Winning with violence means defeat because it is only a short-lived victory.

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

On the fifth day of late July, Bai Feng, who had nothing to do with the county town of Brojansson, left the county town of Brojansson with his personal escort and two thousand personal guards;

It took about half a month to travel from the central part of Brojansong Province to Mengtan County, where the capital of Mengdan Province was located, and because the size of the army was so large that Bai Feng had almost no possibility of increasing the speed of the army's march, he could only sit helplessly and watch the time pass.

It turned out that the marching speed of the soldiers under Bai Feng's command was far less slow than Bai Feng himself imagined, and the army of Eric's army, which had set off two days earlier, was only about a day away from the army of Bai Feng's army, but it was still caught up.

In less than four days, Bai Feng's army caught up with the Eric army, which had set off two days earlier, and it has to be said that the first impression left by the Eric army on Bai Feng was not very good; in Bai Feng's view, the speed of the march was an important measure of an army's combat effectiveness.

The 65th, 67th, and 86th legions under Eric's command were newly built legions with weak combat effectiveness in terms of their numbers, and coupled with their poor performance on the march, Bai Feng, who was accustomed to commanding elite divisions, was dissatisfied with them without self-evident.

Since the two armies had already converged on the march, the next step was to continue to advance together, and at the same time, Overseer Eric also brought his two army commanders to the Chinese army where Bai Feng was located, and officially met with Bai Feng, who was also the governor and overseer.

Appointed by the Imperial War Department as one of the three overseers of the Eastern Metropolitan Prefecture, Eric himself also served as the commander of the 65th Legion, and the remaining two commanders were General Krefel of the 67th Legion and General Baraoh of the 86th Legion.

The little-known Commanders of the Legion of Krefel and Commander Barao were originally mediocre mid-level generals in the Imperial Army, and they would not have had the opportunity to serve as commanders of an army if it were not for the rapid expansion of the Imperial Army.

Although they were newly promoted to the commander of the legion, although they had many unsatisfactory mistakes in the process of commanding the legion, their conscientious and diligent attitude still made Bai Feng more recognized, at least it can prove that they are self-motivated, isn't it?

Of course, what really made Bai Feng recognize them and was willing to slowly cultivate them in the direction of their lineage in the future was mainly their extremely reverent expression when they first met Bai Feng and their identity as graduates of the Military Department of the Imperial Academy, alumni nepotism has always been an unavoidable dark rule in the Imperial Army.

Because more than 60 percent of the generals and 80 percent of the middle and senior officers in the Imperial Army are graduates of the Military Department of the Imperial Academy, the name of the Military Department of the Imperial Academy is very useful in the Imperial Army, and even one of the capital for the promotion of officers.

It is precisely because the reputation of the Military Department of the Imperial Academy in the Imperial Army is so great that there is such a special term as 'military department' in the Imperial Army, and all military officers and generals who have graduated from the Military Department of the Imperial Academy will be labeled as 'military department'.

After talking freely with the two old seniors of Krefel and Barao, Bai Feng, who has been famous for the 'military department' in the army for a long time, but has never faced up to the so-called 'military department', really realized how lofty his status in the 'military department' is!

It is no exaggeration to say that Bai Feng, who played the name of the god of war in the Feather Forest, has become the representative of the 'Military Department' who has made great contributions to the empire by his own line, and countless 'military department' officers distributed in various legions of the empire have taken Bai Feng as their example of learning idols.

Of course, these large number of middle- and low-ranking officers could do nothing other than actively publicize Bai Feng's great achievements in their own regiments; in comparison, it was the powerful generals of the 'military department' who could really play a huge role.

What makes the middle and low-level officers of the 'Military Department' and the generals of the real power faction full of favor for Bai Feng is Bai Feng's care and promotion of alumni of the same faction, such as Borg, Huade, Sandy, Tracy, Nishizawa, Morris and other six Bai Feng's seniors.

Borg, who had not yet officially graduated, and the other six people had become generals at the level of division commanders in the Imperial Army at a young age, and what did they rely on? After all, there was only one god of war like Bai Feng, who was a genius in the sky; didn't they rely on Bai Feng's reuse and exceptional promotion?

Whether an invincible god of war can be recognized by the military department depends on the relationship between this god of war and the military department; if this god of war himself is a member of the military department, and he still entrusts the alumni and seniors who are also in the military department with important responsibilities and exceptional promotions?

The recognition of Bai Feng by the officers and generals of the entire military department is not so much determined by the background of the academy as by Bai Feng himself;

In fact, the reason that really made Krefel and Barao abandon Overseer Eric and choose to obey White Peak directly was because White Peak was the pride of the military department, and partly because Overseer Eric himself was not a military faction.

After graduating from the Imperial Academy's Knights' Division, Erik had several unpleasant conflicts with the Military Department on behalf of the Knights at the Academy, and after graduation, Eric served in the Imperial Army, and his current position as Overseer is a testament to his ability.

But the crux of the matter is that compared to the behemoth military department, the knight line, which cannot even get together ten legion commanders, has a negligible position in the imperial army, and how can Krefel and Barao, who are from the military department, willingly live under Eric?

This is human nature, Krefel and Barao, two legion commanders over thirty-five years old, would rather obey the orders of Bai Feng, who was only twenty years old, than accept the command of the veteran general Eric, and the factional struggle in the Imperial army has been carried out to such a fierce point!

For the first time, Bai Feng felt a little lucky, glad that he had chosen to enter the Military Department of the Imperial Academy to study, that the military department was deeply rooted in the Imperial Army, and that the troops under his command were all newly formed legions, and there were few such factional disputes.

On the second day of the combined march of the two armies, Bai Feng saw the impact of factional disputes on the Imperial army, and only yesterday General Krefel and General Barao defected to Bai Feng, and today a serious brawl broke out between the 67th and 65th Army Corps.

The cause of the incident was that a squadron leader of the 67th Army Corps, while marching side by side with a squadron of the 65th Army Corps, while boasting about the outstanding military exploits of the military department, intentionally or unintentionally mocked other factions, including the knights.

The commander of the 65th Legion is the backbone of the knight department, and if someone from your military department insults the knight department so much, the squadron leader of the 65th Legion will naturally ridicule him without showing weakness.

According to common sense, when the squadron below fought, as a more senior captain and wing leader, he had to hurry up to stop it, but in the process of stopping it, the wing captains of the two sides quarreled again, and finally it almost turned into a full force of two legions!