When Ye Zhen left Dingbian Wubao, the smile on his face was one of utter satisfaction.
As for Dingbian Wubao's fortress lord, Dan Zhengchun, although a smile hung on his dark face, it was a rather forced one.
In the end, Ye Zhen and Dingbian Wubao's fortress lord, Dan Zhengchun, reached an agreement: Dingbian Wubao would provide one hundred thousand militia, who would have to bring their own provisions and armor. As for the Beacon Repeating Crossbows and bolts, Ye Zhen's side would provide them.
Furthermore, should an emergency arise, Dingbian Wubao had to organize an elite force of ten thousand men to accept Ye Zhen's command.
In return, Ye Zhen agreed to three conditions from Dan Zhengchun.
The first condition was that Ye Zhen had to firmly carry out the first defensive plan and absolutely not allow the Devil Race army to break through the Blood River Fortress defensive line.
The second condition was that the hundred thousand troops sent out had to remain under the command of Dingbian Wubao's own generals. Ye Zhen only needed to give orders to those generals; he absolutely could not break them up and reassign them.
The third condition was that these hundred thousand militia could only fight in the rear and participate only in city defense battles. They were absolutely not to join field battles. Ye Zhen had to guarantee that the casualty rate among these hundred thousand militia would be lower than that of his own North Sea Heavenly Wave Army.
Ye Zhen agreed to all three conditions without hesitation.
Although Dingbian Wubao's militia had long undergone training, most of them were recruits who had never seen a battlefield. Ye Zhen truly did not dare send them into field combat.
The reason he wanted them for warfare was chiefly to have