The Sended's
Chapter 6: Back to School?
Actually I've been thinking a long time about this war, everything that happened was like the world in the first world war. His weapon, the party involved, even his battlefield was also similar to the first world war
One of the most similar was the battle in the West against Francia
A few years ago when the new war began, Germanica made a move according to a plan that had been made some time before. They attacked Francia through a neutral country between Germanica and Francia
This neutral country has been recognized by Britain, Francia, and several other countries in the world. The Germanica movement made Britain, who had initially refused to enter the war, now forced to join
The Germanica campaign was a success, they managed to occupy the neutral country in ten days. They continued the movement as planned, approaching the capital of Francia
It took only a few dozen more kilos until Germanica won the war on the Western front, but things soon turned around
Instead of minimizing casualties by retreating, Francia told her troops to hold out at any cost. The invasion of Germanica turned into a series of very large battles
In the battle, Germanica made the mistake of reducing the troops at one point to be sent to another. Of course this was used by Francia and Britain to surround them from behind
Afraid of an absolute defeat, Germanica retreated from the line. Region after region returned to Francia, to stem the enemy's attack, Germanica's forces made trenches in the line of battle
This is a natural thing to do as a defending party to stem the opponent's attack
What is not natural is Francia to make a trench in front of the Germanica trench, what is the system for the trench? Francia is the attacking side at the moment, they should keep moving to repel Germanica's forces
The longer the trench continues to extend until now, about 70KM have been built ranging from the British sea to neutral countries in the South
The war that had been running normally now encountered a state of affairs on both sides
Stalemate is a term in the game of chess just like checkmate. Checkmate is a situation where the player is dead step, then Stalemate is a situation where the player has only one choice of step which step will send him directly to death
This situation is the same as the state, the troops are not allowed to withdraw from their trenches. The orders they received were simply to go forward attacking
Meanwhile on my flag ship,
"Captain Archena von Kageneck" said an old man who was sitting behind a table smoking a cigarette and looking at a note on the table
"Yes, sir!"
The man was none other than the admiral who commanded my fleet, and this fleet was none other than the one that fought with the previous British fleet
"It looks like they're overstating your abilities, it says here if you destroy a Battleship with just 2 bullets from one tower"
"That's right sir,"
"What is it? My assertion that they're wrong, or their statement?"
Then he smokes his cigarette again and blows it into the room
Shit, I don't like this smell....
"For years the destroyer has been the key to our naval victory, and you sank it easily,"
When he said that, I don't know why my anger was soaring. Given all the crew that died including Nimtz and the previous captain
"Easy? Easy huh? Do you think fighting two Battleships with a destroyer is easy too?" I'd love to say that
He stopped smoking and focused on me
"But sir, we managed to sink a Battleship and inflict massive damage on one another, even if the air force doesn't come we can still drown it, too" I said
Even if there was no air force, the casualties we suffered would have been more because the Brits' movements would have not slowed down
"But if it seems that my mistakes are inexcusable, I am willing to resign and end my military career,"
As widely as I had intended to resign at that time, I had even taken off the captain's hat and placed it on the admiral's desk. But the admiral stopped me,
"Replace your hat, Captain Archen, we'll soon need a destroyer and a captain who can destroy two Battleships,"
H-huh? j-so it was a test?, meaning I got through it?
"Captain Archena von Kageneck! It's an order from the center, go back to the harbor, there's a new type of destroyer. With that maybe you will destroy the entire fleet not just two ships" he said, ending with a smile
I came out of the command tower on that big flag ship, outside there were dozens of my crew members lined up
"Captain Archen, we ask for permission to continue fighting by your side,"
They lined up neatly along my exit, I approached them one by one. I stared at them as I continued to move towards the last line
Then my steps stopped in front of the janitor leader, I looked at him but he did not dare to look back at me
"Izin was given," I said as I shunned the janitor leader
They all looked happy, but I also realized that we lost almost half of the crew. I have to do the recruitment like the previous captain did...... Where is it possible!! I was also against that before, right?
I'm going to a naval military school in Linze city, it's a big port city. I was there accompanied by one of the officers in a horse-drawn carriage
We left at night so there was not much I could see during the trip, I also ordered the crew to stay in the harbor while waiting for me
We arrived when it was morning, I was asleep when it was awakened by my guard that we had arrived. We immediately got down and tidied up our clothes
It was only then that I realized that my hat was left in the horse carriage
"Ware...."
But the train had gone far away, I could not reach it when I ran
I sighed and yawned for a moment before entering the school grounds
"Captain how is this? Without your hat, they wouldn't understand you're the captain"
It was still very early in the morning, the students had not yet started their learning activities
When we were in front of the school entrance, we were greeted by a teacher. He let us into the living room which was quite large
As I thought, they were talking to my guard not me. They really thought that I was just an ordinary soldier who was invited to help the needs of my officers, nothing more
"Sir, what ship are you operating? So we can choose students who are good at it,"
"That's a destroyer class,"
"Well, soon we will prepare a class filled by students of the destroyer class"
They totally ignored me...
In addition, the school is large enough to accommodate about 500 students per year. They have about 50 classes further divided into about 10 classes per type of ship
Therefore, we had to attend those 10 classes one by one. At first I thought it would take all day, but they told me that they would gather the best students from the destroyer class for us
Finally the entrance bell was rung, the students immediately entered their respective classes and left the hallway empty. We left the living room at this time
We headed to the classroom where the best students had been prepared, along with our teachers, through the empty hallway. This hallway is full of decorations smelling navy military along with famous names in the navy
After walking for a while, we arrived at that special class. It's been a long time since I felt this kind of class.
We entered the classroom together, in front of me were some teachers accompanying me. Actually I entered at the very end because it was considered the most useless, while my guard entered right behind the teacher of the destroyer class
"Good morning sir!!" the class greeted him simultaneously
After I counted, the number of disciples was not up to 40. We need at least 50 more crew to operate a new type of destroyer
"Including this is Officer Albert, he came here at the behest of his captain to recruit a number of disciples into his ship"
Shit, I'm the captain
While thinking, my guard came forward and looked at the rest of the class. He then went back to the front of the class and spoke,
"Alright, we're going to have a test to measure the temperature" he said
"No need", cut me
Of course everyone was shocked, my guard was shocked at my statement, while others were surprised at my unwillingness to cut my boss's words.
"Sir?", asked my guard
"No need, we take everything. Even we'll recruit some from other classes"
"Umm, sorry but who are you sir?", asked one of the teachers
"I'm the captain of Archena von Kageneck, I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself before" I wasn't asked either
The whole room was shocked at this saying, just because of the hat I left then the problem got like this....
"I'm sorry we're captain, we don't know,"
"Not a problem, but I'd like to check all classes as an extra crew,"
"Well, but how much do you need?"
"With this class, we need 10 more,"
10 Classes, I took one from each class so as not to bother. It was at this time that I met Lieutenant Victoriya who was still a student at that time
The last class before I returned was an ordinary class like any other, only that there was someone who was too proud of him and his family name
"Alright, we'll start the writing,"
"Hmph, no need to do that. I as the successor of the Reinhard family will advance as the representative of this class,"
I-i mean....
"Gil von Reinhard, that's my name"
A bold attitude, quite impressive. But I won't accept it
"Anu? The officer?", a long brown-haired woman with blue eyes suddenly wanted to ask
"Yes, please,"
"Eto, why doesn't the captain speak?"
Hm? What don't-don't?
"What do you mean Victoriya? the captain didn't come here," mocked the friend in front of him
"Hmm? Whatchu mean? From there he said nothing", he replied
Good, I'll take him
"Victoriya!"
"Yes!!", he seemed to be terrified
With this, my crew is already 100 people complete
The British Sea, here I come!!
