September 1, 161 AD, Mallaghburg, Calradia.

"Bang bang bang..." A big gong hanging on the city wall was struck.

A recruit who was standing guard in the castle looked confused and said to himself: "... What does the gong ring three times... mean? Let me think about it..."

A soldier next to him said: "Hey, I remember you have been in the army for several days, right? You have to remember the different signals represented by different gongs on the first day, right?"

The recruit scratched his head and said, "I forgot for a moment... what does the three gongs ringing mean?"

The soldier said: "Gather, gather at Malegebi."

"Malegbi?" The recruit was even more confused: "Where is it?"

The soldier said: "It's the newly built wall in the center of the playground. It is said that the day Lord Yan Fengxie took office, he hired workers to build a small wall there... Strangely enough, the wall seemed to be nothing more than a wall.

Apart from indicating a gathering place, the rest has no use at all...and the name is also called Malegebi... A Malegebi was built inside Malegebi. Although the name seems to be okay, it always sounds difficult to pronounce.

It feels weird... Oh, let’s not talk anymore, let’s go and gather. Master Feng Xie will be angry if you are late.”

…

Malege Wall is a wall built randomly with bricks. It is only two meters high and three meters long. It stands very abruptly on the playground where the soldiers usually practice. No one can say what the specific function of this wall is.

After a while, all the soldiers in the castle, a total of 58 people, lined up in front of this strange wall.

Xie Fengyi stood under the wall of Malage, looking at the soldiers who had just been recruited for less than a month and nodded with satisfaction.

Beside Xie Feng, Jia Mala and others were also looking at these new recruits.

Three weeks ago, when Xie Feng was appointed, he asked Jamara and others about their whereabouts. The result was very gratifying. Everyone chose to continue to follow Xie Feng. The reason was that they had nowhere to go elsewhere.

It’s rare to have a friend who is a lord, so why not have some fun with him?

Over the past three weeks, with the collective efforts of everyone, 58 Kugits have been recruited from nearby and distant villages. After three weeks of training, these soldiers have mastered basic combat skills. Even if they are now asked to

On the battlefield, they can also compete with those veterans - of course, just having the strength to fight and three months of hurried training will not defeat regular troops with combat experience.

A week ago, shocking news came from the mainland - the Kingdom of Swadia had declared war on the Kugit Khanate and had captured Uruzdak Fort.

This news came out, shocking everyone on the continent. There are six countries in Calradia, and Swadia has declared war on half of them at the same time - although the relationship with the Kingdom of Rhodok has not yet been established.

It has been officially established as a war, but the Kingdom of Swadia has built a boundary around the Kingdom of Rhodok to hinder the entry and exit of Rhodok soldiers. It can be said that the Kingdom of Swadia has also made preparations to officially fight with Rhodok.

The kingdom is ready for war.

When everyone heard the news, everyone looked in disbelief, except for Swock, who looked calm. I guess in his opinion, who dared to declare war with five countries at the same time, like Charlotte, who was at war with three countries at the same time?

My cousin and grandpa Harlaus were nothing compared to him.

But Xie Feng can't be so calm. Charlotte is different from Harlaus. Harlaus is a typical war maniac. In order to unify Calradia, he can go to war with other countries regardless of the consequences. And Charlotte,

Every chess piece is prepared to win. At least in Xie Feng's view, there is still no chance that what Charlotte has decided to do cannot be done - of course, the bloody battle in Jiantian Valley was an accident.

If Xie Feng hadn't possessed the "Heavenly Punishment" skill that no one in this world could understand, he would have died without a doubt.

Thinking of "Heaven's Punishment", Xie Feng was also curious - now that his body has been restored through the secret realm rewards of the twelve little wooden men, can he activate "Heaven's Punishment" again? Of course, this is just

Just thinking about it, Xie Feng has had enough of being a useless person - more importantly, Xie Feng can't remember the method of activating the "Heavenly Punishment" sword skill in his mind. It seems that after activating this skill once,

It was completely removed from Xie Feng's mind. From this point of view, no matter whether the body can be restored by various means afterwards, "Heavenly Punishment" can only be activated once.

Closer to home, when Xie Feng learned that Swadia had begun to declare war with the Kugits, Xie Feng immediately rushed to the Kugit capital Turga to find Saiga Khan and persuaded him to join Rodok and Salander.

In the alliance, they jointly resisted Swadia. However, this opinion was rejected by Saiga Khan on the spot. The reason was that the Kugit Khanate had always been at odds with the Salander Sultanate and the Rhodok Kingdom. Even if forced

With their common enemy, the Kingdom of Swadia, they may be able to form an alliance and become allies, but privately they must still have their own agendas and are unwilling to go all out on their own. Such an alliance may appear to be incompatible, but in fact it is better to go separate ways to avoid an alliance.

Misunderstandings and disputes that arise during military dispatch.

Saijia Khan's words are not unreasonable. Think about the Three Kingdoms period, the Kwantung Allied Forces, a total of 18 princes joined forces to fight against Dong Zhuo. The 18 princes sounded extraordinary and powerful, but in fact all of them were fighting.

My own little calculation is that I want others to charge while I take advantage of the rear. I even said that Yuan Shu, who was responsible for the supply of food and grass, had an internal conflict with the pioneer Sun Jian. As a result, Yuan Shu from the rear deliberately made things difficult for Sun Jian when he charged at the front. The supply of food and grass was insufficient, causing Sun Jian to be defeated.

Defeated. As a result, the Kwantung Allied Forces failed to cause much harm to Dong Zhuo in the end and were forced to disband.

Learn from mistakes that have been made before. Forming an alliance sounds very cool, but in fact the risks behind it are too great. If we can't convince each other and cooperate seamlessly, then this alliance will not be formed.

When Xie Feng returned to Mallagburg in disgrace and told everyone about the matter, Dante made a suggestion - this suggestion later changed the military scale of the entire Calradian continent and was praised by later generations as "

"One of Dante's two divine strategies".

Later historians believed that Dante, throughout his life, could not surpass his junior brother Lyman in his ability to march and form formations, and he might even be inferior to Charlotte. But what he proposed concerned the entire continent.

The control of the situation was unprecedented and unique. Before Dante retired, he came up with two great strategies to fight Swadia. Each of them was enough to make Charlotte frown several times.

And now, Dante came up with the first divine plan - to gather the bandits to attack the king.

At that meeting that shocked historians, Dante said: "Actually, the suggestion I am going to make next was inspired by what Feng Xie did in Jerkara."

Xie Feng scratched his head and asked: "What did I do in Jerkara? Why don't I have any impression?"

Dante said: "Legalize the gangs."

Dante then explained: "Perhaps you yourself have not continued to pay attention to this matter, but I have privately learned about the implementation of the proposal you originally made with Graves."

Xie Feng asked: "How is it?" In fact, when Xie Feng proposed to Graves the legalization of gangs, he was about to leave for Kugit before the law was promulgated. In the past three months, Xie Feng

Feng had so many things to deal with and decide on, he had no time to understand whether the suggestion he made at the beginning would work or not.

Dante said: "The situation is unimaginably optimistic. After Graves announced the legalization of gangs, on the one hand, those small gangs are afraid of being encircled and suppressed by the royal army. On the other hand, if they are willing to submit, accept arrangement, and unified management,

, the benefits they will receive will be far better than developing alone. So when Graves promulgated the new law legalizing gangs, those small gangs most likely chose to obey. And what happened later was convenient, because

The regular troops are in the light and the gangs are in the dark, so the regular troops have never been able to pose much of a threat to those large gangs. However, it is different to use black to control the gangs. The Rodok Kingdom can use the gangs that have surrendered.

In turn, they monitored and controlled the movements of those gangsters who were unwilling to surrender. The results proved that the whole method was really effective. In just half a month, those large-scale gangsters who were originally confident and capable of doing evil everywhere had no choice but to restrain themselves. From this point of view,

Later, the power of the gangs could sometimes make the regular troops unable to intervene and helpless. At that time, I was thinking that since Swadia is so powerful and it is difficult to attack its roots from the outside, then we can

Can we not use these gangs and lawless elements roaming the mainland again to harass Swadia from within? Looking at the current situation in the mainland, there are different gangs of lawless elements in every country.

The pirates of the Kingdom of Nord, the snow bandits of the Kingdom of Vigia, the green forest bandits of the Kingdom of Swadia, the thieves of the Kugit Khanate, the bandits of the Rhodok Kingdom, and the desert bandits of the Salander Sultanate, have been

Those ordinary bandits and robbers with no obvious national boundaries... These are public security issues that have always been a headache for various countries. Ever since Feng Xie proposed the legalization of gangs, I have been thinking about why we must legalize these illegal gangs.

Do you think of the elements as annoying flies and enemies that cannot be killed? Why can't we use them and regard them as our capital against the Kingdom of Swadia?"

Xie Feng said: "You mean that we should try our best to unite these criminals and let them fight Swadia for us?"

Dante nodded and said: "Exactly."

Xie Feng frowned and said, "Then, why do they want to listen to us?"

Dante said: "This is exactly what we have to do next. Convince them one by one, or conquer them by force."

"Conquer by force?" Xie Feng asked in confusion: "Doesn't this consume our own combat power? And the effect is not necessarily impressive."

Dante smiled and said: "Remember how you caused the disintegration of Dastam Khan's restoration army?"

Xie Feng looked embarrassed and said: "Why are you suddenly laughing at the stupid mistakes I made in the past again?"

Dante said: "I'm not laughing at you, I'm serious."

Xie Feng thought for a while and said: "Because I caught Dastam Khan himself?"

"Yes!" Dante said: "To capture the thief first, capture the king. As long as the leader of the largest criminal gang in each country is subdued, the next thing will be much simpler. Now, among the pirate groups in the Nord Kingdom

, the most famous one is a pirate leader named Sewaller; the snow bandits of the Kingdom of Virginia are led by a man named Borislavi. This man seems to have a relationship with King Wilson, although

The bandits in the Snowfield are huge, but they don't seem to have bothered Virginia very much. Over in the Kingdom of Rhodok, the leader of the Blood Wing Society, Rodrigo Polagunca, was under pressure from the gang's legalization policy.

I think I will follow Rhodok sooner or later; I don’t have a clue yet about the Kingdom of Swadia and the Kugit Khanate.”

Xie Feng listened carefully and then asked: "Where is the Salander Sultanate?"

Dante said: "This is exactly what I want to suggest that we prepare to do - among the desert bandits in the Salander Sultanate, you should be familiar with the most powerful group, which is the 'Bloody Courage' of Usetar."

"Wait a minute." Xie Feng asked, "What are we planning to do?"

Dante said: "First, as far as I know, more than half of the members of 'Bloody Courage' are from the original 'Desert Eagle'; secondly, Usetar, the leader of 'Bloody Courage', has

Those members from the 'Desert Eagle' were not very friendly, and the original members of the 'Desert Eagle' had deep grudges; third, Serra, was the leader of the original 'Desert Eagle'; fourth, Serra

I never thought about surrendering to the Bloody Courage, but after Serra stepped down, the elders were afraid that the Bloody Courage would attack them, so they all chose to surrender. Fifth, Serra and us

We have a very good relationship with each other, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are our companions; sixthly, the soldiers of Mallag Fort are almost trained, and it is time for them to accept the baptism of real war and be further improved..."

"Wait a minute!" Xie Feng said with a surprised look on his face: "You mean... let me lead the soldiers to help Serra defeat the 'Bloody Courage' and re-call the original members of the 'Desert Eagle'?"

Dante nodded and said: "That's exactly it."

…

When I thought back to this point, the soldiers of Mallag Fort had been gathering for a while. Everyone was looking at Xie Feng, waiting for Xie Feng's words.
Chapter completed!