Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

Halfway through the conscription mobilization meeting, Pierce, who was summoned by the city lord, hurried to the city lord's mansion.

"Sir, I'm here."

Harvey nodded, raised his chin and signaled his old subordinates to sit casually, "I heard... the group of military activists you developed in public colleges are almost time to graduate."

Pierce was stunned for a moment, and then recalled that Harvey had asked him to send some middle and lower-level officers of the Northern Army to the public academies in the territory to preach his glorious battle to the students, in order to inspire a new generation in the territory. The enthusiasm of young people to join the army, as well as their sense of belonging and honor to their territory and homeland.

And those passionate stories of heroic battles are indeed very popular with young students. Pierce always hears the officers who go to preach at the daily meetings of the military headquarters and asks them to graduate early and join the army.

"Sir, although these students have no problem with their backgrounds, most of them are half-aged children who have just grown up. Even if they recruit into the army in an extraordinary way... I am worried that they can't bear the hardships they have made at the grassroots level with their own pride of higher education."

Besides, the military headquarters' training plan for a somewhat perverted recruits is likely to not be able to persevere. With the expansion of the Northern Army's entire line, the elimination rate of 50% of the recruits' inspection period in the three-month period is enough. It says everything.

Everyone wants high salaries and benefits for professional soldiers, hoping that they can also crush all hostile forces with powerful magic weapons, and finally climb up to the high platform to receive personal commendations from the city lord, and enjoy the praise of the people like tsunami.

But reality ruthlessly gives these young people who meet the conditions for enlistment to the army a basin of cold water. If you want to get these preferential treatments that are far beyond ordinary people, you have to pay far beyond ordinary people's price and effort.

Harvey was not anxious to refute Pierce's view and laughed softly: "Do you remember that a long time ago, the police chief Yurio, who briefly joined the North Army and was appointed as political guidance by me?"

I came to me today, why did I just search for some old accounts?

Pierce was full of doubt, but still remembered honestly, "I remember you asked Superintendent Yurio to teach the soldiers... the way of the knight."

This is also something that Pierce doesn't understand very much. To say that the first batch of veterans of the Northern Army trained from him, everyone is brave and good at fighting, absolutely loyal to the lord, with strict discipline and upright style... Compared to those who shouted Loyalty and glory, the nobles who are actually full of interests and struggle for power, are probably more like real knights.

Harvey naturally saw the complaint in Pierce's stomach at a glance, and shook his head with a wry smile.

"I want to use these highly educated student soldiers as the basis, and then select some suitable candidates from the middle and lower-level officers with rich combat command experience in the North Army to form a general staff of the army."

Staff?

Pierce was puzzled, "Sir, aren't you already the two chief consultants, Asdarren and Mr. Duncan, who are very knowledgeable and intelligent? What can those students do? The rude lower-level officers under my command...Most of them... People barely pass the literacy test.”

Harvey laughed and said, "I'm not asking them to be my consultant, but for you!"

Pierce stood up from the sofa with a pale face and knelt on one knee, "Sir, are you...are you not satisfied with me? Please...please allow me..."

"What are you thinking about?" Harvey covered his face, "The establishment of a general staff in the army is to assist in your command and management work, not to be dissatisfied with you who wants to replace you."

He had no choice but to get up and pulled the old subordinate up, pressed him to sit back on the sofa.

"The territory army in the entire Spark City has barely exceeded 10,000 people, right?"

"Yes... Including the more than 3,000 recruits who were still in the training period of the recruits, there are indeed nearly 10,000." Pierce has always been very familiar with the size of the army and the data of the source of the army. Closed his eyes can give Harvey an accurate picture. to single digit data.

"In the latest battle against Fengyuan City, you as the commander-in-chief still needs to go on the battlefield in person, and if our base camp leaves you, I don't feel at ease to hand over the additional military mission to others..."

Pierce, the commander-in-chief of the army, must visit the front line in most military operations. It is really a bit useless and has no clones.

Harvey patted his shoulder and asked straightforwardly: "Who else in the Northern Army can bear the command of the command besides you?"

Pierce finally understood Harvey's real intention, and after breathing a sigh of relief, his expression was still a little solemn.

"Apart from me... Vaughan is too cautious and stupid and unrestrained."

Harvey nodded in agreement, "Not bad."

Pierce paused, "Wayne, he is too radical in character, and he always likes to take risks..." From his identity as a civilian officer, he dared to say that he wanted to cross Harvey in front of two high-level spellcasters. The order can be seen by directly assassinating Duke Ralph.

The army must not be controlled by an adventurous commander.

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

The remaining veterans and officers of the Northern Army, including Duff, Tommy, each had their own obvious shortcomings. They were either pure and brainless or smart but had no long-term vision.

Once these people leave Harvey and Pierce, if they are asked to independently shoulder an important combat mission, I am afraid that most of them will only give Harvey a desperate answer - combat plan: push forward all the way.

At this time, the importance of an independent staff department in the army is reflected.

The student soldiers who have received higher education and have served in the grassroots of the army as political instructors have naturally gotten rid of the shortcomings of talking about war on paper and become qualified staff officers. At the same time, they are also led by veteran non-commissioned officers of the Northern Army who have come from the grassroots. In the formulation and coordination of combat tasks, collective wisdom provides decision-making suggestions and references for the main combat officers, which is definitely better than the commander-in-chief's arbitrary decision-making, or Harvey, the city lord sitting far away in the base camp, making orders on the spur of the moment.

As for the division of functions of the general staff, Harvey also intends to copy what he knew in his previous life - set up a combat command department, a conscription mobilization department, and a logistics coordination and management department respectively. Under the three departments with clear functional divisions, there are also multiple sub-departments such as combat, intelligence, military training, conscription, armaments, and logistics.

It is almost a perfect solution to the current problem of lack of military command talents.

Harvey's eloquent speech on the importance of the General Staff stunned Pierce, who was unable to respond for a long time.

When he finally stopped to drink some water to moisten his throat, he heard Pierce swallowing hard and said dryly: "Sir... According to the scale of the General Staff you envisioned, the number of reserve student soldiers we have developed in school is not enough."