Love is not something that can be expressed in words, only in life, with the whole of life.

- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (one of the most outstanding writers in the history of world literature)

As the days passed, the middle of January came to a rapid end, and as the second half of the month was approaching, the Fourth Military Police Squadron and the Fifth Military Police Squadron of the Military Police Brigade were formed one after another.

The Yanhuang Standing Army, which consists of three combat divisions and regiments, has six brigades, 30 wings, and 120 brigades; squadrons and squads below the brigade level are already basic combat units, and there is no need for Bai Feng, who is the family governor, to pay too much attention to them.

It is not a difficult task for the Yanhuang Standing Army, which has 7,000 veterans, to select some veterans with outstanding performance to serve as squad leaders, squadron leaders, and other low-ranking officers; the crux of the problem lies in the fact that the rapid expansion of the Yanhuang Standing Army has really too much demand for officers at all levels!

The Standing Army of Yan and Huang, which is in full strength, needs 6,000 veterans with rich experience in actual combat to serve as squad leaders, and 600 veterans with considerable command ability to serve as squadron leaders; the needs of these two ranks of basic officers alone have almost exhausted the 7,000 veterans in Sanada Nobuyoshi's hands.

Up to now, only 36 of the 120 brigade commanders needed for the expansion of the Yanhuang Standing Army have taken up their posts, leaving 84 vacancies; only 11 of the 30 wing commanders required for the expansion have been appointed, leaving 19 vacancies; only two of the six brigade commanders required for the expansion have been appointed and four are vacant; and there are no other suitable candidates for the three division commanders needed for the expansion except for Sanada Nobuyoshi, who is also the commander of the second division.

According to Bai Feng's idea, the expanded Yanhuang Standing Army would still be commanded by Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Nobuyoshi; however, among the three combat divisions under the army's jurisdiction, Bai Feng, the third division, was intended to be reserved for non-Sanada family generals.

Bai Feng believed in the loyalty of Sanada Masayuki, Sanada Nobuyuki, and Sanada Nobuyoshi, but allowing the Sanada family to have more and more strength in the Yanhuang family's army was not a long-term solution, which was not necessarily a good thing for both the Yanhuang family and the Sanada family.

This is known not only to Bai Feng himself, but also to the brilliant Sanada Nobuyoshige, who is extremely intelligent, and this is the reason why there is a serious shortage of middle and high-ranking generals in the Yanhuang Standing Army; Sanada Nobuyoshi is using this method to take the initiative to return the appointment of middle and high-ranking generals in the Yanhuang Standing Army to the family governor.

Bai Feng entrusted Sanada Nobuyoshi with full responsibility for the expansion of the Yanhuang Standing Army and the appointment of officers at all levels, which was his trust in Sanada Nobuyoshige; Sanada Nobuyoshige's request for help from the family governor because of the shortage of officers at all levels under his command was a manifestation of his loyalty to the family governor and the family.

In response to Sanada Nobuyoshige's request for help, Hakumine took the solution by first promoting thirty of the mid-level samurai of the Sanada family to be captains and nine of the senior samurai to be co-captains, and then thirty-four of the mid-level samurai of the Nanbu family, the Izumiyama family, and the Hattori family to be captains, and ten of the senior samurai to be co-captains.

Of course, these mid-level samurai and senior samurai who could be selected by Bai Feng to be promoted to captain were not ordinary samurai, each of them had very rich battlefield experience, and there were at least hundreds of ashigaru troops under his command, and they were not samurai who did not understand war.

As for the candidates for the remaining four brigade commanders, without the slightest hesitation, Bai Feng still decided to choose the retainers of the Sanada family;

The Sanada family's most prestigious Sanada Ten Warriors - Nezu Shihachi, Miyoshi Kiyomi, Umino Rokuro, Miyoshi Izo, Rin Juzo, Kirikure Sezo, Sarutobi Sasuke, Mochizuki Rokuro, Anayama Kosuke, Yuri Kamanosuke, these people are all brave and good generals, if they were not all left in Sanada Masayuki's Sanada Standing Army, the position of brigade commander of the Yanhuang Standing Army would have been in their pocket!

Even so, the two generals assigned by Sanada Masayuki to Sanada Nobuyoshi, Izuura Morikiyo and Gasawa Heiji, were appointed by Sanada Nobuyoshi as the brigade commanders of his own Second Division, while Sanada Nobuyori did not consider the four brigade commanders of the First and Third Divisions.

After some careful selection, the Sanada family's four generals, including Suzuki Shigenori, Kawahara Tsunei, Miyashita Wisteria, and Ikeda Shigean, who were second only to the Sanada Ten Warriors, were selected by Bai Feng to be appointed as the brigade commander of the Yanhuang Standing Army; among them, the oldest Suzuki Shigenori was selected by Bai Feng not because he had any outstanding ability, but because he had a son who performed extremely well.

Suzuki Shigenori's eldest son, Suzuki Tadashige, was not only one of the retainers of the Sanada family, but also a swordsman known as the famous Higashiyamado.

If it weren't for Suzuki Tadashige's father, Suzuki Shige, who was a die-hard retainer of the Sanada family, with Suzuki Tadashige's strength and prestige, he would have been co-opted by other overlord families long ago;

The appointment of Suzuki's father, Suzuki Shigenori, as the brigade commander of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division was only the first step for Hakumine to reuse Suzuki Tadashige; immediately afterward, Hakufeng personally selected the elite from the Yanhuang Standing Army and the Southern Standing Army to form the 6th Military Police Squadron.

There is no doubt that this newly formed gendarmerie squadron was specially formed by Bai Feng for Suzuki Tadashige; not only that, Suzuki Tadashige, whose strength far surpassed that of the other five military police squadron leaders, was also appointed by Bai Feng as the deputy captain of the military police brigade, that is, the actual military police captain.

As the governor of the Yanhuang family, Bai Feng had so many important things to deal with every day, so naturally it was impossible to pay too much attention to the military police brigade with symbolic significance greater than practical significance;

Suzuki Tadashige, who had no intention of seeking power and profit, and focused on swordsmanship cultivation, did not refuse, while his father, Suzuki Shige, hoped that he could stay in the Yanhuang Standing Army or the Sanada Standing Army, but no one in the Yanhuang family could disobey Bai Feng's orders.

After all the middle and high-ranking generals of the Yanhuang Standing Army were appointed, the commanders of the 1st and 3rd Divisions, who were temporarily vacant, were represented by the commander of the 1st Brigade, Shigenori Suzuki, and the commander of the 5th Brigade, Tsunashi Kawahara.

The Yanhuang Standing Army, which has recently been expanded with 53,000 recruits, will inevitably see a sudden decline in military discipline and combat effectiveness; the improvement of combat effectiveness is the duty of Sanada Nobushigeru, and Bai Feng will not interfere, and Bai Feng will send a military police squadron to supervise the management of military discipline.

The 1st Military Police Squadron of Nanbu Rinao, the 2nd Military Police Squadron of Izumiyama Masayoshi, and the 3rd Military Police Squadron of Heiji Hattori were assigned to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Divisions of the Yanhuang Standing Army, respectively, and their task was to ensure that the officers and men of the Yanhuang Standing Army would not violate military discipline.

Numata Nobutada's 4th Military Police Squadron and Ogasawara Masanobu's 5th Military Police Squadron, as well as the newly formed Suzuki Tadashige's 6th Military Police Squadron, were also not idle;