World of Warcraft: Foreign Realm Domination

C103

Chapter 103

Xiao Yu stared at the 10,000 soldiers in front of him. He silently nodded in his heart when he realized that Captain Hui knew how to train soldiers. After all, as a commander, Captain Hui had participated in the battle for many years. However, they had an army now but did not have enough commanders.

“Master, we have a qualified army but we lack commanders. In the entire Lion territory, only the Xiao family is a noble family, so finding an officer for our troops is a big deal.” Captain Hui complained.

In this world one had to come from a noble background to become an officer or commander of an army. Civilians are not allowed to high-level posts. At most, a civilian could be a corporal and lead 10 men. Senior commanders must be of noble descent which is a thousand-year tradition.

In fact, such traditions were held until World War I in Germany and the United Kingdom. However, these prerequisites were taken after an urgent need for officers arose. Rommel was also not of noble descent. So if there was no urgent need then he would not be the commander.

This tradition is still maintained very hard in this world.

Xiao Yu looked at the soldiers. If he did not have a good commander then no matter how elite his soldiers were. By the time the Soviet Union invaded Finland, the casualties received numbered 400,000 while Finland had only 20,000 soldiers killed. The biggest reason was that Fins had a good commander.

"Should we set up a military academy?" Xiao Yu muttered.

"Military Academy?" Captain Hui was surprised. There was Knight's College and Magician College but there was no specialized institution to train military officers in this world.

Xiao Yu nodded: “Yes, it's a completely different idea from a Knight's College that trains strong knights. We need officers with good command of the troops. They may not have to be strong individually but they must have an intelligent mind and excellent commanding ability.”

Captain Hui frowned because this idea was beyond his comprehension. There has never been such an institution that trains military officers. Typically, at Knight's College students will be taught martial arts, knight codes as well as knowledge of the military aspects of war. It was an era of cold weapons so more attention was focused on the strength of individual knights rather than their command abilities on the battlefield.

Most of the time, a strong knight would lead an attack that would determine the situation on the battlefield.

The idea of an officer without power was not quite in keeping with the state of this world.

“That's no problem. There are no children of noble descent in our region so we will not be able to recruit.” Captain Hui said with embarrassment. Many people migrated to the Lion region but all of them were civilians.

The nobles were too arrogant to migrate to such a remote and remote region as Lion city.

Xiao Yu took a deep breath: "Just pick an army to train for a low-level post while I'll think of a way to find a senior officer."

Xiao Yu did not dare say that they should train civilians for senior positions because Captain Hui would immediately reject the proposal. Captain Hui also came from a knight family. As a noble, he also looked down on civilians. It would be very difficult for him to understand a situation where a civilian had the same power as him in the military hierarchy.

Xiao Yu also understood the matter. Nobles are always antagonistic to the normal population. As a result, they would not allow ordinary civilians to become nobles in one go.

Xiao Yu had told Captain Hui to divide 10,000 soldiers into groups of 10, 100, 1000 and 10,000 group systems. This way it would be easier to command them during a battle.

As a result, Captain Hui began to choose brave warriors based on their merit to lead 10 groups of men.

As a result, 100 men and 1000 groups of men had not yet been formed as no officers were leading them. Xiao Yu asked Suesha to help Captain Hui as she was also a warrior. Afterwards, Xiao Yu asked Captain Hui to research the nearby territory in search of capable generals they could swing for themselves.

Captain Hui said: “All regions and countries (principal) have good generals. Generally they are so loyal to their territory that it will not be easy to seize them.”.

Xiao Yu narrowed his eyes as he took a sip of wine: "That's possible as long as we swing strong enough ..."

Xiao Yu had him gather intelligence on the good general so that he would decide about the outcome.

“What is the most expensive thing in the 21st century? Talent!" Xiao Yu was planning on getting talented people by his side.

In fact, his problem was not only limited to the army but he longed for the talented people in Lion town for administrative work. Basically, Housekeeper Hong would be working day and night due to this matter. There was no suitable staff to help him. Xiao Yu had asked his second brother-in-law Suehan to help Housekeeper Hong with the management of the territory. He learns that his second brother-in-law is capable so he teaches him some content from lectures from the previous world. Housekeeper Hong did not protest because Suehan was part of the Xiao family.

Xiao Yu asked Qiyin's eldest brother-in-law to help with the family's finances and accounting. His help removed the pressure from the shoulders of Housekeeper Hong. In that case, Housekeeper Hong would simply check his report and help him correct his flaws.

Camilla and Siwen also came to ask Xiao Yu for work. He told them to help Qiyin with finances.

Xiao Yu saw that the administrative work of the region was also a big deal. He wondered if he made the list and recruited talent as he did in the Warring States period…

However, their territory was not an interesting place so he believed that no one would come to join them at this time. He had to solve the problem and find a capable general first.

At the same time, Xiao Yu sent spies to study the movements of the bandits and find out when they were preparing to attack.

After ten days, Captain Hui reported that there was a general in the Kingdom of Wei who was almost removed from power. Xiao Yu also knew the general's son who ate, drank, and gambled with Xiao Yu in the Wei kingdom. However, the general's son studied at Knight's college so he hung out with Xiao Yu when he returned to visit his relatives. It was then that Xiao Yu met the boy and they had a fight.

“Muhua Lee...We will catch him.” Xiao Yu smiled.

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