Not only did Sun Hao use up all the 40 sign-in opportunities reserved in the "Annual Sign-in System", he also almost used up all the more than 26 million conversion points reserved in the "Hero Converter".
Forty extra sign-in opportunities allowed Sun Hao to sign out more than 3,600 centurion generals, including a new type of soldier: the Northern Army.
The Northern Army was heavy infantry, wearing black heavy infantry armor. Each hundred-man general was equipped with a long-handled saber, a horizontal sword, a dagger, a bow and a pot of arrows, and a light green helmet tassel on his helmet.
The combat power value of the Northern Army Hundred General is 80 points, and the exchange price in the "Hero Converter" is 300 points of conversion value.
Sun Hao also signed out six powerful generals: Li Cunxiao (Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms), Xia Luqi (Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms), Chang Yuchun (Ming and Qing Dynasties), Zhang Dingbian (Ming and Qing Dynasties), Luo Cheng (Sui and Tang Dynasties), and Yang Lin (Sui and Tang Dynasties), and the combat power values of these six generals are all as high as 100 points.
The more than 26 million conversion points stored in the "Hero Converter" not only compensated for the losses of the Royal Guards, the North and South Guards, and the East and West Guards.
Sun Hao also exchanged 10,000 vanguard soldiers, 10,000 Wei soldiers, 10,000 Qin soldiers and more than 29,700 Northern Army soldiers, and temporarily incorporated them into the personal guards.
Including the 256 Northern Army soldiers who signed up, the number of Northern Army soldiers in the imperial guards was exactly 30,000.
Li Cunxiao, Xia Luqi, Chang Yuchun, Zhang Dingbian, Luo Cheng and Yang Lin, six "hundred-level" generals, were all appointed by Sun Hao as Lang Jiang of the Personal Guard, temporarily commanding the 60,000 centurions newly incorporated into the Personal Guard.
Therefore, the Zhenxi Army led by Sun Hao has seen its strength increase instead of decrease after a great battle with the Northern Jin Army, reaching 460,000.
In addition, at Sun Hao's strong request, Prince Yong'an handed over all the 430,000 captured Northern Jin troops to the Zhenxi Army, of which about 150,000 were wounded.
After Sun Hao established the Zhennan Protectorate, the Zhennan Protectorate's wing troops were mainly composed of surrendered soldiers from the Northern Jin State.
"My lord, the Seven Banner Guards in Leizhou have sent word that Prince Yong'an has led the Seven Towns' Imperial Guards back to the capital, and the other border troops have followed suit."
As Liu Bowen spoke, he handed Sun Hao a piece of paper.
Sun Hao took it and looked at it, then said with a smile: "Now we can safely seize territory in Northern Jin."
The reason why Sun Hao stockpiled more than 300,000 Zhenxi troops in and around Yingni Pass and did not use them was actually to prevent Prince Yong'an from causing any trouble.
After the decisive battle with the Northern Jin army, there were only 120,000 combat-capable soldiers left in the seven imperial guards, but the border troops and wing troops under the command of Prince Yong'an totaled 180,000.
If Prince Yong'an took advantage of the opportunity of the Zhenxi Army's attack on Lianzhou of the Northern Jin State to cut off the Zhenxi Army's food supply and secretly make peace with the Northern Jin State, hundreds of thousands of Zhenxi Army soldiers might be trapped in the mountainous area of Lianzhou.
It's no wonder that Sun Hao is so cautious. When Prince Yong'an learned that the Zhenxi Army only lost more than 6,000 people in the decisive battle on the second day, he looked at Sun Hao with a hint of coldness in his eyes.
Liu Bowen nodded and said, "Now that Prince Yong'an has led the seven imperial guards away, our Zhenxi Army will no longer have to worry about anything. If all goes well, perhaps the entire Northern Jin Kingdom will become our Zhenxi Army's possession.
Of course, the prerequisite is that Southern Jin, Lu, Chu and Yue do not send troops to aid Northern Jin.
At this time, Yao Guangxiao said: "Southern Jin and Northern Jin have many conflicts, and they will not send troops to help Northern Jin resist our Zhenxi Army.
The three states of Lu, Chu, and Yue once sent troops to support Northern Jin during my second southern expedition to Northern Jin. I'm afraid they will do the same this time."
Including this Northern Expedition, the Northern Jin State had launched five Northern Expeditions against the Liang State, and the Liang State had also launched two Southern Expeditions against the Northern Jin State.
The second southern expedition of Liang State against Northern Jin State took place in the 305th year of Daliang calendar. At that time, the million-strong Liang army had almost conquered all the natural fortresses in Lianzhou of Northern Jin State.
Unfortunately, at the last pass of Lianzhou - Langya Pass, the main force of the Liang army failed to capture it after a long siege, and was finally counterattacked by the coalition forces of Northern Jin, Lu, Chu and Yue, and lost 300,000 elite troops at once.
After the Battle of Langya Pass, the Liang army was forced to withdraw from Lianzhou under the fierce attack of the four countries' armies, and hastily ended the second southern expedition.
Sun Hao then said, "Regardless of whether Lu, Chu, and Yue send troops to reinforce Northern Jin, this time our Zhenxi Army must at least capture the eight northern states and Yiyang Prefecture of Northern Jin.
With the natural barrier of the Lin River as a barrier, the establishment of the Zhennan Protectorate will be safer."
The Lin River is a long river that runs through the Northern Jin State, dividing the north and south of the Northern Jin State into two parts.
Liu Bowen pondered for a moment and said, "My lord, according to the intelligence obtained by the Seven Banner Guards, the emperor and civil and military officials of the Northern Jin Kingdom have all fled the capital of the Northern Jin Kingdom, Yiyang City.
I suggest that we immediately strengthen the forces on the front lines and seize the eight northern states and Yiyang Prefecture of Northern Jin as quickly as possible. Then, based on the situation, we can decide whether to cross the Lin River and continue our attack on Northern Jin's south."
Yong'an Prince Chen Su, who was leading the seven regiments of the Imperial Guard back to the capital, said solemnly to the departing Grand Commandant Cao Tingjin of the Ganyang Protectorate, the Grand Commandant Fan Cheng of the Huaide Protectorate, and the Grand Commandant Liang Zixing of the Shaochang Protectorate, "You three have all seen how formidable the Zhenxi Army is.
You three should keep in touch in the future. The safety of northern Daliang may depend on you three."
Cao Tingjin, Fan Cheng and Liang Zixing looked at each other, and a bitter smile appeared on the faces of all three of them.
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