Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 217: Lieutenant Colonel Rossler

Claude would never, like those who had no brains, dare to ambush the anti-Olympic Alliance scouts alone with an Obash-3. Knowing that the enemy's scouts are at least three or four rides together, you can't escape the pursuit of the rest if you kill one. Especially since the red army uniform on his body is so prominent in the wilderness, a little red in the 10,000 green bushes says this. Many soldiers in the guerrilla barracks gave their lives unjustly because they could not hide from the enemy's early discovery.

The hateful thing is that Colonel Rossler, with all his face, did not agree with Claude that the military tradition of the so-called Kingdom of Auvellas was so important that it was more expensive than the lives of soldiers? Claude was helpless, and he didn't understand why Grand Prince Hansburg had sent this Lieutenant Colonel Rossler to run the guerrilla camp.

Perhaps he accepted the appointment because of his loyalty to the Grand Prince, but he was unable to take charge of the experimental guerrilla battalion and took the guerrilla battalion on a distorted path. From the bones, this Lieutenant Colonel Rossler is the traditional and stubborn soldier of the kingdom who flouts the lives of himself and his soldiers, sees the battlefield of death as the highest honor and rejects all military innovations.

Lieutenant Colonel Rossler, in the case of this guerrilla camp, also considered the soldiers to be consumables. That is why soldiers who have been wrongfully punished have been recruited into battalions without training and without any operational ambush programmes, and will not even be able to gather examples of successful ambushes and learn from them effective experiences that can improve operational effectiveness. He simply drives the soldiers to the battlefield, focusing on how many enemies they can destroy, not how many they sacrifice.

Perhaps, in Lieutenant Colonel Rossler's view, it is the scouting of the enemy that is most important to accomplish the task entrusted to him by the Great Prince, and none of the rest is considered. That's why Claude and he had a conflict, and as a sergeant, Claude didn't want one of his men to die in the sand, which was pointless.

Of course, Lieutenant Colonel Rossler understands that Claude is definitely the ace card in the Rangers' camp at the moment. Forty-three identity tags of enemy scouts alone he has retrieved are not counted as those that have not been retrieved. Many of the soldiers in the guerrilla camps swore to Dandan that they had witnessed Claude shoot the enemy's scout, but for all sorts of sudden reasons they had not recovered their identity plates, and all of these killed enemies together had nearly a hundred figures.

In terms of battle merit, Claude should have been awarded the rank of official lieutenant long ago for killing his enemies, but Lieutenant Colonel Rossler had been suppressing him, even hiding his battle effort from reporting upwards. Usually, the egg bones looked for his fault and deducted his battle effort, mostly because of jealousy and fear.

Think about how old Claude was, how old he was when he was only twenty years old, he could be promoted to the rank of lieutenant in battle, while Lieutenant Colonel Rossler was twenty-five years old to become a lieutenant, and it took him another decade of dedicated hard work to climb to the position of Major, then seven years to ascend to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and with his loyalty and diligence he gained the trust of Prince Hansburg to take charge of this newly formed guerrilla camp.

For Lieutenant Colonel Rossler, he was 43 years old, and if he could not be promoted to the rank of general by the age of 50, he would leave the army and return to his hometown for old age. It was a painful thing for him, he was not a nobleman, and leaving the army would have nothing, no power, no wealth. Even if there was a colonel's title and a generous pension, he would prefer to go further in his military career than the aristocratic life he had witnessed, and his promotion to the rank of general meant that he would become a member of the new nobility.

With regard to the guerrilla camp, Lieutenant Colonel Rossler had no love at all and, as an orthodox soldier, he really despised the practice of ambushing cold guns. In his eyes, this is tantamount to a despicable assassination journey. He believed that soldiers should open their positions with guns and canes, and bomb a fierce battlefield slaughter. Even if they lose, the battlefield will die in return for King's grace, and must not weaken their own momentum. This is actually the common view of many officers in the Royal Army.

However, as a loyal subordinate, Lieutenant Colonel Rossler could not refuse, nor could he refuse, this newly formed guerrilla battalion. Despite his disgust, he still had to carry out the Grand Prince's orders, and he was conscious that the key to his further advancement or advancement to the rank of general was whether the battalion's operational effectiveness met the Grand Prince's requirements.

Neither was Lieutenant Colonel Rossler a fool in nearly two decades of his military career, and he was well aware that Claudetti's proposals did have a clear effect on the role of the guerrilla camps. The question is, what's in it for him? If Claude's recommendations are implemented, it will only be Claude, not the commander in charge of his barracks, who will be better suited to take charge of the barracks when they are passed on to Prince Hansburg's ears...

Lieutenant Colonel Rossler knew exactly what kind of man the Great Prince was, and he would break the line to promote this Claude, and it would be easy to promote him to lieutenant, not to mention a lieutenant, with his martial arts, which is what the fire line was raised to mean. And Claude was only twenty years old, and when he became a lieutenant, and several more beautiful ambushes, then he was promoted as a captain to represent the parade battalion, after all, he represented the squadron captain as a sergeant chief, and also because of the importance attached to the new training methods of soldiers to the great prince.

If Claude's proxy runs this barracks, then his future will be there, and he'll come back to the Grand Prince with a squire? If you do that, Lieutenant Colonel Rossler can assure you that you will never be a general of the kingdom for the rest of your life. The bright future and the bright future of your life will say goodbye to yourself...

So in the guerrilla camp, Lieutenant Colonel Rossler could only try to get Claude in trouble and try to keep him out of trouble. He knew very well why he was so constrained by a small sergeant, like the old bosses he had seen climbing up in the army and up to the boss, who had not known how many of them, and who had sinned against them, had not done much good. So, now that you've sinned, you can only suppress him, don't let him go up...

Ridiculous, as the commander in charge of the guerrilla battalion, a small sergeant should be caught, but Lieutenant Colonel Rossler was afraid to attack this Claude. The use of military justice to punish this Claude was easy, but he could not control his death, which was of little use, because he could not find a suitable reason.

Besides, this Claude is on the Grand Prince's watch list, and if one day the Grand Prince heartily asks about him, he knows that he was executed in the name of enforcing military law. Then it would surely be strange to believe in the loyalty of the great prince, as long as he sends someone to investigate, he will know what is happening in the barracks, and what he can confirm is that it will never be good... because what the great prince hates most is the jealousy of the generations who can kill each other.

Lieutenant Colonel Rossler prayed to the gods in secret and alone countless times, hoping that Claude would die in the sand. If he died on the battlefield, it would be absolutely great news for Lieutenant Colonel Rossler, who could even play a commander in front of the great prince who lamented his loss of one of his finest men. Then he can submit Claude's suggestion as his own claim to the Great Prince, and get the Grand Prince's appreciation Qingyun straight up...

Unfortunately, the guerrilla battalion lost so many soldiers, but this Claude lived well, returning safely from the battlefield every time. Even if Colonel Rossler gave him the most difficult task, he could accomplish it. It was as if on one occasion he had not returned to the battalion for three days, and Lieutenant Colonel Rossler was overjoyed, thinking that he had finally gone to the nail in his eyes, and that he had returned to the battalion with three soldiers in the early morning of the fourth day, as well as with the identity plates of seven enemy scouts. Lieutenant Colonel Rossler had no choice but to deduct his battle effort in the name of a violation of his return time.

Many of the rules for the guerrilla battalion were laid down by Lieutenant Colonel Rossler himself, such as a soldier going to the battlefield, who could stay outside for two days and return to the battalion the following night. If he can get an enemy's nameplate, he can get a two-day break. If not, then the next day we'll have to ambush the enemy on the battlefield. Another soldier who was wrongly punished entered the guerrilla battalion, and he had to go to the battlefield to get the identity plates of three enemies before he could leave the guerrilla battalion and return to his original army...

Claude had talked to Lieutenant Colonel Rossler about the unreasonableness of some of the provisions he had made, but all of them had been ignored by Lieutenant Colonel Rossler. In his eyes, completing the tasks entrusted to him by the Great Prince is the key. Nothing else matters. Dead soldiers are normal. This is a battlefield, not a nursing home. Being a soldier, fighting the battlefield and killing enemies, it is only natural that sacrifices should be made. So Lieutenant Colonel Rossler raised the prize on the enemy's nameplate, an enemy's nameplate, not only to get two days off, but also to get a Silver Tall prize.

A marching battalion that is likely to change centuries of war, innovating the pattern of shooting, was transformed by Lieutenant Colonel Rossler into a correctional battalion and a concentration of mercenaries and the dead, and countless greedy soldiers flocked to apply for admission. Lieutenant Colonel Rossler was temporarily not saddened by the sources of the guerrilla barracks, and he was complacent about his pride.

In Lieutenant Colonel Rossler's view, trading a silver tower for the life of an enemy scout is a very good deal. As for the loss of soldiers on his side, even if he paid a price of 4 to 15 to 1, as long as he covered up the battlefield on his side and prevented the enemy's scouts from going deep behind the party to detect intelligence, even if the task entrusted to him by the Great Prince was accomplished, it would be worthwhile to sacrifice more soldiers.

So Lieutenant Colonel Rossler could care less about the high casualty rate of soldiers in the guerrilla barracks, and Claude couldn't sit back and watch this squadron of his own men die for nothing. Even if he did his best, he would not be able to reduce the number of casualties among the soldiers who went on ambush missions alone. Because he himself needs to go on the battlefield and hunt enemy scouts instead of staying in the camp all day like Lieutenant Colonel Rossler and driving the soldiers to the battlefield...

Now Claude has three groups of horses ambushed in the field, and if there is no war, the field should be full of winter wheat, and it's almost harvested. Instead of growing like this, the weeds are still so big that Claude and others are hiding inside.

This was supposed to be a ditch for drainage in the field before, but it became a longer pit after the waste was clogged. Claude was not wearing a military hat, and it was strictly forbidden for the soldiers who followed him to wear a large red straight cap. Everyone wears a straw hat made of weeds and shrub branches. Though wearing a large red military uniform, they wear a straw seat outside. The straw seat is covered with a lot of mud, and some branches and shrubs are inserted as disguises...

There is a saying that war is the best teacher in the military, the problem is that your enemies have become the best students, and your class leader is stubborn, not only does he not work hard, but he also forces you not to work hard. When I think of this situation, Claude feels separated.

In only one month's time in April, enemy scouts understood what kind of adversaries they had encountered, changing their usual habit of conducting reconnaissance operations in groups of three or four horsemen, using a reconnaissance team to carry out their activities and often first occupying high ground to search for enemy infantry ambushes in the area.

Thanks to the insistence of Lieutenant Colonel Rossler, the soldiers of the guerrilla battalion who were on ambush missions were easily spotted by the enemy and assaulted by the other party. By the end of April and the beginning of May, the ratio of enemy casualties to enemy casualties had risen to 7: 1 or 8: 1, meaning that between 7 and 8 soldiers of the guerrilla battalion had to be sacrificed to receive an enemy identity plate...