What the hell. The new commander was nothing but a paper pusher. To think I thought he could get something done. He was used as a scapegoat to bear the crime of a nobleman, but why did the military have to punish Ritz's village by sending him there, huh? Technically Ritz would have needed to do nothing but send a letter to the army regional HQ, explaining how the soldiers stationed in the village are nothing but drunkards, and those fools would have been replaced, but for unknown reasons he didn't do it.
@Khrysaor I don't think there's a civil war going on! Since this is taking place in a period matching the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries of our world, if I judge things correctly, I doubt they would be executed. They would face a very uncomfortable punishment, however, possibly losing their jobs as well, if there's not a convenient conflict where they could be sent off to, to die or reform.