ashoka was a little early in his joy.

After Emperor Ashoka personally appealed, on the surface, the Great Xia Army did stop the looting, which made Emperor Ashoka breathe a sigh of relief.

Only a week later, a new situation emerged.

According to the reports of front-line spies, the looting behavior of the Great Xia Army turned from open to dark, although it did not loot money, food and materials on the surface, but under the banner of attracting investment, "invited" businessmen to invest and do business in Hetao Province.

Faced with the sergeant's personal visit, I asked, can those businessmen not agree?

At the same time, under the guise of recruiting outstanding talents, the southern Xinjiang metropolitan area of Daxia also brazenly recruited talents in the occupied areas.

Although it did not sweep away the people, it took away all kinds of talents, and they are the most elite part of the population.

Great Xia's approach is very clever.

Under the banner of all voluntariness, there is not a single flaw in the "looting" thing.

Not to mention, due to years of war, the merchants and talents of all kinds in the occupied areas were not all forced to extend olive branches to Great Xia, and a large part of the people voluntarily went to settle in the southern Xinjiang metropolitan area.

After all, it is human nature to pursue a comfortable life.

In contrast, the people did not have much of an interest in Ashoka.

Because of the active cooperation of the people in the occupied areas, Ashoka really had no face to appeal to Emperor Xia.

As an emperor, Ashoka also had self-respect.

It is impossible for him to be like a peddler and a pawn, to fight with Emperor Xia, and to cry and say like a wronged little daughter-in-law: "You can't do this." ”

Ashoka couldn't afford to lose this man.

"No, something has to be done!"

Ashoka was a proud man, and when he suffered a loss, he wanted to get his ground back.

Just because you can't appeal doesn't mean that Ashoka can't do it.

"Someone!" Ashoka shouted.

"In!"

Emperor Ashoka ordered: "Decree the pro-army, this king will drive the army and go to the front line to supervise the battle." ”

"Yes!"

Emperor Ashoka's calculation was very clear, since he could not stop the small tricks of Great Xia, then he could only rely on strength to speak, concentrate his forces on the Mauryan front, and start a race with the Great Xia army.

The early capture of the Mauryan Dynasty would have reduced the loss for the Ashoka Dynasty; Conquering one more city will allow Great Xia to conquer one less city.

This may seem clumsy, but it was the only way Ashoka could think of a response.

"This king wants to see how many cities the Great Xia army can take."