Cowards do not have love, love is the characteristic of the brave.

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

The 20,000 city defense troops organized by the Marquis of Besançon in Besançon Province are more than a step different from the tens of thousands of city defense troops formed by Paresi, Cunningham and others in the eastern provinces, both in terms of scale and quality.

Bai Feng, who had been reminded by Ames in advance, sent people to the Eastern Provinces long before he led the army to counterattack Langxiang Province, and asked Paresi and others to transfer the most elite city defense troops to the Thundercloud Base as base guards to protect the weapons and equipment manufacturing center in the base.

With the disarmament order of the Imperial Military Department officially issued, Bai Feng, who did not have time to slowly adjust his deployment, could only seize the time to lead the army to continue to advance northward, and at the same time send someone to give an order to Paresi, asking him to quickly dispatch all the elites of the city defense army to the Thundercloud base.

According to the intelligence sent back by Luo Wang, among the tens of thousands of city defense troops controlled by Parexi and others, the number of soldiers who are really worthy of a battle is only about 20,000; there is no doubt that these 20,000 city defense soldiers are impossible for Bai Feng to give up no matter what.

As for the five Eastern Legions, whose combat effectiveness was not inferior to that of the General Reserve Legion, there was no need for Bai Feng to worry about their safety; if nothing else, these five fully equipped Eastern Legions would become the direct army of the Imperial Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Office.

After properly arranging his old department to stay in the Eastern Provinces, what Bai Feng needs to do most now is to lead the main army under his command to enter the Mulhouse Province, and then attack the Jianzhou Jurchens with an absolute superiority of troops, so as to open up a living space for the Tianlong Eight Banners!

At this time, the war in the northern part of the empire has come to an end, and the disarmament plan of the imperial military headquarters is being carried out in an orderly manner; no one knows whether there will be a second or third round of disarmament that will be followed after the end of this first round of disarmament.

You must know that in the current first round of disarmament alone, 300,000 military recruits and 22 standing legions have been cut; if there is a follow-up disarmament plan in the future, then no one dares to guarantee that the legions under their command will not be cut, and Bai Feng is no exception.

The cutting plan of the Standing Army was beyond Bai Feng's control, and even Duke Cullen of the Imperial Military Department could only obey Charlemagne's will, and in order to minimize his losses, Bai Feng had to find a way to survive the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon that he had just formed.

With the cover of Ames and the Hidden Guard, the formation of the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon will not be known to the Imperial Capital for the time being, but it is impossible for paper to contain the fire forever; Bai Feng, who knows where he will go after the war, is not sure to bring the 48,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon to the Eastern Provinces.

If Charlemagne and the Imperial Military Department knew about the existence of the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon, they only needed to issue a fluttering order for military transfers, unless Bai Feng chose to defect from the Heavenly Dragon Empire immediately, otherwise, he would have to surrender the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon to the Imperial Military Department.

In order to avoid this situation, Bai Feng, who planned to use the Tianlong Eight Banners as a nail to nail on the grassland, decided to open up a living space for the Tianlong Eight Banners from the Jianzhou Jurchens.

The Jianzhou Jurchen tribe connected to the northern frontier of the empire has two tribes that are really close to the province of Mulhouse in the north of the empire, namely the Hunhe tribe of Soerguo and the Dong'e tribe of Subahai;

The crux of the problem is that after Bai Feng successfully subdued these two tribes and opened up a living space for the Tianlong Eight Banners, how to prevent the two white flags from sitting on the big and the loyalty of the Tianlong Eight Banners; if these two problems could not be solved, then Bai Feng's action to move north would be meaningless.

The two white flags in the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon are nominally the two white flags of Soergo and Subahai, but in fact they are fundamentally different from their two white flags; the original two white flags are not so much the two white flags of the Jianzhou Jurchens as the two white flags of Suerguo and Subahai.

The two white flags of the whole banner, all of which came from the Hunhe and Dong'e tribes, would only be loyal to the leaders of their respective tribes, Solgo and Subahai, and those two white flags, once they returned to the Hunhe and Dong'e tribes, would inevitably rely on their tribes to grow rapidly.

At present, the two white flags, the main soldiers are from the new eight banners, the positive yellow flag, and there are not many soldiers who really come out of the Hunhe Department and the Dong'e Department; therefore, whether the two white flags can sit big depends not on themselves, but on whether their flag owners have this idea.

For the steppe people who believe in the respect of the strong, any form of threat is empty and powerless, and only the sword hanging over their heads will really make them feel afraid; Bai Feng, who is familiar with this characteristic of the steppe people, believes that there is only one way to completely put an end to their betrayal, and that is absolute force suppression!

It is impossible for the legions under Bai Feng's command with the imperial number to stay in the northern grasslands to deter the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon, and the Spartan Legion has returned to the city of Rome to recuperate, and the strength of the death battalion is not enough to suppress the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon, and the only thing left is the pro-guards.

The overall strength of the pro-soldier guards is only stronger than the cavalry of the Tianlong Eight Banners, but not weak; if you count the cooperation of the pro-soldiers guards and the loyalty of the two red flags to Bai Feng, then the Tianlong Eight Banners have no chance of betrayal.

After making all preparations, Bai Feng did not delay any longer, but immediately waved his army north, crossed the northern border of the Tianlong Empire, and launched an attack on the hinterland of the Jianzhou Jurchen;

Ranocchia's Predator's Legion, Donald's Cavalry Legion, Lister and Fury's Death Battalion, Luculus, Wink and other generals' personal guards, even excluding the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon as the vanguard, the number of troops under Bai Feng's command exceeded 100,000.

The 150,000 elite infantry cavalry of the Tianlong Empire attacked, and Huang Taiji, who had just lost 30,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry, dared to lead his army to meet him head-on? Huang Taiji, who knew that his own army was not strong enough, withdrew to the Jurchen hinterland of Jianzhou again with the 100,000 cavalry under his command.

The nearly 200,000 grassland people of the Hunhe and Dong'e tribes, who were abandoned by Huang Taiji, had no intention of fighting to the death with the Tianlong army to the end; it was their original leaders who happened to come forward to persuade them to surrender, and the people of the Hunhe and Dong'e tribes naturally had no reason not to surrender.

Suoerguo's own brother and Subahai's cousin are the new leaders of the Hunhe and Dong'e tribes that Huang Taiji had supported not long ago;

After the Hunhe and Dong'e provinces were taken over by Bai Feng, one-fifth of the land and population of the entire Jianzhou Jurchen became Bai Feng's spoils of war; Bai Feng, who was short of military rations and had no intention of fighting again, stopped the advance of his army after completing his set strategic goals.

It is already a matter known to all the banner owners that the Tianlong Eight Banners will rely on the Hunhe River and Dong'e to survive in the future, but what they don't know is that tens of thousands of elite troops of the Pro-Guard Corps will be stationed with them on the land of the Hunhe River and Dong'e.