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(Chapter 3 ~!)
GOR Chapter 536 Phantom Wolf Riders
Two months went by. Two months later, Du Wei came up with a new trick.
He convinced the High Command to borrow 800 soldiers from the Imperial Capital's Public Security Department to be stationed in this military academy.
Next, he split up the 108 students and placed them among the 800 ordinary soldiers. Every one of them assumed the position of a low-level officer, platoon leader, captain and so on. The minimum number of soldiers was 20 while the maximum number of soldiers was 100.
These officers had led soldiers before when they were still at the local level. Thus, they were able to do this job very well. Du Wei gave them 10 days to familiarize themselves with their subordinates. They would eat and sleep together with the soldiers. Every morning and night, they would have to participate in the soldiers' normal exercises. However, during the day, they would have to continue with the military academy's lessons.
After 10 days, many of the officers finally realized the usefulness of the rules set by Du Wei.
First of all, the officers took the lead to strictly abide by the school rules. Thus, none of the soldiers dared to violate them. Next, Du Wei set up a strange rule that the officers must eat after the soldiers have finished eating. This rule caused the soldiers to quickly develop a good impression of the officers.
This was a feudal era after all. Within the army, the officers enjoyed a lot of privileges. Now that the officers were eating and sleeping together with the soldiers, it was only natural that the ordinary soldiers would quickly develop feelings of gratitude.
"If your subordinates are starving while you eat to your heart's content. If your subordinates do not have enough winter clothing to endure the cold while you wear high quality leather robes … an officer like you can forget about getting the soldiers' sincere support. "
The reasoning behind this was very simple. Du Wei wanted to eliminate the Roland Empire's traditional aristocratic officers' privileges in the army.
Under Du Wei's strict orders, the officers lived in the same barracks as the soldiers and ate the same food as the soldiers. They took the lead in obeying the school rules. Du Wei even set a rule that every night, the officers must wait until all the soldiers have gone to bed before they can go to bed.
It was because of these rules that those guys found boring before that they gained the support of their subordinates in just 10 days. Of course, 10 days was too short, and the soldiers were just grateful to them. However, to control an army, this was the first step that had to be completed!
In Du Wei's opinion, except for the Northern Tempest Legion, which had the strongest combat ability in the Imperium, none of the local garrisons of the Imperium could achieve this seemingly simple first step!
After ten days, Du Wei began a new course. This time, it wasn't "deduction" but actual combat!
The place where the academy was located was a military fortress built by the Empire many years ago. This place was large enough, and there were also various buildings, barracks, command centers, buildings, outer sentry posts, fortress walls, arrow towers, and so on …
Du Wei began his "Practical Acting" class!
Every lesson was very simple. He randomly chose a building. It could be a weapons warehouse, a mud wall, an arrow tower, or even a row of barracks!
Then, he would divide the eight hundred soldiers into two groups and have these student officers lead their own soldiers in a confrontation!
Du Wei made full use of the academy's terrain and had these officers lead their men to play a "war game" here.
Of course, in order to avoid casualties, Du Wei wrapped the so-called swords in cotton cloth and removed the spearheads from the spears. He also transferred over several priests and doctors who were proficient in light type healing techniques. In addition, Du Wei himself was a powerful magic pharmacist.
After a series of live combat performances, the officers tested their tactics in reality. The scale of the acting also began with small squads, then medium squads, and finally developed into a large squad squads! Or perhaps it would be a battle between battalions!
In order to let these officers develop practical commanding experience, Du Wei continuously transferred troops from the Imperial Capital's Public Security Department. In the end, after three months, the number of Public Security Department soldiers stationed in the Imperial Capital's Military Academy had reached two thousand! A real infantry battalion!
Du Wei also formulated a series of promotion and demotion systems! In a confrontation, the side that made a mistake and lost in the end would be demoted! As for the winning side, they would be promoted. The original platoon leader would be promoted to captain, and the captain would be promoted to squadron leader …
Because they couldn't go to the battlefield, these simulated battles also allowed these officers to accumulate some preliminary commanding experience.
By the way, our future Count of Rollin, Young Master Gabriel, took the initiative to postpone his coming of age ceremony because he was engrossed in his studies at the military academy.
A few months later, Du Wei once again started a new course, "The Use of Gunpowder" …
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Spring left and summer came.
It had been nearly half a year since the new emperor, Charlie, succeeded the throne.
With the arrival of summer, the coldness in the air was swept away.
Even in the northern border of the Empire, the ice and snow had begun to melt. The ground that had been frozen for an entire winter and spring had gradually softened. The warmth of the sun grew. The soldiers took off their thick clothes and put on the thin summer uniform.
In the northern part of the Empire's Kabaski Defense Line, the Tempest Legion had completely stationed themselves in the central fortress and the eastern fortress. As for the western fortress, it was left to Alpay's Lightning God's Whip.
As the weather warmed up, the digging of the trenches in the northern part of the fortress sped up. As the weather warmed up, the soil on the ground was no longer as hard as stone. Under the fortress, the digging of the hundred-meter-long trenches had come to an end.
The ravines on the ground would become a "corridor of death" for the enemy that was marching forward in their imagination! They had to pass through this hundred-meter-long trench area and still be within the range of the crossbows on the fortress wall! In the eyes of General Rostock, the commander of the Tempest Legion, just this trench alone was enough to make the enemy pay a huge price in blood!
A complete defense line, the Empire's most elite soldiers, sufficient weapons and equipment … Rostock was full of confidence in the future war!
The only thing that he didn't think highly of was the "Empire's First Air Division" behind the defense line, which was originally an independent division in the northwest.
General Andre used to be General Rostock's subordinate, so the two of them had a good personal relationship. But personal relationship was one thing. General Andre had made a suggestion before, which was to mobilize his airship unit to cooperate with the cavalry scouts on the ground. With the central fortress of the Kabaski Defense Line as the center, they would establish a patrol area with a radius of 50 kilometers.
However, General Rostock wasn't too interested in this suggestion. As a typical loyal believer of the traditional "cavalry theory", Rostock had led cavalry all his life. In his Tempest Legion, cavalry accounted for a large proportion. He firmly believed that cavalry was the strongest and most reliable force in the human army!
He didn't believe that the airships flying hundreds of meters in the sky could do any scouting work … Yes, flying in the sky, they could see far away! However, how could the function of a cavalry scout be replaced by those airships?
An experienced scout could determine the enemy's tracks and even the direction from the various footprints on the ground and the traces of the trampled vegetation! How could the airships in the sky see these things?
Moreover, every time the airships were dispatched, they had to pay a hefty price! Every time the airships took off in groups, they had to consume a lot of fuel! The fuel was all purchased with military funds!
General Rostock had been officially appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Kabaski Defense Line! In terms of position, whether it was General Andre's air force or Alpai's Whip of the Thunder God legion, they were all under Rostock's control. Of course, the commander-in-chief had another task: all the supplies and military expenses of the entire Kabaski Defense Line were all handled by General Rostock!
In the opinion of this experienced old general who had been guarding the border for many years, the airships were indeed powerful in combat (this was evident from the annihilation of the Northwest Legion a few years ago). General Rostock acknowledged the combat power of the airships, but he felt that the cost of such combat power was too high!
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem An organized airship would consume at least 10 times more fuel than the same amount of fodder and rations for the same number of scouts and cavalries in the air for each patrol within 50 miles!
General Rostock felt that this was simply a waste! Why would they let those expensive airships do the work that cavalry scouts could do?
Due to his personal relationship with General Andre, he didn't reject all of General Andre's suggestions. He only agreed to some of them with reservations. However, he reduced the number of airships sent out to patrol the war zone to one-third of the total!
Most of the areas were still patrolled by cavalry scouts!
But the result … What General Rostock didn't know was that General Andre sighed helplessly. This was because the authority to approve all military expenses was in the hands of the commander-in-chief Rostock!
The result was that the perfect warning system designed by General Andre didn't achieve the expected effect. There were many empty spots in the areas patrolled by the airships!
In the early summer of the 965th year of the Roland Empire, finally, the cavalry scouts sent the first unusual news!
A group of up to ten scouts didn't return on the day they were supposed to return to deliver the news!
This news wasn't immediately reported to General Rostock. The officers below didn't pay enough attention to this news. They thought that this group of scouts might have encountered a magical beast or been delayed on the way. Moreover, the army had sent out a total of 200 scouts to patrol the vast area north of the Stronghold. It wasn't a big deal for one of the scouts to be delayed for a day.
But the next day, this news was sent to General Andre.
On the third day … Finally, another group of scouts found the missing group in the north …
Corpses!
When the group of 10 cavalry scouts passed by that area, they saw a scene that made them terrified!
At the edge of a forest, the ground was covered with blood and broken corpses! The condition of the corpses was extremely horrifying! The wounds on the bodies of the dead horses seemed to indicate that they had not been bitten by any ferocious beast!
As for those comrades who died, not a single complete corpse could be found! Those corpses seemed to have been cruelly torn into pieces! Blood splattered everywhere! Many of the corpses were even incomplete! Some had a leg cut off, some only had half of their body left!
All the armor and weapons on the corpses had been stripped away – this was definitely not the work of a magical beast or a wild beast! Wild beasts might eat people, but they would never steal weapons and armors!
Everyone, from the leading officer to the soldiers, saw such a terrifying scene. Even the brave soldiers couldn't help but feel their legs go soft! Because they saw … at the edge of the forest, there was still a pile of ashes on the ground that was still warm!
On top of the ashes, there were a few rough wooden sticks sticking out … Legs and arms! Those were the parts that were cut off from those corpses!
Those arms and thighs were clearly 'barbecued' by the wooden sticks. There were even bite marks on them!!
This was too terrifying!!
Even the bravest soldier couldn't help but turn around and vomit violently while hugging a tree. The leading officer's face was as pale as paper. Just as he gave the order to gather information and was about to retreat, the horse under him suddenly became restless!
The horse seemed to have smelled the scent of danger in the air. It neighed fiercely and raised its front hooves! No matter how the mounted soldiers tried to pacify them, the horses struggled to move their hooves and refused to listen to them …
At that moment, the leader of the scouts suddenly heard a strange roar. That roar sounded like that of a wild beast. It sounded like … the howl of a wolf?
Just as he turned around, he saw countless terrifying figures rushing towards him from the forest! They were as fast as galloping horses! However, within the narrow forest, they were astonishingly fast! They were able to move and jump, but how could they possess the agility of a human horse?
Before the scouts could react, tens of giant wolves had already pounced upon them from within the forest! Each of these giant wolves was covered in rough and hard iron armour. Riding on the backs of these giant wolves were monsters with sharp mouths and fangs! They held long swords in their hands and howled like a pack of wolves …
The slower scouts were pushed to the ground on the spot. They didn't even have the chance to cry out before their throats were bitten off! Those with faster reactions didn't even have the time to pull out their weapons. They simply watched as the monsters riding the giant wolves rushed before them. With one swing of their swords, their heads were reaped!
Among this group of scouts, the one with the best skills was the leader of the scouts. He instantly made a decision: Run!
With the scout's excellent judgment, he immediately made the judgment that the ten of them were no match for the other party. As a scout, his task was not to kill the enemy, but to report back!
However, he had just turned his horse around, and the frightened horse only managed to run a few steps under his excellent riding skills. At this moment, a dark shadow suddenly leaped over his head! The dense mass of shadows even blocked out the sunlight for a moment!
That giant wolf with a body as large as a horse possessed such a terrifying jumping ability?!
The giant wolf that had jumped over his head had already blocked his path. The wolf-like monster on the horse opened its mouth, revealing its sharp fangs as it let out a shrill howl!
Fight! The leader of the scouts struggled to pull out his sword. As he was about to charge forward, the other wolf rider from the side had already charged forward! The giant wolf possessed great strength. With just one charge, the leader of the scouts and his horse fell to the ground!
When the leader of the scouts fell to the ground, his legs were pinned down by the horse. As he was about to struggle, he saw the giant wolf opening its mouth and biting down on him …
What kind of monsters are these?
That was his last thought.
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On this day, only three out of the forty-six patrol squads returned! As for the other 43 scouting teams, not a single one of them made it back!
The problem was, the three scouting teams that made it back alive did not encounter any enemy! In other words, they had lost 430 excellent mounted soldiers. However, the imperial army within the Kabasky Defence Line was unable to obtain any valuable information or traces of the enemy!
This matter caused an uproar within the Kabasky Defence Line!
The enemy had come! But where were the enemy? What did the enemy look like?
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Today's third chapter! This is to make up for the previous chapters. Tomorrow, there will be another three chapters!
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