Under Zhuge Liang's operation, the Great Wei court quickly passed the resolution to transfer the Southern Barbarian Protectorate to the Southern Army in Dayan Town. Although some military officers were very opposed to this, with the strong approval of the three prime ministers and many civil officials of the Great Wei court, the Great Wei court still voluntarily gave up the Southern Barbarian Protectorate.

Emperor Chen Hong of the Great Wei was actually a little reluctant to let go of the Southern Barbarian Protectorate, but he felt that what the three prime ministers said was reasonable. Even if the Zhennan Army helped the Great Wei Empire to quell this rebellion, how could the Great Wei Empire without the Tu Family Army shock the Southern Barbarians?

Once the Zhennan Army withdrew, let alone the Southern Barbarian Protectorate, if you don’t do it well, you will have to think the same as before and often be subject to the attacks of various ethnic groups in the Southern Barbarians.

Besides, without sufficient benefits, the Zhennan Army could not really help the Great Wei Empire to fight to the death with millions of troops of the Southern Barbarian races within the territory of the Southern Barbarian Protectorate.

So in the end, Emperor Chen Hong of the Great Wei Dynasty weighed the pros and cons, and had to pinch his nose and agree to transfer the Southern Barbarian Protectorate to Zhennan Army.

After the main force of the Southern Barbarian Army was defeated by the Zhennan Army, Tu Yanbu, the Grand Marshal of the Southern Barbarian Army, took the 10,000 heavy cavalry, 130,000 light cavalry and 100,000 infantry who escaped with him to retreat to the Southern Barbarian Protectorate. At the same time, he sent people to order the Southern Barbarian Army to give up the cities they were attacking and occupied, and all retreat to the Southern Barbarian Protectorate.

This disastrous defeat in Luyuan County has already made Tu Yanbu extinguish the idea of ​​replacing the Great Wei Empire. Now Tu Yanbu only wants to defend the Southern Barbarian Protectorate and become a local emperor.

Fei Lianhong, the third marshal of the Southern Barbarian Army, said to Tu Yanbu with some reluctance: "Brother, not counting the 240,000 army that escaped with us, our Southern Barbarian Army has 230,000 troops in Cizhou Prefecture and Guzhou Prefecture, and there are millions of troops in the Southern Barbarian Protectorate. We can even recruit troops from all the tribes of the Southern Barbarians again. Can't we fight with Zhennan Army again in Cizhou Prefecture?"

Tu Yanbu patted Fei Lianhong on the shoulder, "Third brother, in the last day of Luyuan County, our army was only 240,000 left. We have no way to defeat the Zhennan Army in Cizhou Prefecture."

Fei Lianhong said anxiously: "Brother, if it weren't for Xiong Yiwei's twelve brigades rebelling in the face of the battle, it would be not necessarily the case who won and lost in that battle!"

Tu Yanbu sighed and said, "Third brother, don't forget that the Zhennan Army has a group of troops and horses directly entered the Southern Barbarian Protectorate from the sea. Now I don't dare to draw too many troops from the Southern Barbarian Protectorate to the Cizhou Prefecture, so let's go back to the Southern Barbarian Protectorate first and then make plans for the long term!"

As the Southern Barbarians in Cizhou Prefecture and the eastern part of Guzhou Prefecture voluntarily retreated, the Zhennan Army and the Great Wei army quickly recovered dozens of fallen cities.

In addition, the other three brigades of Xiongyiwei in Cizhou Prefecture also rebelled against the Southern Barbarians and chose to surrender to the Zhennan Army.

After the Southern Barbarians retreated to the Southern Barbarian Protectorate, the Zhennan Army led by Zhou Yu immediately attacked the Southern Barbarian Protectorate, and the army of the Great Wei Empire stopped at the border of Cizhou Prefecture.

As a result, Zhou Yu's army and the army led by Lu Xun began to echo each other and launched a conquest against the southern barbarian races.

Tu Yanbu, who had returned to the Southern Barbarian Protectorate, still had more than 1.3 million Southern Barbarians, and also controlled the military power of the ten brigades of Xiongyiwei. However, Tu Yanbu had no longer trusted the ten brigades of Xiongyiwei and directly transferred the ten brigades of Xiongyiwei to the rear.

Originally, Tu Yanbu felt that with the more than 1.3 million Southern Barbarians in his hands and the support of the Southern Barbarian races, he would definitely drive the Zhennan Army out of the Southern Barbarian Protectorate.

However, what Tu Yanbu did not expect was that after the Zhennan Army invaded the Southern Barbarian Protectorate, many tribes of various ethnic groups of the Southern Barbarians abandoned his Southern Barbarian Army and turned to the Zhennan Army.

After Tu Yanbu led the main force of the Southern Barbarian Army and was once again defeated by the Zhennan Army, more and more tribes of the Southern Barbarian race chose to surrender to the Zhennan Army. Even the ten brigades of Xiongyiwei arranged by Tu Yanbu in the rear announced that they had joined the Zhennan Army.

As one goes up and down, the situation of the Southern Barbarians is becoming increasingly difficult.

At the end of November of the 21st year of Jianping, Tu Yanbu and the last remaining more than 40,000 Southern Barbarians were surrounded by more than 300,000 Zhennan Army.

In the end, Tu Yanbu and his two younger brothers Fei Lianqing and Fei Lianhong were all killed on the battlefield. Half of more than 40,000 Southern Barbarians were killed, and the remaining about 20,000 people took the initiative to put down their weapons.

After more than a year of conquest, hundreds of barbarian tribes in the Southern Barbarian Protectorate had surrendered to the Zhennan Army, and the entire Southern Barbarian Protectorate had nominally been owned by the Zhennan Army.

At this time, the Dongman Protectorate's Mansion turned out to be just nominally surrendered to the Zhennan Army's thirty-eight large tribes and 255 small tribes. All of them were completely annexed by the Zhennan Army using various means. The forty counties and 270 counties of the Dongman Governor's Mansion were completely controlled by the Zhennan Army.

After completely eliminating Tu Yanbu and his Southern Barbarian Army, the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office divided the Southern Barbarian Protectorate into forty counties, but the Southern Barbarian Protectorate had twenty more counties than the Eastern Barbarian Protectorate, reaching 290 counties.

The Dayan court did not agree or object to the Zhennan Army's acceptance of the Southern Barbarian Protectorate of the Great Wei Empire, which was considered to have acquiesced to the Zhennan Army's behavior of expanding territory.

Under Li Bin's repeated requests, the Dayan court also agreed to the Zhennan Army to form four new outer guards in the Eastern Barbarian Protectorate and the Southern Barbarian Protectorate. However, on the grounds that Guizhou Prefecture did not need to face the threats of the Eastern Barbarian races, it reduced the two outer guards in Guizhou Prefecture's prefecture.

So in fact, Li Bin only added six new outer guards under his command.

The commanders of the four outer guards of Guizhou Prefecture were Yang Zaixing, Huang Zhong, Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong, and the eight others, Ling Tong, Wu Song, Lin Chong, Shi Su, Yang Hong, Tao Siliang, Tao Siyuan and Tao Sipeng, served as deputy commanders of the four outer guards of Guizhou Prefecture.

The commanders of the four outer guards of Xiangzhou Prefecture were Xue Li, Fan Kuai, Meng Tie and Xu Chu, and Shi Wengong, Luan Tingyu, Bian Xiang, Du Jie, Fan Hu, Xu Tianhao, Xu Tiantao and Su Wencang served as the deputy commanders of the four outer guards of Xiangzhou Prefecture.

The commanders of the four outer guards of the Eastern Man Protectorate were Lu Xun, Long Qi, Yuwen Chengdu and Zhang He, and Han Zhen, Xu Ying, Wang Sheng, Dong He, Fang Li, Yang Lun, Zhao Tong and Wei Xie were the deputy commanders of the four outer guards of the Eastern Man Protectorate. The eight of them were originally one of the thirteen King Kongs under the command of the Tu family army, Tu Lin.

The commanders of the four outer guards of the Southern Barbarian Protectorate were Zhou Yu, Lu Bu, Gao Chong and Xu Huang, and the eight others, Fang Song, Deng Yong, Song Qi, Gao Lian, Huang Cheng, Qi Bo and Kong Tao, were the deputy commanders of the four outer guards of the Southern Barbarian Protectorate. The eight of them were originally one of the thirty-six generals under the command of the Tu Lin, the head coach of the Tu family army.

Han Zhen, Liu Quan and other sixteen generals of the Tu family army made considerable achievements in the previous battle to pacify the Southern Barbarians or the Eastern Barbarians. In addition, the sixteen of them did have the ability to lead troops and were all powerful generals at the master level, so Li Bin promoted the sixteen of them as deputy commanders of the eight outer guards.

The sixteen external guards and imperial guards affiliated to the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office are still composed of three brigades of heavy cavalry and two brigades of heavy infantry. Each external guards and imperial guards have a force of about 35,000, and the combined 16 external guards and imperial guards are about 560,000.

In addition to the sixteen external guards under its jurisdiction, the Zhennan Grand Governor's Office has formed one hundred and five prefecture barracks in one prefecture, nine county towns and seventy-five county towns in Guizhou Prefecture, and appointed Yan Liang, Wen Chou and Zhou Tai as the commanders of the prefecture, each commanding thirty-five prefecture barracks.

In one prefecture, seven county towns and fifty-four county towns, eighty prefecture barracks were formed, and Zhou Bo and Guan Ying were appointed as the commander of the prefecture, and each commanded forty prefecture barracks.

In one prefecture, seven county towns and fifty-four county towns, eighty prefecture barracks were also formed, and Cheng Pu and Huang Gai were appointed as the prefecture commanders, and each of them was commanded by forty prefecture barracks.

In one prefecture, six county towns and forty-three county towns, six prefecture-branched barracks were formed, and Han Dang and Chen Wu were appointed as the commander of the prefecture, each commanding thirty-five prefecture-branched barracks.

In a prefecture, six county towns and forty-four county towns, six prefecture-based barracks were also formed, Gan Ning and Guan Sheng were appointed as the prefecture commander, and each commanded thirty-five prefecture-based barracks.

In the forty counties and 270 counties of the Dongman Governor's Office, 490 battalions were formed, and fourteen people were appointed as the commanders of the prefecture, including Dianwei, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Xu Sheng, Dong Xi, Pan Zhang, Ding Feng, Li Ba, Li E, Li Teng, Chen Jian, Shi Rui, Cui Bao, and Meng Hu, fourteen people were the commanders of the prefecture, and each commanded thirty-five battalions.

Chen Jian, Shi Rui, Cui Bao, and Meng Hu were originally one of the 36 generals of the Tu family army.

In addition, according to the plan of the Zhennan Grand Commander's Office, 525 patrols will be formed in the forty counties and 290 counties of the Nanman Protectorate, with fifteen patrols, and each patrol will also command 35 patrols.

The list of fifteen generals of the Southern Barbarian Protectorate has been confirmed, including four disciples of the Tianxing Pavilion, Zhu Yu, Ju Jing, Chen Jun, Xing Tao, as well as Huo Qian among the thirteen King Kongs of the Tu family army, Yang Zhongjin, Yang Zhongrong and Yang Zhongzhang among the thirty-six generals of the Tu family army, and the seven adopted sons of Tu Lin.

They are Tu Yanzhong, the second wife, Tu Yandeng, the third wife, Tu Yanyi, the fourth wife, Tu Yanxin, the fifth wife, Tu Yanli, Tu Yanyong, the sixteenth wife, Tu Yanyong and the twenty-twoth wife, Tu Yanyun, all seven of them are from Wei.

In fact, there are many generals from the Eastern Barbarians or Southern Barbarians in Zhennan Army, including some master warriors, such as Tu Lin's adopted son, Sixth Taibao Tu Yanzhi, Ninth Taibao Tu Yandu, Twelve Taibao Tu Yan'en, Thirteenth Taibao Tu Yanheng, and Ninth Taibao Tu Yanli, all of them are master warriors.

However, Li Bin cannot fully trust the generals of the Eastern Barbarians or the Southern Barbarians, so the highest military rank among the Zhennan Army is the battalion of the Mansion Barracks.

There are many military barracks under the jurisdiction of Zhennan Grand Governor's Office, which have five teams of war soldiers, each team has five teams under the jurisdiction of five teams, each team has a leader and nine soldiers. In addition, each military barracks also have three teams of men. Each military barracks has the same number of men as the military barracks. The entire military barracks have about 2,150 people.

The five teams of soldiers in the palace barracks, including two teams of light cavalry, two teams of heavy infantry and one team of light infantry equipped with iron armor and strong crossbows.

Although the three teams of strong men in the palace barracks were responsible for transporting food and grass during the war and assisting in guarding the city, these three teams of strong men were also equipped with leather armor, weapons and crossbows, and usually received military training and could be used as light infantrymen.

When all the 525 battalions of the Southern Barbarian Protectorate's Mansion are formed, the Zhennan Grand Governor's Mansion will have a total of 1,400 battalions. You should know that the total strength of the 1,400 battalions exceeds three million.

Only Li Bin, who was rich and powerful, dared to raise more than three million soldiers and 560,000 imperial guards.

In addition, there is also the Zhennan Navy commanded by Jiang Qin under Li Bin. Currently, the Zhennan Navy has 120,000 people, with thousands of warships and more than 800 transport ships.

Li Bin also expanded the personal guard camp into a personal guard regiment, with 50,000 personal guard cavalry, and Pei Yuanqing and Xiong Kuohai each led 25,000 personal guard cavalry.

Each guard cavalry was equipped with three Eastern Barbarian horses, a pair of bright light armor, two wide-blade machetes, a pair of bows and arrows and a shield wrapped in iron. Each Eastern Barbarian horse was also equipped with a double-layer leather vest.

Although the defense of the personal guard cavalry is not as good as that of the heavy armored cavalry, it is faster and more mobile than that of the heavy armored cavalry. Moreover, since the personal guard cavalry is equipped with Mingguang armor and the war horses are equipped with double-layer leather vests, it can also be used as heavy armored cavalry.

The guards around Li Bin also expanded to more than 1,000, and these more than 1,000 were all warriors, including Cao Xun, Wang Cang, Xie Bao and Xie Gui, four master warriors, served as commanders of these personal guards.

During the operation of annexing the various ethnic groups of the Dongman, the Zhennan Army discovered several herds of cloud-like cattle in the territory of the Dongman Protectorate.

Since the Eastern Man Protectorate is bordered by the grassland, it is not surprising that the cattle that stomped on the clouds appeared in the territory of the Eastern Man Protectorate. Then, these cattle that stomped on the clouds were all captured alive by Zhennan Army.

Now the heavy armored cavalry under Li Bin's command has more than 800 troops. If it were not for the purpose of cultivating more cloud-strawing oxen, the number of heavy armored cavalry could exceed one thousand.

Sun Xiong, Fang Hu, Han Zhang and Han Rui are still the commanders of the heavy armored cavalry, each leading 200 heavy armored cavalry.

Thanks to the help of the Holy Sword Sect of the Tuz Empire, the Glory Knights under Li Bin already had thirty-six purple-light knights and 132 blue-light knights.

These thirty-six Purple Knights and one hundred and thirty-two Blue Knights have all vowed to be loyal to Li Bin for the rest of their lives in accordance with the rules of the Tuz Empire. Li Bin also promised these Purple Knights and Blue Knights that they will always be knights under Li Bin's command in this life.

Of course, the Holy Sword Sect of the Tuz Empire also earned a lot of gold by providing Li Bin with the Purple Knight and the Blue Knight. After all, the price given by Li Bin is 50,000 taels of gold for a Purple Knight, and a Blue Knight also has 10,000 taels of gold.

Li Bin also has a powerful guarding force around him, namely the powerful generals of the Grandmaster level - the Four Great Kings, and the 64 Wolf Generals led by Lu Zhishen.
Chapter completed!