Hope is the mother of passion, it is pregnant with strength, it is pregnant with life, in a word, hope is the master of all things in the world.

- Premchand (Indian Hindi writer, king)

The night before the last day of the Mutsu Voyage, Hakumine gathered all the captains and co-captains of the Roma and the Imperial into the conference room of the Roma, so that the originally spacious conference room became crowded.

Marcus's Sixth Roman Legion and Luculus's Seventh Roman Legion each had four Roman captains and three Barbarian Bow Captains, while Wiled's Second Lucy Legion and Valk's Third Lucy Legion each had seven Barbarian warrior captains.

Originally, the Lucy Legion did not have the position of Wing Commander, because the Lucy Legion only had the name of a Romanesque legion, but there was no Romanesque legion, and its actual establishment was still a typical barbarian formation, with noble warriors to divide the number of warriors into different numbers.

The Second Luci Legion and the Third Luci Legion, which first arrived in Rome, each legion had hundreds of noble warriors, and the number of ordinary warriors under the command of each noble warrior varied, the minimum may only be one hundred and eighty warriors, and the maximum can have thousands of warriors.

What's more, these noble warriors are generally not with their respective warriors, but stay with their commanders, which directly leads to their very loose organization and very slow execution of orders!

In order to change this backward status quo of the Lucy Corps, Bai Feng carried out a compulsory reorganization of the two Lucy Corps; the so-called reorganization refers to the establishment of combat units at all levels of squads, squadrons, brigades, and wings in the Lucy Corps, which has almost no establishment to speak of.

Ten ordinary soldiers are a squadron with the strongest fighter in the squad as the squad leader, ten squadrons are a squadron with the strongest squadron leader as the squadron leader, and ten squadrons are a squadron with the strongest squadron leader as the squadron leader.

Considering the aristocratic system of the Lucy Kingdom, all the officers at the rank of captain in the Lucy Legion were served by the weaker noble warriors in the legion, because the rule that the strong in the barbarian world were respected determined that the strength of the noble warriors was inevitably stronger than that of ordinary warriors.

The three-level organization of squad, squadron, and brigade, the Lucy Legion completely referred to the Romanesque legion structure; when the wing was established, Bai Feng adjusted the size of the Lucy Legion according to the actual situation.

Because the number of soldiers in the two Lucy legions is as high as 35,000, if the standard wing establishment of 2,000 soldiers in the full four brigades is used, the number of wings in each Lucy legion will reach at least seventeen, which is not conducive to the command of the corps commander.

In view of this, Bai Feng adjusted the wing establishment of the Lucy Legion to five thousand soldiers of ten brigades under his jurisdiction, so that the number of wings of each Lucy Legion was maintained at seven, which was conducive to the control and command of the legion commander over the legion.

It is worth mentioning that the Essini Legion, which was originally modeled after the Roman legion, was also adjusted by Bai Feng with the increase in the size of the troops;

After the four corps commanders and twenty-eight co-captains of the four legions gathered in the conference room, Bai Feng did not rush to get to the point, but asked Maxi and Darnell, who had been studying the situation of the Yamato Empire with him recently, to introduce the situation of certain countries to the generals present.

The four countries closest to the Yanhuang family, Izuha, Hitachi, Ueno, and Shimono, are the focus of Maxi and Darnell's introduction, especially the Date family, which is still one of the top ten strongest families in the Yamato Empire, is the top priority of the introduction!

Although only the core territory of the Date family is now left in the Noyi country, the courage of its family governor Date Masamune should not be underestimated, so the five most important castles of the Date family in Shimono Province are listed one by one.

Among the five major castles of the Date family, Yonezawa Castle, the main city of the Date family, was naturally the most fortified and the most important was Yonezawa Castle, the main city of Yonezawa Castle, which was always the main city of the Date family, and the current lord of Yonezawa Castle was left behind to keep the political scene.

He was the third son of Date Harumune, the last governor of the Date family, and the half-brother of the previous governor Date Terumune, and in the tenth year of Yongroku, the eighteen-year-old Masakai was succeeded as the adopted son of the Left-behind Hyeonjong and became the governor of the left-behind family.

The annexation of the left-behind family was of great significance to the complete unification of Shimono Province by the Date family, so the left-behind Masakei who had made great contributions was deeply trusted by his brother Date Terumune, and this trust remained unchanged until Date Masamune succeeded him as the family governor.

In addition to the third uncle of the family governor Date Masamune, who stayed behind to serve as the lord of Yonezawa Castle, there is also the old Date Minoto of the Date family in Yonezawa Castle;

In addition, the most prestigious of the Date family, the two fierce generals father and son, Oniting Zuo Yuebi and Ghost Court Tsunamoto, the former is the elder of the family who stayed in Yonezawa Castle to manage all the military rations of the Date family, and the latter is the Ada family general who commands the 10,000 defenders of Yonezawa Castle.

The second most important castle of the Date family was Sugime Castle, which was dominated by Harada Munetoki, and was commanded by the subordinate general Yashiro Keyori in command of the 6,000 defenders of Sugime Castle, followed by Watari Castle, which was led by Watari Motomune, and by the subordinate general Itami who commanded the 4,000 defenders of Watari Castle.

Watari Motomune, like Stay-at-home Masakai, was the uncle of the family governor Date Masamune, and his contribution to the Date family allowed him to retain his position as lord of Watari Castle after the Watari family was annexed by the Date family.

In terms of generation, Ita Minori, the general of the garrison of Watari Castle, who is known as the 'number one general' of the Date family, is also the uncle of the family governor Date Masamune, because his father, the old Date Minoto of the Date family, is the uncle of the family governor Date Masamune.

The fourth most important castle of the Date family was Koizumi Castle, of which Koibun Moriaki was the lord of the castle, and the commander of the 4,000 defenders of Koizumi Castle was the general Date Morisshige, who was undoubtedly the uncle of the family governor Date Masamune.

The last important castle of the Date family was the castle of Lifu Castle, where the remaining Hyeonjong served as the lord of the castle, and the commander of the 4,000 defenders of the castle was the general Shiraishi Muneki.

The elder of the Date family, Xuanba Motoshi, who assisted Hyeonjong in the governance of Rifu Castle, was not only a young and powerful man with lofty ideals, but also a confidant of the family governor Date Masamune, and it was foreseeable that once the remaining Hyeonjong died, it would be Xuanba Motoshi who would succeed him as the lord of the castle in the future.

The prosperous Date family maintained their family's rule over Shimono by reusing their own family members, which had the advantage of stability and the disadvantage of restricting the development of external talents.

Of course, compared to this political pros and cons, the generals in the conference room were more concerned about the military strength of the Date family, which had 28,000 defenders in these five important cities, plus more than 10,000 defenders in other towns, and the number of standing troops was about 40,000.

According to the normal ratio of peasant mobilization in the Yamato Empire, the Date family has 40,000 standing troops in Shimono Province, and can mobilize up to 120,000 peasant soldiers, provided that the Date family has enough time to slowly mobilize farmers scattered throughout Shimono Province.