Chapter 425

Now that the sixth prince of the Prince of Yan had arrived, the thirty-thousand-strong army he brought with him stood out. Wang Biao, commander of the eastern route of the Yan army, could tell at a glance that these forces were exceptional. This was especially true of the eight-thousand-man imperial guard, which included a three-thousand-man Greater Martial Master regiment, a five-thousand-man Martial Practitioner regiment, and a group of over twenty Martial Generals. Most notably, the sixth prince’s personal bodyguard, a Martial General, was at the peak of Rank 6—a level that effectively tripled the high-end combat power of the eastern route army in an instant. Every prince of the Prince of Yan was typically accompanied by a protective detachment, usually consisting of no more than a thousand-man unit of Martial Practitioners or Greater Martial Masters. The fact that the sixth prince arrived with a three-thousand-man Greater Martial Master regiment and a five-thousand-man Martial Practitioner regiment fully demonstrated the high regard the Prince of Yan held for his son. This was the fundamental reason why Wang Biao, as commander of the eastern route, had surrendered his command and shifted his allegiance to the sixth prince immediately. There was another potential path for the eastern route army to advance: through Xuhai City in the Chenghai Commandery of Xiliang Province, then directly through Canghan and Luoyang Commanderies in the southern part of Dongming Province, an…