A Battle Against Time

Due to how young his students were, Damian didn't have truly reliable officers in his army. If they wanted to command entire legions, they needed to be veterans willing to do anything to eliminate demons. It wasn't enough to have the desire; they also needed the will.

If Damian wanted powerful, qualified commanders, they needed to have at least a certain level of education, know how to draw and read maps, understand innovation, equipment development, logistics, supply, organization, training, intelligence, analysis, and personnel management.

But, above all, the most important thing was to fight.

The requirements to command a legion from the city of Snowstorm are so high that they must select candidates with a high level of intelligence, an understanding of basic mathematics, rich combat experience, research on war organization, and the ability to identify talents.

Throughout the Snowstorm territory, only Damian is barely able to perform the role of Supreme Commander of the army.

Damian had to be at the borders almost all the time, so he couldn't supervise all his commanders, generals, and marshals. If a personnel system is established for refined management, it won't take him much time to know that the right things are being done in each battle zone.

Therefore, even though Damian is working in the right direction, it is difficult to achieve refined management and establish a personnel system in a short period of time.

Military medical officers are easier to train.

The city hospital has trained more than thirty doctors, many of whom were selected from soldiers, and the hospital mobilized its staff, along with more than a thousand auxiliary assistants, to the front lines in times of war. It can be said that it is a military hospital. Military medical officers, selected from the surgeons, must be competent.

There is no shortage of qualified personnel for the military judiciary, and each squad has a military judge.

Intelligence personnel are also easier to train. Every noble has intelligence officers under their command.

The most critical are logistics and combat personnel, which are very difficult to train.

There are very few people in the territory who master basic mathematics, and almost no one can do the work of logistics personnel. Damian even needs many assistants to clearly account for the materials the army needs; it was not easy just to cover expenses without knowing what they generate.

If he wants to train logistics personnel, he must at least wait for the talents trained by the royal school to which several of his citizens were sent to graduate.

The same applies to combat staff officers. Only students who have studied geography, understand maps, and comprehend battle strategies should be able to assist commanders who only know how to fight.

That year, Damian had established four departments: military medicine, military law, intelligence, and training to serve as assistants in managing the army.

These four departments are already considered the most primitive staff members.

Frieren is in charge of the military medical section; Sebastian is the head of the intelligence section; the head of the legal section is Sebastian's younger brother, Adrian; and the training section is led by Raul.

Damian assigned these four aspects of work to four assistants.

Frieren did a good job at the hospital and was already a qualified head of the military medical section.

Sebastian's intelligence work is still causing problems, but the most important thing in intelligence work is trust. He owes his life to Damian, who saved his family from being separated by slavers. For now, only he can perform this job, and he can barely handle the burden of military intelligence work.

Sebastian had always been the military judge of the territory, and this appointment made his position more formal.

Damian's territorial military judges, like the main army, are primarily selected from disabled veterans. Military judges have considerable authority; in addition to recording merits, they also have the authority to punish soldiers.

However, military judges must accept soldiers' supervision when evaluating merit and punishing wrongdoing.

Once a military judge becomes corrupt and rewards and punishments are unfair, they will be immediately executed if discovered, and their immediate family members will be punished.

With Damian watching, no one has dared to do this yet.

In the north, it is a world where great power belongs to oneself. As long as the commander is strong, they will have great power. Personal connections are much less important than strength. In this world, strength determines everything.

As long as Damian regularly supervises at the grassroots level and meets with common soldiers, he can largely suppress bureaucracy. However, lords who can regularly reach the grassroots level are still relatively rare.

Raul was originally an officer of a group of soldiers from the destroyed lands. He was captured by orcs and turned into a slave. He later escaped successfully and became the leader of the refugees. He had previously been responsible for logistics work, so he also supported Sebastian in meetings.

The remaining personnel departments, such as operations, supplies, establishment, research and development of weapons, etc., still need to wait for talents to be trained before they can be established.

Without talent, Damian could only endure inefficient management.

Although army management is very inefficient, Richard's personal supervision is not chaotic. Compared to other lords, the military organization of Damian's territory is already among the best.

And now it seems that the demons are considering attacking his territories.

Both sides continued to send reconnaissance troops, and a brutal, strangling battle of scouts broke out on the outskirts of the city's borders, and battlefield intelligence became clear.

In the end, it was the demons who couldn't keep losing demons to stone puppets swarming from everywhere.

In the demons' military camp, thanks to aerial scouts, the demons had a clearer understanding of the battle situation.

Through aerial reconnaissance, the demons quickly discovered information about Damian's territory.

Through cultivated lands, the number of houses, and the number of water wheels, the demons can roughly estimate the population and military strength of a territory.

Several years have passed, and a close defense line has been established near the mountains.

As in previous years, it has become difficult to enter the northern mountains thanks to the increasing control Damian is exerting and his constant expansion.

The battle against the demons is estimated to last a thousand long years.

The demons have always bought and surpassed humans, which gave them a great disadvantage in battles, but he hoped that this would change with the clones Damian manipulated with magic, which were always trying to enhance his military power.