Chapter 885: Paying the Price

"Your Highness, they have retreated!"

In the sky, a Hot Air Balloon was drifting.

At this moment, the Hot Air Balloon Troop above was continuously signaling with Flag Language to transmit intelligence.

From high altitude, they could observe the entire situation.

After delivering Xu Ke and his party to Songyang Pass, these Hot Air Balloon Troop members remained to be responsible for reconnaissance.

"Then the rest will be left to Xu Ke." Zhao Xu snorted.

He had no plans to pursue.

The Tubo region was too vast, not like this small area of Yizhou.

Moreover, the altitude of Songyang Pass was already very high.

Without adaptive training, entering high-altitude areas to engage in such strenuous exercise as fighting would result in significant non-combat attrition.

Many soldiers of the Ashuer Tribe came from small countries around Tibet.

After occupying Tibet, they had even incorporated the Tibetan army.

The environment of the Tubo Gao Yuan was clearly more suitable for them.

For the next hour, the soldiers of the Prince's Personal Army clearly felt that the intensity of the resistance had decreased.

Finally, the Northern Di soldiers and Southern Liang soldiers fled directly from the Trench.

Crossing the Trench, they successfully entered Songyang Pass.

"Your Highness, we only need to repair Songyang Pass and leave ten thousand soldiers to garrison it. The remaining forces can be transferred to Yunzhou to recover Bazhou and Yunzhou. In this way, this internal strife will be pacified." After the soldiers entered the city, Zhao Xu and Chang Wei also arrived inside Songyang Pass.

Climbing the city wall that had been almost blown into ruins, Chang Wei looked toward the direction of Tibet and said.

Zhao Xu nodded, "Leave thirty thousand men. Conduct adaptive training on the plateau during peacetime to prepare in advance for seizing Tibet. Other soldiers must also rotate here for training."

"Yes, Your Highness." Chang Wei replied, his heart filled with excitement, "Your Highness is truly a heroic ruler of the world. Since ancient times, few dynasties have been able to control Tibet. This time, our Da Song will recreate its glory."

Hearing this, Zhao Xu smiled, "What is this? In the future, the territories controlled by the Northern Di, as well as the far northern territories seized by the Ross, will all be ours.

And as for overseas, there is even more."

For hundreds of years, this world has been a world where Westerners run rampant.

They have enslaved one race after another and have also nearly exterminated one race after another.

They have occupied the vast majority of the world's fertile territories.

If he were to let the Westerners occupy these places.

Then, just like in the modern era, a hundred years later, the Angsa will control most of the world's resource regions.

Using the advantages left by their ancestors to suppress Da Song.

Therefore, he must never let this happen.

In this worst of eras, whoever can expand territory, as long as they can hold it, it will ultimately be theirs.

Moreover, he was too lazy to act like a benevolent gentleman.

To put it clearly, he just wants to snatch their colonies from the hands of the Westerners.

To deal with robbers, one can only use the methods of robbers; there is no need to talk much with them.

The barbarians fear power but do not cherish virtue.

In the modern era, among those nations once colonized by Britain, how many have any backbone? They are all just fawning over the Westerners.

Especially the Tianzhu here, the India of the modern era.

They do not feel ashamed of it, but rather proud, feeling smug about being a member of the British Commonwealth and classifying themselves into the Western camp.

They even pursue the colonial and invasive policies left behind by Britain, invading everywhere and occupying others' territory.

It is precisely based on this that after he drives away the Westerners, he will take their place and make these places conform to the interests of Da Song.

After all, this is how the world is.

As long as you are strong, everything you do is right.

Even if you spit on the ground, someone will come to whitewash it, saying that you spit elegantly.

As he was thinking this, Chang Wei gave him a military salute and said loudly, "This general will always follow Your Highness to expand territory for Your Highness."

"It is right before us. Once we take Bazhou and Yunzhou, it will be time to collect debts from our enemies. Whether it is the Northern Di or the Westerners, whatever they owe us must be repaid." Zhao Xu laughed.

After discussing this matter, the two descended the city wall.

Zhao Xu decided to stay in Yiyang City for a period of time to wait for the results of the Four Courts' assassination, then return to Yancheng to deploy the Second Industrial Revolution and the next strategic steps.

The internal war in Da Song had been pacified, but the real war had only just begun.

In order to maintain the interests of Dongtu and world hegemony.

The Western world will inevitably have a life-and-death struggle with him.

And he must also collect debts from the West; someone must pay for the internal friction caused by this internal strife.

As for Bazhou and Yunzhou, he would not go there.

These two regions could be swept clean by Chang Wei and Ma Han.

Whether it is the Liang Family or the Fan Family, they are all at the end of their rope and cannot stir up much trouble.

Having decided this, he headed toward Yiyang under the protection of three thousand soldiers.

At this time, the defeated army led by Ashuer and Aersiji was heading toward Sa City.

Where Tibet borders Yizhou, it is also surrounded by mountains.

After withdrawing from Songyang Pass, the great army followed the mountain paths to detour toward the Tubo Gao Yuan.

One part of them would head to Sa City, and one part would head north toward the Grassland.

While they were marching, pairs of eyes in the mountain forests were observing them through a Telescope.

This was precisely Xu Ke and his men.

"That's great, Dou Wei, Xiao Cheng, and Ashuer are all walking together." Xu Ke's Telescope never left his eyes.

In his field of vision, Dou Wei, Xiao Cheng, and other core members of the powerful clans, as well as Ashuer and the others, were all in the center of the formation.

At this moment, they were constantly approaching the Landmine they had set up.

This was a minefield one hundred meters long; once they walked into it, they would have a nine-in-ten chance of death.

Ashuer and the others were clearly completely unprepared for the impending danger.

The formation moved forward slowly, and before long, they stepped into the trap set by Xu Ke and the others.

Just at this moment, Xu Ke decisively gave the order to pull the Live Wire of the Landmine.

Under the tugging of the Dark Division members, long, thin ropes sprang up from the ground.

Only then did Ashuer and the others discover the danger.

But it was already too late; a loud noise and Flame covered the valley.

A huge Flame rose up within a hundred meters.

As the smoke cleared, the hundred-meter mountain path was covered in corpses.