Imperial warlords: Cannons are the only truth

Just as the battle for control of Luyang Highway 103, Lujia Railway, and Qingjiang Bridge was intensifying.

The headquarters of the Qian Kingdom's dispatched army, set up by the Yi people in Hongzhou, the capital of Luyang Province, was also filled with a strong sense of tension.

Commander Yamanakai of the Qian Kingdom Expeditionary Army and Kitajo Ken, the newly arrived Deputy Chief of the Foreign Intelligence Headquarters, engaged in a heated argument...

"A series of mistakes made by the intelligence headquarters in their intelligence work on Inui have directly led to the current unfavorable situation!"

"The intelligence support provided by your intelligence headquarters is riddled with errors, to the point that we made a serious misjudgment of the true situation of the Qian Kingdom's army."

"If the Black Mountain blocking plan formulated by the headquarters cannot be successfully implemented, it is absolutely not due to the incompetence of the Imperial Army, nor is it due to the poor performance of our Qian Kingdom's dispatched army!"

"The intelligence headquarters must bear direct responsibility for this!" As one unfavorable piece of news about the war after another continued to pour in from the front lines, Yamanaka's mood had deteriorated to an extreme degree.

Bei Chengxian, who had just arrived, had run right into the line of fire.

Yamanaka, already furious about the intelligence support provided by the Intelligence Headquarters, naturally wouldn't have a friendly attitude towards Kitajo Ken, the deputy head of the Intelligence Headquarters.

However, the intelligence headquarters was directly commanded by the General Headquarters.

In essence, they were not subordinate to the Yi Kingdom's military.

Therefore, Kitashiro Ken did not tolerate Yamanaka's attempt to shift blame.

"General Yamanakai, the Imperial Army is currently engaged in fierce fighting with the Qian Kingdom Army. As the highest-ranking commander dispatched by the General Headquarters to the Qian Kingdom battlefield, you are here discussing the attribution of responsibility for the defeat."

"The battle is not over yet. Does Your Excellency, Commander, already assume we will be defeated by the Qian people?"

"If even the commander-in-chief lacks confidence in the battle of Luyang, how can this battle continue?"

Kitashiro Ken directly turned the tables on Yamanaka Ichiro from the high ground of the "overall situation," without mentioning a single word about intelligence issues.

Before Yamanakai could retort, Kitashiro Ken continued, "Commander, in order to further enhance the efficiency of intelligence gathering on Inui..."

"The headquarters specifically sent me here to oversee intelligence work on the Qian Kingdom battlefield."

"On the front lines of intelligence operations, no one can guarantee that the intelligence information they possess will always be 100% accurate, nor can they always gain the upper hand."

"The most important thing is to take remedial measures in a timely manner and summarize the reasons for the mistakes so as to better devote ourselves to the new tasks!"

"I came here this time to make up for the shortcomings in the intelligence headquarters' previous intelligence on Qian."

"Commander, on behalf of the Intelligence Headquarters, I assure you that our Intelligence Headquarters will assist the Imperial Army in completing the plan to occupy the Qian Kingdom, as required by General Headquarters!"

After his strong rebuttal, Kitashiro Ken immediately lowered his stance and admitted the intelligence headquarters' mistakes in its intelligence on Inui.

Furthermore, he emphasized in his words that he was directly assigned by headquarters to improve intelligence work against Qian, and that in addition to cooperating with the military operations of the Qian State's dispatched army, he was also directly responsible to headquarters.

In fact, the series of intelligence misjudgments made by the intelligence headquarters in Daqian cannot be said to indicate that the intelligence headquarters of the Yi Kingdom was incompetent.

On the contrary—before the barbarian army launched a military operation against the Great Qian.

Or rather, before Shen Moshen's troops left Youzhou, the intelligence headquarters had already submitted a very detailed overall assessment and analysis report of the Qian Kingdom to the Yi Kingdom's headquarters.

This comprehensive assessment and analysis report, spanning over two hundred pages, can be described as a complete summary of the overall situation in Qian Kingdom over the past three years.

Moreover, the professionalism of this assessment and analysis report from the Foreign Intelligence Headquarters is beyond doubt.

It truly took three years to finally complete this comprehensive assessment and analysis report.

It encompasses the warlord forces, influential figures, scale, weaponry, and actual combat strength of the warlord armies in the thirty-six provinces of the Great Qian Kingdom.

But that's precisely where the problem lies.

Because the situation in Youzhou Province was only briefly mentioned in the detailed assessment of the warlord armies in the thirty-six provinces of the Great Qian Dynasty.

The assessment conclusion was simply stated in one line: an armed force with no presence and almost negligible.

As a result, thanks to the system's cheat-like effects—the Youzhou province, which was still in the "newbie protection period" at the time—was completely ignored by various forces.

Therefore, the enormous changes in Youzhou Province were naturally not taken into consideration by the Yi Kingdom's intelligence headquarters.

The intelligence headquarters of the foreign country completed this overall assessment and analysis report of the Qian Kingdom over three years, which can be said to have thoroughly grasped the actual situation of the Great Qian Empire.

However, they overlooked the impact that Youzhou Province had on the Great Qian Dynasty.

It was precisely because the intelligence headquarters of the foreign country had a comprehensive understanding of the Great Qian Empire.

This also made them firmly believe that even after Shen Moshen's troops quickly stirred up the Great Qian Empire's political landscape by marching out of Youzhou, it was absolutely impossible for the Great Qian Empire to have an armed force that could reach the level of a great power in such a short period of time.

In just three years, how much could Youzhou Province rise to prominence?

Who would have thought that Shen Moshen was a transmigrator who came with special abilities...?

Therefore, the authoritative faction, with its well-founded arguments, has stumbled into a dead end.

The barbarian people, who thought they knew the Great Qian Empire best, suffered a great loss on this issue.

This also led to the battle in Luyang going further and further in a direction that the Yi people had never expected, before Shen Moshen's anti-rebel army even arrived!

"Report! The 11th Division has lost power—the Qingjiang Bridge has fallen into the hands of the Qian State army."

"Commander Maeda Kenji is determined to fight to the death and will personally lead the last suicide squad of the 11th Division to attack the Inui army!"