Life is like the splendor of summer flowers, and death is like the quiet beauty of autumn leaves.

– Rabindranath Tagore (Indian poet, philosopher, and Indian nationalist)

In public, the gaffes of Luis and Di Maria embarrassed the three generals Cavani, Tevez, and Renard, who had recently been promoted by Duke Cullen, even though they had only met Duke Cullen once, but they all had the Mark of Duke Cullen.

All new standing legions in the imperial capital will inevitably be appointed by the Imperial Military Department before going to the front, and meeting with the Imperial War Minister and the highest military commander of the Imperial Military Department, Duke Cullen, is a process that every legion commander must follow before taking office.

In a sense, the commander of every Imperial Standing Legion is a subordinate of the Minister of War, Duke Cullen, and the commander of the Royal Legion, which is not subordinate to the Imperial Military Department, is appointed by the Emperor himself, so he is naturally not a subordinate of the Minister of War.

With the exception of the occasional commander appointed by the emperor himself, even the commander of the army, who was a confidant of the prince's army, had to meet with the Imperial Minister of War before taking office, and the commander of the 40th Legion, Giskal, had also gone to the Imperial Military Headquarters to meet with the Duke of Cullen before taking office.

However, the Commander of the Giscard Army was the confidant of the Eighth Prince Prologs, and the Duke of Cullen was the maternal grandfather of the Grand Prince William, and everyone knew that the interview between the two was just a routine affair, and nothing substantive would happen.

Commanders like Cavani, Tevez, and Renard, who were promoted by ordinary generals in the army, are different, if they are not recognized by the Imperial Minister of War, they will not be able to successfully promote to the Imperial Commander, this is the unspoken rule of the Imperial military world.

Ordinary generals who do not have special abilities and family backgrounds, if they want to be promoted to the rank of army commander, they must be recognized by the Imperial Minister of War; that is to say, the relationship between Cavani and others and Duke Cullen is very close.

Otherwise, there are hundreds of Wing Captains in the Imperial Army, why should Cavani, Tevez, and Renard be promoted from Wing Commander to Legion Commander, while other Wing Captains who are not inferior to them in ability and seniority are still in the position of Wing Captain.

General Louis and General Di Maria, who are not on good terms with Duke Cullen, are able to sit firmly in the position of Legion Commander because they were already the Legion Commander in the Imperial Army long before Duke Cullen became the Minister of War of the Empire!

Based on the principle that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, Bai Feng, who knows something about the situation of Louis and Di Maria, decided to find a time to win them over.

As for the three corps commanders who are close to Duke Cullen, Cavani, Tevez, and Renard, in a short period of time, Bai Feng will not entrust them with important tasks, and the three legion lieutenant generals and officers at all levels who remain in their legion will become the core force of Bai Feng gradually seizing their legions.

After comforting Commander Louis and Commander Di Maria with kind words, Bai Feng proposed to let his henchman Pereira stay in the 16th Army Corps as the deputy general of the legion;

In fact, before Bai Feng led his army north, at the beginning of the rebuilding of the 14th and 16th Legions, Duke Cullen had sent two henchmen to serve as lieutenants of these two legions;

No matter how many shady open and secret battles are hidden behind the sacrifice of these two legion lieutenants sent by Duke Kulun, Duke Kulun, as the Minister of Military Affairs of the Empire, can only smash his teeth and swallow them in his stomach, and silently endure the death of his henchmen and generals in vain.

Until the dangerous situation of the two fronts of the empire was completely alleviated, Duke Cullen, who knew Charlemagne's temperament, would not dare to deal with Louis and Di Maria, two highly prestigious generals in the army, just as he did not dare to deal with Rundsteadt.

After easily killing the lieutenant general sent by Duke Cullen, Luis's 14th Legion and Di Maria's 16th Legion remained without a lieutenant until White Peak appeared and appointed Pereira as the lieutenant general of the 16th Legion.

Since Louis and Di Maria decided to take the initiative to go out of the camp to welcome Bai Feng's arrival, it means that they will not take the initiative to make Bai Feng an enemy, not to mention that the appointment of a mere corps deputy general is not enough to make Louis and Di Maria, who are used to seeing strong winds and waves, have doubts.

Frankly speaking, if Bai Feng, who had just arrived, as the supreme commander of the army, did not do anything to strengthen the control of the various armies, Louis and Di Maria would have questioned Bai Feng's ability;

After leaving the barracks of the 16th Legion, Bai Feng came to the barracks of Louis's 14th Legion, accompanied by five corps commanders including Louis and Cavani; there is no doubt that the 14th Legion is indeed superior to the 16th Legion.

After about twenty minutes of inspection, Bai Feng appointed his henchman Caboul as the deputy general of the 14th Legion; Di Maria had already accepted Bai Feng's arrangement, so how could Louis have any objections now?

Bai Feng, who had completely received the five standing legions in just one morning, did not stay in any of the barracks for lunch, and before returning to Besançon, Bai Feng specially issued an order to the five legion commanders to go to their mansions in three days to discuss the military situation.

The absolute main force of the counterattack on Langxiang Province must still be the Feather Forest Legion and the Fire Legion brought by Bai Feng from the east of the empire, as well as the Pro-Soldier Guard and the Iron Blood Guard, and the remaining Wind Legion and the five standing legions are all countermeasures to the main army.

The general arrangement will not change like this, but when it comes to the specific tasks of each legion, it is necessary for Bai Feng to slowly discuss and decide with the commanders of each legion; moreover, brainstorming and discussing the military situation is very valuable to the improvement of Bai Feng's initial counteroffensive plan.

When it comes to Bai Feng's initial counteroffensive plan formulated by himself, he has to mention a newly summoned system general and two teams of highly practical special troops; it is the achievement of these two basic prerequisites that led to Bai Feng's counteroffensive plan.

As one of the most important buildings in the city of Rome, the value of the Ancillary Monument of Apollo has greatly promoted the development of the city of Rome, especially in the three aspects of system population, special troops, and system generals, it has irreplaceable value!

The Great Temple of Apollo has five attributes, namely: first, it increases social security by 15% because of happiness, second, it increases social security by 15% because of the law, third, it increases the population of Rome by 2000 every month, fourth, it randomly summons two special troops (non-Roman and does not account for the number of troops) every three months, and fifth, it can hold a summoning ceremony every three months, and you can recruit a general with 1000 gold.

The arrival of the last New Year was just right for Bai Feng to recruit a new system general and two teams of special troops; Bai Feng, who did not choose to summon four system generals at once by consuming the power of faith, only summoned one system general, but summoned someone he didn't expect.

When it comes to the person who helped Bai Feng the most in the Roman world (see the rise of the Roman Total War Empire for details), some people will say that it is Luquis, and some people will say that it is Carabes, but Bai Feng himself thinks that this person is Hades, the supreme commander of the tragic dead!