I Became a Genius Commander at the Academy - Chapter 212

EP.212

“They are heading towards Boros Castle, where our main force is heading. Perhaps because it is their territory, they are marching very leisurely.”

“Not bad. “Then are the barbarian light cavalry led by Ishtaven properly scouting?”

“We mainly only look at roads that are easy for many people to pass by, but we don’t pay much attention to places like plains where people and carts can’t travel.”

Often, when we watch cartoons or movies dealing with strategy and tactics, we see scenes where people only scout roads and military bases that people frequently come and go, and end up in trouble, and we think this way.

‘If we had scouted a little more thoroughly and more broadly, we wouldn’t have been caught in an ambush like that. Aren’t you idiots? Tsk tsk’

However, in reality, in order to conduct reconnaissance to see every place without exception, a huge number of soldiers must be deployed.

If you run your army in that way, when you actually go to battle, you may end up losing without being able to fight properly due to the mental and physical fatigue that has already built up on your soldiers.

I took advantage of the enemy’s common sense and went to a place where there were no rivers near the road for drinking water and few villages to supply food, and I came to a place where I could observe the enemy’s movements without being detected.

“Do you know where there is a good forest for us to hide in along the route the enemy army is expected to travel?”

“There is a huge pine forest about 15km away from here, and nearby is a flat area that is good for camping for a large military unit.”

“Good. Then, I will hand over the strategy from now on. “Everyone, please concentrate and listen.”

When I said this, Laura, Anya, and the Northern Chiefs all perked up their ears.

“As of now, as you just heard, we will hide in the pine forest 15 kilometers away from here and wait for the enemy to come.”

On the Rhineland front, they carried out a surprise attack by attaching a few magicians to one company and succeeded in invading the division commander’s location and seizing the division flag.

When fighting in Visochia, they acted as an advance reconnaissance company and fired arrows and magic at the front reconnaissance company in order to physically exhaust the enemy forces.

Even now, I felt a thrill in my heart just from preparing a new operation called a surprise attack.

And I wonder if Laura, who fought on those two fronts like me, Anya, who has fought countless times in the North, and the Northern Chieftains feel the same way as me.

An expectant expression was clearly visible on his face.

“My heart boils thinking it was a surprise attack! As expected, Khan Slayer is hot.”

“I even gave up the alcohol I had stocked up to Triven in order to join the surprise attack force that only selected 1,000 people. But now that I think about it, I think it worked out really cheaply.”

“It reminds me of the Rhineland times and I even feel nostalgic.”

… If they find out that a lieutenant general brought only about 1,000 soldiers to personally command the surprise operation, everyone, including His Highness the Crown Prince and my father-in-law, will call me crazy.

The reason I am doing this in my capacity as the Deputy Commander of the Northern Army is to give the Northern guys here a chance to completely settle into the Imperial Army.

That’s because northerners are still considered barbarians and are shunned among the empire’s nobles and commoners.

A war hero of the empire and a symbol of rising status, showing the bravery of attacking the enemy’s main base with only 1,000 men like me?

This will serve as an opportunity for both the nobles and commoners of the Reich Empire, dominated by manliness and machoism, to think of northerners as soldiers with true courage from barbarians.

So, what can I do? They enlisted in the military with only eyes on me, so I have to make this happen.

After gathering my thoughts for a moment, I quietly raised my hand to calm them down and spoke.

“An army of that size usually moves about 12km a day, so the time we can prepare for an ambush and surprise attack will be a little over a day. “If you say short, it’s short, but if you say long, it means a long time, so you have to hide thoroughly to avoid being detected, and you have to be quick and accurate when preparing for an ambush.”

“Then how can we prepare? “What should I do?”

“First, our goal is to instill fear in the soldiers at the enemy base. Just looking at your horse archers is enough to make the soldiers of the Kingdom of Stockholm urinate. “I also enjoy playing with fire.”

In fact, the biggest goal is to instill fear, but if I had one more wish, it would be that the enemy’s food would be burned and completely lost due to a small fire.

The reason is that what causes the greatest decline in soldiers’ morale and combat ability is not the mass death of their surrounding comrades.

Since there is no food to eat tomorrow, you end up in a situation where you have to worry about starving to death before meeting the enemy.

“Long live the Commander of the Northern Army! This is our northern tradition!”

“It is the way of the North to burn down the villages of hostile forces and instill fear in them to the point where they urinate at the mere sight of them. “I can’t believe you know this…”

“Wait you damn Ishtaven bastard. “After this old man rides his horse and raids the enemy camp, I will kill you.”

They say that what most humans like is seeing the fire across the river, and what’s more fun is watching their enemies’ houses and property burn.

It’s not just the soldiers of the Reich Empire who like this kind of thing, it’s the northerners as well.

“Well, as all the brave northern warriors here know, what you need to prepare are courage, dry leaves or bark that burn easily when starting a fire, and oil that catches fire well. That way you can play with fire at night. Can you provide enough?”

When the northern archers heard that, they just laughed and said.

“There are no cowards among us. “No, standing on the battlefield with the lieutenant general who personally killed Khan, wouldn’t even a cowardly child become 100 times more courageous today?”

“You can collect leaves and bark from the forest, and you can use oil by finding a lot of it in the enemy camp.”

“It’s an honor to be invited to such a fun game of fire.”

But this alone was still not enough.

To be precise, this was enough to prepare for the surprise attack, but it was not enough to avenge our revenge on Ishtaven, who betrayed us and made the good soldiers of the Reich Empire come to Stockholm.

So, I devised a plan to sow seeds of suspicion among the Stockholm guys by putting at least a nice false accusation on Ishtaven, who hated surprise raids.

“If everyone is going to play with fire, shouldn’t we give all the credit to Chief Ishtaven who gave us this glorious opportunity?”

After saying that, I took off the plate armor I was wearing and changed into the leather armor worn by nomads that I had prepared in advance.

“So, when we go in to attack, we will also take a document with Ishtaven’s forged signature and seal that we prepared in advance and scatter it in a place where we can see it. “If this is discovered, the Stockholm Kingdom military will be suspicious of Ishtaven.”

The letter I wrote roughly says this.

[Thanks to you informing Chief Ishtaven of the Ishtaven tribe about the location of the Stockholm Army, we were able to safely surprise the main camp. As promised, I promise to grant you the title of count of the Reich Empire and a countship in the territory of the Kingdom of Stockholm.]

It is very unlikely that the Stockholm Kingdom Army will think that Ishtaven betrayed and taught the Imperial Army the location of the Kingdom Army. .

However, if we continue to outmaneuver them and continue to achieve victories like that, the King of Stockholm will gradually become suspicious of Ishtaven.

Then the son of a bitch’s head will fall to the ground without getting our hands dirty.

“Then let’s all move now and prepare for the operation.”

Although I’ve only done it a few times, a surprise attack is always very thrilling.

**

Early morning the next day.

The sky was dark, and the Stockholm soldiers about 500 meters away were yawning and standing guard.

It looked like there was no care at all, but such defenselessness could have been staged.

All the Northern Archer cavalry, including me, were waiting closely and cautiously.

After a few minutes, the five northerners who had gone to scout came back and spoke carefully.

“It doesn’t seem like they noticed the surprise attack. If you attack now, you can win.”

A word from the author (author review)

Thank you for reading zakuti.

The image of Charlotte doesn’t come out well… I’ll add it soon.

Louise’s swimsuit has been added to the illustration collection.

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