Tradition is to perpetuate the fire, not to worship the ashes.

- Stav Mahler (outstanding Austrian composer and conductor)

At the beginning, the reason why Wen Ke, who did not perform well on the battlefield, was favored by Bai Feng at a glance, was not because of his loyalty, but because of his extremely commendable training ability.

Just like Yu Ban Yu Wenze, one of the five good generals in the Three Kingdoms period, why can Yu Ban, who has repeatedly changed courts, be reused by all the lords of the forces that subdue him? It is precisely because of his unique training ability that is different from ordinary generals!

The number of generals who are good at training and those who are good at command is always not too small, and the number of the former is always not too much; although a decent training mode can train good soldiers, a truly strong army is specially trained.

Wen Ke, who has good command ability, has always served as an officer at the level of a joint commander in the army, and it is not clear whether he can be qualified for the post of corps commander; only his training ability, which is very different from ordinary people, shines in the 300,000-strong army.

Looking at the 300,000 troops under Bai Feng's command, in just three months, a wing with less than one-tenth of the number of veterans can be trained into a wing leader whose performance on the battlefield is no less than that of a pure veteran wing, and Wen Ke is only one person.

If it weren't for the Marquis of Bedouin who was appointed by Charlemagne as the governor of Brojancson Province, Bai Feng would be reluctant to leave a talent like Wink in Brojancson Province, this is the future general that Bai Feng focuses on cultivating, and his development potential is greater than that of the army commander.

With Wink, who is good at military training, as the commander of the city defense army of Broyangsson County, at least Bai Feng does not have to worry that the city of Broyangsson County will be completely controlled by the Marquis of Bedouin; if necessary, the 3,000 city defense troops led by Wink will let the Marquis of Bedouin see what a strong army is!

According to Adrian's assessment of the combat strength of the 3,000 city defense troops under Wink's command, after several months of Wenk's personal training, the city defense army, whose combat strength of 3,000 was not even inferior to that of the Eastern Legion, already possessed combat effectiveness that was not inferior to that of the standing army.

The standing legion here, which is a measure of the combat effectiveness of the city defense army, is not the standing legion with poor combat effectiveness formed by the Imperial Military Department, nor is it a standing legion with too many recruits stationed in the province of Nice, but an elite standing legion under Bai Feng's command.

The fact that Adrien could receive such an evaluation showed that the combat effectiveness of the 3,000 city defense army under the command of Wink was indeed growing rapidly, and in comparison, the city defense army of the other three counties of Broyangsong Province was much worse in terms of combat effectiveness.

However, the 6,000 city defense army on the surface was only the city defense army formed by Bai Feng leading the army out of the province of Broyangson, and the military officer Moritz took some targeted precautions long before the Marquis of Bedouin arrived in the county town of Broyangson.

Moritz, who spent a long time traveling to the counties of Broyangcson Province, successively ordered the military officers and city defense commanders who remained in the three counties of Ambrandt, Gap, and Le Monnier to secretly recruit young men to form a reserve city defense army.

By the time Moritz and the other four were dismissed from their posts by the Marquis of Bedouin, the number of reserve city defense troops in the three counties had reached more than 6,000 people, which was twice the size of the city defense army in the three counties, so the total strength of the city defense army in the other three counties was actually nearly 10,000.

The Marquis of Bedouin, who had an army of only 25,000 under his command, had no time to send troops to the other three counties because he had to maintain enough troops in the city of Brojançon to deal with the threat of the garrison of the three divisions of the Agni Legion, and at the same time to disperse his forces in Brojançon County to take control of the county as soon as possible.

As a direct consequence of this, the Marquis of Bedouin's forces were always concentrated in the county of Broyangçon, and it was difficult for them to infiltrate the other three counties, and the down-and-out nobles who had been sealed to the other three counties had to stay in the county of Broyangçon for the time being, not daring to go to the post alone.

With 30,000 soldiers in the three divisions of the Fire Legion, 25,000 soldiers under the command of the Marquis of Bedouin, and 3,000 soldiers under the command of Wink, the number of troops in the county of Brojançon was nearly 60,000, and the first problem brought about by the overabundance of troops was the lack of food.

In the barracks of the city defense army in the county town of Brojansong, there was a large amount of military rations left for Wink when Bai Feng left, and on the premise of no accidents, this batch of military rations was enough for three thousand soldiers of the city defense army to eat for a year, so Wenk never had to worry about the problem of lack of food.

In the province of Brojancson, which is in the post-war recovery stage, the food in the hands of ordinary people is the relief food that Bai Feng distributed free of charge through the Sophia Chamber of Commerce, which means that the Marquis of Bedouin cannot obtain food through expropriation.

The 30,000 soldiers of the Fire Legion ate their horses and chewed their horses, consuming ten times as much food as the soldiers of the city defense army every day, and the Marquis of Bedouin, who was only concerned about expanding the army, invisibly increased the pressure on the army's food, so that the little food left was consumed at a faster rate.

Half a month after the orc army took the initiative to evacuate Mengdan Province and Bai Feng took the opportunity to lead the army to recover Mengdan Province, the Marquis of Bedouin, who had purchased grain from the Westminster Chamber of Commerce four times in a row, finally reached the situation where he had no money to buy grain.

Without food, the 15,000 officers and men subordinate to the Governor's Office and the 10,000 officers and men belonging to the military affairs department will fall into the dilemma of not having enough to eat, and a sharp decline in their combat effectiveness is inevitable; what is more fatal than the decline in combat effectiveness is a sudden drop in morale and a wavering in the morale of the army.

From the provision of food for three meals a day, to the improvisation of two meals a day, to the present bowl of gruel with half a piece of black bread a day, the 25,000 soldiers under the command of the Marquis of Bedouin, the daily complaints can be transmitted from the military camp outside the city to the governor's palace in the city.

If the soldiers under the command of the Marquis of Bedouin were mainly complaining, then the 30,000 soldiers of the Fire Legion were full of anger, because the food they could eat every day was only a small bowl of gruel with clear rice grains, not even half a piece of black bread!

In the eyes of the soldiers of the Fire Legion, they originally had enough military rations left for them by Bai Feng before he set out on the expedition, and it was the Marquis of Bedouin who took away their military rations, which caused them to fall into the dilemma of not even being able to eat their stomachs, all of which was the fault of the Marquis of Bedouin.

This understanding is obviously wrong, although Bai Feng left a lot of military rations to the Flame Legion, it will not be able to last to this day; if it weren't for the Marquis of Bedouin who paid for a few times to buy food, I'm afraid that the soldiers of the Flame Legion would have run out of food a long time ago.

Marquis Bedouin, who carried the black cauldron, could only blame him for taking half of the military rations belonging to the Fire Legion, and if he hadn't repeatedly ignored the feelings of the Fire Legion soldiers, the Fire Legion's soldiers would not have been so deeply resentful of him.

The new and old hatred between the Fire Legion and the Marquis of Bedouin determined that they would meet each other sooner or later, and even if the generals of the Fire Legion were willing to endure the oppression of the Marquis of Bedouin, it did not mean that the soldiers of the Fire Legion would endure it forever.

First half of the military rations were distributed, then the reserve weapons and equipment were taken away, and then the weapons and equipment were stripped off, and the patience of the soldiers of the Fire Legion was worn out little by little;

More than 50 squadron commanders who spontaneously organized themselves, together with more than 5,000 officers and men belonging to three divisions under their command, attacked the barracks of the army under the command of the Marquis of Bedouin before dinner, killing and wounding more than 300 officers and men of the opposing side who dared to resist, and robbing all the food in the barracks.

The soldiers of the Fire Legion, who returned to the barracks with half a month's ration of 15,000 soldiers under the command of the Marquis of Bedouin, were treated like heroes, and the cheers that resounded through the barracks forced Eder and other generals to swallow the punishment they had thought of back into their stomachs.

That night, the soldiers of the Fire Legion, who had not eaten enough for more than ten days, had a sumptuous dinner, but as everyone knows, the army of the Governor's Palace, which they had robbed of their grain, launched a counterattack without even asking the Marquis of Bedouin!

The soldiers of the Fire Legion, who had eaten their stomachs, thought that they and the others had eaten the food they had brought back, and that even the Marquis of Bedouin could not do anything to themselves, so they went back to their tents and slept after they had eaten.

The three division commanders of Eder, Ospina, and Sania, who were aware of the seriousness of the problem, did not think that the army of the Doge's palace would dare to attack their own army without their own strength, and they were troubled by how to explain to the enraged Marquis of Bedouin early tomorrow morning.

In the huge barracks, except for the patrol soldiers of less than 1,000 people, the other soldiers were already asleep, and the army of the Governor's Palace, which knew that they could not defeat the Agni Legion, did not intend to storm the Agni Legion barracks, and they were ready to attack the Agni Legion in the same way.

The vengeful soldiers of the Governor's Mansion lurked outside the camp of the Burning Legion for more than four hours, and when they were sleepy after midnight, 15,000 soldiers of the Governor's Mansion brazenly launched a fierce attack on the camp of the Burning Legion!

The gate of the humble barracks was directly broken open by the troops of the Governor's Palace, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the Governor's Palace, whose food had been taken, entered the barracks of the Agni Legion with the support of hatred.

In the dozen or so military tents closest to the gate of the barracks, the soldiers of the Fire Legion who had just woken up did not even have time to get their weapons in their hands, and they were hacked to death by the troops of the Governor's Mansion who rushed into the military tents, and there was no chance to resist at all.

As one of the Royal Legions, the Fire Legion was not slow to react after all, and after the initial chaos lasted for more than ten minutes, the soldiers of the Fire Legion who walked out of the military tent with weapons in their hands, under the command of their respective squad leaders and squadron leaders, immediately began to counterattack.

Seeing that the generals of the army of the Governor's Mansion could no longer take advantage of the fighting, they ordered the soldiers who had succeeded in the sneak attack to quickly evacuate the camp of the Agni Legion, and on the other hand, they asked the more than 2,000 soldiers guarding the periphery of the barracks to throw torches at the barracks covered with military tents!

Torches flew all over the world, igniting military tents made of thick white cloth covered with animal skins, and the entire barracks of the Flame Legion became a raging fire camp in an instant, and at least 2,000 soldiers of the Fire Legion were burned alive.

The massive attack by the Governor's Palace army caused casualties to the Burning Legion of 3,000 soldiers killed and more than 5,000 wounded, and in the face of such heavy losses, how could the soldiers of the Burning Legion not take retaliatory measures?

The commander of the Ospina Division, who had suffered the heaviest losses among his men, directly led his 3rd Division to pursue and kill the Governor's Mansion army, which wanted to retreat and escape, and the Governor's Palace's army, which had already planned to retreat, withdrew to the county town of Broyangsund.

Nearly 50,000 soldiers outside the city shouted and killed in a scuffle, and naturally it was impossible to hide from the forces in the city; Wen Ke, who had learned of this in advance through the officers of the city defense army who were hiding in the army of the governor's palace, only gave orders to the soldiers under his command to prepare for battle.

Wen Ke, who was sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight, had no idea of leading the army to intervene in tonight's melee, and the purpose of his order to prepare for battle to the 3,000 soldiers of the city defense army was only to ensure that the city defense army would not suffer an unwarranted disaster in tonight's melee, and other things had nothing to do with the city defense army.

The soldiers of the military affairs department, who were ready to meet the army of the Governor's Palace, opened the gate of the city that should have been closed for the retreating army of the Governor's Palace in time, and watched the army of the Governor's Palace hiding in the county town, and the soldiers of the Flame Legion who killed the red eyes brazenly launched an attack on the county town!

According to the speculation of the generals of the Governor's Palace, the Fire Legion would not dare to attack the Governor's town of Brojansson, as long as it survived until tomorrow morning, and the Governor himself intervened, the Fire Legion would have to suffer this dark loss.

The army of the Governor's Palace, who had hid in the county town of Broyangsong, did not expect that the soldiers of the Fire Legion would dare to directly attack the county town of Broyangsong, and the shouts of killing in the sky frightened the soldiers of the Governor's Palace, who were originally only noble guards, turned pale and trembled their legs.

"Hamilton, what is happening outside the city, why is the camp of the Flame Legion in flames?Why is our provincial capital under attack?Is it the orc army calling?!"

The Marquis of Bedouin, who had not even dressed properly, looked nervous and asked one after another questions to the Earl Hamilton, who had hurried over, and the Earl Hamilton, who had only come to the relative safety of the Governor's Palace with his family, knew what was going on in the confusion.

Just when Earl Hamilton was struggling to answer, Count Abraham, who rushed to the Governor's Palace with Woodlow and other knights, explained to the Marquis of Bedouin: "Governor, a scuffle broke out between the Fire Legion and the Governor's Palace army, and now the Fire Legion is attacking us!"

"How is this possible?!" The Marquis of Bedouin, who felt incredulous, subconsciously asked: "How could the army of the Governor's Palace have a scuffle with the Fire Legion, didn't I strictly order them not to provoke the Fire Legion easily? Could it be that the Fire Legion made the first move?"

"Your Excellency the Governor, this afternoon more than 5,000 soldiers of the Agni Legion attacked the barracks of the Governor's Palace's army, stole the food of the Governor's Palace's army, and killed and wounded more than 300 soldiers of the Governor's Palace......"

Before Count Abraham could finish speaking, the Marquis of Bedouin, who was so angry that he overwhelmed the panic, jumped to his feet and scolded: "They first attacked the army of our governor's palace, and now they dare to attack our capital, what do they want to do? Do they want to rebel?!"

"Governor, tonight's scuffle was sparked by a retaliatory attack by our Governor's Palace's troops, who reported that they had killed and wounded at least five thousand or more of the Legion of Fire while attacking and burning down the camp of the Legion of Fire. ”

"What?!The Fire Legion has 5,000 casualties!! "The heavy casualties of the Fire Legion are beyond the imagination of the Marquis of Bedouin......

What is the Royal Legion? The Royal Legion is a direct legion loyal to the Emperor and the Imperial Family! The news that the army of the Doge's Palace attacked the Legion of Fire and caused the Legion of Fire to suffer heavy losses made the Marquis of Bedouin, who relied on Charlemagne's trust to ascend to the throne, vomit blood in anger.

"Abraham, you immediately send someone to arrest all the middle and high-ranking generals in the army of the Governor's Palace, and then send someone to tell the soldiers of the Fire Legion outside the city, let them not attack for the time being, I will definitely give them a satisfactory explanation!"

"Governor, do you think the soldiers of the Fire Legion outside the city will believe our promise?" Count Abraham, who smiled bitterly, suggested to the Marquis of Bedouin, who had lost his mind, "It is imperative that we first find a way to hold the capital, and when it is dawn, there may be a chance to turn around." ”

Like a drowning man grasping at the last straw, the distraught Marquis of Bedouin took Count Abraham's proposal as his own lifeline, and he asked Count Abraham in an eager tone: "What is the silver lining?"