The royal family member adopted by Prince Yong'an is named Chen Bin. He is just twenty-one years old this year and is a well-known playboy among the royal family members.

The reason why Prince Yong'an Chen Su agreed to adopt Chen Bin as his adopted son was, on the one hand, because Chen Bin was chosen for him by Emperor Chen Xun, and on the other hand, because Chen Bin was born with supernatural powers since childhood, and even among so many powerful generals in the imperial guards, no one could be Chen Xun's opponent.

Prince Yong'an Chen Su felt that in terms of military strength alone, Chen Bin was a rare talent.

As for Chen Bin's dandy character, Yong'an Prince Chen Su didn't care too much about it. After all, when Yong'an Prince Chen Su was young, he was considered one of the most dandy young men in the entire capital.

Unfortunately, just over a year after Chen Bin became the Prince of Yong'an, Prince of Yong'an Chen Su was assassinated in the street. He did not have time to teach Chen Bin much, nor did he have time for Chen Bin to accumulate enough prestige in the army.

As a result, not only did the governors of the Border Protectorate such as Cao Tingjin and Fan Cheng have no confidence in Chen Bin, but even many senior generals in the imperial guards began to have frequent contacts in secret with the Left Prime Minister Lu Zeng or the Right Prime Minister Fan Ziyong.

This also meant that after the assassination of Yong'an King Chen Su, the capital of Liang State, although it seemed calm on the surface, it seemed to be hiding a storm in secret.

However, Sun Hao's attention was soon diverted from the assassination of Yong'an King Chen Su.

In the plateau area south of the Western Regions, there were originally many tribes that mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. The people of these plateau tribes looked very similar to the Liang people, but their living customs and language were different from those of the Liang people.

In the past decade or so, a tribe called Songfan suddenly rose in this plateau area. A year ago, the Songfan tribe almost unified all the tribes in the plateau area and then established the Songfan Kingdom.

Songfan Dorje, the chief of the Songfan tribe, became the first king of the Songfan Kingdom.

The entire Songfan Kingdom is adjacent to the Baiwan Mountains in the east, south and north, and the Songfan Kingdom's strongest force is its cavalry.

In the Million Mountains, the cavalry of the Songfan Kingdom could not exert much combat effectiveness at all, not to mention that there were many barbarian tribes living in the Million Mountains. All of these barbarian tribes were soldiers and were very difficult to deal with.

So King Songfan Dorje, who wanted to expand his territory, set his sights on some Western Regions countries in the west.

Just after New Year's Eve of the 394th year of the Daliang calendar, the Songfan Kingdom suddenly gathered millions of troops and simultaneously invaded the territories of five small countries in the Western Regions.

Currently, in the entire Western Regions, there are a total of eighty-two countries, except for Xizhou controlled by the Zhenxi Protectorate.

Including the two powerful countries of Parthia and Cheshi, the ten large countries of Yanzi, Yuli, Shache, Qumo, Wuli, Xiuye, Anlu, Moshan, Wulei and Shuhe, the remaining seventy countries in the Western Regions can only be classified as small countries based on the number of cities and population.

After the Zhenxi Army defeated the 2.7 million coalition forces of the Western Regions, not only the six major countries of Yanzi, Yuli, Shache, Qumo, Wuli, and Xiuye that participated in the coalition, but also the other 26 small countries in the Western Regions were forced to regard Liang as their suzerain state.

Many small countries in the Western Regions that did not participate in the coalition also came forward and asked to accept Liang as their suzerain state, hoping that the Zhenxi Army could station troops in their countries.

By the end of the 394th year of the Daliang calendar, fifty-eight of the seventy small countries in the Western Regions had become vassal states of the Liang State.

The five small countries in the Western Regions that were invaded by the Songfan Kingdom this time were all vassal states of the Liang Kingdom.

At the Zhenxi Marquis Mansion in Emerald City, also known as the Zhenxi Protectorate, Jia Xu held up a few pieces of paper and explained to Sun Hao, "According to the intelligence gathered by the Seven Banner Guards in the Songfan Kingdom.

Currently, the Songfan Kingdom follows the example of our Daliang and divides the entire plateau into fifteen states and one capital city.

Although the entire plateau is vast and sparsely populated, the population of the Songfan Kingdom is about 47 million, and the size of its army remains at around 1.5 million.

However, most of the people in Songfan Kingdom can ride horses to graze. If necessary, Songfan Kingdom can even deploy tens of millions of cavalry troops.

This time, the Songfan Kingdom invaded the five small Western Region states and only deployed 300,000 regular troops. The remaining 700,000 to 800,000 cavalry were all herdsmen temporarily recruited."

Sun Hao then said in a deep voice: "Since those five small countries in the Western Regions are already vassal states of Daliang, then this marquis cannot watch these five small countries in the Western Regions being annexed by the Songfan Kingdom.

This Marquis is ready..."

Before Sun Hao could finish his words, Guo Jia suddenly said, "My lord, I think it would be best if our Zhenxi Army did not rush to send out the troops this time.

The Songfan Kingdom is coming with such force that I'm afraid the five small Western Region countries alone won't be enough to satisfy it."

Sun Hao frowned slightly, "What does Mr. Guo mean?"

"My lord, between Xizhou and Songfan Kingdom, there are a total of eighteen small Western Regions countries and two large Western Regions countries, Wulei and Shuhe.

Why don't we, the Zhenxi Army, take advantage of the Songfan Kingdom and take the opportunity to annex these twenty Western Regions countries?

In this way, our Zhenxi Army can directly penetrate the plateau area where the Songfan Kingdom is located.

It is said that the plateau is rich in gold and silver, and animal husbandry is extremely developed, it is definitely a place of good feng shui."

Sun Hao hesitated for a moment and said, "The problem is that the Songfan Kingdom is not a pushover. Don't let them take advantage of you and end up suffering a huge loss."

Sun Hao's worries did not dampen the ambitions of many strategists and generals of the Zhenxi Protectorate to expand the territory.

So, with the deliberate delay of the Zhenxi Army, the cavalry of the Songfan Kingdom quickly swept across the various Western Regions countries south of Xizhou. In the end, even the two major powers of Wulei and Shuhe could not resist the invasion of the Songfan Kingdom.

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