Chapter 536

Two months later, Dewey came up with a new pattern again!

He convinced the commander in chief, seconded 800 soldiers from the Imperial Security Office, and settled in this military academy!

Then he scattered the 108 cadets. Among the 800 ordinary soldiers, each of them held the position of junior officer, column leader, Captain, etc. at least 20 soldiers and at most 100 soldiers.

These officers led soldiers when they were in the local area, so they all did a good job. Dewey gave them ten days to get to know their men, eat, board and stay with them! Every morning and evening, they have to take part in the normal exercises of these soldiers, but during the day, they continue their military academy courses.

In the past ten days, many officers finally realized the role of the school rules set by Du Wei!

First of all, in the implementation, the officers took the lead in strictly following the school rules, so that no one below dared to violate them! Then, Duwei established the rule that the strange officers must eat after the soldiers have finished eating, so that the soldiers soon have a good impression on these strange officers!

In this era, after all, it is still a feudal era. In the army, officers still enjoy a lot of privileges. Now the officers eat and live with the soldiers. Of course, these ordinary soldiers soon feel grateful.

"If your men are still hungry, you're full. Your subordinates don't have enough cold clothes to endure the cold, but you are wearing top-grade leather robes... Such officers, don't want to get the support of soldiers! "

This reason is very simple, Dewey is to eliminate the traditional noble officers' privileges in the army of Roland empire!

Under Dewey's strict orders, these officers lived in the same Barracks as soldiers and ate the same food as soldiers! Take the lead to comply with the school rules! Dewey even made the rules. Every night, officers must go to bed after all the soldiers have gone to bed!

It was these rules that bored those guys before that that made them get the support of their subordinates in ten days. Of course, ten days is too short, and it's just some gratitude in the hearts of the soldiers. However, this is the first step to control an army!

In Dewey's opinion. In addition to the northern storm corps, which has the strongest fighting power of the Empire, the local garrison around the empire can't do this seemingly the simplest first step!

After the end of ten days, Dewey started the Xindi course. This time, it's not "deduction", but actual combat!

The place where the academy is located is a military fortress of the Empire built many years ago. There is enough space here. There are all kinds of buildings, barracks, headquarters, buildings, and outposts. Fortress walls, arrow towers, etc

Dewey starts the "live action" course!

Each course is very simple, he randomly designated a building, perhaps a weapons warehouse. Maybe it's a section of earth wall, maybe it's an arrow tower, maybe it's just a row of barracks!

Then he will divide the 800 soldiers into two parts and let these Cadet officers lead their own soldiers to fight!

Duwei made full use of all the terrain in the college, and let these officers play "war game" here.

Of course, this kind of acting. In order to avoid casualties, Dewey wrapped the so-called sword with cotton cloth and took off the spear head. Several clergymen and doctors who are good at the therapy of the Department of light have been brought in, together with Dewey himself, a powerful magic pharmacist.

Continuous actual combat performance, so that officers actually test their tactics. The scale of acting also developed from small team confrontation, squadron confrontation to large team confrontation! Or battalions against battalions!

In order for these officers to develop practical command experience, Dewey constantly mobilized troops from the Imperial Security Office. Finally, three months later. The number of soldiers stationed in the Imperial military academy has reached 2000! A real infantry battalion!!

Dewey also developed a series of promotion and demotion system! In the middle of confrontation. Officers who make mistakes and lose in the end will be demoted! And the winner will be promoted. The former platoon leader can be promoted to team leader, and the team leader can be promoted to squadron leader

Because they were unable to go to the battlefield, these simulated actual combat performances also enabled these officers to accumulate some preliminary command experience.

By the way, our future Earl of Lorraine, young master Gabriel, took the initiative to postpone his coming of age ceremony because he was absorbed in studying in the military academy.

A few months later, Dewey opened a new course in gunpowder use

Spring goes and summer comes.

Charles, the new emperor of the Empire, has been succeeding for nearly half a year.

With the coming of summer, the cold in the air has been swept away.

Even in the northern part of the Empire, the ice and snow began to melt, and the frozen ground gradually became soft after a full winter and spring. More and more warmth in the sun, the soldiers took off their thick clothes and put on their thin summer uniforms.

In the north, the Empire's Kaspersky line of defense, the stormtroopers had been completely stationed in the main fortress in the middle and the eastern fortress, while the Western fortress was left to alpai's Thor's whip.

The warmer weather made the excavation work of the trench in the north of the fort faster. As the weather gets warmer, the soil on the ground is no longer as hard as stone, and just under the fortress city, the excavation of the 100 meter long trench has come to an end.

The gullies on the ground will become a "corridor of death" for the imaginary enemy! To go through this 100 meter trench area, while still within the range of the Garrison's Crossbow on the wall! In the eyes of general Rostock, commander of the storm corps, this trench alone is enough to make the enemy pay a huge blood price!

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 he didn't like was the "first division of the imperial air force" behind the line of defense. The original northwest independent division.

General Andrea was once a subordinate of general Rostock, and they had a good personal relationship. Private friends belong to private friends. General Andrea had put forward a proposal before, that is, to mobilize other air airship troops, cooperate with the ground scouts and cavalry, and take the main plug in the middle of the Kaspersky defense line as the center to establish a patrol area with a radius of 50 km.

General Rostock, however, was not too keen on the proposal. As a typical loyal believer in the traditional "cavalry theory", Rostock led cavalry all his life. He firmly believes that cavalry is the strongest and most reliable force in the human army!

He doesn't believe that those airships flying at a height of several hundred meters can undertake any scouting work... Yes, flying in the sky, you can see far away! But how can the function of a cavalry scout be replaced by those airships?

The experienced scouts can trace all kinds of footprints on the ground, and the vegetation is trampled. Judge the enemy's track, even the direction! Where can you see these things, those airships in the sky?

Moreover, every time the airship goes out, it will cost a lot! Every time the airships are launched in teams. It will consume a lot of fuel! Those fuels are purchased with military expenses!

General Rostock has been officially appointed as the commander of the Kaspersky defence! In terms of position, both general Andrea's air force and alpai's whip of the God of mines are subject to Rostock's control. Of course, the commander's other accusation is that general Rostock is responsible for all the supplies and military expenditures of the entire Kaspersky defense line!

In the view of this experienced imperial general who has been guarding the border for many years, those airships certainly have strong combat effectiveness (which can be seen from the annihilation of the northwest army a few years ago). General Rostock acknowledged the combat effectiveness of airships, but he felt that such combat effectiveness was too expensive!

An organic airship, every time it's launched. The cost of land and fuel for the "50 km radius" patrol operation is more than ten times higher than the cost of grass for horses and rations for soldiers of the same number of scouts and cavalry!!

General Rostock thought it was a waste! Why must the expensive airships do what the cavalry scouts can do?

Although due to his personal relationship with general Andrea, he did not reject all of general Andrea's proposals, but agreed to some of them with reservation. But reduce the number of airships that general Andrey proposed to patrol the theater by a third!

Most of the area. Or patrol with cavalry scouts!

And the result... What he didn't know was that general Andrey sighed helplessly. Because the power of military expenditure and all expenditure approval is in the hands of Rostock!

As a result, a perfect early warning system designed by general Andrea failed to achieve the expected effect. There are many gaps in the coverage area of airship patrol!

On this day in the early summer of 965, the cavalry scouts finally sent the first unusual news!

A scouting formation of up to ten people, originally expected to return to the day of intelligence presentation, did not come back!

The news was not immediately reported to general Rostock. The following officers did not pay enough attention to the news. They thought that maybe the scouts met Warcraft or were delayed on the way. What's more, the army sent out more than 200 scouts to inspect the vast area north of the fortress, and one of them was delayed for a day, which was nothing.

Only the next day did the news reach general Andrea.

The third day... Finally, another group of scouts found the missing group in the North

My body!

After that area of this team of ten scouts cavalry, saw let them panic scene!

At the edge of a forest, on the ground, there are blood and broken bodies! The condition of the dead is terrible! Those dead horses, it seems that the body injury is no beast Fierce bite!

And those comrades in arms who died could not even find a complete body! Those corpses seem to have been cruelly torn to pieces! There's blood all over the place! Even, many bodies are incomplete! Some were cut off a leg, some are only half of the body!

All the bodies. All their armor and weapons have been stripped away. This is definitely not the dry land of Warcraft or beast! Beasts may eat people, but they will never rob weapons and armor! From the officer in charge to the soldiers, everyone can't help feeling weak even the brave soldiers when they see such a terrible scene! Because they saw... On the edge of the woods, there were still warm embers on the ground! On the ashes, on a few rough sticks, there are some remnants of... Legs and arms! It's the part cut from those bodies! Those arms and thighs. Was worn on the stick, obviously after a "barbecue", above also left traces of chewing!! This is terrible!! The bravest soldier, at this moment, can't help but suddenly turn around, holding the tree and vomit violently. The leader's face was as pale as paper. Just when he ordered to collect information on the spot and then retreat, suddenly, the horse in his crotch suddenly became restless and agitated! The horse seemed to smell some danger in the air. Hiss violently, raises the front hoof! No matter how the cavalry appease them, the horses struggle to move their hooves in situ, but they are not willing to settle down obediently... At this time, the scouting captain. All of a sudden, I heard a strange roar. It was like a wild animal, like the roar of a wolf? He turned around and saw the woods. Countless terrible figures suddenly roared towards us! It's as fast as a galloping horse! But in the narrow woods, the speed is amazing! Move and jump, but where is the human cavalry horse can have agility? Before these scouts could react, more than a dozen giant wolves had rushed in front of them in the woods! Each of these giant wolves is covered with rough and hard armor, while the one sitting on the back of the giant wolf is a monster with sharp beaks and tusks! They had long knives in their hands. With the roar of wolves... These scouts, slow on the spot, were thrown on the ground, even the scream did not send out, was a bite of the throat! But the reaction is faster, but the weapon is not pulled out at all, just watch those monsters riding on the giant wolf rush to the front, cut down, and reap the head! Among the scouts. The best player is the Scout captain. He made a decision in an instant: Escape! Scoundrel's excellent judgment, he made his own side ten people can not be the other side of the judgment. As a scout, his task is not to kill the enemy, but to send the information back! However, he had just turned the horse around, and the frightened horse only took a few steps under the control of his excellent riding skills. At this time, a black shadow suddenly jumped over his head! That dark shadow, even in a moment, blocked the sun! The giant wolf, as big as a horse, has such terrible jumping power?!! The giant wolf, who crossed over from the head, had stopped in front of him. The monster with wolf face on the horse opened his mouth to himself, showed his sharp tusks and gave out a shrill roar! Fight! The scouting captain pulled out his long sword and was about to rush up. But at this time, another wolf cavalry on the side had already rushed up! Giant wolf has a powerful force, a swoop, put the scouts captain even people with horses are down on the ground! When the Scout captain landed, his leg was pressed by the horse, and he was about to struggle. At this time, he saw the wolf with a long mouth, biting himself... (these are, what monsters!) This is his last thought. On this day, the 46 scouts on duty only came back with three teams! None of the other 43 squads, 430 scouts and cavalry, can come back! The problem is that the three teams who came back alive did not encounter any enemy situation! In other words, 430 excellent cavalry were lost, but the Imperial Army in the Kaspersky defense line did not get any valuable information and trace of the enemy!! This incident immediately caused an uproar in Kaspersky fortress! The enemy is coming! But where is the enemy?! What's the enemy like?!