The Difference Is Like Between a Dog and a Cow

92 – Break and Shatter (1)

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The season of muggy, sticky, and unpleasant heat has passed.

In the meantime, the 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion has made quite remarkable changes.

One of the most representative of these is the change in the daily life clothes of the soldiers. It was red enough to be seen at a glance from a distance, which was distinctly different from the dull tan combat uniform.

Even a pair of eagle wings and an octagonal cap engraved on the chest.

With the words ‘AIR BORNE’ written in capital letters added to it, it is truly majestic as if it had just returned from hell.

Sergeant Rick Hanson felt his chest expand involuntarily when he saw his reflection in the mirror.

I heard that it was an idea devised by the unit commander to boost the morale of the personnel and suppress the spirit of the new recruits.

I was afraid that someone might not be a monster officer who took the position of unit commander after only a few months of commissioning, and he was indeed an extraordinary brain.

Who the hell can walk around with their shoulders hanging down in this outfit?

Eric, a classmate of the administration who always sticks out his neck like a turtle, now holds his neck stiffly and crawls with his quill.

The administrative man in red.

It was the first magic trick that made people look different by simply changing their clothes.

Perhaps newbies who meet them for the first time can’t even guess.

At the time when Rick Hanson was intoxicated with his majesty.

“Sergeant Rick? The company commander will assemble.”

“Oh, yes.”

At the call of the soldier under his command, Rick put on his red hat and walked out of the barracks at an angle.

When he came out in front of the barracks where the members of the 1st company lived, there were people in red clothes just like him.

These were the noncommissioned officers and soldiers who were in charge of airborne training and combat training for the first generation.

“We have all assembled, including Sergeant Rick Hanson.”

“Yes, we are the last. Other companies are already having fun rolling recruits in the training ground. Our comrades in charge are said to be arriving soon, so we should move soon.”

Lieutenant Nikolai Hilbert, Rick Hanson’s direct superior and commander of the 1st Company, said. He was dressed in black from head to toe, not a red suit like Rick’s.

If they are drill instructors, Lieutenant Nikolai Hilbert is drill instructor.

The sun-red outfit was definitely cool, but all black was all black.

The feeling of intimidation is no joke.

Anyway, since he was a company commander, he was a person he had seen face-to-face often, but now he felt like a completely different person, even his expression and posture.

“Everyone, take note. Our mission is to make them perfect members of the 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion. The moment those recruits fall helplessly out of battle, it will be our responsibility, okay?”

“Yes, I understand!!”

“Then the 1st company, go ahead!!”

At Nikolai’s command, the waves of red demons lined up in two lines began to flow slowly.

***

“No, what the hell is there in this poor village?”

“That’s a tavern…… That’s an inn…… That’s a restaurant…… That’s a card game room…… ?”

“What is it, everything is there?”

“But where is the troop barracks? I can’t see it.”

Stout Village, which is close to the barracks of the 8th Assault Magic Infantry Battalion.

In the place where a pile of wagons had passed, dozens of soldiers carrying frayed bags were turning their heads like meerkats.

I’m sure he applied for the Central Corps, no—to be precise, the Special Response Brigade, a unit directly under the King.

Why did I fall into this poor village where all I could see was a small village and rice fields?

When I asked the wagoner who transported them all the way here, they just shrugged their shoulders and put on a look of disapproval.

Nothing was known.

“Yaya, but the wife and children are pretty in their own way…. Is this tempting me? Uh?”

“Asshole, do you see that with a tempting look? Something…… You’re looking at me like you’re pitiful.”

“Did you feel that way too? It’s me.”

Aside from the fact that he landed in a rural area without any connection, the village was full of strange air currents.

The quick-witted soldiers felt that something was wrong…… It was already too late to turn back.

“Where are you from?”

“From the northwest. I came here because I heard that I could get a promotion.”

“James…… Staff sergeant? Were you a sergeant?”

“Yes. I haven’t gotten a sergeant ticket for three years. It doesn’t matter if you are comfortable. We’re going to live together anyway.”

“Wait a minute, what the hell is that?”

At someone’s cry, the heads of the people gathered all at once turned. Red Army soldiers marching among the footpaths of a village that stretches out on a single road.

It took only an instant for the roaring soldiers’ faces to harden like stones.

The Red Army advanced rapidly and surrounded the soldiers in a circle in the blink of an eye. At a rough glance, it’s probably about twenty people.

“What, what…… You guys!”

“From now on, all answers will be in Tanaka. Do you understand?”

“Huh? I don’t know what kind of sound…….”

The soldier, who had been babbling a little while ago, went up to the man in black at the front, widening his eyes.

And.

Kooung!

The head fell helplessly to the ground.

“Keah…… !!”

It wasn’t even magic. He was a soldier of his own size, but he tripped and spun around in the air before rolling on the ground.

Even that was not enough, as he lightly flicked his finger, the fallen soldier struggled to get up from the ground.

Advanced Yellow Magic, Ground Statue.

It was a magic that firmly fixes the area in contact with the ground. A soldier who was easily suppressed without any momentum that had been fearlessly attacking.

“It’s a mage.”

“Were you a soldier?”

“Hello, gentlemen. I am a fairy of hell training. The time limit is 24 hours. I wish you luck.”

“Run fast, you assholes!!!”

The shouts issued by the men in red at once rang in their eardrums, and in an instant, they panicked, threw their bags on the ground, and started running hurriedly into the village.

“You are out of line. An idiot who messes around without knowing who he is is going to need more severe training.”

Nikolai Hilbert said, looking at the soldier pinned to the ground. A demonic smile appeared on his face.

The soldier felt intuition that he had finally reached hell.

***

“Don’t you move quickly!!”

“Hey kids! My grandmother will run faster than that!!”

“Evil!! Sorry!!!”

The 2nd company is on its 10th lap of the parade ground.

“You are excluded! PT No. 8, 15 Times!”

“City, implementation!!”

“How many times?”

“Episode 15!!”

“Your voice is small. Again, PT #8, 20 times!”

“Do it!”

The 3rd company is laying down and conducting a fearful PT.

“Ah…… This is what is referred to as the ‘field cycle movement’. It’s the unit commander’s special sauce that will turn you into a fighting weapon.”

Meeting bullets, sprinting, bear walk, tire running, etc. Even the 1st company showing the bitter taste of all kinds of extraordinary physical training.

It didn’t take long for the barracks grounds, which had been quiet for weeks, to be filled with moans of pain and shouts of anguish.

The long-awaited first day of training.

As expected, it’s best to roll the self-discipline training as soon as you arrive.

I was looking down at the training ground in real time from a watchtower near the hangar.

“…… Is this right?”

“Sure, Rumia. Didn’t it feel a bit different when you ran the second lieutenant yourself?”

“Yeah, but… ….”

My adjutant Rumia, who was next to me, added in a worried voice.

Aka Enoch Levandel Special Course. It was a training course to turn young chicks who knew nothing into top-notch paratroopers who could glide through the high sky.

Anyway, I was commissioned at the age of twenty-four and served in the military until I was thirty-two.

It’s not that I haven’t been to a training center like this in the process, and it’s not that I haven’t experienced how such training is done.

Besides, the curriculum of the Ukrnian Training Center is dog sh*t.

No, it’s a basic ritual. Even if it’s something that still exists in modern times, what if you teach us how to shoot a gun?

Ukrnian military training has not yet deviated from the doctrine of the line infantry era.

Although it may not seem different now in other countries…… At least with the Empire set up as the primary enemy, these outdated doctrines had to be ground in every soldier’s head.

Suddenly, on the other side of the sea, things called machine guns will start appearing, but only then will they become more than just bio targets.

“Are you doing well?”

“Ah, glory to the motherland.”

When I gave a salute, Chief of Staff Joseph accepted lightly and added,

“The staff members are very upset. He said he wants to roll the kids too.”

“I’m sorry, but I can’t help it.”

“So I just told him to thank you for giving me the training uniform.”

Joseph chuckled. The staff he leads is a support unit. There is nothing more inefficient than having the personnel of a support unit train a combat unit.

If you twist it, you should have come to the combat unit, right?

In addition, I understand that the staff has been working overtime for several days to fix all kinds of systems, including the reporting system.

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In addition, if they ask you to provide training guidance, then from then on you will really have to report it to the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

Of course, there is no Ministry of Employment and Labor in this world. If you want to roll like crazy, you can roll, but why?

I am a unit commander, not a slave plantation owner somewhere.

“Anyway, since I cut it down tight to a two-month course, I expect it to be fully comfortable by the time the weather gets chilly in earnest.”

Joseph nodded at my words.

“I hope that the mission will not fall to the combat team within that.”

“That’s right. I wish it was after November…….”

Descent training is not enough once or twice. As soon as the battalion members had descended up to 6 times a day, they planned to drop troops every day after the basic physical strength had settled in.

“Because now I can descend even if I am not a mage.”

“Since the initial quantity test has been completed, all we have to do now is mass-produce it.”

“I can only hope that the Technology Research Department and the Weapons Department will take good care of it.”

“Wouldn’t it be nice? And now we have to make the new recruits realize why they are rolling.”

I rang the bell installed on the watchtower. As a loud metallic sound covers the entire training ground, the troops in the middle of training all turn their heads toward me.

I didn’t have a microphone or speaker yet, but I don’t need to talk about it.

An airship floating behind me takes off and a huge shadow covers the training ground.

Even though they were far away, I could see that the faces of the new recruits were all tinged with amazement.

“Rumia, signal.”

“Yes!”

At my command, let’s vigorously wave the flag Rumia has in her pocket.

The back door of the airship slowly opened, and the descent experts I personally selected jumped into the air without hesitation.

Look closely, kids.

Because these are the things you guys have to do in the future.