Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste
Chapter 157 Military Department Meeting

Chapter 157: Chapter 157 Military Department Meeting

When Perfikot walked into the Empire Military Department’s conference room, the Navy generals were arguing with the Army generals.

And the members of the Noble Council stood in two groups apart from them, then argued simultaneously with the Navy and Army.

This multi-person brawl scene truly shocked Perfikot; she had never seen so many people spitting furiously at each other.

It was her first time at the Empire Military Department. Although she could imagine what it might be like from film and television works before crossing over, seeing this quarrel made her feel dizzy, wishing she could pierce them all and sew their mouths shut.

However, after repeatedly warning herself to stay calm and not get irritated, Perfikot finally activated alchemy, extracting the smoke formed by the generals and members smoking cigars and cigarettes out the window.

The sudden air flow made everyone notice Perfikot’s arrival. A Navy general was the first to step forward, greeted her: "Count Brandelis, welcome! You’ve had a tough journey, tired from returning from the Northern Territory?"

While speaking, this Navy general tried to pull Perfikot to the Navy’s camp, even though she was wearing the Army uniform at the time.

Before coming to the Military Department for the meeting, the Army generals had sent her a specially tailored Army uniform and a Major General rank.

The Army sneakily told Perfikot that it was left to her by her grandfather, hoping she would wear the uniform to participate in the military meeting.

Perfikot certainly knew the Army was confusing the concept. As the Northern Guardian, she inherently had the Northern Territory’s military command authority, and a Major General rank was actually somewhat low.

However, claiming it was left to her by her grandfather was justified, as her grandfather was once an Army Major General. What the Army supposedly left her was not the uniform, but the military connections, influence, and corresponding status of the Brandelis Clan.

These things were actually considered severed after Perfikot’s grandfather passed away, and the Brandelis Clan in her father’s generation had no successors.

Perfikot wearing the uniform was essentially inheriting the Brandelis Clan’s former influence.

Of course, the reason Perfikot could inherit all this was she is now the Northern Guardian and Count of Exploration. Without these titles, even if she matured and inherited the Brandelis Clan’s title according to standard procedures, she could not have inherited the influence her grandfather left behind.

Especially the Navy’s attempts to win her favors further confirmed this.

After all, the only connection between the Brandelis Clan and the Navy was her distant cousin who was a Navy Major, which was not worth the Navy’s efforts to win her favor.

Even Perfikot being the Lord of the North was not enough to warrant the Navy openly expressing courting, as there was not much interest entangled between the Navy and Northern Territory, let alone trying to favor her as a Lord.

The key reason the Navy tried to woo Perfikot away from the Army was the Flying Airship.

As mentioned earlier, the captain of Perfikot’s Flying Airship came from the Navy; the shipyard building the airship was also the Navy Shipyard, so in the Navy’s view, the Flying Airship should belong to the Navy’s fleet, just like warships.

As for the Army? Didn’t they already get their new toys? They should stop fighting the Navy for the Flying Airship, especially since they can’t operate a ship.

But the Army clearly wasn’t going to watch the Navy pull her away; they also hoped to gain more good things from Perfikot!

Thus, while the Navy tried to woo her, the Army hastily blocked, intercepted the Navy general trying to pull Perfikot away, and taunted them openly and covertly for being unscrupulous, while emphasizing that Perfikot was wearing the Army uniform, and her grandfather was an Army Major General.

This tug-of-war made Perfikot amused and helpless; the enemy was at the door, and they were still fighting for these petty gains?

But this was normal, as competition between the Navy and Army was not uncommon in any country.

Nicer ones engage in healthy competition for military funding and voice; more serious problems could lead to screws in opposite directions.

Perfikot had no intention of getting involved in the Navy and Army’s competition; in her view, it was all meaningless, as the world was nearly destroyed, who had the energy to think about these trivialities.

She simply shook off the two parties’ entanglement and directly asked: "Do you have any response plans for this war?"

"We do. We plan to transport a Steam Knight Order to the enemy’s rear using Flying Airships, then launch a beautiful surprise attack to crush their army at once." An Army general explained their planned operation, with confidence: "Based on previous drill results, five Steam Knights are enough to directly defeat a Guards regiment. We can now deploy a Knight Order with one hundred and twenty Steam Knights, sufficient to crush any enemy in the world!

We will use a glorious victory to tell the French that the era has changed! Victor Empire can defeat them once, can defeat them twice! Thrice! Countless times!

The future belongs to the Victor Empire that never sets! We will ultimately rule the world!"

The general’s attitude was fanatic, and it was the consensus among the participating generals in this meeting.

After all, the strength of the Steam Knights was evident; no one thought the coalition made up of France and other nations could withstand the attack of a full Steam Knight Order.

Both the Navy and Army had reached a consensus on this; even if the Empire faced three equally matched opponents this time, these generals were not panicking at all, nor did they believe the Empire might lose.

Indeed, with the support of Steam Knights and Flying Airships, the Victor Empire was unlikely to lose.

But Perfikot did not agree with this strategy; she glanced at the generals and noble council members in the conference room and said after some thought: "Please have those who are not part of the Crisis Response Committee temporarily leave; we have matters involving the Empire’s top secret to discuss."

Upon saying this, the expressions of those present varied; those in the know roughly understood what was going on, while those unaware appeared blank.

However, under the chairmanship of Duke Grosset and Ministers of the Navy and Army, all those unqualified to know about the apocalypse crisis were cleared out, and the conference room was sealed.

"We must act quickly, hurt them, frighten them in the shortest time, make them obediently sit at the negotiation table, and ensure that within the next five years, they have no capability to trouble the Empire." Perfikot said as she unfolded her plan.