Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 165 Conscription Orders

Claude wanted to cry without tears, and he didn't even know how to get out of Felidos' office. With that conscription order in his hand, his ears were filled with words of great anticipation from the White Deer City Executive Center encouraging him to do his best and dry work in the army. Looking up at the sky, he slapped himself in the thigh again, confirming in pain that he wasn't dreaming, and Claude sat on the steps in front of the administration center.

This is a scene that Claude would never dream of. Who would have thought that the once-in-a-lifetime director Felidos would be so concerned about his enlistment? Not only did he write a recommendation letter to himself, he was about to come to the conscription order, but he handed it to himself. How boring a man can do this! As soon as Claude calmed down, he knew that he had been implicated by the country's first graduation in Medicine...

I knew this would happen so I wouldn't have to fight for the first place in Verricolo when I graduated. Even if Lady Maria had already mentioned in her letter that the Kingdom will not recruit this year, it will also carry out large-scale conscription next year in order to prepare for the war against the Eastern Anti-Olympic Five Alliance, but at least it will be a year later. Perhaps Lady Maria can also get herself a pardon to exempt herself from military service...

But now that everything is late, conscription orders have been issued in your hands, if you should not conscript, you will be sentenced to desertion, at least twenty or thirty years of hard labour. Although labor does not have to be used as cannon ash on the battlefield, the situation is like slavery, no freedom, no food, no warmth, being watched for tired and tired labor day and night, it would be better to go to battlefield to eat guns and die more painfully.

Perhaps Chief Felidos shouldn't have come to the office that day to inspect himself, knowing that it would have turned out that he would have preferred to lie in bed and get sick than go to the office. It's all Ludhan's fault, he dragged himself to introduce himself to Chief Felidos, and then he stared at himself and had to send himself to the army...

But no wonder Lutheran Butler, Claude, knew that Lutheran Butler had introduced himself to Chief Felidos, both to show off the Normanly family's vast friendship and to give Claude the care of Chief Felidos. In the future, it will be easier to do anything in Bai Lu City. At least if the relationship is pulled together, there is a problem. Managing Director Felidos can come forward and say a few fair words.

It's just that Lutheran Butler forgot that Chief Felidos was a soldier. He understood what Lutheran Butler meant and had to take care of Claude. But his care was to send Claude to the army, especially since Claude was the first graduate of Chinese Medicine. In the opinion of Chief Felidos, there is no better way to take care of Claude than sending him to the army...

With all this in mind, Claude couldn't help but laugh. Mrs. Maria's good intentions were to repay Claude's brother, Little Book, the debt of 500 gold kroner, on her own initiative, regardless of Claude's needs. Chief Felidos likewise gave no advice to Claude and sent him straight to the army.

Perhaps in their view, Claude was only 18 years old and immature. As elders, they made life choices for Claude, no matter what Claude thought. Especially Chief Felidos, sending Claude to the army seemed to be Claude's honor. He still looked forward to Claude's gratitude, but he didn't know Claude wanted to punch him so hard with that daisy smile...

Said it was a surprise, should be a scare or something... I really wanted to beat him up, didn't ask me if I was willing to be a soldier... Claude mumbled and picked up the conscription order in his hand, yes, it was in black and white, clearly written, it was his name. The only thing that is a bit distinctive is the blue feather printed on the page, which is the unique logo of the Kingdom's Four Field Ace Corps, the Blue Feather Corps.

The four most famous field regiments in the so-called Kingdom of Auvellas are basically the regiments with the highest casualty rates in every war, with countless accumulated white bones behind their remarkable success. Whether it was the enemy or his own soldiers, the battlefield was filled with corpses that eventually achieved the prestige of the Ace Legion.

According to the conscription order, Claude must arrive in Caffirette County, Gonidad City, Fuckabee Hill Barracks by September 1. Is there a county in the kingdom? Claude hasn't thought about it for half a day. Geography is a pretty good job. What's going on?

Standing up and going back to the administrative center, with a map of the kingdom on the walls of the lobby, Claude looked for half a day to discover that Kafirezt County was one of the three counties ceded by the Nasseri kingdom more than 20 years ago. Geography textbooks have always been collectively referred to as the three counties of Frontier because they are not the focus of the examination, so the names of the three counties are easily ignored in the past. The news and news in the three counties have also rarely appeared in newspapers around the country because of the territory ceded by the kingdom of Nasserly, which has been under military control in the three counties for more than two decades and the repression of sporadic rebels.

Isn't that the front line? Claude laughed bitterly, this soldier is the ashes, once the war broke out, don't even think about it, Blue Feather Regiment was definitely the first to go to war. Chief Felidos, this is how much you can look up to yourself and send it straight to the front line to be a soldier. Let yourself perform well, do your best, don't let him down, give him this sponsor a fight. I really don't understand how he got so much confidence that he wasn't a Superman knife gun, and a small gun could take his own life.

If war breaks out and the kingdom carries out a major conscription, Claude joins the second-line regiment formed in the three southwestern counties, even if conscripted, after brief training, before moving on to the front line. If the war were good, they would probably stay behind and select additional troops from their second-line regiments when the main regiments on the front line, which had suffered heavy casualties, were withdrawn.

If the war were serious, they would probably be ordered to go straight to the front line and fill in the fire or hold on to a line of defense. Anyway, Claude won't be the first to step on the battlefield like he was in the Blue Feather Corps. You know, the first batch of people into war are often faced with the most difficult offensive, that casualty doesn't have to be said much, everyone has counted...

After reviewing the conscription order again, Claude finally understood why Chief Felidos wanted to thank himself for his gratitude to Dade. Because it is clear from the conscription order that Claude went to the Blue Feather Corps not to train as a recruit, but to train as a soldier.

This means that as soon as Claude completes his training, he becomes a sergeant, not an ordinary recruit. Though sergeants are also going to battle with recruits, the guns fired by the enemy will not turn because you are a sergeant. But for Claude, he had skipped a long period of recruiting and became a member of the army directly as a sergeant.

In peacetime, in general, a new recruit is promoted to a rank of sergeant for five years before being approved as a brigadier or lieutenant after three more years of probation. Ensign, on the other hand, is the official officer of the Kingdom, and he has national status, whether for wounds discharged or continued to remain in the army.

No wonder Chief Felidos said Claude would be a lieutenant in just three years if he did well, still without a war. From that point of view, Claude really owes Felidos a debt of gratitude. Perhaps it was Claude's first graduation from the country, and the importance that Mrs. Maria attached to him, that prompted Chief Felidos to take such care of Claude by selling him a spot from his old acquaintance in the military for a Blue Feather Corps officer training.

Claude doesn't know if he should be sad or happy now, but in any case, with the conscription order in hand, enlistment will not escape, even if Mrs. Maria sends a pardon to exempt her from military service. In the absence of recruitment, amnesty orders have a role to play, and military service can be absolved thereafter as long as it is registered in the administrative centre. But now that the conscription order has arrived, and the Ministry of Military Affairs has registered it, the pardon order does not know whether or not it exists, and even if it comes in a few days, it will have to be annulled. Even His Majesty King Sterling X's face could not be compared to that of the Ministry, which would be in disarray if a pardon order were issued to the Ministry to discharge soldiers already in uniform.

Today, July 30th, Claude calculated that it would take an estimated five to six days to reach Cafelezt County, and that a carriage would probably arrive one day early. If you take a sea boat from White Deer Town to Port Neru, it will take two days, then from Port Neru to Cafelezt County, it will also take three days, why not hire a wagon directly to go there, anyway, it's not bad money...

That is, Claude had more than 20 days left at home, and he had to leave by August 24. Of course, it would be nice to arrive two days earlier, so that he could get acquainted with the unfamiliar environment, and there would be plenty of time not to delay check-in due to unexpected circumstances on the way. Knowing that military justice is heartless, even if you have good reason to prove that you are not late because of your relationship, the punishment for delay will still fall on you. Claude didn't want herself tied to a law enforcement desk and whipped on the first day of reporting.

Perhaps there are things that should be done. Even if you become a soldier, you can go to the battlefield to live and die. No one can guarantee that after a great war, you will not stand in the presence of yourself. So, before you go, do what you have to do with the family, and never let the peaceful life of your mother, sister and brother be affected.

Claude was disappointed, his brother, Albert, disappeared, not in White Deer Town, and his father allegedly left White Deer Town the day he jumped, saying he was looking for a job in Barromise County. But nobody saw him in Barromise County, and nobody heard from him.

Claude had to keep the news from his mother, or she wouldn't know how to worry about Albert. Even if Albert is more selfish and less filial, in the eyes of his mother, he is still his eldest son, a fleshly connected relative...

Every day after middle school in the country, Claude picks up her sister Angelina and takes her back to the woods to learn how to use a fireline gun in the open spaces of her own mountains. When he joined the army, the only person in the family who could help his mother was her sister Anna. Although a girl with a little nerve, her character is tough and she is fifteen years old and can be the main pillar of the family. Especially after following Claude in her magic studies, Claude was greatly surprised by her cleverness and ability to act backwards and forwards, and her life in the woods made her brave and cheerful.

Little Brooke is only eight years old and is at the age of a bear child. But the dramatic changes in the family and the suicide of his father also taught him a lot. Especially during his time in the woodland cabin, he slept in a room with Claude, and under Claude's supervision, he corrected a lot of problems. Naughty and naughty, but he also knew to help his mother with some of the chores she could do, which made Claude happy, at least it didn't look like Little Booker would ever be a loser again.

Lutheran Butler expressed great dissatisfaction with Chief Felidos' self-proclaimed conscription order for Claude, and wanted to speak to General Felidos about it. He firmly believed that Claude could not leave for military service when Normanly Realty was busiest in construction work, and even designed several ways for Claude to avoid military service, such as calling someone to break Claude's leg or Claude to cut off a few fingers in pain, etc...

Claude refused those demands, however, and he would not have made himself half crippled in order to escape military service. In order for Normanly Real Estate to continue to operate smoothly after his departure, he had to devote a lot of time to adjusting and refining the company's operating policies and regulations in an effort to continue operating without him. As a result, Claude often worked overtime at the company and sometimes it was late to see his office lit with candlelight...