Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 269: Unexpected Reunion

According to the officer in charge of the transfer, more than 300 officers who came to the General Assembly tonight to celebrate their service were promoted, but apparently he did not include the guests who attended the ceremony.

Claude walked into the room and realized that those gorgeous and expensive decorations didn't have to say much, and that big room alone was enough to surprise him. In order to hold this convention, His Royal Highness the Grand Prince asked that the training ground be covered with a roof and transformed from outdoors to indoors.

I don't see how this is an outdoor training ground. Claude thought it was a palace, and only a palace would have that much space. Look at the warm, not cold, luxury tiles laid on the ground, and obviously there are heating pipes laid underground, so much so that the space doesn't feel a little chilly.

But the space is full of people, middle-aged and elderly people in dark black dress besides military uniforms in the Kingdom of Orvillas, accompanied by beautiful women dressed in flowers and branches.

“These are the celebrities of the three southern counties who have come to pay tribute and their families. His Royal Highness attaches great importance to the stable prosperity and development of the three southern counties and hopes that this will be another military production site in the Kingdom. These people have always been close to the kingdom and are willing to help it, so His Highness deliberately invited them to come and watch. As for the beautiful ladies, they are their families. If you are unmarried, go and meet them. They may be the sons and daughters of the wealthy...”

The words of the second lieutenant officers who brought the two men in naturally made Major Claude and Major Ledfolk count, meaning that most of the family members of these visiting guests were their children, not the maids who had been specifically brought in to accompany them. If you have a family, you can get to know them, but you just want to stay up there all night and not be rude. The lieutenant officer was a deliberate reminder and to avoid embarrassment to His Royal Highness the Grand Prince.

It is arguably an alternative congress of relatives, and there is no better way to tie the local celebrities of these southern three counties to the ship of the kingdom of Orvillas than to be married. Of course, being a celebrity in these places, climbing with the Sterling Royal Family is delusional. Step back and marry these promising young officers in the Royal Army. That's a doorman. In a way, it's also an insurance policy for their own families...

The lieutenant officer took both Major Claude and Major Ledfunk to register their names and quit, saying he was going to pick up another officer. The head of the Registry gave each of Major Claude and Major Ledfank a piece of paper with the positions of two people in line, which required two people to remember and find their place immediately after the start of the Conference.

It was a little early, Major Ledfank took Claude to the hall and slowly tasted two glasses of fruit wine each on a long table. He greeted the officers he knew from time to time, but his eyes kept staring at the beautiful women who came to see the gift.

Claude asked. Did you feel it?

Major Liedfank did not hide it. He nodded and replied. A little, at the end of the year, he was 30 years old. The lieutenant just said that he suddenly had the idea of becoming a family. After this promotion to Lieutenant Colonel, I felt that I should have a bit of an identity, and finding someone to marry would not be an insult to anyone...

Many things were unexpected, and Major Ledfank said he had enlisted as a probationary lieutenant when he graduated from military school at the age of twenty, and was promoted to captain when he was twenty-seven years old, a remarkable comparison with his fellow students during the same period. Since he was responsible for logistics, he thought he would not be able to enter the ranks of military officers until he was at least thirty-five years old. He had always intended to return home to find a woman to marry and start a family when he was promoted to Major, a statement to his family.

Later, he was named one of his personal officers by Grand Prince Hansburg, responsible for auditing and verification matters. After nearly two years of dedication, the Grand Prince made him the logistics director of the newly formed guerrilla battalion. And then it was simple, Ford of Tokelau, who was promoted from captain to major and became battalion commander of the guerrilla battalion. Now because the conductor will be promoted to Lieutenant Colonel again, when I think of all this, Major Ledfank feels that he seems to be dreaming beautifully, and for more than a year he has promoted himself to two levels...

Major Ledfank therefore felt that he seemed to be able to move the marriage plan forward by four or five years, and that the woman's family could ask for a higher degree, no longer being the daughter of a gentleman who was about to return home. The daughter of these local celebrities in the southern three counties is suitable for his identity. After all, the village gentleman's estate is nothing more than a farm forest, and these local celebrities are more influential and financially powerful by owning shares in the military industry in the southern three counties or running their own spare parts workshops.

Now that Major Ledfank had decided on the idea of starting a family, Claude accompanied him in discussing his guest's daughter's granddaughter or something. It's just that Major Ledfank was looking for a virtuous woman who behaved in a decent way to keep a family as his wife. He watched for half a day and unfortunately did not find a goal to make him fall in love at first sight.

More than an hour later, the General Assembly was approaching, and Major Claude and Major Ledfank hurried to find their place and stood up.

More than 300 officers who participated in the ceremony were placed in a neat formation in the centre of the venue, while guests of the ceremony stood beside the formation. From time to time, the young officers they were looking at in the array of guests' families threw glances at each other. However, no one would listen to them. The young officers jumped on their faces and set up a wooden platform with half a person in front of them. They just occasionally glanced at each other...

For Claude, such an honorary celebration is also a formal process with those congresses of previous generations. First came a general, introducing himself as the military chief of the Front Line Command, who was responsible for the successful certification of the more than 300 officers who came to the General Assembly, who had spent more than 20 minutes in Lori, reviewing about a year of fighting and the performance of the regiments, and finally shouted in a loud voice: "Welcome, Hansburg. His Royal Highness Prince Don Sterling is here to preside over the promotion ceremony! ”

So the guests on both sides of the hall applauded, while the ladies with the branches pulled apart their skirts and bent their knees and squatted. As for the officers in the centre of the venue, the marches were held in a collective manner.

Grand Prince Hansburg stepped onto the wooden platform and followed more than a dozen generals, who went onto the wooden platform and stood behind the Grand Prince in a row, leaving only one empty spot in the middle.

The Grand Prince did not say the same thing for half a day as the general who had just been in charge of military affairs. He simply exaggerated the work done by the army of the lower realm and announced the ceremony.

The two lieutenant officers walked out of the wooden platform and started naming them with a high voice and, after each name had been reported, gave the reasons for their promotion in concise terms. All officers who have entered the ranks are required to walk on the wooden platform, where the Grand Prince and a dozen generals change their shoulder badges. Meanwhile, a dozen lieutenant officers walked onto the stage with a silver plate covered in large red velvet, standing beside the generals, with a pair of shoulder stamps on top of the silver plate velvet.

Major Ledfank was the fifth named person to be promoted on the grounds of due diligence and command. Claude noticed below that Major Ledfank's shoulder badge was replaced by the Grand Prince himself, who then patted him on the shoulder with a smile and spoke to him. When Major Ledfank stepped down, his eyes filled with moving tears, he couldn't bear to come out, and bowed down to the appearance of loyalty...

With the change of shoulder badges on the stage, oh no, it was the awarding ceremony, and Claude suddenly discovered a scene that made him a little embarrassed. There were many captain officers like him on the field, but as the ceremony proceeded, a group of officers came to the stage and changed their shoulder stamps, the captain officers on the field were all gone, promoted to Major, standing beside them were all school officers, and a few officers, because Claude had not been called to the stage by name, began to notice Claude, seemed to think of him as an unwilling mixer.

Hustle is the ceremony of promotion to the rank of school officer, Claude, and think about it. If you add the promotion to the rank of captain, the hundreds of thousands of troops will have to have thousands of men, and the great prince will probably not be able to change so many shoulders until tomorrow night. Fortunately, the promotion ceremony for more than 300 officers proceeded quickly, and more than a dozen generals on the wooden platform, plus the Great Prince himself, each changed 20 shoulder tags, which took more than an hour.

Claude's feet were a little sour. At this time, he was envious of the guests who were watching beside him and the beautiful ladies. The waiters had already set up chairs beside him. Many people sat down, clapping perfectly and cheering for the officers who came on stage...

The two signed up lieutenant officers next to the wooden platform finally stopped making noise. When the last young officers to take the stage and change their shoulders came down, a general came to the stage and announced loudly that the Knight's Medal award ceremony would follow, with Claude from the 1st Battalion of Rangers. Captain Fields on stage.

When he heard his name, Claude walked forward, pretending he didn't feel the hot, jealous look of the young officers behind him...

Upon reaching the stage, as Lieutenant Colonel Ledfank had reminded, Claude saluted Grand Prince Hansburg first, then offered a round of salute to the generals behind him, and finally offered the same salute to the young officers under the stage, then bowed his hands and stood up to the Grand Prince.

“Good, young, brave, thought-provoking, that's why you stand up. I look after you and try harder in the future..." The Great Prince patted Claude on his shoulder very kindly.

Claude once again “popped” the upright salute: "Be faithful to the Kingdom! Serve Your Highness! ”

No way, this is the standard answer to Lieutenant Colonel Ledfank's instruction, and even if Claude finds it embarrassing to say it, he is not the one to answer it.

A general came up next to him, opened a file in his hand, and began to explain to you why Claude had won the Knight's Medal, just how he had defeated more than 5,000 enemies with a strength of more than one hundred and seventy men and won a miraculous victory. Also, the proof of war process was verified twice, confirming that it was correct, which is why the Great Prince awarded the Knight's Medal...

The great prince smiled and gave Claude a long purple gold ribbon, slanted from left shoulder to right waist. Then don't put the kid's clap-sized gold knight medal on the ribbon and pat Claude's shoulder again for encouragement. Claude saluted again, but this time he kept his mouth shut and didn't want to say that bullshit that made him blush, just pretending to look excited and confused.

It's not over yet, Claude can't get off the stage yet, because there are three lucky guys down there who won the Knight's Medal, and they can't get off the stage until they all get the Knight's Medal.

Only after hearing the name of the second newspaper, Claude was a little silly, he thought he heard it wrong, until that tiger-backed bear familiar figure came to the stage, walked in front of himself, saluted the great prince, Claude understood that it was not a dream, he heard it correctly, the guy standing in front of himself was indeed his teenager playmate, his best friend, Verricolo. Fonseca.

It really is this guy...

Claude looked silly at Verricolo saluting the Great Prince, saluting the generals behind him, saluting the officers under the stage, and saluting himself...

Without waiting for Claude to return the favor, he saw Verricolo step forward, open his arms and hug Claude very tightly. The face that had been on the stage laughed like a daisy. The one who hugged him, he almost screamed at Claude.

Claude the Goddess couldn't help but think of himself on stage, hugging Villicro back and shouting, “How come it's you, brother? ”

“I didn't expect to see you here...” Claude was really excited.

“You know each other?” When Claude and Verricolo had finished embracing, they looked at the big, silly prince beside them and asked him a question.

“We grew up together... and then their house moved to Wang Tu to separate. We haven't seen each other in four years...” Claude said.

“We went to school together, went out hunting and fishing adventures together, graduated from the country with a first place in physical science...” said Verricolo proudly.

“So you are really good brothers... I can't believe that you two distinguished students were taught to come out of your country..." The Grand Prince didn't realize how cheap his words would make that broken National High School in White Deer City come later: “Today you are also awarded the Knight's Medal, ha, this is fantastic, this is a legend and a good word from the Royal Army and deserves a lot of publicity. But you two better restrain yourselves before we finish the ceremony, okay? ”

Claude and Velikro stood up in a hurry to salute each other before Claude heard why Velikro had been awarded the Knight's Medal. The man, with the guns in his hand after his defense regiment entered the war, achieved the result of killing four hundred and twenty-six people, all with unquestionable sightings of the enemy. It is noteworthy that the distance he shot his enemies was mostly between 150 and 200 metres, which exceeded the maximum range precisely targeted by the Obash Type III firearm, and was therefore known by the Guardian Corps officers and soldiers as the "Gods of Fire”.