After Defeat, the Empress’s Negotiating Chip Turns Out to Be Me

Chapter 128

128~ Chatting with Cheap Father the King (2)~

Seeing his precious daughter's expression wasn't quite right, Gong hurriedly changed the topic.

"Ahem... Does Mo think Scarlet Phoenix Nation's northern expedition this time can succeed?"

Since the little Princess knew about the news of the Empress launching an attack on the Eighteen Alliance Nations, naturally it was impossible for him not to know.

"Most likely failure."

"Mm..."

About the same as what he thought.

"Unless the Scarlet Phoenix Nation dispatches a Great Archmage to intervene in the war, otherwise I don't think there's any possibility."

No matter how formidable an army is, when facing enemies like a tide of corpses, it's hard to avoid overturning. After all, what composes an army isn't machines, but people!

Even machines need people to operate them.

Although the army assembled by the Eighteen Alliance Nations can't actually pose any real threat to Scarlet Phoenix Nation, if it's Scarlet Phoenix Nation's army attacking, that's a different story.

On their own territory, supplies are endless. When soldiers die, they can be immediately replaced. When resources run out, supplies can also be immediately replenished. Although it's not infinite supply either, at least compared to an army fighting away from home, this is where the advantage lies.

When they went to attack Donglai before, it was because the Eighteen Alliance Nations hadn't expected Scarlet Phoenix Nation could instantly flatten all of Donglai Nation in such a short time. They thought there would be time for them to deploy armies for interception, but upon arrival, they could only see the scene of all of Donglai already flattened.

"So in your opinion, without deploying Great Archmage-level mages, how could Scarlet Phoenix Nation achieve victory?"

"That would probably only be when the commanders directing combat on the Eighteen Alliance Nations' battlefield all collectively drop dead."

Fighting away from home, and simultaneously fighting against military forces composed of seventeen nations, currently speaking, aside from equipping Glaze Nation's Breech-Loading Rifled Guns, there should be no other possibility.

The range of Breech-Loading Rifled Guns has already surpassed mages' range. They can shoot and kill the opponent's main forces in advance, but the prerequisite is proper training.

This alternate world didn't have things like scopes. Basically everything relied on the naked eye. Telescopes had been made, but there was no way to put this technology on guns. The craftsmanship level completely didn't meet the standard.

Of course, telescopes were also designed by her based on simple physics principles. Though a bit crude, the effect also wasn't as good as what she'd seen in her previous life, but at least they could see things at farther distances.

"Then does Mo think we should or shouldn't provide technical support to Scarlet Phoenix Nation?"

Their Glaze Nation and Scarlet Phoenix Nation were currently still grasshoppers tied to the same rope. If Scarlet Phoenix Nation collapsed, then their Glaze Nation also wouldn't be far from national destruction.

The Eighteen Alliance Nations wouldn't be like Scarlet Phoenix Nation, stopping their attack on Glaze Nation because of his precious daughter. The Eighteen Alliance Nations would only storm into the palace, capture his precious daughter, and throw her into a dungeon to become a prisoner.

As for Glaze Nation's other royal family members, it would depend on whether they were pretty or had utilization value. Good-looking ones might be directly transferred to underground auction houses to be auctioned off as commodities. Those with utilization value would be imprisoned and tortured.

And the rest would directly be publicly beheaded.

An approach like Scarlet Phoenix Nation's had truly never existed in history.

The little Princess carefully thought it over.

"Provide, but not completely provide."

Some key technologies must be held in their own hands.

Providing technology to Scarlet Phoenix Nation was because if Scarlet Phoenix Nation couldn't hold out in front and fell, then Glaze Nation would also have to perish together.

Not letting core technology flow out was to have certain self-defense measures, to prevent Scarlet Phoenix Nation from directly pushing Glaze Nation forward as cannon fodder after hollowing out Glaze Nation's value.

"Then I'll leave this matter to you."

He trusted his precious daughter's judgment.

"Uh... I feel you'd better not leave it all to me."

"Mm? Why?"

"My judgment also isn't necessarily correct..."

The little Princess was somewhat uncertain.

During her time in Scarlet Phoenix Nation, she'd indeed created the myth of destroying a nation in half a month for Scarlet Phoenix Nation, but that combat method forcibly applied to this world was inherently unreasonable...

Although Donglai Nation was indeed taken down in an extremely short time, it also made the remaining seventeen nations become vigilant against Scarlet Phoenix Nation. This tactic could no longer be used a second time, unless the opponent's commanders were all muggles.

Although she came from modern times, as a modern history graduate student she'd also understood many tactics from history and even deeply researched them, but theory remained theory. The opponents were commanders who'd experienced who knows how many wars. Taking these theoretical things to clash head-on with others' battle-hardened commanders, it was absolutely impossible to win.

That she could defeat the opponent's commanders in tactics was purely because she had equipment advantages, and the tactics were appearing in this world for the first time...

Although the fight was very beautiful, carefully thinking about it at the end, this was actually a very wrong decision...

Not being able to use such beautiful tactics at a critical juncture was a fundamental mistake in her decision-making...

She wasn't certain whether, after her cheap Father the King gave her full responsibility for these matters, she could truly make correct decisions. She'd already developed doubts about herself.

"I see..."

After listening to the little Princess's explanation, actually he still felt quite surprised. His precious daughter who'd created a myth for Scarlet Phoenix Nation actually said she couldn't do it?

However, after listening, he still felt it was quite correct...

The little Princess said she had many inadequacies in decision-making. Although it looked gorgeous on the surface, actually these things didn't play any important role at critical junctures.

The two chatted for a long time, until the little Princess started yawning and getting drowsy. Only then did Gong let the little Princess quickly go back and rest properly, to replenish her condition.

"Then I'll leave first."

"Mm..."

Even his genius precious daughter wasn't perfect. Of course he knew this point. After all, living until now, he still hadn't seen a truly perfect person.

Scarlet Phoenix Nation's system also had flaws. Although it already looked extremely perfect, completely not worrying about the domestic economy collapsing due to war...

But the problem was, what if there was no war?

Scarlet Phoenix Nation's system was completely born for war. A nation built upon war, when unification was accomplished and there was no war, then this system would inevitably collapse.

"Sigh..."

If the Empress of Scarlet Phoenix Nation truly wanted to achieve unification, then Glaze Nation probably wouldn't exist in the end either.

After all, to achieve unification of the entire continent, there could only be one nation on the entire continent, that being Scarlet Phoenix Nation. As for what Glaze Nation would become afterward, he didn't know either. However, looking at the Empress's methods, she'd probably turn all of Glaze Nation's royal family members into branches of Scarlet Phoenix Nation's royal family.

However, all of this was still far from now...