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Chapter 794: Chapter 344: The Inevitable Defeat_2
Wei Country, which occupies one of the Nine Provinces, Yan State, is one of the three states and three territories that is destined to be covered by the Northern Ice Wave.
Lu Yuan’s Yangzhou is facing the Southern Polar Poisonous Fire, which may only erupt after the Northern Cold Wave completely arrives and the North and South loses balance, giving a buffer of hundreds of years.
However, the Northern Ice Wave Yan State faces is currently in full swing.
It is estimated that some parts of the three outer territories in the far north have already been transformed into the Eternal Ice Region, becoming a Forbidden Zone for Living Beings.
For Lu Yuan, the disaster is in the future.
But for the living beings in the three northern states and territories, the disaster is now, and it is happening.
Especially for the people of those three outer territories, the cold wave has already descended on their land, and they must either die in the snow and ice or begin their difficult migration to the south.
Although Lu Yuan couldn’t reach Wei Country for now, and didn’t know much about the situation there, he could still estimate that they should have begun welcoming the first wave of refugees like Zhou Country.
It is estimated that the border counties of Wei Country in the north have already started facing one wave after another of Cold Wave battles, just like Helong County in Zhou Country.
The Outer Territory bordering Wei Country is the North Grassland.
Most of the people living in this Outer Territory are nomadic tribes.
Although the population of these nomadic tribes is not large, when tens of thousands of miles of grasslands are combined, there may still be tens of millions of people.
Tens of millions of herdsmen moving south would form hundreds of thousands of cavalry.
The magnificent iron cavalry heading south, although mostly made up of ordinary herdsmen, its combined strength could give Wei Country a hard time.
Even though the power of Wei Country could eventually stop this migration wave and either eliminate or absorb all the southern herdsmen, Yan State, where Wei Country is located, is also within the extreme area of the cold wave release.
Now, it is the grassland herdsmen who suffer, as they are driven by the cold wave and forced to move south.
After the entire grassland turns into a snowy land, the next to suffer will be Wei Country.
Fast or slow, within 20 to 60 years, the cold wave will approach Yan State’s region.
Once the cold wave arrives in Yan State, within 20 to 30 years, the whole Yan State will follow the footsteps of the grasslands, gradually becoming an ice-enchanted land.
In other words, there is not much time left for Wei Country now.
It may be 20 or 60 years before the cold wave comes.
During this time, Wei Country must change and lead its entire nation southward, seizing a survival territory.
This time is tight.
Wei Country has no time to hesitate and must make a decision immediately.
From the current situation,
their choice is already quite clear; it is to continue southward, defeat their old rival Zhou Country, and seize their territory as a shelter for Wei Country to avoid the cold wave.
The war that broke out last year is a harbinger of Wei Country’s southern migration.
For a country with a dominance in one state like Wei Country, the scale of 100,000 people in the war is just an appetizer.
Once the appetizer is finished, the main course will be served soon.
By then, millions of Wei Soldiers and even the grassland tribes will transform into the northern torrents, wave after wave hitting Zhou Country, until they are completely defeated and their land is occupied, only then will they stop.
By that time, however, Zhou Country will be destroyed.
The next target for these refugees from the northern cold wave may then become Chu State.
If it comes to that day, Chu State may have to go through a few wars with them to protect its own territory.
Therefore, Lu Yuan’s attitude towards Zhou Country is not entirely hostile.
In the future, if needed, they could also support Zhou Country, using it as a Northern Defense for Chu State to resist the threat of cold wave immigrants.
The relationship between countries has never been fixed, only good or evil.
Only interests and the situation can serve as a guide to making choices.
Lu Yuan, as the great king for years, has deeply understood this and is proficient at heart.
Of course, all of this is still speculation.
There hasn’t been a large-scale war between Zhou and Wei countries yet, only small national-scale battles at most.
Whether things will ultimately turn out as expected remains to be seen.
But even so, with the ongoing small-scale wars in the Shuofang battles, Zhou People suffer casualties of tens of thousands of soldiers every year.
The east side, Heyang County, has less conflict between Zhou and Liang countries, and even small frictions are extremely rare.
Although the two countries are heavily garrisoned at the border, they both restrain themselves, neither intending to escalate the war, and maintain a certain level of rationality.
Even so, with the Western and Northern battlefields alone, the number of casualties and disabilities of Zhou soldiers every year exceeds 200,000, and the scale is still gradually expanding.
At this rate, if the two battlefields continue for a decade, the casualties of Zhou Country in the battlefield alone will exceed two to three million.
This figure is roughly equivalent to one death for every man in Zhou Country on the battlefield.
It can be seen how difficult Zhou Country’s situation is when facing migration waves from the North and West.
No wonder Jade Toad Tao, who lived in Zhou Country, had no confidence in them and refused to invest heavily.