Everyone wants to be important and valuable, but it's easy to go astray if you don't understand that your achievements are based on contributing to others.

– Alfred Adler (Austrian psychologist)

After Bai Feng, who had doubts, made up his mind, he would no longer have the slightest indecision, and the reorganized battle cluster took the lead in the northward journey as the vanguard of the army, followed by the fully equipped Fire Legion.

After a new round of replenishment, although the Flame Legion is still nominally the former Royal Legion, its composition is no longer pure; 25,000 veterans of the city defense army have been incorporated into the Flame Legion in an organized manner, completely disrupting the original establishment of the Flame Legion.

As one of the four royal legions of the Empire, the Legion of Fire is an elite soldier carefully selected from the Imperial Army by the Imperial Military Department, and even if they suffered heavy casualties in the battle of Sunset Fortress, several reinforcements did not disrupt their inherent formation.

The cautious Marquis of Bernard, though not a qualified battlefield commander, was a qualified commander, and all the recruits or officers of the city defense army who were added to the Burning Legion were broken up by him and incorporated into the various squadrons under the Burning Legion.

What's more critical is that in the huge Agni Legion, the five division commanders, twenty-five wing leaders, one hundred group leaders, five hundred squadron leaders, and five thousand squad leaders are all veterans and officers of the original Agni Legion, and there is no room for an outsider officer at all!

Under such an airtight arrangement, the Marquis of Rundsteadt added to the Legion of Fire for the soldiers of the city defense army, and finally the Marquis of Bernard successfully transformed into his soldiers, and it was not until the Marquis of Bernard 'died' that his protection of the Legion of Fire officially ended.

Totila and Giscar, the two commanders who parachuted into the Legion of Fire, instantly attracted the attention of all the division commanders and wing commanders of the Legion of Fire, for the simple reason that they were the only two foreign commanders since the formation of the Legion.

The Marquis of Bernard was able to serve as the commander of the Fire Legion because of his loyalty to Charlemagne and because he himself was a general of the Fire Legion.

The Marquis of Bernard, who was not yet fifty years old, was a high-ranking nobleman of the Empire, and graduated from the Military Department of the Imperial Academy at the age of twenty-one.

Twenty-one-year-old squadron leader, twenty-three-year-old squadron leader, twenty-seven-year-old wing commander, and thirty-one-year-old division commander, Bernard spent ten years sitting in the position of commander of the division of the Agni Legion;

It took Bernard another ten years to go from division commander to corps commander, and it is no exaggeration to say that when Bernard was made Marquis of the Reich and appointed commander of the Legion of Fire by Charlemagne, he could even call out the names of every soldier of the Legion of Fire.

In fact, each Commander of the Flame Legion is promoted from among the five division commanders, and the first requirement to become a division commander of the Flame Legion is that you must be a Wing Commander of the Flame Legion and have served in the Fire Legion for more than ten years!

For the Royal Legion, which values honor and history, this almost harsh legacy is the rule they must follow to maintain their traditions, but the presence of Totila and Giscard breaks the rules of the Legion of Fire that have never changed.

The five divisional commanders of the Fire Legion, including Rodriguez, Eder, Ospina, Danilo, and Sania, wanted to directly refuse the appointment of the Marquis of Rundstead, but they could not find any reason to refuse.

Because the inheritance rules of the Fire Legion are a kind of rule that is adhered to within the Royal Legion, not officially recognized by the Empire, which means that this rule cannot exist as a legal principle, let alone an excuse for Rodriguez and others to refuse to accept orders!

From a legal point of view, the Legion of Fire was the defender of the Fourth Fortress, and the Marquis of Rundstead was the Supreme Commander of the Fourth Fortress garrison appointed by the Duke of Gna, who in turn was the Supreme Commander of the Sunset Fortress garrison appointed by Charlemagne himself.

Therefore, the Marquis of Rundstead has the right to issue any orders to the Fire Legion, which is the power given to the Marquis of Rundstedt by the Emperor; even before the death of the Marquis of Bernard, the Fire Legion with the Marquis of Bernard must obey the orders of the Marquis of Rundstead, not to mention that the current Fire Legion does not have the support of the Marquis of Bernard.

In the face of the resistance of these five division commanders, the Marquis of Rundstead, who had other plans, made a compromise after some persuasion to no avail, and he continued to appoint Totila and Giscard as acting commanders and deputy commanders of the Fire Legion, but Rodriguez and the other five division commanders retained their independence.

In other words, Totila and Giscard will become the nominal acting commanders of the Legion, and the real power of the Legion will be the five division commanders including Rodriguez, and in exchange, half of the officers of the Legion will be replaced by officers of the original city defense army.

Ten of the twenty-five captains, fifty of the hundred captains, two hundred and fifty of the five hundred squadron leaders, and three thousand of the five thousand squadron leaders, three-fifths of the squad leaders were to be held by the city defense army, and three-fifths of the squadron commanders were to be held by the Fire Legion.

The Marquis of Rundstead, who achieved his goal, quietly controlled half of the soldiers of the Agni Legion in this way, and the commanders of the Agni Legion divisions who retained their military power also had no losses, only Totila and Giskal, who were airborne, became the commanders of the legion in name.

The loss of military power is not an easy thing for the appointment of a legion commander, in order to appease Totila and Giskal's emotions, Bai Feng specially interviewed them once before the army marched, and knew the benefits to them.

You know, while they lose their military power, they don't have the risk of going into battle, and the acting captain and deputy head of the Flame Legion is definitely the best way to quickly improve their qualifications for Totila and Giskal, who are not good and qualified.

Because everyone knows that once the Fire Legion withdraws to the rear, the Imperial Military Department will definitely select one of the five division commanders including Rodriguez and appoint him as the new commander of the Fire Legion;

Even if they had the real power of the Fire Legion, wouldn't they still have Bai Feng and the Marquis of Rundstead on their heads? After the other three-way army was rescued, a large number of dukes and marquises gathered together, I am afraid that this hard-won real power would not be able to keep it for even three hours.

After figuring it out, Totila and Giscard had to smile bitterly and accept the arrangement of Bai Feng and the Marquis of Rundstead, as for their 39th and 40th legions, they had already been surnamed Bai a month ago, and this time they were just handed over in name.

After the Legion of Fire set out behind the battle group, Leonidad's Spartan Legion was placed in the center of the army by White Peak, along with the Spartan Legion, along with D'Ambrosio's Thirty-ninth Legion and Bella's Fortieth Legion.

Giannu's reserve army shouldered the heavy responsibility of the palace, and the personal guards that even the system cavalry had been transferred were temporarily led by Cabitus and followed Bai Feng, and the new warlord team composed of the overseer cavalry and the system cavalry was temporarily led by Aetius.