Over the next three days, Velin and Elsa reached an agreement. The Titon Kingdom granted the Fifteenth Army of the Expeditionary Army's Fourth Legion the right to recruit soldiers within the Titon Kingdom, while Velin introduced the queen to his grandfather.
Velin did not care what sort of deal those two old foxes would strike. All he wanted now was to accumulate enough military merit for a promotion to Count before the war ended.
On April 11, 9758 of the Radiant Calendar, the Fifteenth Army's 230,000 troops set out, their marching column stretching for hundreds of kilometers.
In the Middle Army, Velin stroked Little Red as he considered where in the Titon Kingdom's Jinslin District to recruit soldiers.
The Fifteenth Army had 17,383 troops of its own, while the Holy Crusaders had 11,927. The remaining 200,000 were Auxiliary Army soldiers, including 160,000 Battle Soldiers divided among the Blackrock Army, Thousand Forts Army, Badako Army, and Tonnes Army.
When the Auxiliary Army had first been formed, it had numbered only three thousand men.
In five years, the Auxiliary Army controlled by the Fifteenth Army had grown to 200,000.
Using 30,000 Direct Lineage troops to control 200,000 Auxiliary Army soldiers—aside from force, which other army of the Expeditionary Army could have achieved such a feat?
Velin intended to form the recruited Titon people into a separate army, but he was once again faced with a difficult choice when it came to selecting its commanding general.
Ansan and German soldiers could be used as lower-ranking officers, but officers at the middle level and above could not be chosen that way. Otherwise, the unit would easily fall out of control.
"I'll find a chance to speak with my cousin and see whether I can borrow Adrian."
For an army formed from Titon people, Velin