Women don't want to be seen as active actors. She needs to be completely passive all the time – that's what makes her feminine. She needs to feel herself at the will of others.

– Otto Weininger (Austrian philosopher)

December is the last month of the year 918 in the continental calendar, and it is also the last month of the year when the Great Temple of Apollo immediately summons two teams of special troops.

With the addition of these two teams of Spartan heavy infantry, Luculus's personal guard already had a full eight teams of Spartan heavy infantry, which also meant that the number of personal soldiers around Bai Feng exceeded the 1,000 mark for the first time, reaching 1,280 people.

The personal guards who protect Bai Feng in close quarters are still three, and the addition of Paresi has increased the total number of personal guards from three to four, but Bai Feng is not worried about Sophia, who has another important task, and Bai San is responsible for following Sophia and protecting Sophia's safety.

After Sophia returned from the Sophia Chamber of Commerce last time, Bai Feng had planned to keep Sophia by his side, but as a result, Charlemagne's sudden appointment forced Bai Feng to abandon his original plan and put the counterattack on the provinces of Lyon and Grenoble on the agenda.

As a person who has come over, Sophia naturally understands that the key to the army's recovery of the provinces of Lyon and Grenoble is not the battle between their own army and the orc army, but how to appease the number of refugees in the provinces of Lyon and Grenoble as high as more than 11 million.

With the full support of Luowang, the scale of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce has expanded several times in just one month, and the Sophia Chamber of Commerce, which has more than 9,000 external members and more than 500 core members, still does not have the ability to independently implement the disaster relief plan.

If it weren't for the Westminster Chamber of Commerce's strong assistance before, the Sophia Chamber of Commerce alone would not have been able to save even 800,000 refugees, and even if the Sophia Chamber of Commerce had enough food provided by Bai Feng, they didn't have the strength to quickly distribute the food to the people.

The assistance of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, to a certain extent, taught the Sophia Chamber of Commerce how to use resources more rationally, but Rome was not built in a day, and the Sophia Chamber of Commerce could not reach the heights of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce in just one month.

In order to quickly pacify the refugees in the provinces of Lyon and Grenoble, which are about to be recovered, the Sophia Chamber of Commerce, which is developing rapidly, continues to rely on the strength of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, and more importantly, it is more important to coordinate its own internal institutions and make rational and efficient use of resources.

The first premise for coordinating the various internal institutions is that the Sophia Chamber of Commerce must have a person with high enough prestige and strong ability to personally command the relief plan; there is no doubt that Sophia is the irreplaceable first choice, which is the reason why Bai Feng 'let her go'.

Sophia, who returned to the Sophia Chamber of Commerce again, was clearly protected by the Flame Sword Saint Bai San, and secretly had the impenetrable guards of battlefield ghosts and shadow killers, even if it was an army of 100,000 to besiege Sophia, it was impossible to hurt a single hair of Sophia!

After settling Sophia, Bai Feng set December 17 as the day when the army counterattacked the provinces of Lyon and Grenoble, and on the night of December 16, Bai Feng, who was sitting in the tent of the starry commander, began to issue battle orders in an orderly manner.

"General D'Ambrosio, you will lead your army early tomorrow morning, and within five days you will take the county of Saint-Chamont in the province of Lyon!"

"No!"

"General Bella, your mission is to capture the county of Bogin Giulio in the province of Lyon in seven days!"

"No!"

"General Gianno, your mission is to capture the county of Vienna in the province of Lyon in six days!"

"No!"

"General Aetius, General Keitel, General Brauchitsch, the three of you will form a united army with General Aetius as the commander, and the task I have given you is that you must capture the county town of Lyon, the capital of the province of Lyon, within seven days!"

"No!"

Unlike Aetius's calm expression, Keitel and Brauchitsch, who had been entrusted with the task by Bai Feng for the first time, had a look of excitement and excitement on their faces, and there was a hint of trembling due to overexcitement in their commanded tones.

Without waiting for the salute, they returned to their original positions, and Cunningham, who had just become Bai Feng's staff a few days ago, objected: "General, the three Eastern Legions are all newly built legions, is it a little inappropriate for them to attack the city of Lyon, which is fortified by the high walls?"

"Cunningham, you ......" Keitel, who was stimulated by Cunningham, jumped up with a red face and wanted to refute it, but was stopped by Aetius, the most prestigious of the five Eastern legions, and the other generals looked at Bai Feng on the throne.

If there was no intelligence support from Luo Net, then Bai Feng would definitely not let the three Eastern Legions, which were weak in combat effectiveness, attack the county town of Lyon, which was likely to be heavily guarded by the orc army;

"General Cunningham, the 1st Eastern Army has 10,000 men, and the 3rd and 4th Eastern Legions each have 8,000 men, and if their 26,000 men do not capture the county town of Lyon within seven days, I will personally lead the Yulin Army to reinforce them. ”

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Bai Feng's tasks to the generals have already been determined, but he still saved a lot of face for Cunningham, who took the initiative to advise, which shows that Cunningham's status in Bai Feng's heart is definitely not much worse than that of his confidant generals.

Montgomery, who had just completed the formation of the Tempest Legion for less than half a month, first glanced thoughtfully at Cunningham, who no longer spoke, and then at Aetius, whose face did not change, and a slight trance and incomprehension appeared in his eyes.

"General Assasis, your mission is to capture the county of Romans in the province of Grenoble in four days!"

"No!"

"General Upadama, your mission is to capture the county of Venice in the province of Grenoble in six days!"

"No!"

"General Athos, your mission is to capture the county of Valces in the province of Grenoble in five days!"

"No!"

"General Ranocchia, your mission is to capture Manosk County in the province of Grenoble in seven days!"

"No!"

"General Cabitus and General Luke, you two will form a coalition with General Cabitus as the commander, and I will send two more direct wings from the pro-guard to strengthen you, and what you need to do is to capture the capital of the province of Grenoble within seven days!"

"No!"

"The officers and men of the four armies of the Yulin Legion, the Pro-Soldier Guard, the Death Battalion, and the Hurricane Legion will advance with me to the border of Mengdan Province;

"No!"

All the generals, including Montgomery, stood up in unison to accept the order, and after the meeting, the generals of the various armies left Bai Feng's military tent one after another, except for Lister, the commander of the death battalion, who was left alone by Bai Feng.

"Lister, from here to the border between the province of Lyon and the province of Montain, there are twelve bands of bandits of less than 100 people, and nine bandit gangs of about 500 people along the way; I give you seven days, can you lead the death battalion to exterminate these bandits?"

"Within five days, if you can't exterminate these twenty-one gangs of robbers, the last general is willing to come and see you!" Lister, who was full of confidence in the dead soldiers under his command, made a military order in front of Bai Feng.

"Okay!" Bai Feng, who especially liked the momentum of Lister's body, immediately gave a heavy reward: "I only ask you to exterminate these bandit gangs, as for what you do with the captured robbers, I will not ask, if you need weapons and equipment, you can come to me at any time!"

Naturally, there was no reason why Lister could not understand such a direct meaning; let me ask you, what general with his troops did not want to have as many troops under his command as possible? Lister, who was so overjoyed, almost led his army out late at night and went straight to the bandits.