Academy Genius Commander

71 – It is correct to defeat a barbarian with a barbarian (2)

At my words, the eyes of all the professors, including President Bismarck, were all focused on where I was, but that had to be the case.

Because, until now, it was the senior professor of the General Staff College who was a minister-level officer who answered and suggested the president’s questions.

Because the staff college is a place where captains and majors enter as students due to its nature, it is a place where you have to be a basic lieutenant colonel or higher to become a professor.

It’s because I, a lieutenant colonel, have the lowest rank among the faculty.

In addition, these days, my lectures have become so popular that even professors who think that I have stolen the popularity of students are buying jealousy.

However, unexpectedly, the president’s reaction was quite favorable, but I’m a fool if I believe it based only on the outside.

“Heh heh… Feel free to tell me if you have a good strategy. I’ll listen to anything as long as it’s not nonsense.”

“Thank you for the kindness of the president.”

“What are you so embarrassed about? Isn’t it my duty to accept the opinions of young staff like you in order to come up with the best strategy?”

The president is not a wave of the crown prince, but if you have to question it, he is a person who only follows the current emperor, so it is okay because he is a person with a very light political color.

There are quite a few professors here who hate me, so it’s obvious that I won’t see how much I will chew and bite if I show a shabby appearance.

Besides, many of these people are supporters of other princes, not the Crown Prince.

I pointed at the map of Kopenhavn in the north of the Empire hanging in front of the operation room with my baton and said.

“In my opinion, attacking the Ludwik tribe is going too far ahead. Therefore, rather than mobilizing troops to defeat them, I would like to suggest using a different strategy.”

“It’s a different strategy, what method is it specifically?”

“It is to provide minimum food and weapons to the Ludwik tribe and to nearby tribes that are hostile or may be plundered by him. That way, the Empire can weaken the power of Ludvik at a minimal cost.”

This is what I came up with based on what I heard in a lecture given by Professor Kim Yong-hun when I was interested in military science and researched through the Internet and books when I was a prospective cadet who aspired to become a military officer.

The professor said that this is a school policy.

Barbarian nomads such as the Jurchen are divided into dozens or hundreds of groups, each with different interests.

Therefore, those who listen to me are tamed like throwing bones with meat at dogs, and barbarians who don’t listen to me are beaten to death like dogs on the day of the fortune.

It’s to make those who listen well and those who don’t listen fight each other.

“It may not have as great insight as our imperial staff college or military department, but the nomadic barbarians attached to the Kopenhavn Peninsula probably know that Ludvik will eat them if he grows in power.”

The way nomads have lived their whole lives is to eat those weaker than me, and bow down to those stronger than me.

So, of course, even a 4-year-old kid who lives there knows that when Ludvik becomes strong, the weaker tribe has no choice but to be eaten by Ludvik’s strength.

“But they can’t ask for help from our empire, and even if they stick to Ludvik, they’re dead anyway. Because in times of famine, Ludwik’s guys kill men and the elderly and enslave women and children even if they surrender, in order to reduce food to be eaten as much as possible.”

As if I had been too lazy, President Otto’s mouth started to move.

If I don’t get to the point, I’ll be yelled at and abused all over the place…

“So they have no choice but to fight desperately, right? The Empire is taking advantage of this situation. It is to make the tribes opposed to Ludvik unite into a suitable size and fight Ludvik while providing the minimum amount of food and weapons.”

I’d like to bring the opposition to Ludvik together and lead them to engage in an all-out war against those who follow Ludvik.

If so, in the worst case, the forces of the two would boil and give up fighting, and the two would join hands and try to plunder the Reich Empire.

If all the nomads on the Kopenhavn Peninsula join forces, even if it’s a group of people, they can cool off and run away to occupy the north.

“Even so, it is clear that even if the forces against him unite, they will be defeated because Ludvik is stronger. However, when 1,000 infantry against 20 in war, no damage is done. Just like the fact that dealing with 300 or 400 people at once does a lot of damage, Ludvik will do much more damage if he fights against a group of them rather than defeating small tribes one by one.”

All the professors listened to me and nodded.

Because no matter how big Ludwik is, if they keep fighting like that to survive, the damage they will suffer will be great.

It is said that they are a nomadic tribe that would never fight together in normal times, but now it is a bad year, so if they are defeated, the entire tribe will be annihilated and their wife and young daughter will become playthings.

Unless it’s a crazy tribe, once we push them to come together, when we beat Ludvik, we’ll fight together with our own strength.

Isn’t there a saying that even the enemy gets on the same boat, but if he encounters a storm and is in danger of dying, he will cooperate to survive.

“And no matter how much Ludvik killed the young men and dried up the seeds of their tribe, the enslaved women and children will survive. And they will undoubtedly cooperate with us to defeat Ludvik, the enemy of parents and husband.”

Then, a professor with the same rank as a lieutenant colonel stood up and pointed out.

“Subjugation, subjugation. What the military requested of us is a response operation, not a subjugation operation. lieutenant colonel.”

“sorry. However, subjugation is also part of the response, Lieutenant Colonel Pontz. Also, isn’t Ludwik already amassing enough forces and might be able to unify the peninsula and establish a kingdom in the next 5 to 10 years?”

“That said, I don’t think staying within the framework of a counter operation doesn’t obscure the point.”

That man… He had a lieutenant colonel rank and came in about half a year before me.

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Looking at what you’re doing, you can see what’s going to happen in the future. I think he would be a very competent person if he had even been a professor at the College of Staff.

Even at the academy, I caught a fault with the reason that I got a failing grade, so maybe the president will send me to the province when this semester is over.

If he still comes to his senses, he will be promoted to the rank of major general, but if he does not, he will be discharged after serving as a colonel in his later years in the metropolitan division.

“The topic of subjugation may seem a bit extreme, but Ludvik has already called himself Khan and is trying to become the king of the nomads. The Empire already has many potential enemies, including the Francois Republic, and it is clear that if a country is established in the north, it will become a headache for us for hundreds of years.”

It was said that it was a nuisance for hundreds of years, but if Ludvik established a country in the north, struck and occupied Sweden, and became an empire, it would not be a nuisance.

Although it will become a terrifying existence like a lump of terminal cancer.

“So we think we should establish a response strategy on the premise of subjugating them.”

The president applauded once and asked if what I said was quite impressive.

“I don’t think that’s wrong. Then, what level of equipment do you think is appropriate for nomads?”

Because the northern half-agricultural half-mood (half nomadic life + half farming life) are a little behind us in steelmaking technology and weapon manufacturing technology.

You don’t have to give them good weapons or good armor to support them.

Because it is really difficult for non-settled people to mine iron ore and make iron weapons or armor.

“It is considered to be enough to give the second and third line troops equipment and consumable items such as arrows and spears that are on the verge of retirement. Then won’t most of it be consumed or destroyed while fighting Ludvik?”

But even if the quality is poor, a knife is a knife and a spear is a spear, so it should be enough to stab Ludvik to death.

It might not be the soldiers in the rear who wear weak leather armor, but the imperial soldiers who wear at least chain armor over their jackets won’t die easily even if they are stabbed by such a weapon.

The president nodded as if he understood my opinion.

“That makes sense. Just by increasing their consumption like that, the northern part of the empire will be safe. That’s great. Then, since the time is up now, the other professors will organize their own plan of operation separately and submit it within the next week, over.”

So, after the meeting, we went back to our respective labs, and I was sure that I could seize a great opportunity on this expedition.

A thesis-cum-plan containing secret plans to supplement the weaknesses of the Imperial Army that would be revealed during battles in the north, which he had been writing for several months, was also submitted along with the operational plan.

In the end, the plan I insisted on was adopted, and after a year and a half, I successfully completed my tenure as a professor.