I Became a Genius Commander at the Academy - Chapter 98

EP.98

After being notified of my promotion and having a night so intense that I understood what it felt like to have a dry mop squeezed by Laura.

In response to the strong, implicit request from the regimental officers to celebrate my promotion and to throw a party to celebrate the brigadier general’s wedding, I drank to the point where I thought I would die after doing this for a week.

As soon as we officially got married a month later, we couldn’t even go on a honeymoon and had to immediately move to a new duty station.

Even in the Korean military, the headquarters is often treated as a different world compared to other units, and in most cases, there is a valid basis for this.

In other units, even majors don’t empty trash cans or fill up printing paper with their own hands.

At the command headquarters, the major has to clean up by emptying the trash cans, and the lieutenant colonel makes coffee and passes it out to everyone.

Before you wear a star, even receiving a salute in the unit is seen by higher-ranking officials, so sometimes new recruits who have just entered the headquarters are given notice by telling them to keep the salute small or that they don’t have to do it here if they salute according to FM as they learned in the training center.

And the Reich Empire’s General Staff could not escape these laws unique to the military.

“Major Zeppelin, wipe it a little cleaner there. Brigadier General Jecht, you are sensitive because you failed the promotion review this time.”

“For Manager 3, please make the coffee a little stronger.”

“There’s 10 minutes left until the generals go to work, everyone hurry up! “There are some people whose promotions have been delayed in this personnel change, so I don’t know what kind of faults will be caught.”

The top 1% of officers belonging to the General Staff, where aristocracy and discrimination based on social status were tolerated and all kinds of privileges were granted, were directly in charge of the chores.

It’s surprising that people who don’t even seem to bring even a cup with their own hands at home are doing this.

For your information, the reason they are doing this is because in the General Staff Department, a major is the lowest employee in a company, and you have to be at the level of a colonel to have the status of an assistant manager or manager in the later years of an ordinary company.

This is because servants and slave soldiers and officers below the rank of major were prohibited from even entering because even a single trivial document lying around here and there was classified information that could cause great damage to the empire and its army if taken out.

In a way, security is tighter than the Imperial Palace where His Majesty the Emperor resides.

So, I am seeing real nobles, which are hard to find anywhere in the empire, seriously doing things that only servants would do.

“You’re so young. You’re in your early 30s and you’ve even reached the rank of major, so it might seem like the whole world revolves around you. “Why don’t you grab the broom and sweep…”

The colonel, who was trying to get me to mop as a newcomer, saw the stars on my epaulettes and the Golden Knight’s Sword medal and his pupils were shaking wildly.

At the same time, the back of the neck seemed to be hardening, and the shape of the blood vessels around the neck began to gradually become more clearly visible.

“This is Brigadier General Peter Yeager, who has been appointed as the 3rd Deputy Chief of the Operations Department of the Chief of Staff. “His Excellency, Minister of Military Affairs, Otto Moritz, called me here. Where is his office?”

Even the colonel in front of me got even harder as soon as he heard my position.

It is customary here for a brigadier general to be the head of each department, and the deputy chief of each department is either a major general or a brigadier general who is very likely to be promoted to director.

From the first day, he seems to be very worried because he has done something that will be criticized by the person higher than him.

“This is Colonel Frontal, Chief of the Loyalty Supply Department! “Your Excellency’s office can be reached by walking straight to the left from here.”

“Yes, loyalty. “Thank you for letting me know.”

So I left Colonel Frontal behind and walked quickly to the office of His Excellency the Minister of Military Affairs, who was waiting for me.

At this time, it seems like the colonel, who was suddenly struck by a star, took out his anger by saying something to his subordinates.

It doesn’t seem like he’s hitting me for no reason or using nonsensical language, so let’s move on.

And I, too, will soon be in a position where I will have to make an effort to survive under someone who has power at a level of 5 or even 6 stars.

My nose is three feet wide.

**

Armor full of scars from mace or cuts from swords or arrows, and a uniform studded with the badges of the position that held the sword and shield.

Other than that, the office is decorated with luxurious furniture, like an office for a general general.

Here I was drinking coffee that was personally served by someone with 6-star dignity.

“It tastes good, right? “I roasted the coffee beans myself from the Haifa region.”

This is definitely the cafe where I often drink in modern times.

No, it seems to be a good coffee with an incomparably deep aroma and a subtle sourness and bitterness.

Because not only is the taste delicious, but the person sitting before my eyes is the pinnacle of the imperial soldiers and the head of the Duke Moritz family.

Even if you only occasionally roast it as a hobby, you will definitely use the highest quality coffee beans.

The problem is that although it tastes good, it is so burdensome that I don’t have time to savor it.

“Is that so? I’m not sure because I don’t really enjoy drinking coffee, but I can get a feel for how good the coffee His Excellency gave me is after just one sip. “The taste and aroma are so good that I would want to drink it every day if possible.”

“yes? I woke up early in the morning and worked hard to drop it off when I met you. Oh, there’s no need to feel too burdened. “We usually give new generals to the General Staff a drink.”

Ah, I want to go home and touch Laura’s breasts.

A cup of coffee is so burdensome that it seems like it would be too much. I miss Laura.

In this atmosphere, I had a chat with the Minister of Military Affairs and was briefed on how to survive in the General Staff Department.

“Well, there are a lot of high-ranking people here, but I don’t think there’s anyone who would treat you poorly when you personally killed Khan and received the Golden Knight’s Sword Medal. “You just have to follow the basics. Just do the basics.”

“I will do my best.”

“Okay then, let’s get to the point now. Brigadier General Jaeger, please take out the book from my study titled ‘François Front War Plan’.”

When he took out the book and brought it to him, the Minister of Military Affairs opened the book, showed a map of the Francois Republic, and said:

“This is a top-secret plan that has not been disclosed even within the General Staff, and the only people who know about it are the ministers of the administration, the Marshal, and His Majesty the Emperor.”

“Then why are you giving me this information?”

I honestly don’t understand why you gave me such top secret information.

Because although I have achieved many achievements so far, what power can a brigadier general use to plan such a terrifying operation?

As I was making that blank expression, His Excellency the Minister of Military Affairs showed me a notebook with the name of a lecture I had given before on the cover and said,

“This is a summary of the lectures you gave at the Staff College. Wow, for a lecture given by just a lieutenant colonel, it was revolutionary, novel, and full of good stories that should be put into practice right away.”

“…”

“So, as a test, I set up a supply depot at a distance of 20km as you suggested, and when I used it to march a regiment 100km, the time it took to march was reduced by 2 days compared to requisitioning, purchasing locally, or moving with supplies. “It was.”

That is to say, the reason why the army before modern society slowed down was not actually the infantry, but the carts containing all kinds of food and other miscellaneous items.

By setting up a supply depot, it is possible to operate such carts to a minimum and march without considering the joining of conscripted supplies and troops.

“The formal training you introduced when you were a student platoon leader was really impressive. “When I used it to train new soldiers, I found that the combat power of the new soldiers improved significantly even if they trained for the same amount of time.”

The basis of a soldier’s combat power in the era of cold weapons, where close combat is frequent, lies in experience and orderly movement.

If you get it right, efficiency goes up a lot.

Even so, I thought that in order to introduce these things, I would have to sit in a key position in the General Staff, at least as the head of the supply department or the head of the operations department, and push for them to be introduced.

Are they already testing all of these and trying to change the traditional concept of military operation?

I am afraid of the Reich Imperial Army.

Usually, it takes at least several years to ten years to change something like this.

“Furthermore, what you mentioned about the will to fight, the ability to fight, and how to gain the upper hand in a war considering the political situation. “They all really appealed to me.”

“It is an honor, Your Excellency.”

“So, I will place all Francois-related documents in your office and give you permission to view even special information. Bring an ingenious plan to take them out. “As the 3rd Deputy Director of the Operations Department, I won’t ask you to do anything else until you create an operation, so just create something that works.”

After saying that, the Minister of Military Affairs gave an order to leave, as if telling me to leave.

…. Although I performed a frightening activity, they gave me an order to create a new ‘François Front war planning operation’ when I came.

How do I appear to the Emperor, the Minister of Military Affairs, and others?

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