Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 288 Noble and Civilian Officers

After the war, Major Scully was arrested… etc., as if something was wrong, it took Claude half a day to figure out what Captain Duriolo was talking about, and he jumped up at once: “Why arrest him? Why do you want Major Scully..."

Simply put, the Kingdom of Ovieras did not lose in this truce peace agreement, which stipulates that the territories currently occupied by both sides will be the benchmarks. In other words, the kingdom of Ovieras, with all due respect, annexed the territories of the three principalities of Siddins, Rimodra and Eskirin, and even occupied a county of the Kingdom of Nasseri, a territory occupied by the Red Dragon Corps. The similarly energetically wounded kingdoms of Nasri and Kanas were unable to persevere in the war and could only accept the fact in their own breath.

Major Skerry was arrested because he had ordered the abandonment of Count Krillause Castle without the approval and order of the Front Line Command, so much so that the Kingdom had lost that vast area. If the 1st Battalion of Rangers can hold on until April, according to the principles of the Armistice Peace Agreement, the territory situated next to the Great Green Mountains will be owned by the Kingdom of Ovilas...

“Fucking bullshit!” Claude can't help it: “It's simple, let them guard themselves, no grass, no ammunition, no cure, we can't even make it through March, let alone stick to April, starve the ghosts to guard the castle! ”

Captain Duriolo said Major Skerry was guilty of seven counts, the first of which was desertion. The second is the abandonment of the land. The third is against orders. The fourth is on your own. The fifth is the fear of death. Sixth, malfeasance and greed. Seventh is to deceive my subordinates...

Damn it! Claude was angry as an erupting volcano, and all the first soldiers to hear the news were very angry, and if Major Skerry hadn't taken them out of the castle, they would have had to starve to death there.

Captain Duriolo said Major Scully had resisted all charges on his own, that the evacuation of Castle Clerous was his idea, that all the officers and soldiers of the Rangers Battalion were unclear and that they thought the evacuation had been ordered by the Front Line Command. Major Skerry is most likely to be sentenced to death and shot in public...

No, Major Skerry cannot die of such blatant wrongdoing. Soldiers in this room have gone wild, and the bastard Diavid has shouted his slogan. Claude slapped him in the back of the head without courtesy. Is that slogan just shouting? Trying to mess up guys, this isn't a joke.

Claude asked Captain Duriolo what he could do to get Major Scully off the hook, and Captain Duriolo showed his face. He told Claude that Major Scully would have difficulty turning the wheel unless Grand Prince Hansburg returned to the Front Command to preside over the event. The Grand Prince is now unable to declare sick at the King's doorstep, which was presided over by the staff officers of the Front Line Command.

He had inside information, allegedly because the noble officers who had invested in following the great prince had served in many front-line commands and had not had the opportunity to succeed and be promoted. The Grand Prince has been very strict in this regard, not allowing those noble officers to rush to war, which leads to those noble officers beside him to struggle with their qualifications, so they are very jealous of those civilian officers who have been released by the Grand Prince to the front line to stand meritorious.

This time, Major Skerry was caught in the grip of death, and he tried to make the case into a major case and an iron case in order to earn them merit. The commander in charge of day-to-day affairs at the Front Line Command was also very difficult, because one or two of those noble officers could not do much, but all noble officers, united in calling for the punishment of Major Scully, became a great force in their capacity and in their family background. Many commanders who knew Major Scully's wrongdoings were unwilling to offend them, leaving them to do so.

Most importantly, Major Skerry ordered the evacuation of Castle Krillause, which did indeed deprive the Kingdom of a large part of its territory in the Great Green Mountains, a responsibility for the loss of soil. In addition, the Principality of Kanas ambushed and annihilated three legions of the kingdom on the prairie, including the Blue Feather Legion of the Four Field Aces, which disgraced the kingdom of Auvellas. It could be said that it gave the self-invincible Royal Army a big slap, which was too painful in the face.

If a battalion of guerrillas could hold on to the Castle of Count Krillaus, the Kingdom would be able to bite down a large plot of land from the Principality of Kanas after the signing of the truce peace agreement, which would be a slight return to face. The destruction of three legions, however, also occupies a plot of land, which is also a matter of two defeats. But now that the first Battalion of Rangers has withdrawn from the Castle of Count Krillause without permission, that large plot of land will disappear, which is tantamount to the Principality of Kanas being unharmed in this war, and it is able to unreservedly promote the Kanas Prairie Dajie, which makes the high level of the Royal Army Department and the Front Line Command easier...

This is another reason why the Front Line Command is unwilling to intercede and conduct justice for Major Skerry, who, although greatly appreciated and valued by Grand Prince Hansburg and one of the talents that the Grand Prince strives to promote, is of civilian origin and has no other background than the trust of the Grand Prince. But that is why more noble officers are jealous. Now that the Grand Prince claims to be ill and has no psychological association with the military, this gives those aristocratic officers a good opportunity to suppress civilian officers without taking advantage of the opportunity. Will there ever be a day when they will appear?

Major Skerry's bad luck is typical in his case. No matter how well-founded the reason for the evacuation, there is no denying the blame for the loss of soil. Coupled with the private connections and drumming of those with a heart, things grew bigger and worse. To be honest, the war is over, and there is no shortage of power in the Army Department. This war has distinguished many civilian officers, on the contrary, few noble officers have performed well. The signing of a truce peace agreement means that there will be a long peace date ahead. It is therefore very worthwhile to consider which faction holds the voice of the Royal Army in the future.

Claude was annoyed and irritated by Captain Duriolo's obscure words. He dragged Captain Duriolo to his room and let him open the door and say what he said. Don't be blunt-minded. Being a coarse man, I don't know what the difference is between a noble officer and a civilian officer...

In Claude's eyes, he really didn't know the difference between noble and civilian officers. Didn't the kingdom have a national identity? Not all the officers who entered the army were nationals. Those so-called noble officers were also from noble families. They themselves had no titles. They said they were nobles. They were sticking to their faces. In fact, their identities were just nationals.

Captain Duriolo could only laugh bitterly. He met Claude as a soldier. It makes no sense. If he did not know the details of Claude, he would not have had the patience to explain to Claude the difference between noble and civilian officers.

The so-called noble officers, not all of whom are descended from noble descendants, also make a big difference, otherwise Claude's Diaved, or Muried, could be called noble officers. But in fact, the two of them still have to work hard on the front line...

Generally speaking, noble officers have three characteristics. The first is that their families have deep-rooted influence and power in the Royal Army. Many of their ancestors are founding Kung Fu ministers and future generations have joined the army. The second is from the Juvenile Aristocratic Military Academy, their home camp, which grew up before attending the Royal Sterling Military Academy. The third characteristic is interests, in which several of the kingdom's major military industries are largely in the hands of these aristocratic families, which, although the royal family occupies some of their shares, are nevertheless unable to do anything about it.

According to Captain Duriolo, Claude can't help but think of a Jonker officer from a country in his past life, which is quite similar. Captain Duriolo said that noble officers occupy most of the top positions in the Royal Army and that, despite the efforts of former King Sterling IX and now Sterling X to suppress the expansion of noble officers in the army, two thirds of the top positions in the Royal Army are still occupied by those noble officers.

As for civilian officers, it was only at the time of the reform of Wang Sterling IX that he began to confront the chambers of aristocratic officers in a prominent manner in the army. In military brigades, officers of promising civilian origin are either suppressed or caged and solicited by noble officers, making it difficult to separate groups. It was not until after the reform of the army that, with the support of the Royal Family, the strength of civilian officers gradually expanded, and the majority of mid-level officers in the Royal Army are now of civilian origin.

Unlike noble officers, the so-called composition of civilian officers is also very complex, in which grass-roots officers, such as Major Skerry, who have graduated from royally supported juvenile schools, are the backbone. There are two juvenile military schools in the kingdom. Students come from broken noble children and relatives of civilian officers, many of whom are orphans of war dead soldiers, who are the most trusted military force of the royal family and provide the army with a large number of technical officers at the grass-roots level each year.

Others are soldiers like Claude, born of civilians and enlisted in order to gain national identity, who are referred to as militants among civilian officers. They do not have an orthodox military education, but this does not mask their military talents and talents, and over the course of their long military journeys, they are like waves of sand, blowing away the surface dust to reveal a brilliant light. These civilian officers end up in high positions with military talent that the kingdom relies on, such as Michelle, the new Duke. General Priest...

Well, Claude, that's when you realize you're one of the civilian officers. He looked at Captain Duriolo and asked, "What kind of faction is he? Why are you telling yourself this?" Though he and I know each other well, it doesn't seem to have reached the point of pushing our bellies and telling ourselves the secrets of these armies, does it?

Captain Duriolo replied that he was not an aristocratic officer and was barely part of a civilian officer. Although they come from aristocratic families, their families are emerging aristocrats, that is, the ones who followed the ancestral Wang Sterling IX family, and cannot get into the eyes of those old aristocratic families, nor do they have any interests in the military industry. Moreover, they nobles are unwilling to develop in the Royal Army and are very interested in opposing commercial finance. They strive to promote free commercial trade between the Kingdom and other countries on the mainland…

That is why it was safer for them to join the army in this war, but mostly to seek positions in the local guard battalions. What is of little significance to them is the interest in the mineral resources and local specialities of the newly occupied territories of the Kingdom, perhaps more appropriately described as commercial nobility. Claude's dealings were mainly due to his uncle, who worked in the Army Department, on the one hand, and his military talent, on the other hand, was a friendly investment. On the other hand, Claude's background, his pharmacy teacher, is Baroness Maria.

Claude immediately realized that the people behind Captain Duriolo, who value their military talent, were only talking about their self-esteem, and that what they really valued was their nominal pharmacology teacher, Baroness Maria. Perhaps they had a relationship with Lady Maria through their own line to get some convenience in saying a few good words in front of Sterling X for their free trade...

But now is not the time to engage with them on these issues, and the key is how to save Major Skerry. Claude asked bluntly, "Is there any way to get Major Scully back to parole? ”

Captain Duriolo grinned and replied that they had not had that much influence in the Army Ministry, although there were people there. The cause of the incident was the Front Line Command, led by the noble officers, and the Army Department was unable to intervene directly. In addition, Major Skerry was only a primer, and the real reason was not for the loss of soil, but in the three southern counties. This is a counterattack against the Sterling royal family by the old aristocrats...

How is this connected to the three counties of the South? Claude Bess couldn't figure it out.

Captain Duriolo picked it out and said that Claude was suddenly enlightened. It turns out that the existing military industry in the Kingdom has always been dominated by the old aristocratic families. So after this seizure of the southern three counties, the Sterling royal family wanted to take the opportunity to reorganize the former military industry in the southern three counties of the Principality of Eskirin and hold it firmly in its own hands. Owing to a lack of funds, they did not choose to work with the old noble families, but rather to absorb funds from the emerging commercial nobility. The elderly and marginalized aristocratic families naturally refused to give up. They borrowed Major Skerry's incident to suppress civilian officers in the army, and it was also a counterattack to the royal monopoly of the military industry in the southern three counties...

The seemingly simple thing has such a complicated causal relationship, Claude is going to blow up his head. He doesn't care whether the military industry in the southern three counties is held by the royal family or those aristocratic families. The question is why the fairy fights should involve these small soldiers below...

Captain Duriolo pointed to Claude, who said that the key to saving Major Scully was still on your own, that the Great Prince couldn't get out and wouldn't come out to preside over the military after the war ended. You can have your teacher, Baroness Maria, visit the house and tell the Grand Prince about it. Only the presence of the Grand Prince on the front line would make it possible for Major Skerry to be pardoned and acquitted.