Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 37

2021-03-28

Chapter 37 Internship Volunteers
The early form of war organization in human civilization is that those with property bring their own weapons, Armor and horses join the army, and the property owners with political rights are called citizens by the Gumro Empire, and nationals by the Ancient Celica Empire.

From this period onwards, the commander's ability to boost morale becomes very important.

Small-scale battles within double digits, the leader's tongue and lotus is not as useful as the leader.

But if a thousand people go to work with a thousand people, how to make the soldiers willingly follow themselves to hell becomes a technical task that can decide success or failure.

The simplest and most rude means is "money in place, people in place".

But money is not the problem, the problem is not having it.

War is burning money, and military strategists of all dynasties have repeatedly emphasized this important test point.

In wars, it is rare to have money in place on time, and it is the norm that money is not in place.

Since ancient times , the number of generals and kings who have been defeated because of arrears in their salaries.

Don't say far, just say near. The landmark event of the full-scale outbreak of the Sovereign War, 38 years ago, the Duke of Arlean the "Butcher" led his troops to cross the shady mountain range and attack the rebels of the Duchy of the Piedmont.

In later generations, Union historians will find thousands of metaphysical reasons such as "justice must win, evil must lose" to explain why the Duke of Arlean was able to defeat the rebels in the early days. Get injured badly with many teeth knocked out, but in the end you will be trapped in a lonely city and be defeated.

But in this era, in this era, history is still a living memory, not the words in books. All Union soldiers who have experienced the Sovereign War know in their hearts why they won: because the Duke of Arlean is out of money.

If Richard IV can pay the Duke of Arleans on time, then the inter-provincial republic should still be the duchy of the empire's piedmont.

The Duke of Arlean, the most capable army commander in the empire in the past century, died not of his own sword, but of bankruptcy.

Although money can't buy a real dead man. But in the feudal era, as long as you can ensure that your soldiers are fed, clothed, and paid on time, they are enough to be called famous generals. Textbooks in later generations can certainly reserve a place.

And for most of history, the biggest problem facing officers has never been how to convince soldiers to go to the battlefield, but how to convince a group of soldiers who are under-fed, under-dressed, and underpaid. On the battlefield, this is the case on both sides of the enemy.

At this time, an inspiring pre-war speech is the simplest and most effective means.

An officer with the ability, a few words can make the soldiers red-eyed, screaming and rushing upwards.

The brigadier general who is speaking in front of the podium obviously does not have such eloquence. He wrote a manuscript very seriously, but his speech has always been in the same tone, without any ups and downs, as if A xylophone with only one string left.

The brigadier general opened his mouth, and Winters just felt his head go dizzy, his eyelids were fighting involuntarily, and he blinked more and more frequently.

The sun was in the west, and the warrant officers in small groups were sitting in the sweltering small auditorium of the Army Headquarters, having a meeting.

This is an introduction meeting. It was originally a time for trainee officers to introduce trainee positions in various departments of the Army.

But the people on stage were so hypnotizing, Winters was barely able to concentrate, but only heard some nonsense over and over. If Bud hadn't poked him secretly from the side, he would have fallen asleep.

The people on the stage go down one after another, explaining the departments they are responsible for one by one. Although several high-level officers have changed their speeches, their level is similar to that of the brigadier general at the beginning.

There was a dull atmosphere in the whole small auditorium, not only Winters, but all the warrant officers were drowsy and staggering.

Winters really couldn't take it anymore, his head gradually dropped and his eyes were closed. This time Bud didn't wake him up, because even Bud couldn't hold on anymore. As for Andre, he had already let himself go, and if he listened carefully, he could still hear his snoring.

Just as Winters was about to fall asleep, there was a sudden sound of a cloud-piercing drum from the podium.

In the legend, after the wise king of Ancient Era killed the dragon, he used the dragon skin as the drum surface and the keel as the drumstick to make a war drum.

This myth was originally a bedtime story Kesa told Winters as a child, but Winters now thinks that drum might be on the podium.

The sound of the drum woke him up from his coma, causing him to break out in a cold sweat and instantly lose sleep. All the trainee officers in the auditorium suddenly cheered up.

Winters looked towards the podium, and didn't see any of the legendary dragon drums, only a man in a school officer's uniform was scanning the small auditorium with a smile.

This man looks like he is in his early thirties. He was only average among tall and strong officers, but his temperament made him look taller than everyone else.

Winters stared at the school officer in front of the podium, when another drum sound came from the podium, and this time Winters really saw it.

There were no drums at all, just a snap of the schoolmaster's fingers. An ordinary finger-snapping impossible has such a strong voice, the answer is obvious: this is a sorcerer, who amplified the sound of the finger-snapping with amplifying.

But Winters is a little strange. In his impression, the amplifying technique can only be used to amplify the sound from the sorcerer's own vocal cords. He has not seen a sorcerer that can amplify the external sound.

Seeing that his methods caught the attention of all the trainee officers, the colonel nodded with a smile proudly.

"Are you all awake? In fact, I was about to fall asleep just now." The school official's voice was calm and clear, but it was far higher than the ordinary person's voice, and everyone in the auditorium could hear it. Clearly, obviously again the effect of amplifying.

Winters thought to himself that it wasn't difficult to amplify the sound, it was difficult to keep it so smooth. Because for sorcerer, using spell is not as simple as pressing a button and getting some effect.

The process of sorcerer using spell is closer to muscle force, like Major Moritz's burst sound technique is to release as much magic power as possible in an instant, just like using all the strength to throw a punch , the pursuit is explosive.

And this schoolmaster controlled the volume extremely smoothly through amplifying, using spell while speaking, like walking a tightrope while reciting poetry. Ordinary officers may not feel anything, but for the sorcerer it is a naked show of skill.

Winters is interested in the sorcerer senior.

The school official continued to say indifferently: "I don't want to waste everyone's time, so I didn't prepare the manuscript, and I have very little to say."

The sorcerer used a With one hand, he swept all the apprentice officers in the small auditorium: "You graduated from the first military academy in this continent, and those in front of you all praised you as the most promising and brightest youngster in the army?"

"Youngster with the most promising and brightest future?" The school officer coldly snorted, raising his voice: "Where? Why didn't I see it? All the active officers in this auditorium are your senior alumni, your most senior alumni. Well, just be us!
What is the most promising and future to be an army bureaucrat who makes you sleep like dead pigs every mouthful? Every one of us has come all the way from where you are now, So as a senior, I'll give you two suggestions."

This sudden devaluation made all the warrant officers in the audience stunned. In many cases, compliments are indeed less attractive than sharp criticisms. .

The colonel raised a finger: "The first point, everyone here is hyping up the work of their department and telling you, it has nothing to do with you. You are only apprentice officers, in the future In a year, you will only do a little bit of chores! Copy reports, change ink, that's all."

Winters and Bud looked at each other with a wry smile, the lieutenant colonel took all the warrant officers' Face slapped.

Immediately after, he raised a second finger: "Second point, although you are only responsible for chores, you are doing chores in the most powerful violent institution in this continent!
Listen! You will be able to observe how the Veneta Army's power center operates and makes decisions up close. This is an opportunity that an officer from a bad squad can't buy! If being so close to power doesn't excite you, then You don't deserve to be officers, take off your uniform as soon as possible and get out!

Let's go! Disband! Go and run errands for the officers and generals! But if the general's wife sends someone to ask the general's schedule for the evening , said he was going to have a meeting, understand? I've finished my words! That's it, the meeting is over!"

“Who is this guy? Which department boss?” Winters asked Bud while applauding vigorously.

Bud flipped the notebook forward: "Lieutenant Colonel Field Drums."

————I am the dividing line for chores————

Later in the day, at dinner. Aunt Kosa and Cousin Elizabeth are working in the kitchen, while Antonio and Winters are setting the table.

The big and small generals smelled the smell and yelled at the door of the kitchen, refusing to leave, and could not get in. He could only lie at the door and lick his hair.

“How was the meeting this afternoon? Who do you want to apprentice to?” Antonio asked Winters as he divided the cutlery.

Every year, the warrant officers who return to Veneta will hold such a meeting, the purpose is to let the trainee officers who are just out of the school understand the most basic structure of the Vineta Army, and then the warrant officers will choose to go to the school. Which department to train in.

Although it is a voluntary choice in theory, if there are too many applicants in a department, the department will select a few apprentice officers, and other applicants will be shunted to those departments that no one applies for. Maintenance trainee officers are distributed roughly evenly across the branches of the Army.

"I want to go to Colonel Field." Winters answered obediently and honestly as he set the plate, he was indeed attracted by the Lieutenant Colonel's charisma.

"Field Drums?" Antonio was slightly surprised.

Winters nods: "Yes."

Antonio was amused by the name, he said happily: "It's a famous thorn, Zio shouts every day If he wasn't a sorcerer, he would have been sent overseas."

"Maybe so." Listening to his uncle teasing about the lieutenant colonel who might become his superior, Winters He thought it would be better to listen obediently and honestly. He scratched his head and said, "I just think Lieutenant Colonel Field is more sincere."

"I dare to say anything, but what is sincerity?" There was no derogatory connotation in Tonio's tone, he just thought it was interesting.

After setting the dishes, the two of them sat and waited for the dishes to be served.

Antonio opened a bottle of wine, but Winters, since seeing Major Moritz's condition, shunned alcohol, so he just drank water.

Winters carefully recalled the performance of the lieutenant colonel at the meeting today, and said: "Actually, I may not be able to go. Lieutenant Colonel Field is very popular today. Little."

"Then do you want to go?" Antonio sipped his wine and asked his nephew lightly.

Winters nodded: "Of course I want to."

"Go ahead and exercise." Antonio said lightly.

Winters' eyes lit up, he understood what his uncle meant, so he felt a little unsatisfied: "I also have a friend who was born in the cavalry department, and also applied to lieutenant colonel Field, lieutenant colonel can you... .."

Antonio didn't take it seriously, smiled and said, "Then let's go together, what's your friend's name?"

"Bud, Gerald's Bud."

Aunt Kesha came out with a basket of sliced bread, and saw two men in the family drinking and chatting, she got angry and gave her uncle a slap on the back: " You guys are at leisure, set the table and start drinking, come and help with the work."

Antonio and Winters were driven to the kitchen by Kesha, Antonio seemed to remember something and tilted his head Asked his nephew: "By the way, you don't know which department this kid Field is in charge of, right?"

"It seems to be M or something, I didn't quite hear it, and Lieutenant Colonel Field didn't say it himself. ." Winters was embarrassed to tell his uncle that he was about to fall asleep.

“Haha.” Antonio patted the shoulders of his nephew: “It’s MP, Military Police.”

“What? Military police?” Winters is certainly no stranger to military police. , isn't that the military school picket? Not a popular character.

"Father you take this, brother you take this." Elizabeth assigned tasks to the two men, and then energetic and bustling went to work on other things.

Antonio and Winters each carried a deep iron pot, which was simmering meat and soup respectively. The stew tasted delicious, but Winters was completely off his mind: "Lieutenant Colonel Field is in charge of the gendarmerie?"

"Accurately, Field is just the head of the gendarmerie at the Vineta Army Headquarters." Ann Tonio explained to his nephew carefully: "The Legion's soldiers are always in charge of the Legion's gendarmerie; if the army soldiers commit a crime in Hailan City, they are in charge of the gendarmerie of the garrison command; Field, the gendarmerie, is dedicated to giving him this thorn. The overhead agency established has a very narrow jurisdiction and basically doesn’t care about anything.”

After explaining the doorway that was not known to outsiders, Antonio asked his nephew: “Then you still want to go to Field now. Is there?"

"Want to go." Winters nodded firmly.

"oh?" Antonio was puzzled.

"Lieutenant Colonel Field is a very good sorcerer, and I want to learn magic skills from him."

"Then go and learn." Antonio nodded , his attitude is still very relaxed: "Although Feld has never worked under me, but he has been angry with Zio several times, and he is not willing to throw him overseas, so he deliberately set up an idle job to keep him there. Headquarters, it can be seen that this person must still have some ability.”

The food was all served, and four people sat at the table again. Kesha was obviously very happy and began to pray before the meal. The four people Holding hands in a circle, Kesha starts mutter incantations.

All the sorcerers in the league are atheists, and the sorcerers believe that their abilities come from knowledge and training, not some gift of being.

Winters is naturally not a believer, but just to cooperate with Kesha, he doesn't want to make his aunt sad. But he also has his own insistence, that is, he will never follow the prayers, and he will not say a word every time.

All Winters thought about the trainee right now. As soon as the prayer before dinner was over, he couldn't wait to ask his uncle: "I don't understand, why are the trainees all over the place? Are we going to apprentice in the real army?"

"Because there aren't that many troops."

"What?"

Antonio explained patiently: "How can there be so many troops for you to apprentice? Otherwise, why would you be thrown into an agency unit? Now, most of the officers usually work in an agency unit, and not many really lead troops. Veneta has three Legion numbers, in which There are two standing Legions, and each standing Legion usually only maintains half of its troops, that is, one chief battalion plus four battalions."

Antonio's words made Winters startled. The entire army of the Republic of Veneta has three Legions in theory, but only two Legions are standing troops, and the actual strength is only a little more than one Legion, more than 5,000.

At the end of the Sovereign War, after Richard IV retired, in order to answer "what if there is no emperor?" This question, scholars began to seek answers from the ancient book.

Finally, they found the answer they wanted: Ancient Era, the Muro people also overthrew the king and established the Muro Republic without a king, which has been strong for hundreds of years.

"It turns out that we are not the first to do this." The scholars let out a long sigh of relief.

Since someone in history has done this and succeeded, it means that there is no emperor.

So from then on, the Senas Gulf Alliance began to fanatically imitate the Muro Republic in the ancient book, from politics to military, and even works of art, to fully revive the ancient empire.

This history is called "borrowing and reforming" by later generations, because these imitations are purely new wine in old bottles. Just borrowed the name of the old system, and implemented the new policy.

For example, politically, the Republic of the Muro people and the republic of the United Provinces are both called the Republic, but they are two completely different things.

The former is a republic of the aristocracy; while the latter slaughtered the aristocracy, it is a republic of the bourgeoisie, and the vast rural areas are not within the scope of the republic.

For example, in the military, it also imitated the Muro Republic to form Legion, and copied the structure of Ten Men Squad-Hundred Men Squad-battallion-Legion.

But now matchlock guns have become popular, except for formations, whether it is tactics, training or the ratio of hot and cold weapons, the two are completely different.

“How come there are so few troops?” Winters asked hastily.

"Is more than 5,000 less than that?" Winters' childish question made Antonio stunned.

He reluctantly said to Winters: "This is a standing army of 5,000 full-time workers! Boy, do you know how much it costs to raise a full-time professional soldier? The salary of the craftsmen who have just been apprenticed is equivalent to paying the wages of 5,000 craftsmen, and they are also responsible for their clothing, food, housing, and weapons and equipment. To be honest, if it is not for the purpose of maintaining deterrence, I feel a little bit of 5,000 people. There are too many."

"What if there is a war?"

"If you want to fight a war, you need to call up the reservists temporarily. Disband immediately. Thirty years ago when the war was fought, there were many refugees, and people could be recruited to serve as soldiers for food. Now it is different. Fighting is burning money. To deal with scattered bandits and a few farmers who don't want to pay taxes, a standing army is enough. ."

"What?" Winters' three views were completely washed away: "Isn't the establishment of a standing army to resist foreign enemies?"

"Haha, how could it be? The biggest role of the standing army is deterrence. Enemies from home. It’s not enough to rely on thousands of people to fight foreign enemies.”

One big and one small were talking happily, and Elizabeth on the side was also fascinated, but Kesha was very angry. .

She tried so hard to cook dinner, but none of the other three people in the family had a good meal, and no one praised her craftsmanship. She is very aggrieved now.

Kesha resisted her anger and knocked on the cup: "Can you stop talking about things other than the table during dinner."

"Oh, this beef stew is really good. "Antonio immediately saw that his wife's mood was not right, and he hurriedly winked at Winters, and repeatedly praised his wife's brilliant cooking skills.

Elizabeth, another member of the lower-ranking family, also understood and exclaimed that the beef soup was so fragrant.

Winters complimented without hesitation. All his thoughts were on the army insider that his uncle had just said, and he really couldn't hold anything else.

After eating a few bites of food, he couldn't help but ask his uncle, "Then I can only do clerical work for the rest of my life after I go to the agency?" Is it different?
"Don't worry, when you become full officers, you will take turns to lead the troops. Now there are too many officers and not enough soldiers, so you have to take turns."

"Uncle, did you do this when you first left the military academy?"

Antonio said proudly: "I was different from your father back then. We had a war at that time, so we went directly to the army to bring Soldiers. There are no wars now, so there are not so many soldiers, but peace is actually a good thing."

Antonio pondered for a while: "You don't have to worry, maybe we will need to recruit reservists soon... ..."

Kesha slammed the glass again: "If you want to talk about these things, go to the study and talk after dinner!"

Now, even if she is as slow as Winters, she realizes that my aunt The volcano is on the verge of erupting.

Praise for the hostess is again a staple at this table.

————I am the dividing line at the table where I can only praise the chef————

Although the weapons and tactical concepts have been iterated many times, the alliance’s various The army organization of the Republic is still completely copied from Muro Legion, which can be called the possession of Jing Luo.

Each Legion is dominated by infantry, with cavalry and artillery as independent auxiliary units.

Infantry every 8 as a Ten Men Squad;

(Yes, isn't it common sense that there are only 8 Ten Men Squads?)

Every 10 Ten Men Squad, 80 people in total, as a Hundred Men Squad;

480 people per 6 Hundred Men Squad, as a battallion;
9 battallions of 480 people, plus a chief battallion of 750 people , a total of 5070 people, forming a Legion;
The cavalry and artillery are used as auxiliary Legions, which are used centrally and directly belong to the Corps Head.

The number of artillery and cavalry is related to the actual situation and fiscal policy of each member country.

For example, the United Province Republic is backed by the Victory Arsenal, so the number of cannons attached to the Legion of the United Province far exceeds that of the other allied nations.

The Highland Republic (Palatu Republic) is rich in good horses, so the Highlanders pay more attention to cavalry, relatively speaking, they are not very concerned about the construction of infantry.

————I am the dividing line of Legion's second coming————

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(end of this chapter)