Wu Yunzhao and Wu Tianxi, leading two thousand Tiger Cavalry of the personal guards, sent Sun Hao's thirty new concubines back to Moxue City in Xizhou, and soon caught up with the 200,000 Zhenxi Army that had already set out.

Wu Yunzhao and Wu Tianxi also brought Sun Hao a letter from Guo Chong, which contained information about the Western Regions countries preparing to form a coalition again.

On the evening of February 5, 391 in the Daliang calendar, at the temporary camp of the 200,000 Zhenxi Army, Sun Hao summoned Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui into his tent.

Sun Hao handed a piece of paper to the two of them, "This is the intelligence sent by Guo Chong. It can now be confirmed that the Puwan Kingdom will send 500,000 troops to join the new coalition against our Zhenxi Army.

The Cheshi Kingdom would send 400,000 troops, and the Parthian Kingdom would send 100,000 troops, including 50,000 Parthian heavy cavalry.

The five major Western Regions powers, Yanzi, Yuli, Pilu, Shaye, and Kangju, will all send 100,000 troops. The two major Western Regions powers, Shache and Qumo, will each send 80,000 troops. The two major Western Regions powers, Wuli and Xiuye, will each send 70,000 troops.

In this way, the three major powers and nine major countries in the Western Regions alone can gather a total of 1.8 million troops.

With the call from the three great powers and nine great nations, I'm sure the smaller nations of the Western Regions will eagerly join this new coalition. I'm afraid our Zhenxi Army will be facing a Western Region coalition with a total strength of at least two million."

Although Sun Hao had made various arrangements for the new coalition forces that might be formed by the Western Regions countries before leading the 200,000 Zhenxi Army to the expedition, when Sun Hao learned that the number of the new coalition forces would exceed two million, he couldn't help but think of leading the 200,000 Zhenxi Army back to Xizhou.

Fang Xuanling finished reading the letter sent by Guo Chong, then after a moment's hesitation, he said to Sun Hao, "My Lord, the Zhenxi Army still has 210,000 soldiers and horses left in Xizhou. Together with the 260,000 garrison troops from various counties and prefectures, they are more than enough to resist the new coalition formed by the Western Regions.

In my opinion, my lord, you don't need to worry about the numbers of this new coalition. We should continue with our original plan to eliminate the bandits in the northern states. With Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong in Xizhou, we will definitely not let this new coalition from the Western Regions gain any advantage."

Du Ruhui then said, "My Lord, what Xuanling said is very true. I also agree that you should continue to eliminate the bandits in the northern states.

You must know that the Lord led 200,000 Zhenxi troops into the pass this time, intending to lure the enemy out of their lair. Although the number of Western Region coalition troops lured out is a little larger, with the Zhenxi Army's 210,000 elite soldiers, the chances of victory are still on our side."

Sun Hao nodded and said, "Since you two gentlemen agree, let's pretend nothing happened and continue to wipe out those bandits.

If Xizhou can't hold out, I can lead the cavalry of the left and right guards and the imperial guards to quickly provide support."

Just as Sun Hao finished speaking, Xue Rengui, the commander of the Right Guard of the Zhenxi Army, suddenly walked into the general's tent and said, "My lord, there is a man outside the camp who claims to be the commander of the Pizhou bandits and wants to see you. He says he knows you."

It turned out that the man who claimed to be the chief commander of the Pizhou bandits was Wu Ke, the boss of Langtou Mountain.

It was at the Wolf Head Mountain stronghold that Sun Hao met his uncle Liu Dongqi for the last time, and received the Four Riders of Wind, Rain, Thunder and Lightning from Liu Dongqi.

When Wu Ke saw Sun Hao, he immediately knelt on the ground and said tearfully, "General Sun, I, Wu Ke, really don't want to be a bandit.

At first, they were a group of bandits who were defeated by Ganyang Army. They took the initiative to run to Langtou Mountain to surrender. I saw that there were many old, young, women and children in this group of bandits, and I couldn't bear it and took them in.

Who would have thought that more and more bandits would defect to Langtou Mountain, and I had no choice but to agree. As a result, those bandits even nominated me to become the leader of the Pizhou Righteous Army... and the commander-in-chief of the Pizhou bandits.

"General Sun, I, Wu Ke, only want to be a bandit. I have never thought of becoming the commander-in-chief of the Pizhou bandits!"

Sun Hao smiled and said, "Boss Wu, what's your intention in putting on this show in front of me?"

Wu Ke hurriedly said, "General Sun, I would like to bring the 150,000 bandits gathered at Wolf Head Mountain to join you.

If I hadn't been worried about not being able to pass through Suolong Pass and Longyu Pass, I would have taken these 150,000 people to Xizhou to join you."

Sun Hao didn't expect that there were 150,000 bandits gathered in Langtou Mountain at this time.

Although Sun Hao led 200,000 Zhenxi troops into the pass this time to wipe out the bandits in the northern states, Sun Hao did not want to kill all the bandits. After all, most of the bandits were hungry people.

According to the plan of Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, the Zhenxi Army will next find a way to annex the Puwan Kingdom.

The Puwan Kingdom had 178 cities, but because most of the Liang people in Puwan Kingdom moved to Xizhou and settled there, there were only about one million Liang people left among the remaining population of more than nine million in Puwan Kingdom.

If Puwan State was also annexed by Zhenxi Protectorate, then Zhenxi Protectorate would need to migrate a certain number of Liang people to Puwan State to increase the proportion of Liang people so that it could completely annex Puwan State.

The millions of bandits in the northern states are actually the best candidates to migrate to Puwan State.

Cao Tingjin, the Grand Commander of the Ganyang Army, and Fan Cheng, the Grand Commander of the Huaide Army, felt a little uncomfortable when they learned that 150,000 bandits had voluntarily surrendered to the Zhenxi Army and that Sun Hao was planning to send all of these 150,000 bandits to Xizhou.

Ganyang Army and Huaide Army both belonged to the border army of Pizhou. The bandits in Pizhou were not a big deal, and Ganyang Army and Huaide Army played a great role in this.

As a result, the bandits in Pizhou took the initiative to surrender to the Zhenxi Army.

However, the surrender of 150,000 bandits from Langtou Mountain to the Zhenxi Army was only the beginning of the bandits' surrender to the Zhenxi Army.

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