December 30th of the 390th year of the Daliang calendar was the traditional festival of the Liang State - New Year's Eve.
New Year's Eve is the day to get rid of the old and welcome the new, reunite with family, and worship ancestors. New Year's Eve is also called New Year's Eve.
New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are the four most important festivals in Liang State. These four festivals were founded by Chen Haonan, the founding emperor of Liang State.
To the south of Liang, Northern Jin, Southern Jin, Lu, Chu and Yue, which shared the same origin as Liang, also began to celebrate the above four festivals, and their festival customs were the same as those of Liang.
Sun Hao had this year's New Year's Eve dinner with his wives, concubines and children.
Sun Hao now has ninety-five sons and eighty-nine daughters. In addition to his wife Luo Xuan, there are Da Qiao, Xiao Qiao, Zhen Luo, Cai Wenji, Zhao Feiyan, Zhao Hede, Aimu, and Aimei, a total of eight wives.
Due to the series of poisoning and assassination incidents by the Hu concubines two years ago, Luo Xuan joined forces with eight concubines to carry out a major cleansing of Sun Hao's harem.
Dozens of Hu concubines who were hostile to Sun Hao disappeared, leaving the number of concubines in Sun Hao's harem just over a hundred.
Sun Hao was very supportive of Luo Xuan's ruthless methods. If Sun Hao had not been lucky, he might have died in the poisoning or assassination incident.
"My dear, do you have to lead the troops yourself to clear out the bandits in the northern states this time?
Can't we send Xue Rengui or someone else to lead the troops?" Luo Xuan asked Sun Hao in a gentle voice.
As Luo Xuan finished speaking, Zhen Luo beside her also said to Sun Hao: "Husband, the Zhenxi Army has so many generals, why do you have to lead the troops into the pass yourself?"
In the past two years, the open and covert struggles between Luo Xuan and Zhen Luo have never stopped. This time, the two of them have rarely reached a consensus. Both of them are unwilling to let Sun Hao personally lead the troops to wipe out the bandits. After all, anything can happen on the battlefield.
Sun Hao smiled and said, "Don't worry, although the bandits in the northern states are numerous, they are mostly a mob.
This time I will lead most of the personal guards, the left and right guards of the Zhenxi Army, and 40,000 wing troops drawn from all over the Zhenxi Protectorate, a total of 200,000 troops.
The 200,000 Zhenxi Army alone is actually enough to quell the threat of bandits in the northern states.
Moreover, the army formed this time to suppress the rebellion also includes the Jingwu and Chaowu garrisons, the imperial guards led by Prince Yong'an himself, as well as over 100,000 elite troops drawn from several other northern protectorates by Prince Yong'an."
The majority of the personal guards that Sun Hao mentioned refer to the 20,000 Huben cavalry, 5,000 Black Armor cavalry, 5,000 Beiwei cavalry, 5,000 Tiger and Leopard cavalry, 5,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry, 10,000 White Horse Volunteers, 20,000 Modao soldiers, 10,000 wind, rain, thunder and lightning cavalry, 10,000 Qinglang cavalry and 10,000 tiger soldiers, totaling 100,000 soldiers and horses.
The 10,000 vanguard soldiers of the imperial guards, 10,000 Wei Wu soldiers and 10,000 Qin elite soldiers will be led by Wei Qing, Wu Yunzhao and Wu Tianxi to guard the Emerald City.
Luo Xuan frowned and said, "It is precisely because of Prince Yong'an's presence that I don't want my husband to lead the army in person. I'm worried that he will be plotted against by Prince Yong'an.
My husband, please don't forget how Prince Yong'an dealt with the Grand Commander of the Tiansu Protectorate."
Tiansu Protectorate was one of the nineteen border protectorates set up by the Liang court in Yizhou in the southwest.
Since the "Five Kings Rebellion", the army, finances, and personnel of the Tiansu Protectorate have completely fallen into the hands of the Yuan family of Hengling City, and the Tiansu Army under the Tiansu Protectorate has been expanded into eight guards, each of which has a staff of four brigades and 20,000 people.
Together with the nearly 100,000 troops controlled by the Yuan family of Hengling City, the Yuan family of Hengling City became the largest vassal state in the southwest of Liang State.
More than ten years ago, Yong'an King Chen Su led the imperial army south for the first time to quell the barbarian rebellion, hoping to take the opportunity to regain the military power of the Tiansu Army and return it to the court.
Unfortunately, until the end of the rebellion, Prince Yong'an Chen Su did not find a suitable opportunity to solve the problem of the Tiansu Army.
During the second time that Prince Yong'an Chen Su led the imperial army to quell the barbarian rebellion, he directly carried out a decapitation operation against Yuan Xiandao, the Grand Commander of Tiansu Protectorate. Yuan Xiandao was also the current head of the Yuan family in Hengling City.
Afterwards, Yong'an King Chen Su used extremely bloody means to almost uproot the power of the Yuan family in Hengling City from the Tiansu Army, thus turning the largest vassal town in the southwest into the Tiansu Protectorate of the Liang Dynasty court again.
For example, the middle and high-level generals of the Tiansu Army were all transferred from the Imperial Guards. If Prince Yong'an Chen Su had not been worried about the barbarians' rebellion, he could even have transferred tens of thousands of Tiansu Army to the north to help the Imperial Guards clear out the bandits in the northern states.
Because of the drastic measures taken by Prince Yong'an Chen Su against the Yuan family of Hengling City, the families in the southwest region that controlled the other three protectorates were frightened and they took the initiative to show goodwill to Prince Yong'an and the court, and even returned part of the tax collection and the power to appoint and dismiss some officials to the Liang court.
Sun Hao said nonchalantly, "I'm not Yuan Xiandao, and Mr. Pang Tong will be accompanying the army this time. With Mr. Pang Tong accompanying him, Prince Yong'an won't be able to plot against me."
Hearing Sun Hao say this, Luo Xuan and Zhen Luo couldn't help but look at each other, and a trace of helplessness appeared on the faces of both women.
It seems that Sun Hao has made up his mind to personally lead the troops to wipe out the bandits in the northern states. Based on their understanding of Sun Hao, once Sun Hao has made up his mind, basically no one can make him change his mind.
At this time, Aimu asked, "My husband, do Mr. Pang Tong and Mr. Zhuge Liang also agree that you lead the troops in person?"
Sun Hao nodded. "It was actually the two gentlemen's suggestion that I lead the troops personally."
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