Dispatching Troops
The General Staff of the Two Rivers Territory has been unusually busy these past few days. In the orders that Victor sent back Gale, many of the tasks required the General Staff's deep involvement.
With heavy eye bags, the interim head of the General Staff, Saruman, urged other officers to get things done as soon as possible, while also compiling a list of supplies needed for troop deployment and submitting it to the Military and Political Joint Conference.
According to Victor's plan, when he is away from the territory, the territory needs to carry out large-scale military operations, and a temporary Military and Political Joint Conference needs to be established. The conference members include officers of the deputy regimental Regimental Commander level and above in the territory and the heads of the main departments of the territory's administrative system.
Three members from the territory's Government Affairs Department and four from the military system, appointed by Victor, served as members of the conference's presidium. Victor would adjust the list of chairpersons every year, but this was the first time that the Two Rivers Territory had used this working mechanism.
Proposals are put forward by all members of the meeting and submitted to the presidium for review and approval. All proposals must receive more than half of the votes of the presidium to pass.
Each time the Presidium passed a resolution, meeting minutes were taken and kept for Victor to review upon his return to the territory. The General Staff would send someone to attend the Presidium meetings.
Therefore, the General Staff has been extremely busy these past two days. Saruman has not slept for two days and two nights. The work of deploying troops is complicated and requires coordination with many departments. In particular, the military system in the territory has been separated from logistics, and the work to be done is extremely heavy.
At this point, Saruman admired Victor even more. Before the General Staff, the lord could coordinate all aspects of the territory on his own, and every time he sent out troops, he did so decisively.
Saruman had always thought this was related to Lord Victor's identity, but now that he had taken over the work himself, he realized the complexities involved.
Therefore, Saruman admired Victor even more, and could only sigh in his heart that the lord was a genius who could do anything.
Saruman was an officer personally trained by Victor. Before Victor officially became the heir to the territory, when he was still training the army under the Golden Sunflower Territory, he was Victor's subordinate and participated in the Civil War together. Fortunately, he survived the war unharmed and without illness.
Later, he accompanied Victor to the Northlands to expand the territory as a guard. He was even demoted by Victor to the army as a Company Commander. Later, due to health reasons, he was no longer suitable to be a military commander and was transferred out of the combat unit by Victor.
Victor originally planned to assign him to the territory's administrative system as a department head.
However, Saruman was a very qualified soldier and a good learner. As a Freemen man, he was highly educated and had unique insights into intelligence analysis, mapping, and training. Later, when Victor planned to establish General Staff, he simply appointed him as the temporary head.
Before the establishment of the General Staff, Victor's staff team was basically led by Number One. With the help of the Calculation Module, Number One was the most qualified staff officer in terms of both depth of thinking and breadth of knowledge. According to Victor's memories from his previous life, Number One could hire an entire army-level staff team.
However, the fact that he was told by the Number One that a US military-level staff team would be hired was something he couldn't confirm.
Sometimes Victor was also very strange. Although he loved reading in his past life, he only dabbled in many things. However, Number One was able to find many of his past life memories and bring them to light completely, even if many of them were just fleeting glimpses.
However, Victor did not delve into this matter, after all, Number One had been of great help to him, and he could not and was powerless to doubt Number One's actions.
The General Staff of the Two Rivers Territory was also established at the suggestion of Number One. Number One believed that a General Staff should be established, both from the perspective of the regularization of the territory's army and from the perspective of the gradual increase in administrative work as the army develops.
The General Staff that Victor has built still has many shortcomings. The biggest shortcoming is the quality of personnel. There are not many qualified staff officers in the territory. The current group of people are all handpicked by Victor from his subordinates. He personally trained each of them, and he can only hope that they can improve on their own and become qualified staff officers.
As the interim head of the General Staff, Saruman was already the most qualified. If it weren't for his health condition, he would have been fully qualified to serve as Detachment Commander or even a deputy regimental commander in a combat unit, given his experience and abilities.
Unfortunately, even so, in Victor's and Number One's view, he was not a suitable chief of staff.
To become a qualified chief of staff, one must at least have a certain level of education, be able to draw and read maps, understand equipment innovation and development, be familiar with logistics and supply, organizational structure and training, intelligence analysis and collection, personnel utilization, and most importantly, understand combat.
The requirements for the chief of staff are so high that they must select officers who are highly educated, know basic mathematics, have rich combat experience, have studied war organization, and can identify talent.
Throughout the entire Two Rivers Territory, only Victor was barely capable of performing the duties of a chief of staff.
However, given that he was the lord and the highest-ranking military officer, it was impossible for him to do the work of a chief of staff, so Saruman could only be appointed as the temporary head of the General Staff for the time being.
Saruman was well aware of this, but fortunately he believed that he was still young and that through his own efforts he would surely become a qualified chief of staff and better serve the lord.
Saruman's most important task at present is to complete the preparations for the Presidium meeting, since everything is ready except for sending troops.
The Presidium meeting began at 10 a. m. on the 14th. The purpose of this meeting was to review the troop deployment plan and approve the specific deployment time.
The members of the presidium attending this meeting were Santos, Marvin, Ron, and Knight Jack from the military, Powell Weber from the government system, and Bob from the Arms Factory.
The meeting quickly approved the troop deployment plan. Victor's order had already outlined the objectives, and the territory also had comprehensive contingency plans.
In particular, all the supplies for the deployment of troops have been prepared and the troops have been assembled. The Presidium meeting only needs to review the number of troops and the details of the supplies. Once the review is approved, the deployment can begin immediately.
The final departure time was set for 3 p. m. on the 14th. The troops heading to Stream Territory would depart first, led by James, and would enter Stream Territory after passing through James' Green Valley Territory. The troops heading to Black Pine Viscountcy would depart at 8 a. m. on the 15th, led by Santos, and would travel directly to Black Pine Territory by boarding the territory's fleet and heading north along the Great Fish River.
Considering that James's Cavalry was large in number and lacked the ability to attack cities, the territory also reinforced this force with two Bed Crossbow companies and one Catapult company. A detachment of the Logistics Department troops equipped with 200 modified vehicles was also dispatched to provide logistical support for James's forces.