"Chapter 22: On the March"

Parents or guardians should not allow their children to have a close relationship with only one person, otherwise, the child will not be able to adapt well to life later in life.

โ€“ Alfred Adler (Austrian psychologist)

After sending Lรณpez's 2nd Division and Bartloli's 4th Division, the elite forces on Bai Feng's side were only Borg's 3rd Division and Leonardo's Feather Wing, as well as Lucurus's Pro-Guard and Ranocchia's Predator's Guard.

Although the four newly formed Eastern Legions had 32,000 fully equipped soldiers, their overall combat effectiveness was not high; even the most brave and combative Yulin Wing under Bai Feng could not compare with the orc warriors in individual combat strength, let alone the new soldiers of the Eastern Legion.

The reason why the generals of the Yulin Legion were able to compete head-on with the orc army was not their own good individual combat strength, but the advanced three-column battle array and shield wall tactics;

On the way forward, Borg's 3rd Division walked at the forefront, followed by Leonardo's Feather Wing, in the middle was the personal guards guarding Bai Feng, then the four Eastern Legions, and behind was the Iron Guards of Ranocchia.

After the last setback, Ranocchia devoted all his energy to the training of his men, who trained for eight hours a day for the Standing Legion, ten hours for the Royal Legion, and an astonishing fourteen hours for the Iron Guard.

Sweating more in peacetime and shedding less blood in wartime is the basic survival rule of the army, and the high-intensity training brings sweat to the soldiers of the Iron Guard, and at the same time, it also makes their combat effectiveness rise rapidly, even reaching the level of surpassing the Fire Legion.

The seemingly powerful full-fledged Flame Legion is not as strong as it seems on the surface, and the veterans of the city defense army who have been added to the Fire Legion in large numbers do have more combat experience than the new recruits, but they are very unfamiliar with the combat mode of the Royal Legion.

If an inexperienced recruit is compared to a blank sheet of paper, then an experienced veteran is a piece of paper full of words, and it is simple to write on a blank piece of paper, but it is not so simple to leave a unique mark on a piece of paper full of words.

Rodriguez, who was appointed by Bai Feng as the acting commander of the legion, and Danilo, who was the acting deputy general of the legion, did not have the experience of serving as the commander-in-chief of an army independently, and they suddenly took the position, and they did not even perform the basic duties of commanding the army, so that the training of the Flame Legion was slightly chaotic.

Such a fire legion, with 50,000 veterans as its own foundation, is only stronger than the other six standing legions, and if their comparison object is replaced by the Yulin Legion that has completed a full redress, then they can only be completely crushed.

In view of this, Bai Feng did not send the Flame Legion to D'Ambrosio's army, at this time, the Fire Legion did not have the strength to fight independently at all, and their Royal Legion brand had an extraordinary attraction to the orc army.

The two empires, which had been at war for hundreds of years, knew each other very well about each other's situation, for example, the Imperial army was well aware of the shortcomings of the orc army, the most courageous of which were the tiger warriors, and the most fearless of the werewolf warriors.

In the same way, the orc armies were well aware of the distinction between standing legions and royal legions in the Imperial army, and the commanders of the orc armies knew that the total annihilation of several standing legions in the empire was an acceptable loss for the empire.

If the orc army can annihilate a royal legion on the battlefield, the blow to the hearts and minds of the imperial army and the people is definitely not comparable to a few standing legions, so the total annihilation of a royal legion of the Celestial Dragon Empire has always been the long-cherished wish of the commanders of the orc army.

Judging from the current situation of the Fire Legion, their combat effectiveness is basically equivalent to that of the three standing legions, and they only need about 20,000 orc warriors at most to severely damage the Fire Legion in battle;

In order to avoid the situation that the Flame Legion was heavily damaged or annihilated by the orc army, Bai Feng had to keep the Fire Legion by his side;

Two hours after the swaying army marched, Sophia, who had been sent by Bai Feng to supervise the cavalry as the commander, rode a horse to Bai Feng's side alone; looking at Sophia with an angry face, Bai Feng, who was looking at the magic map, asked curiously:

"Sophia, why do you look angry, is something going on?"

"What else can it do? Isn't it just a good thing done by those orcs and beasts!" Sophia, who gritted her teeth, said with red circles in her eyes: "Just now I led the war overseers and found a village destroyed by orcs and beasts, which was full of innocent people who had been tortured to death. โ€

"That's why we're here, isn't it?" Bai Feng, who sighed silently in his heart, comforted Sophia, "If the rule of the orcs is better than the rule of the Empire, what are we going to do here, it is because the people of the Empire are being bullied that we are here." โ€

"But the reason why these innocent people were slaughtered was because we didn't hold Sunset Fortress, right? If we had held Sunset Fortress, these people's homes would not have been attacked by the orcs, and they would not have been slaughtered. โ€

Listening to Sophia's words full of self-reproach, as well as her unconcealed crying, Bai Feng's heart was also uncomfortable; at this time, Bai Feng, who was a man, gently patted Sophia's back, who was still riding on a war horse, and comforted her softly:

"It's not that we didn't hold Sunset Fortress that caused the orcs to fall their homes, but that the orc army first captured their homes and then took Sunset Fortress from us, so you really don't need to blame yourself for that. โ€

"What's more, we have sacrificed nearly a million soldiers in Sunset Fortress to resist the attack of the orc army, and I believe that with the heroic spirit of these millions of soldiers blessed us, we will definitely be able to expel the orc army and reclaim their homeland for those innocent people!"

"Hmm. Sophia, who lowered her head, was obviously in a better mood under Bai Feng's comfort, and after a long time, she said with a firm expression: "Bai Feng, I believe that you will definitely be able to avenge those victimized people and take home the garden for those innocent people!"

A woman in love will always be full of almost blind admiration for her love object, and Sophia, who is four years older than Bai Feng, no matter how indifferent she behaves in the Imperial Academy, she is still a girl after all, and she inevitably has a similar admiration for Bai Feng.

After this unpleasant incident, Bai Feng did not let Sophia leave the army with the overseer cavalry, and the terrain reconnaissance mission within a radius of fifteen miles of the army was handed over by Bai Feng to Cabaye to carry out, which was the duty of the cavalry wing.

The supervising cavalry named 'Green Cavalry' by the Fourth Route Army is the military police unit that Bai Feng uses to supervise the battles of various armies; in fact, among the various legions under Bai Feng's command, it is estimated that there are only four Eastern Legions that can use Bai Feng's supervising cavalry.

Whether it is two royal legions or six standing legions, the proportion of veterans is very high, and with these veterans who are experienced in fighting with the orc army as the backbone, even the newly formed standing legion will not easily collapse on the battlefield.

On the other hand, the four Eastern Legions, which were all composed of young refugees, not only lacked experienced veterans, but also did not have many officers and men who could skillfully use the basic tactics of the imperial army;