Academy Genius Commander

25 – Restore the Territory (4)

When training soldiers, the most important thing is not to cultivate weapon handling skills, nor to equip a group of hundreds of people with unity so that they can move as one body.

If you say this, someone will say, ‘No, how important is it for soldiers to handle their weapons well and move as one body? You madman! ‘ I would say and retort.

In order to become an army with strong fighting power, the first thing to do is to unite the hearts of the soldiers under your command.

To this end, the method I chose is to make my body move and drive it into an extremely difficult environment, and to create a situation where I have no choice but to rely on each other with the thought that ‘the only thing I can trust is this fellow who is trained next to me’.

Considering the limitations of the times, it would be best to unite officers with officers and soldiers with soldiers in training.

If you roll in real battle like I did, this will be solved to some extent.

With that thought in mind, I finished preparing to blow the wake-up trumpet with the trumpet borrowed from the military band.

I’m going to be busy, so I’d like to leave it to Sergeant Schmitz, who I’ve been following since the Jaeger platoon, but…

In the Reich Empire, where a strict caste system was established, it was basic that nobles were taught and trained only by nobles.

So I had no choice but to train the officers.

At times like these, it’s best to just give up and enjoy the hard work.

“Wake up within 15 minutes, change your clothes, and gather at the parade ground! Those who are late will have a fun parade with me until breakfast time this morning!”

As soon as my disobedience fell, the newly assigned officers in my unit, who were trained, began to move in a hurry.

There were captains among them who were older than me, but I was the only one who devised this type of training.

From second lieutenants to captains in their mid-thirties, they were showing a foolish appearance that they could not adapt to the training method they had received for the first time.

Some were in too much of a hurry to sew buttons in strange places, resulting in torn laces or a chaotic sight of being worn backwards.

“You crazy bastard! Wear it like that and how to wear the breastplate. Wake.”

“My third string! Isn’t this going to be late for the assembly time?”

“After graduating from the academy, I was thrilled to come under Captain Jaeger, a war hero, but what is this…”

Is it because they have already suffered from me for three days?

While complaining, he quickly put on his armor and at the same time ran out and went to get the long spear in the arsenal.

After about 10 minutes like that, the guys who had just woken up gathered with swollen and tired faces.

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Lieutenant McNair, the tallest of the lieutenants, raised his hand in the center and shouted.

“A total of 12 members of the 1st platoon directly under Jaeger Battalion, all gathered!”

“Everyone suffered. Then, from now on, everyone will start walking in the morning. If even one guy comes out later than me, I’ll have all of you speared until tonight!”

When the regimental responsibility was mentioned, the faces of the soldiers, no, the officers who had just transferred to my battalion, were crumpled.

However, I am A, who has a higher rank than them, and in an era where the pre-modern European masculine spirit is alive, it is a recommended virtue for a high-ranking person to set an example in training.

Also, I, trained on the Rhineland front, will not lose in a physical competition with them…

Even if they can harbor dissatisfaction because they are asking for joint responsibility.

Those guys must be admiring them, saying, ‘Our battalion commander is a real man who leads by example, and a nobleman who received the Silver Knight’s Sword is different…’.

“From now on, the canter begins. Go out the front door and run around the castle three times before entering. Run forward from the front.”

After that, one of the ensigns in the lead started to run, and the rest of the officers followed in their uniforms with breastplates.

In addition, I started running at a speed that was neither slow nor too fast, chasing after those who were running in front of me.

Then the officer trainees who were running in front of me started running harder to avoid the catastrophe of being overtaken by me and being speared until late at night.

Here I add a few words to get on their nerves.

“The guys called officers of the Jaeger Battalion won’t catch up with me, right? I’m running just as fast as the soldiers… I’m sure you won’t catch up with me!”

My current running speed would be about 14 km/h.

This is slower than a modern marathon runner, but quite fast for an average long-distance runner.

So, it is a speed that is difficult for those who have not trained enough to dare to surpass.

The soldiers, like the officers in front of them, run without wearing military uniforms with things like breastplates and leggings.

So if the officers are running with all their might and catch up with me, I will not be disappointed.

Anyway, in order to train their endurance, I focused on driving them to the limit of their physical strength using morning canter.

After passing half the distance of the daily run, the officers gritted their teeth and said,

“Will the officers of the great Reich Empire be used only because they have less physical strength than the soldiers? Let’s all grit our teeth and run!”

“Ouch! can do!!”

“Only half left! Hold on!!”

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Like that, the officers somehow endured until the end of the canter with the pride of being nobles of the Reich Empire.

When I finished my run and returned to my original destination, I sat down on the floor gasping for breath.

On the other hand, I’m only 19 years old now, and thanks to the fact that my stamina has increased a lot while rolling on the Rhineland front line the other day.

Unlike them, I was able to speak in front of the officers without gasping for breath.

“Everyone has suffered a lot. Then, the meal will arrive soon, so fill your stomach first and start training afterwards.”

**

and meal time.

High-ranking people who are far away from here often say that it is better for the commander to have a meal with the soldiers or subordinates, but…

It is very bad behavior for a higher-up to catch up with people after a hard workout during their only break.

So I decided to dine alone in a reasonably remote place.

As I got farther away, the officers gathered in twos and threes and started chatting while eating jjambab.

“The battalion commander, is that a human… He obviously ran at the same speed as us, but why is he still fine?”

“I don’t need anything, Lieutenant. Isn’t training too hard? It seems like I ran for an hour just by cantering this morning. Isn’t spear training right after eating?”

“I thought it was easy to teach the soldiers because they removed all the advanced movements, but I didn’t think that even the range of movement of the arm would be measured with a ruler like a knife… It’s a real poison, poison.”

Although most of the story is a bit of a complaint about hard training and a bit of gossip about me.

I felt a sense of pleasure listening to their conversation.

Of course it’s not because I’m a crazy person who enjoys being criticized by others.

Until a few days ago, the officers had a sense of belonging to the same battalion, but they could not unite as one.

So it was a situation where unity was very low, but my philosophy that if you roll hard, you become one with each other, did it fit.

This is because the officers showed a sharp friendship centering on the existence of the country behind their backs.

“Aren’t you a great person? It’s for training, so even if it’s light armor, I’ve walked around the castle three times wearing something that weighs over 10kg, and I’m not gasping. ”

“He is also a war hero at that age, so he is different from us. He rose from a commoner to his current position in an instant…”

“The battalion commander’s achievements were so conspicuous that even those who served under him… I heard this secretly when I was working in the personnel department of the division, but there were rumors that those who were promoted to lieutenant on the battlefield would be immediately accepted in the first round of screening for promotion to captain later has turned.”

At those words, the officers’ eyes lit up.

Because an officer’s life depends on how high he is promoted.

If you are promoted to major and discharged, you can live with being treated as a knight for the rest of your life, but if you are discharged as a captain, you will be treated as a once noble officer.

Of course, that is also a great spec, so you can do something like a guard captain in a rural area, but…

If anything, it’s better to be treated like a knight, receive a pension, and live comfortably, and even better, be promoted to lieutenant colonel or higher and obtain a formal succession title that you can pass on to your children.

And the lieutenant who worked in the personnel department continued.

“So, if you follow our battalion commander, your future promotion path will open up. I believe in that and we train while rolling around like dogs. ”

At that, the officers agreed loudly and finished their meal, as if they thought I was not looking.

And that day, I managed to get the officers to bludgeon them until 8:00 p.m.

This is to increase their fighting power and unity, but it was never my intention to get revenge for my backbiting.

That’s how I raised the physical strength and unity of the officers through two weeks of training.

Suddenly, among them, in private places, there were even those who said older brothers and sisters.