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The fact that Bai Feng would lead more than 200,000 soldiers of the Fourth Route Army to counterattack the orc army at the beginning of November had already been reported to the Imperial Military Department by Duke Gna, otherwise, how could Duke Cullen give Bai Feng the official names of the five Eastern Legions?

The alliance between the Bai family and the eighth prince is the most shocking event in the imperial political arena in recent years, and the Bai family, which is newly promoted to the third duke, is still far behind the strength of the old five duke families in the empire, but it can definitely be called one of the top powerful families in the empire.

The Eighth Prince, who already had the Minister of Justice Duke Truss as a supporter, after receiving the support of the Bai family in the south, his overall strength jumped to the second only to the eldest prince among the four princes, and the gap between the eighth prince and the eldest prince is shrinking day by day.

Before the alliance with the Bai family, the biggest supporter of the eldest prince was the Minister of War, the biggest supporter of the fourth prince was the Minister of Finance, the biggest supporter of the fifth prince was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the biggest supporter of the eighth prince was the Minister of Justice, which was also the basic pattern of imperial politics.

Among the four princes' private troops, why is the Great Prince's Wind Thieves Group the strongest? Just because his maternal grandfather was the Imperial Minister of War, the Wind Thieves Group has a lot of sophisticated weapons and equipment and heavy equipment of the Imperial military, which is the reason why they are strong.

At that time, the overall strength of the eldest prince was the strongest, followed by the fourth prince with strong financial support, and the fifth prince and the eighth prince were the two weakest princes, and this situation continued until the eighth prince formed an alliance with Bai Feng, who represented the Bai family.

The Bai family, who gave birth to the twin sword saints, not only soared in the southern region in an instant, but even in the empire full of powerful people, they were in the limelight for a while; more importantly, the five major families in the southern realm were self-contained, and the Bai family's statement could represent the entire southern realm to a certain extent.

Having the support of the five great families in the southern realm meant having the full support of at least four saint-level powerhouses and five imperial standing legions, and such a strong force could almost instantly rewrite the balance of power between the four princes.

In fact, after forming an alliance with the Bai family, the weakest Eighth Prince surpassed the Fourth Prince and the Fifth Prince in one fell swoop, becoming the second strongest prince after the Great Prince.

If the Eighth Prince was only allied with the five major families in the South, perhaps the Great Prince would not be too worried, after all, his maternal grandfather was the Minister of War of the Empire, and with the help of this relationship, his influence in the Imperial Army far exceeded that of the other three princes.

The support of the imperial military and the imperial aristocracy are the two indispensable pillars of any prince's ascension to the throne of the emperor;

The four imperial ministers, Duke Cullen, Marquis Hammond, Marquis Boris, and Duke Truss, who are deeply involved in the battle for the throne, let their daughters marry the emperor, and their grandsons are the emperors?

In the eyes of Charlemagne, who was in the prime of his life, the open and secret struggle between the four princes was the only way to select a qualified emperor heir, and he deliberately indulged and even encouraged his sons to compete, and balanced the strength of the four princes as much as possible.

However, the sudden rise of the Bai family and the ferocious attack of the orc army completely broke the balance of power between the four princes, and the fourth prince and the fifth prince, who became the weakest of the powers, formed an alliance to support each other after the eighth prince and the Bai family formed an alliance.

In this way, the original four dragons have evolved into the current three-legged situation, and the strength of the four princes and the five princes who joined forces is basically the same as that of the eight princes, and both sides are slightly inferior to the eldest prince.

Later, the Orc army captured Sunset Fortress, and the ruling class of the Empire, which was doing everything they could to deal with this unprecedented crisis, focused all their attention on how to stop the westward advance of the orc army and the southward advance of the steppe army, and did not have time to care about anything else.

When the orc army was blocked to the east of Nice Province and the steppe army was blocked north of Metz Province, the imperial magnates who had recovered from the situation discovered an astonishing reality: that is, the shrinking power of the Great Prince and the Fourth Prince, and the re-expansion of the power of the Eighth Prince!

The province of Alsace, where the most elite dragon slayer knights under the command of the four princes is located, was captured by the cavalry wave of the steppe tribes; no matter how strong the dragon slayer knights were, they could not withstand the fierce attacks of countless steppe cavalry, which were hundreds of thousands of steppe horsemen.

After a fierce encounter, the Dragon-Slaying Knights, which the Four Princes, with the financial support of the Marquis of Hammond, spent several years to build, but were devastated by the steppe cavalry, and retreated to the province of Metz at the cost of almost total annihilation.

The four princes, whose strength is concentrated in the north of the empire, have been hit hard by this, and their overall strength has dropped to the point where they are not even as good as the five princes, and the great prince is also unfortunate, whose strength is concentrated in the east of the empire, but this time he has been hit hard by the orc army.

The Swift Wind Thieves who narrowly escaped were just a force deployed by the Great Prince in the eastern part of the Empire, and all other forces loyal to the Great Prince in the Eastern Empire were completely destroyed by the orc army.

After this battle, the strength of the Great Prince has shrunk by at least more than 40%, and he has no advantage at all compared to the Undiminished Eighth Prince, and unfortunately, the attack of the orc army not only did not weaken the strength of the Eighth Prince, but strengthened the strength of the Eighth Prince.

The Imperial garrison of Sunset Fortress fought a war that humiliated the Empire, and lost the Sunset Fortress, which had not fallen since its construction, and this was a war that had been unsuccessful, but Bai Feng's performance was enough to be compared with the famous generals in the history of the Empire.

With 150,000 remnants defeated, he attacked the encirclement of 300,000 orc armies head-on, first killed more than 50,000 orc warriors, then defeated 50,000 wolf cavalry, and finally rescued three friendly troops by himself.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the latest recruitment propaganda of the Imperial Military Department, Bai Feng and the most elite Seventh Wing under his command have long become the idols of countless Imperial recruits, and this is the reason why the battle cluster has become the Feather Forest Legion, and the Empire in defeat needs heroes.

With his real military exploits, coupled with the strong recommendation of Duke Gna, Duke Kleist, Duke Rundstead and others, Bai Feng, who was only eighteen years old, became the youngest army commander in the history of the empire, and more than 200,000 troops were in his hands.

Bai Feng is the core member of the Bai family, the Bai family is an ally of the Eight Princes, and the more than 200,000 troops in Bai Feng's hands are basically equivalent to the expansion of the Eight Princes' power into the imperial army;

If the Fourth Route Army under Bai Feng's command is also counted as the power of the Eight Princes, then the overall strength of the Eight Princes has increased by at least more than forty percent, and the overall strength of the Great Prince has shrunk by forty percent and the Eight Princes whose overall strength has increased by forty percent, the strength comparison between the two has reversed!

As a result, the Great Prince and the Eighth Prince engaged in a series of fierce confrontations in the imperial capital over the situation in the Fourth Route Army and the eastern part of the empire, and it was not until mid-October, when Charlemagne personally issued several orders, that the increasingly excessive behavior of the two of them was slightly restrained.