For the next two days, Sun Fei remained silent and did not appear in the Byzantium capital.
However, as time passed, the situation in the imperial war the Storm Riders rapidly, and various messages kept coming from the capital.
First, there's news about Dominguez, the second prince of the Zenit Empire.
This prince, who had previously remained unremarkable in military matters, has now displayed astonishing military talent.
In less than five days, he successfully organized a temporary, Motley Army of 40,000 men in the various provinces of the northern frontier. He then swiftly and decisively wiped out the scattered troops of the Ten Empires Allied Army north of Saint Petersburg, the imperial capital, thus reuniting the capital and the northern frontier and escaping the embarrassing situation of being an isolated city. He made a great contribution!
This performance greatly increased the Prince's popularity among the imperial ministers and the common people.
Although he still cannot compare with the Imperial God of War Arshavin, he has at least begun to show his talent and reveal his military prowess. This is undoubtedly great news for the Second Prince's faction, which is already struggling to breathe under the First Prince's suppression.
One reason why many people were optimistic about the Second Prince was that King of Chambord Alexander, a peerless master, had a broken relationship with the First Prince, becoming bitter enemies, but maintained a friendship with the Second Prince. However, in this Battle of Saint Petersburg, the First Prince and King of Chambord showed a rare tacit understanding, working together to turn the tide and easing tensions between them.
If the Imperial God of War and the Imperial God of War were to truly stand together in mutual respect, it would be a disaster for the Second Prince.
Now that the Second Prince has shown outstanding performance, if he can further win over the King of Chambord, he will have a renewed hope of challenging for the throne.
In addition, there was another piece of news that surprised many people.
The Imperial Family and the Military Department jointly issued a military order, appointing the previously unknown Fourth Prince Christo as the commander of the former Empire's ten main battle legions, the [ Giant Strength Legion ]. He will soon set off for the Southern Frontier battlefield of the Empire, becoming one of the armies fighting against the Ten Empires Allied Army.
The [ Giant Strength Legion ] is a veteran main battle legion of the empire, with a history of over twenty years. Its past achievements are glorious. It has always been controlled by the Big Family, one of the great noble groups in the empire. Through years of painstaking management, whether in terms of military equipment or personnel configuration, it can be considered one of the best legions in the empire, far superior to those newly formed legions. The imperial family appointed Christo as the commander of the [ Giant Strength Legion ], which shows their support for this prince.
On the fifth day, the Imperial government, following wartime regulations, released a new internal document announcement through its own channels.
In less than ten days, the conscription order issued by the ailing Emperor Yassin was perfectly executed and realized, and incredibly, ten new fully-fledged legions were formed. Thus, after the Battle of Saint Petersburg, seven of the Empire's original ten main combat legions still retained their fighting strength, and six of the ten legions formed more than half a year ago when the Empire declared war on the three great empires of Spartak, Eindhoven, and Ajax still remained. The entire Zenit Empire now had twenty-three fully-fledged legions.
Based on a force of 30,000 men per legion (half full strength), plus the 40,000 troops of the Second Prince, the nobles of various provinces, and the private armies of vassal states, the Zenit army numbered over 800,000, which was astonishing.
Even Sun Fei, who was mentally prepared, was still shocked after seeing this official document.
Even if a mere first-tier empire had concealed its strength and worked diligently to govern, its territory and population were still limited. Yet, it could mobilize more than 800,000 troops during a war. Then wouldn't the super-empires of the eighth and ninth tiers on the Azeroth Continent easily possess military forces of tens of millions?
Even though Sun Fei hadn't read much world war history in his previous life, this number still shocked him.
Wars in a fantasy world cannot be measured by the old rules of the past.
To be honest, Sun Fei didn't know how much logistics and supplies an army of 800,000 would need, but one thing was clear: the existence of magic and Dou Qi arts civilizations that transcended human power had, to some extent, relaxed the limitations of time and space, making some things that seemed impossible in Sun Fei's previous life possible.
Besides, the Zenit Imperial Family and the bigwigs of the Imperial Military Department aren't fools. If they were able to organize such a force in such a short time, then logistical support shouldn't be a problem either.
Following this line of reasoning, one can only imagine the terrifying war potential that the Lyon Empire, a level-six empire, the Dortmund Empire, a level-eight empire, and the smaller empires that are subordinate to these two empires would unleash when they are driven to the brink of despair. Just thinking about it makes one's heart pound!
The war has only just begun!
On the sixth day, the final battle plan was circulated on the internal bulletin board of the Zenit Military Department.
This time, it once again shocked countless people who were watching from the sidelines.
As the eldest prince Arshavin, the God of War of the empire, was originally the most suitable person to command the war, but he did not get the opportunity to lead the army into battle. It seems that neither the imperial family nor the Military Department had the determination to win the war in one battle. The newly formed ten legions were temporarily left in the capital, where the eldest prince was conducting military training. As for when they would be deployed to the front line, it was not yet determined.
The empire's total troop strength deployed to the Southern Frontier frontier was just over 200,000, and it was divided into two routes.
The first force, led by the Second Prince Dominguez, includes the 40,000-strong army he had hastily assembled and incorporated into his personal guard, as well as the [ Prairie Fire Legion ] and [ Gale Legion ], which were formed after the Imperial Martial Combat Competition. The total force is slightly over 100,000, assisted by experts from the Imperial Capital Public Security Office and the Imperial Senate Guardians. They are heading from the southwest to the Southern Frontier battlefield. Their main enemy will be the sixth-level Imperial Lyon army stationed in Red Leaf Province.
The second force was led by the previously unknown fourth prince, Christo, who had been excluded from the struggle for the throne. This prince, whose reputation in the capital was not particularly good, finally got the long-awaited opportunity to prove himself. He led an army of about 100,000 men, including the [ Giant Strength Legion ], one of the empire's ten main battle legions, as well as the [ Squall Legion ] and [ Tsunami Legion ], two of the six secondary legions. He also received the full support of the Big Family, Big Family daughter, Big Beyoncé, was said to be among them. The total force was about 100,000 men. They entered the empire's Southern Frontier border from the southeast. Their main enemy was the coalition of several smaller empires among the Ten Empires Allied Army!
There was something strange about the imperial family's decision.
The so-called two armies seemed more like a perfunctory undertaking. The decision-makers' intentions were clearly not very enthusiastic about recovering the lost territories of the six Southern Frontier provinces, which was hard to fathom.
While the eldest prince seems to have lost the opportunity to rise in the war, he still firmly controls his original trusted army and has not sent it to the battlefield. The newly formed ten legions, trained by a military genius like him, will surely become his possession in no time. It seems that someone is protecting this rising God of War prince to prevent him from getting bogged down in the quagmire of war.
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