Giacomo made a decision that Renyu didn't dare to disobey. The leader of the remaining troops is Andrew, Renyu is not qualified to compete with him for the position of commander. Because in the Dilsey Plains battlefield, Renyu's mission is to provide fire support to friendly troops. On the other hand, Andrew had experienced all kinds of small encounters, offense and defense battles, and movement battles on the Dilsey Plains battlefield, so he had a lot of experience in independent combat.

　　In novels, the protagonist's henchmen all have special talents, maybe a talent for business, or a strong power.Renyu is not averse to working for someone else. When you work for someone with power, all decisions and opinions can be left to the boss to decide. One can gain no small amount of profit by just doing one's own thing.

　　But right now, people willing to give Renyu a chance to be a conscientious boss don't exist.Inoue Ohno is Japanese, and Renyu understands that the basis of his good relationship with him is because of his own great ability in commanding artillery, not because he has stumbled upon a Japanese with an internationalist streak.

Andrew is Anglo-American, elite American whose ass sits on the side of the white man. He has nothing good in mind when he drags Renyu into this mission. It will limit Renyu's possibilities of getting battle credit on a battlefield that is not suitable for artillery.

As an officer in a multiracial mix like the U.S. Army, he knows very well how to keep the command of the military in the hands of certain races. Because the entire military is a complex system, it is impossible for someone to be familiar with every aspect of it. It is enough to assign a suppressed person a job with which he is not familiar. This seemingly fair division of labor worked so well that few of the generals commanding the military on the front lines in the United States were of other races, and there were few people of other ethnicities in key positions.

　　The protagonists of this world don't know what goes on amongst the travelers.Renyu has had a very hard time as Andrew's second-in-command. There can only be one voice in the army. As the commander of the army, Andrew could overpower everyone in the army, if not for the fact that there was no way to transfer Inoue Ohno into this army. Andrew would have reemerged as the dominant voice of the entire crossover team.

　　The traversing team is now divided into two parts, with Andrew commanding one African, and two whites, Renyu, and Chimura Niiyama, whose mission is in the attack on Fleeglo Crags. Of the main army that follows Giacomo north, there are only three travelers, one white traveler, Vasirez, and the other two, Li Cun Cheng and Inoue Ohno. without Renyu as a go-between, it is unlikely that Li and Inoue Ohno will be able to coexist peacefully. This gives Vasirez a favorable external environment.

　　This division, crossing the ranks, the crisis of domination of the white bloc was resolved.

Fleeglo Crags, a territory controlled by the Duke of Silari. The terrain here is very treacherous, and the terrain here is like a very steep step. It is divided into five layers, with one plateau on top of another. The edges of each tier fall off dramatically, like a flight of steps, and each tier has a city stuck at the connecting point. Duke Silari's capital was on the highest step. Each level of the steps was covered with densely packed turrets.

　　In Carlini's exact words from the game's plot, “I never thought of attacking Fleeglo, which has the strongest air defenses in all of Vinci.” The combat blimp climbs a plateau of steps on the bottom level, having to fill a layer of airbags in the blimp with gas, and then bring along a multitude of ballast, which must be discarded with each step crossed. Each time you cross a step you are hit by defensive artillery on the rising plateau steps. It was an extremely defensible terrain that would have been difficult to attack had Duke Silari's main army not been largely wiped out at the Battle of Dilsey. No one would have dared to attack this terrain.

　　Looking up at the distant plateau reaching into the cloudy sky.Renyu sighed. The vanguard forces had already taken a small city-state on the first rung of the ladder, through which they had gathered their population and trained their troops. Resisting the steady stream of troops coming out of the plateau.

　　During the morning's fighting, three turrets on the eastern defense line were overrun. In a combat meeting, Andrews blamed Renyu's artillery support for being too late, and used this as a reason to break up two gun crews belonging to Renyu's command.

　　The angry Andrew in the meeting wasn't faking it. Andrew had put himself in a dangerous situation with his decision. Duke Silari's army was not weak in combat, and the purpose of this battle was to hold out. Facing Duke Silari's superior force, Andrew's locally recruited troops routed three times, although they were brutally suppressed by military law. But military law had its limits, and now the mental capacity of the soldiers had reached its limit. If there was no more disappointment at not seeing victory, the colonial army, which depended on military law to keep it going, would turn on itself with a vengeance.

　　Initially, Renyu was just watching from the sidelines with some gloating. But Andrew's accusations made Renyu realize that he would probably be pushed out to scapegoat the military failure. This scapegoat would have to be of a high enough level to remove the anger of the local colonial army. Renyu, as Andrew's second-in-command, is the perfect candidate.

　　In the meeting Renyu wanted to retort. But he calms down, Andrew shifts the blame to divert the hatred of the colonial army. But until the entire army completely collapsed, Renyu was safe. If he rebels on the spot, not only will it do little good, Andrew will get an excuse for Renyu's insubordination, and when the protagonists come back to ask why, Andrew will be able to throw all the reasons for his failure at Renyu.

This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

　　“Pah!” Renyu slammed the wrench in his hand on the stone, steel and rock collided, bringing out a bit of sparks.Renyu cursed softly, “If I have a choice in the future, I'll never work with a white-skinned baboon again!”

　　Now in this situation Renyu felt very suffocated. Andrew was suppressing himself, and he still had to help him. And Andrew was still ready to push Renyu out to give responsibility for the failure. If it wasn't for the fact that Mina's Legion was so strong that Duke Silari and The Doge's side was bound to lose, Renyu would be pondering whether or not to defect to the past.

　　The victory or defeat of the vanguard army didn't matter to Mina. Because as long as the vanguard army was stationed around the Fleeglo Crags, Duke Silari's army couldn't reinforce the defense system at full strength.

　　Renyu picked up his tools and performed a grinding operation on a small steel cylinder on the lathe. The gift of being able to soften any material surrounded the cylinder, and as the softened steel met the hard lathe blade, the edges were gradually rounded off.

　　This world's technology and weapons are still in the early days of Earth's first industrial revolution, electricity is still in the form of direct current, cavalry can still be used as the main force on the battlefield, and infantry fights in columns with courage and discipline. So some weapons have not yet been invented, and Mina has a class of soldiers called “Elite Royal Bombardiers”, which are more difficult to train than the infantry. They had to throw grenades at a distance of twenty-five meters, and they had to throw them in the face of enemy musketry or cavalry charges.

Heavy artillery units play too poorly in this battlefield. So Renyu created such a weapon. It had a half-meter long cylinder with a two-legged stand underneath.

Renyu, a mechanical amateur, has built a very rudimentary bomb-thrower, which in practice can only throw a grenade as far as it will go. In order to finish this thing, Renyu even asked a real Japanese Chimura Niiyama for advice.

　　Well, after bragging with him about the historical figures he admired, the somewhat right-wing minded young man's face was slowly dropping his guard. But the guy was also an expert on paper, and faced with Renyu's request for advice, Chimura Niiyama said with embarrassment, "With the advent of advanced automated weapons, He doesn't know much about these old-time weapons."

“Well, it seems the real Japanese don't get it either.” Renyu didn't want to spit it out. It was a good thing that catapults weren't very technical, as long as the design idea was roughly right, it didn't matter if the performance was a bit poor. Under Renyu's description and leading attempts to make them, a batch of throwing weapons with a range of one hundred meters to eighty meters were produced in the light weapons arsenal.

　　"Does this stuff work ......?" Andrew asked Renyu with a skeptical tone.

Renyu spread his hands and said, “You guys fight mountain warfare, it should be rifle grenade bazookas. Too bad you can't build these two.”

　　Andrew said, "I'll be experimenting with this weapons in real combat."

　　Renyu said, "As the maker, I feel that I should be in the position to direct the experiment."

　　Andrew got a very bad look on his face and said, "Get back to where you should be."

　　This time Renyu didn't flinch, "I'm qualified to command three combat squad corps independently. I was given orders to back you up."

　　Andrew said with a cold tone, "You disobeyed the command, you can't afford to take the responsibility for the failure of this battle."

　　Renyu countered, "Under military law, non-court martial, you do not have the right to appoint or remove officers of the same rank as you at will."

　　Andrew said in a somewhat softer tone, "You will still be needed to command the steam cannons and other heavy weapons."

　　Renyu says, "Heavy artillery is not easy to move in this battle. I think it might work better under your direct command."

　　When Renyu finished saying the word direct subordinate, Andrew's eyelids jumped a little. In the end, so far, during the Fliglo Crag hold, Renyu had been very cooperative with Andrew, and the artillery support had done an excellent job, not any different from a direct subordinate. This was precisely the original purpose of Giacomo transferring Renyu into the Vanguard Corps, giving him the best artillery at Andrew's request.

But after Andrew makes things difficult time and time again, Renyu finally makes other choices.

　　That night, in front of the surprised eyes of the logistics officer, Renyu handed over the artillery equipment and received three squads totaling two hundred and seventy troops and a team of mechanics from the colonial army training camp. The logistics officer said to the cold-faced Andrew, "Our support troops will not arrive for another two and a half months, and we are logistically limited at the moment. Do you agree that Ensign Renyu should command the infantry?"

　　Renyu smiled and said, "I had a disagreement with Commander Andrews yesterday, I believe the heavy artillery under my command does not function well in the mountains and should be abandoned. Use the limited logistics to support more useful troops."

　　The logistics officer frowned a bit and said to Andrews, "Ensign Andrews, you were the one who asked for the artillery to accompany you in the first place, is that what you think as well?"

　　Andrew's face was expressionless as he said, “I still think it's necessary to keep the heavy artillery units.”

　　The logistics officer said to Andrew, "In that case, the twenty artillery pieces will be under your name and under your command, and the corresponding logistical consumption will be transferred to your name. I have no right to ask about frontline command, but I would like to remind you that the logistics of the rest of the force can no longer be expanded. One of the Mechanical Spider formations you applied for must be canceled."

　　Frontline military commanders cannot command logistics officers, and Mina will not allow such warlords. When Renyu decided that he did not want the twenty guns, leaving his logistics free to command other troops, Andrew was forced to take over the twenty guns. This was because these twenty artillery pieces had fought with him at his request. If he completely abandoned the heavy artillery, then it would mean that his previous request to mobilize artillery and good artillery was a waste of valuable military materials, and the losses caused by idle heavy weapons would be on his head according to Mina's military discipline regulations.