But overall, in the first confrontation between Shadow and Black Swamp, Shadow still had the absolute upper hand.

Moreover, it was precisely because of this confrontation that the name of the Shadow also officially appeared on the Imperial Continent for the first time and was known to everyone.

It was even more amazing because of stepping on top of the Black Swamp organization, which was ranked number one in the Imperial Continent, almost overnight.

After this, the Shadows and the Black Swamp had fought countless times, none of which were in decline, and finally the Jorio family had to abandon their previous attempts and focus on the battlefield again.

In later generations, some people believed that the reason why Shadow was able to win so beautifully at the end of 196 was because Huang Fei had the support of the entire Lich Clan behind him, and if there were no such powerful Lich Clan masters, Shadow would not have been able to stop the Black Swamp Organizing Killer's "God of War Dagger" operation.

No one denies this, if it weren't for the Lich Clan, the Shadows who lacked background were indeed no match for the Black Swamp, the first intelligence organization of the Delmar Empire, in this regard.

But in fact, in addition to this factor, the development of Shadow for more than 20 years from its establishment to the present has actually fully met all the conditions that a top-level intelligence organization has, but it is too low-key.

The following set of data is enough to explain everyone's doubts.

At the beginning of 196, in the Delmar Empire alone, there were 210,000 Shadow Peripheral Intelligence Personnel, covering every region and every corner of the Delmar Empire, and in the entire Imperial Continent, the number of Shadow Peripheral Intelligence personnel reached 380,000, although it was slightly less than the scale of the Black Swamp, but the gap was not very large.

In addition, there are nearly 70,000 elite members of the Shadows, which is twice as many as the Black Swamp Organization in this regard, and the main components of these elite members are basically mercenaries from the Sauron family, the backbone of the Huang Ji shop, and the descendants of those families who were secretly retained by Huang Fei during the civil strife in the Great Shang Empire, such as orphans like Qin Xuan and Qin Min, in terms of loyalty, they are definitely more reliable than those elites of the Black Swamp Organization.

Not only that, but in addition to the Shadow Intelligence Organization, the mercenary organization under the name of Huang Ji Wine Shop has as many as 300,000 people in the Imperial Continent, and these mercenaries can serve the Shadow at any time.

And from the perspective of scale organization, the purpose of the Black Swamp Organization is to swear allegiance to the Yorio family and the royal family, and this premise is that the Yorio family is under the premise of absolute rule, when the Yorio family is mired in civil strife and can't extricate itself, there is not much energy to care about these members of the Black Marsh periphery, and the branches in some areas have not even received any funds for more than two years, basically in name only, and when the higher-level personnel come to contact, they find that the people in the branch have already run out, and they all quit.

There are even some who take the initiative to take refuge in the Shadow, give advice to the Shadow, and turn around to deal with the original Black Swamp Organization, this is not groundless, in the most confidential files of the Shadow, there is a record that the entire branch of the Black Swamp Organization in a certain area has been fully received by the Shadow.

Compared with the Sunset West Mountain of the Black Swamp Organization, behind the shadow that has gradually risen, not only has the support of the powerful Huangji shops, but also has received more powerful economic support after the development of the five eastern regions of the Caro area, and has continued to improve in terms of scale and personnel quality.

One trades off the other.

As the famous historian Winkaisen said, the 200-year reign of the Yorio family of the Delmar Empire has come to an end after the Black Swamp organization and the Shadows have gradually fallen into decline.

Empire Continent March 197

As the temperature gradually rises, the weather is getting warmer day by day, but the eight families including the Caqiaoshan family, the Cindy family, and the Manha family, who have been forced to defend in the western region, are on pins and needles, because they know that without the fetters of the harsh winter, the offensive of the Xuantie Army is about to begin.

The Eight Great Families Alliance, which numbered 1.7 million people, would show a cowardly posture in front of the Xuantie Army, which was only more than half of their number, and there were also famous generals of the Demar Empire such as Montich, Bennu,, and Dandy, the leader of the Black Warrior Legion, among the Eight Great Families Alliance, which was really incomprehensible.

However, only those who have personally fought with the Xuantie Army in front of them will truly understand that the most terrifying thing about the Xuantie Army is not the Xuantie crossbow that every Xuantie Army soldier carries behind him, not the endless logistics supply behind the Xuantie Army, and not the quality of the soldiers of the Xuantie Army better than their opponents.

Rather, it is because they have a legendary commander, Rebis, who before that, he was also known as the governor of Ukara Province and the Duke of Huang Fei, and was once a military god in the Great Shang Empire.

At the age of more than 20 years, he was able to get the weight of Emperor Yang Ji, assume the most critical role in the internal strife and war of the entire Great Shang Empire, and end the family division of the Great Shang Empire for nearly 200 years, such a person has never been seen since the establishment of the Great Shang Empire.

The reason why the eight major families are cautious now is because at the end of October last year, the two sides had three encounters and suffered three heavy defeats.

For the first time, General Paki led the Cindy family army, bypassing the forward line of the First Army of Rebis and inserting directly into the middle army of the First Army, in a vain attempt to win with a surprise attack, but he did not expect that the middle army of Rebis was divided into three left, right, and middle crane wing formations, and the army they attacked was only an army column located in the middle of the First Army of Rebis.

There was almost no hesitation, the attacked middle legion immediately changed from a marching formation to a defensive formation on the spot, and while using dense arrows to stop the attack of the Cindy family army, the other two legions that received the signal were not busy with the rescue, but surrounded by a circle from the outside, slowly surrounding's Cindy family army, if it were not for the cavalry brigade of the Cindy family army that had been preparing to steal from the rear and meet the other party, almost the entire Cindy family army would have been wiped out.

The second time, the Heinz family army went to attack the baggage convoy behind the second legion of Rebis, when the 25,000 Heinz cavalry brigade that was ordered to sneak attack saw the baggage convoy escorted by only 3,000 Xuantie troops, and immediately launched a decisive offensive, and those Xuantie troops saw it, they also immediately gave up their baggage and fled, but in the end, the final situation was that more than 500 grain carts full of baggage were all burned, and the more than 20,000 Heinz cavalry who attacked the sneak attack fled back in embarrassment at the cost of more than 18,000 casualties.

It was only at this time that they understood why only more than 3,000 Xuantie troops dared to escort so much food, it was because on both sides of the baggage convoy, there were heavy troops of the Xuantie Army, although it seemed that the defense of the baggage convoy was lax, but if someone wanted to fight these baggage ideas, they would definitely pay a heavy price.

The last confrontation was between the First Cavalry Regiment and the Third Legion of the Rebis Legion and the Manha's army, and it was still the same as before, the Rebis Legion first showed weakness with a small army, confronted the Manha's army, attracted the other party to surround itself, and then quietly formed a larger encirclement on the other side's periphery, and the most despicable thing was that it deliberately left a relatively large opening outside the encirclement, and more than 50,000 cavalry of the two brigades of the First Cavalry Regiment stood on the high slope on horseback, waiting for the rout of the Manha's army in order to launch an attack。

And the Manhal family army also did as the other party wished, knowing that there were 50,000 cavalry waiting for them at the gap, but they still involuntarily oppressed and slowly retreated in the direction of the gap.

In three consecutive battles, at the cost of the loss of more than 300,000 soldiers by the eight major coalition forces, these famous generals of the Delmar Empire finally realized the horror of Huang Fei.

Faced with the almost invulnerable Xuantie Army, the officer commanders of the Eight Great Families Alliance began to feel a little nostalgic for the days when they fought with the Yorio Family Army.