Democracy does not mean that the people are really ruled, it can only mean that the people have the opportunity to accept or reject those who will rule them. Democratic politics is the rule of politicians.

– Joseph Schumpeter (Austrian political economist)

No one thought that the butcher Lister, who usually managed the soldiers of the Death Battalion strictly, would resign from Bai Feng from his position as commander for the killing of 1,500 soldiers in the Death Battalion.

Bai Feng, who personally gave the order, did not keep the stubborn Lister, and the angry Bai Feng demoted Lister to an ordinary soldier in the death battalion, and sent two little-known mid-level officers, Stark and Fury, to take over the position of chief and deputy commander of the death battalion.

Stark and Fury, who were born in the aristocracy, are the younger brother and illegitimate son of the countess of the imperial capital respectively, and for the countess who is pregnant and gives birth to a child without marriage, her son Fury will always be the lowest illegitimate child in the aristocratic circle.

Bai Feng, who had already crossed paths with Ames, the commander of the Hidden Guard, knew that the countess, who was quite famous in the imperial capital, was actually Ames's beloved wife, and Stark and Fury were Ames's brother-in-law and son.

Bai Feng, who has been helped by Ames several times, whether it is to repay Ames for his help or to establish a friendship with Ames, he must give due attention and promotion to Stark and Fury, who are most important to Ames.

Promoting Stark and Fury to replace other generals with their own duties for no reason is undoubtedly very stupid, not only will it backfire on the attention of some well-intentioned people, but it will even affect the morale and morale of the army.

In view of this, Bai Feng, who has been secretly following Stark and Fury, has not deliberately promoted them for a long time, and has not even treated them differently, but the daily performance of Stark and Fury surprised Bai Feng who paid attention to them for the first time.

During the defense of Sunset Fortress, Stark led his men in fierce battles with the orcs who attacked them more than once, and in the most dangerous case, Stark, as the captain of the wing, even killed four orc warriors himself.

With his impressive performance on the battlefield, Stark successfully became one of the most respected wing commanders of the Fire Legion, and the wing he led was transformed from the 4th Wing of the 5th Division to the 2nd Wing of the 1st Division.

Fury, who was handed over to Stark by Ames, had his own uncle to take care of him, and he was no worse in the Burning Legion where the strong gathered, and it only took half a year for Fury to go from the squadron leader of the fourth wing of the fifth division to the captain of the second wing of the first division.

Such a speed of promotion may not be surprising in the average standing legion, but it is extremely outstanding in the royal legion where the nobility is everywhere, and the role played by Stark is not that there is none, but it is far less important than Fury's own efforts.

Stark and Fury, whose true identities were not revealed, could not have been valued by Marquis Bernard, who was the commander of the Fire Legion at the time, but Fury, who was trained by Ames himself, would not be disgraced by his father on the battlefield?

Thirteen times he led the army to defend the fortress and twelve times repelled the attacks of the orcs, Fury's squadron was replenished sixteen times in just two months, with more than 800 dead soldiers and nearly 200 orc warriors, which can be called one of the best squadrons in the Fire Legion!

It just so happened that there were not a few officers at the level of captain of the Fire Legion who died, and Fury, who had just entered the Fire Legion for less than half a year, was promoted to the captain of the Fire Legion by the Captain of the Bernard Legion before the outbreak of the breakout battle by virtue of his real combat exploits.

Before Bai Feng led the army to the expedition, because the Fire Legion was going to stay in the provinces of Brojansson and Toulon to carry out garrison duties, Stark and Fury were temporarily transferred by Bai Feng to the Pro-Guard, and at the same time, several other co-captains of the Pro-Fire Legion were transferred to the Pro-Guard.

After the three Wing Captains and six Group Captains of the Fire Legion joined the Pro Guard, they were first responsible for commanding the most elite system soldiers in the Pro Guard, and then went to the other five direct wings to assist the captains of the direct wings to train the soldiers of the direct wings.

Although the directly subordinate wings under the Pro-Guard Corps are nominally combat units at the wing level, they are in fact combat units at the quasi-division and regimental level, and the status of the five directly subordinate wing commanders is on a par with that of the division commanders of the Standing Corps and the Royal Legion.

Based on this premise, the Captains and Captains of the Fire Legion did not have any particular reluctance to serve in the Pro-Guard, especially Stark and Fury, whose performance in the First Wing could definitely be described as diligent.

So, after Lister resigned as commander of the Death Battalion, Bai Feng, who was interested in using Stark and Fury, promoted them to the position of chief and deputy commander of the Death Battalion, a logical transfer that would hardly arouse anyone's suspicion.

The crux of the matter is that the proud soldiers of the Death Battalion do not welcome Stark and Fury, who have just arrived, and from the perspective of the Death Battalion soldiers, they agree that it was the arrival of Stark and Fury that caused Lister to be demoted to ordinary soldiers by White Peak.

In this regard, Bai Feng, who gave these two orders one after another, neither came forward to appease Stark and Fury, nor did he order Lister to help them; all the affairs of the death camp were handed over to Lister, Stark, and Fury by Bai Feng like a shopkeeper.

Of course, Lister, who was directly demoted by Bai Feng to the small soldier of the death battalion, was promoted by Bai Feng to be the deputy commander of the death battalion seven days later, and the death battalion, whose total strength was reduced to 4,500 soldiers, was divided equally into three parts by Bai Feng and handed over to these three commanders to take command respectively.

After the matter was over, the busy Bai Feng no longer paid too much attention to the affairs of the death camp; in the final analysis, the death defense camp formed with death row prisoners, robbers, hooligans and other rabble as the main force, no matter how it developed, it was still the cannon fodder force of the other main army corps, this is the fact.

As the commander of the army, Bai Feng could not waste too much time and energy on the death battalion, compared to the death battalion with only 4,500 soldiers, the affairs of the Yulin Legion and the six standing legions, as well as the Iron Blood Guard, were undoubtedly much more important.

Hans, who was born as a Germanic berserker, did not need to worry about the management of the Yulin Legion at all, in fact, except for Hans, the other four division commanders of the Yulin Legion were all brave and good generals, and the only thing they lacked was combat experience.

General López, one of the Iron and Blood Five Tiger Generals, before following Duke Rundstead to lead his army into Sunset Fortress, the actual combat experience he accumulated was at best the level of leading the city defense army to exterminate robbers and bandits.

Borg, who has not yet graduated from the military department of the Imperial Academy, and Bartroli and Vermaelen, who are still from civilian backgrounds, have no actual combat experience at all, and a few months of actual combat in Sunset Fortress do not really make them grow into qualified generals.

In order to improve the command level of these four division commanders as much as possible, Bai Feng handed over all the patrol and vigilance tasks within a radius of 50 miles of his own army to the most powerful Yulin Corps, and the five divisions of the Yulin Corps took turns to carry out these two tasks.

The commander of the orc army is not a fool, he cannot sit idly by and watch the 300,000 troops of the Heavenly Dragon Empire at his side and remain indifferent; since the day when Bai Feng led the army to be stationed on the border of Mengdan Province, the small-scale reconnaissance force of the orc army has not been cut off.

Either a team of 100 kobold warriors, or a team of 200 pig-headed warriors, and occasionally a reconnaissance force composed of fifty minotaur warriors, appeared within ten miles of the Baifeng army's garrison, and in some cases, even the traces of wolf cavalry were not uncommon.

In the face of the wolf cavalry coming and going like the wind, the Yulin Legion without cavalry naturally had no way to deal with it; the pro-soldier guards with a cavalry wing did not have the same combat effectiveness of its subordinate cavalry as the wolf cavalry at all, and they were sent out to 'deliver food' to the wolf cavalry.

The partner cavalry and ironclad cavalry that can compete head-on with the wolf cavalry are all typical heavy cavalry and super heavy cavalry, and the wolf cavalry's advantage in speed is incomparable to that of the heavy cavalry;

Fortunately, the reconnaissance of the wolf cavalry could not form an effective military threat to the garrison of Bai Feng's army, so every time the wolf cavalry of the orc army appeared, the soldiers of the Yulin Legion who were responsible for patrolling and guarding the periphery only had to expel them.

Blindly sitting on the garrison of the army is not something that Bai Fengfeng, who advocates attacking, has always done; on the premise that the Yulin Legion has the defense of the garrison, Bai Feng decided to send the standing army under his command and the Eastern Legion to attack separately and gradually encroach on the scope of activities of the orc army.

Six fully staffed standing legions, five new veterans of the East, plus Ranocchia, who was haunted by the defeat of the orc army last time, as well as the Tempest Legion and the Death Battalion, fourteen troops will participate in this active attack.

The specific distribution plan was as follows: each standing legion and one eastern legion formed a joint legion, with the commander of the standing legion as the commander, commanding 30,000 soldiers of the two legions, attacking the orc army within a radius of fifty miles.

After the formation of the five Combined Legions, the 47th Army of Athos and the Iron Guard of Ranocchia formed a mobile force on the left flank, which could respond to the 39th, 40th, and 44th Combined Legions on the left flank whenever and wherever needed.

Montgomery's Tempest Legion and Stark's Death Battalion formed a mobile force on the right flank, and coordinated the 45th and 46th Combined Legions on the right flank, and if any army was attacked by an army of more than 5,000 orcs, Bai Feng would immediately lead a large army to reinforce them.

In fact, after the fourteen troops who took the initiative to attack were dispatched, only two troops remained in the border garrison under Bai Feng's command, the Yulin Legion and the Pro-Guard, and Bai Feng, who felt a little lacking in strength, decided to transfer a group of systematic troops from Rome City again.

At the beginning of December, which had just passed less than ten days, Bai Feng had only recruited thirty battlefield ghosts that were urgently needed for the expansion of the net, and the shogunate hall system had not recruited a single soldier;

After two months of accumulation, the balance of assets of the Shogunate Hall system has reached an unprecedented 32,200 stones, which means that as long as Bai Feng is willing, he can recruit ninety-two teams of iron artillery spearmen from the Shogunate Hall system at any time!

Even if no new iron artillery units were recruited, there were still fifty-eight first-class iron artillery gunners and twelve third-class iron artillery gunners in the battle sequence of Rome City.

With 12 teams of third-level iron artillery and gunmen as the core and 58 teams of first-class iron artillery and gunmen as the main force, the total strength of the iron artillery and spearmen was as high as 8,400 people; if a large-scale battle broke out between the army of Bai Feng and the army of orcs, their salvo alone could wipe out a large number of orcs.

With the addition of a total of about 12,500 system officers and 1,000 cavalry, the scale of the pro-soldier guard has unconsciously exceeded 30,000, reaching an astonishing 33,500!

You must know that in the personal guards of Commander Luculus, the system army included not only the iron artillery gunners of the shogunate system, but also the Spartan heavy infantry, ironclad cavalry, Cretan archers and other super troops that can be called the trump cards of the system army.

The temple summons are super-effective, the iron cannon spearmen who specialize in restraining the orcs, the regular infantry cavalry is numerous, and the three-headed pro-guard can be invincible even if they face off against an army twice their size.

Bai Feng, who was fully prepared, kept a close eye on the development of the situation in Brojansson Province on the one hand, and kept a close eye on the movements of the fourteen troops that took the initiative on the other.

Small orc troops, ranging from 1,000 to 300 men, were often unsuspecting in the towns or large villages of the province of Montan, and it was not until the soldiers of the Combined Legion surrounded them that they were slow to respond.

The orc warriors' superior will to fight is most vividly demonstrated in the fierce battles, and the outnumbered orc warriors, even to the last man, will not surrender to the soldiers of the combined legion who attack them.

The extremely fierce battle not only caused a lot of casualties to the soldiers of the Combined Legion who took the initiative to attack, but also made many recruits who had not experienced a battle realize the cruelty of war, especially the orc warriors who fought to the end, they brought a great shock to the recruits.

Among the imperial armies that strongly advocate fighting to the death, there are not many armies that can really swear to the death in difficult situations, and among the large number of legions in the huge empire, I am afraid that only the three royal knights and the four royal legions with a long history can do this.

The orc warriors who fought to the death and swore not to surrender to the death taught a good lesson in this regard to the various legions that had the absolute superiority to attack them, and the imperial soldiers who became more and more brave in the battle secretly regarded this practice of the orc warriors as a standard to measure themselves.

Among the combined legions with high morale, the combined legion composed of the 39th Legion and the First Eastern Legion annihilated four orc armies, killed 3,000 orc warriors, and killed 5,000 of its own soldiers, most of whom came from the First Eastern Legion.

The combined legion of the 40th Legion and the 2nd Eastern Legion killed 2,600 orc warriors and 5,000 of its own casualties, while the combined legion of the 44th Legion and the 3rd Eastern Legion killed 3,400 orc warriors and 7,000 of its own casualties.

The combined legion of the 45th Legion and the 4th Eastern Legion killed 1,700 orc warriors and 4,800 of its own dead soldiers, while the combined legion of the 46th Legion and the 5th Eastern Legion killed 1,000 orcs and 3,000 of its own dead soldiers.

The mobile force on the left flank composed of the 47th Legion and the Iron Guard, killed 4,200 orc warriors and 5,900 killed in battle.

In comparison, the right-wing mobile force composed of the Tempest Legion and the Death Battalion killed 600 orc warriors and killed 1,400 of its own 1,400 deaths.