Find your purpose, and the method will follow.

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

The formation of the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon took less than half a month from beginning to end, and among them, Alexander and Antico, who were appointed by him as the owners of the Two Red Banners, were not ordinary generals, but generals who grew up by the centurion of the ironclad cavalry.

At the time of the decisive battle of the D'Orville Gorge, it was difficult for the Yellow Banner and Red Banner cavalry to be captured by Donald's cavalry legion alone, so after the surrender of the two Blue Banners, the systematic cavalry in the pro-guard was sent by Bai Feng to pursue and defeat the fleeing enemy.

In the process of pursuing and defeating the fleeing cavalry with yellow flags and red flags, the centurions of the ironclad cavalry, Alexander and Antigonus, were the commanders of the two pursuing units, and the pursuing troops under their command killed hundreds of recalcitrant enemy cavalry before they were able to advance.

The increase of the two systematic cavalry generals is definitely a good thing for Bai Feng, who has added more than 50,000 elite cavalry under his command, and the position of the banner master of the two red flags is only the first step for Alexander and Antigonus to gradually control the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon.

The direct impact of the fall of the New Eight Banners and the recovery of Longxiang Province was that the Imperial Military Department responded to Bai Feng's needs, from the replenishment of the Lancer Regiment to the replacement of weapons and equipment of the 74th Legion, countless soldiers and materials were being continuously transported to the county town of Longchamps.

All the armies under Bai Feng's command, including the Lance Legion, lost a total of more than 59,000 soldiers, not to mention the dead soldiers of the Death Battalion and the Spartan Legion, and the additional soldiers needed by the other legions were still as high as 46,000.

In such a large-scale decisive battle, the loss of weapons and equipment of the officers and men participating in the battle was even greater, and the weapons and equipment of more than 30,000 officers and men were completely destroyed and urgently needed to be replenished by the military headquarters; in addition, there were also about 50,000 officers and men whose weapons and equipment urgently needed to be repaired by the military department.

In the face of Bai Feng's request for all kinds of materials, the military headquarters, which had always used insufficient reserves as an excuse to prevaricate the border army, was unexpectedly unexpectedly generous; not only did all the materials meet their needs, but even the 50,000 recruits who had undergone at least three months of training that Bai Feng demanded, the military headquarters did not refuse!

However, the military department's response was not so easy to obtain, and the price Bai Feng paid for this was that he had to lead the army to recover the province of Mulhouse within three months, and if this task was not completed within the time limit, Bai Feng would lead the army to attack the Khitan army.

Compared with the tens of thousands of Eight Banner cavalry occupying Mulhouse, the hundreds of thousands of Khitan troops that Wanyan Agu fought were the real behemoths, and Bai Feng, who had just barely won the battle of the D'Orville Gorge at a heavy price, did not think that his army could defeat the Khitan army.

Of course, this does not mean that two or three hundred thousand Khitan cavalry can do whatever they want in the Tianlong Empire, but the army under Bai Feng's command really needs time to build up its strength; the newly replenished soldiers need to be trained, and the newly issued weapons and equipment need to be familiarized, and these take time.

More importantly, the surviving officers and men of the Lance Corps, the 74th Corps, the 77th Corps, and other regiments that suffered heavy losses were all veterans who had experienced brutal and bloody battles; the corps with them as the core only needed a year and a half of running-in to greatly improve its combat effectiveness.

In addition to the 48,000 Tianlong Eight Banners and the 4,000 Guards Eight Banners, there were still 780,000 cavalry of the New Eight Banners who had not yet been placed in the prisoner camp.

Bai Feng, who had no time to take care of anything else for the time being, just ordered the soldiers of the Fire Legion to escort these captives into the city every day to clean up the ruins and build houses, so that they could atone for the sins they had committed.

The Death Battalion, which performed particularly well in the decisive battle, received Bai Feng's key care this time, and more than 15,000 captured Eight Banner Infantrymen were all incorporated into the Death Battalion; in addition, more than 1,000 elite members of the Yulin Legion were drawn out to supplement the Death Battalion.

After this round of replenishment, the total strength of the Death Battalion increased rapidly from more than 3,000 after the war to 20,000, which was already the same as a fully established Imperial Standing Regiment.

No cannon fodder unit can survive for a long time, not even an elite cannon fodder unit like the Death Battalion, it is impossible; either it is exhausted on the battlefield, or it is absorbed by other armies by virtue of its combat exploits and combat strength, and this is the fate of the cannon fodder troops.

The so-called self-transformation means that the death battalion relies on its own efforts and Bai Feng's attention to get rid of its identity as cannon fodder and transform into a conventional combat unit no different from other legions.

Based on the current record of the Death Battalion, it is not enough for them to truly transform themselves, and in the future, they must build more meritorious deeds and replenish more innocent and brave soldiers in order to get rid of the cannon fodder hat they have been wearing on their heads.

In stark contrast to the Death Battalion was the Lance Legion led by Cabitus himself, and it turned out that not every system general was suitable to be the commander of a large army, or that some general-type system generals needed time to grow.

The university in the city of Rome is not only a place for non-systematic generals to learn Roman tactics, but also a place for systematic generals to further improve their own abilities; generals-type generals will inevitably improve their own commanding ability after systematic study in the university.

It is not too late to make amends, and only if you don't change your mistakes will you eventually cause a catastrophe; Bai Feng, who wanted to send Cabitus and other system generals to study in the university, was helpless to find that the army under his command could not be separated from the command of these system generals in a short period of time.

Although Cabitus was not a qualified commander-in-chief, his bravery on the battlefield was indeed good, at least the soldiers of the Lancer Regiment's reverence for him was undeniable;

Not only Cabitus, but also other system generals who have not yet exposed their own shortcomings need to enter the university to study, even if they cannot be transformed by this, proper learning can also improve their abilities and optimize their performance on the battlefield.

The merits of the army of Quintus and the army of Ranocchia, which had successfully completed the task before the decisive battle, were fully affirmed by Bai Feng;

The role of the new weaponry on the battlefield is obvious to all officers and men; how can the Yulin Legion resist the charge of the elite cavalry of the Zhenghuang Banner head-on and not be defeated? It is precisely the skillful coordination of the new weaponry and the special battle formation that it relies on.

In order to give better play to the role of new weapons and equipment and improve the combat effectiveness of the main army corps, the five standing corps, mainly the 14th and 16th army corps, will be built by Bai Feng into elite corps using new weapons and equipment in the whole army.

The 74th, 77th, 82nd, and 84th Army Corps, which had suffered serious losses, had to replace the old weapons and equipment provided by the Imperial Military Headquarters on a large scale while giving priority to replenishing their troops.