Belisarius took up the burden and divided the Confederate Army into four parts, the Auxiliary, the Vanguard, the Reserve, and the Cavalry.

Although the auxiliary corps has the word auxiliary in its name, they are the backbone of the largest number, this force is composed of most of the halberders and two-handed swordsmen plus a few spearmen, who are subdivided into several thousand men and led by a few good fighters.

The reserve corps is almost all composed of troops with national characteristics, and although the equipment is chaotic, the combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and when the auxiliary corps that forms the front and the enemy reach a stalemate stage, the reserve corps that is put into play in time will bring victory to the army.

Belisarius gathered all the light and heavy cavalry in his legion under his personal command, and this force was to observe and control the situation of the battle, and Belisarius would lead the cavalry into the battle at the right time to inflict a fatal blow on the enemy.

The vanguard was commanded by Dio, and Belissa left the best ranged units of this army and all the Gothguards, who were at the forefront, and they would be led by Dio to pry open the hardest parts of the enemy line and create a chance for victory.

When Belisarius's distribution plan came out, Selim quietly reminded Dior in his private capacity to be careful that he was sold by some unscrupulous guys, and that the position of the commander of the vanguard was very dangerous, and if he was not careful, he could lose his life.

In the face of Selim's well-intentioned warning with his own little calculations, Dio said that he had no pressure at all, because the prestige of the vanguard commander was no less than that of the commander-in-chief, and he could also gain a large voice in the command of the legion, which was a good position for him.

Dio himself is a skilled samurai, and on the night of the fight against monsters, the young man was also the leader at the front of the team, and he was accompanied by three assistants with the same extraordinary strength, so if he didn't dare to take risks, he wouldn't be called Dior.

The army training and formation continued for more than two months, and the knight never came back, many people estimated that he had died at the hands of Udolfinger's monster, and some people thought that the knight had escaped cowardly, but it didn't matter.

The Frankish kingdom sent an emissary to the alliance a month earlier, and in this official statement, the Franks thanked their neighbors for their enthusiasm, and even sponsored a group of well-blooded war horses and weapons for the alliance in the name of the royal family, but they also tactfully stated that the Frankish kingdom could handle the disaster on its own, and if they could not handle it, they would come back to ask for help.

The day after the arrival of the envoys, the Frankish emperor issued a ****** of war, gathering 120,000 troops to go to the territories of the four families invaded by the natural disaster, and the march stretched for more than ten miles, which was also a demonstration of the Frankish kingdom against the surrounding neighbors.

The alliance lords welcomed the Franks' approach, because according to the previous agreement, once this natural disaster was destroyed, Bologna would distribute the remaining war resources to the allied forces, so that they would eat meat and drink soup for nothing.

And Dio thinks this is a good idea, because after getting the unilateral approval of the Frankish kingdom, the Otto League can absorb a large number of refugees who have escaped from the four major territories as rescuers, which is a big blood transfusion for the Goths with a weak foundation.

However, there are also many dead-headed Goth lords who are unwilling to absorb other peoples as Dio suggests... Especially the Frankish refugees, but when a local tyrant said that he would allocate 1.5 million gold as a refugee resettlement fund, they all shut up.

Although I don't know where this little guy of the Hearn family got so much gold, but no one wants to get along with gold, because it is to spend other people's gold to strengthen their own power, these Goth lords have been living a tight life, today can be regarded as a big eater, after putting aside the national feelings or something for the time being, people who don't know what to do are really stupid!

Household! Big! Big dogs! Trench! Local tyrants! Big tyrant! Many people believe that the Hearn family should be renamed the 'Hawking family'.

The infusion of population and massive amounts of money made the rise of the Ostrogoths inevitable, and many kingdoms felt that they needed a new friend.

In the cracks of these national events, there were also small changes that began to creep in imperceptibly, beginning with some soldiers from foreign lands who came into contact with the preachers of the Great Light, and after seeing the magic of the Fountain of Life, these soldiers converted.

The belief in the Great Light is very different from the current universal beliefs, they have real miracles, and their worship is also a propaganda being capable of fighting against the scourge of the undead, which is not an ethereal legend, but a fact that happened not so long ago.

These warriors were told that they were going to fight the terrible undead monsters when they came to Bologna, and although they were all veterans who had seen blood on the battlefield, the fear of monsters still began to spread in the military zone, and many began to ask the Bolognese soldiers who had fought with the undead, and then learned in detail about the reversal brought about by the Great Light.

The conversion of the first batch of Byzantine knights kicked off the prelude to the spread of the new faith, more warriors approached the preachers of the Great Light and asked them to preach to themselves, and the change in the ranks of the soldiers soon affected some of the leading nobles, who knew more than ordinary warriors, and they understood the horror of the undead monsters better, which made the Great Light Church have noble believers for the first time.

This time, the worship of the Fountain of Life has become a supporting role, as many people have learned that the Fountain of Life appeared first with the Great Light that dispelled the plague and destroyed the fortress of the undead, and that the Fountain was only a part of the miracle of the Great Light.

The refined doctrine was all the more credible, and the missionaries of the Great Light threw themselves into the second round of mass missionary activities with great enthusiasm, and the other churches in Bologna, which had already lost the trust of the people because of the attacks, were unable to cope with it.

The second peak of the second missionary season was then detonated by the influx of refugees from the Frankish kingdom, many of whom had ventured through the monster's rampant territory after hearing about the miracle of Bologna.

The Supreme Inquisition's plan to control the Scourge of the Dead caused them great trouble, and the anti-infiltration of the Church of the Damned God played a dishonorable role in the disaster, with many refugees trying to seek refuge in the local monastery only to be presented to the Scourge by the traitors of the Church of the Damned, and a large number of pious and upright priests angrily throwing away their emblems and robes after learning of their church's betrayal—no matter how much they defended them, no one believed them.

"I'm starting to pity those guys now. This time it really has nothing to do with the Supreme Inquisition, it's all the fault of the Cursed God Cult. ”

Ning Yi has been stepping up the collection of external intelligence, and some of the roots and details of the natural disaster area are updated daily, most of this information comes from refugees who have fled to Bologna, and some of them are brought back by desperate Bolognese spies - these spies have been selected and guided by Ning Yi, and are highly adaptable to dangers such as corpse tides.

"As the leader of the F'S'M' ORDER, how can you sympathize with the Supreme Court? They've been hunting you down for centuries. ”

Okazaki Yumemi's embarrassed look at the intelligence made Dio very strange, this kind of deep hatred should wish that all the other side was dead.

"Hatred alone can't make an organization survive for hundreds of years, our order and the Inquisition are actually similar in structure, they rely on a large number of church factions to survive, and we have developed a lot of small forces as roots, the difference is only ideas."

"When the ecclesiastical sectarians ruled the continent, there were missionary wars for dioceses and against the barbarians, and even large-scale holy wars against heterodox doctrines, but one thing is undeniable...... At that time, the frequency of wars was much lower than now, and there was almost no situation where the lord would take the last grain of food from the people to fight, and it was more peaceful and quiet then than now. ”

"The Supreme Court believes that it is heaven, and they vow to change this hellish era, and their thoughts are salvation."

Yumemi Okazaki tells Dior about the Order's old enemies, the F.S.M. Order's creed of respect for the Supreme Court is the same as respect for their own, this group of deviants was once a member of the ancient church system, but they inadvertently opened a box called 'thinking' and released a new era, they would pay homage to the old dogma and bury it in their graves.

"I didn't invite you here today to hear this, Belisarius threw a letter to me today, a joint letter from the military district."

Dio said, handing a piece of paper on the desk to Yumemi Okazaki, and the head of the sect took the letter and looked at it twice before asking in surprise.

"Things have really changed this way? That informant of yours...... Ning Yi, he didn't say more than half a sentence before. ”

The letter reads that many barrack commanders, junior officers, noble sergeants, and soldiers' representatives have asked their commander-in-chief, Belissa, to leave the army with the Priests of the Great Light, believing that the protection of the Great Light will allow them to sweep away the monsters.

The signatures on the letter account for two-thirds of the contents, and if this is calculated, it means that at least seventy percent of the coalition soldiers were confused by the light of the knock, and in the information received by Dior, there was only a fluttering sentence "The great light is preaching very fast, and some soldiers in the military district are beginning to accept this faith", and these information lines are also confused!

"I myself have no objection to the Great Light, and there are also records in the Order's archives of certain religions formed by non-divine creatures and visitors from other worlds, although the scale of this religion is relatively large, but there should be no problem...... What does Belisarius mean? ”

Belisarius was now the commander of the coalition forces, and this matter should be decided by himself, not by throwing the letter to Dio.

"Of course Belisarius will not object, in fact, this guy has become a member of the 'Great Light' believers."

Dio felt a terrible stomach ache when he remembered what happened this morning, and he also asked the commander-in-chief of the coalition at that time what he thought, and then he took out a pendant of the Great Light directly from his arms, declaring that he was a believer in the Great Light, and he also persuaded Dio to join the sect as well, so that he could gain more trust from the soldiers in order to deal with the upcoming war.

But Dio has already told these high-level people the 'truth' that he made up in advance, but there are some guys who don't know how to understand the 'truth' in Dior's mouth in their own way - as an existence that precedes miracles and the fountain of life, Dongdong itself is the embodiment of the gods, either a saint or a holy son, and Dio still underestimates the power of religious belief.

As a result, the lords of Bologna finally began to face up to the issue of the Great Light's faith, and Theodoric of House Hearn announced his recognition of the legitimacy of the Great Light Sect the day after the letter was submitted, and all the lords assembled followed suit.

The belief in the Fountain of Life was completely changed, and the originally separate groups of believers were united into a solid whole, and even a large number of middle and high-ranking nobles began to appear among the cultists, and some of them were even willing to sacrifice part of their territory as a place of worship, thus forming a powerful new sect in the Ortogoth region, the 'Myth of the Dawn'.

And all these changes happened in just one month, and another month has passed.

"Brother! I have counted the income and expenditure statements of the Bologna Trade Zone for the week. We've made another ...... this week."

Melly came to the lord's office with small glasses, she had always received a warm hug and encouragement from her brother when she came here, but today she saw Dio staring at a painting with a sad face.

This painting depicts a dilapidated cathedral, in which many people lie on the ground, their clothes are ragged and sick, and there are sick and dead people piled up in the corners of the picture, and the atmosphere of the whole picture makes her daughter feel familiar, and she suddenly screams.

"This painting seems to be a quarantine zone! Who drew this thing? ”

Hearing his sister's surprise, Dio smiled wryly and let Melly see the other half of the painting.

A beautiful woman with slender blonde hair and blue eyes stood in front of the suffering people with her arms outstretched, this woman did not care about the filth of the suffering, as if she wanted to save them with her holiness.

This painting is a rare masterpiece, and Merry feels that the Gothic court of the past did not necessarily have such a high-grade painting.

But the more precious the painting, the more confused Melly became.

"I ...... Marisa and I have been to the quarantine area, and we have seen the chapel where the seriously ill are held from a distance, but we haven't seen this person? Only the people who are seriously ill who throw it into it will go there. ”

"No need to guess...... The picture on it is Knock Knock! ”

Dio replied, covering his forehead in pain.

"The name of this painting is 'The Great Light Doesn't Give Up on Anyone', and it was painted by a Frank man who fled here with the refugees, and after he got the news about Dong Dong in the quarantine area from the survivors at the time, he carried the easel to the church at that time and painted it in one breath for five days, and after the painting was completed, the whole person fainted."

The Frankish artists were as famous as their knights, and they were so noble and stubborn that they could only believe in themselves

Something worth recording paints with a pen, and even an emperor can't make this group of madmen bow their heads.

Melly stared at the ******** standard Frankish beauty in the painting with her mouth wide open, and then replaced it with Knock.

The girl smiled very unseriously.

"Make you laugh, you won't be able to laugh if you watch too much of this stuff!"

Dio reached out and flicked it on his sister's head, then took the report in her hand.

"Good work. What a blessing to have such a wonderful sister. ”

During this time, Dio was in charge of the management of the coalition forces and the military district, and the operation of Bologna City was almost all left to Bruchern and Melly, but the old steward's ability was limited, so nearly three-quarters of the work was carried by Melly.

The huge workload of the girl's eyes was very tired, so she specially asked a craftsman to make a pair of glasses.

"That's right. How has Marisa been doing in this time? ”

Dior asked casually as he looked at the report.

"Marisa? She was often with Dongdong, and the rest of the time she spent learning from an aristocratic scholar. ”

The scholar in Melly's mouth is actually just an apprentice, and the scholars in Bologna have been mobilized to help build the alliance, but Marisa doesn't need to be taught by a skilled scholar, what she lacks is basic knowledge.

It's all about learning magic better!

"So knock knock her ...... this time"

Dio stopped only halfway through the question, and the brother and sister looked at the painting in unison.

What is Knock Knock doing...... Do you still need to think about this kind of thing?