Like we've been saying, keeping your team's nerves on edge without an imminent threat is the dumbest decision a leader can make.
Although it would be foolish to let the entire team relax its vigilance so much that the enemy would attack it unprepared, this kind of combination of maps, known enemy information and other intelligence to determine the threat level and then formulate the team's action plan is a required course for a qualified leader. .
Unable to extract useful information from the direction of the intelligence wind, lacking keen battlefield intuition and only knowing how to let the team members relax or tense up, in the end they would either be overthrown by their subordinates or be annihilated along with them.
For this reason, in the excellent mercenary group in the world of Rigar, the adjutant is as important as the captain.
The captain is responsible for caring about the overall situation. He combines intelligence to observe the surroundings. His keen senses, calm judgment and abundant experience are all essential. And because the captain's attention is focused on this aspect, a second-in-command is naturally needed to share other tasks.
Responsible for taking care of the personal physical and mental status of team members, promptly determining which people are dissatisfied or exhausted, and deciding to replace members to allow them to rest or comfort them. Even the judgment of the captain's own mental state and physical health is one of the adjutants' responsibilities, because sometimes the pressure is too great and the captain himself may not even notice that he has reached a dead end.
This kind of leadership structure is not a novel and high-end whimsy. In fact, members with similar positions can be found in any professional team.
Because it is simple and practical, even in the Crescent Continent, which is separated from Rigal by an ocean, you can still find someone you can match.
Among the Qingtian family samurai team, those who play the role of captain and adjutant are obviously Narumi, Ogami, Lao Qiao and others.
Because the team size is larger than the average 6-12 person team, it is natural to have two lieutenants. Narumi and Okami were both high-level samurai. They were familiar with military books and had their own opinions on how to do many things. They emphasized discipline. Narumi, the team leader, is responsible for the deployment and command, and the person who ensures that everyone implements these tasks and no one is lazy is the adjutant.
Although Lao Qiao, who was born as a country scholar, did not have the same education environment as the two of them and was slightly inferior in terms of overall planning, this straightforward and cheerful uncle had a natural affinity. The existence of Lao Qiao can effectively fill the class gap between the ashigaru class and senior samurai, becoming a buffer zone and a platform for communication.
He has status and qualifications, and can speak to the upper echelons such as senior samurai and Yajiro, but he has been hanging out with the Ashigaru for a longer time. He went into battle with the Ashigaru, so they trusted him more and were willing to reveal things to him that they wouldn't say to Yajiro or Narumi.
The Ashigaru knew that he could speak, so to some extent they were willing to use him to express some humble demands to the irresistible senior samurai - such as slowing down the pace of the team, or reducing the frequency of maintenance of armaments. So as not to make them so tired.
One is discipline and the other is favor. Although the two adjutants have different jobs, they are equally important.
The road continues to extend, because it is considered a relatively safe area now, and naturally, the team also begins to discuss and chat.
They are all people engaged in combat-related professions, so what they talk about is not unexpected.
The sage now has a certain status in the hearts of the warriors of the Qingtian family. After previous contests and battles with bandits, Henry's intuition about the battlefield and his abundant combat experience have made him become a military advisor to the warriors to a certain extent.
By accident, this is the job most often performed by high-level individual or group adventurers in the world of Rigar.
Contrary to what many people think, in fact, when you become an experienced orange or purple mercenary, you actually go to work - in adventurer slang, you "get your boots dirty". Very few. Most of the time, mercenaries of this level are more willing to accept commissions from nobles or countries to train new city defense recruits who have little actual combat experience.
This is true even for hunting mercenaries who are better at dealing with Warcraft. After all, the job of city defense soldiers also includes encircling and suppressing nearby harmful beasts that threaten the villagers. Therefore, whether they are traditional war mercenaries who specialize in fighting people, or hunting mercenaries who specialize in hunting dangerous creatures, as long as they are experienced and well-known, they are the ones that commanders everywhere are willing to ask for advice.
After all, in relatively peaceful times and regions, mercenaries and adventurers were the most experienced group of people with combat experience.
And even if they are really gone, it is the novices with green cards and blue cards who do the most dirty work. Most of the senior mercenaries are more like a town presence, showing their cards clearly to scare people with evil intentions. Disciple - at least that's what they hope.
But let’s get back to where we started.
Such respect for the sage's personal qualifications may seem at first contradictory to Kazuto's contempt for the Rigals and Henry's silence.
But Henry, Narumi and others are actually very clear about this kind of thing.
His personal combat experience, combat intuition, and abilities and insights in all aspects are outstanding and worthy of admiration.
It doesn't mean that he has the capital to point out all the things accumulated by the entire Kazuto society over four thousand years of development.
It's like Ling is a Dr. Xingyong. Her knowledge has reached considerable depth in biology, astrology, earth ecology and many other natural-related aspects. But they are in different fields. Even if they are both PhDs from a major college, if she is asked to instruct a PhD in Land Resources on town planning, it would be overstepping their bounds.
Naturally, our Mr. Sage's knowledge covers a wide range. His experiences during the long journey and his non-stop learning make him have the right to speak in many fields - although Henry will not hang these up most of the time. On the side of the mouth.
But at this stage, he only impressed Narumi and others with his combat-related abilities.
And this is based on the fact that the warriors have not been in actual combat for many years and have doubts in their hearts, which are very easy to loosen. Even under such circumstances, it took him quite some time to make these people change from contempt to recognition, and then gradually to respect.
Not to mention the unshakable confidence and pride that Narumi and others have in Xinjing, the royal family, and the strength of the entire Moon Country, which is comparable to faith. This is their reverse scale, and even if Henry can gain recognition on a personal and small-scale battle level, it is not a wise choice to touch this aspect.
After all, they are outsiders, weak, weak and lonely.
Even Henry is like that. To survive, a more reasonable choice than confrontation is to seek cooperation.
So he took the initiative to contact Qingtian.
Can one person, or a small group of people, leverage the 4,000-year-old faith of tens of millions of people in the entire Crescent Continent?
Maybe if the time is right.
Maybe the ship still has a chance to turn the helm and escape from the storm, but if the captain, first mate, and all the passengers on the ship think that the storm is just a fantasy, then the only person who keeps shouting that he must escape from the storm will probably be Tie them up and throw them into the sea or lock them in the bottom of the cabin.
When the time is not right, silence is the best choice.
As for why you care about the life and death of this ship and the people on it.
"Maybe old habits die hard."
Our wise man will probably answer like this.
Nothing in the world exists independently, everything is connected. In a place like Moon Country with a long history and strong national power, if the fate of tens of millions of people changes, the impact will definitely not be limited to the Crescent Continent as the geographical location seems.
Not to mention that in order to win, the northern lords also resorted to some kind of power that they had no control over.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians, soldiers, and creatures in the southern region of the Padrosi Empire were transformed into ghouls. The struggle between humans and dark forces was enough to be called a river of blood.
So.
How about a continent with tens of millions of people?
Even if you guess with the most optimistic spirit, you feel that people have finally put aside their differences in various aspects such as ethnic hatred, religious beliefs, conflicts of interest, etc., and united to build an entire army.
Combining the entire Rigal, the entire Abserra, and the remaining military forces of Crescent Continent, it is impossible to assemble an army strong enough to confront these products that violate the laws of nature.
Not to mention that the ghouls were nothing compared to what was to come.
Yes, maybe there is a group of people in some remote and remote area that cannot be set foot by today's human strength, who have enough power to do all this.
But those other races who were once worshiped as gods were ostracized, suspected and feared, and finally chose to cut off large-scale communication four thousand years ago and live alone in seclusion.
It treats today's human society as a stubborn disease.
For them, even if they are not the ones who should be blamed for the demise of human beings, there will inevitably be those who applaud and applaud.
Of course, there are people who think that all this is wrong.
Those who are still unwilling to give up building communication bridges are still working hard.
They are always alone.
Not understood, not even known.
But the torch was passed on.
From the hands of dragons to the hands of humans.
Along with his two hundred years of lonely travel, he traveled throughout the entire Rigal world.
He searched for answers.
But even after gathering knowledge and wisdom that would impress the princes and generals, the answer is still not clear.
After all, even those beings whose histories were far longer than his life, which was several times longer than that of an ordinary person, and who were worshiped as gods in the long past, chose to avoid it because they could not come up with answers.
But maybe things are different.
From a small country on the west coast of Rigal, which is no longer called this name, on a day in the 191st year of the now abandoned lunar calendar, a conflict, bloodshed and encounter that should actually be regarded as ordinary began.
Still haven't found the answer.
But the answer is moving forward step by step.
The time is still very long, this burden is enough to crush many people, and not just anyone can take over these long lonely years.
The answer is still not found.
But there is hope.
Use the language of the Moon Country where you are now.
The hope that the pronunciation can be written as the word "future".
