Chapter 11: The Fall of Dreams
I still haven't slept late at night, I've gotten up at dawn, I'm not studying but practicing, I've no time to write letters, I've no time to talk about it, and even taking a walk after dinner is full of schoolwork problems...... After coming to the Delafig Senior Staff College for more than a month, Weiss lived an ascetic-like life, and he went all out, probably only missing his head and thorns, but the potential of ordinary people is limited. Among a group of outstanding young officers who are one in a thousand, he has no advantage in terms of innate understanding or acquired ability, and he can still compete for the middle and upper reaches when he starts together. Even so, this penance has considerable potential gains. It is important to know that graduates of the Bathton Military Academy must go through a 4-12 month officer probationary period before they can become full-fledged officers, while graduates of the Delefig Senior Staff Academy are able to serve as regimental chief of staff or equivalent mid-level positions upon graduation. The same is to enter the corps staff, the former's status is usually a probationary staff officer, and the latter can serve as the commander of the training room, surveying and mapping room, quartermaster room and other departments, and the difference in treatment is immediate.
In peacetime, the students value the overall ranking most and the second is the connection, but in the current stage of the war, people seem to be in the midst of stormy seas, and the condition of the ship is closely related to the fate of everyone, and no one can devote himself to his studies without distraction. After the outbreak of the war, the Delafig Senior Staff College suspended the recruitment of regular cadet classes with a duration of 18 months and beckoned once every six months, and used the freed up teaching resources to hold a short-term wartime training course of 4 to 6 weeks. These people generally rank above the rank of major, and it is not uncommon to have generals on their shoulders. As far as regular cadets are concerned, being able to get to know and make friends with these qualified and capable middle and senior officers in the academy will undoubtedly provide them with corresponding convenience for their future path. Therefore, whenever the academy arranged for them to play the role of opponents in actual combat drills or war games for the wartime short training course, they always tried to show their talents, which posed many problems to the instructors who arranged the training.
Some people get what they want, some people have failed in their hopes, and some people have no intention of planting willows. In a wargame deduction, Weiss made two strange moves in a row, and made accurate and detailed inferences about the situation of the deduced battle, which attracted the attention of several chiefs of staff. When they learned that the young man had been a different character during his time at the Baseton Military Academy, and had participated in the Frontier Campaign with the Baseton Student Corps and had received high praise, they threw an olive branch to him with the intention of recruiting him under their command.
Weiss tried his best to come to the Delafig Senior Staff Academy, not to make himself a knight, but to stand in a higher position, to make his special abilities more useful, and to help the Free Federation of Ulster defend its precious spirit of freedom. Although he failed to enter the aviation profession as he wished, it is not necessarily a bad thing to stay in the army unit, after all, the "human radar" is easy to use on the battlefield. Weiss neither agreed nor refused the sincere invitations of the officers, but kept in touch with them, often asking them for advice on the experience and methods of leading troops to fight. The more he came into contact and the more he learned, Weiss benefited a lot, and the officers also gained a different way of thinking from him.
The time of penance flies by, and the days on the battlefield are much more difficult. The Western Front did not collapse as quickly as some feared, and the Union forces relied on the five strongholds of the Monamolin Mountains to resist the attacks of the Norman Empire and its allies. At the fortress of Belakase, the 1st Defense Division and the 6th and 10th Defense Divisions, which later joined the war group, assisted the fortress defenders to resist the repeated onslaughts of the Norman-Basel coalition, and the 1st Federal Fleet, which lost half of its combat strength in the border battle, thwarted the offensive of the Norman Eastern Fleet one after another with clever tactical deployment, and maintained a delicate balance of power in the air battle under the condition of relative disadvantage......
Through the internal information of the Federation Army and the information transmitted by his new classmates, Weiss closely followed the war on the Western Front and the situation of the 1st Defense Division. In order to better study the situation on the Western Front, he carefully consulted the military materials about the five major fortresses, including geography, topography, design schemes, transformation processes, and so on. Of these fortresses, Bellakaser is neither the newest nor the largest, nor the most treacherous. In the event of an enemy attack of equal strength, it is likely to be the first of the five fortresses to fall. During the last major battle, the fortress of Belakaser was razed to the ground by the artillery fire of the Norman fleet. After the end of the war, the federal side redeployed the western border defense line, and the new Belakaser fortress took four years to build, and for more than ten years, it was hardly strengthened except for the adjustment of weapons configuration, and the Belakaser fortress division stationed here has always been weaker than the standard combat division.
The strength of the weak brigade is undoubtedly a bright spot on the battlefield. Deliberately promoted by the authorities, the defense of the fortress of Belakaser became the fodder for the iron will of the federal army and the results of military change. General Van Loe, who was over 60 years old, and the 1st National Defense Division under his command also received a large amount of coverage, and this vigorous and energetic unit was given the glorious title of "Young Iron Army," and a large number of officers and men were honored and commended for their combat exploits.
The defense of the Union army on the front line of the Monamolin Mountains withstood the invasion of the stormy waves, and the country was slightly relieved, but the northern front was in serious trouble. After more than a month of rest and replenishment, the Norman army entrenched in Wessex suddenly became powerful, they concentrated thousands of artillery and more than 1,000 armored fighting vehicles on the frontal battlefield, and launched four large-scale attacks on the Marogos-Sersilo line of the coalition army in one day, even though the wreckage was everywhere and the blood flowed without flinching, and finally broke through the coalition defense line at dusk. Under the cover of night, the brave and skilled Norman Royal 1st Marine Division once again parachuted in the rear of the Union Army, and together with the main force, it flanked the front and rear, once again concocting the collapse of the Union Army. After this battle, the northern battle group that the Union army had painstakingly reorganized and trained ceased to exist, and the defenders were in various strongholds south of the Marlogos-Celsillo Line, and in the face of the flood of Norman troops, many garrison divisions and reserve divisions collapsed at the touch of a button, resulting in the 7th and 8th garrisons full of scattered and defeated remnants. In less than five days, the Union Army lost 33 combat divisions, 21 garrison divisions, and 17 reserve divisions in the northern theater, and the loss of troops reached an extremely staggering number.
This defeat made the entire federation tremble!
This defeat made the whole federation weep for it!
The President of the Federation personally inspected the front line, the members of the Supreme Military Council personally visited the front line to supervise the front, the Chief of the General Staff personally went to the front line to dispatch, and a large number of fresh troops marched from the hinterland of the Federation to the northern front. The vegetated federal state of Chatel fell to the Norman army, who set up a line along the Witzbas River in the federal state of Yakmalen, but the new line was broken by the Norman army after only two days. The General Staff ordered the retreating troops to assemble at the capital of the state, Hayman, in an attempt to slow down the Norman attack with a defensive battle of the city, but before many of the troops reached their intended positions, the Norman armored forces had already made a detour to the city of, launched an attack in an unconventional tactical way, and the defenders barely resisted for a while and hurriedly abandoned the city.
Further south is the federal canton of Arsa and the federal state of Pablomber, which are in the middle of the federation, which have developed transportation and concentrated resources, and where nearly half of the federation's electricity output, one-third of the metallurgical and foundry industry, and a large number of light industries are located. In the last war, the Norman army only occupied the western part of the Alsa federal state, but did not occupy all of it, let alone set foot in the federal state of Pablomber. This time, the Normans held back the most elite troops of the Union Army on the Eastern Front, and invaded the heart of the Union from the Northern Front, and the situation of the war was completely different from before.
The western front is particularly solid, but the northern line gateway is open, and the hinterland is no longer in danger to defend.
The crisis is unprecedented, the crisis is unprecedented. The Ulster Free Federation had to mobilize all its forces into this war, which could not afford to lose and could not lose, and men of military age between the ages of 17 and 49 were all called up in non-critical positions in government personnel, workers in industrial and mining enterprises, craftsmen and other industries, volunteers between the ages of 15 and 17 and 49 and 54 were also allowed to join the army, and young women were also mobilized to replace men in factories to work, and less labor-intensive jobs have been basically achieved feminization.
Tens of thousands of civilians without any military training have taken up arms, and the military elites of military academies and academies are no exception. The General Staff ordered that the study time of all short-term rotation courses be halved, and that regular cadet classes should be suspended in order to join combat units as graduates.
It's a way to quench your thirst, and it's a move that you have no choice.
Just over two months after entering the Delafig Senior Staff Academy, Weiss received a dispatch letter from him, and the General Staff sent him to the newly formed 11th Defense Division as a divisional combat staff officer.
The situation was such that Weiss packed his bags without saying a word and quickly embarked on the journey to report to the troops.
The 11th Defence Division is currently undergoing combat training at the Hoffentis military base.
Weiss's last stay at the Khoventys military base was just over two months ago, and when he came back here, it was a different story.
The members of the Baston Student Corps who survived the brutal border battles have long since gone to the front line, bravely killing the enemy, either with honor or generosity, but here he is still facing a group of ignorant recruits.
Dreams fall here, but the pace of reality never stops. Whether it will be good or bad, whether it will be a curse or a blessing, no one can predict.