206 – Clawless Tiger (3)
Claude Lane was drinking at a bar in the army headquarters as usual today.
After waking up from his past wounds, insomnia and nervous symptoms that had been bothering him were alleviated considerably, but he could not throw away his alcohol.
He’s tipping his glass all alone like that.
“Why are you eating alone again? If you want to eat, just tell me…….”
A woman with navy blue hair appeared in uniform with a silver chrysanthemum sparkling. And she’s the bobbed-haired lieutenant colonel standing alongside him.
Major Hilton Kalia and Lieutenant Colonel Bell Meyer.
Claude Lane sighed and overturned the two glasses lying on the table onto the seats across from him.
The two women looked into each other’s eyes and sat down with a grin.
“It’s expensive, so I tried to enjoy it alone, but it smells like it.”
“It’s a coincidence, a coincidence~.”
Bell held out her glass with a sly reply. Slowly, the two women each drag the full wine glass in front of me.
“By the way, I don’t know if the reorganization of the unit is going well, Colonel.”
“There are too many applicants. Most of them are not up to standard.”
Claude clicked his tongue and added. He was a special agent who was used as a wild card in the Lunetsk recapture match.
Their performance was widely spread throughout Uk ran through the Wilson Times, and they were at the center of the enlistment craze sweeping the country.
UKSOCOM.
That name was attractive enough to kindle a fire in the hearts of young people who were lying helpless.
In particular, Claude Lane’s 5th Special Mission Team, which is believed to have succeeded the ‘8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion’, was busy checking the conditions of the applicants and transfer applicants pouring in every day.
“Aren’t the standards too high? I heard you were upgraded from unit level to brigade level this time.”
“Still, the standard must not be lowered. Practice has to be perfect.”
“Really, you are stubborn too… ….”
As if Bell Meyer was still the same, he shrugged her shoulders.
“Ahahahaha…… But since you’re doing it like this, I think everyone wants to go in more. Doesn’t it look special?”
“It should be special. Who is the brigade commander?”
“Wow.”
Claude said, looking at Hilton Carlia with a friendly look.
Bell Meyer, who had been watching them, frowned as if she was about to vomit, and Hilton hurriedly moved her gaze.
Her ears turned bright red before she knew it.
“Really…… When I was in the 3rd generation, I wondered how such a blunt man even got married. Now I know, damn it.”
“I heard you liked me, but it’s none of your business.”
“Who said what? It’s just that it’s new.”
Even when their ranks and positions changed, Bell Meyer and Claude Lane were still close friends.
Of course, the two of them got a lot worse than before, and it felt like they were bickering rather than fighting.
“But this time I heard you got out of the medical unit.”
“Um, what…… I’m also a first-class blue mage, but what are you doing standing still in the rear?”
“Still, wouldn’t it be better to be in the back?”
It was a blunt voice, but Bell Meyer quickly read her worries hidden inside. Claude Lane was such a person.
A man who secretly takes care of you even if he tickles and gets angry.
Maybe Hilton Calia fell in love with that look. Just like she had a crush on Enoch Levandel.
So Bell Meyer decided to play a little prank.
“Oh, do you think I can’t even fight properly?”
“No…… I mean, with your skills, you can save more patients from the rear. I didn’t mean it that way.”
Claude showed a slight bewilderment and quickly corrected his intentions. Bell let out a small laugh at a look he would never have thought of before.
“Just kidding. I know what you mean. But to be precise, it’s not like moving to a combat unit. It’s a combat auxiliary unit.”
It was Bell Mayer who built an efficient field medical system by gathering the blue mages scattered all over the world.
However, that was only possible at a command-level headquarters that was a rear unit and relatively well-equipped.
There were more unfortunate lives dying in the field because they couldn’t get timely treatment, and Bell Meyer felt a lot of guilt about it.
“The newly established Combat Medical Brigade. I decided to leave it there.”
“What kind of freaks are those… ….”
“It is similar to a combat engineer. The sappers dig trenches and fortifications, we treat them.”
It was a special unit to reduce casualties to a minimum by being put together on the battlefield expected to be the largest battlefield.
Since there is a non-standard type of soldier called mage, there were quite a few deformed units organized in this way in Uk ran.
Isn’t that the case with the 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion?
From battalion level to combat unit level and back to battalion level. A hybrid unit that was created by mixing all kinds of special operations, regular warfare, and air warfare.
“Well…… We’ve all been in places like that.”
Claude Lane said calmly.
All of them are ties from the 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion.
Even before the war, it was hard to see each other’s faces because they were so busy, but it wasn’t enough that the unit was disbanded and scattered, so after the full-fledged wartime readiness, we couldn’t see each other even though we wanted to see each other.
“Actually, I don’t even have to worry about this side, but I think I should do that side first.”
I mean Enoch Levandel and the rest of his crew.
The world was increasingly plunged into uncontrollable chaos.
Pollania crossed the border and the Kingdom of Adalya declared war on the Free Democratic Republic of Fru.
Britten and Reinhalt were showing a relatively calm appearance, but they also did not know when they would jump into this huge storm.
And the spearhead of the Uk ranians through the storm would be Enoch Levandel.
Therefore, it was Enoch Levandel and his subordinates who had to overcome the greatest crisis.
“You will do well. It has always been that way.”
Bell Meyer murmured as she poured the remaining alcohol from her glass into her mouth.
On the other side of my throbbing heart every time I think about it, of course, there was also a wish that he would not stand in the vanguard.
More than anyone else, it was Bell Meyer who was on the verge of life and death.
Instead of guarding the defense line, she was the one who guarded the last line of life for those who guarded it.
The countless lives that were shattered for the sake of the motherland are still vivid in front of my eyes.
The arm is cut off, the leg is cut off.
Sometimes his intestines protruded and he became like a corpse.
There were also a number of people whose breath was itself tortured.
But among them, not a single one regretted their actions.
These are the warriors who said that they had saved their families and loved ones even at the moment when the flames of life were dying out, and that they were asking for the back of their country.
Apart from romance.
As a soldier, he himself cannot stop Enoch Levandel.
‘Even if it’s blocked in the first place, it won’t be blocked.’
A bitter taste spread in my mouth.
Whether it was because of the alcohol, or perhaps because of her mixed feelings about the worst that could come, she didn’t know.
***
The new head of the War Planning Department, who had been appointed to succeed Enoch Levandel, was on the verge of bursting.
The manual and plans for the Soviet Empire had already been completed while Major General Enoch Levandel was head of the War Planning Department.
The problem was that the current world situation was completely different from the prepared manual.
With the consumption that it would definitely come, the 2nd wave of the empire evaporated anywhere, and the Republic of Polania made a sudden acceleration, opening a new front in the east.
The scenario that Polania would participate in the war was not prepared.
In addition, the declaration of war by both Adaliya and the Free Democratic Republic of Prü across the sea?
There’s no way you’re ready for something like that.
After agonizing over it for days and days, the new head of the War Planning Department finally came to a conclusion.
‘Let’s just go find the prophet!’
He made a surprise visit to the 87th Division, which was busy organizing divisions.
I was able to get an important hint from Director Enoch Levandel, a magical conch shell that automatically gives you an answer when you rub it gently.
“The battlefield has already moved from Uk ran to other places.”
“You mean the border between Polania and Soviet Empire?”
“Yes.”
It is truly pitiful to see him sipping coffee with thick dark circles around his eyes.
However, it is unavoidable.
In a situation where the survival of the country was at stake, it was only natural that there was not enough time to sleep.
Maybe the head of the war planning department isn’t a horse either.
“And isn’t there a strange movement in Reinhardt recently?”
“There is no such thing as a particularly strange movement…… Ah.”
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The newly created Ministry of War was in fact a completely independent department from the Uk ranian General Staff.
That’s why military intelligence coming from each front and country naturally had to go through the War Ministry.
The head of the War Planning Department, who is a key factor in the War Ministry and has been considered a true secret power since the time of Enoch Levandel, was naturally able to obtain the intelligence.
“Some of the troops have left our border and moved east.”
“I see. Then maybe Reinhalt will attack Polania.”
“Yes?”
“I assure you, not now. However, the moment when the front lines between the Republic of Polania and the Sobie Empire were fixed. The wolf will bite the back of the horse.”
Wolves and horses.
The animals symbolized Reinhardt and Polania, respectively.
If it had been like before, he might have asked what he was talking about, knowing the strained relationship between the Soviet Empire and the Reinhardt Empire.
But now, the whole country was going crazy. Since common sense had already been buried at the bottom for a long time, his own common sense as the head of the War Planning Department had to be thrown into the trash can as well.
Enoch Levandel judged that Polania would never destroy the Empire of Sobie.
That was in line with the opinion of the head of the War Planning Department.
Has that frozen country ever collapsed due to aggression?
Not even once.
From Ruschar Empire to Soviet.
Even though that huge empire was invaded, it rose to the end like a ttogi and eventually drove out the invaders.
Of course, in return, rebellions always broke out and the country was replaced, but strictly speaking, it was never ruled.
‘How will Reinhardt, an ally of Soviet, act in such a entrenched situation?’
There was no need to worry.
In Reinhardt, extreme nationalism was prevalent in the current imperial family and civil society.
Like Polania attacked Soviet.
Reinhardt also has enough justification to hit Polania.
“My God…… So, do we have to change the grand strategy itself to one that requires us to deal with the Reinhardt Empire as well?”
“Yes. Be sure to keep that in mind.”
Enoch Levandel answered without hesitation.
First of all, Reinhalt was almost a quasi-ally, so Reinhalt was thoroughly excluded from the scenarios presented by the War Planning Department.
So the head of the War Planning Department returned to the War Department with an expression of great realization.
The issue of ‘the Reinhalt Empire declaring war on the Republic of Polania’ has heated up the working-level staff of the War Ministry for some time.
Some said it was absurd, and some doubted the insights of the Director of the War Planning Department and Enoch Levandel.
As if ridiculing such people, a telegram from the Reinhalt Imperial Family arrived at the Uk ranian War Department through an unofficial line shortly thereafter.
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Dear King Orlando I.
We sincerely thank Reinhalt and Uk ran for their continued cooperation and development.
A non-aggression pact with Uk ran will be a long-term strategy between you and the Empire.
Of course, I deeply understand the concerns conveyed by your Foreign Minister, and Reinhalt promises to refrain from any hostilities against Uk ran.
I hope that the relationship between the two countries will be maintained with infinite trust and will no matter what happens.
However, I would like to first talk about the unfortunate runaway in the Republic of Polania that has recently been taking place in the eastern part.
I would like your immediate reply.
Emperor of the Reinhalt Empire
Franz Friedrich I.
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