A man creates a woman, and as long as a man still produces **, he is willing to constantly recreate women. The man gives the woman consciousness, and in the same way, he gives the woman existence. Women are men's sins.

– Otto Weininger (Austrian philosopher)

Gaining Cunningham's loyalty was a pure windfall for Bai Feng, and the main reason why he appointed Cunningham as the head of the rebuilding of the city defense forces of the provinces of Lyon and Grenoble was that he really did not have the right person to take on this important task.

Moreover, the rebuilding of the city defense armies of the two provinces with the remaining 5,000 soldiers of the Eastern Army as the backbone was Cunningham's suggestion, and if he was to be directly responsible, it would be more reliable than other people who did not understand the importance of it.

After accepting Cunningham's allegiance with a faint joy, Bai Feng returned to the truth and preached: "Cunningham, do you have any specific thoughts on the reconstruction of the city defense forces of Lyon Province and Grenoble Province, tell me about it. ”

"General, I think that even if the empire ends the current two-front combat situation as soon as possible, it will still be difficult to organize an effective offensive against the orc army occupying the Sunset Fortress, and it is still unknown whether the empire that has lost the Sunset Fortress will be able to hold the newly recovered eastern provinces. ”

"Although we have recently recovered four fallen provinces in succession, they are all used to comfort the people of the empire and fool other countries, and those who are truly in the know know that the four provinces we have recovered were all abandoned by the orc army. ”

"So, our seemingly high-flying counteroffensive does not even see the shadow of the main force of the orc army, which is both a good thing for us to do without bloodshed, and a bad thing to leave the crisis for the future. ”

"In particular, the geographical location of the provinces of Lyon and Grenoble determines that these two provinces are easier to attack and difficult to defend than the two provinces we have previously recovered, and to rebuild the city defense of these two provinces, we must take into account the possibility of an attack by the orc army at any time. ”

Cunningham's truthful statement does not sound so pleasant, but Bai Feng is not a person who can't listen to the truth; he affirmed Cunningham's analysis of the truth in a timely manner: "That's right, we are indeed in crisis everywhere now. ”

"Since we have no way to increase the strength of the Empire, and we have no way to grasp the movements of the orc army, then preparing as much as possible is the only effective way for us to resist the attack of the orc army. ”

"The 300,000 troops stationed on the border of the province of Montaine are our first line of defense against the orc army, and the city defense troops of the provinces of Lyon and Grenoble are our reserve forces; ”

Bai Feng, who personally experienced the battle of Sunset Fortress, became famous by leading a large army to fight a retreat and rescue countless friendly troops on the premise that there was no way out;

"If it weren't for the orc army that quickly occupied the five eastern provinces last time, the Sunset Fortress, which we strictly defended, would not have been easily captured by the orc army; ”

After laying the groundwork so much and getting Bai Feng's approval, Cunningham finally went straight to the point and said: "In this way, the rebuilt city defense army of the two provinces must be greatly expanded in scale, the number of county city defense troops should be three thousand, and the number of capital city defense troops should be at least five thousand!"

"In addition to the 3,000 city defense troops stationed in the county and the 5,000 city defense troops stationed in the capital, the large and small towns under the jurisdiction of each county shall, according to the size of the town, form a garrison militia of not less than 1,000 subordinate to the city defense army, and use it to undertake the task of defending each town in time of war. ”

According to Cunningham's idea, he planned to build the city defense army, which was similar to the militia, into a regular army in the true sense, and then use the name of the city defense militia to form a large number of reserve militias to play the role of the city defense army in the town.

If Bai Feng agrees with Cunningham's approach, then the province of Lyon, which has four counties, will need 14,000 city defense troops and about 30,000 garrison militia, and the province of Grenoble, which has five counties, will need 17,000 city defenders and about 40,000 garrison militia.

The surplus strength of the five Eastern Legions is only 5,000, and the two provinces need at least 31,000 city defense troops and 70,000 city defenders, which means that Bai Feng has to recruit 100,000 new young men from the two provinces he has just recovered!

Of course, among the 100,000 newly recruited young people, only 26,000 can really enter the city defense army, and the other 7,000 or so young people will continue to stay in the town where their families are located after a little training as a militia defending the city, and serve as a wartime defense force in the town.

The act of recruiting 100,000 young men at one time was really too shocking, and would even arouse the suspicion of Charlemagne in the imperial capital; more importantly, the two provinces that were ravaged by the orc army did not have so many young men for Bai Feng to recruit for the time being.

The young and strong people who have returned home with their families are the pillars of their respective families, and before they have rebuilt their homes and settled their families, no matter how good the recruitment conditions are, it is impossible to recruit too many young people who are willing to abandon their families.

After considering all aspects, Bai Feng agreed in principle to Cunningham's plan for the formation of the city defense army, but such a huge plan for the formation of the city defense army must be implemented in at least three stages to ensure the feasibility of the entire plan.

In the first stage, a city defense army of 13,000 men and a garrison militia of 20,000 men should be formed within the next four months, with 5,000 officers and men of the Eastern Army Corps as the backbone.

In the second stage, the size of the city defense army will be expanded to 20,000 men on the premise of maintaining the combat effectiveness of the city defense army, and at the same time, the size of the city defense militia will be expanded to 35,000 people, ensuring that each town has 500 people.

The third stage, the final phase, which lasted for a year, would allow the city defense and the garrison to be expanded to the size of Cunningham's plan, and at that time, the defenses of the provinces of Lyon and Grenoble would reach a very impressive level!

In the face of Bai Feng's arrangement of forming a city defense army in stages, Cunningham naturally did not have any objections; after finalizing these key links, everything was ready and only Dongfeng's plan for the formation of the city defense army was owed, and only two candidates for the commander of the city defense army were left undecided.

In the end, he will be in command of the 14,000 city defense troops and 30,000 garrison militia of the province of Lyon, and the commander of the 17,000 city defense army and 40,000 garrison militia of the province of Grenoble, whose status and number of officers will be no less than that of the commander of the standing legion.

With the sheer size of the army, and the fact that these armies were scattered across all the towns and cities of the province, the commander of them would almost certainly become the de facto supreme ruler of the province, and Bai Feng would have to think carefully about who such an important position would be entrusted to.

But no matter how Bai Feng thought about it, there were no suitable generals under his command who could go to serve as the commanders of the city defense forces in these two provinces; after all, it was impossible for Bai Feng to transfer the competent army commanders and division commanders under his command to the city defense army as commanders, right?

In desperation, Bai Feng decided to appoint Paresi and Slim, who had surrendered with Cunningham, as the commanders of the city defense armies of the two provinces, respectively, but before issuing a formal appointment, Bai Feng still had to put Paresi and Slim to the test.