It is because I am very afraid of death that I shed tears about the death of others.

- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)

The Shenji Battalion and the Fifth Army Battalion of the three major battalions of the Ming Jing Army are all there, will there be one less Shenshu Battalion? The Shenshu Battalion in real history, with 3,000 cavalry from Outer Mongolia as the backbone, was the most powerful cavalry force in the Ming Dynasty, and mainly played the role of assault in the war!

The Guanning Iron Cavalry and the Shenshu Battalion, which rose at the end of the Ming Dynasty, are not the cavalry of the same era, and it is difficult to compare which is stronger or weaker between the two;

From the point of view of forming troops alone, the Shenshu Battalion and the Eight Banners of the Guards are very similar, and can even be described as almost the same, so on the night that Bai Feng gave Luculus and the others the official names, he personally changed the number of the Eight Banners of the Guards to the Divine Battalion.

After leaving the Roman battalion, the shogunate battalion, the Shenji battalion, and the five army battalions to stay in the Hunhe and Dong'e departments, Bai Feng's personal guards actually only left 4,000 cavalry of the Shenshu battalion and the special troops of the temple, as well as 1,000 cavalry, and the total strength plummeted to less than 10,000!

Although the number of special units in the temple is not large and the scale is not large, the types of troops are too complicated, which is not conducive to command; it just so happens that there are only 500 temple warriors and two commanders, Leng Gundam and Leng Gaofei, and Leng Gundam, who is better at commanding battles, was transferred by Bai Feng.

The existing special units in the pro-guard are: four teams of Roman youth, three teams of Cretan archers, one team of Parthian archers, three teams of Germanic berserkers, eight teams of Spartan heavy infantry, four teams of Macedonian royal pikemen, four teams of Macedonian royal cavalry, four teams of ironclad cavalry, two teams of silver shield infantry, and two teams of war elephants with amazing combat power, which were not used by Bai Feng at all.

Long before the decisive battle of D'Orville Canyon broke out, Bai Feng planned to use these two teams of war elephants to deal with the New Eight Banners, but the timely appearance of the Bright Knight army allowed Bai Feng to avoid exposing this ace army, which was a great thing.

The elite troops composed of a full forty-three special units were handed over by Bai Feng to Leng Gundam for command, plus the five hundred Temple warriors commanded by Leng Gaofei, and the 1,000 battle cavalry newly handed over by Bai Feng to Command Steve, this constituted the three main forces of the Guard Battalion.

After the other units were given the official name of the battalion, the troops of Leng Gundam, Leng Gaofei, and Steve were unified by Bai Feng and named the Guards Battalion, and in this way, the Shenshu Battalion and the Guards Battalion became the two battalions of the Guards left by Bai Feng's side.

Bai Feng, who led the army back to the province of Mulhouse, began to send the death battalion to escort the remaining New Eight Banners to the east of the empire before the military headquarters transfer order was issued.

On the premise of not exposing the Roman city, Bai Feng did not have the strength to eat so many captives and cavalry in one fell swoop; he could not let the tiger return to the mountain, and it was impossible to kill all these captives, so he could only let the soldiers of the death battalion escort these captives to the thundercloud base first.

Of course, at the same time that Bai Feng gave the order to escort, he also carefully selected 8,000 cavalry from the prisoners again, and these 8,000 selected cavalry were directly supplemented by Bai Feng into the Shenshu camp to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Shenshu battalion.

The total strength of the Shenshu battalion was expanded from 4,000 to 12,000, and the number of cattle per banner was increased from one to three.

Regarding the adjustment of the establishment and structure of the Shenshu Battalion, Bai Feng specially found the commander of the Shenshu Battalion, the commander of the Urgu Dai Commander, the two Yellow Banners to lead the Duoduo Deputy Commander, the two Red Banners to lead the Deputy Commander of Teryu, the two Blue Banners to lead Tan Tai, and the two White Banners to lead the Deputy Commander of Sony.

After the expansion of the Shenshu Battalion, Duoduo and other deputy commanders, who originally only commanded 1,000 elite cavalry, now have 3,000 cavalry under their command; at this time, it is obviously very inappropriate to continue to use the staff leader as the commander of the subordinate Niu Lu.

For example, the Zhenghuang Banner of the two Yellow Banners under Duoduo, who was previously the commander of the Zhenghuang Banner, was led by Borzig, because the Zhenghuang Banner at that time only had a large number of 500 cavalry, so he himself was also the direct commander of this Niulu.

Now that the number of Niu Lu in the Zhenghuang Banner has increased from one to three, and the identity of Borzig's chief is the commander of the Zheng Huang Banner, it is unrealistic for him to concurrently serve as the direct commander of the three Niu Lu at the same time; in this way, the command problem can only be solved by adding a new assistant commander who commands Niu Lu.

After it was determined that the commanders of the banners under the Shenshu battalion would no longer concurrently serve as the direct commander of Niulu, Urgudai further proposed to reduce the size of Niulu; in his opinion, the establishment of Niulu under the command of 500 cavalry was too bloated and not suitable for bringing into play the mobility and flexibility of the cavalry.

In this regard, Bai Feng, who advocated the cooperation of multiple arms in combat, did not think that there was any essential difference between the Niu Lu of the 300 cavalry and the Niu Lu of the 500 cavalry; however, he still did not refuse Urgudai's proposal, because a large number of officers were also a way to accumulate military morale.

The expansion of the Shenshu Camp took Bai Feng half a month, and the time entered the end of June, and before Bai Feng could start the next step, Ames sent a crucial secret report to Bai Feng through the special channel of the Secret Guard.

In this secret report from afar, there is a detailed record of a major event that can directly determine the future situation of the empire, that is, the deployment of the empire's military forces after the war;

This was a happy event, but what annoyed Bai Feng was that at least six of the nine standing legions under his command would be left in the northern part of the empire and subordinate to the soon-to-be-formed northern imperial governorship, and the other three might not be able to be taken to the east of the empire by him.

At present, only the number of garrisons in each region of the empire has been implemented in this deployment, which is as follows: five legions in the south of the empire, twelve legions in the northwest of the empire, sixteen legions in the north of the empire, sixteen legions in the east of the empire, seven legions in the southwest of the empire, six legions in the south of the empire, twelve legions in the west of the empire, fourteen legions in the middle of the empire, and eight legions in the imperial capital.

In addition to the deployment of these 96 standing corps, there were also four armies and 24 corps stationed in the four provinces connecting the regions, for example, the provinces of Besançon and Pollini, which connected the eastern and northern frontiers of the empire, would each have six corps.

The garrisons of these twenty-four legions were actually the reserve reinforcements of the Eastern Governorship and the Northern Governorate, which were to be formed, and if these two Metropolitan Governors were attacked by the Orc Empire or the steppe tribes, the reinforcements stationed in the four provinces would immediately rush to their aid.

The five royal legions, which were not among the one hundred and twenty standing legions of the empire, would be ordered to return to the imperial capital after the specific numbers of the garrisons in each region came out, even if it was the Yulin Legion that Bai Feng had personally formed, it was no exception!

It seems that Charlemagne also knew that this arrangement would disgust Bai Feng, who had formed the Yulin Legion by himself, so he fully considered Bai Feng's emotions when arranging other special legions other than the Royal Legion, and the deployments he made were also in line with Bai Feng's interests.