Academy Genius Commander

9 – First battle (3)

After hearing my words, the company commander smiled and said,

“I can understand how you want to be more zealous than anyone else by participating in your first battle as a student platoon leader. Even so, isn’t it fighting too hard? It’s only the first day, so take it easy.”

I did express some complaints by saying that, but this is a very favorable response.

Even though the company commander was in a situation where he seemed to die of exhaustion because he had fallen with the soldiers in the vanguard just before, he was a beginner like me.

No, it was because the academy gave room to listen to the strategy of the temporary platoon commander who had not officially graduated.

“If the company commander permits it, on the next shift, the Jaeger platoon would like to stand in the center, the center of the attack, holding the flag symbolizing the student platoon. And when we clash with the enemy, if we show superiority in battle, like when we attacked before the shift, mobilize your company to support us.”

If a first-time platoon leader, no, a student platoon commander who is equivalent to a 4th year university intern in terms of a company, made this suggestion to the company commander.

Unless you are dismissed because you are a young boy from a high-ranking aristocratic family, and you have to worry about dismissal from your position due to pressure coming in later through your family, what do you know about being a first-time student platoon leader with no experience, is war a joke? can it be two? You will eat clear and fine profanity with the sound of “I’m sorry” and you will get a bad evaluation in the personnel evaluation.

However, what if that was the horse of a guy who shuddered in fear and flinched in fear even though it was his first real battle just a few minutes ago, or ran wild without breaking the battle line, and fought while standing in the vanguard, far from being pushed back?

You will decide that it is worth listening to and thinking about.

“… Ha, you do it on your own, too. If another student’s platoon commander had said such a thing, he would have been scolded and his opinion thrown out, unless your father had become a count. But since you’ve shown a good side so far, I’ll listen to you.”

I said in my heart that I was delighted with what was expected.

“When we just engaged, we felt that the enemy’s troops were weaker than our company. And the enemy battalion commander will be grinding his teeth at the loss of three mages and several soldiers early in today’s engagement.”

“Surely so.”

“However, when they find out that the core of the company that caused great damage to them is a student platoon that is estimated to have less than half the strength of an ordinary platoon. You’ll think it’s funny and try to overpower the initiative with an active offensive, thinking the opportunity is here, but you’ll get a counterattack from us. Even if things don’t go our way because the enemies aren’t caught up in our provocations, as you saw in the fight just before, our platoon has the strength to fight without lagging behind other platoons, so we’ll show a good side when we stand in the vanguard again. ”

Without waiting for the company commander’s reply, I added just one word.

“The division commander has been frantic to obtain a track record of raising youngsters into great officers before His Highness, the Crown Prince, marched. In such a situation, if there is a report that my platoon under the company commander fought at the center of the company, it will be helpful for future performance evaluations and promotions.”

Having said that, the company commander nodded as if he understood.

“Okay. Then, after 15 minutes, place your troops in the center and follow the suggestion. Talk to the flag-bearer and change your unit flag to a student platoon.”

“I am honored that you believe in me.”

“I really want to rest for the remaining 15 minutes, so go ahead and finish your work and rest for at least one minute.”

**

Fifteen minutes later, I took my place in the middle of the first row where the fiercest fighting in Jaeger’s platoon was taking place.

And after changing positions with the 1st Company fighting in front, our platoon slowly advanced towards the enemy.

As if the enemy company commander had confirmed that our newly appeared platoon was carrying a student platoon rather than a regular platoon.

He had his company’s flag bearers raise a blue flag to signal the charge, and shouted in a loud voice that, amidst the noise of the battlefield, we could clearly hear us ten meters away.

“Unlike the company we just battled against, there is a platoon over there led by a student with no blood on their heads! They are bastards who brought students or something to deal with the great Francois Republic Army! they are chicks Let’s teach the fear of the Francois Republic Army. Kill all the kids!”

In response, the enemy officers and men threatened loudly, like a dog barking before biting its prey.

“The bastards of the Empire are driven to a dead end, even sending students to the front! What is it if not admitting that they have already lost? Let’s slit their throats and send them off in peace so that we can end this difficult life!”

“These soldiers who pick heads are first-class special! Charge in the name of the Republic!”

“Because they are newcomers, one armor is dirty and shiny!”

When the distance between each other gets closer and the ends of the spears meet.

Using the spearmanship I learned at the academy, I slashed the spearhead of the soldier facing me.

The opponent’s spear tilted to the right, and for a moment, the enemy soldier’s bare face was revealed in horror filled with fear of death.

In order to put an end to that fear as soon as possible, I immediately grabbed my spear with strength in my wrist and aimed it at the enemy’s neck to stab it.

If you are a reserve officer who learned spearmanship at the academy, it is a scene that can be easily played against enemy soldiers, but let the platoon commander who played a big role in the first battle step forward and kill the enemy for the first time.

The deputy platoon commander shouted on behalf of our platoon members.

“Follow the platoon leader! Don’t be pushed by those eunuchs who are so old but can’t properly command a platoon!”

At the same time, the soldiers of our platoon rapidly gained momentum and began to kill the enemy soldiers one by one, with me as the lead.

At first, the enemy platoon fighting against us tried to block it somehow, but gradually it could not withstand the momentum of the Jaeger platoon that surged like a wave and was pushed back.

As I continued to kill the soldiers one by one blocking my path, I began to see an empty spot behind the platoon that had formed formation before I knew it.

Now is the best time to defeat the enemy with the support of the entire company.

“The flag bearer raises the flag to signal full support to the company commander. When we confirm that another platoon is coming to support, we use this opportunity to destroy the enemy company and aim for the battalion commander’s head!”

It would be very difficult to catch and kill a battalion commander belonging to a high-ranking person with an offensive that started with a single platoon.

As a commander in command of a unit, this level of bravado should help boost the morale of the soldiers.

In addition, although I am a commoner, I have the same interests as the division commander.

Soon after, I confirmed that the company commander and other officers were coming to support behind my platoon, and I fixed the spear again.

The enemy company commander, no, the battalion commander seemed to understand that the core of our company was the Jaeger platoon, and continued to dispatch follow-up units to check us.

“If we hold on here for a little while, we will become the protagonists of this war!”

“If the platoon leader establishes a major and gets promoted, we will be promoted too! The campaign will be a few months sooner!”

Is it because the soldiers in my platoon are coming directly from the company commander leading the reinforcements?

Or maybe it’s because he’s completely intoxicated with the premonition of victory, but the morale is piercing the sky.

I raised the spear in one hand and shouted in order to boost the morale of my allies and lead the battle to victory.

“Deus is watching over us. Deus Bolt! God wants our righteous empire to win!”

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Let’s immediately send a signal to the company commander who supports us from behind that if we drive this momentum, we can destroy the enemy battalion.

The company commander did not hesitate to send a request signal to lead and support the entire battalion.

It must mean that he volunteered for a night watch as soon as he came to the front in order to be seen by platoon commanders and other officers, and gained a lot of trust thanks to fighting fearlessly in the vanguard, risking his death.

Upon realizing that fact, as a platoon commander carrying the lives of over 30 people, his determination to remain as cool as possible was shattered.

Instead, there was only a ruler in charge of part of the war in which 500 allies and 500 enemies lost their lives.

Is that why? From my head to my toes, the sense of omnipotence that I was controlling the flow of the battlefield began to circulate like crazy.

Recalling the lesson in my mind that when I get excited like this, I overturn the table that is almost ready, I take a deep breath and try to find my composure.

The effort was worth it, so the sound of my heart, which had been beating like crazy and thumping to my eardrums, returned to its normal speed with a thumping sound. .

I organized my thoughts like that and waited for other companies from the rear to come to support, but a man in colorfully decorated armor, unlike the other officers I had seen before, appeared in the other camp.

“At most, only one company broke through, but can we, the honorable soldiers of the Francois Republic, be so frightened?! I, Rafael de Vallière, battalion commander of the Valier Battalion, will fight at the forefront to set an example as a nobleman. Follow me!”

As the man, no, the battalion commander, Valier, stood in front of the line, the battalion, which had been crumbling just before, slowly began to regain order.

If this continues, our unit’s major will end at the level of inflicting a fatal blow to one company.

Of course, as a student platoon leader in command of a platoon, dividing a battalion and inflicting near-annihilation damage to a company is a great achievement.

If you add a little bit of a manager in your first campaign, you can say that you have established a major that can be heard as a genius.

If our battalion now does not miss this moment and charges with all its might, it will be able to annihilate the Valier Battalion.

So, now is the time to go gamble with only success in mind.

“Platoon riders, immediately raise and lower the assault planes twice and call for backup at full speed! The battalion commander appears out of nowhere and is trimming the lines, but the broken lines don’t rebuild very quickly!”

At those words, the deputy platoon leader Sergeant Schmitz and the other platoon members put on a stunned expression for a moment, but soon they were ready to charge after me at full speed.

Normally, I wouldn’t do the crazy thing of sprinting at enemy infantry.

Troops with disorganized lines will collapse even with the slightest blow.

And after about 10 or 20 seconds, the company commander and other nearby friendly companies sent a signal to approve the operation.

I grabbed the spear tightly and ran frantically shouting ‘charge’ and ‘follow me’ towards the enemy battalion commander who was busy rebuilding the unit.

Following me, one battalion became a spear and ran towards the heart of the Valier Battalion of the Francois Republic with terrifying momentum.

Even the battalion commander, Valier, was still shouting among the soldiers who had been unable to rebuild the half-destroyed battalion before our fierce charge began, saying that somehow we should regroup and run together.

“Fix the battle lines! Form formations as quickly as possible even for a second! Otherwise, not only me but all of you will die!!!”

However, hundreds of soldiers, who did not even know the basics of moving as a group through training like rituals, did not live up to his expectations.

I was just messing around and messing with my body, but I couldn’t form a formation.

This look was really pathetic, but what can I do?

It is only natural that a unit that has not learned how to move as a group in normal times loses the ability to use their hands and feet when they fall into a crisis situation.

After thinking like that, I put down the long spear that was over 4 meters on the ground and pulled out the sword I was wearing around my waist.

As the distance with him got closer and closer like this, 5 meters, 3 meters, I could see the fear on the face of the enemy battalion commander that he had been cornered by a student platoon leader in an instant.

In that situation, Valière yelled as he swung his sword at my throat.

“How dare a junior officer challenge me, the battalion commander! impolite!”

No, you die at the hands of a noble person, but you die at the hands of an insignificant beggar, but when everyone dies, there is that place.

“Everybody goes to Deus when they die, but they talk too much! A lot of men in the Republic just talk like women!”

And instead of swinging my sword, I moved my body slightly to the side and used that momentum to kick him in the face with all my might with my iron booted foot.

Through the iron greave, the feeling of human bones and muscles being crushed was vividly conveyed.

His torso collapsed to the floor as if sinking, and his face and neck bones were shattered and he died immediately, bleeding.

I cut his throat with the knife in my hand, held it high with my left hand, and shouted.

“Peter Yeager killed Raphael de Vallière, the battalion commander of the Vallière Battalion! If you don’t want to die, get out of the way and surrender!”

It would have been nice if the war continued with that momentum.

As the sun set shortly thereafter, the signal to retreat went off from the headquarters of both armies.

When I retreated, I thought a lot about how wasteful it was.

As I retreated, I glanced back and saw the corpses of Francois Republic soldiers all over the ground, and my soldiers were soaked with their blood.

Judging from the sight, it seems that we have succeeded in completely annihilating the Valier Battalion with our platoon as the main axis.

They said from the beginning that if you eat too much, your stomach will burst, so for now, I should be satisfied with this much.

But next time, I will make a bigger achievement than this and go up.