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The successive return of Maxi and Darnell brought back the active cooperation of the Aceni Kingdom and the Lucy Kingdom, but a large-scale expansion of the army is not something that can be solved in a sentence or two, and the training of soldiers and the distribution of weapons and equipment cannot be solved in a short period of time.

Even if they prioritized the expansion of the legions participating in the expedition, the time required for the expansion of those legions to be completed would not be less than a month, and a month later, the two participating legions of the Essini Kingdom and the two participating legions of the Luci Kingdom would arrive in Rome one after another.

Of course, the total number of soldiers of these four legions was as high as 120,000, and it was impossible for them to be transported by the newly formed First Fleet of Rome, and the First Fleet transports that were still under construction were always only 100,000, and they could only transport about 100,000 soldiers at a time.

The 6th and 7th Roman legions, with more than 15,000 soldiers, and the Dragon's Legion, with more than 14,000 soldiers, have been confirmed to participate in the expedition, and 60,000 shogunate soldiers will be the main force of the expeditionary army.

The two shogunate armies of 30,000 soldiers each commanded by Fuishin and Anto Ietada, who were independent of the Roman city system, and were the main forces of Rome's attack on the Uesugi and Date families, and it seemed imperative that they be given official names.

Helplessly, Bai Feng didn't know what kind of official name to give to these two powerful armies; in other words, the word shogunate was not suitable for these two armies, after all, the current Yanhuang family was not qualified to use the name of shogunate.

If one day in the future, the Yanhuang family, which is one with Rome City, finally destroys all the hostile forces of the Yamato Empire and becomes a unique and powerful family in the Yamato Empire, then the Yanhuang family, which dominates the Yamato Empire, can do whatever it wants.

But before this day really comes, if the Yanhuang family wants not to become the public enemy of the Yamato Empire, they must follow the rules of the game within the Yamato Empire, such as not using the term transgression, respecting the emperor of Kyoto, accepting orders from the shogun, and so on.

Even though all the families of the Yamato Empire and the samurai throughout the empire knew that the so-called emperor was no longer in existence and that the shoguns who once ruled the world were weak, as long as there was no overlord in his place, all the forces still had to abide by the rules on the surface.

The rules of the game for the hegemony of the major families of the Yamato Empire determined that the Yanhuang family could not use the word shogunate without authorization, unless the current shogun was willing to give the name of his family's shogunate to the Yanhuang family, and the Yanhuang family could use the name of the shogunate.

This is like the Spring and Autumn Period in Chinese history, when all the princes of the world knew that the Son of Heaven of the Zhou Dynasty had declined, but every overlord of the world would choose to use the trick of respecting the king to determine his hegemony;

After several careful considerations, Bai Feng finally decided to name the two shogunate armies that were about to go out in the name of the Yanhuang family, but the name of the Yanhuang Standing Army had already been occupied by the armies of Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Nobuyoshi, and Bai Feng had to name him another name.

At the initiative of Bu Weixin and Anton Jiazhong, Bai Feng named the 30,000 elite divisions under Bu Weixin the First Army of the Standing Army of the Yanhuang Banner, and the 30,000 ordinary divisions under the command of Anton Jiazhong as the Second Army of the Standing Army of the Yanhuang Banner.

In the future, the Standing Army of the Yanhuang Banner, which terrified countless Yamato families, was born, and the legions of the Standing Army of the Yanhuang Banner, which had a rather cumbersome name, were finally directly defeated by the enemy at their hands and called the Banner Legion!

Many years later, when Sanada Nobuyoshi, who was the first general of the Yanhuang family, asked Bai Feng why he named this powerful army after the banner, Bai Feng's answer was: Who let these soldiers have a banner behind their backs?

Yes, the most memorable thing about the distinctive shogunate is that each of them has a banner waving in the wind behind them, so that the first impression they give people is that they are numerous and magnificent.

After the First Banner Regiment and the Second Banner Regiment received their official titles, under the command of their respective commanders, they began to train multiple arms to cooperate in combat; in particular, facing cavalry, which was the focus of the training of the Banner Corps, which had no cavalry establishment.

In fact, there were many types of cavalry in the shogunate's arms, including the sword cavalry for 900 koku, the archers and pikemen for 1,000 koku, and the hoplites.

The reason why Bai Feng did not recruit these shogunate cavalry was entirely because the shogunate hall system was a real system built based on the virtual shogunate all-out war;

It is no exaggeration to say that the combat effectiveness of the shogunate cavalry is even inferior to the Roman light cavalry that will die in the battle, plus the cavalry recruited at the same price is only a third-order army, while the infantry is a fourth-order army, and the cost performance of the gap also makes Bai Feng disappointed in the shogunate cavalry.

Fortunately, the first-order spear ashigaru and the second-order spear samurai are all typical pike-type troops, and as long as the generals who command them do not make major mistakes, the spear-like troops can still deal with small-scale cavalry charges.

In the mountainous Yamato Empire, the only family that formed cavalry on a large scale was the Takeda family in Tokaido, and the Kai Elite Cavalry, which was the Takeda family's mighty Megatron, was indeed the most powerful cavalry cluster in the Yamato Empire, but so what?

The number of Kai elite cavalry is limited, and at its peak it was only four or five thousand cavalry, and after the battle with the Uesugi family, it is now estimated that it is difficult to say whether there are even three thousand cavalry; can three thousand elite cavalry break the defense line built by 30,000 spears and foot light?

When the disparity in quantity is so great that it cannot be made up for by quality, no matter how elite the army is on the inferior side, it will be difficult to escape the fate of final destruction, so the task that Bai Feng gave to Yubu Weixin and Andong Jiazhong is to make good use of their own numerical advantage.

As soon as Bai Feng had arranged the training of the 60,000 shogunate troops, Powell, one of the responsible persons of the Green Chamber of Commerce over there, came to the Governor's Mansion;

The support foundation was jointly established by 27 large chambers of commerce with assets of more than 100,000 gold coins and 100 small and medium-sized chambers of commerce with assets of not less than 10,000 gold coins.

Among them, the Green Chamber of Commerce contributed 30,000 gold coins, becoming the chamber of commerce with the largest contribution among all the chambers of commerce supporting the foundation, and Powell himself donated 1,000 gold coins to the support foundation in his personal name in addition to the Green Chamber of Commerce.

In Bai Feng's view, it is extremely rare for the Green Chamber of Commerce, whose total assets are only one step away from 300,000 gold coins, to be able to use one-tenth of its assets to support the development of the foundation;