You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

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

Montgomery's Tempest Legion, Ranocchia's Predator's Legion, Cabitus's Spear Legion, and Donald's Cavalry Legion, all four special legions under Bai Feng's command, were all deployed to the eastern part of the empire, and they were still under Bai Feng's direct command.

In addition to these four special legions, Charlemagne and the Imperial Military Department were not unaware of the existence of the Pro-Guard and the Death Battalion, but they did not know much about the specific scale of the Pro-Guard and the Death Battalion, let alone how strong the Pro-Guard was in combat.

Regarding the matter of the pro-guard and the death camp, knowing that it was impossible to hide it from Bai Feng in the imperial capital, he had reached a consensus with Ames, and once Charlemagne investigated the pro-guard and the death camp through the secret guard, the hidden guard would report the weakened information to Charlemagne.

For example, the death battalion, which now has 20,000 soldiers, is just a cannon fodder unit composed of seven or eight thousand prisoners, death row prisoners, and puppet soldiers.

As for the pro-guards whose battlefield performance cannot be ignored, their existence is in line with the laws of the empire, because Bai Feng himself is the imperial duke of Charlemagne, so he can openly form a five-thousand-scale duke guard.

Similar to cannon fodder troops like the Death Guard and escort troops like the Pro-Soldier Guard, Charlemagne couldn't take it to heart, so he naturally let Bai Feng take the Pro-Guard and the Death Guard to the east of the empire, and not make more meaningless interference.

Before the official order of the Imperial Military Department was issued, Bai Feng, who was ready to lead his army south, first had a profound exchange with the commanders of the six legions under his command, who would definitely stay behind, and asked them to lead the army to be stationed in Mulhouse Province.

At present, the legions that have been determined to remain on the Covert Guard side are Louis's Fourteenth Legion, Di Maria's Sixteenth Legion, Cavani's Fifty-sixth Legion, Tevez's Fifty-seventh Legion, Donald's Fifty-eighth Legion, and Hoy's Eighty-fourth Legion.

Barsaromu's Seventy-Fourth Legion, Felix's Seventy-seventh Legion, and Leopold's Eighty-second Legion, it is still unknown whether these three legions will be able to follow Bai Feng to the eastern part of the empire, but in general, they are more likely to go to the eastern part of the empire than to stay in the northern part of the empire.

Although the current Imperial Military Department has 120 fully established standing legions, there are not many standing legions with real combat experience, not even half of the total number of standing legions, and the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Office is facing the most threatening orc imperial army.

Nothing was more important to the Celestial Dragon Empire than fending off an orc army that had lost Sunset Fortress, and even the nomads in the northern steppes of the empire could not compare to the orc army that occupied Sunset Fortress.

In order to avoid a situation in which Prince Pros's Imperial Eastern Metropolitan Mansion was dominant, the number of standing legions under the Imperial Eastern Metropolitan Prefecture was only sixteen, which was comparable to Prince Philip's Northern Metropolitan Prefecture and four more legions than Prince William's Northwest Metropolitan Prefecture.

The crux of the matter was that the only things that Prince Philip's northern governorate needed to guard against were the Khitan tribes and Turkic tribes in the steppe tribes, as well as the Jurchen tribes of Jianzhou, which had suffered a great loss in strength, and the strength of the sixteen legions was enough for Prince Philip.

Needless to say, there were only four provinces in the northwest of the empire, and on average, the garrison of each province would reach three legions.

The relationship between the Rhine Merchant Alliance and the Celestial Dragon Empire has always been close, and the military strength of the Rhine Merchant Alliance is not strong in the first place, and it has no ability to threaten the Northwest Metropolitan Prefecture at all; although the military strength of the Deman Kingdom is strong, the geographical location of the enemy on all sides determines that they dare not act rashly.

On the premise of not increasing the number of troops stationed in the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Office, it is undoubtedly a very simple and effective means to reduce the military pressure on the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Office and improve the quality of the garrison.

Therefore, the six legions that Bai Feng left in the eastern part of the empire, which were also the six most elite standing legions in the eastern part of the empire, were left in the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and among the ten legions that were transferred to the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in the future, at least six of them were elite legions with rich combat experience.

There is no doubt that the remaining four standing legions must have been secretly controlled by Prince Pros, just as nine of the twelve standing legions of Prince William's Northwest Metropolitan Mansion must have been loyal to him.

With the support of various information provided by the secret guard, Bai Feng analyzed the distribution of the legions of the major governors in the future, and based on the results of this speculation, Bai Feng, who did not want to waste time, personally led the various armies under his command and set off to return to Besançon Province.

Judging from the division of the imperial provinces, Besançon Province is obviously not among the six northern provinces, but Besançon Province is also the garrison province before Bai Feng led the army to counterattack, which means that as long as the Imperial Military Department does not issue a clear military order, Bai Feng can lead the army back.

The governor of Besançon Province, Marquis Besançon, is a talent under Bai Feng's command, and Bai Feng will not watch the 20,000 city defense troops under his command be disbanded on the spot;

If nothing else, when Charlemagne officially announced the formation of the four imperial governors, the Imperial Military Department will accordingly issue an order to limit the size of the imperial provincial city defense army, and at that time, the city defense army of all provinces in the empire must be rectified in strict accordance with the size limit.

There are two types of criteria for limiting the size of the Imperial Provincial City Defense Army: the first is the standard for the regular provinces within the Imperial Empire, which requires that the number of city defense troops in each province must be restored to the pre-war state, that is, the provincial capital is stationed at 3,000 city defense troops, and each county under its jurisdiction is stationed with 1,000 city defense troops.

The second is the standard for the prefectures and provinces that are subordinate to the four major prefectures, because the prefectures are all border provinces, so the number of urban defense troops in these provinces has been increased accordingly, that is, the provincial capital is stationed in 5,000 city defense troops, and each county under its jurisdiction is stationed in 2,000 city defense troops.

If this criterion is really followed, then the province of Besançon, which has one capital and four counties, will only be able to form 7,000 city defense troops, while the province of Brosiansson, which has one capital and three counties, can form 11,000 city defense troops!

What is the concept of having 11,000 city defense troops in a province? You must know that the five Eastern Army Corps that Bai Feng organized in the eastern part of the empire had a total strength of 50,000 soldiers, and the future Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion would have 59,000 soldiers in the city defense army of only five provinces!

Among the five eastern provinces, the provinces of Mendan and Grenoble are both large provinces with five counties under their jurisdiction, one county more than the ordinary four counties and more than 2,000 city defense troops;