250 – Split (1)
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. “Unless the enemy appears or something very urgent happens, you two must not let anyone within 50 meters of this command barracks until I come out.”
As Captain Tateushu was giving such orders, the sounds of the generals arguing could be heard outside the barracks.
“You damn bastard! “What did you say?”
“Ha, I’m shocked that there’s an idiot who speaks bullsh*t because he doubts the loyalty of us 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 so 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.
‘The enemy is just around the corner, and it’s nice to see him being shaken like this by a letter sent by a mere baron. Huh, I can’t believe I’m the commander of this army. Should I go out and die early?’
It was a deranged 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.”
“Loyalty, I understand!”
“Be strictly on guard.”
After leaving that warning, the sight he saw when he entered the command barracks was a sight to behold.
Although he was grabbing someone by the collar, raising his fist towards someone, threatening violence, or showing any signs of violence.
No, in the first place, if you commit violence within the military, regardless of the reason or correlation, you will almost certainly be executed for destroying the ‘order of the military’, so if your life is precious to you, you are an asshole who would do such a crazy thing. There is no
However, when generals of the same rank have a strong difference of opinion, they just point at each other with their fingers, raise their voices, and make arguments and fights with scary expressions.
“What do you think, Gendarmerie Commander Wozniak? Shouldn’t he also strengthen inspection and security?”
“If inspections are strengthened, the morale of soldiers and officers will drop. Don’t you know? “If you raise the level of inspection, even the soldiers who are in the worst situations will learn that ‘the people above don’t trust us, so they are like that.'”
“The fact that someone like Baron Spiegelmann betrayed us to suspect that we, the Grand Duchy’s historic nobles and honorable generals, would betray like him is in itself an enemy operation!”
“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 were not 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 was nothing 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? When you enter actual combat, in the worst case scenario, you will be stabbed in the back by your allies.’
So, as the commander of this army, I could not ignore either side’s opinions.
You are right, and the other person is right, so I have no choice but to step in and tell them to stop fighting.
If this were not the case, a crazy situation could arise where the proponents and opponents of the inspection would strongly criticize each other for being right and the other side for being wrong, and in the worst case scenario, they would end up at odds on the battlefield.
“Stop! If you fight like this here, your subordinates will mistakenly believe that the command is divided and become scared! In that case, even if we return from the war victorious, 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 have been discharged.
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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 being spread at this time is, contrary to his exaggerated sagas, what kind of foolish 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 just hesitating and not apologizing for their disagreement, but he wasn’t wrong and he didn’t have time to argue about that right now.
So he sighed and said, continuing 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?”
At those words, the generals under his command nodded.
“First of all, 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 if you say anything more against the inspection, there is a higher chance that you will be falsely accused of being 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 additional personnel to monitor the generals, officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers just because a situation like this has occurred.”
Those who were in favor of inspection thought that it might be a little 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 a little different from what they claimed, they had to be satisfied enough with the fact that they had prepared 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.”
“In order to prove my loyalty to His Majesty the Grand Duke of Warsaw, I must comply, even though it may be a little inconvenient.”
“It is not a good thing to be overly suspicious of your allies. “I will follow your orders.”
Captain Tateushu breathed a sigh of relief and said 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 General 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.’
The recommendation to surrender so far to so many targets is in fact only the beginning of this operation.
And I, the proponent of this operation, am currently having a meal with Anya, Laura, and Charlotte inside 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 like the treatment one would receive after surrendering, what one must do when surrendering, and praise were written.
“I don’t know who the enemy commander is, but I’m sure he’ll be crazy about it, right?”