Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 267 Adjustment of Positions

Major Ledfank again brought a team to the Squirrel Village cantonment camp, this time to promote Claude to the ranks and award medals.

“You son of a bitch are out of luck. I didn't expect His Highness to give you the Knight's Medal.” Major Ledfank's face was full of envy and envy, and perhaps Claude would not be so lamented if he had been promoted to Major.

This time Major Ledfank, as the commanding officer of the Ranger Battalion, was also credited with one level of merit for Claude's battle victory, and he could be promoted to Lieutenant Colonel as long as the next level of merit was established. At present, with the opportunity of the subsequent reinforcements arriving in the three counties of the south, Major Ledfank entrusted the task of guarding the main roads of those localities to the reinforced local guard battalions, assembling the two large battalions of the first battalion of guerrillas, carrying out extensive clean-up activities against the rebel insurgents in those former localities, with good results and maintaining local order within the limits of his guarding responsibilities. By the end of the year, he should be able to add a silver bend to his shoulders.

Knight's Medal? What is this... Claude's face is unimaginable, and in his mind, this knight's medal is probably worth two more medals, just like those of previous generations. You know, there was a time in my past life when I went with the boss to that bear country, and the boss bought a former Soviet uniform at a huge price on the black market, with over a dozen former Soviet medals on it. When I think of that stick country in the north, when they were marching, the general's uniforms were full of medals, like ancient armor, and I wondered if they could be bulletproof. I didn't realize there were medals in this world...

Major Ledfank sighed deeply, and he was well aware of Claude's ignorance, which was not necessarily clear about the importance of the Knight's Medal. Who told Claude to join the army and enter the battlefield just over six months later, although he became a sergeant, with a high starting point, he did not know much about common sense in the brigade.

It's usually five or six years in the military that those who climb up will understand the value of these awards and figure out how they can be promoted. Nearly three years after the war broke out, Claude could say that he had been at the grass-roots level and on the front line, without time or the idleness to know about common sense in these armies, or that no one could tell him.

Major Ledfank had to explain to Claude what it meant to win the Knight's Medal, which meant that Claude's foot had entered the ranks of the kingdom's nobility. Or, in the kingdom of Orvilas, a knight's medal is more respectable than some hereditary nobility. Because hereditary aristocracy may be handed down by the fathers, some of the busy idolaters can also become kingdom aristocrats. But the soldiers who won the Knight's Medal were undisputed in battle and earned this honor with their lives and courage.

The Knight's medal was placed in a flat little box with a black circular badge on the purple velvet with a pattern of a long-range Mercedes-Benz shooter, aiming at the horse. The badge is also about three centimetres in diameter and does not look eye-catching at all, as if it were a very ordinary commemorative badge.

Major Ledfank's eyes didn't seem to stick out on this black badge, and he muttered that if he could win a Knight's Medal in his life, he would be satisfied, and even if he reviewed his military career before his death, he would not be left with any regrets.

Claude joked that if he didn't give this knight's medal to Major Ledfank, he couldn't let him die without meditation...

I didn't expect Major Ledfank to tell Claude seriously, not in front of anyone else, let alone joke about the Knight's Medal. Because the Royal Military Law stipulates that the Knight's Medal shall not be granted as a gift, but shall only be used by the recipient. Any impersonation of the Knight's Medal will be regarded as an affront to this honor and the offenders will be brought to justice, with a minimum of 10 years' hard labour and, most importantly, a direct hanging.

“This is a by-law that you can keep or wear on your chest.” Major Ledfunk handed Claude the little box in his hand, reluctantly: “Only with this by-law can anyone call you Lord Knight, the same in the army and in the ground. But if you don't wear this by-law, people can call you by your name instead of Knight Claude. ”

“Wait, sir, what does this chapter mean?” Claude asked.

Major Ledfank laughed: "You don't think the Knight's Medal is such an inconspicuous thing, do you? The medallion is the size of a child's slap, made of gold and accompanied by a purple gold medallion. However, it will not be awarded until the end of the year, when His Majesty organizes the celebration of meritorious service, and His Majesty will personally hang the seal on your chest. But that's not a good chapter to wear on a daily basis, and it's just too dazzling. Because the medal winner is not an outburst, that's why he has this chapter. It doesn't usually hang on his chest as bright as it is, and it seems a little subtle. It's six months away from the end of the year, and that's when I send you a by-law indicating that you've officially been granted Knight status. ”

Claude, that's how I understood it. It turns out the Knight's Medal still has that kind of discipline. To avoid making mistakes in the future, he simply asked Major Ledfank to keep the Knight's Medal in front of his chest and make sure to remember where he wore it, so as not to make common sense mistakes between the left and right sides.

Then there's the promotion to the ranks, which is simple, change the shoulder badge, and the captain has three black stars on his shoulder badge. As for the ID card promotion formalities, Major Ledfank is already at battalion headquarters, and Claude only needs to sign them. And finally, the prize money, because of this victory and promotion, Claude earned more than sixty gold kroner in total. Major Ledfank joked that Claude could make a fortune out of war developers and only need a few more victories like this...

After all of this, Mark Chimerried was promoted. The Grand Prince's reward decision is to promote all participating officers and soldiers to the first rank, plus one level of merit for all officers and soldiers of the first battalion of Rangers. However, because Claude was promoted directly to the rank of Captain, all of the participating officers were promoted to the first rank and he had no part in it, but the one who remembered the first degree of merit still had. He could be promoted to Major with two more first-degree awards.

Major Ledfank brought a large group of men directly from the battalion headquarters in order to advance the ranks of all participating officers to the ranks of the first rank and to remember a first degree of merit. Claude's business was handled by him, and the rewards and promotions of the next hundred and thirty officers and soldiers would be the responsibility of those he took with him. It took a long day to get these things done and everyone was tired.

This time Claude's subordinates, in addition to Markci and Muried, and Diavid's three officers, were promoted to Ensign at the same time, so that Markci was so annoyed that he thought that his subordinate two Sergeant Sergeant Sergeants had gone out of the house and stepped on shit that luck didn't make any sense.

The reason is simple: the two cadet squadron captains had accumulated two first-degree merits, and now His Royal Highness has decided that the entire cadet battalion of the Rangers will take one first-degree merit. The two cadet squadron captains have caught up and three first-degree merits have promoted them to the rank of chief cadet. Then all the participating officers were promoted to the first rank, and the two caught up, and all of a sudden they went from subordinate to sitting on par with Makchi, and became lieutenant officers as well.

Major Ledfank and Claude held a battalion meeting, which resulted in awards for the promotion of all participating officers to the first rank, so much so that there were about twice as many basic officers and veterans of Claude's rank as there were other squadrons. These are the elite forces of the 1st Battalion of the Rangers, and Major Ledfank has decided to redeploy some of them to other battalions and squadrons. Anyway, Claude has a small number of officers here, which is difficult to arrange.

The status quo of the 1st Battalion of Rangers ranged from attacking Castle Blackmaple to exploring the Pick Mountains area to guarding the area in the three southern counties, where they experienced local chaos and a great war on the Claude side, injuries that had not been replenished, accounting for a shortfall of more than two hundred people, nearly a battalion. If reinforcements are forthcoming in the future, new recruits may be replenished by notification, but at the same time a group of grass-roots officers will need to be drawn to replenish the retired Blue Feather Corps from the front line and a list of redeployed personnel will be issued.

Strangely enough, all the officers at the grassroots level who were to be transferred from the first battalion of the Rangers were those who had not participated in the battle under the command of Claude and the Alliance of Nobles of the two Duchy Territories. So now Claude's men are supposed to be the most grassroots officers in one battalion of Rangers, and Major Ledfank, the battalion commander, needs to draw those sergeants and sergeants from here to fill other squadron grassroots officers' vacancies.

If Markci and Muried, as well as the three Diavids who calmed down local riots outside, would like to do so, they could also be transferred to another battalion to assume the position of Squadron Leader under their rank of lieutenant. At the same time, however, the three rejected Major Ledfank's request and preferred to remain under Claude's command, as they said that fighting under Claude was more bottom-line and that there was no need to worry that his life would be used as cannon ash.

Claude was officially appointed captain of the 1st Battalion of the Rangers. Major Ledfank decided to regroup the first battalion of guerrillas, and Claude was appointed to that position at the outset. Now that Claude has been promoted to Captain, the title is correct. The reason for this arrangement was that Major Ledfank feared that if he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel at the end of the year, he would be transferred elsewhere, so that Claude, as captain of the first battalion, would be qualified to represent the battalion commander of the first battalion of the Rangers.

The first battalion is now a reinforced battalion, with an additional artillery squadron, in addition to four squadrons, equipped with eight light infantry artillery. Major Ledfank entrusted Claude with the full guarding of the hillside. Just to be honest, this first battalion is still an empty shelf, and it will take about half a month for the remainder of the personnel and weapons equipment to replenish, in addition to the three unhappy infantry squadrons of Markci, Muriel and Diavid and a three-light infantry artillery unit of 15. The grass-roots officers required by the new infantry squadron and artillery squadron will depend on Claude himself from the next three squadrons.

Major Ledfank returned with two new lieutenants, five sergeants, fourteen sergeants and eighteen sergeants. And Mark Lodd, watching the departed battalion, laughed bitterly, and the iron battalion flowing soldiers, he couldn't resist these old men, who had cultivated acquiescence for so long. But there is no way, the soldier battalion needs to be reintegrated, he lacks officers and veterans at the grassroots level, and he can only provide strong support. After all, the soldier battalion belongs to him now, and he cannot fail Major Ledfank's trust in him.

More than a week later, Diaved returned to the Squirrel Village cantonment camp, where he led his squadron out to crack down on local riots and damaged a dozen more. However, the wounded had been sent to the battalion treatment centre, and Major Ledfank promised to fill the vacancy as soon as possible.

Supplementary recruits and weapons and equipment arrived more than a decade later, and now Claude's battalion is responsible for the entire hillside guard task, and the squadron that was supposed to guard the entrance to the hillside was recruited back by battalion headquarters. Claude decided to have that squadron from Diaved stationed at the entrance to the hillside, dispatching a squad to Blackstone Village, and all the rest concentrated in the Squirrel Village cantonment camp for training. A squadron led by Markci was responsible for the custody of more than 400 prisoners, leaving Muried to train additional recruits, and the artillery squadron to train in the valley next to it.

Soon after, in September, the training of recruits for the first three months of the battalion was completed, everything in the cantonment camp was on track, and the prisoners opened nearly 300 acres of mountain fields for Squirrel Village, and the mountain path was refurbished to Blackstone Village. Claude decided to continue to let the captives renovate the highway. Anyway, there was nothing to do but to renovate the highway from Squirrel Village to the southern tri-county highway entrance. The 400 captives were also idle and could not feed them without eating bread.

With more than 300 acres of mountain fields added to Squirrel Village, the village elder has become Squirrel Village's number one millionaire. Because he paid for hiring prisoners to open mountain fields, so the 300 acres of mountain fields were under his name, and the business of the tavern was good, the old man recruited three young women to come to the tavern as waitresses in several mountain villages to attract soldiers from the new and obsolete cantonment camps to the tavern for consumption.

The villagers of Squirrel Village also found their way to wealth, either through livestock and poultry farming or by opening canteens where vegetables grown in mountain fields are provided to cantonment camps. Some villagers are also planting large areas of fruit forest on hillsides that are not suitable for desertification, but this takes a long time and the money scene is not yet visible.

There are also flexible villagers who go to other mountain villages to buy mountain goods and come back and sell them to Claude or the village elder. Claude typically buys more precious mountain goods, accumulates a batch of them and then sells them to the big trading houses in town to make some extra money. Mountain goods bought by the village elders are common and inexpensive and are used to make ingredients in taverns.

Claude lived a relatively quiet life, because he had no idea that there was a lot of gunfire out there, but he seemed to be so calm on his side. Even a Ranger Battalion did not receive any combat tasks, as it had forgotten a Ranger Battalion. Major Ledfank asked for combat tasks several times, but the orders from the General Staff above said that the task of maintaining order and stability in the area was to rest in peace for the time being, which was the task of the 1st Battalion of Rangers...