As long as you are yourself and don't care about anyone else, you will feel extremely relaxed and deeply peaceful in your heart, which Zen calls 'what it is': relaxed, no tension, no pretense, no pretentiousness, nothing should or should not be.

- Osho (Founder of Rajnesh Ashram)

Early the morning of the second day after the whole army landed ashore, the Roman army, having breakfast, set out on its journey north, and Licinius's First Army and Vermina's Second Army were the front army, but the vanguard responsible for opening the way for the army were the two cavalry wings of the Spartan Army.

Under the jurisdiction of two brigades of the Spartan legion cavalry wing, each centurion consisted of one hundred and twenty-eight barbarian light cavalry, and each brigade consisted of four hundreds, for a total of one thousand and twenty-four barbarian light cavalry.

These barbarian light cavalry, who had been specially trained in the cavalry stables of the Roman city, rode their horses and used weapons and equipment, all of which Bai Feng purchased for them from the cavalry stables and armor shops, so they were not much different from the Roman light cavalry in appearance.

However, the barbarian light cavalry is a barbarian light cavalry after all, and they belong to the belligerent nature of the barbarian warriors in their bones, which cannot be disguised by any external force, and the Roman cavalry's proficiency and skillful use of cavalry tactics are also something that the barbarian cavalry cannot learn after special training.

The Roman cavalry and the barbarian cavalry, each with its own strengths, was stronger in terms of combat effectiveness, not only because the Roman cavalry was a systematic type of troops, but also because the barbarian cavalry after special training seriously lacked actual combat experience and was difficult to skillfully use the cavalry tactics they had learned.

Fortunately, to open the way for the army, it does not need much combat effectiveness, it only needs to maintain extremely strong mobility; with the specially trained riding skills of the barbarian light cavalry, coupled with the high-quality war horses produced in the cavalry stables, Bai Feng is still relatively relieved of the mobility of the vanguard cavalry.

After the 2,000 vanguard cavalry and the two Roman legions had been drawn one after another, Leonidas's Spartan legion followed closely behind the front army, and because Bai Feng himself was in charge of the central army, the division of the Spartan legion completely fell into his eyes.

The Spartan Legion, which had suffered a heavy casualty, did not decline in its overall combat effectiveness with the large replenishment of new recruits, and the two elite infantry wings at the front of them marched forward in a neat line and with firm steps and a high-spirited fighting posture.

They were followed by four phalanx wings advancing in turn, and the pikemen, who still maintained the phalanx formation during the march, held a round shield in their left hand and a spear in their right, looked like Greek hoplites, but they lacked a Greek helmet.

The last two longbow wings, the longbowmen who did not have to fight the enemy head-on, had only a short sword hanging from their waists, and the longbow they carried diagonally on their backs and quivers full of arrows were their real weapons to defeat the enemy.

Leonidas, the commander of the Spartan legion, was a self-raised general, and his general's guard was composed of twenty-four Roman heavy cavalry of the low-level and high-level swordsmen, and in addition to this, there was a corps of two hundred and sixty cavalry generals for his command.

After the whole army of the Spartan army was mobilized, Leonidas, who was extremely good at boosting morale, personally led his two general guards back and forth on the flanks of the army, encouraging his soldiers with inspirational words full of Spartan style.

Although Bai Feng did not think that the mental exhilaration, Leonidas's encouragement was not useless, at least, the soldiers of the Spartan Legion showed the marching endurance and marching speed that were not inferior to the soldiers of the system.

As for the 5,000 Tuntian soldiers who were personally commanded by Bai Feng, their performance can only be described in four words: they are decent and decent; these 5,000 soldiers who had just undergone special training last month did not make any mistakes during the march, nor did they have anything outstanding about it.

Bai Feng, who was interested in cultivating Maxi with a sword and Darnell with a shield, appointed the two retinues who followed him as the commander of the army, and each commanded 2,500 Tuntian soldiers; this was the training that Bai Feng gave them and their own opportunity.

Since the birth of the city of Rome, Bai Feng has only five retinues, namely: war doctor Hua Mu, barbarian slave Bai Sheng, sword-wielding squire Maxi, shield-wielding squire Darnell, and personal guard Thales.

Among them, Hua Mu, a field doctor who saved countless wounded soldiers on the battlefield, his value does not need to be repeated at all, and Bai Sheng, a barbarian slave with an abnormally developed limbs and an unusually simple mind, his brute strength is indeed amazing, but his almost stupid IQ limits his development.

Thales, a gladiator-turned-personal guard in the Colosseum of Rome, is self-evident in his own skillful fighting, and coupled with his excellent command ability, Bai Feng left him in the imperial capital to serve as the commander of the Bai family's iron-clad guards.

In this way, Maxi and Darnell, who were the first to follow Bai Feng's side and fought to the death for Bai Feng on the battlefield, have become dispensable existences around Bai Feng, and this result is obviously not what Bai Feng wants.

Whether it is a summoned system general, a system general who grows by himself, or an entourage that appears when he achieves hidden conditions, they are all Bai Feng's most trusted henchmen, and for them, Bai Feng naturally has to focus on cultivating.

With five Flame Sword Saints by his side as personal guards, the sword-wielding squire Maxi and the shield-wielding squire Darnell were actually of little value to Bai Feng, and more importantly, they were not as stupid as Bai Sheng, and belonged to the ranks of the materials that could be made.

As a result, the 5,000 Tuntian soldiers, who were considered to be supplementary soldiers and reserve troops of the army, were handed over by Bai Feng to Maxi and Darnell as commanders; not only that, but Bai Feng was also ready to give Maxi and Darnell the opportunity to lead the army to battle when the time was right.

Maxi and Darnell's squire status determines that it is difficult for them to grow to the height of system generals, so Bai Feng positions them not to grow into a general in charge or the commander of an army, but to grow into a commander who can independently command thousands of soldiers.

Because Bai Feng, who is the governor of Rome City and the governor of the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Office, not only needs a large number of generals and generals who can take charge alone, but also some generals and fierce generals who can charge for him.

Licinius and Antio, who were originally considered generals and fierce generals, have the aura of a systematic general and the experience of the Roman world, even if they can't be a general in their own right, they can be classified as a veteran general in the army, so there are not many generals under Bai Feng who can charge into battle.

It is too overkill to develop the system generals into war generals and fierce generals, and Bai Feng can't do such a luxurious and wasteful thing; cultivating barbarians, Tianlong, and Yanhuang generals takes time to accumulate, and it can't solve Bai Feng's current needs at all.

Bai Feng, who had thought about this problem more than once, finally made up his mind to train the system followers around him in the direction of war generals, and even studied how to get more followers for this purpose, so as to cultivate more war generals.

Before experimenting with ways to get more followers, it is undoubtedly more important to find a suitable training method, and the promotion and appointment of Maxi and Darnell is an important part of Bai Feng's search for a training method for the generals, and whether they can succeed depends on their own performance.