Chapter 824 Contradictions Shift

During the time they stayed in Liang State for the winter, the Emperor of Liang frequently invited him to banquets and tried to get close to him, but Kabak just dealt with them casually.

Later, at a banquet, the Emperor of Liang asked a sensitive question while being a little drunk...

"Captain Kabak leads a mercenary group, so he must have participated in many wars and must have a lot of knowledge about the surrounding countries, right?"

Although Kabak is not smart, he is definitely not a fool. How could he not hear that the Emperor of Liang wanted to get information about the surrounding forces from him?

In fact, in Kabak's view, the other party did not need to beat around the bush. They, the Centaur mercenaries, have always only been paid to fight, and they don't care about other things.

Among them, helping the employer keep secrets is not within their business scope.

Of course, under normal circumstances, he would not spread the information about the employer everywhere.

But this time the situation is different after all. The Emperor of Liang asked them to spend the winter here, and they were more or less indebted to the other party.

Thinking of this, Kabak simply provided the other party with the information of his last employer, Yan Sheng, as a favor to the other party.

Now that he had met Emperor Liang, he knew from the look on his face that the other party must have confirmed the authenticity of the information, and at the same time he had some guesses in his mind.

"Is Emperor Liang calling me here now?"

Seeing this, Emperor Liang did not beat around the bush.

"Captain Kabak, if I hire you and go to war with China, what are the chances of winning?"

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Hearing this, Kabak subconsciously recalled the Chinese troops and then said...

"Seven or eight points."

Although he felt that Yan Sheng was not worth mentioning and it would be easy to defeat him, he was a businessman after all, and the influence of the Liang army could not be ignored, so he could not be too confident.

Regarding this point, Emperor Liang also had an idea in his mind. After reaching this conclusion, a satisfied smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"Well, Captain Kabak, I want to hire you again and ask you to help me attack China! What do you think?"

From the perspective of Emperor Liang, although China has been fighting for years and its national strength is empty, so is Liang?

In fact, Liang had just finished fighting before the beginning of winter last year. If we really compare the national strength, it is not necessarily better than China. It is even possible that the other side is stronger.

The biggest reason why he dares to provoke a war now is undoubtedly the centaur mercenaries in front of him.

The Emperor Liang knew very well that apart from the simple employment relationship, the captain Kabak in front of him did not want to have too much involvement with him.

So once spring comes, they will leave soon.

These centaur mercenaries have no fixed place to live. Once they leave, it will be difficult to find them again.

The Emperor Liang did not want to miss this opportunity to rule the Central Plains, so there was this scene in front of him.

Compared to the Emperor Liang who had many ideas, Kabak's ideas at this moment were simple.

Although China's territory is larger than Liang's and its strength is estimated to be stronger than Liang's, from their perspective, neither side has any impressive cavalry, and it goes without saying how strong their centaur cavalry is in suppressing infantry.

In this way, from their perspective, China and Liang are the same.

Therefore, it doesn't matter who hires them.

As long as the money is in place, everything can be negotiated. This is the professional ethics of mercenaries.

Needless to say, the two sides quickly reached an agreement, which also allowed Emperor Liang to start raising supplies and mobilizing troops with confidence.

In this process, although the opponent has not taken further action, Zhou Xu estimated that the opponent would not stop.

With such speculation, in order to be on the safe side, after issuing that order, his first thing was to transfer all the 2,000 recruits to Anling City.

Although the training period has not yet arrived, Shi Lei can also train them in Anling City. In this regard, Shi Lei is quite experienced.

The recruit training camp on their side was arranged in an area between Xishan City and Black Stone City, located in the center of the territory of the New World. After the recruit training, it was very convenient to transfer to any city.

After setting off, they moved all the way in a marching state. In a week, they successfully arrived at Anling City and completed the report with Shi Lei.

This mobilization of troops, so many soldiers entered the city, the news could not be concealed at all.

Fortunately, Zhou Xu did not intend to conceal it. As early as when he ordered the mobilization of troops, Zhou Xu also issued an order to the Propaganda Department to publicize this news.

At this moment, listening to the storyteller's story, many diners in the restaurant were already indignant.

"Damn foreigners, do you really think that our Great Zhou is easy to bully?!"

At this moment, they didn't know which country they were facing, and the Propaganda Department directly gave a word, foreigners! There is nothing wrong with calling it this, and it is even quite appropriate.

It is actually very simple to reduce the panic, resistance and dissatisfaction of the people towards the war.

That is to let the people know that they are the side being bullied.

To put it more bluntly, it is called contradiction transfer, turning internal contradictions into external contradictions.

In fact, the actions of the opposite reconnaissance troops on their border line have become more and more rampant recently.

We are living a good life here, why do you want to come and fight us and not let us live in peace?

This clay man still has some temper. Don't bully others like this. Who wouldn't curse after hearing it?

At this time, the curses in the restaurant were heard, and immediately received a response.

"If we do nothing, those foreigners will be arrogant?!"

"Send troops! We must send troops! Show those guys some color!"

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For a while, the calls for sending troops in the restaurant were one wave higher than another, and under the conscious operation of the Propaganda Department, the news quickly spread throughout the New World.

Although some people still expressed concerns about the possible outbreak of war and worried that the country would fall into war again, the voices supporting sending troops accounted for the vast majority, which prepared a vaccination in advance for the next series of military operations.

And Zhou Xu also took this opportunity to order the conscription of 3,000 soldiers again!

The number of recruits reached 5,000 twice, not counting the extreme conscription of conscripts. Under normal circumstances, considering the permanent troops stationed in the country, this number of recruits is basically the maximum number of troops that can be recruited in the New World of the Great Zhou while ensuring normal internal operations.

The subsequent recruitment of 3,000 troops went very smoothly, and then the training of new recruits was immediately launched to prepare for the war that could break out at any time.

In this process, before the end of spring, the army of Liang State officially pressed outside the city of Anling in the northern border of their Great Zhou...