180 – Same dream (1)
When the 7th Guards Division was taking its position, the strategic conference room of Traunstein Castle, Grand Duchy of Austria.
Now here, the disposition of those who surrendered after being dishonorably discharged from the Reich Empire was being discussed.
“I wonder if I can really trust those traitors. Anyway, aren’t they the heirs of a prestigious noble family of the Reich Empire?”
“I am the successor. When I released a spy and investigated their treatment, I found out that they were dishonorably discharged and even their right to succession to the title was taken away for putting the Crown Prince in danger during the previous expedition to Switzerland.”
“Even so, can’t we completely trust them?”
The debate about whether it was trustworthy or not trustworthy continued, but everyone here had this in common.
‘It would be a waste to mercilessly kill and cut off Huhwan like other surrendering officers.’
Because they were dishonorably discharged, they cannot provoke the decline in morale of the imperial army by saying that even the heirs of prestigious nobles surrendered to the imperial soldiers.
Regardless of the reason, purging former officers of potential enemy countries who have surrendered could be a hindrance to later attempts to appease the longevity of enemy countries, including the Reich Empire, in a critical situation.
“Anyway, weren’t they pretty useful guys until they were dishonorably discharged? Additionally, as they claimed, the information the authors brought is second-class confidential information of the Imperial Army. “I brought you a bunch of information like that, so you have to at least pretend to believe it.”
At those words, the commander and staff of the troops stationed in the castle nodded.
After purging them all, it will be revealed that if the secrets they brought were wrong, that would not matter, but what if all the information they brought was true?
Because we ended up disemboweling the goose that laid the golden eggs.
As the conversation continued like that, Major General Schweiz, commander of the garrison at this castle, spoke.
“Bring here one of the six people in prison. It’s important to check if the confidentiality is correct, but we also need to find out if they truly betrayed the empire. We need to check it like that and, if it is useful, appease it appropriately and let it continue to lay golden eggs.”
Then Director Schweitz spoke while pretending to slit his throat with his finger.
“Then, if it is determined to be useless or the frequency of laying eggs decreases, then you can dispose of it.”
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Matthias von Griffin’s heart was trembling and his palms were already drenched in sweat.
“I believe you already heard this while I was being brought here, but I am Major General Schweiz von Birgenstein, commander of the troops stationed in this castle.”
“Yes, Director…”
“To make it very easy to understand, I can say that your lives depend on my decision. Just know that it is. “Don’t think about doing something in vain.”
At the same time as those words were said, the eyes of all the staff members present were focused on Mathias.
The gaze filled with emotions such as disregard, wariness, suspicion, and analysis seemed quite heavy, but he struggled to relax and come to his senses.
However, he acted as humble as possible so as not to be discovered as a double agent.
“We sincerely came to naturalize in the Grand Duchy of Austria and seek new opportunities. Please believe me, Director.”
When the director heard that, he smiled and gestured.
“That’s your situation. Let me start by explaining why we should trust you. I don’t know, but the staff here, and indeed the army of the Grand Duchy of Austria, have no reason to trust you traitors. “If that’s difficult, I’ll take off that useless thing on your shoulder.”
When these words were uttered, the two officers guarding the conference room door came up in an instant and gently touched Mathias’ neck with their swords from left and right.
“I understand. I will never tell a lie. So please give me a chance. First of all, before we surrendered to the Grand Duchy of Austria, we were only 29 years old, but we rose to the rank of major and were Crown Prince Michael’s closest associates. “I often drank with him and played with him.”
“It seems like you were quite close to the crown prince. But why on earth do such people betray? “I heard from the Intelligence Department that the reason you guys were dishonorably discharged was because you earned it on your own.”
“Other generals may not know, but what is our fault? I simply helped establish an operation to attack Switzerland as instructed by the Crown Prince, and the General Staff and Intelligence Department approved it, so I pushed ahead with the operation. He was dishonorably discharged and even deprived of his right to succession to the title because he was accused of having failed in an operation. In one day, we became ex-convicts, became slaves, became poor, and even got divorced. We have no future in the Empire. “It’s so unfair.”
The officers, including the major general, who heard his words were able to understand Mattius’s situation to a very small extent.
Because they are in a position where when the crown prince gives an order to prepare a mission together, they have to do it without a word.
I prepared diligently, created an operation at a level that the Imperial General Staff would approve of, and unfortunately failed.
Because of that, he was kicked out of the military and could not receive proper treatment as a human being, so it seemed to be a sufficient motive for betrayal.
Mattius gathered from the bottom up his feelings of unfairness about his situation, and tried to recall the sad memories he had experienced on his way here.
Then I remembered what the crown prince said.
‘Play the most insignificant and resentful trash. No, become such trash.’
And then he opened his mouth.
“I am no longer able to see my wife and her children, with whom I had been living face-to-face until yesterday. In her family, not only her father and younger siblings, but even the servants and maids look at us like trash left on the side of the road. In particular, the young maids who worked at our mansion believed that they could change their arms if we just touched them, so they deliberately wore short skirts and did things that emphasized their buttocks and breasts. Even the b*tches changed their attitude in an instant… Can you imagine how miserable our situation is?”
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Director Schweiz and other directors suspected that the man named Mathius might be crazy.
‘f*ck, I’m telling you not to lie and to speak with the truth. Did you turn around? ‘Why did you fall asleep talking about such shallow things?’
However, even though I ended up underestimating the personality and abilities of the man named Mathius, I was at least able to know that he was not lying.
Because he was so pathetic and an asshole that everything he said was assumed to be true.
So, I nodded and signaled for him to continue talking.
“What is even more terrible is that even the right to succession to the family was taken away by his second brother. The point is that there was no longer room for reinstatement in the Reich Empire. The idea was that they had to spend their whole lives in a position no better than a serf, receiving little more than a small allowance from their family, and living in misery without being recognized by anyone wherever they went. So I came to the Grand Duchy of Austria to escape this terrible situation. “I want to have the opportunity to live like a human being again.”
Major Schweiz and his staff thought after hearing Mattius’ story.
‘Other traitors say superficial nonsense, such as saying they came because they admire the Grand Duchy of Austria or because they want to fight under a general or commander they admire. ‘It doesn’t seem like he’s lying, seeing as he only talks about his own miserable situation.’
“Then let me ask you. “What do you think about the crown prince?”
When Martius heard this, he recalled what Lieutenant General Jaeger had said and responded as follows.
“He is a trashy little person who reveals dirty things about women and takes no responsibility whatsoever. “One day, as an Austrian officer, if I fight against that bastard, I will rip off his limbs, kill him, and feed him to dogs and crows.”
He even insulted his former lord, which a noble should not dare to do, but there was no sign of hesitation or hesitation on Martius’ face.
Director Schweiz was convinced after seeing that.
It is true that these bastards do not have the bare minimum of human conscience and are shameless, but their hatred of the empire and the crown prince is sincere.
Therefore, it was believed that he would not be lying when he said that he wanted to surrender to the Grand Duchy of Austria.
‘If the information these bastards brought is correct, we will sit back and take advantage of the blessings that come our way. So, just suck up as much as you can for a few years and then purge when you no longer need it. After all, they are trash and not nobles of the Grand Duchy of Austria, so you won’t feel guilty when you kill them.’
“I hope you understand that we have no choice but to keep you incarcerated until we confirm that the confidential information you brought matches the facts. However, from today, the place you are staying will be changed from a prison to a private room for officers. “We will provide the same food rations as the officers.”
“Thank you for your trust, Director.”
“And judging by her expression, it looks like the woman is hungry. I’ll give you a woman to serve you. Let’s go now. “We have a lot of other things to do.”
The reason why the director assigned a woman was simple.
Even hard-core spies reveal their true feelings when they get involved with women and drink alcohol.
Furthermore, it was because the woman had a much greater advantage over the man in showing that she trusted the five majors, including Mathius, and at the same time being in charge of 24-hour surveillance.
And two months later, it was confirmed that the information brought by five people, including Major Martias, was actually confidential to the Imperial Army.
Those five people began serving with the rank of lieutenants after receiving special permission from the military command of the Grand Duchy of Austria.
From then on, they fought devotedly, sacrificing their lives and sacrificing their lives on various fronts, as if they were people who lived with the sole intention of one day taking revenge on the empire that had made them like this.
Gradually, he began to be recognized as a trustworthy officer by the military command and nobles of the Grand Duchy of Austria.