The Goddess Made A Mistake Again

Chapter 367: Chapter 367 – Plan for the Bandit Attack

Seman’s tent was at the heart of the camp where it was most guarded.

It wasn’t a small tent; it was at the middle with its bright white color and some blue lines at the edges. There was the Religias sign on the tent.

The Religias sign was a large proud eagle with dark blue color with its two eyes being white. Every soldier and items belonging to the Religias family had its blue emblem drawn to them.

The tent had it’s on the door.

Going inside the tent, I saw someone that I didn’t think of for a long time.

“Nance?”

Nance with his Religias white hair and already prepared battle armor looked at me, shocked as well, “Henry? What are you doing here?”

“I want to ask the same thing.”

“I am a member of the Religias household and an able man, so it’s my duty to fight for my family.” Nance said while placing his right hand on his chest.

“Oh, didn’t think of that,” I say, “Well, I’m here to help out too and get some firsthand experience.”

Nance nodded as he understood the situation.

I didn’t think of seeing this guy here.

I almost forgot that this guy existed. In my case, he didn’t have much screen time. I was almost kinda sure, he was either erased for his low popularity or killed off-screen somewhere.

Yet my first Religias man was right here to begin with… pun intended.

Nance explained why he wasn’t in the city. He was one of the few people tasked with finding this camp and solidifying it for the house. He also had other jobs too but we didn’t have time to mention it as Seman and the captains came in.

“Henry, you’re already here and it seems you’ve met Nance.” Seman said, “Let me introduce him.”

“No need, Seman.” Nance raised his hand, “We’ve already met.”

“When did that happen?”

“It was that time when I first met your daughter.” I said.

“Margaret? Were you with her at that time Nance?” Seman asked.

I shook my head, “It was Samantha, your grace.”

“Samantha, but when-” Seman suddenly stopped as his face lost all color, “I understand.” And gave a sharp look to Nance.

Nance avoided it, knowing that Seman had trusted him to stop Samantha that day, but he didn’t. And now, they were in this weird situation.

“Okay, let’s get the meeting started.” Seman said going over and standing at the middle end of the table, “And Henry, Nance is my second-in-command. If you need any help, you can ask him.”

I nod.

“Alright, let’s start.”

Before starting the conversation, let’s go over how the army actually works.

First of all, the Rank went this way –

General – Complete control of the Army

Lieutenant General – The Corps ( 2 – 5 Divisions )

Major General – The Divisions ( 3 Brigades ) ( 10000 – 18000 Soldiers )

Colonel – Brigades ( 3 or more Battalions ) ( 3000 – 5000 Soldiers )

Lieutenant Colonel – Battalions ( 3-5 Companies ) ( 500 – 900 Soldiers )

Captain – Companies ( 3 – 4 Platoons ) ( 100 – 200 Soldiers )

Lieutenant – Platoons ( 3 – 4 Squads ) ( 16 – 40 Soldiers )

Staff Sergeant – Squads ( 4 – 10 Soldiers )

This first were the big three. The General had complete power over the whole army. Lieutenant General was to look over the corps and the Major General looked over the Divisions.

Then came the Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels, Captains and the others. If you check it over with a glance, it was a bit too much and easy number at the same time and it was also similar to the rank I knew from my old world.

Not let’s get down to the current moment, the rank above was the whole army’s position but since the army isn’t that big, the hierarchy stopped at Captain.

Seman named himself Commander instead of General or Lieutenant Colonel since he would be commandeering the whole army and because he also didn’t want to confuse others with the rank.

Surely, Commander felt more good to the tongue then Lieutenant Colonel… that seemed a bit secondary.

Okay, let’s get back to the planning now.

“So to start the meeting,” Seman placed a piece of paper on the table. It was the same map as before that he showed at the city, “Let’s first talk about the locations.”

The Captains leaned into take a better look.

“Through many efforts, we were able to learn that the Bandits have a total of sixteen bases. And most of this bases are close to our position so it’ll be faster for us to attack.” The Captains nodded.

“The problematic thing is that when we start attacking, it would be inevitable to stop its flow of information and alert the other bases, so our first strike has to be quick and decisive, after that we need to think carefully before attacking again.” Seman looked around to see if anyone had something to say then continued.

“So sixteen bases, from the information each camp seems to have around 50 to 100 or even more bastards and the good thing is they aren’t expecting an attack from us, so they’ll be in for a surprise.”

Nance and the captains smiled sharply at that.

“Get ready for your orders.” Seman’s words brought everyone to attention.

“Gosco”

“Sir!” Gosco stood straight.

“You’ll be attacking the closest one to us.” He pointed north-west, left to the camp on the map, “Here, prepare your company for it.”

Captain Gosco nodded, “I’ll prepare them.”

Seman nodded and then gave the same orders to Klein, Marko, Brock and Calvin. Each one was to go to their designated camps and destroy it as quickly as possible, but with the soldier’s lives in mind.

The only one left was Captain Vein, who asked, “What about me?”

“You and your men will remain close to the camps but you won’t engage any.” Seman said, “You’ll stay around the attacking camps vicinity and if any of the Captains needs assistance, you would provide them, understand!”

“Yes, sir.” Captain Vein nodded.

“Well then Gentlemen…” Seman looked around at his men with grave seriousness, “We have the surprise on them but it wouldn’t be wise to keep them waiting. If we wait too long, then someone might get hold of us here and alert them.”

“So after this meeting ends, I want all of you to go, have your breakfast and then start preparing, alright.”

Everyone nodded.

“Okay, gentlemen, you can all go and gather your wits now. We’ll be giving the bandits a fair welcome in return for their actions.”

“Yes, SIR!” They saluted with a loud end and turned around to leave.

“Calvin”

Captain Calvin stayed back, “Yes, Commander.”

“I have another mission for you.”

“Oh” Calvin’s eyes shines in excitement, “Is it a secret or important mission?”

“W- Well, it definitely is an important mission.” Seman smiled and coughed, “Henry will be joining your camp and I hope that you would guide him along the way.”

Calvin’s happy face slowly disintegrated as he realized he was being asked to babysit, during the time of war.

He couldn’t blatantly refuse as Henry stood next to Seman or voice out complains too. He slowly turned to me and awkwardly gave a wide smile, “It’ll be nice to work with you.”

I understood his predicament and smiled further. My voice carrying a mechanical sarcasm.

“Same here.”