The Fourth Calamity never believed in the steel torrent!

Chapter 102 Lieutenant General Matvey's Inquiry
"...Enough! Your suspicions are nothing but baseless accusations. I trust my officers! Perhaps he is usually carefree and irresponsible, but men mature on the battlefield!"

"Excuse my bluntness, General, but the main problem is that his usual performance doesn't match his war achievements, plus the fighting they did was just too outrageous!"

"General, you know what an enemy armored battalion means. If it were deployed to the front lines, even one of our divisions might not be able to hold off one of their armored battalions!"

"Captain Kovorontsov, with only his decimated company, a bunch of cobbled-together routs, and a supplementary regiment led by Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Unery, defeated the enemy's main armored battalion! Can you believe it?"

Hearing the argument, Andrei subconsciously frowned. It seemed that the special forces were questioning whether their battle results were genuine.
"I can believe it, and this is the truth!"

"You secret police officers, you're always staying in the rear, how many of you have actually been to the front lines? If you haven't been to the front lines, you're just talking theory, and that's how problems like yours arise!"

"If we rely solely on paper data for comparisons, then we wouldn't need to fight at all. Our army is at least three times the size of the Black Hawk Empire's, not to mention they're fighting on two fronts. They should have surrendered to us long ago!"

Just then, the messenger leading Andrei knocked on the door.

"Report! We have brought Captain Vorontsov over!"

"Please come in, let me see what our combat heroes look like?"

Upon hearing this, Andrei followed the messenger in. As soon as he entered, he smelled a strong odor of smoke and coffee, along with a cacophony of telegrams ringing in the distance.

Seeing Andrei, dressed in tattered clothes and with his face still wet but with a resolute and composed expression, the officers around him were stunned for a moment, and then burst into excited cheers.

"Excellent! This is our combat hero! Captain, well done!"

"Hahaha, kid, you've got guts! Well done!"

Beside these excited and cheering officers, two men dressed in black overcoats and wearing dog-head masks remained silent, scrutinizing Andrei with cold eyes.

After taking a look at these two guys who seemed out of place in the atmosphere of the command post, he knew that they were most likely the special forces soldiers who wanted to cause him trouble.

However, judging from the previous argument, the two special forces soldiers did not seem to admit that they were traitors or shout that they would be shot. It seemed that they were simply questioning whether their battle results were real.

Forget it, I won't think about it too much. I'll just focus on dealing with the situation at hand.

After showering him with praise, the old man at the head, adorned with numerous medals and wearing a specially made power armor suit with a helmet decorated with large red chicken feathers, waved to Andrei and said:

"Come here, young man, take a look at this map and try to use it as a reference!"

"Everyone here is curious about the victory you won before. Since you won it yourself, I think you should be able to demonstrate to us how you fought it, right?"

Andrei frowned slightly as he looked at the map in front of him.

It has to be said that this military map is really complicated! Fortunately, having fought his way through the war, Andrei had gotten used to the mental map in his head, and he had also played a lot of military games before, so he wasn't stumped by a map.

Needless to say, whether he was studying how his troops should retreat or how to defend that town, he had looked at the maps of those places countless times.

He might not be able to explain the maps of other places clearly, but he knows these maps better than anyone else. Countless soldiers who fought alongside him have fallen in various corners of these maps!

So Andrei began by recounting how he received the order to retreat in the trenches, but before he could leave, he was bombarded from the rear, and continued until he annihilated the enemy's armored battalion.

"I see. I must say, you and your soldiers performed admirably. If all our soldiers were this brave, how could we possibly fail to repel the enemy's invasion?"

After listening to Andrei's words, the old man nodded, patted Andrei on the shoulder, and said:

"Not bad, you're very good. Although there were indeed many coincidences involved in your victory, your ability is definitely up to par!"

"But I have a question for you: how exactly do you make your soldiers so fearless and brave in battle?"

Lieutenant General Matvey looked curious. After listening to Andrei's introduction, he felt that the reason why this guy was able to win, besides having a very keen intuition, was mainly because these soldiers were fearless.

They won this battle not simply because they captured some anti-tank weapons, or because they stole a few more boxes of grenades from the enemy.

Without the soldiers risking their lives, Andrei would never have been able to defeat the enemy!

To the lieutenant general's words, Andrei simply shook his head and said:

"I'm sorry, General, I don't know how I managed to do that. Maybe it's because I communicated with the soldiers a lot?"

"To inspire soldiers to fight without fear of death, battlefield discipline alone is not enough. The most important thing is to make them understand what they are fighting for and to give them hope!"

Andrei said it casually, which was also a way of making an excuse for himself. Otherwise, he couldn't very well say that all his soldiers were immortals, could he?
Fortunately, it seems that his previous lie has worked. Regarding the anti-armor weapons that appeared in his team, he said that they were anti-armor rifles captured from the enemy.

The cavalry used warhorses found near the town, and their anti-armor rifles, apart from a few carried by the supply regiment, were all looted from the enemy's warehouse.

Anyway, his own army wouldn't go out of their way to check accounts with the Black Hawk Empire, and given that his system had a certain cognitive distortion ability, Andrei believed that his statement wouldn't expose him.

Lieutenant General Matvey's attention was indeed not on his unscientific equipment; who knows how much Andrei had actually stolen from the enemy?

He couldn't possibly ask the enemy for a list on his own!
Besides, in his opinion, Andrei had no reason to lie about such a thing. Where else could he have gotten his equipment if not from the enemy? He couldn't have conjured it up out of thin air!

(End of this chapter)