Neta Chara

Episode 221: Summit of the Southern Frontier Belgian Army

* Garbay Perspective

In an interview after his victory at a festival of the Lo people of the Garuda, such as the Beast King's Performance Guild, the Southern Border Army increased its haste once and for all when he announced "The Southern Conquest," a massive demonic crusade in the southern region.

At the moment, there was no spark of conflict with neighbouring countries, domestic security was maintained, and the army had restored the human damage it had suffered in the Battle of Geltraut.

The soldiers, who are considered the lowest ranking jobs in Wang capital, can also be treated with respect by the inhabitants of the south, and the high salaries of the southern border Bergamot army were known all over the continent, and young talents with military aspirations from all over were gathered in Abysvena like Yunxia.

Thanks to this, the incredible figure of twenty times the competitive rate has popped up in the recent officer recruitment exams run.

There was a back to this number, and for the first time in a long time before this, Condorato, who had returned to the south, lamented that a military nobleman who had been stripped of the army's nationality would seek a servant. The people who come to Wangdu to seek servants are of poor quality and are useless as officers. Condorato made it clear that the only way to recruit officers is in Avisvena, so the military noblemen took the male officer recruitment test in large numbers, which was thought to have become an earlier figure.

The male officer recruitment exam confirmed social common sense and war history knowledge in a written exam in the first exam, causing those who passed to conduct a mock battle led by platoons as practical exams, and the final tertiary exam was an interview exam attended by Prime Minister Lyla and me. About two hundred people applied and about ten were able to pass the final interview.

The ten men who passed this male cadet recruitment exam should be able to be in the ranks of Commander of the Corps in a few years if they don't have a major breakdown with those on the birth course of the Southern Frontier Bo Army.

On the other hand, a significant number of female officers were also expanding. They were graduates of the Red War Maiden (Red Valkyrie), a private hunting group of the Admiral, who passed the aptitude test. He was recruited as an instant warrior after completing basic training with talent with uniform qualities as a leader.

Thus the number of officers was expanded for both men and women, and the Southern Border Army had begun training for the Southern Conscription. Also, the restructuring of the Real Demon King's Army proceeded considerably, and the army of Condorato stationed in the Wang capital also left the ambassador's guard to return.

He wants to lay the strongest formation on the army, which is the main force in the Southern Conscription, and he hears that he has begged his father-in-law, the General Secretary of Arborest, to return Kondrato.

Even for me, I have confidence in base defense and other protections, but the offensive commander was very comfortable with Condorato as he was inexperienced.

"You... Cohon... excuse me. Lord Garvey."

There was a man who spoke to me in the army commander's office who had lost his mind. When I turned my face to the Lord of Voices, it was Mila Elambit, my sideroom and secretary. She was taking care of Marguerite, who was pregnant, while also taking care of my evening, and even helping me with the desk work I didn't like.

"Mira, what's up?

"Master Fristo of the Policing Corps and Master Akbes of the Training Corps, as well as Lord Arne of the Cavalry and Lord Charlotte of the Passenger General, the Chief of Staff, Alfonso, are here to meet."

It was thought that Mira had come to confirm the role of each organization in the Southern Frontier Bermuda when she heard that the top of each organization had come for a meeting.

"Well... the Admiral has only given us a rough outline of the operation, but just fine, let's all have a review meeting of the operation. Mira, I'm sorry, but I need you to put some material in the conference room."

"Okay. I will now take you to the conference room."

Mira, for example, closed the door and walked away.

"A massive demon hunt in the southern region... the question is how far to extend it... for now, if we don't build as many platforms for the operation, Condorato will come back."

When I got in my uniform early, I headed out to the conference room.

Upon arrival in the conference room, Mira's hands had already distributed to everyone the materials containing the general's rough operational details, each of which appeared in the contents.

"Lord Garbay... your palace is going to wipe out all demons up to the Nilay River, so it's awesome! I think hunting this many local demons will take a lot of time and expense..."

Akbes, who led the training corps, was surprised to see the contents of the material. When I first saw it, I wondered if the Admiral had even touched it, but the material I received said that I would put a considerable amount of Blackdagger family money into this massive demon hunt, and I thought it would be possible to make it happen if I had the financial resources of that house.

"The Admiral says he's going to take care of it financially... and then there's nothing he can't do, right?

"But... I was wondering if it would be pretty hard to kick the demons out of the area up to the Nilay River completely... and the hardest part about that is the new fort. If you're going to build it at the intersection of the streets from Godard to Fort Fer 'ad and the Nilay, you're going to need a lot of people."

Frist, who compiles the policing squad, also looked at the materials and frowned. As far as he is concerned, he probably doesn't want to mobilize his people into the wandering southern realm of demons.

"Frist is right, even though it's hard to just carry supplies to that point, and even more so if your palace assists with the construction of the fort, your husband won't be able to gather..."

Akbes was also anxious to get on once and looked at the material jiggly, but he shook his head small and threw it on the table.

"But why don't we stop Lord Kent's plan? Let me tell you as a general, I'm going to do my part in this southern expedition and get a new territory. And we can't all say no. Though I think it is only those who have received a great deal of privilege from Lord Kent..."

Charlotte put her arms together and looked to the participants in the meeting. She is right, all those present here are those who have been raised by the Admiral to gain the riches of the present day, and it seems that no one refuses the instructions of the Southern Commandments given by the Admiral, who rarely gives instructions.

"I wonder if the rare fact that His Eminence Kent was instructed to fight, to which he is certainly given little instruction, is a sorrow that we really want to achieve… given the surge in the population of the villages and south that we pioneered in the southern region, we felt we had to increase the area of life"

Leaks the words that Arne reckons in the heart of the Admiral.

"But even if we can crusade demons, how can we build fortifications in distant lands..."

Akbes had his face stretched with his arms together. That's when the conference room door was knocked. Everyone watches the door at once. When Mira opened the door, there stood Marietta, who had been entrusted with the immediate command of Heavy Squad by the General.

"Oh, Lord Marietta... you would know how serious your palace is about the southern expedition."

I was throwing questions as soon as I saw Marietta Akbes come into the conference room.

"Master Kent is serious. We intend to develop the flow of the Nilay River as a second great barrier. As a stepping stone to this, it appears that this southern expedition was planned."

Marietta dropped her eyes on the material as she laid her back on the chair Mira had prepared.

"And about the fort that we plan to build as a forward base for hunting, but they have instructed me to call it in a hell of a way earlier"

The complexion of Akbes and Frist changed sassy when Marietta made it clear that she had already been instructed by the Admiral to maintain the fort.

"Has your palace already given you instructions? And what kind of method is that?"

Acbeth asks Marietta questions intriguingly. I was also searching for a way to build a fort around the Nilay River, where a large number of demons roam, but all I could think of was the position to build a fort right away while I intercepted a demon who stops by with his troops in place. In this way, however, it takes months to six months for a fort to be able to do so, and the cost becomes enormous given the forces to be staked out.

But if the Admiral had instructed us to do so, we would have had to implement it, so I was concerned about the instructions Marietta had received from the Admiral, just like Akbes.

"Ha, I doubted my ears when I heard Kent's instructions too, but on second thought, I thought it would be cheaper there"

"What instructions did the Admiral give you?

"Yes, after iron plating and reinforcing the heavy squad wagon I lead, escort that wagon in the army to the planned construction site to assemble and secure the empty wagon in circles after unloading building supplies and food, and if you pack the soil, the outer wall will be completed in one day without the need for foundation work. As long as the exterior walls are formed, we'll have to finish the interior slowly."

Members in the conference room were sighing at Marietta's words. I've never heard of a fort like that before.

"Lord Kent is going to dispose of the carriage… we need at least a few hundred of them. Depending on the size of the fort, it is also possible to exceed a thousand. Wouldn't it cost a lot if we were to throw them away?

Charlotte seemed quite concerned about the cost when she heard the proposal to stack up the carriage and build an outer wall.

"Even around there, Master Kent has already boiled down with the Civilian Corps, and they say the fort will be built for about half the cost it usually costs to build. And they've decided that a thousand and two hundred carriages, including spare ones, will be put in for construction. They're starting to squeeze mass production into minimal performance after only having the strength for the exterior wall because it assumes disposability. We, the Heavy Forces, will run back to Avisvena with horses once we have placed the vehicle and supplies on schedule, returning to normal supply operations."

If Marietta built the fort the way she was instructed, it seemed like a one-off proposal that would allow her to intercept the demons in a cage in a day or two after arrival on top of considerably compressing the cost of stationing the troops, and also contain human damage.

"After that, we're just going to make Lord Kent's idea come true... and if we can base it, General Garvey won't have the demons at his disposal, so we're going to have a pretty good chance of a successful operation."

Arne criticized the Admiral's approach as a highly feasible one, but all attendees at the meeting seemed to feel the same.

"That's Kent... it's flashy to do... it's cost-effective"

"Your thoughts go our way up the diagonal."

Akbes and Frist seem to be in awe that the general's ideas have not been captured by military common sense. I felt like I knew how awesome the Admiral was again, too. I usually have eyes full of women, and I'm a decorative boss who throws troublesome work round me, but sometimes I'm impressed as a soldier with the audacious war commands and maneuvers that I rarely show.

The Admiral is the one who can do it, but unless he's interested, or stuffed with feathers or something nasty, the habit of throwing a round at his men scratches the balls... well, for that matter, we're free to do it...

The general's talent manipulation technique is a policy of assigning more and more jobs to people who can do it, and he rarely complains about the work he has entrusted to him, and gives him even more discretion, so if everyone worked to the limit of their abilities and produced results, he would be rewarded according to the results, thus creating a good cycle of encouraging work even more.

Thanks to this, the Southern Border Bo Army had more and more talented young servicemen and a younger army with an average age of early twenties.

"We just have to do everything we can to achieve the measures Lord Kent has shown us. Consider the size of the escort first."

Charlotte, the general, was asked what he would do with the size of the army escorting the heavy units in carrying out the operations indicated by the general.

"If we were to escort a thousand and two hundred carriages, wouldn't we need about five thousand?

Frist calculates the number of troops he needs to escort and comes up with a real number. His opinion was a reasonable number of escorts given the degree of danger in the area in question.

"Considering the installation of a carriage, it seems that the military should be mobilized instead of manpower. That should take the trouble of purposefully moving people and feet, and reduce the number of escort targets and increase your ability to act. Besides, there are no soldiers in our army who don't like to build field positions, right?

It has been suggested that Arne narrow the scope of the escort and speed up the march by letting the soldiers act as human and foot substitutes. Certainly no soldier leaks dissatisfaction in creating a field position in our army. Pinhane's salary by his superiors, which was commonplace in the Royal Army, is severely punished, and the soldiers have increased their salary by more than 20%, so that morale is high, and because even officers, like soldiers, construct field positions, it is difficult to give impossible instructions.

"Arne's proposal is a good one. If you add allowances to the soldiers at floating feet, you'll be even more motivated. I'll hang you around from me to the Civilians."

"Oh, that's a good idea. The soldiers will be delighted."

Akbes also seems to believe that the return of manpower and foot bills to the soldiers will increase the bounce to the Southern Conquest.

"Nevertheless, the Southern Border Army is an unusual army... I've never seen an army so concerned with the soldiers before..."

As a general, Charlotte was also told that she was surprised by the amount of money she received from the army, although she was paid by the army. I was one of those people who was told I was a general but was surprised by the amount of salary I received.

One of the reasons why salaries are so high is that the Southern Border Bergamot Army is active in a demonic crusade called training, and the salaries of military personnel are set high because the demonic materials are being wholesaled to the Hunter Guild for a large selling price.

After that, because there are few officers of the Southern Border Bergamot Army of noble origin, and many officers from the ranks of corporals and common people, there is a strong tendency to lean on the feelings of soldiers as officers, making it easy for these kinds of generous considerations to be taken into account.

Until a short while ago, I was a common man of corporal gratitude, in the same condition as the soldiers.

"Well, the top general is strictly ordered to have his soldiers labored. It will happen every second. And the soldiers are very motivated to know that they can earn what they work for."

"Differences in regionality… in the south we seem to have an outside enemy: demons and alien creatures…"

While serving as concubine to the Admiral, Charlotte herself had offered to participate in this southern expedition in order to develop a new territory for 2,000 men and nephews who had fallen asleep from the Royal Army.

My guess is that the Admiral might be willing to give her the fort that will be built this time if Charlotte makes war work. The southern region is an unprecedented land of abundance, and if the southern expedition is successful and demons can be driven away, the southern region will likely be able to acquire vast areas of cultivation and become self-sufficient in food.

The Admiral may be considering that he wants to stabilize the region by leaving the fortifications serving as a breakwater for that cultivated area to Charlotte, who will show excellent skill in both offenses.

Given the policy of direct subordination of the aristocratic territories proceeding in the Kingdom, it was thought that Charlotte would be more secure to return the territory near the less futuristic King's Capital and summon the nephew clan to Abysvena.

"Lord Charlotte will also be awarded the Medal of War in this southern expedition. If you do, the Admiral will take care of it."

"I know. We think it's a good opportunity to consolidate our scaffolding in the land before it goes down, so let us do everything we can."

Charlotte seemed motivated and upbeat.

"This is out of the question. So, if you're going to use soldiers on manpower feet, do you attach about 7,500? Would it be more efficient to build bases and hunt them all at once?

It brought the story back to the point where Akbes was about to go off track.

"According to the materials, the Black Wings (Black Wings) have designated the southwest as a hunting area along the pioneering village of Red Auga on a scale of about four hundred as Lord Delprius. The Admiral marches southeast along the sea from Godard, leading his own direct graduate group and demon hunters. Our military has designated the central part from Godard to the Nilay River as a hunting area. Therefore, as Lord Akbes said, it would be easier to establish a base first and expand the hunting range..."

Everyone has dropped their eyes on the material and confirmed the designated hunting area by the military. The military had been allocated the most hunting area as the main force in this southern expedition.

"As Lord Akbes says, the main unit seven thousand and five hundred will escort heavy units, and the army of Lord Charlotte two thousand and five hundred will come south in turn crushing the demonic accumulation that is confirmed around Godard, what do you think?

Charlotte makes her face shine and looks at me. She is a succubus species but usually hides horns and feathers to make a demonic appearance, but she did not hide the beauty that is said to be a succubus of a beautiful race.

"Lord Garvey!! Are you sure you want me to crush the demon accumulation as a Parade!! Now I can reward my men!!

"That's right. The parade shall be Lord Charlotte, the main unit shall be Lord Condorato, me and Lord Akbes, the advance party shall be Lord Arne, and the heavy party shall be Lord Marietta. Lord Condorato will be back too, so when the fort is finished, let's say it will burst. Firstly, securing the perimeter of the street and setting up a base shall be a top priority. Lord Fristo will lead the vigilante as an absentee and entrust him with the defense of Abysvena."

"Okay. Let's take it on. I'm not particularly dissatisfied with Kent because he recognizes the merits of backwards support."

Frist would always play the role of an absentee on an expedition, but the Admiral had given him a high salary and a knight's lord, given the family name Godard, and welcomed him as a Black Dagger family jury, in view of all his rear service. Frist, impressed by this, is more inspired by his work than ever before.

"If you've got an outline of the operation, let's go into prep. You should also select a bubble and replenishment point for the demon accumulation and a point to intercept the demon. After that, it is necessary to check the place of withdrawal in advance. I think we should send out a small scout team to gather information before we're ready for the South."

Based on Akbes' years of experience in crusading demons, it has been recommended that they be carefully prepared in advance. I understand the importance of prior intelligence gathering because I have been fighting demons so much that I don't like them at Fort Ferguard, too.

"All right, let's do the hunting training on a platoon scale. Move about fifty platoons of scouts south of Godard to gather intelligence. Troops, select a candidate! Let's just say we start our work."

"" "Understood" "

The top men of each army leave the conference room simultaneously. The Southern Frontier Bell Army set in motion for a massive demon crusade in the Southern Region, the liver of the Admiral. After I left the conference room, I went with Mira to negotiate with the Civilian Guard's vault number to attach to Treasury Secretary Helga a pledge to pay the soldier his manpower bill.