Individual psychology believes that all human problems can be attributed to three problems: occupation, communication, and gender. Everyone's response to these three questions clearly reveals his deep interpretation of the meaning of life.

– Alfred Adler (Austrian psychologist)

The secret rescue team jointly formed by the five major ducal families of the empire had arrived at the first main fortress where Duke Gna was located a few days ago, and their arrival brought vital information to Duke Gna, who was unable to obtain information from the outside world.

The 600,000 steppe cavalry captured the four northern provinces of the empire, the orc army captured the five eastern provinces of the empire, and the nine provinces fell, which was undoubtedly fatal to the declining Celestial Dragon Empire.

The Holy See, which believed in theocracy, was like a beast to all the secular aristocracy, especially the high-ranking nobles who controlled the highest power in the empire, and secretly regarded the Holy See that preached theocracy as the most dangerous potential enemy.

The reason why it was a potential enemy, not a direct enemy, was that on the one hand, the expansion of the Holy See was in a moderate missionary way, and on the other hand, because the courtesy of the common people did not conflict with the rule of the aristocracy, so that the nobility and the Holy See coexisted in harmony.

Even so, the aristocratic class of the entire Celestial Dragon Empire has never relaxed their guard against the Holy See, and the Holy See's mission in the Celestial Dragon Empire is not only restricted by the laws of the Empire, but also by the missionary rules of the Empire and the Holy See.

The so-called missionary rules are a series of treaties signed with the Holy See when the Celestial Dragon Empire allowed the Holy See to preach within the Empire, for example: the Holy See can only build churches in the imperial county towns, and the number of light knights in the church shall not exceed fifty, etc.

It was the existence of these treaties that caused the development of the Holy See in the Celestial Dragon Empire to be very slow, and there were a large number of nobles and wealthy merchants in each county of each province of the empire, and these staunch supporters of the rule of the Empire were an important obstacle to the development of the Holy See's power.

Now that the Holy See is willing to send an elite Knights Templar to reinforce the Celestial Dragon Empire, Duke Gnah, who has experienced countless storms and waves and has dealt with the Holy See more than once, does not believe that the unprofitable Holy See will selflessly help resist their empire.

The fallen provinces can be recaptured by re-armies, the shame of defeat can be washed away by defeating the enemy, and only the compromise made with the Holy See is an irreparable loss to the Empire, and the Duke of Gna is quite clear about this.

Unfortunately, Duke Gna, who was not in the imperial capital, could not change the deal that had already been put into action, so he had no choice but to lead four large armies in one place to retreat to the province of Nice, northwest of Sunset Fortress, which was the only province left in the eastern part of the empire that had not yet fallen.

The communication between the Marquis of Rundstead and the Duke of Gna was not as smooth as he had imagined, and the distraught Duke of Gna only agreed to hand over the army that originally belonged to the Fourth Main Fortress to Bai Feng to command, while the other three armies were also under the command of their original commander.

Bai Feng, who had never thought that he could obtain the commanders of the other three armies, was already very satisfied that he could keep the command of the breakthrough army; at least, this was more than a star and a half better than the worst expectations in Bai Feng's heart!

The total strength of the four armies was almost 300,000, and the Fourth Main Army, which was the most intact in strength, was renamed the Fourth Route Army by Duke Gna himself, and acted as the vanguard of the retreating army, responsible for opening the way for the other three armies in the front.

At this time, the Fourth Route Army actually did not include Leonidas's Spartan Legion, and as early as the breakthrough army rushed to the first main fortress, Bai Feng used the teleportation array to send the Spartan Army back to Rome to avoid unnecessary trouble.

After several days of unimpeded marches, passing through countless towns that had been burned and plundered by the orc army, the demoralized army withdrew to the territory of the province of Nice, where the Imperial army had gathered an astonishing 500,000 troops!

An elite army of 50,000 men organized by the five Dukes' families of the Empire, and 30,000 soldiers from three legions from the south, were stationed in the county of Xana, in the province of Nice, and the city defense army formed by the Duke of Nice quickly swelled to 150,000 and was stationed in the capital county of Nice.

The 150,000 city defense troops, nominally formed by the Duke of Nice himself, were in fact formed by directly recruiting wounded veterans of various legions who were resting in the province of Nice; with a large number of Holy See priests and priests reinforcing them, the wounded soldiers recovered quickly.

In addition to these 230,000 strong troops, the first batch of reinforcements from the 150,000 Imperial Army Headquarters was stationed in Puget County, Nice Province, and the second batch of reinforcements from the 150,000 Imperial Army Headquarters were also stationed in Kogorin County.

After receiving nearly two billion gold coins from the imperial aristocracy, the Imperial Military Department organized batch after batch of troops with unprecedented efficiency, and the 300,000 troops who arrived in Nice Province in time were only a small part of the newly built army of the Imperial Military Department.

With the potential of the Celestial Dragon Empire, it is not difficult to build an army of five million in a short period of time, but the difficult thing is how to quickly create enough weapons and equipment for these five million soldiers to use, which is a difficult problem for the Imperial Military Department to solve.

In fact, the newly formed army of the Imperial War Department was only 1.5 million, far less exaggerated than 5 million, and of the 1.5 million newly established troops, 600,000 soldiers with extremely poor equipment were sent to the province of Nice in the east of the empire and the province of Metz in the north of the empire.

Of the remaining 900,000 troops, 400,000 were assembled in various provinces around the imperial capital for intense military training, and another 500,000 were stationed on the outskirts of the imperial capital, shouldering the heavy responsibility of defending the imperial capital while conducting military training.

The real reason why the Imperial Military Department did not send these soldiers to the border was not their lack of military training, but that they did not even have the most basic weapons;

If it weren't for the mediation of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce to help the empire buy weapons and equipment worth tens of millions of gold coins from the Rhine Chamber of Commerce, without a sword and armor of the imperial military department, I am afraid that even the 600,000 poorly equipped army would not be able to be formed.

Duke Gna led more than 300,000 troops from Sunset Fortress to withdraw directly to the county of Kogorin in the province of Nice; after the army arrived in the county town of Kogolin, the four armies rested and recuperated in regiments, and the supplies were provided by the county guard.

The Duke of Gnawner, with the Duke of Kleist, the Duke of Albert, the Duke of Reinhardt, and the Marquis of Rundsteadt, went straight to Nice County;

Marquis of Rundstead, who had witnessed the wolf king Sack's slaughter, finally used the energy light ball that Bai Feng had given him the day before the army returned to Nice Province, and after that, Marquis Rundstead was successfully promoted to a junior sword master!

At a time when the morale of the army was low, the sudden promotion of the prestigious Marquis of Iron Blood in the Imperial Army to a powerful saint-level powerhouse was a pleasant surprise for everyone, so the Duke of Gna took the Marquis of Rundstead with him when he went to Niceshire.

Bai Feng, who remained in Kogorin County, was not idle, the Fire Legion in the Fourth Route Army had not yet been fully controlled by him, and he was busy wooing the soldiers of the Fire Legion before the new order from the Imperial Military Department was issued!