If a person accepts fate and all the pain attached to it, and bears his cross, he has ample opportunity to deepen the meaning of his life, to preserve its stoic, honorable, and selfless qualities, even in the worst of circumstances. Otherwise, in the brutal struggle for self-preservation, he may well become indistinguishable from an animal because he forgets his human dignity.

—Victor Frank (Professor of Psychosology and Psychoanalysis)

Bai Feng, who was holding the detailed inside story of the 'fire' incident in the county town of Bronjansson, who was sent back with a net, asked Adrien, who was standing in the military tent, "Adrien, do you think this Count Abraham from Vienna is worthy of our trust?"

"According to the investigations of our intelligence officers in the county of Vienna, the Earl of Abraham is not a small power, but he is not a small name, and as a county warden before the fall of Vienna, he is respected and loved by the local people for repeatedly exempting them from taxes. ”

"This only proves that he is a good official, isn't it?" Bai Feng, who was indifferent, said that he did not approve of Count Abraham, or that he did not like betrayers, which has always been one of Bai Feng's employment criteria.

Adrian, who has been following Bai Feng for a long time, naturally will not fail to hear the deep meaning of Bai Feng's words, and his attitude towards this is: "General, if you don't like this Count Abraham, I can make him disappear 'mysteriously' in this world. ”

"No, whether I like him or not, he shouldn't disappear at a time like this. After shaking his head and rejecting Adrien's proposal, Bai Feng frowned lightly and said, "We need a smart person like him to help us win over a group of nobles who are willing to be loyal to us. ”

"General, in the melee of the county town of Brojansson, all the nobles who chose to follow the Marquis of Bedouin have been strangled by the Captain Wink, and those who have secretly taken refuge in us have been divided into two factions, headed by Earl Abraham and Knight Woodlow. ”

"Two factions?" Bai Feng, who frowned slightly again when he heard this, said to himself as if asking: "Isn't Woodlaw a staunch follower of Abraham, why did they suddenly split into two factions, and what happened in between?"

Adrian, who didn't know the inside story, didn't make any response to Bai Feng's self-talk, and Bai Feng, who was thoughtful, didn't shy away from Adrien in the military tent, but thought about it on his own.

For a nobleman, what is the most important thing? money, power, status, woman, strength, family, family, family, family, Bai Feng, who had a flash of inspiration, suddenly woke up; for the nobles of the Heavenly Dragon Empire, family is their most important foundation.

This meant that both the self-conscious Earl Abraham and the upright Knight Woodrow would prioritize their family's interests before making any decisions, and the so-called division was just a means for them to better preserve their respective families.

Bai Feng, who wanted to understand the key to this, no longer wasted time on this matter, but directly changed the topic and said: "Adrian, what do you think of Wenk's performance in this melee? In addition to Luo Net's report, I would like to hear your personal opinion. ”

"This ......" Adrian, who was not good at judging others, replied in a cautious tone after a short period of thought: "If you look at it only from a military point of view, Commander Wink's command ability is in no way inferior to any of your generals, or even surpassed. ”

"From a military point of view only?" Bai Feng, who was relaxed, said with a faint smile on his face: "Adrian, when did you even learn to play dumb riddles?" You are one of the people I trust the most, you can say whatever you want without scruples. ”

"General, I think the greatest specialty of Commander Wenk lies in his training and command of troops, as well as his adaptability, and his outstanding performance in these three aspects is enough to prove that Commander Wenk has the ability to command thousands of troops and horses, and is indeed a general's talent worthy of further education. ”

At the same time, his greatest flaw is that he does not mix personal emotions in his work, or he is too ruthless in dealing with people, and his behavior of slaughtering the nobles who surrendered voluntarily deprives him of the opportunity to establish friendships with other nobles, which is not conducive to his future development. ”

In all fairness, Adrien's rating of Wenk is very pertinent, highlighting Wenck's merits and abilities, and pointing out Wenck's shortcomings and defects.

Bai Feng, who had an undeniable attitude towards Adrien's evaluation, did not reveal his heart to Adrien on the spot, which in Adrien's view, was actually a concrete manifestation of Bai Feng's refusal to reuse Wink.

Because a general with equally obvious advantages and disadvantages does not have anything particularly outstanding compared to the existing generals under Bai Feng's command who have more advantages than disadvantages, so Adrien naturally thinks that Bai Feng, who values quality over quantity, will definitely not reuse Wink.

It turns out that even Adrian, who has been following Bai Feng's side, can't really understand Bai Feng's thinking mode, and for Bai Feng, who is a superior person, Wenke's biggest flaw is an alternative advantage in itself.

What kind of subordinates can win the favor of the superiors the most? This kind of question, asking a hundred superiors, will inevitably get a hundred different answers, but for Bai Feng, his favorite is the subordinates who are outstanding in ability, not overly ambitious, and loyal to him.

In terms of ability, the melee that took place in the county town of Brojansson undoubtedly became a stage for Wink to perform alone; in terms of loyalty, Wink was able to be selected by Bai Feng from among countless middle-level officers to serve as the commander of the city defense army of Brojansson, which in itself shows that his loyalty is trustworthy.

More crucially, Winck's bloody strangulation of the Marquis de Bedouin and his followers proved in a way that he was a man without great ambitions, and if he had more ambitions, he would not have killed all the nobles who surrendered.

From the point of view of personal interests alone, the dead surrendered nobles can only bring a lifetime of inexhaustible stigma to Wink, which is not good for Wink himself, and the only beneficiary is Bai Feng, who can take the opportunity to take back the military and political power of Bronjansson Province.

The surviving surrendered nobles can not only bring Wink endless wealth for a lifetime, but also help him establish a good reputation in the aristocratic circle, which is definitely a big temptation for Wink who was born in an ordinary family.

Wen Ke, who was able to refuse this temptation without hesitation and make the seemingly simplest but most difficult choice, really shocked Bai Feng, who was far away in Mengdan Province;

Early the next morning, when the events in the city of Bronjansson arrived at Bai Feng's military camp in the form of an official report, Bai Feng, who was feigning anger, gave the first order to dismiss Wink from his post as commander of the city defense army, and ordered him to immediately lead his army to the province of Montan.

As for the specific number of soldiers in the army led by Wen Ke, the figure given by Bai Feng was 1,500 elite members of the city defense army, and the remaining elite city defense army and more than 6,000 ordinary soldiers, as well as the surrendered army of the governor's palace, will be reorganized into a new city defense army.

In order to strengthen the overall strength of the city defense army of Broyangsson Province, the size of the reorganized city defense army of Broyangsson County will be expanded from the original 3,000 soldiers to 5,000 soldiers, and the size of the city defense army of the other three counties of Broyangson Province will also be uniformly expanded to 3,000 soldiers.

At the same time as the expansion of the city defense army of the province of Brojansson, there is also the city defense army of the province of Toulon, after the expansion of the city defense army of the province, the total strength of the city defense army of the province will reach 14,000, plus the thousands of elites left by Wink, their overall strength will be improved to a certain extent.

After the 'fire' incident in the county town of Brojansson, the three division commanders of the Fire Legion, Eder, Ospina, and Sania, came to Chabelle County, Mengtan Province, where the White Peak's army was stationed, and swore allegiance to White Peak, who was secretly in control of everything.

The fact that Eder, Ospina, and Sania were able to sit in the positions of commanders of the Fire Legion Division showed that they were not purely military generals who did not understand politics, and the death of the Marquis of Bedouin forced them to seek foreign help when they first led the army to attack the county town of Brojansson.

Otherwise, once the news of the death of the Marquis of Bedouin is known to Charlemagne, who is far away in the imperial capital, Eder and the others, who are unreasonable, will definitely be severely punished by Charlemagne;

Using the number of troops under his command as a measure of strength, Duke Gna, who is above Bai Feng, is undoubtedly a more suitable person than Bai Feng, but Eder and the others are not fools, they naturally know that it is impossible for Duke Gna to accept their allegiance.

As for the commanders of various armies who are second only to Duke Griffa and have the same status as Bai Feng, Duke Albert, Duke Kleist, Duke Reinhardt, Duke Rundstead, etc., their age determines that their development potential is far less than that of the young and promising Bai Feng.

In addition, the close relationship between Rodriguez, the acting commander of the Fire Legion, and Danilo, the acting lieutenant of the Legion, and Bai Feng is not a secret within the Fire Legion, and besides, the Brojansson County, where these three divisions are stationed, is Bai Feng's 'territory'!

In view of the above reasons, there seemed to be a lot of choices in front of Eder and the others, but in fact there was only one: the three division commanders of Eder, Ospina, and Sania, who were aware of the current affairs, offered their loyalty to Bai Feng in time to obtain Bai Feng's protection for them.

After the affairs of the Bronjansong Province came to an end, the construction of the defense line in the Mengdan Province became the focus of Bai Feng's time and energy; the joint deployment of the Fifth Route Army and the back and forth movement of millions of soldiers were enough to keep the six army commanders busy to death.

According to the arrangement of the Duke of Gna, the 300,000 soldiers of the Fourth Route Army under the command of Bai Feng should deploy a defensive line in Chabelle County, Mentan Province, and the Duke of Reinhardt, who was deployed in Anissi County, deployed part of his army to Chabelle County.

Because the geographical location of Anissi County was too narrow, it was difficult for all the 190,000 soldiers under the command of the Duke of Reinhardt to be deployed, and in desperation, the Duke of Reinhardt could only leave six legions led by the Praetorian Guard to deploy the defense, and the other two legions were deployed to Chabelle County.

The crux of the matter lies in the fact that Chabelle County, which is not much larger than Anisi County, can accommodate the 25th Army at full capacity, while the Fourth Route Army under Bai Feng's command has a strength of 300,000 on the surface, but the actual total strength is nearly 350,000.

Where the extra 100,000 soldiers should be deployed was already a great headache for Bai Feng, and now the Duke of Reinhardt had sent two of his standing armies into Chabelle County, and the number of crowded Chabelle County troops even exceeded the number of civilians.

Equally problematic were the cross-border between the Dukes of Rundstead and the Dukes of Kleist, the overcrowding of the armies between the Dukes of Albert and the Dukes of Kleist, and in short, the province of Mendan, which had suddenly garrisoned millions of troops, became extremely crowded.

As the commanders of various armies, Bai Feng and the others had to be busy arranging the movement of the various legions under their command while carefully handling the contradictions and coordination with friendly forces; the internal chaos caused by the excessive number of troops was something that Bai Feng and the others tried their best to avoid.

However, some things cannot be avoided if you want to avoid them, and the 45th Legion of Asassis under Bai Feng and the 23rd Legion of General Glenn under Duke Reinhardt almost broke out into a wing-level armed fight because of some trivial things that no one can explain.

The Duke of Gna, who learned of this, personally ordered the dismissal of the captains of the two legions involved in the post with the attitude of fifty boards each, and then the conflict broke out between the 36th Legion under the command of the Duke of Kleist and the 28th Legion under the command of the Duke Albert.

This time, without waiting for Duke Gna to react in time, Davis, the commander of the 36th Legion, and Torres, the commander of the 28th Legion, fought.

A fierce conflict broke out between the two legions, which actually led to the death of more than 200 soldiers of the two legions, and the wounding of more than 1,500 soldiers; if it were not for Bai Feng's words of dissuasion, Duke Gna, who was furious when he heard the news, would have beheaded Davis and Torres in a fit of rage.

Even with Bai Feng's dissuasion and Duke Reinhardt's gentle advice, Davis and Torres, the two legion commanders who made a big mistake, were still relieved of their positions as legion commanders by the angry Duke Gna and directly demoted to the co-captains of their respective legions.

Except for the six standing corps under Bai Feng's command, all of which had divisions and regiments, the standing corps of the other armies did not have divisions and regiments, so the two corps commanders who were demoted were only demoted one level in their positions.

The successive conflicts between the armies made the annoyed Duke of Gna have to discuss a complete solution with Bai Feng and others; finally, Duke Kleist's plan to divide the troops and garrison was approved by Duke Gna, and Bai Feng and others also unanimously agreed.

The specific implementation rules of the division plan were as follows: the county of Anisi, the smallest in the province of Montan, was defended by the Duke of Rundstede, who had the smallest number of troops, and the county of Chabelle, which was the most extensive, was led by the Duke of Reinhardt.

The counties of Albertville and Lebourg, which were almost the same size, were led by the Duke Albert and the Duke of Kleist respectively, while the Fourth Route Army under the command of Bai Feng was divided into two, and the new Fourth Route Army, consisting of six standing regiments, was to be deployed in Montant.

This army with a total strength of 120,000 troops will be transferred from Bai Feng to Duke Gna after it enters Mengtan County, the core of Mengtan Province.

Because after receiving the allegiance of the Flame Legion, Bai Feng has an army under the command of the Empire, with two Royal Legions, six standing legions, and five Eastern Legions;

In return for the division of troops, Bai Feng obtained from the Duke of Gna the power to lead the army to maneuver, in other words, while the other armies were actively deploying, Bai Feng, who had once again formed a large army of his own, could lead the army to any place in the six eastern provinces at will!