𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟗𝟎: 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐖𝐚𝐫 (5)
Winchester Principality.
“Long time no see, brother.”
“How did you get here?”
“Haha, I asked the Headmaster to let me out.”
“Hm. . . . . . . no doubt you didn’t get a bell.”
“Don’t worry, I’m not. By the way, the trucks seem to be finished?”
“Thanks to that, weapons production and transportation have become faster. We’re also setting up a new production line for regular car factories, so regular cars will soon be available on the market.”
“More importantly, are the Principality’s soldiers armed?”
“Of course. We’ve armed all the existing soldiers of the former Hundred Nations so far, and we’ve set up a new production line to arm an additional 20,000 soldiers as we become a Principality. Thanks to this, there are many new jobs and the country is becoming more lively.”
“Once we’re fully armed, we’ll have to provide weapons to our in-laws.”
“Don’t worry, we’re already providing them with small amounts.”
“In about a month, the Kingdom of Holland might be able to join the war.”
Even without that, the Kingdom of Holland was already increasing tensions by deploying its troops to its borders. The Principality of Winchester had also switched all of its 50,000 troops to a standing army without any standby and deployed them to the border.
“Now, please guide me to the car factory.”
“Are you thinking of making a flashy car?”
“No, I’m going to make a weapon.”
“Making weapons in a car factory? What kind of nonsense is that?”
“Brother, what if you put thick armor on a car and made it able to fire a cannon?”
“Armor on a car. . . . . . .”
“Think of it as sturdy armor that can’t be easily penetrated by bullets or magic!”
“You’re crazy.”
“Don’t you think it would make it possible to break through trenches faster and make it easier to fight in urban warfare?”
The tanks Oswald was thinking of were the German Nazi Tiger VI and Maus VIII tanks from World War II. It would be possible to make modern tanks, but the technology was not yet up to par, so even with the blueprints, it would not be possible to make tanks and armored vehicles with the same performance.
‘𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴, 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵.’
After that, Oswald gathered carsmiths and gunsmiths and began to implement the Tiger and Maus, disassembling them and drawing up blueprints.
After spending almost five days drawing up the blueprints, Oswald left the rest to the craftsmen and decided to return to the academy.
“How is the oil exploration going?”
“We’ve found a few places in the Dragon Mountains and have sent a drilling team there. We’ll probably be able to extract oil as soon as the drilling equipment is installed.”
“We need to secure the oil fields before cars become more widespread. You know that, right?”
“Don’t worry.”
The best way would be to take over the Southern Desert. . . . . . . but the tribes there were so strong that even the Empire had given up on unifying it. To be precise, it was not that they did not have the power to unify it, but rather that there was no gain in acquiring the region, so they had left it alone.
However, now that the oil age had arrived, it was clear that this oil-rich desert would no longer be left alone.
After finishing all his business in the Principality of Winchester, Oswald bid farewell to his brother, sister-in-law, and mother and returned to the academy.
Upon arriving at the academy, he saw Alicia walking alone in the garden in the distance and called out to her.
“Hey!”
“Oswald?”
“Yeah, it’s me.”
“Really Oswald?”
“Uh, it’s me.”
“Really?”
“Of course it’s me!”
“Really?”
“Why don’t you believe me? Did that golem act so well that he seemed like me?”
“Phew. . . . . . . I missed you.”
Alicia sighed deeply and hugged Oswald. At that moment, Oswald’s mischievous side came out. . . . . . .
“I’m sorry. Actually, I’m not Oswald-nim. . . . . . .”
Pow!
“Don’t play around, you’ll kill me.”
“Haha. . . . . . . By the way, have you been doing well?”
“Uh, so-so? Except that the academy training has gotten a bit harder lately. . . . . . .”
“It’s gotten harder. . . . . . .”
Apparently, the Ministry of Defense, realizing that even second-year students might have to be deployed to the battlefield, had slightly changed the education curriculum in order to raise the level of the second-year students in a short period of time.
‘𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 5,000 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘒𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦. . . . . . .’
Currently, all of the imperial knight orders, including the White Dragon, Black Dragon, Gold Dragon, Silver Dragon, Red Dragon, and Blue Dragon, had been mobilized, and Hecaton was also cooperating against the Glory Knife in battle. Nevertheless, officers and cadres were being assassinated on all fronts.
Although the rebel army was able to supply some officers and cadres from its own academy, . . . the number of people they could supply was relatively small. Because the Allied Forces started out as professional soldiers, they didn’t have any openings unless they were killed in action or quit, so the number of students they accepted in their own academy wasn’t that large.
As a result, the central government had been sending officers and cadres from the center, but now that officers and cadres were dying in the Western Military District, it was becoming difficult to do so.
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