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Among the military forces of the city of Rome, the town militia that originally belonged to the town guard has all been disbanded by Bai Feng, and even if those town militias are the most suitable for the image of real Roman soldiers, that cannot change the fact that their combat effectiveness is low.

Rather than let them waste the valuable systematic army recruitment slots in Rome City, it is better to disband them directly in exchange for more slots to recruit other more useful troops, and Bai Feng, who did not lack that little recruitment funds, very decisively disbanded those town militias.

In fact, the disbandment of the town militia was only the first step in Bai Feng's reorganization of the town guards; immediately after that, Bai Feng imitated the model of the Tuntian Command and set up a new organization responsible for commanding all the town guards, the garrison headquarters.

The twelve towns newly built with the people of the original Werther tribe as the population of the town, plus the original six towns of the city of Rome, the total of eighteen town guards directly under the town, all add up to thirty-six brigades and eighteen thousand soldiers.

Although these town guards are scattered in the eighteen directly subordinate towns, they are also a large force, especially the role they play, which makes Bai Feng dare not take it lightly, and Bai Feng still understands the reason why the embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in an anthill.

Therefore, the cautious Bai Feng personally selected the commander of Ward for the garrison headquarters that commanded the town guard; Speaking of this Ward, he is also one of the senior generals of Rome City, and he is the barbarian general who followed Bazel to surrender to Rome City.

When Bazel was still the leader of the tribe, Ward was one of the most important generals under Bazel, and later, with the death of other generals, Ward became the only general under Bazel's command who could stand alone.

Since Bazel surrendered to Rome to form the Tiger Legion, Ward, who has been following Bazel, has become a member of the Tiger Legion, and the history of the external expansion of the city of Rome is the combat history of the Tiger Legion, and it is also the history of Ward's exploits in the southern and northern wars.

It is no exaggeration to say that Ward, who served as the captain of the first elite infantry wing of the Tiger Legion, was definitely the best general in Rome after the commanders of the legions, and even when Bazel was the commander of the army, Ward temporarily commanded the Tiger Legion.

Ability, strength, and experience, this is Bai Feng's impression of Ward; Ward, who has these advantages, almost has the qualifications to let Bai Feng reuse him, and the only thing that is still lacking is to let Bai Feng recognize his loyalty.

Just as Bai Feng was considering the candidate for the commander of the garrison headquarters, the brave and warlike Ward was one of Bai Feng's candidates, or one of the most suitable candidates, and an incident happened to push Ward to the position of commander of the garrison headquarters.

The Tigers, who had suffered heavy losses in the war to conquer the Werther tribes, were undergoing intensive personnel reorganization and recovery training like the other legions, and Bazel, who was in charge of the legions, wanted Ward to be the commander of one of the Tuntian Military Districts.

There were two reasons for Bazel's decision, one was that Ward was capable enough to serve as the commander of the Tuntian Military Region, and the other was that he wanted to take the opportunity to expand the influence of the Grenor faction, otherwise the Grenor faction would be the weakest faction.

Leaving aside the recent emergence of the Werther faction, Eggers' Esini faction and Gamilios' Tasia faction, as well as Wendell and Simpson's barbarian faction, now have stronger strength than the Grenor faction, which is what worries Bazel the most.

The major factions in the city of Rome, which are only in the stage of growth and growth, have not yet had any real fighting, only some limited competition, but who can guarantee that this mild competition will not gradually turn into a more fierce factional struggle?

Out of the strength of his own faction, Bazel made up his mind to take Ward to the governor's residence of White Peak, and after detailed discussions between Bazel and White Peak, Ward, who was willing to offer loyalty to White Peak, was appointed by White Peak as the commander of the garrison headquarters of the city of Rome.

The garrison headquarters, which had only 18,000 soldiers of the town guards, was comparable to a Tuntian military district under the Tuntian Command in terms of strength alone, but in terms of the rank of generals, Ward's rank was the same as that of Gamilios.

Obtaining the position of commander of the garrison command does not allow Bazel's Grenor faction to have the strength to compete with several other rapidly growing factions all at once, but at least it can strengthen the strength of the Grenor faction and balance the strength of the major factions.

If Ward's appointment as the commander of the garrison command was the result of Bai Feng's balancing of the factions within the city of Rome, then Nabazzani's voluntary resignation as the commander of the First Legion of the Essini Kingdom was the inevitable result of Rome's deliberate suppression of Nabazani and Assam.

The compromise between Nabazani and Assam made the nobles of the Essini Kingdom who had been purged by Queen Boudicca full of hatred towards them, and the subsequent death of tens of thousands of Essini warriors gave these nobles a reason to attack Nabazani and Assam.

After returning to the kingdom of Aceni from the bloody battlefield, the exhausted Nabazani resolutely chose to retreat in the face of the swarm attack of the kingdom's nobles, and handed over the military power of the First Legion to Queen Boudicca, who had a close relationship with the city of Rome.

Taking advantage of this golden opportunity, Queen Boudicca decisively appointed the loyal General Naldoba as the new commander of the First Legion, and so far, three of the four legions of the Aceni Kingdom have been firmly controlled by Queen Boudicca.

These three legions included not only the Third Legion, which numbered 20,000 men, but also the most elite Legion, and the newly annexed First Legion, bringing the number of troops under the control of Queen Boudicca to 50,000.

Assamese, who was still the commander of the Second Legion, was in a more difficult situation than Nabazani, because Nabazani's retreat caused the nobles who had originally attacked the two of them to shift all their attacks to Assamese.

Fortunately, Assam's psychological endurance was strong enough, otherwise the saliva of those nobles would have been enough to make him give up the Second Legion, and Assam, who decided to carry it to the end, was not a fool, and he wanted to relieve his pressure by showing his allegiance to Queen Boudicca.

Unfortunately, the wise Queen Boudicca would not trust Assam so easily, and the politically gifted Queen Boudicca had no intention of helping Assam relieve his pressure until Assam surrendered his Second Legion.

As a result, the status quo in Rome's military power chart was revealed, with Nabazzani's First Legion already under the control of General Naldoba, loyal to Queen Boudicca, and Assam struggling to maintain his control of the Second Legion.