Chapter 124
On 20 March, Field Marshal Mukenberga held an operational meeting on the flagship "Wilhelmina" without the share of the little Colonel Fafnier, and the fleet of Vice Admiral Greenehlshouen, to which he belonged, also convened a meeting of the commanders of the fleet's detachments and the captains of the companies of the Marine Corps after the return of His Excellency the old vice admiral.
In the Fleet Command meeting before the start of the war, Reinhardt was isolated. He has become accustomed to isolation. Isolation full of hostility and prejudice has been experienced countless times in my eighteen years of life. Regardless of the change of seasons and the shift of places, isolation is a spicy smell added to Reinhardt's life.
However, in the fleet of Greenershouen, the isolation of Reinhardt can be said to be a very wonderful flavor. It's like the impression of a warm late spring night, with no one to accompany you and drink alone.
"It is true that the absolute number of artillery is insufficient, but, your Excellency, this can be compensated for by mobility. Deploy the gunboat at this pivot point, and move it after ten hours......"
"Uh-huh, good opinion. β
With his grandfather's expression of acknowledging his grandson, Vice Admiral Greenmels nodded his head, but did not take Reinhardt's words, and the commanders of the colonel's squadron on the other side basically had a serious look, but only two guys did not look serious and serious at all, Colonel Favenier and Major Schutkehajan's staff were whispering, and at the same time they kept letting out all kinds of low lewd laughs. Lieutenant General Grimmels is an old man, and he is also lenient with his subordinates on weekdays, especially these two school officers - the reason seems to be that everyone rumors in private are because these two people are as absurd as the lieutenant general and the emperor when he was young, but in addition to corrupting military discipline and violating various small regulations, these two guys are worthy of the name of "noble", which is actually absurd, and they have not committed any mistakes that must be punished with strict military discipline.
But Reinhardt was completely unaccustomed to the two officers, and the young blonde lion looked at them with a look like maggots in the dung pit, but tried to control them and whispered.
"Huh, the blond-haired furry kid seems to think we're two maggots, that kind of look, does he really think we can't see it?" said Faveniel quietly to his bespectacled scumbag friend.
"That's because you are indeed a maggot, Your Excellency, what do you say you can do but have sex?" replied to Major Shotekhawjan, who was not at all afraid of Colonel Fafnier's cannibalistic eyes, which had known each other for more than ten years, and would be afraid of such a look as a joke.
"Gustav von SchΓΌtkehaugie, you're going to die in your stinky mouth! I'm going to shoot your black gun next time! Well, the blonde hairy kid seems to be doing his best, but why bother? Wouldn't it be nice to be in peace until the end of the battle. Why bother to come out like this, do that? β
The veteran general, having approved Brigadier Mugel's proposal, still published his own "sophisticated" tactical plan. Colonel Fafnier and Major Schutkhowjan applauded loudly immediately after the proposal, desperately slapping the tactics of the veteran. So much so that Reinhardt looked sideways at the two scumbags.
After the old general left, the blonde boy complained to his red-haired friend, ignoring the fact that Colonel Favenier and Major Hutkehowjan were still lingering and not leaving the conference room: "Gilfias, the current Imperial army is playing a quartet of imbecile, incompetent, ignorant, and decadent. The reason why it was possible not to incur a major defeat was only because the enemy and our army were of the same level. If anyone on the enemy side could have one-tenth of my brain cells, the fortress of Iserlohn would have fallen into the hands of the enemy a long time ago! Moreover, the sycophants and immoral people over there should have been used to rectify military discipline a long time ago, so that the morale and discipline of our army could definitely be raised to a higher level!"
Dropping the recital on the table with one hand, Reinhardt said.
"Ah, really, if only I were a marshal, if I were the commander of the Space Fleet, there would never be such a stupid thing again. β
"Wouldn't you have the narrow-mindedness to dismiss the advice of a competent subordinate? β
Reinhardt lifted his face smoothly so that the luxurious gold bangs were facing the ceiling, creating a shiny cascade. Gilfias's words neutralized his anger.
"Gilfias!"
"Yes, Lord Reinhardt. β
"I hate being preached. β
"I'm very sorry. β
"Huh, I apologize for what's wrong, Gilfias. You are admonishing me, not preaching to me. β
After speaking in a mischievous tone, Reinhardt's fair and beautiful face flashed with regret, and he revised his own statement in a more serious tone.
"I'm kidding, Gilfias. β
"I understand, please don't care. β
"Your Excellency, are you talking about us when you say 'sycophants and immorality' earlier? I see that you and Captain Gilfias are on good terms, and have you taken precautions?" said Major Schutkehaujan, after watching the conversation between Reinhardt and Gilfias.
"Hey, don't be so sharp, Gustavus, do you want to be a marshal, or commander of the Imperial Space Fleet...... It's a good thing for young people to have goals...... Gustav, let's not hit them. We're just two maggots...... Isn't it? Faveniel also added in a weird way.
The blonde lion's white, handsome face was suddenly flushed with anger, and he was about to explode when he stepped forward. And the red-haired friend stepped forward first and grabbed Reinhardt, who was about to erupt, and said, "Colonel Fafnier! Major Huttkehajan! Are you going to slander your superiors?"
"Ah, no. Fafnier pulled Schutekhao and left the room with a smile.
"The Imperial nobles are such moths and scum, they must be swept away!" Reinhardt, who had calmed down, said firmly to his red-haired friend, "These two are the most unbounded scum even among the indecent Imperial nobles!"
For Gilfias, Reinhardt's and Anne Roger's reputations preceded his own existence, and when Reinhardt wanted to defend his reputation, Gilfias had no reason to stop it. However, when Reinhardt was agitated and breathed fire, and the lava would be harmful to Reinhardt himself, the handling of such a situation was always a very important and necessary task for Gilfias.
The young blonde lion was directly subordinate to the old general, and the troops under his command were only forty cruisers, one or three hundred destroyers, twenty-five gunboats, and ten missile ships. At this moment, Reinhardt does not have the ability to suppress Fafnir, but he is only one level higher than Fafnir in military rank, but with that age, it has to be considered a huge threat, so there are too many people who are not used to Reinhardt.
"Attack!"
Reinhardt sealed the words deep inside his beautiful lips. Two hours had passed since the start of the battle, and he had not yet received permission to join the battle. The ice-blue arrow of vision pierced the screen of the bridge, and in order to suppress the high-pitched battle intent, he could only hold his hands tightly.
The commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army, Field Marshal Mick Belga, seems to have put the fleet of Grimmels Hajan outside the battle force and fought against the Confederates. Reinhardt saw this. And what made him even more unhappy was that if he were in Mick Belga's situation, he would do the same thing - his own thoughts.
The Greeneel Hughand fleet was located on the leftmost flank of the Empire. In the face of the convex formation of the Allied forces, the Imperial Army adopted a concave formation, and because the battle line rarely changed, only the ships in the right front exchanged artillery fire with the enemy, so that eighty percent of the whole fleet turned into guerrillas.
"Why don't you concentrate artillery fire on that spot!"
Reinhardt was on the verge of gritting his teeth. Combining the visual information obtained from the screen and the stereoscopic coordinate display screen, Reinhardt was able to grasp and analyze the overall situation of the battle situation as accurately as possible. According to Reinhardt's judgment, if the whole team advances six light seconds (about 1.8 million kilometers), rotates in the direction of 2 o'clock, and concentrates artillery fire, it can deal a heavy blow to the enemy's right flank.
"The little one must be growling, isn't he?" Fafnier asked his chief of staff friend standing behind.
"Who do you mean? Reinhardt? Age aside, the proposals made at the meeting were indeed reasonable and valid. It's just that...... It's a little too sharp. β
"Oh, then you still have the intention of provoking this golden retriever? Aren't you afraid that he will be promoted to major general, lieutenant general, or even general in the future, and shoot you as a scumbag?"
"It's just that I can't help it for a while, besides, sir, aren't you also capable, you may not be much slower than him. β
"They have a good sister...... I don't, do I use you to sell my ass?"
The two guys were talking in a non-nutritious conversation while giving orders to exchange artillery fire with the Allies - yes, they were the detachments that were engaged in artillery fire with the enemy on the right front.
"Lord Reinhardt. Pay attention to the right flank of our fleet exchanging fire with the enemy. Their movement and fire. Gilfias reminded Reinhardt.
"Indeed, the damage was minor. And the movement of the fleet is completely decent, and it is not at all possible to find a single superfluous behavior, and it is not possible to see many flaws. Who's the commander over there?"
"It's Colonel Fafnier's fleet that annoyed the adults before. β
"Really...... Although it is a collection of scum, but the command ability is on the average line, by the way, Gilfias, could they have a very good staff officer acting in command?"
"I don't know, I'll check their fleet officer list. β
Reinhardt waved his hand and said no more.
At 5:30 a.m., the sluggish fleet of Grimmelshoujan, still maintaining its usual sluggishness, began to advance from the position it had been placed.
"The Greenmels fleet moved. β
The seventy-six-year-old admiral, because his surname was too long, so even friendly soldiers were called by abbreviated names from time to time, which also showed that the old man was not taken seriously by the military department, and Marshal Mick Belga, who received the report of the operator of the general headquarters, did not accuse the operator of rudeness. For he himself despised the old man more than anyone else. He looked at the screen and the stereoscopic picture screen interchangeably, with a look of no kindness.
"The old man was too slow to react. It's useless to move now, it's just a waste of energy. β
Field Marshal Mick Belga couldn't help but be stunned. Reinhardt's point of view is not to be mentioned, and in terms of objective evaluation, Mick Berga is not so incompetent. He had never failed fatally, and since he assumed the position of Commander of the Space Fleet, the Imperial Army's circle of power had not wavered.
Mick Belga just smacked his tongue, while Reinhardt blushed his otherwise fair face and bit his pale red lips in order to hold back the gnashing of his teeth. His small battle group, blocked by friendly forces, moved briskly, and a group of assault landing ships that specifically showed "sluggishness" blocked Reinhardt's front. Why is there a strong attack landing ship in such a position? The lack of unity in the speed of action of the fleet as a whole and the confusion in command and operation show that Greenel not only lacks tactical ability, but also lacks the ability to conceive of a battle at all.
"However, the commander of the Panzergrenadiers, First Class General Ofresha, also participated in this battle, probably because he judged that the probability of fighting on the ground was high, so it would be so!"
Gilfias asked Reinhardt to keep an eye out. The name he spoke of was a man of two meters tall and commensurate three-dimensional muscles.
"Huh, Ofresha?"
Reinhardt rudely called out the names of people who were four estates higher than himself. If it weren't for the sound-blocking force field surrounding the commanding seat, his voice would have been heard by more than a dozen of his subordinates. Obresha's bravery was known even to the Confederates, who jealously called him the "minced meat maker". Reinhardt's assessment of him is not far from that.
"Gilfias, if you fight that minced meat maker, you're going to win, right?"
"Not very confident. β
Gilfias smiled. As far as Reinhardt knew, this red-haired friend also had a strength rare in the world in terms of hand-to-hand combat skills, and he did not become a loser in one-on-one combat. Reinhardt is the same on this point, but it's still a cut away to Gilfias, Reinhardt himself thinks. The red-haired friend's answer seemed to disappoint Reinha, who closed her hard lips and turned her gaze to the screen.
The war was in a stalemate, and Reinhardt was forced to stay in the middle of the sluggish fleet and advance slowly, with no one to cooperate. The young lion's anger grew louder and louder, and at the end of the day, he had to turn into a slumped shoulder and a sigh.
Fafnir did his job well, attacking less and defending well. "Schutekhajan, anyway, taking down one more rebel ship won't give us one more Reichmark. So, let's be lazy. β
The Fafnier fleet was much larger than the average colonel's fleet, due to the fact that the Imperial War Department regarded the fleet as a recycling depot for waste and scum. Since the commander is a scumbag, wouldn't it be nice to throw all the thorns and scum who have a noble status and are difficult to deal with? With this idea, the military department constantly threw problem personnel into this unit, thus creating a force that could almost be compared with the independent brigadier detachment. Favenir and the others have no interest in enforcing military discipline beyond general military discipline, making it very common for the army to conduct that would be prohibited under Imperial military law - for example, their fleet's barracks are surrounded by brothels and casinos that are prohibited by Imperial military law. Fortunately, Fafnir and his subordinates are very strict about improving the combat capability of the army, so that this army can still show the combat effectiveness of a normal imperial army on the battlefield.