Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 275: Claude Wants to Be a Salted Fish

Throughout June, the area known as the Land of Lord's Freedom was very calm and seemed to have been forgotten. In fact, this area at the foot of the Great Green Mountains is more accurate than being forgotten. From west to east, all you see are abandoned huts and shadows, like ghost villages. The deserted fields are filled with weeds, covering a trail taken by pedestrians. In the past, those ditches that have been carefully handled and communicated have also been buried and blocked by the dust sand brought by the wind from the grasslands...

The entire region is also the only former Roycade located in the centre closest to the Great Green Mountains. Count Barclaus' territory also has a vibrant vision. There are people in the fields, there are people in the orchards, and there are all kinds of vegetables growing on the farm. There are people in the woods at the foot of the Great Green Mountain who are harvesting wood, burning charcoal, and people on the slopes who are grazing sheep.

Claude was impressed with Captain Skerry's ability to handle these trivial things, although he could, but he hated handling them. On this occasion, he accompanied Captain Skerry throughout the area and, upon his return, received good news that, thanks to his occupation of the area, the entire Ranger Battalion was awarded a first-degree merit and Captain Skerry was promoted to Major Officer.

Major Skerry drank a little too much at night, and he dragged Claude back to his life. He was born in the House of Lords and his father was a Viscount, but he was an illegitimate son. His father and a married man had given birth to him, and fortunately his biological mother's husband had gone to Nubian mainland and had not returned for four years. So his birth mother could hide his information, but she couldn't bring him with her, she had to leave him to her adulterer.

Although the Viscount's father admitted that Major Skerry was his son, Major Skerry had not received much attention from him since he was a child, his position at home was not even as good as that of a servant, and he was often bullied by his half-sisters, who called him a bastard, as can be seen from the absence of the nobleman in Major Skerry's name.

Fortunately, there was also a grandmother, the mother of the Viscount's father, a sensible old woman who sheltered Major Skerry's childhood and adolescence and, when Major Skerry was fourteen, sent Major Skerry to Wangdu's Juvenile School with her savings to encourage him to fight for a bright future for himself.

Major Skerry graduated from military school at the age of twenty as a probationary lieutenant and entered the Guardian Corps, when his beloved grandmother died. At the funeral, he again clashed with those brothers and sisters who feared that he would split the legacy left by his grandmother. Since then, he and the aristocratic family have broken off their last constraint and, to that end, he has even removed the name that embarrassed him, becoming an anonymous person.

After eight years in the Guardianship Corps, Major Skerry was finally promoted to a captain, and that was when he was favoured by Grand Prince Hansburg, who transferred him to become a close deputy. Major Skerry said that he could not forget what the great prince said to him. The great prince said it had nothing to do with having a name. You can earn yourself a great name by your own efforts. Your future generations will be honored with your name.

That is exactly what made Major Scully a great prince. It was just unexpected that staying with the great prince was not the beginning of Fei Huang Tengda, but a year of painful seniority. After six years of service to the Grand Prince, he is awarded only one second degree of merit each year for his diligent and dedicated quality service. In six years, there were six second-degree awards, equivalent to two first-degree awards. In other words, if he wants to be promoted to Major next to the Great Prince, he has three more years to live...

Those who have seen their colleagues get promoted in this war less than they have in the past, and, of course, many have fallen into the sandbox. However, the promotion of Lieutenant Colonel Ledfank finally inspired him to win. Although safe and secure, the promotion was too slow. He pondered repeatedly and finally offered the Grand Prince his wish to lower his troops to the front line to bob a future.

The Grand Prince fulfilled his request and transferred him to the Ranger Battalion to become Battalion Commander. The Grand Prince said it should be easy for him to get a promotion, but it could also be very dangerous. As a result, only one and a half years into the ranks of the Rangers, he was promoted to the rank of Major by taking possession of an area abandoned by the nobility of the territory of the Principality of Kanas, together with the two previous first-degree awards accumulated three times.

Major Skerry was really drunk, perhaps a long-awaited promotion that finally let him go. From Captain to Major, he's been trying for six years. If he stays with the great prince, he will have to wait three more years, and he will be around thirty-seven years old. At this rate, then it is likely that he will not be promoted to Colonel by the age of fifty. Perhaps he will have to retire as a Colonel and buy a farm quietly for the rest of his life. This would be very different from his desire to make a stand out for himself. He does not want to disappoint himself...

Claude was embarrassed because Major Skerry had been dragging him around to tell his story and his dreams, while apologizing to Claude, who had not intentionally come to the Rangers Battalion to take the position of battalion commander. He himself felt embarrassed to be captain of this barracks as a captain, because Claude was also a captain and a winner of the Order of the Knight. If Lieutenant Colonel Ledfank leaves for another high school, then it would be prudent to transfer a Major Officer to the position of Battalion Commander, or simply Claude to represent the Battalion Commander.

But the great prince preferred him as captain, so much so that he always felt a little embarrassed, as if he had robbed Claude as captain. So what he wanted from Claude was Baiyi Baishun, trying not to contradict Claude. He whispered alcohol to Claude, saying he didn't think he was Claude's opponent in the war, because under the same conditions, he couldn't replicate the great victory of Squirrel Village. If he guarded Squirrel Village, it would be for a few days at most, and then the whole army would die bravely...

Claude could only laugh bitterly. In fact, he never wanted to climb. What was he doing as a battalion commander? There was more to worry about. Lieutenant Colonel Ledfank was a logistics officer. Major Scully was a close deputy to the great prince. They all had enough patience to deal with the trivial chores and mediate personnel disputes in the camp. And because they have been in the army for a long time, they have a certain human relationship in the army, and they get the attention and help of their colleagues when problems arise.

Claude joined the army for how long, more than three years, starting with a sergeant chief, who was promoted so quickly not only as a captain but also won the Knight's Medal because of his kinship. But in the army, he had no foundation, and even though he had received the attention of the great prince, he was more jealous of others.

In a large group of Rangers Battalion One, Claude said there was a one-size-fits-all presence, and both officers and soldiers were happy to serve below, which was his class. But if he becomes acting battalion commander, his orders may not be effectively implemented by two, three or four battalions. Because the commanders of those three battalions were all newly redeployed to the 1st Battalion of Rangers, also under the rank of Captain, and most of the soldiers were recruits, Claude needed time and effort to subdue those three Captain colleagues in order to assert his authority. Claude was impatient with these relationships, and with his idle kung fu, he preferred to spend more time with his little lover magician Sheila.

After Claude's big win over Squirrel Village, Claude took the time to get McJackie to town with the big Grimes, equipping Sheila, the young sorceress, with all kinds of decorations and metal accessories for her new cabin in the Witch Forest, while purchasing plenty of supplies to dress up for the new house. Then, after everything was done, Sheila, the Junior Mage, moved into her new home. Also on that moonlight night, after two people had finished a bottle of celebratory wine, the young magician fell into Claude's arms, in a passionate kiss, and gave his innocent body to Claude...

This is the girl Claude really likes in this different world, and he doesn't know if it's true love. In his previous life, his beloved wife betrayed him, and his sickly boss took him to various venues with him. He saw all kinds of strange betrayals, and experienced countless women of his own, so that he became an old driver. The affairs of men and women were nothing more than a physiological need for him. He thought he would no longer be emotional in this regard.

When he came to the other world, he got affection. Although the brother in the blood relationship bored him, the love of his parents was true, and the affection of his sister and brother still allowed him to integrate into the family.

At the same time, there was Velikoro, Bok Al and his friendship, as well as the affection of the teenage girl, Kevin, for him. Claude felt most paradoxically that Caffrey, the girl who was the first love of her body, had no feelings for her after Claude had crossed. It's not that Kevin is not pretty, the girl is very smart and cute, she's in good shape, has a gentle personality and is very kind, it's the best companion for having a family with children.

But the problem was that Claude had no feelings for her until Caffrey realized his magician identity and poured a love affair on him. Claude felt so sorry for herself that she gave her a promise to marry her when she came back before leaving home to join the army, and gave her the way she left behind in her hometown of Bai Lu.

If I hadn't met Sheila in Squirrel Village, the girl who really moved Claude, maybe after the war, he'd really go back to White Deer Town and marry Caffrey. But now Claude is embarrassed that with Sheila, they share a common language, at least a magician, and that they can help each other on the road to magic. And if she goes back to marry Kaifani, Claude also has to worry about this kind girl in case her identity is revealed...

So Claude had no intention of being the battalion manager, he was not a loyal member of the Sterling royal family, he was in the battlefield simply because his home was in White Deer Town and he had to serve in the military service of the Kingdom of Orvillas. As for the allegiance to the royal family to the eastern part of the kingdom's unified continent and all that, in his view, was pure fart, he himself had no sense of belonging to the kingdom of Ovilas, because of his family, he had participated in the war.

If possible, Claude would rather be stationed in Squirrel Village as a local security camp, doing a salt fish mix and waiting for the war to end. It was only against his will that the nobles of the territories of the two principalities did not organize the coalition to send credit to him in the long run, so that he was promoted to two levels and won the Knight's Medal of Merit. That was not Claude's intention, he was just trying to protect himself in this war so that he could live after it.

To be honest, sometimes Claude feels really lucky that, from the outbreak of the war to more than three years now, Claude has always been lucky enough to avoid the worst battlefields of casualties.

For example, Mrs. Maria sent a letter to the Blue Feather Corps, asking the Blue Feather Corps senior to promote him to the rank of sergeant chief, and tasked him with forming a treatment center guard and stretcher team. Later, the two princes came to supervise the army, entrusted by Lady Maria to keep the 11th battalion of the field where Claude was situated as a guard camp, which allowed Claude to avoid the blood battle of the Blue Feather Regiment in the company field surrounding the Amelia Plains, knowing that in that battle, almost two thirds of the Blue Feather Regiment had been killed or injured.

Claude's squadron was then thrown at Amis City's guard battalion like baggage by the Blue Feather Regiment, and was spotted by Prince Hansburg, entering the guerrilla battalion, instead of climbing the front line like any other second-line regiment and killing the enemy's sturdy defensive front. In the guerrilla camp, the only one who couldn't make it with Claude was that Colonel Rossler, whose most dangerous battlefield adventure was the battle against Wilfgang.

Claude will never forget the feeling that his life was at stake when he was forced by Lieutenant Colonel Rossler to form a queue for enemy positions. As a soldier, it was terrible to be forced to face the enemy with artillery fire and shooting at the kind of mutilation that was left unattended. But with good luck, Claude didn't die, but instead magically killed the Colonel Rossler on the battlefield, breathing breath for the innocent wounded and wounded soldiers, while taking enemy positions with crawl fire, making himself a lieutenant officer.

And then Claude at the Ranger Battalion was like fish with water, and Lieutenant Colonel Ledfunk took good care of him, and I really wanted to stay until the end of the war. It's just that the Squirrel Village victory pushed Lieutenant Colonel Ledfank to another high grade, and Claude was already worried that he would become acting camp manager, disrupting his leisurely life. Now that Major Skerry is here, he's relieved, and it doesn't affect his continued life as a saltfish...