After resting for more than half a month in Yingzhou City, the 350,000-strong army of Longcheng marched south in three routes and set off according to the established battle plan.
One route, led by Chang Yuchun, the deputy marshal of the Longcheng army, with a total of 150,000 troops, headed straight for Jinan Prefecture;
Another force, led by Liu Ziyu, deputy general of the Longcheng Southern Expeditionary Army, consisted of 150,000 troops and headed straight for Kaifeng Prefecture.
Finally, there was the 50,000-strong army personally commanded by Prince Chen Huai'an of Jin, stationed in the important town of Yingzhou.
As for the newly trained Dragon City naval force, Chen Huai'an will summon super elite soldiers through the [Born to be an Emperor] system, along with naval admiral Qi Jiguang.
After making the decision to form the Longcheng Navy, Chen Huai'an first dispatched supply troops and auxiliary troops to Wengcheng, a port town on the coast of Bohai Sea, to build barracks for the navy in advance.
By the time Chen Huai'an personally arrived at the barbican, campsites had already sprung up.
As he instructed, the naval camp within this small, barbican-shaped town was large enough to accommodate a naval force of 100,000 men.
That night.
Inside the Dragon City naval camp, the central command tent was brightly lit, and Chen Huai'an summoned the system with his mind.
[Ding!]
[The Innate Emperor System is Activating...]
As the familiar synthesized mechanical voice echoed in his mind, the system light screen appeared in Chen Huai'an's vision once again.
The points available for summoning 800,000 private soldiers have accumulated to 8.88 million.
The points that can be used to exchange for provisions, supplies, and weapons have accumulated to 120 million.
All of these points are rewards accumulated by Chen Huai'an since he led troops to the Western Regions to quell the rebellion of the thirty-six kingdoms in the Western Regions, and by Chen Qingzhi, the deputy marshal of the Longcheng army, who led his troops to defeat the Tibetan bandits and fought all the way to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
However, the quota that could be used to summon 800,000 private soldiers has been reduced to a pitifully small amount!
At present, Prince Chen Huai'an of Jin is already a well-deserved overlord with an army of one million.
In the four towns of Anxi, there was a 200,000-strong Guan Ning Iron Cavalry army led by General Lan Yu.
On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during the campaign against the Tubo, there was a 200,000-strong Xuanjia Army (Anxi Border Army) led by Chen Qingzhi, the deputy marshal of Longcheng.
In Longcheng, the fiefdom guarding the place where the dragon rose to power, there were 100,000 elite Qin soldiers led by General Wang Jian.
In the Shuobei and Youyun prefectures, there are also troops stationed in various places, totaling 150,000;
Then there's the 350,000-strong southern expeditionary force that recently split into three routes from Yingzhou City.
In total, the number of troops under Chen Huai'an's command in Longcheng has exceeded one million, and this is all combat troops, not including the miscellaneous soldiers responsible for logistics.
Of this million-strong army, 700,000 were part of the 800,000 private soldiers summoned by Chen Huai'an from the [Born to Be an Emperor] system.
The remaining 300,000 were the troops of the Great Xin Dynasty who joined the army in Longcheng.
Tonight, after Chen Huai'an summoned all his remaining private soldiers, the 800,000 private soldiers rewarded by the system were all credited to his account.
The next step, if they want to continue to produce troops from the system, is for Chen Huai'an to achieve the accomplishment of "unifying the world".
Thinking of this, Chen Huai'an felt a surge of excitement.
He immediately communicated with the system using his mind: "System, exchange for super elite soldiers!"
[Dear host, would you like to spend 1.08 million system points to exchange for super elite soldiers?]
"yes!"
[Ding!]
[108,000 Super Elite Soldiers Available for Exchange...]
[Redeem successful!]
As the system's notification sounded that the exchange was successful, the camp in the small town of Wengcheng on the coast of the Bohai Sea, which could accommodate a naval force of 100,000, was immediately filled with elite soldiers.
The once quiet and even somewhat lonely naval camp was suddenly filled with the sounds of people cheering and horses neighing.
Chen Huai'an was already used to this.
Immediately afterwards, he exchanged enough rations for 100,000 naval troops for three months in the system shop and stored them in the supply depot of the naval camp.
Of course, they didn't forget to equip these 100,000 naval soldiers with sufficient armor and weapons.
We can't possibly leave the mighty General Qi Jiguang with a Qi Family Army that fights shirtless, can we?
After exchanging for food, supplies, weapons, armor, and warhorses, the 120 million points that had been accumulated in the system were almost all used up.
When Chen Huai'an wanted to exchange one hundred warships from Zheng He's voyages for the navy, he discovered that he didn't have enough system points.
We can only give it to the navy first, and exchange it for twenty warships to use as training ships for now.
"Hey, I thought all those points I'd accumulated over so long were just wasted on a lavish 'billion-dollar extravagance,' assembling a super navy army!"
"But alas, it's still not enough!"
Chen Huai'an looked at the chartered ships on the system screen in his field of vision and felt a strong urge to join in.
In the system's arms shop, warships are divided into ordinary warships, intermediate warships, and super warships.
Among them, the super warship was comparable to the treasure ship that Zheng He used during his voyages to the Western Ocean. It was equipped with twenty-four cannons and could accommodate thousands of naval soldiers.
Its price is outrageously expensive, requiring a full ten million system points.
This means that Chen Huai'an's Dragon City army would need to conquer a large city with a population of over a million in order to accumulate enough points to exchange for a super warship.
A medium-sized warship, priced at five million points, is equipped with twelve cannons and can accommodate hundreds of naval soldiers.
A standard warship costs three million points and is equipped with six cannons and can accommodate more than one hundred naval soldiers.
In the end, Chen Huai'an gritted his teeth and exchanged two medium-sized warships and eighteen ordinary warships in the system's marketplace.
This immediately cleared all of his system points.
Once the warships were exchanged for his money, Chen Huai'an couldn't wait to ride his horse to the port dock outside the barbican. Looking at the tall and rugged wooden warships on the sea, his heart couldn't help but race.
He knew very well that these twenty warships were just the beginning of the Dragon City Navy.
In the future, he wants super warships flying the Jin King's dragon flag to be found in every corner of the seven continents and four oceans!
After finishing all this, Chen Huai'an took a few deep breaths to calm himself down, and finally selected Qi Jiguang, the Ming Dynasty general who fought against Japanese pirates, in the [General Summoning] section on the system screen!
Without the slightest hesitation, he communicated with the system using his mind: "System, summon Qi Jiguang, the Ming Dynasty general who fought against the Japanese pirates!"
[Dear host, are you sure you want to spend 100,000 points to summon Qi Jiguang, the Ming Dynasty general who fought against Japanese pirates?]
Without hesitation, Chen Huai'an replied, "Confirmed!"
[Ding!]
[The Ming Dynasty general Qi Jiguang, who fought against Japanese pirates, is being summoned...]
[Summoning successful!]
As the system voice faded, a cloud of white mist appeared out of thin air about ten steps away from Chen Huai'an.
As the white mist dissipated, the renowned Ming Dynasty general Qi Jiguang, who had fought against the Japanese pirates, strode over and knelt before Chen Huai'an.
"This humble general, Qi Jiguang, pays his respects to Your Highness, Prince Jin!"
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