There is no way to achieve peace, peace itself is a method.

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

After the army set up camp on the spot in the evening, Bai Feng asked Ivan in the simple military tent he had temporarily set up: "I asked you to secretly go to the Governor's Palace in the county of Nice to monitor the Duke of Nice's every move, what have you gained recently?"

"General Qiyu, the Duke of Nice has not made any special moves in the past half a month, but has been training his own duke's guard as usual, but the prince of Pross in the province of Brojansson has sent three envoys in succession in an attempt to win over the Duke of Nice to support him. ”

"What I need to know is whether the Duke of Nice has accepted the courtship of Prince Pross. ”

"Probably not at the moment. Ivan, who did not dare to use too sure words, explained in detail: "The prince of Pros first sent two envoys to win over the Duke of Nice, and after the Duke of Nice avoided him twice, there was a third envoy to see the Duke of Nice. ”

"The envoy who met the Duke of Nice, although he met the Duke of Nice as he wished, never had the opportunity to be alone with the Duke of Nice, and every time the Duke of Nice received the envoy, he called other officials of the province of Nice. ”

"In this way, the Duke of Nice himself should be unwilling to accept the solicitation of Prince Pross. Bai Feng, who nodded to make his own judgment, asked again: "What is the attitude of the officials at all levels of the Nice Province towards the envoy of the Prince of Pros?"

"The Nice family has been enshrined in the province of Nice for hundreds of years, and they have already run the province of Nice like an iron bucket, from the four officials of the province's military affairs, secretary affairs, civil affairs, and finance, to the city lord and mayor of a city and a town, all of whom are the henchmen and retainers of the Nice family. ”

"Our Highness Pros is not a man to give up easily, and if he can send an envoy three times to win over the Duke of Nice, he will certainly not be discouraged by the Duke of Nice's refusal, and you will immediately send someone to keep the envoy he sends under close surveillance, so as not to secretly bribe the officials of the province of Nice. ”

"No!" Ivan, who had already sent someone to spy on the envoy of the Prince of Pros, did not give any explanation.

When Ivan was about to withdraw from the military tent, Bai Feng seemed to remember something, and stopped him: "By the way, after arranging the shadow killer who monitors the messenger, you go to Hades in person and ask him if Abraham and Woodlo, who stayed in the county town of Brojansson, have any recent changes. ”

"No!"

It wasn't until Ivan left the military tent that Bai Feng, who was dissatisfied with the actions of Prince Pros, began to think about his own countermeasures, which was nothing more than how to win over the Duke of Nice and prevent the betrayal of Count Abraham and Knight Woodlow.

Although Bai Feng knew that the Duke of Nice would not easily accept the woo of Prince Pross, he was still worried that the Duke of Nice would not accept his wooing, and as for Count Abraham and Knight Woodlaw, Bai Feng knew that for the time being, they did not dare to betray him blatantly.

The blood and fire of that night in Browjansson County allowed Bai Feng to discover the talent of the great general of Wink, and also gave Earl Abraham and Knight Woodlaw a taste of what a real slaughter is, and the lessons of the past will be like a sharp sword hanging over their heads.

However, the nature of the imperial aristocracy is mercenary and tends to be inflammatory, but it cannot be changed; no matter how jealous Count Abraham and Knight Woodrow are of the past, they cannot change the nature of the imperial nobility in their bones, which is the nature of the country that is easy to change.

After all, on the surface, GLP's status as a prince and the position of the Grand Governor can completely crush Bai Feng, who is supported by a large number of garrisons, and who can guarantee that Earl Abraham and Knight Woodlaw will not make another 'wise' choice?

Bai Feng knew in his heart that the battle between himself and the Prince of GLP in the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion would only be a game at the political level after all, and the role that the military could play in supporting this kind of military force would not actually be much stronger than other political forces.

Of course, compared to the Duke of Nice, who was in charge of the military and political power of the province of Nice, the Earl of Abraham and the Knight of Woodlaw, who did not have much real power at all, were very insignificant, and the former was the object that Bai Feng really paid attention to and was eager to woo.

On the sixth day of mid-July, the swaying army under Bai Feng was still advancing in an orderly manner, but Bai Feng himself took the eight teams of elite cavalry of the personal guard battalion and the two white flags and three thousand cavalry of the Shenshu battalion, as well as five thousand grassland war horses, and went straight to the county town of Nice.

Sony, the son of Subahai, as the commander of the two white flags and three thousand cavalry of the Shenshu Battalion, his performance in commanding the cavalry was far less than that of Duoduo, but to Bai Feng's surprise, this young Jurchen knight's political sense was unusually keen.

If he was not born in Jianzhou Jurchen, but from the imperial army, then Bai Feng would not mind cultivating him well, but unfortunately, his background decided that he would not have any future until Bai Feng completely conquered the Jurchens.

The movement of 3,000 taels of white-flag cavalry and eight teams of systematic cavalry galloping at the same time is not insignificant, plus 5,000 unloaded grassland war horses, and the smoke and dust raised by the march of nearly 10,000 war horses are enough to attract the attention of the city defense army of Nice Province.

Under the painstaking management of the Nice family, the city defense army of Nice Province is a relatively elite existence in the imperial city defense army, especially when the orc army came to the city last time, the Duke of Nice absorbed a large number of retreating veterans into his city defense army.

Even if Bai Feng led his army to successfully recover the fallen Eastern Provinces, the Duke of Nice, who had taken precautions, still spent a lot of money to purchase a large number of extremely sophisticated weapons and equipment from the Westminster Chamber of Commerce for the refitting of the soldiers of the provincial city defense army.

After several strengthenings, the combat effectiveness of the city defense army of Nice Province will definitely not be worse than that of the imperial standing army in the name of the name, and even the standing army under the command of Bai Feng may not be much stronger than the city defense army of Nice Province.

Seeing that the city defense army of Nice Province, which took the initiative to intercept itself, was actually equipped with sophisticated weapons and equipment that the imperial military department could not come up with, Bai Feng's evaluation of the Duke of Nice immediately raised a notch;

After Bai Feng personally identified himself to the wing captain who commanded the city defense army, the wing captain first saluted Bai Feng respectfully, and then did not immediately let Bai Feng continue to lead his troops forward, but sent someone to the county town of Nice to report to the Duke of Nice for instructions.

In Bai Feng's eyes, the performance of this captain of the city defense army was not inferior to that of the battle-hardened wing captains under his own command, which showed that the city defense army in Nice Province was indeed extraordinary, and the soldiers and officers all had regularity and strength that did not belong to the city defense army.

After waiting quietly for about half an hour, the cavalry sent by the captain to report to the Duke of Nice for instructions was hurried back, and with him came the Duke of Nice himself, and his most elite hundred duke's personal guards!

For the Tianlong Empire, which was already seriously lacking in war horse resources, it was very difficult to form a large-scale cavalry force, and even a local emperor like the Duke of Nice, with golden gold coins in his hands, could hardly buy a large number of war horses.