I Became a Genius Commander at the Academy - Chapter 76

EP.76

15 days later, Lucr tribal village.

Half farm, half tree. It has more meaning than simply living through farming and ranching at the same time.

What this means is that farming is already difficult, and if you want to make a living, you have no choice but to raise livestock like nomads.

If you say it like this, you may be wondering what this means.

When you come out into society, you often see people working two jobs. If you can afford to make a living with just one job, you won’t necessarily go back to work after work.

If these barbarians, who live as half-farmers and half-herds, have no problem making a living just by farming, they will choose to farm and raise a few livestock like the serfs of the Reich Empire.

“This is truly a sight, Captain. “How can a place where people live be so shabby?”

“Didn’t they just hit each other and fight until a hundred years ago? It seems that the skills necessary for daily life were neither developed nor accepted from outside. Moreover, although they have kidnapped serfs from the north, they would not have been able to bring in proper technicians.”

“Even if that’s true, I think it’s too much.”

I took a deep sigh and looked around.

It seems like they tried to carefully apply the roof soil, which was made of straw and all kinds of weeds, but the uneven thickness of the wall was created haphazardly, so it’s not level, so it’s tilted and you never know when it might collapse.

People only have peace of mind when they live in a place worth living in, so it seems difficult for people with good hearts to come out in this kind of environment, and it seems inevitable that they will have an eccentric personality.

In the spring and summer, it’s a bit livable, but after mid-autumn, it’s so cold that it’s freezing, and living in a house with such poor weatherproofing and windproofing, they end up kidnapping people and plundering… Ah, of

course, they say they understand. It’s not that he isn’t a killer.

In Korea, where I lived, one of the things soldiers learn is the principle of respecting civilians and prisoners of war, even after the war is over and even during the war.

I do not intend to apply that principle to this tribe.

Because these guys were so barbarian that they killed or kidnapped thousands of Reich Empire citizens.

Even if I don’t pay back as much as I received, I plan to treat the bastards of this tribe with the proper treatment they deserve since they are all vicious criminals.

“When entering a village of solidarity attention, 10 people form a group and thoroughly search each house. They may be hiding inside and attack us, so we must not relax until the search is over. After completing the search, they tear off the roof, light a fire, and prepare for cooking. Scout: Just in case, I’m asking, is there really no one in this village?”

“They probably thought it would be difficult to deal with our 24th Regiment on their own. When we did our reconnaissance work, there were probably a few people hiding in places out of sight inside the house, but there was no one outside the house.”

“Well, because they lack farming skills, they are acting like half-farmers and half-herds. In a way, he is more sophisticated than the professors at the General Staff College when it comes to war. “They must have at least built some fences or other defense facilities.”

However, when viewed from here, about a 20-minute walk away from the village, there were no military defense facilities visible, except for a few fences built to prevent animals from attacking.

Also, if they had come this far, they would have come out and prepared to fight against us under the assumption that we were protecting the village.

According to reports from those who went on reconnaissance, there was really no one outside.

After ordering the soldiers to thoroughly search the village, I took them to the fields outside the village to check on their condition.

If the goal was to scout an ordinary city or castle, there would be little meaning in looking around fields planted with grains such as wheat, barley, or beans.

When fighting those damn barbarians, just by entering their village and looking at the state of the fields, you can figure out what these bastards were thinking and why they attacked.

If the grains are growing well in the field, it looks like there will be a good harvest, so they came to invade to expand their power. If it looks like a bad harvest, that is the average among them, so they just invaded.

If anyone can see that it appears to be completely ruined, it means that they came there to obtain food and secure slaves, that is, to plunder.

While I was thinking this and heading towards their field, the soldiers who were walking a little ahead of me spoke in surprised voices.

“Is this really a field cultivated by barbarians? “The crop is better than we thought, or even better than ours?!”

“Look, Corporal Hans. I think I planted winter barley, and although it’s not fully ripe yet, it’s pretty strong. “How could the crops be this good in such barren land without the provision of fairly good fertilizer?”

“Wow, later, when I finish my service under the regiment commander, I will come here and sit down.”

“Why are these damn barbarians attacking us when we have built a decent farm? “I wonder who isn’t a barbarian?”

The soldiers were talking excitedly about how good the barbarian fields were, and I went and saw for myself that the barley was not yet ripe, so it was green.

Since the barley is growing luxuriantly, they probably attacked us to expand their power.

By the way, according to information, the Rurk tribe uses captured slaves to do the difficult farming work.

It was said that the slaves who were captured and worked there were tired of the hard farming work and deliberately did not master the composting technology used for farming in the empire.

‘If we were to teach them the technology to make compost, they would have had to farm 14 hours a day. ‘Because if they make compost, they won’t let you sleep and will make you work from dawn to late at night.’

So, I heard that ignorant nomadic tribes apply fertilizer at the level of sprinkling unprocessed livestock manure… and it barely even smells.

**

After scouting the wide open fields around the village on horseback for about two hours.

When we returned to the village, Laura, who had been waiting for us, approached us and reported.

“As instructed by the colonel, 10 people worked as a team and thoroughly inspected all the houses and warehouses. As a result, the village had 70 cows, 120 sheep, 100 pigs, and no horses. Also, as expected, there were no tribesmen hiding inside, but there were 20 male and 30 female serfs of the empire who were held as slaves.”

Considering that when slaves were captured, they were given as little food as possible and made to do a lot of work so that they could not last long.

Most of the slaves found are probably recently kidnapped imperial serfs.

Moreover, since they did not kill the slaves but left them for us to find, it seems that they wanted to take prisoners if we found them and take them with us.

Of course, it was not for humanitarian reasons, but in the hope that the burden of prisoners would slow down our march and eat up a little more of our military provisions.

“You damn barbarians! First, bring only one person among the prisoners who can communicate, and provide the remaining prisoners with the minimum amount of food. I brought a lot of biscuits and beef jerky for times like this. Also, tear off the roof and prepare for cooking.”

“All right.”

And soon after, the soldiers brought in a middle-aged man.

When the man saw me, he knelt down, bowed, and expressed his sincere gratitude.

“The people in our village thought that the women would become their playthings and the men would work like dogs and die like this. But you came this far for serfs like us. I don’t know how to thank you. thank you. thank you.”

In the wars I’ve fought so far, I’ve never received gratitude because I’ve never done anything like this, such as defensive battles to save the people or rescue prisoners.

So, the fact that I rescued my country’s people as a soldier felt good, but it also boosted my pride, giving me the illusion that my arrogance had become even higher.

“Don’t worry, you’re safe now. Also, as a nobleman and officer of the empire, I just did what was completely natural. Don’t worry, I will avenge your enemies from now on. “Before that, there’s something I’d like to ask you, so please answer whatever you know.”

“of course.”

“Then do you know where the Lucre guys here went? “If there’s anything else you know about them, I’d like you to let me know.”

When I asked for his cooperation, the man started to constantly come up with information that he thought would be helpful.

Well, I didn’t know where they had gone, and I didn’t know information such as their strength or how many soldiers they had.

At least, we were able to obtain information such as the fact that there was a good harvest last year and this year and that barbarians were often called out to fight wars because of that.

When a story full of such long information is about to end.

“Lastly, I would like to ask you, what kind of fertilizer was put on the land that allowed the barley to grow so well even though we use agricultural tools made of stones and scrap metal?”

Then the man gave an unexpected answer.

“There is a strange dirt field a little far from here. When you scoop up the soil, mix it with water, and boil it, there are clumps that come up. “When I put some of that transparent stuff into the ground and mixed it, the grains grew well.”

When I heard that, I covered my mouth.

Because this fertilizer was so amazing that as soon as I heard about it, I almost cursed out of my admiration.

Isn’t it impossible for a person as high as a colonel to swear in front of all his subordinates?

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