"Chapter 4: The Factional Conflict"
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"Hmph, I think you have forgotten about today's daytime battle, do you want me to talk to you slowly!" Bai Feng, who was so angry with these quarreling generals that he was angry, let out his anger at them for the first time!
"Gamilios and Gatus, do you two think that if you had not had the timely assistance of the soldiers of the left wing and the death of the soldiers of the right wing today, would you have been able to return to the barracks alive from the full assault of the enemy?
Eggers, Brono, Bazel, do you think that if you had not lived and died together with each other, you would have been able to resist the attack of the enemy's 40,000 army by your own legion?
And some of your other generals, if it weren't for the help of the generals with whom you quarreled just now, would you have been able to annihilate Francis's army of more than 100,000 with your own army? Don't you know how the victory came about?"
Under Bai Feng's angry reprimand, all the legion commanders who were named by Bai Feng and the other generals who were not named by Bai Feng lowered their heads with guilt on their faces;
"I know that you generals also have some so-called factional divisions, and this is also human nature, and I have no intention of interfering with your private competition with each other for this reason, because in my opinion, healthy competition is conducive to your efforts to improve the combat effectiveness of your respective legions.
However, if you turn healthy competition into vicious competition, then don't blame me for being unkind, no matter what your status is, what your strength and ability, I will not hesitate to remove you from our army in the city of Rome!
I hope that everyone here will remember what I have said now, that we in Rome can accommodate rivalries, but we will never allow each other to fight each other, especially in the army!
Not just for today's battles, but for every battle to come, we soldiers of Rome need a trustworthy robed brother, not an internal enemy stabbed in the back, and this is my first and last warning to each and every one of you!
You must understand that we in the city of Rome have many enemies to face, at least more than you think, and that many of them are even more powerful than you can imagine, so how can we defeat them?
From the sharp words of anger to the sincere persuasion of calming down, Bai Feng's psychological changes also affected the generals in the military tent, until Bai Feng finished speaking, and several generals who had quarreled most fiercely just now stood up at the same time.
"Please forgive the Governor for our impulsiveness! From now on, we will never be embarrassed by our robes again!"
The words in unison were uttered by these generals who were full of shame, and listening to Bai Feng's heart finally calmed his anger, and after waving his hand to signal these generals to return to their original positions, Bai Feng leaned back quite helplessly.
The factional struggle within the city of Rome has long been something that Bai Feng has been aware of, and how can Bai Feng not see the various rivalries between the Tasya faction led by Bazel and Gamilios, and the Acenian faction led by Eggers.
Why was it that when Bai Feng formed the Doge's Guard before, the infantry commander was Wendell from Tasia, and the cavalry commander was the Simpson from Aceni, you know, at that time, the Simpson had just joined the city of Rome.
For a leader like Bai Feng, balance is always the first element to consider, and even the Governor's Guard, whose loyalty is second only to the System Legion, cannot avoid the existence of this factional problem, and the other legions are even more impossible.
At present, among all the legions in Rome City, the three legions of Gamilios, the regiment of Tasia, the regiment of Cheetahs of Gatus, and the Tigers of Bazel are the main components of the Tasia faction, and the other Tuntian legions are not involved in this aspect for the time being.
Eggers' Eagle Legion and Nelson's Roman Spear Legion, these two legions are undoubtedly made up of the Esini faction, and as for the newly formed Dragon Legion, how could a wise general as Brono get involved in such a factional dispute.
Thus, Licinius's First Legion, Bronno's Dragon's Legion, and Antio's Doge's Guard, these three forces belonged to the existence outside the Tasia faction and the Aceni faction, and they did not participate in factional disputes, but were loyal to Bai Feng alone.
Even the two commanders within the Doge's Guard are from these two factions, but with a fierce general like Antio who is loyal to Bai Feng in the Doge's Guard, it is impossible for this meaningful Doge's Guard to get involved in the battle between the two factions.
As the governor of Rome, Bai Feng never thought about how to avoid the existence of this kind of factional struggle; to borrow a phrase on the earth, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and it is impossible for any force to avoid the existence of factional struggle.
How to use this inevitable factional dispute to promote the benign development of the city of Rome is what Bai Feng needs to consider; this time it was the generals of the two factions who went too far, which angered Bai Feng to put the topic of factional conflict on the bright side.
Judging from the current development momentum of the city of Rome, it is absolutely impossible for these two factions to be all factions in the future of the city of Rome, and with the further expansion of the sphere of influence of the city of Rome, the city of Rome will definitely have more factions in the future.
What Bai Feng needs to do is to maintain the balance between these factions, so that all the factions will always maintain absolute loyalty to himself and the city of Rome, as long as they are loyal to him, the factional strife can be tacitly allowed by Bai Feng.
In fact, even if Bai Feng did not acquiesce to the existence of what could he do? With the main stream of the Cangluo River as the boundary, the generals of Rome from the west bank would naturally get close to the Tasia faction and unknowingly join the Tasia faction.
The generals of Rome City who were born on the east coast will also have a strange respect for Eggers, even if Bai Feng excludes Eggers from Rome City, those generals on the east coast will still involuntarily huddle together, this is human nature, and it cannot be changed by external force at all.
Bai Feng, who is familiar with history, clearly knows that in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, it is impossible for any force of considerable scale to avoid the existence of factional disputes within itself; Bai Feng still understands the truth that it is better to block than to suppress it, and it is better to control everything in his own hands than to forcibly suppress it.
But everything has a degree, and the factional strife in Rome can only exist within the scope of Bai Feng's permission, and once something happens beyond Bai Feng's allowable range, Bai Feng, who acts cleanly, will solve all problems in the most direct way.
As for Bai Feng, he will do his best to turn every ordinary soldier into his loyal loyalist; factional disputes can only be healthy competition between generals, and all ordinary soldiers can only be loyal to himself!