Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 292: Lieutenant Perenger

“Salutations, Knight Claude.” A handsome young lieutenant gave Claude a military salute with a very handsome gesture.

“Hello.” Claude hurried back and looked at this charming lieutenant officer, who had never seen such a young officer in Squirrel Village: “Are you…”

“This is Lieutenant Pereng, Operations Staff Officer from Front Line Command.” Captain Duriolo walked over to introduce him.

Another combat staff officer from Front Line Command? Claude communicated with Captain Duriolo with his eyes, meaning you checked his I.D. and officer ID? Don't be a fake again...

Young and handsome Lieutenant Perenger is very understanding, and he consciously pulled out his officer ID and ID: “Captain Claude, you can check it out, it's mine...”

Captain Duriolo coughed: “There is no need to examine this, Captain Claude, Lieutenant Perenger. I know him. He is a strategic genius of the new generation of the kingdom in the front command, the rear of the army...”

Claude hastily turned his hand, ready to pick up Lieutenant Perenger's handover of the officer cards and identification documents, into a push gesture: "Now that Captain Duriolo knows it, there is no need to examine it. I'm terribly sorry, Lieutenant Perenger, but please forgive my offense. After all, that happened the other two days, we have to be cautious now...”

It was the third day those four bad guys were caught, just having lunch at the old man's tavern, and Claude, who was about to take a nap, met Captain Duriolo's attendant and asked Claude to come to his office. Now seeing this Lieutenant Perenger from Front Line Command, Claude naturally understands why he's here.

“Understandably.” Lieutenant Perenger smiled very thoughtfully and said, "Whoever comes across something like this will naturally become more vigilant. Even after the war had ended, the troops had not withdrawn and nearly 10,000 men and horses had piled up on the front line, and some unexpected circumstances and errors were inevitable. The most worrisome thing is that some mixed water touching fish generations in which to split up, obviously it has nothing to do with them to get involved, see the liveliness don't worry about making things bigger in the future can't be cleaned up...”

Lieutenant Pereng spoke with a glance at Captain Duriolo, apparently saying something else. It seems that the two of them, although they know each other, do not seem to get along very well.

Claude said, “Yes, Lieutenant Perenger is quite right. Having just signed a truce peace agreement and ended the war, how could someone, in the absence of the commander above, have falsely accused and persecuted one of our Rangers Battalion? I have heard that Major Skerry, our battalion commander, was arrested by the men of the Military Justice Division of your Front Line Command on charges of soil loss. This is a blatant injustice. Our entire battalion is complaining to Major Skerry. Even if this case were to hit the Army Department, or before His Majesty, we would all persevere...”

“Uh... well...” Lieutenant Perenger stunned, not expecting Claude to turn the subject to Major Skerry at once. Combined with what he had just said, this mixed-water fish became the noble officers who had framed Major Skerry.

But Lieutenant Perenger was quick to react, and he smiled at Claude and said, "Is there a misunderstanding? I have also heard of this at Front Line Command, and Major Skerry himself is said to have confessed to all charges. This matter has been settled and cannot be reversed. ”

“The verdict? Huh..." Claude sneered a few times, and if Major Skerry wasn't trying to get himself and the rest of the Rangers out of the battalion, he wouldn't have fought all the charges alone. But then Claude stopped being in the mood for this Lieutenant Perenger, and went straight in and said, "By the way, Lieutenant Perenger, do you have any business this time? ”

“Oh, business? I have no business.” Lieutenant Perenger smiled and said, "I'm here on a personal matter to ask the Knight Claude and Captain Duriolo for help. ”

Speaking of Captain Duriolo, Lieutenant Pereng also reinforced his tone of voice and seemed to have a bit of a dental incision. Looks like their relationship is a little complicated...

Claude wasn't interested in finding out what was going on between the two of them, he just waved: “Word is, Lieutenant Perenger, we don't know each other, and you must know more people than I do at Front Line Command. I'm just a lucky man who climbs and beats on the front lines and is lucky enough to get a little kung fu. I don't have the ability to help you at all. You must have found the wrong door to ask me to do my job...”

No one is a fool. In fact, everyone understands, it's just a mask on your face to pretend you don't know. But Lieutenant Perenger didn't expect Claude to push himself so clean.

“I need your help with this.” Lieutenant Pereng said in silence that his eyes were staring at Captain Duriolo next to him with resentment: "Captain Duriolo said, with your permission, otherwise he had no right to reply to me. ”

“Oh, that's what Captain Duriolo said? Then he's purely polite. Don't listen to him. Actually, he's the landlord here. He owns his place. I have nothing to do with his security camp. At present, a large battalion of our Rangers is stationed in Squirrel Village, just for the sake of coordination, and all matters are still under the responsibility of the guard battalion, which is Captain Duriolo's decision…” Claude still takes himself out and decides not to get caught up in the grudging and hateful relationship between Lieutenant Perengue and Captain Duriolo.

“Let me get this straight, Knight Claude, I'm here for the four men you arrested the other day. Siddharth. Van Rulmuk was my cousin, and because he was young and unknowingly thick, he was rude and reckless. We didn't know he stole Lieutenant Hendrill's uniform and came to your Rangers Battalion under the guise of an officer. It was just a moment of passion, not an attempt to offend your dignity. Young people do things so lightly all the time, but we all have young people doing stupid things, so I hope you will forgive them for their recklessness and ignorance, please let me take them away and I promise I will teach them a lesson they will never forget. ”

Lieutenant Perenger was clearly impatient enough to go on a perimeter with Claude. Opening the door made clear his intention in person. At the same time, he went a few steps forward and grabbed eight rolls of gold from his pocket and placed them on the table, each of which amounted to a hundred kilograms of gold at the National Bank.

“This is just a small gesture of gratitude to my cousins for the trouble they've caused you these past few days and for the amount of money you've spent solving it. Just give me the four of them and I'll guarantee you the friendship of our families..." Lieutenant Pereng said pointing to the eight gold dollar volumes on the table.

Claude first looked at the eight gold dollar rolls on the table, then turned indifferently to see Captain Duriolo, and what he wondered was if Captain Duriolo had made a private agreement with this Lieutenant Perengue, and then pushed himself out as the backer of the grievance, otherwise how could this Lieutenant Perengue dare to put the eight gold dollar rolls directly on the table in front of Captain Duriolo? Everyone knows that private agreement and bribery are risks that the fewer people are exposed, the more one person is reported.

Captain Duriolo clearly understood what Claude meant by looking at his eyes, and he shook his head with a grin: "I told him it wasn't up to me. His four cousins came here to frame a Ranger Battalion and you, and I've reported this to the Army Department, awaiting an investigation from the superiors. But this guy is not dead, he wants to see you, he wants your forgiveness, he takes his four cousins away, and then let's report a message about the escape of an unfavourable prisoner. This money on the table is our reward..."

Eight hundred gold crowns, an unexpected sum for a poor boy who has never seen the world before. Claude believed that putting this money in front of all the soldiers and soldiers of the Rangers Battalion would smash most of the people who were willing to give everything, even their lives, to earn this enormous fortune. Unfortunately for Claude, the money was unattractive to him, he had more than 1,000 gold kroner in his own bank account, he was on the front line, he couldn't spend it, he had more money, and if he didn't spend it, it wouldn't do him any good.

Claude pointed to these eight gold dollar volumes on the finger table, and he knew he had to give Lieutenant Perenger a clear answer: “I don't need the money, if you can release Major Skerry and exonerate him, I can give you four of your cousins, and I am willing to assume the charge of negatively guarding the escape...”

Lieutenant Pereng was silent for a while and finally shook his head: “I can't handle it. Major Skerry's case has become an iron case, and it's not something several of our families can do...”

“There's no other way. Claude was equally resolute:" I can only do business. Please take your money, Lieutenant Perenger. ”

Lieutenant Perenger took the gold dollar roll off the table in silence, then walked to the door with the eyes of both Captain Claude and Captain Duriolo. After opening the door, he turned to Claude and saluted him: “I'm glad to meet you, Knight Claude...”

When he left, Claude asked Captain Duriolo next to him, "Hey, what did this guy mean by that last salute and that phrase, did he say to me to be careful and wait for revenge from several of their families? ”

Captain Duriolo couldn't help but laugh: "You think too much, those four bastards confessed anyway, and you were on the list of civilian officers that noble officers decided to suppress. What difference does it make for you not to retaliate? Rest assured, those four bastards and Lieutenant Perenger's family have not had that much influence and power in the Royal Army.

As for the so-called repression of noble officers, it's just a little more obstacle and difficulty on your military path, so you don't get military service and promotion so quickly. Don't worry, they won't dare to hurt you directly in the army, then it's over the line, then they won't be able to protect themselves, after all, we civilian officers are many times more than them.

As long as you continue not to violate military discipline and act according to military rules, noble officers will not be able to find anything. They want to punish you, and you have to have a good reason, and you're not in their sight right now, you're here, and they can't do anything about it without the official orders of the military. The only unfortunate thing is that the war is over, otherwise if you stand up and promote yourself to the rank of school officer, these lieutenants' noble officers will take you for nothing. ”

That makes sense. Claude nodded and remembered Lieutenant Perenger: "By the way, do you have a personal grudge against Lieutenant Perenger? I find something very wrong with the eyes of both of you...”

Captain Duriolo sighed and nodded: “This guy used to be my neighbor, we grew up together, went to school together, I had a sister, four years apart from me, one year younger than him. Everyone said he and my sister were born together, and my parents saw him as their son-in-law.

We were young, and we thought the good days would go on like this. But his father, a Viscount of the Kingdom, betrayed us as a group of commercial aristocrats and turned to those old aristocrats because he was appreciated as a family member and had the opportunity to enter the military industry they monopolized to run a supporting workshop.

This is a great blow to our commercial nobles, whose families are regarded as traitors, all of whom have been cut off from them. And the family quickly moved away and became the walking dogs of the old aristocracy. Pereng was 14 years old, transferred directly from Juvenile Military Academy to Juvenile Noble Military Academy, and we haven't seen him for the next four or five years.

Later, we graduated from the Juvenile Military Academy, entered the Guardianship Corps internship and met him again. A group of noble officers, like us, came to guard the Corps internship. Because we were born against each other, so many contradictions arose during the internship, and then we set a trap that pitted their noble army officers and suppressed their ranks beneath those of our civilian officers, which was considered a disgraceful internship year for their noble army officers.

Then this guy retaliated, deliberately approaching my sister, succeeding in bringing my sister back to her old feelings and confusing my sister that she would not marry him. Just when my parents were forced to finally agree to my sister's marriage to him, I heard that he was engaged to the daughter of an old aristocratic family. My sister was very ill and almost didn't save her...

So I found some friends, blocked him up and beat him up. The guy didn't fight back, didn't beg, just stood there guarding his face and letting us beat him up. He said he loved my sister, too, sincerely, but his father forced him to marry the daughter of that old noble family, and he couldn't help it, because it was about the fate of their entire family and he couldn't get away with it. ”

Claude suddenly discovered that these aristocratic young stories and family grudges were enough to write a classic, sounding like special dog blood. He can only say this: “You nobles really have a lot to do with him, and any individual can get involved in a lot of past grievances...”

Captain Duriolo smiled bitterly: "The kingdom's aristocratic circle is big and big, small and small, and will always be involved in coming down for centuries. Instead, I envy you, at least to live easy and free, unlike us, taking into account the fate of the family and the interests of the group every step of the way. Lieutenant Perenger is here to give gifts, they may come hard next time, we must be careful...”