Academy Genius Commander

1 – interview

When I opened the door and went in and saluted, the interviewer said with a very sour expression.

“Are you the 17th test taker? I will start the interview now. Take your seats.”

At the same time as I said that, I saluted the interviewer in front of me and made a statement of rank.

“Test-taker 17, Peter! All right!”

With that said, he gave a signal to sit down with his eyes.

The interviewer, dressed in a fantasy-like black military uniform, made a funny, ignoring expression when he realized that I was a commoner with no sex.

In the world of fantasy novels, I was possessed as a commoner and an orphan, and I was despised in this way several times, but I thought it was my last chance in this life, and I was treated like this in an interview that I barely caught on.

It’s really like f*ck.

“Then I will ask you a question. Why the hell did you apply to the Imperial Academy?”

My heart was like, ‘I’m afraid I’ll freeze on the roadside if I get kicked out of the orphanage on a penny! f*ck!’ I would like to answer

If I did, I would be immediately eliminated from the interview, and I would miss my last chance.

“To serve the great Reich Empire and His Majesty the Emperor!”

When the interviewer heard that, he was tired of the obvious answer and said that he was very annoying.

“Okay, then I’ll start the actual interview from now on.”

As I was nervous and resisted the hiccup for a moment, the interviewer opened his mouth and said.

“From now on, number 17 will assume you are a battalion commander in command of a battalion and answer the given situation.”

According to what I heard at first glance, I heard that nobles who applied for the Imperial Academy were asked simple questions that would appear in a moral book, such as the attitude and mindset of a soldier, to increase the acceptance rate.

In preparation for the Imperial Academy interview, even the interview questions are given to the sons of nobles who receive expensive special training, so in fact, passing is only for them.

This is because even if the path to becoming an officer in the empire is open to everyone, regardless of rank, it is desirable for aristocrats to become commanders as long as there is a caste system.

The curious thing is that despite this discrimination, at least 2-3% of commoners come in every rider because of the teachings of the first emperor.

The pitfall is that most of the commoners who come in like that are from wealthy merchant families who only need to raise their family status.

Certainly, there may be only one orphan like me who enters the school every 10 years.

Asking this question to an orphan who probably has no knowledge of strategic command…

In effect, the interviewer is asking you to be sure to leave.

Other interviewers will feel the fear of turning their hair gray when faced with such a situation, stuttering and babbling about what they know, but I… it’s a little different.

Because I had studied a lot of strategies and tactics before I was possessed by another world and had them engraved in my head.

After a while, that person will be able to give you a satisfactory answer.

“All right!”

“Okay, then I will give you a rough outline of the situation, and you just have to tell me what strategy you think is best. As a battalion commander belonging to the 1st division with 8,000 soldiers, you are fighting a Francois army of the same size as the Republic. Currently, the two armies are fighting evenly, but how will you give instructions when the Francois battalion, which is fighting with your battalion, is slowly annihilated?”

I’ve never met a single aristocratic youngster in my life, but I can say for sure.

Because this place fights with spears, swords, arrows, and a bit of magic, aristocratic youngsters who value honor and romantic battles will answer that they must strengthen their offensive to establish a major.

Even the majority of commoners, who have no knowledge of the skills or concepts required for command, say, ‘Because we are winning, we must step up the offensive.’ will answer

Examiners will praise you for thinking well at the student level and give you a decent grade, but in my opinion this is the wrong answer.

“Interviewer, before that, I would like to know how much discretion my battalion has.”

The interviewer in front of me seemed to be surprised that an orphan mentioned the commanding officer’s discretion, and answered in a voice full of interest.

“Of course, at the commander’s discretion, you can attack more aggressively, or if you think the trend is against you, you can retreat.”

I’ve checked my authority like this, so even if I answered this far, I’m on the side of answering pretty well.

It would be very difficult for me to cover my identity and low written score and pass.

“Thank you for your reply. However, even if the war situation looks favorable, as the battalion commander, I will not recklessly turn to the offensive, and I will report the current situation to the commander and keep my post.”

The interviewer asked with a slightly displeased expression.

“The duty of a soldier is to win battles. But you’re going to put off your chance to win? I think it’s a disqualification as a commander.”

That question is half right and half wrong.

Because commanders who can overturn the war situation with a single movement, such as the commander of a regiment, division, or corps, must stab the enemy’s disadvantage as much as possible to gain victory.

I deal with only 5% of the soldiers mobilized by my allies, and there is a big gap in the information and vision I can get compared to those people.

In addition, if even one person makes an unexpected action during a battle, the damage caused by it should be considered.

“There are two reasons for that judgment. First of all, it’s good to try to build a major, but it’s meaningless if you don’t have victories ahead of you. In order to be sure of victory, I thought I needed to get the military support of a higher commander. Secondly, it could be a trap that the commander of the Francois Republic is deliberately trying to lure allies through. It was judged that it would be difficult to grasp the information of the entire army with the view of a single battalion.”

In fact, when a large-scale battle takes place, a strategy often used is to intentionally retreat a small unit, induce the opponent’s attack, and strike back.

As I said, when the commanders and soldiers were excited after a fierce battle, one unit faked a breach on purpose.

Intermediate commanders like the battalion commander who were caught by it greedy for achievements, and when the unit is caught, the foolishly deceived unit is gradually mowed down and victory is obtained.

Even the interviewer, who had been trying to finish the interview even a second earlier a few minutes ago, hadn’t expected it this far, and a bit of surprise appeared on his face.

I don’t know how much this world’s military strategy and technology are, but I didn’t think that the level of the test taker would be able to answer this level.

It looks really good, the cider is sweet.

“The argument was well understood. If so, let me ask you one last time. What would you do if you were the commander and received a request for support in that situation?”

After thinking about it for a while, I came up with the best answer.

“We mobilize archers and wizards in the rear to provide primary support to the battalion that requested support, and mobilize half of the reserve force to assist. In addition, the enemy forces will urgently provide additional infantry to prevent the formation from breaking through, so we will mobilize knights to target the enemy reinforcements’ flanks to delay their movement and increase damage.”

The interviewer who heard my answer spoke in a voice that felt quite friendly, unlike before the interview started.

“Okay. Now that the interview time is over, you can leave. Next time, it would be nice to see it as a relationship between an academy cadet and an instructor.”

It is a word that the interviewers say ritually, but considering my status, this is not a word that can easily come out of the interviewer’s mouth, and it was seen as meaning that I can expect a positive situation of passing.

It would be nice if it meant that I could definitely pass, not just what I expected.

No, it will definitely pass.

Then I saluted as I had entered, and walked out the door at an angle.

When I opened the door and came to the interview, I felt my heart shrink from the anxiety that I had to pass.

Now I felt relieved to think that I had completed the interview perfectly.

**

Major Hans Webber, the interviewer who finished the interview with No. 17, muttered in a voice full of astonishment.

“When the regimental commander told me to go to the academy interviewer, there was nothing expected of me, and to be honest, it was just annoying, so I thought about doing it roughly. Especially when I saw the disastrous result of the orphan orphan’s writing in subjects like Imperial History and Sociology. I didn’t even know the subject, and I tried to embarrass you by asking you a few words so that you would regret having dared to apply, and then give me a disqualification.”

That would be the case, no matter how much the commander’s duty is to fight and win.

This is because officers are treated as at least equivalent to aristocrats, so they must have appropriate culture and knowledge.

Are similar things required of academy cadets, who are reserve officers, if they get a failing grade in the exam to find out in advance?

For the sake of the dignity of the Reich Empire, it is correct to disqualify.

Hans Webber thought again, recalling the image of student number 17, no, Peter, answering with a confident voice.

Would an officer who had been educated for gifted children in an aristocratic family and graduated from an academy be able to answer like that?

Hans’s brilliant brain, who ranks in the top 2% of the academy jockeys in terms of success rate, replied:

‘Unless you’re a fairly talented person, or a handful of geniuses, you won’t be able to give insightful answers so quickly.’

If you were an orphan before receiving military education at the academy, you would have only learned basic military terms as a soldier.

“Unless he is a genius, it is impossible for him to come up with such a strategic idea.”

And as a noble and commander of the empire, it was not right to deprive such a genius of the opportunity to enter the academy just because he lacked culture.

Furthermore, the fact that this system was created with the intention of ‘If there is a commoner who has a strong desire for improvement and has genius talents, we must give an opportunity for the development of the empire’ is a clear basis for admitting a genius named Peter to the academy, it was judged. .

Major Hans thought so, and wrote the following in the interviewer’s specifics.

[Although he is an orphan from a commoner, he is a talented person who would be of great help to His Majesty the Emperor if given the opportunity. Decided to give it a chance. Interview score 100/100]