If you love a person, then love him as a whole, and love him as he is, instead of wanting him to be this way and that.

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

The 100,000 men of the two Roman legions and the two Lucie legions landed on the moorings in the harbor and the small boats equipped on the transports, and in the end, the landing operation, which was supposed to last two days and two nights, ended twelve hours ahead of schedule.

After the two Roman legions landed, Marcus's Sixth Roman Legion was sent directly to the southern part of the country by Hakufeng, and the latest mission of the Sixth Roman Legion was to rush to the southern part of the country to guard against the lone army of the Sanwan Date family.

Katakura Kojuro, who is most trusted by Date Masamune, the governor of the Date family, and Goto Nobuyasu, who is known as Huang Goto, these two important generals of the Date family, and the 30,000 Date family army under their command, no matter how deep they are alone, they are a force that cannot be ignored.

Although the 30,000 troops under the command of Katakura Kojuro and Goto Nobuyasu were not strong, they were not something that the unarmed people of the Yanhuang family could deal with, and if they suddenly attacked the unsuspecting hinterland of Mutsu Province, the consequences would be serious.

In order to prevent this from happening, Marcus's Sixth Legion was sent by Hakumine to the southern part of the Mutsu Kingdom, and of course, when Hakuho gave Marcus an order, he also specifically told him: If the Date family does not move, then the Sixth Legion must also stand still.

Before the Yanhuang family was ready for full-scale war, Bai Feng did not want the Date family and the Uesugi family to know about the existence of the Roman legions in advance, so as long as the Date family did not make a 'cross-line' move, Bai Feng did not mind tolerating the invasion of the Date family army for the time being.

With the strong Sixth Army stationed in the southern region of Mutsu Province, guarding against the 30,000 soldiers of the Date family hiding in the mountains and forests, the safety of the southern part of Mutsu Province does not need to worry about Bai Feng anymore, and then, Bai Feng only needs to prepare for the upcoming big battle.

Luculus's Seventh Legion was the main army of Rome City with exactly the same organization as Marcus's Sixth Legion, and Willed's Second Lucy Legion and Valc's Third Lucian Legion were certainly inferior to the Roman Legion in terms of combat effectiveness, but they were superior in the number of soldiers.

The Lucy Legion, which had seven super-formed wings, had an astonishing 5,000 soldiers in each wing; you must know that the combat effectiveness of the 5,000 barbarian warriors was not inferior to the standing army of the Yanhuang family with 10,000 or 20,000 men, and even surpassed!

The 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers of the Yanhuang family, which abolished the peasant and soldier system, were roughly equal to the 30,000 or so armies of other families, and the battles between Sanada Masayuki and Iwashimizu Yoshinori at Takasuji Castle and Bian Seok Imperial Palace had proved that this ratio was realistic, and it was only low.

This means that each of the large combat wings under the jurisdiction of the Lucy Legion can defeat the 30,000 or so Ida's or Uesugi army, and the full Lucy Legion can confront the 200,000 or so Yamato Imperial troops.

Don't think that the 200,000 Yamato Imperial army can heap up 35,000 barbarian warriors, this simple quantitative comparison is far from reflecting the huge gap in combat power between the two armies; the brave and fearless barbarian warriors may not all be super soldiers who are six in one place, but their high morale and indomitable will are something that the Ashigaru of the Yamato Empire can't catch up with.

Another important factor contributing to the disparity in the combat strength of the two armies was that the armies of the major families of the Yamato Empire were mixed with an extremely large number of peasant soldiers; these peasant soldiers, whose morale was low and their equipment was extremely poor, was indeed quite capable of bluffing people in terms of numbers, but their actual effect was not great.

If it is a battle that is sure to be won, then these peasant soldiers who can only wield hoes and can't even hold bamboo guns and wooden spears can play some role in fueling the flames;

When the newly-born Yanhuang family attacked the Tsugaru family, the large number of peasant soldiers in the Tsugaru family's army really strengthened the momentum of the Tsugaru family, but when the two armies fought a decisive battle, the peasant soldiers who were about to collapse at the touch of a button became the chicken ribs of the Tsugaru family.

In fact, it is not appropriate to compare the peasant soldiers to chicken ribs, because the chicken ribs that are tasteless and discarded are also of a certain value, not worthless waste, and the defeated peasant soldiers have no other effect than to affect the morale of the friendly troops and disperse the formation of the friendly troops.

More importantly, the peasant soldiers armed by ordinary young and strong people are extremely valuable labor assets of each family, and once a large number of people die on the battlefield, it will not only affect the victory or defeat of a battle, but also the rise and fall of a family!

In the age of cold weapons or the era of demonic weapons, no resource is more precious than labor resources; the size of the young and strong population directly determines what kind of development potential a force has, and only by having more young and strong forces can we have the capital to move towards a stronger future.

In view of this, Bai Feng, who did not want to waste the precious labor resources of the Yanhuang family, decided to completely abolish the peasant and military system that had been practiced in the Yamato Empire for thousands of years in the Yanhuang family, and the people of the Yanhuang family were able to live and work in peace and contentment.

Because the 70,000 Luci soldiers of the Second Luci Legion and the Third Luci Legion have always been unsatisfactory in terms of military discipline, Bai Feng deliberately left the Seventh Roman Legion to operate with the two Luci Legions, in order to supervise them at all times.

With the Roman soldiers of the Seventh Roman Legion and the Lucy soldiers supervising the two Luci legions, in practice, it is inevitable that there will be some friction that Bai Feng does not want to see;

The Lucy soldiers, who were accustomed to being free and casual, would always do things that seemed to disturb the people, but in fact they were not too out of line, and the Roman soldiers, who attached great importance to military discipline, would severely punish the Lucy soldiers who violated military discipline when dealing with similar things.

After just three days, the army composed of the Seventh Roman Legion, the Second Lucy Legion, and the Third Lucy Legion, which was still two-thirds of the way from Sanhe Castle, had already broken out more than a dozen clashes between Roman soldiers and Lucy warriors.

Fortunately, the Lucy soldiers and Roman soldiers involved in the conflict maintained due restraint and did not use weapons in the conflict, even so, Bai Feng, who was troubled by these trivial things every day, had to find a way to solve the problem in front of him.

After detailed consultations with the three corps commanders, Luculus, Vered, and Valk, Bai Feng decided to transfer some of his personal guards and some of the soldiers of the three legions to form a military police brigade dedicated to supervising the military discipline of each legion.

This gendarmerie brigade, which shoulders the heavy responsibility of supervising the military discipline of each legion, is composed of 150 samurai from Bai Feng's side, 150 elite soldiers from each of the three legions, and a total of 600 soldiers and soldiers, and is specifically divided into three gendarmerie teams of 200 people.

In order to enhance the authority of the military police brigade, Bai Feng himself personally served as the captain of the military police brigade, and the three subordinate military police units were respectively served as the military police captains by Bai Feng's personal guards, Nanbu Toshinao, Izumiyama Masayoshi, and Hattori Heiji.