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The empty Nine Castles had been taken by Licinius' army, and the equally empty Eight Castles and Wild Border Castles were still under the control of the Southern Clans, and the next goal for Bai Feng was the Wild Border Castle to the northwest of Nine Castles and the Eight Castles to the southwest.

Licinius's First Legion left a brigade and a longbow company to garrison Kunohe Castle, while the remaining brigade and a longbow company continued to march to the wild frontier dungeon, and the two captains of the First Legion were in charge of commanding the two armies.

Licinius, who divided his army in two and handed it over to the command of the two wing commanders, returned to the main army under Bai Feng's orders, and the officers of the First Legion, which had been temporarily under the command of Antio, also returned to Licinius's hands at this time.

The task of garrisoning Kuhe Castle and attacking the wild dungeon city were carried out by Licinius's First Army, and Bai Feng simply handed over the task of attacking Hachinohe Castle to Licinius, and the army sent out this time was still a brigade and a longbow wing.

After sending out three troops in succession, the First Corps, which already had only two wings and three longbow wings, had only seven brigades left, and in addition to the five standard armies, there was also a light cavalry brigade and an auxiliary cavalry brigade attached to the regiment.

In this way, the only main army that can undertake the task of annihilating the southern family's army is Antio's second legion, and the personal guard battalion commanded by Maxi and Darnell is not used to attack the southern family, it is the last reserve force in Bai Feng's hands.

Unless the situation has reached the point of near exhaustion, Bai Feng will not easily use the personal guard battalion, and in an unpredictable war, the importance of retaining a reserve force is understood by all generals who have actually been on the battlefield.

The internal turmoil of the southern clan gave the city of Rome an opportunity to take advantage of the situation and also gave the Sanada clan a chance to grow stronger, and just after Licinius's army occupied Kunohe Castle, Sanada Masayuki suddenly asked Hakumine to expand the size of the Sanada Red Army.

The Sanada family's loyalty to the city of Rome, Bai Feng still trusts it very much, not because Bai Feng has a good impression of the Sanada family in the Warring States period of Japan, but because the loyalty attribute table of the city of Rome will not deceive Bai Feng.

Faction loyalty attribute table

Legion Captain of Eggers (top great swordsman, extremely loyal)

Captain Bazel (High Swordsman, Diehard, Never Betrayal)

Nelson (High Swordsman, Diehard, Never Betrayal)

Legion Commander Gamilios (Junior Great Swordsman, Diehard, Never Betrayal)

Commander of the Bronno Army (Inferior Great Swordsman, Diehard, Never Betrayal)

Captain of the Gartus Army (Inferior Great Swordsman, Diehard, Never Betrayal)

Legion Commander of Upton (Inferior Great Swordsman, Light Loyal)

Captain of Palmer (Inferior Great Swordsman, extremely loyal)

Legion Commander Isidore (Inferior Great Sword Master, Extremely Loyal)

Captain of the Auston Legion (Inferior Great Swordsman, Extremely Loyal)

Captain Wendell (Junior Great Swordsman, Diehard, Never Betrayal)

Captain of the Simpsons (Junior Great Swordsman, Diehard, Never Betray)

Advisor to Masayuki Sanada (Special Samurai, Extremely Loyal)

Commander Nobuyuki Sanada (high-ranking samurai, extremely loyal)

Commander Sanada Nobushigeru (high-ranking samurai, heavy loyalty)

Opening the loyalty attribute table of the forces of Rome City again, the loyalty of the three members of the Sanada family really shocked Bai Feng, and it was only four days since they surrendered to Rome City, and their loyalty to Rome City had reached such a high level.

In addition to Sanada Nobuyoshi, a guy with unlimited potential, the loyalty of Sanada Masayuki and Sanada Nobuyuki father and son is already second only to diehard loyalty;

Of course, Bai Feng, who hadn't checked the loyalty attribute table for a long time, found that before he knew it, Bazel and Nelson had also reached the level of loyalty to him, and now, among the captains of the Roman City, only Eggers and Upton were not loyal to death.

Although the loyalty of Palmer and other legion commanders is also extremely loyal to die-hard loyalists, those legion commanders are all captains of the Tuntian Legion, and their status in Rome City is still far from that of a real field legion leader.

Bai Feng is understandable about Eggers' loyalty, he believes that Eggers will not betray the city of Rome, and as for Upton, who is still lightly loyal, his seemingly brilliant life is getting closer and closer to destruction.

Determining the loyalty of the three members of the Sanada family is very meaningful to Hakumine, who can use this to reuse the Sanada family and make the Sanada family the spokesperson of Roman City in the Yamato Empire.

The southern families who were caught in the civil war were already in the pocket of the Roman city, and after the Roman army wiped out the troops and main figures of the southern families, Bai Feng had to lead the army to leave the Yamato Empire and launch a landing attack on the Vitte tribe.

How to expand the power of Rome City to the Yamato Empire was a matter after the attack on the Werther tribes, and after Bai Feng led the Roman army to leave the Yamato Empire, the original southern family city occupied by Rome City could only be temporarily handed over to the Sanada family to govern.

In fact, even if the city of Rome expands to the Yamato Empire in the future, in order to avoid causing a full-scale war between the city of Rome and the Yamato Empire, Bai Feng must also support some local forces of the Yamato Empire to act as a tool for expansion in the hands of the city of Rome.

Therefore, whether it is for the current actual situation or for the future expansion strategy of Rome City, it is necessary for Bai Feng to support the Sanada family, which is still loyal to him, and in the troubled times, the best support is to help the other party expand the army.

The Sanada Red Army, commanded by Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Nobushige, was a family army loyal to the Sanada family, and it was impossible for such an army to become loyal to the city of Rome.

In Bai Feng's opinion, instead of wasting time to obtain the allegiance of the Sanada Red Army, it is better to directly obtain the allegiance of the Sanada family; as long as the Sanada family does not betray himself and the city of Rome, the Sanada Red Army loyal to the Sanada family will naturally be the army of the city of Rome.

Based on this consideration, Bai Feng decisively agreed to Sanada Masayuki's proposal to expand Sanada Akatsuki's army, and not only that, but Bai Feng also took out 5,000 sets of leather armor used by barbarian infantry from his White Spirit Ring and handed it to Sanada Masayuki.

The weapons and equipment used by the armies of the Yamato Empire were significantly different from those of the Roman and barbarian armies, and without being able to change the habits of the Sanada Red Army, Hakumine could only give them armor instead of weapons.

The Sanada clan's army was a very typical Yamato Imperial army, and the elite of its army were samurai of all ranks with good combat effectiveness and excellent weapons and equipment, while the rest of the ordinary soldiers were ashigaru troops with only weapons and no armor.

The 5,000 sets of leather armor that Hakumine allocated to the Sanada Red Reserve Army were aimed at the shortcomings of their ashigaru troops, which were much stronger in comparison, and the katana they used was also a lethal weapon for fighting.