From hundreds of years ago, the great reputation of the furry bear aunts started on the battlefield.
The human camp calls it the Third Holy Pattern Crusade, and the Principality calls it the First Great Patriotic War. During the period, the main force of the Princess led by Grand Duke Alexeyev suffered heavy losses in Kaliningrad, and the legion was like a flood.
Fleeing to the east, followed by the human army. At that time, Fang Jing
There are almost no defensive facilities or organized troops in the open area between the city of St. Petersburg and the front line. The other troops on the front line are fighting hard with the troops of the human camp, and there is no time for them to care. In such a large principality, there is only one final line of defense.
Erkov Fortress and the city walls.
Everyone thought that the wreath of victory had fallen on the heads of mankind. The kings of mankind began to make a fuss about the entrance ceremony and the victory parade. The Pope was choosing the white horse to ride when entering the city, and the generals and knights were toasting.
Shouting "The principality has no available troops", it was widely rumored among the soldiers that they would go home to celebrate the New Year. The nobles of the principality were packing their bedding, and the carriages fleeing the capital blocked the city gate.
At this moment, the greatest commander in the history of the Republic, General Kutuzov, who was still guarding the warehouse in Kharkov Fortress at that time, organized the 300 aunts still in the city and issued the most important order in his life.
The famous order - "I am not ordering you to attack, I am ordering you to die! Although the principality is vast, we have no way to retreat. Behind us is St. Petersburg!"
I don’t know if it was a stimulating effect, or the mentality of the desperate soldiers, or the strange force at the fire scene. In short, the aunts who were inspired to fight showed their extraordinary strength and faced 5,000 human vanguards with less than 300 people.
At the critical moment, the troops actually repelled 11 charges from the opponent and subsequent reinforcements! The principality, which had no troops, stampeded on the coalition forces, buying time for the rear to mobilize forces to counterattack, and laid the foundation for the victory of the subsequent Kharkov counterattack.
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Since then, the aunts who rolled logs and ran rampant on the battlefield have become the biggest nightmare for the human coalition. They have left their mark in many battles such as the Battle of Odessa, the Battle of Sevanborg, and the Battle of Buda-Pest.
The aunts are so brave
In his war memoirs, the famous military strategist Belisarius left the words "The greatest combat power of the Principality is the aunt". There is still a tribute to "The Principality's final decisive weapon" in the capital of St. Petersburg to this day.
A large number of sculptures.
How do you rely on a naked young man like Parsifal to deal with the bear tribe's aunt? Just one aunt's breath could blow the poor baby away, and there are at least 2 or 30 people in front of you who may go berserk at any time.
Humanoid weapons...
5 seconds at most. This guy is finished - this is the unanimous opinion of the furry bear soldiers.
Bearing the sympathetic gaze on his back, Parsifal took a deep breath, put a smile on his face, and reached into his coat...
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"You really succeeded in the end."
He blew out a smoke ring and looked at the team that started to move forward again. Murat turned his face and sighed.
"Honestly, I didn't expect it to go so smoothly."
Parsifal rubbed his shoulders and answered with a wry smile.
When he saw this child-like human being handing over a pack of cigarettes, he was a little worried that something had been done inside, but after the first aunt tried the pleasure of puffing on the cigarettes. After there was no abnormality, Parsifal handed the cigarettes to the aunts one by one.
They smoked, and then his fluent principal Mandarin and pleasing verbal attack quickly made the aunts relax. After chatting for a long time, the two sides entered into negotiations relatively easily.
The aunts' request is very simple. Leave some supplies behind, and they will remove the roadblock immediately. If they give more, they can also provide guides to allow the transport team to catch up with the wasted time.
Parsifal had no objection to this. His mission was only to transport supplies. The order clearly stated, "You can fight back when in danger, but it is strictly forbidden to put the goods and transportation team in danger." There is such an order in
, coupled with the "special materials to clear the way" prepared in advance, resolving this conflict is not a piece of cake.
Although both parties had the intention to solve the problem and avoid conflict, it took 5 hours to finally reach a settlement agreement. The reason was that Parsifal believed that if he just gave the villagers supplies, they would probably think that the company and the army were nothing more than that, and would continue to set up
Card put forward a higher asking price for the next batch of transportation teams, and finally
The military and companies that can't bear it will eventually use force to completely solve the problem. Instead of letting the problem worsen and hold themselves accountable in the future, it is better to define the relationship as an employment relationship now, rather than unilateral take-and-give. Through each other
Mutual benefit and ensuring smooth transportation channels.
The idea was well-intentioned and quite creative, and the villagers were happy to be hired. However, the negotiations still lasted for a long time, mainly because they were entangled in the issues of commission and exemption from culpability. The former issue was easy to solve, but not
Parsifal, who rarely engaged in purchasing business, finally quoted a quotation of 10 poods of sugar, 5 poods of tea, 10 poods of salt, plus a certain amount of butter, canned luncheon meat, canned beef, milk, and flour per quarter, in exchange for transportation by v.e.
Every time the team passes by here
If the villagers are willing to provide a place for the transportation team to rest and store supplies, the commission can be increased further. There is a gap between this price and the villagers' quotation, but considering that the entire principality is currently in a quasi-wartime system, Sugar,
Salt, tea, wine, etc. are all among the controlled products. Parsifal's quotation is a bit low, but it is enough to support the survival needs of the whole village. Moreover, the conditions for deepening the cooperation and further increasing the commission are also very attractive. In the end,
The villagers accepted Parsifal's suggestion.
The latter issue is more difficult. In any case, it is an indisputable fact that the villagers set up a blockade to intercept the army supplies. In order to deal with Centurion Babayev and his men, after half a day of bargaining, they had to use 6 boxes of vodka and a box of vodka.
Cognac as hush money...
After doing these things, trouble arose again when drawing up the contract. Whether it was the villagers or the soldiers, they were all illiterate people who could not even write their own names... This even included the centurion Babayev, the centurion.
He said very calmly about this: Reading maps, reading and writing are the special skills of Lord Centurion. Even nobles have many who cannot read or write, and they are proud of it...
As a high-achieving university student from a place like Alfheim with a universal compulsory education system, a complete education system, and a junior high school literacy rate of 98%, Parsifal could not understand the principality's pitiful 12% literacy rate.
In the end, a literate tavern owner from more than ten kilometers away was called to act as a notary before the contract was signed.
"Although you made your own decisions and acted arbitrarily without military orders, Lieutenant, you performed quite well. When an ordinary rookie sees that posture, his legs will weaken. How can he jump out and negotiate with others on his own?"
"Don't make fun of me, I still can't straighten my waist."
"I'm serious."
Murat pinched off his cigarette butt and said in a tone that saw everything:
"Not only did he complete the negotiations, he also did intelligence gathering work. I have never seen any Lieutenant Xin Ding who can do this."
"...Want to take a look, Captain?"
Parsifal handed over the notebook, and after the other party shook his head, he continued to spread it out and use shorthand notation to complete his work.
The caravans affiliated with the company have been doing various espionage jobs part-time, and this tradition has been partly inherited by the Logistics Department. Every time personnel are dispatched to perform transportation tasks in foreign countries, the assigned employees are always asked to conduct address surveying, road surveying, and mapping.
Tasks such as market research. The collected intelligence is selected and checked and compiled into the staff manual of the Logistics Department to facilitate future military operations and the formulation of various supply plans.
This was not an unusual occurrence, but Parsifal went further than his colleagues.
"...There are five material storage warehouses around the Brest Fortress. The flour and rusks in the fortress can be used for 279 days, rice can be used for 209 days, and canned meat can only be used for 10 days. The quilts stored in the warehouses
The quantity is sufficient, but the quality is extremely poor. Spare
The horses' equipment was pitiful. Horseshoes, lubricants, and Cossack lances were either not in stock or were left in the armory without anyone taking care of them. The company's logistics personnel had never inspected them. It's entirely conceivable that the equipment was in such a state -
—They are all covered with rust..."
The current situation of the company is shocking, but these things should only be known to relevant people. Why did Parsifal, a new arrival, know about it? The answer is very simple. Someone who knows the inside story told him.
At the end of the negotiation, lunch time had been missed. In order to further draw closer to each other, Parsifal proposed to have lunch together. When the villagers and soldiers, who lived on sweet potatoes and bread crusts every day, found that the dining table was piled with biscuits and soju.
, red wine, sausages, canned beef, canned luncheon meat and even caviar
When eating this kind of high-end food that only gentlemen can eat, their eyes glowed green. In front of the rich food, the atmosphere became harmonious and warm. After drinking a few bottles of Volga, their tongues were no longer in control, and they secretly
After throwing away the wine, Parsifal took the opportunity to get a lot of important information from the furry bears who knew everything.
Strictly speaking, the villagers who set up a blockade to intercept were not locals, but military relatives who came with their husbands and sons, also known as new immigrants. Most of the soldiers stationed at the Brest Fortress came from rural areas along the Ural Mountains, most of them
They were hard-working and fearless, and allowed them to take their families and guard the border. In addition to their combat effectiveness, they also had plans to enrich the border population and develop the border area.
The idea was good, but when it came to actual implementation, all the good ideas were completely ruined by the principal's unique bureaucracy and procrastination.
Arrears of wages, corruption, reselling of materials, high tax rates, robbery by officers and soldiers, land annexation... almost all the factors that can cause the government to force people to rebel can be found in the border areas. What surprised Parsifal the most was that he came from a certain logistics department.
Xiaobing’s family members learned that the company’s logistics department distributed supplies to residents.
Of course, it is carried out through the so-called "auction"! Each branch of the army quotes its own price for bribing logistics, and through bidding, the one with the highest bid gets the supplies. Then the big part of the bribe is taken away by the boss, and the remaining small part is taken away.
The middle layer is completely divided, and you can’t even drink the dregs of the shrimps below...
To be able to persist in fighting with such crazy logistical support, in every sense, both the principality and the principality itself are worthy of the title of fighting nation. (To be continued...)