The Difference Is Like Between a Dog and a Cow

71 – Training Like Fighting, Fighting Like Training (3)

“Sorry—!!!”

“From now on, let’s jump from behind and run…” ….”

If I hadn’t managed to pull my face out and activate Featherfoot right before I hit the ground, I would have turned into real minced meat.

It was so close-knit that, despite momentarily slowing his fall with his featherfoot, he tumbled for several meters as he blended in with Bell Meyer.

Thanks to that, I sprained my ankle properly.

That was the reason Bell Meyer was massaging his ankles with his head completely on the ground.

Her recovery magic was also activated, so I could feel her muscles loosen up every time she hunched over her ankles. Seeing that the bruises that were slightly bruised are slowly disappearing, it must be effective.

“Are you okay, Captain Bell?”

“I’m fine.”

Fortunately, it does not appear to be seriously injured. It was worth sacrificing an ankle.

…… Is that right?

Anyway, everyone in the 1st Company carried out the first descent without incident, except for the company commander who was slightly injured.

From the beginning, it is a wind attribute that is very easy to handle, just like water attribute.

Basically, if you can ride the air current well, one mage can easily take about three adult men.

The platoon commander and deputy platoon leader of each platoon, as well as the company adjutant Rumia and the deputy officer Roxanna.

A total of 10 mages successfully cast their spells and successfully descended with 30 soldiers.

“Ugh…… !”

“Oh, sorry! Are you sick?”

“It’s okay. Well, being treated like this by a pretty person like Sergeant Bell is enough.”

“Commander, how many times have you beaten a woman? The vibe you can feel from the way you speak is very…….”

“I never did anything like that.”

I burst out laughing. First strong It was also a training that was carried out out of nowhere without a proper understanding of airlift or assault operations.

In fact, the courage of the other company members who jumped down calmly was excessively good.

“How about it, do you think it will be worth trying alone next time you are strong?”

“…… I think I still need to prepare a little more.”

“Because other companies have said that there are some people who have difficulty descending. I would like to talk to Chief of Staff Joseph and organize a special class.”

“Isn’t it just a hassle…… I want to.”

“If our battalion was in charge of the land assault, we could have skipped it there. Unfortunately, it was decided to be taken over by another unit.”

The overall outline of the operation I heard from Sonny Zeppelin and Josef Lewandowski was this.

The goal is the arsenal in the northwest of the Sobie Empire. It is a secret facility that few people know even in the Sobie Imperial Army because it is located in a remote place.

In other words, it was perfect for the soviet empire to plot something, and it was the best target for the Ukrnians as well.

Therefore, there are two routes of attack, and the 3rd Rapid Response Battalion under the Special Response Brigade infiltrates the land through the Balther 3 station, which has friendly relations with Ukraine.

In the meantime, our 8th Assault Magic Infantry Battalion boarded Sonny Zeppelin’s long-awaited invention, the prototype airship ‘Diabola’, and crossed the Kalpas Mountains to join the rapid response squadron and attack the unit. .

“Because it’s my first time in real life… ….”

Bell Meyer murmured with concern. It is unavoidable. It wasn’t just Bell Meyer who had no practical experience.

I patted Belle on the shoulder who was working hard to loosen up her muscles and gave her a word of encouragement.

“If you are Platoon Commander Bell, you will do well. I believe so.”

“Squadron commander… ….”

“And I will try to worry about that after learning the descent properly.”

For now, that’s first.

***

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“I am one! Can do both one!”

“I…… !!”

“Two!”

“You can…… !!”

“Are the most elite units, which will be put into assault operations for the first time in the Ukrnian army, the only thing they can say!? Didn’t most of you come here voluntarily!!”

“That’s right!!”

“If you understand, raise your voice louder!!! One!!”

“I love you!!!”

“Two!!”

“I can do it!!!”

The soldiers were rolling. And next to him is a noncommissioned officer. And beside him again, an officer is rolling.

Looking at the scene where everyone, regardless of rank and position, rolled around the parade ground, Sonny Zeppelin could not help but admire.

“How the hell did you get treated at the military academy, so that you could commit such harsh acts that are close to perfection?”

“That’s not cruelty, it’s systematic training, battalion commander.”

“All I can see is rolling. With that tone of voice and gestures, he is more suited to the position of an instructor than a commander!!”

The first descent training of the 8th Magic Assault Battalion produced remarkable results.

Out of a total of 160 people, only 15 of the 130 people who were put into actual combat operations suffered minor or moderate injuries.

Excluding 15 minor injuries, however, about 20 people did not readily participate in the training.

I predicted that it wouldn’t be easy to accept because it was the training content to fall from a huge balloon flying in the sky.

Still, it was not a good phenomenon that a considerable number of people who had worked hard to attract voluntarily refused training.

While contemplating what to do with the personnel in question, Enoch Levandel, the commander of the 1st company, came up with the idea of establishing a special descent training class.

Sonny Zeppelin readily approved the proposal.

And the result was this.

“Now, go up next! So that everyone can go up quickly!”

Enoch Levandel, who was rolling a bout of personnel, sent his troops up a small wooden tower on one side of the parade ground.

Is it about 10m high? A top that is incomparably crude. However, in its own way, it was a decent ‘architecture’ created by a former facility management officer named Captain Debra Bennett.

It was certain that the foundation was strong enough to be acknowledged by Sony Zeppelin, but the problem was that it looked like a building on the verge of collapsing right away from the perspective of those not versed in magic.

Enoch Levandel lined up the men in such a building and circled them slowly.

Then, the soldiers who had safely passed the descent training gathered in front of the tower as if they had something interesting to see.

“What is your name!!”

“Sergeant Tchaikovsky!”

“Sergeant Tchaikovsky, since he has a ring on his finger, do you think he has a girlfriend?”

“This is my fiancée!!!”

“Yoohoo~~! He said he was a fiancee~~!!”

Soldiers responding by cheering or whistling among themselves.

“Oh, yes? So what do you think your fiancée will think when she sees you so proud that you can’t even jump from her height?”

“You would think I was a coward!”

“Correct answer! With that kind of mindset, your dear fiancée might be being worked on by her fair-haired, dark-skinned country asshole! Aren’t you going to do it!?”

“No!!!”

“Then run!! On the count of three, descend while calling your fiancée by name! One, two, three!! Descent!!”

“aaah!!!! Lena, I love you!!!”

As the soldier flew towards the ground with her eyes closed, Sergeant Roxanna Elim, who was waiting under her, cast feather foot magic at the right time to land her safely on the ground.

It was the same with the people who followed. Lieutenant Enoch Levandel’s high voice resounds, and the person standing on the tower jumps down.

It was only after everyone jumped down, including Sergeant Bell Meyer, who was standing at the very end.

“Today’s descent training will end here. For those who are still afraid of jumping, so that we can gather here again tomorrow.”

Enoch Levandel ordered the disbanding of his forces.

As if they were completely fed up, the soldiers trudged back to their units. It was only natural for his teammates, who had been watching the training process with their own eyes, to come up and start laughing and teasing him.

“I love you Lena? What a sweet guy you are! Your nickname will be Sweetkowski from now on.”

“hehehehe, the entire battalion member knows all the names of his fiancée, right?”

“I saw him rolling around on the floor. It looked very comfortable.”

“f*ck, crazy bastards!? Guess I’ll never take it out again. Gangha, that wasn’t even a f***!”

Sonny Zeppelin seemed to know why Enoch Levandel adopted this unusual ‘training method’.

By disturbing his pride and making his appearance exposed to the entire battalion, he gave a strong motivation to descend.

If the person in question is an officer or a noncommissioned officer, it’s obvious that all the soldiers can run, but they’ll be teased for not being able to run.

In the case of the soldiers, it was obvious that they would be teased in a more vicious and bizarre way, as the differences between classes that had prevented them from getting involved would disappear.

There is no one in the world who likes being teased.

It certainly stimulated the will of individuals, and in the meantime, the results of strengthening the unity of the unit members were also derived.

“…… How did you come up with this training method?”

“Craving and rolling is the same as other training units, but I made the reason an arbitrary factor by giving the target an additional ‘shame’. That’s great.”

“I wonder if I brought you here as a commander…… Shall we stick it to the training unit?”

“You just need to systematize this way of training. After this operation is over, if the battalion members return safely, you can leave it to them to train successors.”

Joseph and Sonny envisioned the not-too-distant future.

A scene where the battalion members, who successfully completed the operation and returned, all laugh hahahahahoho and share jokes.

And the scene where the members of the battalion line up in a row to train the new chicks.

“Yes, we should make it that way.”

Sonny Zeppelin nodded slowly. In fact, it is the same unit as her children, selected by her herself.

Even risking the honor of being a great mage and an army colonel.

She had no intention of leaving a single member of the 8th assault magic infantry battalion behind.

***

Hell Lord.

It wasn’t as tough as I thought.

Considering how the training of the Ukrnian army has progressed, it might be a hell week for them.

For me, who had endured at least twice as vicious training as this, it was just a warm-up exercise.

Two weeks passed by like that.

The members of the 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion, including my 1st Company, lined up in front of the airship with all their equipment and determination.

The sun has long been hidden behind the darkness.

All you can see is the twinkling starlight. There, Colonel Sonny Zeppelin said with purple eyes.

Not the usual playful voice.

It was the voice of a Colonel in the Ukrnian Army, Brigadier General of the Special Response Brigade, and Battalion Commander of the world’s first assault battalion.

“Even though it was a tough training, they followed me well. And with today’s final training, the 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion will be completely transformed into a formal organization.”

Sonny Zeppelin slowly gazed at his men. All of her 160 or so men were looking straight at her.

“I once said that training should be like fighting, and fighting should be like training.”

“Yes, it is!”

“Today is the day. The final stage of training is the actual performance. As you guys have been notified beforehand, we are going into action today!”

Major Joseph, who was standing next to the battalion commander, took over.

“So that you can think of it as a simple warm-up. The objective of the operation is to completely subdue the group of bandits who have nested in the northern part of the Villatok Territory.”

The first real combat action before entering the Sobie Empire.

Get on the airship directly, drive to the target point, and descend to wipe out the enemies.

It’s a real battle worthy of the end of training.

“Then, let’s all return home safely! Just don’t die from thieves.”

“Yes, I understand!!”

“Everyone—board!!”

“Board!!!”

The roaring voices of the 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion rang through the night sky.