While the merchants were preparing, Merlin, the archon of the Magic Empire, was not idle. Although both the Shang Alliance and the barely surviving Desik Dispatch Army were lambs to the slaughter in his eyes, they had not been completely conquered after all.

Given an assignment to his right-hand man, Elby accepted the task of reorganizing the Magic Empire's army.

In the current army of the Magic Empire, the main components are the regular army of San Jose, the regular army of Desik Cheng, the local garrison of various places, the family private soldiers contributed by nobles at all levels, and so on. Merlin's mages have controlled a large number of these armies over the course of years of underground operations.

After the formation of the Magic Empire, Elby began to reorganize these armies. Due to the different sources, his original idea was to scatter the Desik cavalry and distribute it among the various armies. However, the unruly character of the Desik made it difficult for him to do so, and in the end, the cavalry that followed Manstein was all left in Kyoto City to become the guards guarding the new capital of the Magic Empire, bearing the name of Merlin himself - the Demon Guardian Knight.

All of San Jose's southern garrisons were integrated into the Magic Empire's Southern Legion. This legion, in the imperceptible reorganization, swelled to as many as 200,000 men. This number even exceeded the main army of San Jose that Count Mosicke had commanded in the Kursk battlefield.

However, the combat effectiveness is not easy to say. In order to strengthen their strength, Elby selected many elite magicians from all over the south to enrich this group of troops.

According to the way the Magic Empire was used back then, mages appeared mainly as a ranged support force in the military. When the two armies exchange fire, they will first test each other with magic. Once the battle between ranged magic and magic defense enchantments is over, the losing side loses the blessing of magic. And the loss of the blessing of magic, in those days, often meant that the soldiers on the front line had to endure the merciless attacks of the opposing magicians. Those elemental magic flying in the sky can cause a lot of damage.

Although after the establishment of the Magic Empire, many mages have sprung up from all over the country, and the number of court mages, oh no, the number of mages who should be called the Magic Empire has quickly swelled to thousands. This number is quite impressive, you must know that the number of court magicians in the San Jose Empire has remained around thirty for so many years.

Of course, the abilities of these magicians are also mixed. Some of them are so strong that they can almost reach the level of a mid-level court magician. Some are just awakening and may not be much better than a beginner.

This situation made it quite difficult for Elby to reorganize the army. In desperation, he had no choice but to divide the mages equally among the armies. For example, in the Magic Empire army on the border of the Principality of Tra, each regiment is equipped with a magician equivalent to the strength of a middle-level court magician, and each battalion is equipped with several young beginners in magic.

In Elby's thoughts, there are almost no magicians in the Shang Alliance, and no matter what, the magicians in these armies can have some effect. In the event of a large-scale war, he will lead the magicians of Kyoto Castle to concentrate on providing distant support to the army.

Merlin approved of Elby's plan to reorganize the army, and even granted the magicians some rudimentary magic spells. There are many such spells in the Magic Empire's surviving materials. Many of them, perhaps just an elemental magic application, are useless in normal times, but when they start a war, they will work wonders if they don't move.

As a result, the army of the new magic empire formed by the original local army of San Jose and Desik suddenly became a magic army equipped with magicians, although it has not yet been in actual combat, but judging from the reaction of the border army of the Shang Alliance, their response as if facing a great enemy still makes Elby, who is in charge of this work, complacent.

Of the continent, San Jose occupies the most fertile plain of the lower Morro River. In Merlin's mind, the black earth was the first thing he had to control. And once the domestic situation is stable and the reorganization of the army is completed, the offensive against the Shang Alliance will be put on the agenda.

And in the new Magic Empire army, the proportion of cavalry is not particularly large. This has to do with the fact that they mainly inherited the San Jose army. In fact, in the territory of the former San Jose, except for a small number of wolf cavalry and rangers who came over with Manstein, Merlin basically did not have too many cavalry.

The vast territory of Desik in the north is now temporarily in charge of the head of the Black Dragon Society, Arthur, and he, along with the magicians of the Black Dragon Society, have also bought, coerced and developed a large number of believers. According to his deal with Merlin, the Black Dragon Society, along with the former Desik territory under his control, belongs to the Magic Empire, but also has a high degree of autonomy.

However, the establishment of wolf cavalry and rangers did not happen overnight. Arthur and others, who had just gained full control of the entire territory of Desik, basically did not have the time and energy to reorganize the cavalry corps. After all, now, the Black Dragon Society and Kyoto City are still in partnership. Everyone's purpose is the same.

Compared to the formation of an army, the Magic Empire is now in dire need of experienced battlefield commanders. Although many of the former generals of San Jose and De Sik defected to the Magic Empire, in the process, there were still quite a few experienced officers who lost in the infighting.

Currently within the Magic Empire, Merlin, as archon, has supreme command over all armies. As for the specific work, Merlin currently relies mainly on Wendell and Manstein, and these two people happen to be from Desik and San Jose.

The Magic Empire does not have such a thing as a royal council, and on the whole, the Magic Empire, which restored the political system of a thousand years ago, still uses a relatively primitive form of organization, and everything speaks in terms of the level of nobility. Merlin, Arthur, Elby and the original protectors ~ are naturally high-ranking and powerful people in the Magic Empire, and the rest of the magicians have their own seals.

The only exception to this was the surrender officers led by Wendell and Manstein. According to the Charter of the Magic Empire, it is impossible for people like them who do not have magical abilities to obtain the nobility of the Magic Empire. However, due to the lack of people who could lead the army among their magicians, Merlin and Elby had to temporarily rely on their abilities.

It is precisely because of this that there is a rather hilarious scene in the army of the New Magic Empire. In terms of position, whether it is Wendell or Manstein, they are the supreme commanders of their respective armies, but in terms of titles, it may be that the little magicians in one of their regiments are magical nobles.

If they encounter them on the way, the Minor Wizards must first salute the Commanders of the Army, and then the Commanders of the Armies will salute them as a sign of respect for Magic and the Magic Empire.

Fortunately, it is unknown who reported the situation to the archon Merlin, perhaps in order to win the hearts of the officers, Merlin put an end to this strange act and stipulated that the generals have the status equivalent of magical nobles.

And the military rank system of the Magic Empire is basically copied from the system of the original San Jose, after all, he really doesn't know much about this point. Merlin's personal disciples, Master Lanlan and Elby, both have important work to do, and the former Oriental Protector ~ who was born in a noble family in San Jose and has had some military experience, and the current Duke of Black Magic have become the few military talents to choose from.

In the city of Kyoto, Merlin formed the Military Staff of the Magic Empire, which was actually copied from the original system of San Jose, Blake himself served as the chief of staff, and then a group of down-and-out nobles and defectors in his network joined the staff to help plan the military. The military power of the entire Magic Empire is now owned by the General Staff, and the Chief of Staff, Duke Black of Magic, reports directly to the Grand Archon of Merlin.

Under the leadership of the General Staff, people like General Wendell, General Manstein, and General Montgomery were the ones who really commanded the army to fight. Under the careful planning of all the members of the General Staff, Blake divided the current military force of the Magic Empire in the south, that is, the Southern Legion of up to 200,000 people, into three large legions.

General Wendell and General Montgomery each led a corps of 80,000 men, the First Imperial Corps and the Second Imperial Corps. Each legion consisted of five corps, the First Army of the Empire to the Tenth Army of the Empire. In addition, there were more than 50,000 guards led by Manstein in Kyoto Castle. It consisted mainly of his own Desik cavalry plus Desik soldiers captured on the banks of the Moro River. Instead, these men took control of the defense of Kyoto Castle.

One of the very strange things that later historians have studied is that Merlin probably chose the Desic as his guard because he was probably afraid of the San Josens, but who can say that the Desic did not hate him. Puzzled historians have to explain this in terms of magical reasons, and perhaps, Merlin has played these soldiers with puppetry.

The integrated armies also have their own tasks. General Wendell, who was familiar with military affairs in the west, was in charge of the offensive on the front line of the Shang League, and he would lead his 1st Corps out of the front of the Shang League, launching an attack at the right time. In fact, the army that had previously carried out a tentative attack on the Shang Alliance was arranged by Wendell. General Montgomery, on the other hand, led his Second Corps and was stationed in the vast San Jose hinterland. His army was scattered and mainly responsible for the local garrison, that is, the nobles and commoners who did not yet accept the rule of the Magic Empire, as well as the rest of the San Jose soldiers who hid in the mountains and forests.

The highly autonomous Magic Empire under the rule of Arthur's leader, the Desik region, is also carrying out its own military reorganization, but due to the sparsely populated north and the killing of too many people in the civil strife, for a while, Arthur can only muster a standing army of no more than 80,000 people in the north. This number is not even comparable to the Desik Dispatch on the west side of the canyon.

It's just that the magician, or the magician. The presence of a magician has made an army that is only half as large as itself terrifying. Desik had been on the west side of the canyon for months, and Florian and Jim were barely able to mount them. The Shang Alliance does not accept them, the Magic Empire is hostile to itself, and the domestic resistance forces (Note 1) have to accept the adaptation themselves, which is really a headache.

Note 1: The forces of the Archduke Bazemore and Elizabeth in the north.