Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 263 bottom line

“If you read it, I won't read it.” The great prince said.

“Yes, Your Highness.” Captain Skerry took the notebook to himself.

“Claude. Feld, born March 18, 558 in Holy Light, of Bai Lu City, Southwest, is 21 years old. The 18-year-old graduated from Bai Lu City National Secondary School with first place in physical science and was recommended by the first Bai Lu City chief Viscount Felidos to attend the training of officers of the Blue Feather Regiment and thus enlisted in the army.

During the course of the training, Claude had two clashes with veterans, one seriously wounding six veterans and one maiming a sergeant chief, who himself had twice been seriously injured in a treatment facility. Both clashes were investigated as self-defence by Claude, who resisted only bullying and reprisals against him by veterans. In addition, during his recruit training, he was ranked first in terms of an excellent combined score, and Lieutenant Moster, responsible for recruit training at the 11th Field Battalion of the Blue Feather Legion, gave this Claude a high rating in the file, considering him a material born to be a soldier.

Notably, this Claude is the pharmacological disciple of Baroness Maria Wang... "

“Wait," Grand Prince Hansburg interrupted Captain Scully's report: "Baroness Maria? Is that my nominal aunt? ”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Captain Skerry replied.

Prince Hansburg frowned and thought: "I remember, my aunt was originally from Southwest Bai Lu Town, where she goes on holiday every September for the summer. But I was wondering, how did she get a gynecologist to be her pharmacologist? ”

“Your Highness, Claude's personal family file states that his father appears to be the chief administrative officer of White Deer Town, and perhaps that is why he joined Baroness Maria's line. Later, his father was excused from public office for his involvement in the opening of a new route to the mainland of Nubian, and Baroness Maria was said to have excused them from prison because of her courtship before Her Majesty. However, Claude's father still owed a huge debt for the new route of smuggling merchant ships that had been looted by pirates, and eventually had to jump and commit suicide...”

Captain Scully was very detailed, and even Claude's father committed suicide. This is mainly because he is responsible for this notebook of the Grand Prince, and whenever the Grand Prince is interested in an officer and thinks he has a good future to cultivate, Captain Scully needs to register the names of these officers and ascertain their origins and details to see if they deserve the attention of the Grand Prince.

The notebook contains the names of hundreds of officers at the grassroots level on which Captain Scully spent a great deal of time and effort. After all, the great prince now has hundreds of thousands of armies, just those senior officer generals, and Prince Hansburg and these senior officer generals are too busy to deal with each other. How can he pay so much attention to the grassroots officers?

However, Grand Prince Hansburg has come to enjoy personally dropping off his troops to see what is really happening in order to prevent senior officers from not reporting any news, arguably a well-known military expert. He also preferred to talk to the grassroots officer each time he stepped down, and when he encountered a grassroots officer of interest to him, he would prompt Captain Skerry to register his name and conduct covert observations to see if the grassroots officer was worthy of training and vigorous promotion.

From this point of view, Grand Prince Hansburg is a superior who is very talented and uses talent, and has a reputation for knowledgeable talent in the Royal Army. But no one knows that the Grand Prince actually has a problem of easily forgetting the names of others. If Captain Skerry hadn't registered behind his back and learned about those officers at the grassroots level, he would always advise and advise the Grand Prince to make sure that he would have forgotten the officers at the grassroots level who he considered promising the other day.

“Phew!” Grand Prince Hansburg snorted to the precious long wool carpet on the ground: "Those scrap materials of the Navy spend so much money and resources each year in the kingdom, all they know is to build a ship, and then another ship is sent to the bottom of the sea by a coalition of anti-Olympic allies. Peaceful times do not even open new routes and are less adventurous than a few local officials and businessmen. When someone opens a new route and throws the charge of bringing pirates on their heads, I wonder why they still have the face to call themselves the Dauntless Fleet, full of idiots and buckets of food. Still dodging the battle, don't dare attack the three maritime ports of the Principality of Limodela, it makes people angry! ”

Captain Scully laughed so hard that he knew that the reference to the Grand Prince of the Royal Navy would make him angry. Unlike His Majesty, Sterling X, who gained the strong support of the Royal Navy before taking the throne, Grand Prince Hansburg was embraced by almost all officers and soldiers of the Royal Army. As for the Royal Navy, it was a water fire with the Grand Prince. The Grand Prince has ridiculed the Royal Navy Department more than once, saying that they turned the offensive force of the Royal Sea into a big turtle. The Navy Department would better be renamed the Maritime Transport Department...

After the outbreak of the war, the Grand Prince proposed to go hand in hand, both on land and at sea, to strike the same blow on both sides of the anti-Olympic alliance countries and to put their economic and military forces at odds with the kingdom. But the kingdom's secretary of the navy, Andrei. Marshal von Carlos has, however, been tasked by the Royal Navy with avoiding war, lest the bottom of the house, which the Royal Navy has accumulated so hard over the decades, become the rubbish of the seabed. It is well known that the Royal Navy is certainly not as powerful as the anti-Olympic coalition fleet, but it is also excessive for the Ministry of the Navy to watch the Army and the anti-Olympic coalition fight.

Due to the naval evasion, the eastern waters of the continent became the dominion of the anti-Olympic coalition fleet. Even if three regiments, such as the Blue Feathers Corps, raided the southern three counties blocking the withdrawal route of the anti-Olympic alliance forces of the Principality of Rimodra, the maritime route remained unimpeded, with food and military materiel from the Kingdom of Nasri, cavalry from the Principality of Kanas, and arms and ammunition from the eastern part of the Principality of Eskilin, which could continue to be transported to the Principality of Rimodra through maritime routes.

Prince Hansburg has sworn on more than one occasion that, as long as he takes the throne, he will surely exchange blood for the Royal Navy Department and completely liquidate his inaction and embezzlement during the war. Because of its responsibility for trade transportation with seven overseas territories of the continent, the Navy Department is packed with private goods and consumed with brain fat in this lucrative shipping. This is no longer a secret in the King, and although the Navy Department unanimously denies it, the Grand Prince is not unaware, he just hasn't found any evidence.

Prime Minister Kreus has proposed the formation of a new storm fleet and the upgrading of White Deer City to open new routes so that the Dauntless fleet can have a competitor and retain a little fighting power to avoid its complete decay into an armed merchant fleet. The knowledgeable people of the kingdom are well aware that a fleet that knows nothing but wealth is defenceless. It's just that the Department of the Navy has been holding a fearless fleet for too long, Secretary of the Navy Andreq. Marshal von Carlos relied again on Sterling X's patronage, preventing anyone from interfering with the Dauntless Fleet to implement reforms...

“You continue to miss you…” After a period of sulleness, the Grand Prince remembered that he was now unable to do anything other than naval minister and royal naval ministry.

“Yes, Your Highness.” Captain Scully continued to look at the notebook in his hand and read Claude's material: "Because of Baroness Maria's letter, the Bluefeather Regiment realized that there was such a mountain leaning behind Claude. For a moment Claude became the hot potato in the eyes of a senior officer of the Legion, who was being treated for serious injuries suffered by a veteran. In order to compensate, the Legion upgraded him to chief sergeant and mandated the formation of a guard unit and stretcher team for the treatment center...”

“Wait, did this Claude use my aunt's name to gain anything in the Legion?” Grand Prince Hansburg asked.

“No,” said Captain Skerry, shaking his head. "In fact, if Baroness Maria's letter hadn't been sent to the regiment, no one would have known Claude was her disciple, he had never mentioned it to anyone, and even in the reply to Baroness Maria, it was just a normal greeting, not mentioning her injuries in the barracks, just like relatives and friends. He refused to take care of Claude because of a letter from Baroness Maria when the Second Royal Highness was overseeing the Bluefeather Regiment. His Royal Highness was said to be angry and insulted him for not lifting his arms, but left the eleventh battalion where Claude was sitting as his own escort. ”

The great prince nodded: "My brother grew up next to my aunt when he was little, unlike me, only knew he was crazy out there, so he would do everything my aunt ordered. Continue reading about this Claude. ”

“Because the guards and stretchers at the treatment center are pre-war temporary teams, the recruits arranged for Claude are all Blue Feather Regiment recruits who were eliminated and unsuitable for military service, several of whom are idiots. But Claude took only two months to train these eliminated recruits into qualified soldiers and earned the title of good soldier. Claude's security team also conducted a field confrontation drill with a veteran battalion squadron from the 11th Field Battalion during which Claude took the lead and won it all...”

“Well, how could he have won?” The great prince feels strange.

Captain Skerry laughed: "Your Highness, it's as simple as that battle to capture the Wolfgang. ”

“You mean...”

“Claude's guard unit was equipped with all three Obash guns, and they were lying on the ground near the defensive position, and the veteran battle squadron queued up, turning out to be their target, and both guns were useless, and eventually the whole army was destroyed. It is said that this result stunned all the spectators present, because the squadron's leading officer afterwards denounced Claude's tactics of war as obscene and lacking the courage of the Royal Army to face the gunfire, so this small-scale field confrontation exercise was rumored only inside the Blue Feather Regiment...”

“I remember, this Claude was the squadron captain guarding the entrance to the Odin Mountains, wasn't he? I remember he put soldiers on the ground, loaded guns, made uniforms dirty. I sent him to the guerrilla camp, and eventually he led the soldiers to take over the Wilf post, also shooting and attacking on the ground, quickly rushing into the enemy's defensive position. Didn't you hear he was injured at the treatment center? ”

“Yes, Your Highness, you finally remember.” Captain Scully relieved. But there was no way, the great prince was busy, forgetful, and it was only natural not to remember a second lieutenant.

“How did he get to the southern three counties?” The great prince asked.

Captain Skerry smiled bitterly: 'Your Highness, you forgot that you later expanded the guerrilla battalion into a fourth battalion. Claude returned to the first battalion of the guerrillas after being wounded. He belongs to Major Ledfank, who is said to rely heavily on Claude. I don't know if you remember, it took the Ranger Battalion fifty-four days to capture the elusive Castle of Black Maple, paying only twenty-seven casualties. According to my investigation, this strategy to capture Black Maple Castle was planned by Claude, and the casualties were so slightly unexpected. His Royal Highness also deliberately delayed their reward for 54 days in order to punish them for taking over Castle Blackmaple... ”

“Really? And this...” The big prince touched his nose and felt a little embarrassed. I didn't think I'd be angry with the soldiers down there because of that. It sounds like too much fun.

Captain Skerry ignored the Grand Prince's embarrassment and continued to read the notebook: “After seizing Castle Blackmaple, a Ranger Battalion was instructed to go to the Picklet Mountains to find a smuggling route to the three counties in the south of the Principality of Eskilin, where they completed their mission and remained. After the Blue Feather Regiment captured the southern three counties, as the rear guard battalion was not deployed, it had to split up one of the guerrilla battalions to defend the traffic and strategic sites in the southern three counties. Claude was instructed to lead a squadron stationed in Squirrel Village in case troops from both principalities stormed the southern three counties through the hillside..."

At the end of the notebook, Captain Scully looked up at the Grand Prince: “Your Highness, your assessment of this Claude has been marked on it. You think Claude is a devious, courageous boy who puts it into practice, and often unexpected practices lead to unexpected results...”

The Grand Prince understood what Captain Skerry meant, pointing to the jet on the finger table: “Do you think this jet is authentic? Not false warfare? ”

“I think His Royal Highness should know Major Ledfank's integrity, who has been with you for many years and is an honest man who will not lie, and that is why you will take charge of the logistics of the newly formed guerrilla battalion. He was subsequently promoted to Battalion Commander of the Ranger Battalion. I do not think Major Ledfank would have sent such a false and seemingly speculative newspaper without conclusive proof.

And this Claude was the client, and I read the Gesture, and the last part briefly stated that he was plotting to use fire to wipe out most of his enemies before winning this great victory. According to the information in this notebook, I believe this must be a real victory, not a false report of war. ”

The Grand Prince touched his chin for a moment and made a decision: "Put the newspaper aside for a moment and wait for the temporary passage to Picklet Hills to be restored before carefully verifying the veracity of the newspaper. If that's true, I'll personally summon Claude and give him a medal. ”