Academy Genius Commander

76 – Elimination of Thoner tribe (5)

A fortnight later, the village of Lukr tribe.

half-farming half-tree. It has more meaning than simply living by farming and raising livestock at the same time.

It means that farming is already difficult, but in order to make a living, you have no choice but to raise livestock like nomads.

Having said that, I’d like to know what this means again.

When you come out into society, you often see people who run two jobs, but if you can afford to live and eat with just one job, you won’t bother going to work again after work.

If barbarians who live on this semi-agricultural, semi-horticultural basis can survive by farming alone, they will choose to farm and raise a little livestock like the serfs of the Reich Empire.

“It’s a spectacle, Captain. How can a place where people live can be so poor?”

“Aren’t they guys who just hit each other and fight until a hundred years ago? It seems that the technology necessary for life was neither developed nor accepted from the outside. Besides, they kidnapped serfs from the north, but they couldn’t have brought in a proper technician.”

“Even if that is true, I want to do it too much.”

I let out a deep sigh and looked around.

It seems that the roof was made with straw and all kinds of weeds, and the soil was carefully applied, but the uneven thickness of the wall was made randomly, but it is not level and tilted, so you don’t know when it will collapse.

People can afford to live in a place where they can live, so it seems that it will be difficult for a person with a good heart to come out in such an environment, and it seems that the personality will inevitably become eccentric.

It’s at least livable in the spring and summer, but after halfway through the fall, living in such a poor, windproof house in a place where it’s almost freezing cold, kidnapping and plundering people…

Ah~ Of course, just because I understand it doesn’t mean that they aren’t the ones to kill.

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

That principle I will not apply to this tribe.

Because these guys are very barbaric, they killed or kidnapped thousands of people of the Reich Empire.

Even if it wasn’t to pay back as much as I received, I’m thinking of giving proper treatment because all of these tribesmen are the same as heinous criminals.

“Attention in solidarity, when you enter the village, a group of 10 people thoroughly search each house. We must not relax until the search is over, as they may hide inside and attack us. After the search is over, the roof is opened and a fire is built to cook. Scout, just in case, was there really no one in this village?”

“Perhaps they thought it would be difficult to deal with the 24th Regiment on their own, and when we did reconnaissance, there might be a few hiding in places where we couldn’t see the house, but there was no one outside the house.”

“Well, they lack farming skills, so they’re doing things like anti-farming. In a sense, he is more advanced than the professors at the Staff College. At the very least, they must have made at least a little bit of a wooden fence or various defense facilities.”

However, as seen from here, a 20-minute walk from the village, there were no military defenses in sight, except for some barriers built in case of an attack by beasts.

Also, if we had come this far, they would have come out and prepared to fight on the premise that they would protect the village.

According to the reports of those who went on reconnaissance, no one really came out.

After ordering the soldiers to search the village, I took the soldiers and headed towards the fields outside the village to check their condition.

If it was scouting an ordinary city or castle, at most it wouldn’t make much sense to look around the fields where grains such as wheat, barley, and beans were planted.

When you fight against damned barbarians, you can find out why these bastards are thinking and why they invaded just by looking at the conditions of the fields after entering their village.

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

If it looks completely ruined to anyone’s eyes, it came for the purpose of plundering, in other words, to get food and cover slaves.

Thinking like this, I was going to their field, but the soldiers who were going a little ahead of me said in a surprised voice.

“Is this really a field cultivated by barbarians? No, the harvest is much better than we thought!”

“Corporal Hans, look. I think I planted winter barley, but it’s not fully ripe yet, but it’s pretty strong. How could the harvest be so good in such a barren land if it wasn’t for the use of good fertilizer?”

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

“f*cking barbarians, why are they attacking even when the farming is good? Who is not a barbarian?”

The soldiers were excitedly talking about how good the fields of the barbarians are, and I went and saw them myself, although the barley was not ripe yet, so it was green.

The barley is growing well, so the reason they attacked us must be to expand their power.

By the way, according to the information, the Rourke tribe uses captured slaves to build the hard farming work.

The slaves who were captured and worked were tired of the hard farming work and said that they deliberately did not learn the compost-making technology used in farming in the empire.

‘If you tell me the composting technique, you should have been farming for 14 hours a day. It’s because they won’t sleep while making compost, and they’ll have them work from dawn to late at night.’

So, I heard that ignorant nomadic tribes apply fertilizer to the level of spraying unprocessed livestock manure in moderation… I can’t even smell it.

**

After that, I rode a horse and scouted the wide fields around the village for about two hours.

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

“According to the Colonel’s instructions, a group of 10 people thoroughly inspected all the houses and warehouses. As a result, the village had 70 cows, 120 sheep, and 100 pigs, and no horses. Also, there were no tribesmen hiding inside, as expected, but there were 20 male and 30 female serfs of the empire who were held as slaves.”

Considering that when slaves are captured, they are given as little food as possible and forced to work only to make them unable to survive.

Most of the slaves found will be recently kidnapped imperial serfs.

Besides, judging from the fact that we didn’t kill the slaves and left them alone for us to find, it seems they wanted us to take them with us when we found them.

Of course, not from a humanitarian point of view, but because of the burden of prisoners of war, we hoped that the pace of our march would be slowed down and our military supplies would be eaten up even a little more.

“Damn you bastards! First of all, bring only one person who can talk among the prisoners, and give the rest of the prisoners a minimum amount of food. I brought a lot of biscuits and beef jerky in preparation for an occasion like this. Tear off the roof again and prepare for cooking.”

“All right.”

Soon after, soldiers brought in a middle-aged man.

Seeing me, the man knelt down, bowed his back, and thanked me sincerely.

“As it is, the people of our village thought that women would become playthings for them, and men would just die working like dogs. But you came all the way here for serfs like us. I don’t know how to thank you. Thank you very much. thank you.”

In the wars I’ve fought so far, I’ve never done a defensive battle to save people or rescued prisoners in this way, so I’ve never been thanked.

So, the fact that he rescued the people of his country as a soldier made him feel good, but he even felt that his nose had risen even higher by raising his pride.

“It’s safe now, don’t worry. Also, as a nobleman and officer of the Empire, I did what was very natural. From now on, your enemies will also be avenged, so don’t worry. Before that, I want to ask you something, so please answer me as you know.”

“of course.”

“Then do you know where the Lukers who were here went? If there is any other information you know about them, please let me know.”

When I asked for cooperation, the man, like a dam burst, began to provide information that would be helpful in his own way when he thought.

At least, I didn’t know where they had gone, and I didn’t know information such as how many soldiers and forces the Toeneurs had.

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

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

“Lastly, I ask you, what kind of fertilizer was given to the land so that the barley grew so well even with the use of stone and iron tools?”

Then the man gave an unexpected answer.

“There is a strange dirt field a short distance from here. There is a lump that comes up when you dig up soil there, put it in water, mix it, and boil it. If I put some of that transparent stuff in the ground and mix it, the grains grow well.”

Hearing that, I covered my mouth.

Because this fertilizer was really great, as soon as I heard it, I almost burst out cursing with admiration.

Isn’t it possible for a person the size of a colonel to curse in front of all his subordinates?