The power boasts of its evil deeds, but the falling yellow leaves and floating clouds laugh at it.

– Rabindranath Tagore (Indian poet, philosopher, and Indian nationalist)

The civil war in Langxiang City, known as the Scarlet Night, did not end until dawn, and if it weren't for the New Eight Banners outside the city, who sent their elite into the city in time to stop the red-eyed garrison soldiers, maybe the fighting would have continued.

Overnight, less than 6,000 of the 12,000 soldiers of the New Eight Banners were still alive and breathing, and the sight of more than 6,000 corpses scattered all over the city, bleeding like a river, directly made the faces of the banner owners who walked into the city turn pale.

Shulhazy, Dolgon, Urgudai and the others are not fools, they can't really fight with their allies because of such a thing that no one can tell whether right or wrong;

Although the Eight Banner Lords Baylor intended to suppress this matter, the soldiers of the New Eight Banners did not intend to stop there, especially the Zhenghong Banner, which suffered the heaviest casualties, and only more than 300 soldiers lived to dawn, how could they be willing to give up on the enemy who was frantically attacking them!

After the remnants of the banners returned to the camp under the orders of their respective banner owners, they immediately caused a sensation throughout the New Eight Banners, and the soldiers of the New Eight Banners, who learned that their brothers and friends had been killed in battle, rode out of the barracks one after another in anger, preparing to seek revenge on the so-called 'enemy'.

Seeing that the situation was becoming more and more uncontrollable, the helpless New Eight Banner Owners, after three successive meetings of the Banner Owners Baylor, finally negotiated a relatively safe way to deal with it, that is, the New Eight Banners that were originally gathered together were assigned to the counties of Langxiang Province to be stationed.

At the Council of the Banner Lords, which was full of strife, the Yellow Banner of Dorgon and the Blue Flags of Dudu and Nikan were assigned to the northernmost county of Vossol in the province of Longchamps, and the easternmost county of Belfort and the westernmost county of Pomeri Damus were given two white flags.

According to common sense, the two weakest white flags in the new Eight Banners could not be divided into two complete counties, but the persistence of Shulhaqi and Murhaqi made the two white flags of Solgo and Subahai the biggest winners of this division.

Comparatively speaking, Shulhaqi and Murhaqi, who nominally occupy the richest Langxiang County, have to share Langxiang County with the Red Banner of Urgudai, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that there must be a behind-the-scenes deal between the Shulhaqi brothers and Urgudai and other three banner owners.

The county of Vothor occupied by the Dolgon lineage, which is the strongest of the three new Eight Banners, is ostensibly far away from the military threat of the Empire, but in fact it has to be on guard against the Eight Banners army of Huang Taiji, so it can be said that it is the most geographically located county among the four counties of Langxiang Province.

As a newcomer, Dolgon did not want to have too stiff relations with his second and third uncles, as well as Urgudai and others, and in view of this, Dolgon gritted his teeth and agreed to this obviously unfair division of troops.

With the results of killing and wounding 6,000 enemy troops and successfully splitting the New Eight Banners, Adrian, who had gone out for half a month, returned to Bai Feng's side, and at this time, the various armies under Bai Feng's command were already ready to send troops to the north bank, and the weapons and equipment promised by Archbishop Scola were also delivered.

50,000 sets of weapons and equipment is not a lot, even if Bai Feng, who has the city of Rome as his hole card, it is not easy to come up with 50,000 sets of weapons and equipment in a short period of time; of course, it is another matter to use the treasury funds to buy weapons and equipment in the armor shop.

Theoretically, as long as Bai Feng had enough funds from the treasury, he could buy an unlimited amount of standard weapons and equipment for the Roman Youth Army and the Roman heavy infantry in the armor shop, but this impractical means really had no feasibility and practical value.

First, it is impossible for Bai Feng to waste the treasury funds on the purchase of weapons and equipment, even if the current treasury of Rome City is very abundant, but after Rome City enters the stage of a big city, the recruitment of new legions will consume a lot of money, and Bai Feng cannot help but think about these in advance.

Second, Bai Feng felt that the value of weapons and equipment to the standing army was not great, because the purchase of weapons and equipment had limited improvement in the combat effectiveness of the officers and men of the new army of the empire, and it was far less valuable than the special training with lower costs, and it was better to train the soldiers of the standing army after improving their loyalty.

Third, the appearance of a large number of weapons and equipment out of thin air will inevitably arouse the suspicion of Charlemagne and the magnates of the imperial capital; if the secrets of the Roman city are exposed because of this, it will be the real gain outweighs the loss, and for Bai Feng, it will be even more harmful than good.

For the above three reasons, it is impossible for Bai Feng to come up with a large number of weapons and equipment to arm the standing army under his command; 8,000 sets of new weapons and equipment per month is already Bai Feng's limit, and there is almost no possibility of increasing this number in a short period of time.

Therefore, it was really not surprising that Archbishop Scola was able to raise the 50,000 sets of weapons and equipment he promised in just half a month, after all, the Holy See's power in the territory of the Heavenly Dragon Empire was not strong, and it was not even comparable to the five major duke families.

What shocked Bai Feng even more was that the 50,000 sets of weapons and equipment that were transported for Archbishop Scola were actually the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, which had nothing to do with the Holy See;

Bai Feng, who was secretly vigilant, decided that he must minimize the contact between the Sophia Chamber of Commerce and the Westminster Chamber of Commerce in the future; as for himself, he didn't mind having more contact with the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, and exchanged the seized Fusang treasures for real money.

After all the 50,000 sets of weapons and equipment promised by Archbishop Scola were in place, the first thing Bai Feng did was to collectively redress the five legions under the command of Quintus, and the full 50,000 sets of weapons and equipment were enough for these five legions to form an advantage in terms of equipment.

The Fourteenth, Sixteenth, Fifty-Sixth, Fifty-Seventh, and Fifty-Eighth legions each received 10,000 sets of weapons and equipment, so that each of these five legions had at least 16,000 soldiers and men who had completed the redress.

The Iron Guard, also under the command of Quintus, is composed of 20,000 elite soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles, and the whole army uses the standard weapons and equipment of the Roman Youth Army; it is no exaggeration to say that the Iron Guard is the real absolute main force under the command of Quintus!

The seventy-fourth, seventy-seventh, eighty-second, and eighty-fourth legions under Bai Feng's command did not receive the weapons and equipment sent by Archbishop Scola, but they received 4,000 sets of new weapons and equipment, and the improvement in combat effectiveness was also very significant.

After this round of outfits, based on the latest information brought back by Adrien, Bai Feng decided to let Quintus lead his army across the Xingyue River to counterattack Langxiang Province in advance, and the main army led by himself followed behind Quintus's auxiliary army unhurriedly.

Previously, the task of luring the enemy army was to divide the troops into three ways, and it was necessary to entangle the two white flags with the worst combat effectiveness and the weakest overall strength in the new Eight Banners.

At this moment, Bai Feng's mission to Quintus is to go to Belfort County and Pomer Les Dams County in Longchamp Province in two ways, this time, the combat goal of the auxiliary army is no longer to entangle the two white flags, but to besiege the two white flags first, and then wait for the opportunity to annihilate the two white flags in one fell swoop!

In order to ensure that Quintus's auxiliary army can have sufficient troops to achieve this new combat goal, Bai Feng also specially transferred a new force to Quintus, and this new force that Bai Feng has high hopes for is Montgomery's Tempest Army!