Only by going through hellish trials can we develop the power to create heaven, and only by bleeding fingers can we pop out the sound of the world.

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

Desperate to lead an army to attack the Jurchen tribe and recover Baifeng in Langxiang Province from the 100,000 Eight Banner cavalry, he did not have enough weapons and equipment to redress the five standing legions under his command, and not only that, he did not even store much of the grain and grass necessary to maintain the survival of the army.

It's not that Bai Feng doesn't want to store the grain and grass needed for the army's counterattack, but the grain and grass transported by the Imperial Military Department on time is only enough for the basic consumption of the army, and there is not much left at all;

If Bai Feng could use the resources of the city of Rome at will, the weapons and equipment needed for the five standing legions to be reequipped and the food and grass needed for the army's counterattack would only take three days at most, and he would be able to prepare everything the army needed to march out.

The problem of weapons and equipment can be slowly solved by Bai Feng through the equipment manufacturing center, and the problem of food and grass materials can be solved gradually by the Westminster Chamber of Commerce.

The Spartan Legion is one of the phalanx legions in Roman City, and the weapons and equipment they use are typical Macedonian weapons and equipment, especially the super-long spears that are mainly equipped to defeat the enemy, which are special weapons that are not found on the Tianlong Continent, and will inevitably cause a sensation once they appear.

This is not to say that the appearance of new weapons will necessarily attract the attention of all forces in the Celestial Dragon Empire; for example, the standard weapons and equipment of the Roman Youth Army, which is fully equipped by the Yulin Legion, are very different from the standard weapons and equipment of the Celestial Dragon Empire, but they have not caused any sensation.

Because on the surface, there is nothing surprising about the standard weapons and equipment of the Roman Youth Army, and even the use of them is not as convenient as the standard weapons and equipment in the imperial army, so the strength of the Yulin Legion is attributed by all forces to Bai Feng's excellent command.

In fact, from the original Seventh Wing to the current Yulin Legion, the strength of this unit has never been more than the outstanding command of a certain commander;

The superiority of the Feathered Legion in weaponry is reflected in the combination of their tactical superiority, and if the troops who do not know how to use the Roman three-column tactics use the standard weapons and equipment of the Roman Youth Army, the heavy shield will become the biggest obstacle for the user to respond flexibly to the battle!

In view of this, the true value of the standard weaponry of the Roman youth army has not been discovered, and the Macedonian phalanx of the Spartan legion, with its main weapon of the super-long spear, is the 'natural nemesis' of the cavalry troops.

If it weren't for the Spartan Legion's record of blocking the impact of the wolf cavalry head-on and being deliberately concealed by Bai Feng, the terrifying record of the infantry defeating the wolf cavalry head-on would be enough to make the Spartan Legion one of the strongest legions in the Celestial Dragon Empire and even the entire continent!

At that time, Bai Feng, who had not really grown up within the empire, was forced by pressure from all sides, and conservatively estimated that he would also hand over the formation method of the Spartan Legion; such a situation was obviously not what Bai Feng wanted to see, let alone what he was willing to accept.

In terms of combat effectiveness, the Eight Banners cavalry of the Jurchen tribe is definitely more than one step stronger than the cavalry troops of the Tianlong Empire, but if it is compared with the wolf cavalry of the Orc Empire, the Eight Banners cavalry of the Jurchen tribe is like a child.

Even 50,000 wolf cavalry could not break through the frontal spear phalanx of the Spartan legion, and even if 100,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners went together, they might not be able to break through the frontal pike phalanx of the Spartan legion; of course, the leaders of the Jurchen tribe may have better brains than the orcs.

The Spartan legion, which was only 10,500 men at full strength, could only hold on to a charge of 50,000 cavalry, and moreover, it could only hold out for half an hour at most, and no matter how long and as many cavalry it was, it would not be something that a Spartan legion could withstand.

Baylor, who was able to serve as the leader of the Eight Banners of the Jurchen tribe, was himself the leader of a large tribe to which the Jurchens belonged in Jianzhou, and they were much more shrewd than the violent orcs, and it was unrealistic to expect them to be as ignorant of a roundabout frontal battle to the death as the orcs.

To deal with the Eight Banners cavalry of the Jurchen tribe, what Bai Feng had to do was to give full play to the frontal advantage of the Phalanx Legion and the numerical superiority of the other legions, and to realize his recovery plan by using the Phalanx Legion and the Standing Legion and the Royal Legion together.

After the 15,000 recruits of the military headquarters arrived in the county town of Besançon, the five standing regiments that had been restored to full strength did not need more recruits for the time being, so Bai Feng placed these 15,000 recruits in the city defense army camp of the Marquis of Besançon.

The 20,000-strong city defense army of the province of Besançon had been assembled in the county town of Besançon under the orders of the Marquis of Besançon, and the barracks of the city defense army was just south of the county town of Besançon, and there were 15,000 soldiers of the city defense army with slightly weaker combat strength stationed in it.

The 5,000 elites who gave up their status as regular soldiers six years ago and followed the Marquis of Besançon, which is now the core of the provincial defense army of Besançon, are still stationed in the governor's palace of the Marquis of Besançon, responsible for maintaining order in the county town of Besançon.

Anyway, he had fifteen thousand recruits in hand, and Bai Feng, who had no better ideas, decided to use these fifteen thousand recruits as the basis to form a spear regiment subordinate to the pro-soldier guard, that is, a reduced version of the Macedonian phalanx legion.

'Bai Feng is extremely good at using spear-type troops, and he uses them very successfully!' This is what Duke Kleist said to Bai Feng when he was the head of the Military Department of the Imperial Academy, and Bai Feng successfully won the military championship of the Eight Nations League with his use of pikemen.

With such a past experience, Bai Feng's desire to form a spear army itself was reasonable, and after making up his mind, Bai Feng wrote several magic letters and sent them to Duke Kleist, Duke Rundstead, Duke Gna, Prince GLP and others.

Now is different from the past, leading the army stationed in Baifeng in Besançon Province, without the shelter of the Duke of Gna, it is impossible to expand the army as unscrupulously and privately as in the eastern battlefield of the Empire, even if it is the expansion of the personal guard, he must first apply to the Imperial Military Department.

Although Bai Feng himself was far away in the north of the empire and had not returned to the imperial capital for nearly a year, he still knew the situation of the various forces in the imperial capital with Ames's report, and he was also well aware of the increasingly fierce competition between Prince William and Prince Pross.

As a member of the Bai family, an ally of Prince Pross, it is almost impossible for Bai Feng's application to obtain the permission of Duke Cullen, Prince William's maternal grandfather, so the key to whether the application can be approved is still on Prince Pros and Duke Gna.

Prince Pross is Prince William's main rival, as long as he is willing to make compromises and concessions to Prince William, Prince William will definitely make Duke Cullen agree to Bai Feng's application for the sake of profit;

The purpose of Bai Feng's letter to Duke Rundstead was not to ask him to help him wave the flag, but to ask him to help him ask Duke Gna for help; the current head of the Gna family, the head of the five major families of the empire, the strength of Duke Gna was only stronger than that of Prince GLP.

Whether the application for the formation of the Spear Legion can be approved or not, from the moment Bai Feng submitted the application to the Imperial Military Department, the result of this matter is no longer something that Bai Feng can control, and this will be another exchange of interests for the forces competing in the imperial capital.