Two months passed like this, and two months later, Du Wei came up with a new trick again!
He persuaded the headquarters to second 800 soldiers from the imperial capital security station and stationed them in this military academy!
Then he dispersed the 108 students among the 800 ordinary soldiers, and each of them took the position of a low-level officer, ranging from column commander to captain, etc., with the least leading 20 soldiers.
The most I can bring is a hundred people.
These officers had led soldiers when they were in the local area, so they did a good job in these tasks. Du Wei gave them ten days to get familiar with his subordinates, and they had food and accommodation with these soldiers! Every morning and evening,
They all must participate in the normal drills of these soldiers, but continue their own military academy courses during the day.
And after these ten days passed, many officers finally realized the effect of the school rules set by Du Wei!
First of all, in terms of enforcement, the officers took the lead in strictly obeying the school rules, so that no one among the soldiers dared to violate them! Then, Du Wei’s weird rule that the officers must eat after the soldiers had finished eating made the soldiers quickly become familiar with the unfamiliar
These officers took a liking to him!
This era, after all, is still the feudal era. In the army, officers still enjoy many privileges. Now that officers eat, sleep and live with the soldiers, of course, these ordinary soldiers will soon feel grateful.
"If your subordinates are still hungry, but you are well fed. Your subordinates do not have enough cold clothes to endure the cold, but you are wearing fine leather robes... Such an officer cannot hope to win the sincere support of the soldiers!
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The reason is very simple. Du Wei wants to eliminate the privileges of the Roland Empire's traditional aristocratic officers in the army!
Under Du Wei's strict orders, these officers lived in the same barracks as soldiers and ate the same food as soldiers! They took the lead in obeying school rules! Du Wei even stipulated that every night, officers must go to bed after all the soldiers
Only then can you go to bed!
It was these rules that made those guys feel boring before, but they gained the support of their subordinates in ten days. Of course, ten days was too short after all, and it was just some gratitude in the hearts of the soldiers. However,
This is the first step that must be taken to control an army!
In Du Wei's view, except for the Northern Storm Legion, which has the strongest combat power in the empire, none of the local garrison forces in the empire can achieve this seemingly simple first step!
After the ten days were over, Du Wei started the Xindi course. This time it was not a "deduction", but actual combat!
The place where the academy is located is a military fortress built by the empire many years ago. There is a large enough place here. There are also various buildings, barracks, headquarters, buildings, and outlying sentries. The fortress walls, arrow towers, etc.
etc……
Du Wei starts the "Practical Acting" course!
Each class is very simple. He randomly designates a building, maybe a weapons warehouse. Maybe a section of earth wall, or an arrow tower, or just a row of barracks!
Then he will divide the eight hundred soldiers into two parts and let these student officers lead their own soldiers in a confrontation!
Du Wei made full use of all the terrain in the college and asked these officers to lead people to play a "war game" here.
Of course, this kind of acting. In order to avoid casualties, Du Wei wrapped the so-called long swords in cotton cloth and removed the tips of the spears. He also called in several priests and doctors who were good at light healing techniques, and then
Plus Du Wei himself is a powerful magic pharmacist.
Continuous actual combat performances allowed the officers to actually test their tactics. The scale of the performances also changed from small team confrontation to squadron confrontation, and finally developed into large group confrontation! Or battalion to battalion confrontation!
In order to allow these officers to develop actual combat command experience, Du Wei continuously mobilized troops from the Imperial City Security Station. Finally, three months later, the number of Imperial City Security Station soldiers stationed at the Imperial Military Academy had reached 2,000.
!A real infantry battalion!!
Du Wei also formulated a series of promotion and demotion systems! In the confrontation, the officers of the side that made mistakes and lost in the end will be demoted! The winning side will be promoted. The original rank commander can be promoted to captain, and the captain can be promoted to captain.
Position as squadron leader...
Since they were unable to go to the battlefield, these simulated actual combat performances also allowed these officers to accumulate some preliminary command experience.
By the way, our future Lord Gabriel, Count of Rollin, also took the initiative to postpone his coming-of-age ceremony because he was obsessed with studying in the military academy.
A few months later, Du Wei once again opened a new course "Gunpowder Use"...
Spring passes and summer comes.
It has been nearly half a year since the new emperor of the empire, Charles, succeeded to the throne.
With the arrival of summer, the coldness in the air has been swept away.
Even in the northern frontier of the empire, the ice and snow have begun to melt, and the frozen soil on the ground has gradually become softer after a full winter and spring. There is more and more warmth in the sun, and the soldiers have taken off their thick coats.
clothes, put on a thin summer uniform.
Just to the north, the Empire's Kaspersky Defense Line and the Storm Legion have been fully stationed in the main fortress in the middle and the fortress on the east side. As for the western fortress, Alpai's Thunder God's Whip is left.
As the weather gets warmer, the trench excavation work in the north of the fortress has sped up. As the weather gets warmer, the soil on the ground is no longer as hard as stone, and just under the fortress, the excavation work of the trench that is 100 meters long has already begun.
At the end.
The ravines on the ground will become an imaginary "corridor of death" for the advancing enemy! To pass through this 100-meter-long trench area, at the same time, the range of the defenders' crossbows on the city wall will be covered.
Within the range! From the perspective of General Rostock, the commander of the Storm Legion, this trench alone is enough to make the enemy pay a huge price in blood!
Complete defense line, the most elite soldiers of the empire, sufficient weapons and equipment... Rostock is full of confidence in the future war!
The only thing that made him somewhat dissatisfied was the "First Imperial Air Force Division" located behind the defense line. It was the original Northwest Independent Division.
General Andre was once a subordinate of General Rostock, and the two had a very good personal relationship. But a personal relationship is a personal relationship. General Andre made a suggestion before, which was to mobilize his airship troops to cooperate with the scout cavalry on the ground to use Kabasi
With the main fort in the center of the base defense line, a patrol area with a radius of fifty kilometers was established.
However, General Rostock was not too keen on this proposal. As a typical loyal believer in the traditional "cavalry theory", Rostock has led the cavalry all his life. The cavalry also accounts for a considerable proportion of the Storm Legion under his command.
He firmly believes that cavalry is the strongest and most reliable unit in the human army!
He didn't believe that those airships flying hundreds of meters above the sky could undertake any scouting work... Yes, flying in the sky could see far away! But how could those airships replace the function of a cavalry scout?
Experienced scouts can determine the enemy's tracks and even direction from the various footprints on the ground and the traces of trampled vegetation! Where can the airships in the sky see these things?
Moreover, every time the airships are dispatched, it costs a lot of money! Every time the airships take off in groups, a lot of fuel is consumed! Those fuels are all purchased with military funds!
General Rostock has been officially appointed as the head coach of the Kaspersky Defense Line! From a position, both General Andre's air force and Alpai's Thunder God's Whip Corps must be controlled by Rostock. Of course, the commander-in-chief's
Another accusation: General Rostock is also responsible for all supplies and military expenditures for the entire Kaspersky Defense Line!
In the view of this veteran general who has rich experience in the empire and has guarded the border for many years, those airships certainly have strong combat effectiveness (this has been seen from the annihilation of the Northwest Army a few years ago). General Rostock acknowledged the combat effectiveness of the airships, but he
I feel that such fighting power is too expensive!
Every time an established airship takes off to conduct that "fifty kilometer radius" patrol operation, the fuel consumption is more than ten times higher than the horse forage and soldier ration consumption of the same number of scout cavalry!
!
General Rostock thought this was simply a waste! Why should those expensive airships do the work that cavalry scouts can do?
Although due to his personal relationship with General Andre, he did not reject all of General Andre's proposals, but only agreed to part of them with reservations. However, he reduced the number of airships sent to patrol the theater proposed by General Andre to one-third!
Most areas are still patrolled by cavalry scouts!
And the result... what he didn't know was that General Andry sighed helplessly because the power to approve military expenditures and all expenditures rested with the coach Rostock!
The result was that the perfect early warning system designed by General Andre failed to achieve the expected results. There were many gaps in the coverage area of the airship patrol!
On this day in the early summer of Roland Empire 965, the cavalry scout finally sent the first unusual news!
A scout formation of up to ten people did not return on the day they were expected to return to submit intelligence!
This news was not immediately reported to General Rostock. The officers below did not pay enough attention to the news. They thought that this team of scouts might have encountered a magical beast or was delayed on the road. Moreover, the army sent a total of
There were two hundred teams of scouts patrolling the vast area north of the fortress. One of the teams was delayed for a day, which was nothing.
As a result, the news was delivered to General Andre the next day.
On the third day... finally, another team of scouts discovered the missing team in the north...
corpse!
The ten-man scout cavalry team passing by that area saw a scene that horrified them!
At the edge of a forest, on the ground, there were blood and mutilated corpses everywhere! The condition of the deceased was extremely horrific! The wounds on the dead horses seemed to be as if they had been bitten fiercely by wild beasts!
As for those comrades who were killed, they couldn't even find a complete body! Those corpses seemed to have been cruelly torn into pieces! There was blood splattered everywhere! In fact, many corpses were incomplete! Some were broken into pieces.
A leg was cut off, and in some cases only half of the body was left!
All the corpses. All the armor and weapons on them have been stripped away. This is definitely not a land of warcraft or beasts! Beasts may eat people, but they will never steal weapons and armor!
From the leading officer to the soldiers, everyone saw such a terrifying scene. Even the brave soldiers couldn't help but feel weak in their legs! Because they saw... right at the edge of the woods, and there was still residual warmth on the ground.
ashes from the fire!
On top of the ashes, stuck on a few rough wooden sticks, were some remaining... legs and arms! They were the parts chopped off from those corpses!
Those arms and thighs were pierced on wooden sticks. They had obviously been "barbecued" and there were gnawing marks on them!!
This is terrible!!
The bravest soldier couldn't help but suddenly turned around, hugged the big tree and vomited violently. The leading officer's face was as pale as paper. Just when he ordered to collect intelligence on the spot and then retreat, suddenly, he
The horse under his crotch suddenly started to stir uneasily!
The horses seemed to smell some kind of dangerous breath in the air. They neighed violently and raised their front hooves! No matter how the cavalry tried to comfort them, these horses struggled to plow their hooves on the spot, but they refused to calm down...
At this time, the scout captain suddenly heard a strange roar. The sound sounded like a wild beast, like... the roar of a wolf?
He just turned around and saw in the woods. Countless terrifying figures suddenly roared towards them! The speed was as fast as a galloping horse! But in the narrow woods, it was astonishingly fast! They were jumping around but nowhere.
How agile can human cavalry horses be?
Before these scouts could react, a dozen giant wolves had already pounced in front of them in the woods! Each of these giant wolves was covered in rough and hard iron armor, and sitting on the back of the giant wolf was
Monsters with sharp mouths and fangs! They held long swords in their hands and roared like wolves...
These slow-moving scouts were thrown to the ground on the spot, and their throats were bitten off without even uttering a scream! But those who reacted faster did not even pull out their weapons at all, and just looked at the knights.
A monster with a giant wolf rushed in front of it, slashed it with a knife, and harvested its head!
Among this team of scouts, the most skilled one was the scout captain. He made an instant decision: escape!
With the excellent judgment of a scout, he immediately made the judgment that the ten people on his side could never be the opponent's opponent. As a scout, his mission is not to kill the enemy, but to send the information back!
However, just as he turned his horse around, the frightened horse ran a few steps under the control of his excellent riding skills. At this time, a black shadow suddenly jumped over his head! That black shadow,
Even for that moment, it blocked the sunlight!
That giant wolf with a body as big as a horse has such terrifying jumping power?!
The giant wolf that passed over the head had already stopped in front of him. The monster with a wolf face on the horse opened its mouth at him, exposed his sharp fangs, and let out a shrill roar!
Fight! The scout captain pulled out his long sword with all his strength, and was about to rush forward with all his strength, but at this time, another wolf cavalry from the side had already pounced on him! The giant wolf possesses powerful power, and with a fierce
He pounced and threw the scout captain, including his men and horses, to the ground!
When the scout captain landed, his legs were pinned down by the horses, and he was about to struggle. At this time, he saw a giant wolf with a mouth, biting him...
(What kind of monsters are these?!)
This was his last thought.
On this day, only three teams of the forty-six teams of scouts who were on patrol came back! None of the other forty-three teams and four hundred and thirty scout cavalry could come back!
The problem is that the three teams who came back alive did not encounter any enemy! In other words, they lost 430 excellent cavalry, but the imperial army within the Kaspersky defense line failed to gain valuable enemies.
Any news and traces!!
This incident immediately caused an uproar in Kaspersky Fortress!
The enemy is coming! But where is the enemy?! What does the enemy look like?!
