Sun Hao gladly accepted the goodwill shown to him by the Bai family of Sucong City, who controlled the Nankang Protectorate.

The Bai family of Sucong City and the Li family of Binwu City have the same goal, which is to form an alliance with the Zhenxi Army to jointly deal with the threat from Prince Yong'an.

You should know that over the years, Prince Yong'an has taken advantage of the opportunity of leading troops to war to deal with several vassal states.

Even the Yuan family of Hengling City, which controlled the Tiansu Protectorate and was the most powerful vassal state in the southwest, was almost wiped out by Prince Yong'an.

Although Sun Hao is no longer afraid of Prince Yong'an, he is not willing to fall out with the Liang court. With the two allies, the Bai family of Sucong City and the Li family of Binwu City, Sun Hao feels that Prince Yong'an should be able to put aside some of his little thoughts temporarily and allow the Zhenxi Army and the Liang court to continue to live in peace.

As for the triplets sisters Bai Lu, Bai Mei and Bai Yao who were used by the Bai family in Sucong City to express their goodwill, their charm values were all 97 points. Sun Hao very much hoped that such goodwill would be more numerous.

Because the Grand Commander of Nankang Protectorate, Bai Qisheng, had clearly stated that he would give the triplets to Sun Hao as concubines, Sun Hao directly kept Bai Lu, Bai Mei, and Bai Yao by his side, and increased the extra sign-in opportunities reserved in the "Annual Sign-in System" by three.

It stands to reason that women are not allowed to be brought along on marches and battles. Cao Tingjin, the Grand Commander of Ganyang Protectorate, was quite dissatisfied with Sun Hao's behavior of keeping the triplets by his side.

However, after Cao Tingjin gently reminded Sun Hao once, he found that Sun Hao was still doing his own thing, so he stopped paying attention to him. After all, Sun Hao had done more than just this one outrageous thing.

On April 5, 391 of the Daliang calendar, the Zhenxi Army, Ganyang Army, Huaide Army, Zhenrong Army, and Nankang Army, totaling 440,000 people, arrived in Wuyang City, the county seat of Shouqing County in Meizhou.

Together with the 160,000 imperial guards and 80,000 civilian laborers led by Prince Yong'an Chen Su, and the 40,000 troops of Shaochang, the total strength of this rebellion-suppressing army reached 720,000.

Although more than 100,000 of them were civilian laborers helping to transport food and fodder, the size of this rebellion-suppressing army was enough to terrify the bandits in the northern states.

In order to avoid the imperial army's rebellion suppression, the 700,000 bandits who had been entrenched in the eastern part of Meizhou, led by Yuan Tianhu, the chief of the Meizhou bandits, abandoned the nine counties they had already captured and retreated to Zibo.

In addition, the bandits led by Yuan Tianhu also took more than 500,000 people from nine counties and entered Zibo Prefecture.

On the evening of April 5th, Prince Yong'an Chen Su held a banquet at the county government office in Wuyang City to welcome Sun Hao, the Grand Commander of Zhenxi Protectorate, Cao Tingjin, the Grand Commander of Ganyang Protectorate, Fan Cheng, the Grand Commander of Huaide Protectorate, Bai Qisheng, the Grand Commander of Nankang Protectorate, and Li Zhe, the Commander-in-Chief of the Left Guard of Zhenrong Army.

However, only Cao Tingjin, Fan Cheng and Li Zhe attended the banquet that night. Sun Hao and Bai Qisheng both found excuses not to enter Wuyang City.

Sun Hao and Bai Qisheng were both afraid that Prince Yong'an would carry out a decapitation operation against them, just as he had done to Yuan Xiandao, the former Grand Commander of the Tiansu Protectorate.

Li Zhe was only the commander-in-chief of the Left Guard of the Zhenrong Army, so he was not worried that Prince Yong'an would target him.

Since Sun Hao and Bai Qisheng did not attend the banquet, Prince Yong'an Chen Su had a gloomy face throughout the whole banquet. Li Zhe tactfully said goodbye and left first.

As soon as Li Zhe left, Yong'an King Chen Su could no longer suppress his anger and overturned the wooden table in front of him which was full of dishes.

Cao Tingjin, Fan Cheng, as well as the accompanying commander-in-chief of Shaochang Protectorate Liang Zixing, commander-in-chief of Jingwu Town of the Imperial Guard Liu Yao, and commander-in-chief of Chaowu Town of the Imperial Guard Zhou Lin, did not dare to speak out to persuade Prince Yong'an when they saw his furious look.

Only the thin staff member Xiao Jing spoke to Yong'an Prince Chen Su and said, "Your Highness, there is no need to be too angry. It is understandable that Governor Sun and Governor Bai are unwilling to attend today's dinner.

After all, the prince took the opportunity of hosting a banquet for Yuan Xiandao to kill Yuan Xiandao, which was how he was able to dismantle the Yuan family of Hengling City, which had dominated the southern part of Yizhou for many years.

Governors Sun and Bai may be worried that the prince will use his old tricks again, so they dare not enter the city to attend the banquet."

Because Prince Yong'an Chen Su had some matters that required his aide Xiao Jing to stay in the capital to help him deal with them, Xiao Jing did not leave the capital with Prince Yong'an Chen Su before, but rushed to Wuyang City a few days ago to meet up with Prince Yong'an Chen Su.

Yong'an Prince Chen Su gnashed his teeth and said, "No matter what Sun Hao and Bai Qisheng's reasons are, since they dared not give me face today, then don't blame me for being cruel and ruthless in the future!"

Xiao Jing, the staff member, shook his head and said, "Your Highness, the Zhenxi Army is now fully grown and has joined forces with the Nankang Army and the Zhenrong Army. If you are not sure of victory, I suggest not to touch the Zhenxi Army's General Sun.

The most important thing now is to quell the bandits in Zibo and Yizhou as quickly as possible, so as to prevent them from spreading to Bozhou and Chizhou and giving the Yan rebels an opportunity to take advantage."

Among the four northeastern states of Liang State, only Zibo and Yibo bordered the northern grasslands. Bozhou, one of the four northeastern states, was located south of Zibo and Yibo, while Chizhou, one of the four northeastern states, was located south of Bozhou.

Although Bozhou and Chizhou did not border the northern grasslands, each state had a border protectorate to guard against the Yan State in the east at all times.

In fact, Yan State and Liang State had a deep connection. The founding emperor of Yan State was Chen Xiao, the King of Yan during the "Five Kings Rebellion" in Liang State.

The State of Yan was first established when King Chen Xiao of Yan led his army to occupy the five vassal states in the east of the State of Liang. In the following thirty years, under the leadership of Chen Xiao, the State of Yan continued to expand eastward and annexed more than a dozen countries, forming the Great Yan Dynasty that now has twelve states and 60 million people.

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