Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 191: Training in progress

“Boss, I got word from that Sergeant Fitney.” Berklin mysteriously meets Claude.

Claude is playing the battle flag game with Abyev, Diaved and Muried, a chess game similar to the game of the former Army, where two pairs match each other to pull out the enemy's chess as the winner, and in the barracks is a popular game of soldier time.

“Oh, you say he's the one who started it.” Claude moved his wolf chess pieces and ate the half-man scouts Muried sent. But Abyev, sitting down, immediately moved his Pokémon Shooter chess, creating a siege on Claude's Wolf Squad. And Claude's lion vulture against his family, Diavid, is being haunted by Muried's flying horse. For a while, he was unable to form an effective defensive match with Claude. The whip was long enough, and it seems that Claude's wolf chess is about to be sacrificed again.

The battle flag game is said to have been handed down during the ancient magical civilization, and players can choose different races to slaughter on the board. In total, there are four races, human beings, elves, animals and demons, each with twelve chess pieces, representing different military races. The most popular is the Elves and the Nation, which is the race most chosen by gamers.

It's just that Claude is now playing this flag game with a complete set of human chess pieces that Diavado took first. And Abyev and Muriel had chosen the Elves, and Claude had no choice but to choose the Beasts. Anyone who tells him to throw colors throws a minimum number of points can only choose race at the end. Since I am not familiar with the range of attack power of the Beast Race, so much so that I lost the game on the board, it looks like I'm losing the game again.

“Boss, the Beast Clan is the slowest to climb King Beaumont. Your choice of Beast Clan is simply to send food to the Pokémon Clan. The Phoenix of the Pokémon Clan can be burned to death. You should know that the spate of fire is just two times bigger than King Mon's claw attack. Bof and Murder chose the elves, the two phoenixes. By the time King Beamond climbs up to the phoenix to attack, it has been roasted according to the rules of the flag game...”

Instead of rushing to tell me what he heard, Berklin stood by and talked about Claude's mistake in choosing the race of games. According to him, the race of flag games is mutually restrained, such as the people who restrain the elves, the elves who restrain the beasts, the beasts who restrain the demons, and the demons who restrain the people. As a senior flag gamer, since he was twelve years old, there has been no game strategy to defeat him.

“Forget it, I lost.” Claude threw the pieces in his hand back into the chess box, and he was just starting to learn to play, and he wasn't very good at it. Playing a game keeps going over the game rules next to it, and it's a hassle to learn.

Legend has it that in the era of ancient magical civilization, when magicians played this battle flag game with magic, the pieces automatically attacked enemies within the effective range, unlike the game rules that now take pages to show that their pieces have been attacked by the enemy.

Like the Beamon King of the Beast Nation, it is the most powerful attack of all races in BOSS. It is set at 40,000 attacks of blood, 30,000 attacks, but it is the slowest. It takes one step at a time, and the attack range is only one adjacent.

And the phoenix of the Elves, with a blood minimum of 10,000, spray distance of two, and power of only 10,000. Like King Beamon, you can capture the phoenix in one stroke, but the problem is that the phoenix has to endure two eruptions before losing half its blood, and the phoenix has 40,000 blood. Berklin was right, according to the rules of the flag game, King Bimont walked to the phoenix and was just finished cooking, which was a barbecue to the door.

Once Claude admits to losing, his rival Diavid is double-fisted, even if the people restrain the Pokémon, it is a one-on-one situation, and he should be careful not to be turned over. Now the two Pokémon, Diavid, are uniquely difficult, and soon surrendered.

It wasn't until after the whole flag game that Berklin remembered what he'd heard: "Oh, boss, that Sergeant Fitney was a good man. ”

“How powerful is that?” Claude asked.

“He was a good fighter, famous in his home town of Clindes, Chanyalal County, when he was young, and was forcibly recruited at the age of 21, beating all battalions with invincible hands while recruits were gathering. The personality is generous and very much admired by the recruits. The veterans you sent to the treatment center all enlisted with him for the same period. They are said to have been in a camp tent with him at the time of the recruits' training, very good relationship.

Sergeant Fitney had a grumpy temper when he first joined the army, just like gunpowder. So he was in a three-day quarrel in the barracks, locked up and whipped every three days, the most famous person in the barracks for which all officers had headaches. It took three years to finally graduate to Corporal. However, two years ago, during the crackdown on the riots in the city of Nicaragua, he defeated five or six mobs with his bare hands and rescued Captain Cantaya of the Logistics Department, who was purchasing supplies in the city, and was promoted to sergeant.

After becoming a sergeant, under the care of Captain Cantaya, he began to calm down and stop making trouble, and his temper became much better. Many things didn't come out on their own, but let his brothers, the veterans of James, come forward and hide behind the scenes. Because of his change, the officers in the barracks were surprised to think that he was a prodigal son, so he was promoted to the rank of sergeant last year, promoted him to the rank of sergeant, caught up with this period of officer training, and when the training was over, he became sergeant chief. ”

After he had heard about Sergeant Fitney, Berklin thought about it and said, "Boss, the veteran who told me about the news said that Fitney was not a prodigal turning back, but had become insidiously cunning, and most of the bad things that the veterans of Jim were doing in the barracks to bully the recruits into extortion were pointed behind this Fitney.

You put Jim's veterans in a treatment center this time, and Fitney lost his face, and a lot of people in the barracks were laughing at him, and he couldn't even cover his own dick. That's why this Fitney will tell you to look good in the cafeteria. A lot of people heard you when you said that at the time. You should be careful in the future. Don't let this Fitney fool you... ”

Claude nodded with a smile, indicating he understood, and would be careful in the future. However, this Sergeant Fitney is currently in training for officers, and he is training himself for recruits. As long as he does not collide in the public areas of the canteen bathhouse, it will be difficult for the two of them to meet within two or three months. Besides, Sergeant Fitney will certainly not provoke himself before the training is over, unless he doesn't want to be a sergeant.

“Boss, why don't we do it first, find out his whereabouts, then find a chance to ambush him, cover his eyes with lime, put a sack over his head, grab a stick together, break his legs and disable him, discharge him, then we won't have to worry about his revenge in the barracks...” Abyev came up with a self-righteous idea.

Claude shook his head with a smile.

"Don't be silly, you think we're fighting with those dirt rats in the suburbs of Wangdu, and lime sacks! This is a military camp, where you can ambush. Besides, that Fitney is a good fighter, not the rogue gangsters we used to play against. Let's go ambush him. That's for the door. Hit him, and we'll be punished! ”

“Come on, let's all count it. Now that he's undergoing officer training, and we're doing recruit training, there's not much time and opportunity for him to provoke me, just be careful.” Claude came to a conclusion.

Recruitment training continues, with basic training, mainly queuing, in the first month. Claude was bewildered by the absence of a band accompanying him, and the pace of the queue was basically based on the bronze whistle contained in the instructors' mouths, following the whistle's rhythm.

Claude remembers seeing a foreign film in his previous life about a war between Britain and France on the American continent during the colonial period. It is also a pattern of warfare that falls under the line of shooting, although the soldiers in the movie seem to use firearms rather than flaming rope guns. In the film, the British Red Shirt Army walked forward in rows, and there was an army band playing light and lively music, as if the song was still famous...

In his leisure time, Claude took the opportunity to ask Lieutenant Moster why there were no military bands in the barracks, how to say that the training was always better listened to with cheerful rhythms than those with sharp whistles, and the soldiers were not easily nervous.

Lieutenant Moster stood still and laughed. He told Claude that there were military bands in the early wars, but they were eliminated in the ensuing wars because the bands were not practical.

Not practical? Claude doesn't understand.

Lieutenant Moster then taught Claude a lesson. First of all, it's a pity that the military band's personnel are not easy to cultivate, that they can play musical instruments and understand music scores. In this world, they are all senior talents, and it's a shame to waste them on the battlefield.

Secondly, while the military band is a soldier, it plays a small role in the battlefield and is not harmful to the enemy. How many army bands are needed on a battlefield where tens of thousands of people will fight, which, if replaced by combatants, will have a brigade, sometimes victorious, that will require only one more brigade of combatants. If you replace it with an army band, it would be unbridled chicken power, which would be of no use in the fight.

Thirdly, on the battlefield now, gunfire, gunfire and thunder, in this case, it is difficult for the soldiers to hear the music played by the military band, rather than a sharp whistle to keep the soldiers awake, so the military band was largely eliminated from the force.

Of course, the most important thing is that more than a hundred years ago, the two kingdoms fought a war and the victorious side captured an army band staffed by the other side's army. So the victorious king, at the venue of the armistice agreement, let the captured army band play and celebrate, this face so that the defeated king could not get off the stage on the spot, the first thing when he returned home was to cancel all the military bands in the army.

Nobody wants their own military band to celebrate for the enemy, which is one of the main reasons why the current army is not equipped with an army band, costly, large, non-combatant, and potentially humiliated by the enemy. So, what kind of band do you think it's necessary to configure? Lieutenant Moster finally questioned Claude.

The second month of recruit training was when he began to familiarize himself with the firearms in his hand, the Blue Feather Regiment of the Field Ace, all of which were firearms of the Obash II type that Claude was familiar with.

“Unfortunately, this is no longer the latest type of fire rope gun," Lieutenant Moster said. "My friend sent me a letter from the King, and Obash III is out. The Obash Type 3 fireline gun released by the Institute of Firearms Research in the previous months, although it has the same range as Type 2, has changed considerably in shooting accuracy and targeting. It is said to make it easier for soldiers to master aiming and precision shooting methods, which is a breakthrough development..."

Lieutenant Moster stood by Claude, who had just been honored for firing first, and stood out from more than 400 recruits. Both the speed of firing and the accuracy of firing, as well as the speed with which guns were loaded, far outweighed other recruits, and according to the instructors, Claude's firing scores were no better than those of the best veterans.

When the last month of recruit training began, Claude realized that the first two months of training had been a little too easy. This month's episode is also about walking in queues, but taking a firearm, waiting for the instructor's whistle command, loading the gun, and lifting the barrel for full firing, as directed, to maximize damage within the maximum range.

Just over a week later, two firearms and three accidents of accidental fire occurred among the recruits, and Ensign Angry Moster assembled all the recruits to scold the playground for more than half an hour under the sun. The only thing to be thankful for is that no one died in these accidents, only four of the injured were sent to the treatment center. After examining Dr. Perente, he thought there was nothing in the way, and he could recover completely in a couple of months...