Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 196: Hard

In the tallest log house in the Folkby Hill barracks, there were three silver and white curved moon colonels on one shoulder badge slapping the table open and shouting: “... did you get your head pinched or kicked by a donkey? Knowing there was a grudge between them, this Fitney said something about lecturing that Claude, and you split them in a squad! You're trying to get the regiment in trouble, aren't you? What are you going to tell the Legion about all this? Say it!”

It was Lieutenant Sterley, a military judge, who was accused of making Sergeant Fitney head of a temporary squad of recruits, Claude, and of course, Sergeant Fitney's own efforts. It's just that nobody thought that things would turn out this way, that the whole army would know.

“Despicable, despicable. I didn't expect it to be like this. That's what I think. Claude was too reckless and difficult to discipline. Six veterans were sent to the treatment center after entering the battalion. That's why the average veteran can't handle him. I just wanted to send this Fitney over and teach him a lesson so that he wouldn't be blind and hegemonic in the barracks..." Lieutenant Sderry defended himself with a pale face.

“What kind of judge do you think you are, you don't even read the file!” The angry colonel grabbed the cup on the table and smashed it on Lieutenant Sderry, and the tea in the cup splashed his uniform.

The Colonel slapped the table: “This Claude was recommended by Viscount Felidos, our old commander, a distinguished predecessor of the Legion, who rarely wrote us a letter of recommendation recommending this Claude as a made-up material. In addition, Lieutenant Moster, who is responsible for recruit training, gave this Claude a very high rating in the file. He played only 17 excellent recruits for over 400 recruits. Claude ranked first...

There was also that canteen fight, which occurred in everyone's mind and was provoked by the veterans before they were all admitted to the treatment centre. The fact that the Legion played 30 boards each for balance did not mean that this Claude was difficult to discipline. In the investigation following this training retaliation incident, the team members in the camp tent expressed a fondness for Claude as a trustworthy companion.

Lieutenant Sderry, I don't know why you're so prejudiced against this Claude that you've ignored his outstanding performance in recruit training and officer training over the past few months. As a military judge, you should treat every soldier you enlist in a fair and equitable manner, rather than deliberately making it difficult. You should suspend yourself, as a military judge you are not suitable for this position, wait for the regiment to notify you to see where you are assigned... ”

“Yes, Colonel Mentok, I obey your orders.” Lieutenant Sderry responded immediately.

“You go out first.” Colonel Mentok didn't give Lieutenant Sderry a good look.

“Yes.” Lieutenant Sderry tried to get his chest up, saluted his courtesy, and turned around to go outside, but his steps were slightly sluggish, revealing his inner panic.

There was also a row of puppet-like lieutenant officers in the house, Captain Max, Lieutenant Moster and Lieutenant Gilp, whom Claude knew, all among them, except that they did not make a sound or move just now when Colonel Mentok was furious, trying to make themselves a qualified background wall, lest the Colonel's anger divert to them and spill on them.

Colonel Mentok sat wearily on the chair, picked up the two letters on the table, looked at the label and shook his head with a grin: "Our old captain is in big trouble for us! I really don't understand how he thought of recommending Baroness Maria's disciples to our regiment for military service. Since it is a pharmacology disciple, wouldn't it be better to wait two years for a junior pharmacist to join the army? Even if you become a sergeant now, you still have to go to war. What should you tell Baroness Maria if you lose the old team leader..."

There's a stack of letters on the table. They're all under the same name, Claude. Fields. The two letters selected by Colonel Mentok were also sent to Claude. Unlike the stack, the envelopes contained gold rose and thorn patterned emblems, indicating that the owner of the envelopes had the status of royal nobility. If you look at the address below, you will know who sent the letters at Baron Normanly's residence.

Had it not been for the two letters sent by Mrs. Maria, the training injuries that had occurred in the training of officers would not have struck the entire regiment, nor would Colonel Mentok have been ordered to deal with the incident at stake.

“Colonel, when this Claude enlisted, he was not clearly listed in the file as a pharmacological disciple of Baroness Maria, and we did not know...” Lieutenant Gilp took a step forward.

“We just don't know. That's why it's so hard to handle.” Colonel Mentok sighed: “If nothing happens, then we can pretend that we don't even know about it after the training of this sergeant. If he goes to war later, it depends on whether he's lucky or not, it has nothing to do with us. And now there's this accident in training, and it's all our fault. Shit, Sterley, he's got his head in the water. No, he's actually doing this. This is putting us on fire! ”

Colonel Mentok stood up with a smile when he saw the captain's face all over the house: "As you should all know, the outbreak of war will not last more than six months, and most likely in June this year our kingdom will declare war on the five anti-Olympic countries, when we will attack the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Siddines. The first legions to join the offensive were our Blue Feather Regiment, Red Dragon Regiment and Lizard Regiment. The problem is that the Army Department has not decided on an idea yet. Whether to strike two ways or concentrate on sweeping one way first, the other way to defend before striking back.

If the two ways hit, then we Bluefeather Legion will strike alone or join with which Legion, and there is also a question of who is the Lord and who is the Deputy. If we attack all the way first, will our Blue Feather Regiment be arranged to remain defensive? Our Legion Leader is currently negotiating with the Army Ministry in Wang Du, hoping that our Legion will either strike alone or become the leader of the joint strike route and must not remain defensive and deputy to other Legions. The Red Dragon Legion and the Lizard Legion are also said to have gone to the Army Department. Do you understand what I'm saying? ”

Of course, all the lieutenants in the house were blinking, and the war broke out, and as long as they were lucky, then the glory of military service was hands-on, and none of the officers didn't like the war, which was the ladder they went up. Especially since the Blue Feather Regiment has had only a few small-scale clashes at the border for more than two decades, or to suppress rioting populations, there has been no good opportunity to engage in war. Now that the footsteps of the war are approaching, who do not want to gain their own battle power will fly to Wong Teng Ta in the future.

As for the head of the regiment going to Wangdu and the army ministry to discuss anything, the two countries connected to the border with the Kingdom of Ovieras, the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Siddines have already built various defenses at strategic points of the border, like a crab, it is a hard shell outside, and the shell has to be lifted to eat the delicious and tender crab meat inside.

If they can't lead the attack all the way, the Blue Feather Regiment will certainly be sent to attack those defensive installations, not that they can't, but that the casualties will be heavy. The most frightening thing is that the hard shell was opened with great casualties and sacrifices. The result was powerlessness, and he could only retire and give victory to other regiments...

“But, Colonel Mentok, what does this have to do with the Claude incident?” Captain Max asked.

“Of course it does,” Colonel Mentok sighed: "His pharmacology teacher is Baroness Maria, our dear sister, who enters and leaves the court, like several of the queen's princes, and whose words take a lot of weight in His Majesty's heart. If Claude Ann is steadily trained as a soldier in our regiment, then there is nothing wrong with him, and his future success depends on his own performance, even if Baroness Maria dies on the battlefield.

But now that he has just been trained, he has been injured twice. For the first time, we can deduce that he did not know. This was an emergency, because the veterans provoked him to fight back. Both sides were injured and went to the treatment center. Our punishment is that both sides were at fault. After the injury, they were locked up for three days, which is arguably the past.

But now that fucking Sderry screwed everything up, he deliberately transferred that Fitney to be Claude's squad leader, giving him a chance to retaliate against Claude. Now, Claude has to be in bed for at least two or three months to recover. What would Baroness Maria think?

Would she think it was our regiment that deliberately challenged her disciples, especially Claude, after such excellent grades and evaluations in recruit training, when he was targeted for retaliation leading to another injury to the treatment center, which became the responsibility of our regiment... "

“I have heard that Baroness Maria has never liked to meddle in these military matters, nor to help people find a job. Many want to speak to Her Majesty through her, and she refuses to do so..." Captain Max said.

Colonel Mentok sighed: "That's why we can't offend her. We don't expect her to speak for us Bluefeather Corps, we just want her not to spoil our plans. Imagine, if she knew her disciple and Claude was injured by reprisals in her training, then all she had to say before Her Majesty was a few bad words about our Blue Feather Corps, and I'm sure that we Blue Feather Corps would not be able to take the lead in the attack all the way, or even be left behind as a defensive force.

That is why I have just been angry with Lieutenant Sderry, a man who has always been proud of his nobility and who despises those soldiers who are civilians. Dr. Perente told me that just because Claude rejected his accusations during the investigation into the canteen fight, he had been hating him for a few words. That's why we moved that Fitney to Claude's squad as captain this time, making it so hard for us to be so passive.

The first time, the cafeteria fight, Claude did not write to Mrs. Maria, saying that he had just finished recruiting and that the next step was the training of the sergeant, and all that was left was a few greetings. But to our surprise, Baroness Maria wrote two letters in a row. According to the first letter, she took Claude's sister, a 15-year-old girl named Angelina, as her disciple and thought Claude's sister had a higher talent than Claude. She also wanted to bring Claude's sister to King's side to nurture herself, only to be rejected by the little girl on the grounds of caring for her mother and brother.

We were somewhat surprised by the content of the second letter, according to which Claude assisted Baroness Maria's housekeeper in White Deer City in setting up a real estate development company, reaching an agreement with Viscount Venice, the director of the naval base, to package and sell to the Navy a whole community that their company had developed and built, and to earn Baroness Maria a fortune. So Baroness Maria valued him very much, even in her second letter discussing the company's future prospects.

If this Claude had told Baroness Maria about his experience of this retribution in training, I'm sure Mrs. Maria would have come forward for him. If our Legion Leader knew that his plot had been defeated here, leaving us Bluefeather Legion unable to stand alone or even be left behind or become a second lieutenant of another Legion, I'm sure he would have swallowed Lieutenant Sterley alive, or something unsolicited. So, gentlemen, think about it now, what are we going to do about this to appease this Claude? ”