Legion Reorganization

With the title from a ducal family, they could directly connect the Commoner Army's northern territory with the Bernardo territory in the south.

The nobles had to be put on trial. Until they were truly defeated, those people would never give up.

There could be a place for those nobles in the newly established order, but they could not retain their former status, even if they surrendered.

The noble army had completely collapsed. After Mel arrived, he confirmed that Saik had successfully led ten thousand men out of the encirclement and joined up with the Bernardo Family's forces.

At this point, aside from the northern regions occupied by Gard cities, the Commoner Army had taken control of central Exar and the entire southeastern region.

At the military conference, following the reorganization and recruitment, the army had reached sixty thousand men—enough to form two corps. With one-third of Exar's territory, they could fully support them.

The army's ranks needed to be redefined. Mel planned to have the former commander of the Royal Knights lead one corps alongside Saik, while he personally commanded the other.

As for Pangde, Grev, the Bearmen, and the others who had followed him from the beginning, they could be promoted to division commanders. Commanding large formations of ten thousand men was already the limit of their abilities.

It was not that Mel did not want them to advance further. Their capabilities simply could not go beyond that.

Overall strategy had to be formulated by corps commanders, then passed down through the ranks to the other officers for execution.

A squad leader commanded ten men, a platoon leader thirty, a company commander one hundred fifty, a battalion commander five hundred, a regiment commander fifteen hundred, a brigade commander three thousand, a division commander ten thousand, and a corps