EP.250
Warsaw Grand Air Force military camp.
General Tateusz von Gradinaw, who led the large army of over 160,000 men according to the orders of the Grand Duke of Warsaw, gave orders in a serious voice.
“Captain Antony, Major Jakob. “You two are not to let anyone within 50 meters of this command barracks until I come out, unless the enemy appears or something very urgent happens.”
While Captain Tateushu was giving such orders, the sounds of generals arguing could be heard outside the barracks.
“You damn bastard! “What did you say?”
“Well, I’m shocked that there’s an idiot who speaks bullshit because he doubts our loyalty as nobles and honorable generals of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw! “Although a few bastards were bribed by lowly local magistrates and had their heads cut off, the loyalty of our noble officers, other than them, is harder than a rock, isn’t it?”
“Spiegelman, that renegade bastard sent a letter to everyone recommending betrayal, so we talked about strengthening internal inspection of the military just in case. Do you feel that bad about that? Is there something wrong with you?”
The captain frowned as he watched the friendly generals bickering because of the trick of the enemy’s Captain Peter Yeager.
‘It’s great to see the enemy so close at hand and being shaken like this by a letter sent by a mere baron. Oh shit, I’m the commander of this army. Should I go out and die early?’
It was the appearance of a shoddy military headquarters that made people think about suicide, which is considered a taboo next to believing in heresy in the Deus Church.
However, with his sense of responsibility as an educated nobleman and the strength of his years of service in the military, he shook off his feelings of self-destruction and continued with his next order.
“no. Do not allow anyone within 120 meters except your guards. “We must not show the command’s weakness to junior officers and soldiers.”
“I understand loyalty!”
“Be strictly on guard.”
When he entered the command barracks with that warning, the sight he saw was a sight to behold.
Although he was grabbing someone by the collar or raising his fist towards someone to foreshadow violence, there were no traces of violence left.
No, if you commit violence in the military in the first place, regardless of the reason or correlation, you will almost certainly be executed for breaking the ‘military order’, so if your life is precious to you, no bastard would do such a crazy thing.
However, when there is a strong difference of opinion between generals of the same rank, they just argue and fight by pointing their fingers at each other, raising their voices, and making scary expressions.
“What do you think, Gendarmerie Commander Wozniak? “Shouldn’t we strengthen inspections and vigilance?”
“If inspections are strengthened, the morale of soldiers and officers will drop. Don’t you know? If you raise the level of inspection, even soldiers who are in a difficult situation will say, ‘We are like that because the people above don’t trust us.’ “Because I know at least that.”
“In the first place, the fact that someone like Baron Spiegelmann betrayed us makes them suspect that we, the venerable nobles and honorable generals of the Grand Duchy, would betray like him, which is itself an enemy strategy!”
“When assassinating the king of an enemy country, who pours a glass of poison into the king’s cup? Wouldn’t it kill a king to just add one drop? Just like that, a single traitor can destroy an entire army, so they must be thoroughly hunted down! “It’s not that I don’t trust you!”
If this weren’t a battlefield, some of them were ready to risk their ‘honor’ and challenge Tateushu to a duel. What made Tateush even crazier was that there wasn’t a single thing they said that could be ignored.
‘It is obvious that if inspections are strengthened, the morale of the soldiers will drop, but what if the traitors within are not found? In the worst case scenario, when you enter combat, you will be stabbed in the back by your allies.’
So, as the commander of this army, I couldn’t ignore either side’s opinions. Since
you are right and the other side is also right, I have no choice but to step forward and tell them to stop fighting.
Otherwise, a crazy situation could arise where the pro-inspection and anti-inspection factions strongly criticize each other for being right and the other side for being wrong, and in the worst case scenario, they end up not at odds on the battlefield.
“stop! If you fight like this here, your subordinates will mistakenly believe that the command is divided and they will be scared! In that case, even if we return victorious from the war, shameful rumors will spread throughout the Grand Duchy of Warsaw that we fought without coming to our senses because we were afraid of Captain Jaeger. “Are you planning on making something like that happen?”
After the war is over, soldiers return to their hometowns, whether for meritorious service or because they are discharged at the end of the war.
When you go to your hometown, you return to your normal daily life and at the same time spread all kinds of stories about what happened in the military.
Everyone here knows that the main story that spreads at this time is that, contrary to his exaggerated sagas, he is talking about what kind of idiotic things high-ranking people did.
And nobles were people who were so obsessed with honor that they thought death would be better than being dishonored.
There was a tacit agreement that the dispute between opinions should be put aside for now.
“Thank you for stopping here.”
“no. “Even after he won, there were rumors that he was shaking at the sight of Peter Yeager’s shadow, so his reputation almost fell.”
Tateushu clicked his tongue when he saw the majority of his generals sitting quietly, hesitating, without apologizing for their disagreement, but he wasn’t wrong and he didn’t have time to argue about such things right now.
So he sighed and said to continue his role as mediator.
“First of all, this is what this commander thinks about the fact that damned Spiegelman surrendered and distributed a surrender invitation letter to the entire army. Are you ready to hear my arbitration proposal?”
The generals under his command nodded at those words.
“First of all, an inspection must be carried out. It’s not because I don’t trust you. The bastard Baron Spiegelmann, who by now must be busy licking the soles of the pagan bastards, has betrayed His Highness. Shouldn’t we prove that we are completely different from him? “After all, none of us are disloyal bastards willing to betray, so what does it matter?”
Even those who opposed the inspection couldn’t help but nod their heads at the commander’s words, blaming the traitor for all the mistakes.
This is because I read that the atmosphere here has increased where if you say anything more against the inspection, there is a higher chance that you will be falsely accused of being ‘you are a traitor.’
“However, this inspection will only be limited to exchanging documents within the military and checking the probability of encountering a person like the unidentified spy within a certain period of time. “Like other times, we will not attach more people to watch over the general, officer, non-commissioned officer, and soldier just because a situation like this has occurred.”
Those who were in favor of the inspection thought that it might be a bit lacking, but this was a war.
In other words, suspecting someone without solid evidence is the same as helping the enemy.
Even if it was slightly different from what they claimed, they had to be satisfied with just having a device to catch those who were spying.
“I’ve made some adjustments, but what does everyone think? Express your opinion with a show of hands.”
At those words, the generals raised their hands and said:
“I will follow the captain’s mediation plan.”
“It may be a little inconvenient to prove your loyalty to His Majesty the Grand Duke of Warsaw, but you must comply.”
“It’s not a good thing to be overly suspicious of your allies. “I will follow your orders.”
Captain Tateushi breathed a sigh of relief that he was able to somehow prevent this fight.
“Then everyone should go back and focus their efforts on cracking down on internal discipline.”
With those words, all the generals returned to their units and prepared for an appropriate level of inspection, but there was one thing that those here did not know.
The reason why Captain Peter Yeager sent this letter was not to betray any of the generals.
In fact, it was true that it was ‘an operation to make people want to defect to the Reich Empire’.
This means that the recommendation to surrender to so many targets has actually only been the beginning of this operation.
And I, the proponent of this operation, am currently having a meal with Anya Laura Charlotte in the castle.
“If three people spread the word, they can create a tiger that doesn’t exist, right? If you think about it another way, if you spread similar rumors three times, you can deceive someone into thinking there is a traitor who does not exist.”
That night, Peter Jaeger sent several letters stamped with the commander’s signet ring to several generals belonging to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw.
In it, things such as the treatment you would receive after surrendering, the things you must do when you surrender, and praise were written.
“I don’t know who the enemy commander is, but I’m sure he likes it so much that he goes crazy, right?
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