"Your Highness, Fuso's situation is different from ours. Even if their monarch wants to mobilize troops, he must consult with the daimyo of various regions. The monarch does not have many troops at his disposal, so it is difficult to judge at this time. After all, there are only less than 20,000 people near their capital."
Li Xiang nodded in agreement with Ding Tu's statement. After all, he had some understanding of Fuso at that time. The emperor's power was only nominal and he could not mobilize troops from all over the country. He could only be said to be a place of coordination. Some powerful daimyo in various places even had more power than the emperor.
Take the local people of Fukuoka for example. When they heard that their city had been occupied by the Tang army for a long time, they did not feel worried at all. They just felt a little regretful and did not think about driving the Tang army out. They thought it was a matter of a neighboring country. Only when the Tang army came to attack them did they realize that this matter was also related to them.
"I've also been researching Fusang recently. This country is different from Goguryeo because it's scattered all over the place and all of it is islands. Plus, it has a large population. If we rush to occupy it, the mess will be difficult to clean up in the end. We have to proceed steadily and advance bit by bit."
General Qin Qiong has not been idle during this period. He has read a lot of information about Fuso. In addition, he found some old people from Fuso outside and talked to them about some things in Fuso. This is how he came to this conclusion.
Hearing General Qin Qiong's conclusion, Cheng Yaojin frowned. According to Cheng Yaojin's idea, with our current strength, what do we need to worry about? We can just kill them all at once. It's just a small country. However, Li Xiang strongly agreed with General Qin Qiong's opinion.
For Li Xiang, we must proceed steadily at this stage, especially on the isolated islands overseas. In the future, Li Xiang's war will expand to the whole world. If we can accumulate profound experience this time, it will be very useful for our future expansion.
"I agree with General Qin. After we occupied Nagasaki and Fukuoka, I found that many of the local people were difficult to control. Most of them obeyed us, but some of them engaged in guerrilla warfare nearby, causing considerable casualties. This was especially true after we left the coast a few dozen kilometers and entered their mountainous area. We had no way of clearing them out."
This has been Ding Tu's biggest headache during this period. Take the clothing issue for example. There are only about four or five hundred people opposing it at most, but these four or five hundred people attack us day and night. Moreover, they are familiar with the local situation and we are unable to defend ourselves. The casualties each time are not large, but if you add them up, it is not a small number. Since the occupation of Fukuoka, more than seventy people have died in such attacks.
Take last night for example. We had already started to rest, but these people slowly sneaked in from outside the city. They started burning houses without caring whether the houses belonged to the Tang army or local people. Anyway, more than ten people carried fire sources with them throughout the whole process and set fire to everything that could be ignited.
According to their thinking, since the Tang Dynasty wants to occupy Fukuoka, then we will burn down the entire Fukuoka and leave a broken city for the Tang Dynasty. Then we will see if the Tang Dynasty can still use it.
While we were busy putting out the fire, another group of people came to the beach and prepared to burn our ship. Fortunately, there were many soldiers on duty at the beach, who isolated these people outside and killed more than a dozen of them. But even so, our losses were still relatively large. Two soldiers died and three were injured in the fire. In addition, more than a dozen Fuso soldiers died. In the end, they still had the advantage.
The most important thing is to give the local people an illusion that Fuso's resistance is still going on. So many people kneel down to us during the day, and maybe they contact these people at night. So we can't advance too fast. If the occupied areas are like this, then we don't know how many casualties we will suffer every day.
After hearing the news, Li Xiang also felt a little embarrassed. He certainly knew the Fuso people well. If he believed them, they would surrender easily, which was simply impossible.
The people of Fuso will never surrender easily, especially to us.
"I still say what I said before: troubled times call for severe punishment. Now find all those who died yesterday. There must be family members of theirs in the city or nearby villages. Kill them all and avenge our soldiers."
Li Xiang might be cautious when doing things in other places, but if it is in Fuso, Li Xiang will do things as seriously as possible and will never show any mercy to these people, not to mention that there is no affection between us.
"I will do it immediately."
When King Wu Li Ke was here before, he did not approve of some things. After all, he was the nominal commander-in-chief, and you can do whatever you want on the battlefield. Fukuoka has already been taken. If you still want to go against him, it would seem a bit too much, and it would also be a bit disrespectful to the court, so many iron-blooded policies could not be implemented.
Now that Li Xiang has become the commander-in-chief, he naturally doesn't worry about this matter. So when Li Xiang finished speaking, Ding Tu knew what to do next. You dare to attack us, then we will find your family members. Although the ones we find are all dead family members, if we drag them into the mountains and chop them to pieces, the news will naturally spread, and those who do evil things there will also worry about their families.
Of course, this can only threaten those who have families and careers. If someone is single, then this method will have no effect on him. However, it can also have a certain impact on their group. Some people are worried about their families, so they certainly dare not stay in the mountains. Then those bachelors will never let these people go down the mountain, and the internal strife between the two sides may start from this.
Li Xiang is a master of psychology. On the battlefield, you need not only strong soldiers and horses, but most importantly, you need to be able to use your brain. If you can't use your brain, you will be led by others all your life. Now we have to change from passive to active and let them create internal conflicts.
