A man who claims to understand a woman is himself very similar to a woman. Feminine men tend to know how to treat women better than masculine men.

– Otto Weininger (Austrian philosopher)

Three days passed quickly, and by the time the smug Marquis of Bedouin appeared outside the city of Brockonshire County, the number of guards around him had increased from 10,000 to nearly 30,000, and the extra guards were all personal guards from other nobles of all ranks.

The five eastern provinces occupied by the orcs fell one after another, rather than all at once, which means that while most of the nobles in the five provinces were killed, a considerable number of nobles fled to the relative safety of Nice Province.

Two marquises, thirteen counts, forty-two viscounts, one hundred and seventeen barons, and four hundred and thirty-nine imperial knights who entered the aristocracy, such a large number of nobles who had lost their fiefs and estates were quite peaceful when they gathered in the province of Nice.

Because no one knew whether the province of Nice could be defended, and the nobles who believed that the province of Nice would be captured by the orc army were obviously more than the nobles who believed that the province of Nice could be defended, the nobles who were terrified all day long had no intention of getting involved in the affairs of the province of Nice.

However, the struggle for power was the nature of the imperial aristocracy, and the reason why they maintained due restraint in the province of Nice was mainly because of the large army under the command of the Duke of Nice, which intimidated everyone.

With the further development of the situation, the Duke of Gna came to the province of Nice with the army withdrawn from the Sunset Fortress, and there were such high-ranking dukes as the Duke of Gna, the Duke of Kleist, the Duke of Albert, and the Duke of Reinhardt, and these nobles did not dare to be presumptuous.

This situation lasted until Bai Feng led his army to recover the provinces of Brojansson and Toulon, and the successive reconquest of Brojansson and Toulon provinces made the nobles who fled from these two provinces to the province of Nice see the hope of their family's resurgence.

For the nobles who are still alive, the land and property that once belonged to their family will still belong to their family in the future, and the land and property of those noble families who were slaughtered by the orcs will also be taken over by them, who are also nobles of the Empire.

The idea of the down-and-out nobles was good, but the reality was extremely cruel: the nobles who wanted to return to the provinces of Bronjansson and Toulon were first secretly blocked by the Duke of Gna, and then by the troops deployed by Bai Feng in the border areas of the province.

Bai Feng, who could not allow Charlemagne, Prince William, and Prince GLP to share the fruits of victory, could not allow these out-and-out nobles who did not measure their strength to get a piece of the pie; this was simply a tiger's mouth and a way to kill themselves!

In the face of Bai Feng's heavy interception, no matter how dissatisfied the unwilling and down-and-out nobles were, they did not dare to use the few remaining personal guards of their family to fight against Bai Feng's army;

After Bai Feng recovered the provinces of Brojansson and Toulon, he distributed all the land that originally belonged to the nobles and the aristocratic manors destroyed by the orc army to the homeless and lawless refugee people, which greatly stimulated the fragile hearts of the down-and-out nobles.

However, even if the nobles hated Bai Feng so much, what could they do? Compared with Bai Feng, who was in the hands of the male soldiers, the down-and-out nobles who had empty titles of nobility were so extravagant that it was impossible to even want to see Bai Feng!

It was not until Charlemagne's own proclamation of the Trojansson province Marquis Bedouin and Toulon governor, the Marquis de Montauban, came to the province of Nice one after another, that the down-and-out nobles, blinded by greed and resentment, really found a place to rely on.

The Marquis of Montauban was originally one of the ordinary members of the Prince of Pros's faction, but since he was appointed governor of Toulon Province, his status has been elevated to one of the main members;

There is such a relationship, the Marquis of Montauban rejects all the down-and-out nobles who want to fight against Bai Feng by taking refuge in him, and the Marquis of Bedouin, who has a grudge against Bai Feng, does not refuse those who come to him.

Before the deal was reached with the Duke of Rundstead, the Marquis of Bedouin had gathered more than 300 down-and-out nobles who intended to go to the provinces of Brojansson and Toulon to grab land and estates, but most of them were nobles below the viscount, and there were not even a few viscounts.

After the Marquis of Bedouin and the Duke of Rundstead reached a security deal, the addition of tens of thousands of soldiers of the Standing Army made the Marquis of Bedouin's strength swell rapidly, and even eight counts couldn't help it and led their own family's guards to join the Marquis of Bedouin.

The addition of eight counts, thirty-seven viscounts, ninety-two barons, and four hundred and three knights contributed more than nineteen thousand guards to the Marquis of Bedouin, not counting the number of potential guards that the down-and-out nobles could recruit at any time.

Nearly 30,000 troops gathered around him, at his own command, and a large number of nobles complimented him all day long, and the unprecedented sense of accomplishment made the powerful Marquis of Bedouin inevitably swell, and he suddenly felt that he had the capital to challenge Bai Feng!

Of course, challenging Bai Feng's such a thing is tantamount to suicide, Marquis Bedouin is just thinking about it in his mind alone, and he doesn't even have the courage to say it; after all, the number and quality of the army under Bai Feng's command are so large that no one in the Heavenly Dragon Empire knows who doesn't know?!

Although 10,000 soldiers of the standing army and 20,000 noble guards still did not give the Marquis of Bedouin the courage to challenge Bai Feng, it was enough for the Marquis of Bedouin to be confident in taking charge of the province of Broyangsson, which at this time did not exist Bai Feng and his army.

As for the three divisions of the Fire Legion, the Marquis of Bedouin, who was angry about the last mutiny, was worried that he would not have a chance to clean up the 'rebel generals' of the Fire Legion! In the eyes of the Marquis of Bedouin, if it were not for them, he would have been the commander of the Fire Legion!

The governor of the local provinces, who seemed to be a high-ranking feudal official, was in fact far away from the political center of the empire, and it was generally difficult for him to do anything more ambitious;

A former imperial governor, after returning to the imperial capital, is at best a leisurely nobleman who eats and drinks without worrying about food and clothing, and the further royal legion commander can also enter the imperial military department at the most, serving as an important minister of the real military department, and continue to enjoy the glory and status brought by power.

The one who is superior or inferior between the two can be easily distinguished, not to mention that the Marquis of Bedouin is still a member of the forces who are bent on climbing up, how can he not blame the Flame Legion for ruining his future, it is simply impossible!

The Marquis of Bedouin, who had long wanted to take revenge on the Fire Legion, complained to Charlemagne, but was reprimanded by Charlemagne, and now that he finally had the opportunity to take revenge on the Fire Legion himself, how could he not take advantage of this rare opportunity!