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69 – Training Like Fighting, Fighting Like Training (1)

I wondered if this was true even after witnessing it with my own eyes. I pinched the back of my hand to see if I was dreaming for a moment, but nothing changed.

“I was surprised too. When I think of something like that flying in the sky, I feel longing for it, but it’s also scary.”

Debra Bennett turned her head away and gave an expression of emotion.

“Why is that thing here? A new weapon for Ukraine?”

“It was a top-secret project with very few people in the military knowing about it. The only department in the Central Education Technology Research Office that hasn’t been replaced is the Weapons Research Department. But it turned out that he was making such an amazing thing.”

It was a story I had never heard before.

The first country to develop airships is the Reinhardt Empire, not the Principality of Ukraine. At the same time as the war began, Reinhalt’s airships covering the sky over the continent became a symbol of an overwhelming technological empire.

But why is there an airship here, which has not yet been properly developed in Reinhardt?

“Oh, 1st Company Captain! You are here!”

While my eyes are on the floating airship, Sonny Zeppelin rushes at me from the front.

“How is it?”

“It’s not about how you sleep…… Where else did that come from?”

“Ahahahaha, are you starting with that? After all, the lieutenant’s way of thinking is clearly different from the others, isn’t it? Come inside first. Everyone will like it.”

The colonel clapped his hands casually and sent the men inside. The special barracks arrived as if they were dragged in a daze.

It didn’t take long for the cheers of the soldiers to erupt in front of him. Under the airship, outdoor tables were covered with all kinds of delicious food.

“Training was hard! So that everyone can unpack and enjoy themselves to their heart’s content!!”

The soldiers, who had been subsisting on rabbit meat and kudzu for days, went blind as soon as they saw the steaming meat.

“…… Eat in peace as the battalion commander said.”

“Thank you! Sergeant Major! Battalion commander!!”

In the blink of an eye, the members of the company who were disarmed began to literally absorb the food.

“Slow down, slow down! Sometimes I look at the airship floating above me. I buy all the food anyway!”

Of course, it wasn’t just for our company. The personnel of the 2nd and 3rd companies who arrived later opened their mouths wide in surprise.

It was only a matter of seconds before the hundred starving troops began to scavenge for food. In the meantime, the executives, including me, had no choice but to suck their fingers.

“Rumia, your belly button clock is particularly quiet today.”

“Ugh…… ! Lieutenant Commander too! Don’t make fun of me!”

“Rumia is in trouble. Doesn’t the lieutenant seem stuck there?”

“Be, Sergeant Bell, stop it too!”

The platoon leader Erwin Ruth licked his lips while watching the scene where the wild party was taking place.

“That, company commander? Are we not going to eat…… ?”

“Shall we do that? Please wait a bit.”

I looked at the colonel, who had arrived at the last battalion headquarters and was trying to figure out the number of people, while answering Erwin, who was in constant pain.

As she said, having figured out the number of soldiers and officers, she pointed to a large tent on one side and said.

“Shall we let the soldiers eat and let our officers gather in that tent for a while?”

Going inside the tent, a meal as luxurious as an outdoor table was prepared.

“Come on, let each company sit down!”

The center of the table stretched out in the shape of a ‘U’ belonged to the Chief of Staff and Sonny Zeppelin. One seat was empty, but I couldn’t tell who it was for.

Let’s take a seat like that, including all noncommissioned officers and officers.

“Let’s all raise the glasses in front of us!”

Exclaimed Sonny Zeppelin, raising his glass of wine aloft.

“Thank you for the successful completion of the first training of the 8th Magic Assault Battalion! Cheers!!”

“Cheers!!!”

Only a few hours ago, the exhausted faces of the people stretched wide open, and the sound of clinking glasses can be heard from everywhere.

I also lightly clinked glasses with Claude and Rumia, who were sitting next to me, and poured the wine into my mouth.

As soon as a glass of alcohol went in, I felt a rush of heat in my body.

After that, it was the start of a party that was as good as the soldiers.

Erwin Ruth was dismantling a large chicken leg as if he had been waiting for this moment. The platoon commander, Hilton Kalia, who was in low pressure throughout the descent, also turned his head around and put his food in front of his plate.

Even Roxanne, who was said to be in the news, was eating meat that she wouldn’t normally put in her mouth.

It reminded me of how arduous the snow mountain training was. Although it wasn’t that difficult for me, who had already experienced the snow mountain hell wine.

‘It’s a pity that I did some exercise with my boss beforehand. If it wasn’t for that, it would have spread long ago.’

It could be seen as the fruit of painstaking efforts for half a year. It was because he had even attached lean muscles to his body, which was nothing more than a two-headed anchovy.

“Doesn’t the company commander eat?”

“You have to eat. You may eat first, Rumia.”

Yeah, isn’t Mt. Geumgang also considered an after-dinner view?

There were a lot of things I wanted to ask of Sonny Zeppelin, and the sudden appearance of Debra Bennett was absurd.

First of all, it wouldn’t be bad to fill your stomach first.

***

“Oh, I ate well.”

“I will. I ate mindlessly…….”

“Did your boss eat well?”

“Well, that’s not bad.”

I looked at my plump stomach. Once I started eating, the food went in without a break.

“Well then, it looks like I ate most of it. Shall we start talking?”

“First, we will report the damage.”

Major Joseph pulls out an evaluation sheet from Sony Zeppelin’s arms as soon as he can call attention to it. The appearance of the chief of staff talking in detail about the evaluations he had recorded for 72 hours was the same as the chief of staff.

“1St Company, no casualties. 10 Rating points. 1St. 2Nd company, 3 light wounds, 2nd convoy. Rating 7 points. 2Nd place. 3Rd company, 5 light wounds. Evaluation score 6 points. Third place.”

“Kek, kuk, kuk, kuk! Coke!”

At the performance that was mercilessly exposed, the commander of the 2nd company, Lieutenant Nikolai Hilbert, let out a harsh cough. It seemed that Sarai had even heard it.

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The adjutant sitting next to him patted him on the back urgently, and Sonny Zeppelin added with a grin.

“Although the 1st company was overwhelmingly good, the other two companies are not bad either. You know?”

“Yes, I know.”

The commander of the 3rd company, Lieutenant Luna Aire, seemed to agree in her own way, but her expression of resentment was no different.

‘Unlike how he looks, he has a competitive spirit.’

In fact, I met and talked with other company commanders a few times before training.

Lieutenant Nikolai and Lieutenant Luna.

Both of them don’t have bad personalities, so I didn’t have a big problem getting to know them, but their abilities as officers are definitely not bad.

Because it was rather a positive reaction to feel such resentment.

“Thus, for the rest of the training schedule, the company organization will continue from the 1st to the 3rd company without any change.”

“Anyway, let’s make it meaningful that no one was seriously injured even though it was the first training!”

“Yes!!”

As the colonel said, it was quite a remarkable achievement compared to dropping troops without any connections into a snowy mountain.

If I had no training experience in the snowy mountains, or if the platoon commanders under my command had not been properly trained, maybe one or two would have been injured.

“By the way, when you say that you have the rest of your training schedule, do you mean that training in the snowy mountains wasn’t everything?”

At the words of Sonny Zeppelin, a platoon commander of the 2nd Company raised his hand and asked. The colonel grinned as if he had been waiting for that question.

“Correct answer. Before we get to the point, here’s the problem. Does anyone know what’s out there?”

It was quiet inside the barracks. I thought about raising her hand, but decided to watch her reaction first.

It will be at least two years later when the airship will begin to be publicly disclosed in earnest. If you say you know that from now on, there is a high risk of useless aggro.

But Sonny Zeppelin’s gaze was always on me.

“Commander of the 1st company.”

“Lieutenant, Enoch Levandell!”

“You don’t even know the 1st company commander?”

I asked back with a tone that seemed like it was something I should know of course.

Well, how are you supposed to react here?

I thought about it for a while, but had no choice but to continue talking.

“I don’t know either. However, looking at the shape, I guessed that it was a vehicle that was filled with air inside and flew into the air using the power of that air.”

“Ohh, that’s an almost correct answer.”

At that time, a middle-aged man came into the barracks and said.

Wearing a suit, not a military uniform. His faded gray hair, neatly combed upwards, exuded the air of a businessman.

So I could easily recognize his face.

The forerunner of the Reinhardt Imperial Air Force, and one of the most powerful heroes available at the beginning of the Great War.

Count Petrinand Ludwig.

Later, his credit was recognized, and instead of the title of count, he was given the rank of ‘Lieutenant General’.

“That’s right. That’s a new concept vehicle that I developed called ‘flying boat’. The officer over here gave me the exact principle.”

Count Petrinant said that and politely took off his hat and greeted me. When I responded with a light bow, he continued his explanation.

“A rebar is used as a base and air is filled inside a place called an air sac… ….”

I knew everything about the principles of airships anyway. Because I was living in the era of sending rockets to Mars, not airships.

But that’s why I couldn’t understand it all the more.

For what reason did Count Petrinant of the Reinhardt Empire come here?

He was not yet a soldier of the Reinhardt Empire, but soon he would be the first commander of the Empire’s air force, starting with a new weapon called an airship.

And the Reinhalt Imperial Army must be an ‘enemy’ that invades Ukraine almost immediately upon the outbreak of war.

No matter how much time is left until the war of 5 years, I can’t understand why Count Petrinand is here in Ukraine.

“So you’re saying that the Count himself developed the weapons outside?”

And the question was naturally resolved through the question of Lieutenant Nikolai Hilbert, the commander of the 2nd company.

“Yes, I did the principle and design itself…… The idea for the application came from Colonel Sonny Zeppelin here.”

“Application means…… ?”

Count Petrinant looked back at Sonny Zeppelin and nodded his head.

I took out a small crystal ball from my chest and held it up.

“A plan to weaponize airships by incorporating special magic into them.”

Aha.

So, Sonny Zeppelin, this man…… You’re also involved in the weaponization of airships, right?

I thought as I watched her shrug her shoulders excitedly.

‘Where is this mad master not involved…… ?’