Chapter 12: Survival Plans (5)
The former captain was startled and upon my saying so returned to the formation where his men celebrated his promotion meanwhile I could hear him boisterously assigning tenman ranks to his men filling the position he had just recently left.
Every chain of command needs to be filled and rather than assign everything myself I trust in the military system to fill the gaps so long as those chosen are competent.
The current system in place is not much different than the one actually used by Rome on Earth,
First, there were individual soldiers, who were grouped together and led by a (captain) Tenman, who led a ten-man squad, next ten tenmen (Captains) grouped together under the command of a Hundred Man (Lieutenant) and lastly 10 of these hundredmen would be under the command of their Legion commander, and then lastly overall control was held by the General commander which in this case would be Baron Hadin who was recently released.
With the main event having come to an end the assembled men were treated to lunch on the lord's behalf.
While they were dining, I approached the Commander and his subordinates along with the remaining legion commanders.
"General, I have a question for you?"
"Hai! Ask as I shall answer milord."
The time has come, how to convince this commander of mine to lead all the assembled men in the defense of the realm, but with my reputation I cannot realistically persuade him.