Currently, the Republican Army had 100,000 men and of them, 50,000 were elite soldiers while the other 50,000 men were those who had recently become Republicans. It was obvious that if they divided the army into three when their troops were like this, the overall effectiveness would drop. When his officers began to desperately oppose his idea, Siegfried spoke.

“You are overlooking three things.”

Once he had all their attention, he continued to speak.

“First of all, there is a big difference in the quality of their recruits. While we and the Imperial Army both recruited from inside the Valence Kingdom, there is a big difference in quality.”

Siegfried paused for a moment.

“The enemy forcibly recruited the people from the capital and most of those people are barely armed and their weapons are poor.”

Just as Siegfried had said, the recruits currently conscripted by the Imperial Army were mostly cowardly soldiers. The Empire had only given them a single spear and none of them were given leather armor. Additionally, there was a big difference in the age range of the recruits. The Republican Army had only recruited the able men out of all the young and elder soldiers that had joined.

“We are made up of comrades who have voluntarily joined because...