"Chapter 1: Controlling the Army"
Even though plants can predict the future, they are of no use to it. For example, the plant already anticipates: "Someone will come over and step on my body in a moment." "It's useless because even if it's expected, the result still can't be changed.
– Alfred Adler (Austrian psychologist)
If the squadron leader of the city defense who later joined the Agni Legion was whipped to death, then Rodriguez and other division commanders and other wing commanders might have chosen to continue to endure, but it was the veteran squadron leader who had served in the Agni Legion for more than five years who died.
When Danilo, the commander of the 4th Division, who had not recovered from his injuries, was lying in the tent and learned that the squadron leader under his command had been killed, he was angry, and he drew the magic sword given to him by the former commander of the regiment, Marquis Bernard, and went straight to the commander's tent.
Equally angry was not only the commander of Danilo's division, but also the countless veterans of the Flame Legion and officers at all levels who followed Danilo straight into the military tent of the Marquis of Bedouin;
Most of these guards who followed the Marquis of Bedouin to the province of Nice were the sons of small noble families in the imperial capital, and they originally wanted to follow the Marquis of Bedouin and come to the imperial army to make some merit and return to the imperial capital to show off, but they did not expect to encounter such a thing.
The children of the little nobles of the imperial capital, who were surrounded by the soldiers of the Flame Legion who were eager to breathe fire, were so frightened that even their hands that clenched their weapons trembled slightly;
However, the arrogant Marquis of Bedouin did not think that the soldiers of the Fire Legion dared to rebel against his authority, he just thought that his own soldiers were messing around outside, but his arrogance almost killed him in the camp of the Fire Legion!
The fierce soldiers of the Fire Legion directly controlled all the Marquis of Bedouin's personal soldiers, and then, Danilo, armed with a magic sword, walked into the military tent, only to see a dancing girl twisting her sexy waist and a Marquis of Bedouin drinking fine wine.
The next series of events was quite dramatic: Danilo, who was so angry that he exploded in front of him, wanted to rush up and kill the drunken Marquis of Bedouin, but was stopped by Rodriguez, who arrived in time.
Later, the Marquis of Bedouin, who woke up, wanted to order Rodriguez to kill Danilo on the spot, but Rodriguez sent troops to put the Marquis of Bedouin and all his noble soldiers under house arrest while pushing Danilo out of the military tent.
Bai Feng, as the supreme commander of the Fourth Route Army, naturally could not sit idly by and watch the Fire Legion have such a bad turmoil; Bai Feng, who was 'selfless', sent someone to the military camp of the Fire Legion to pick up the Marquis of Bedouin who had been subjected to software on the afternoon of the turmoil.
In order to protect the safety of the Marquis of Bedouin, Bai Feng, who took him out, sent him directly to the county town of Nice, where the Duke of Gna was located, and the two division commanders of Rodriguez and Danilo, who were disrespectful to the Marquis of Bedouin, were ordered by Bai Feng to make meritorious service in the Fire Legion.
Everyone knows that Bai Feng is deliberately favoring Rodriguez and Danilo, but so what? There are Duke Gna, Duke Rundstead and others supporting Bai Feng, and there are 50,000 soldiers of the Fire Legion supporting Bai Feng, this is what the army wants!
After the Marquis of Rundstead was promoted to a junior sword master, Charlemagne quickly promoted his title from the Marquis of the Empire to the Duke of the Empire.
Originally, the Duke of Rundstead stayed in Niceshire, and Bai Feng planned to let Ranocchia lead the Predator Guards to Nice County, but Duke Rundstead rejected Bai Feng's kindness, and he insisted on keeping the Predator Guards by Bai Feng's side to strengthen Bai Feng's strength.
When it comes to increasing strength, we have to say that Bai Feng's newly formed cavalry unit, the cavalry wing with Cabaye as the wing leader, all the war horses are the Imperial Army Department transport horses provided by Duke Gna, and they cannot be used to form cavalry units at all.
Bai Feng, who had made up his mind to form a cavalry wing, naturally could not let this little trouble restrict his cavalry formation plan, and on the night when the five thousand transport horses arrived at the camp of the pro-guard army, Bai Feng used the teleportation array to send these horses back to Rome City.
In the cavalry stables of Rome City, Bai Feng spent 50,000 gold of treasury funds to buy 5,000 of the best quality war horses, and at the same time, the system troops that the pro-guard team had lost in the breakout battle were also replenished to full strength by Bai Feng by way of sacrifice.
With these 5,000 horses of higher quality than the northern war horses of the empire, the formation of the cavalry wing immediately entered the regular process, and the other four directly subordinate wings of the pro-guard team were also replaced with the Roman heavy infantry standard weapons and equipment brought by Bai Feng from Rome City.
The core of the Pro-Guard, consisting of six Spartan heavy infantry, four Macedonian royal pikemen, four ironclad cavalry, four companion cavalry, three Cretan archers, and twelve iron artillery spearmen, was stationed at White Peak's side along with the Green Knights.
The 12 teams of iron artillery and spearmen, who originally had only first-class experience, should be regarded as the most rewarding troops in the battle of the breakout; 1,440 iron artillery and gunners participated in the battle, and the number of casualties reached more than 500, and the experience level of the recovered 12 teams of iron artillery gunners reached an astonishing third level!
After a month's rest, the recruits and veterans of each army have run in very well, and their combat power will improve rapidly, and what really makes Bai Feng happy is that he took advantage of the Marquis of Bedouin to completely control the Fire Legion, which is an unexpected surprise.
As it turned out, even Charlemagne, who was in charge of the empire, made mistakes in selecting and appointing generals, and the Marquis of Bernard was indeed a qualified and loyal commander to Charlemagne, but that did not mean that his brother was equally good.
Bai Feng did not know, nor was he interested in knowing, what the Marquis of Bedouin knew was that the Marquis of Bedouin was too far behind the Marquis of Bernard, he was not even an imperial soldier, and he was purely a waste who had not achieved enough things and had more than enough to lose.
After taking the Fire Legion into his pocket, Rodriguez, who had always been thinking about the position of Legion Commander, was appointed by Bai Feng as the acting Legion Commander of the Fire Legion, and the commander of the Danilo Division, who first clashed with the Marquis of Bedouin, was appointed by Bai Feng as the acting deputy general of the Legion.
At this time, no one would mention the Marquis of Bedouin in the county town of Nice, and no one would delve into Bai Feng's previous 'punishment orders' to Rodriguez and Danilo;
With a full complement of 50,000 soldiers, the Feather Forest Legion and the Agni Legion, the 39th, 40th, 44th, 45th, 46th, and 47th Legions with a full complement of 20,000 soldiers, and the 15,000 regular troops of the personal guards, the army under Bai Feng is already so strong!
The 41st, 42nd, and 43rd Army Corps, which were reorganized from the 11th, 12th, and 13th Army Corps, were temporarily handed over to the Duke of Rundstead for command by the Duke of Gna, and the establishment of these three legions was also a full strength of 20,000 soldiers, instead of the former 10,000 soldiers.
Duke Albert's First Army, Duke Kleist's Second Army, and Duke Reinhardt's Third Army, all of which had their standing armies, expanded from 10,000 to 20,000, and the number of legions increased.
Duke Gna's plan to prepare for war was successfully implemented in the growing strength of the four-way army, but it would take a long time to accumulate before the real initiative attacked, after all, those huge numbers of recruits needed training before they could fight.