Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 295 Investigation Mission of the Ministry of Military Justice

“It is reported that the commander of the Ambrize Legion based in Winterfell, General Pokalek, sent a message to the Chief Eagle.” The correspondents placed a confidential letter they had just received on their desk.

Captain Duriolo picked it up casually and took a look at it, “Boom” and placed it on a small stack of secret letters on the table. There are two small stacks of these messages on the table, but one looks taller and the other is short.

“What's the matter?” Claude stood in front of the window with a glass of fruit wine, bored to gauge a large battalion of soldiers from the Rangers who were rediscovering traps on the hillside, and Muriel was inspecting trenches that had been dug up and laid out on the hillside. Claude used to set up defensive positions here in Squirrel Village against a coalition of territorial aristocrats coming from both the Duchy of Kanas and the eastern part of the Duchy of Eskilin, and now he is most likely to be prepared for a crusade from this direction in the southern three counties...

“Nothing," Captain Duriolo stood up: “A second-line Legion leader, a walking dog of the old noble family, sent a hawk message to us to obey the resolution of the Front Line Command Operations Staff, and grabbed him with a good hand. Go to Front Line Command on your own to ask for the crime and transfer the offenders and evidence, and then be censored to avoid unimaginable consequences, become a treason in the kingdom, humiliate the family and relatives, etc...

Paralyzed are all the guys who can do it with their mouths, if they have the ability to bring troops to beat me up, see if these losers and idiots dare. Nor would anyone have guessed when the Front Line Operations Staff had the right to accuse us of treason. A group of staff members who could only provide advice and reference information to the Front Line Command Commander would have assumed the authority of the Front Line Command. ”

This is indeed an unexpected situation that has been going on for three days and is still at the mouth-watering stage. When Captain Douriolo sent a message to the front command informing Lieutenant Giprick of his suicide and Lieutenant Becky Milo of his accidental death in a fight, none of the noble officers attacked Squirrel Village for the past three days, except for a resolution claiming that Captain Douriolo and Claude were rebellious in the kingdom, claiming to be in a crusade.

The reason is very simple: the Front Line Operations Staff does not have the right to redeploy troops, not even to the senior ranks of the regiments belonging to the ranks of noble officers, nor to have their troops attack Captain Duriolo and Claude with instructions signed by the Front Line Operations Staff. Until those noble officers of Front Line Command discovered this fact, it was felt that they would really sit waxed and act as wrongdoers, but the big words were released and irrevocable. They could only send a message from Hawk to send Captain Duriolo and Claude to Front Line Command to surrender themselves. Senior members of those regiments were similarly sent to Squirrel Village to persuade Captain Duriolo and Claude not to resist and to increase pressure on them.

Grand Prince Hansburg originally set up an operational staff unit at Front Line Command, primarily to accommodate noble officers who had come to follow him. He is well aware that many of these noble officers are low-profile, big-mouthers, and without some observation it is difficult to find talent worth promoting. So this department was deliberately set up to remain in the Front Command, on the one hand to facilitate their own selection and observation and, on the other, to give these aristocratic officers a place, without prejudice to the civilian officers who really do what the Front Command does, and without prone to conflicts and contradictions between them.

The Grand Prince's vision was very thoughtful, but after all, he could not place this Front Line Operations Staff there to make an empty appearance, so many cumbersome and piecemeal matters were entrusted to this Operations Staff Department, where powerful aristocratic officers were selected and placed in various departments, such as the Military Justice Division's Communications Office, for almost four years, inadvertently allowing the contact angle of this Operations Staff Department to be spread throughout the entire Front Line Command Department.

In the presence of the Grand Prince, the Operational Staff was responsible for proposing the best approach to the intelligence and service issues of the Front Line Command, along with an alternative one or two or three options for the Directors of the Front Line Command. The programme will be transferred to the relevant departments for implementation only after the responsible officer of the front-line command has chosen one of the programmes for signature and approval.

This leads to the illusion that the noble officers of the Front Line Operations Staff have regained power in their hands, as the Front Line Command commanders have chosen the solutions they offer, creating a great deal of satisfaction in their psyche. At the same time, it would be avoidable to give these noble officers genuine power without the signature and approval of the commanders in charge of the various front-line commands. These submitted disposal solutions are a pile of scrap paper and useless.

But then Prince Hansburg drove back to the King and failed to sign a truce peace agreement. This resulted in the loss of restraint of the noble officers of the Front Line Operations Staff, who joined forces with noble officers of the various Front Line Command departments to empty Michel, the Acting Grand Prince. General K. Priest, who was forced to leave the Front Line Command in the name of ill health and rest, gave these noble officers jurisdiction over nearly a million Royal soldiers on the Front Line.

It is only unexpected to these noble officers that they consider themselves in possession of the jurisdiction of a million armies to be empty, and that the responsible officers of the Front Line Command, in terms of logistical resupply, military discipline patrols, enemy property expropriation and other minor matters not related to grandeur, are willing to cooperate and sign and approve the implementation of the proposals they have submitted. But when they want to mobilize troops to attack Captain Duriolo and Claude, who they claim to be rebels, they need to replace Michelle Childers, who runs Front Line Command. General K. Priest's signature warrant, which they couldn't have gotten.

The commanders in charge of the rest of the Front Line Command, even senior members of the legions belonging to the noble forces, refused to sign the crusade. The first is that they do not have the authority to mobilize their forces, and the second is that they cannot entrust their lives to these noble officers who do not know the heavens and the earth. If they follow this crusade order signed in the name of the Front Line Operations Staff, it is truly treason, and the Kingdom has never given this so-called Front Line Operations Command the authority to redeploy troops.

Captain Duriolo's bottom line was in the secret letters he received from the Royal Army, where his uncle served. In response to his report to the Department of the Army, the Department's confidential letter expressed appreciation and encouragement for his and Claude's rejection of the unreasonable orders of the Front Line Command, instructing them not to yield to the pressure of the Front Line Command and awaiting an investigation by the Department.

As Captain Duriolo said, a truce peace agreement has been signed and the war is over. Though the Grand Prince is again at liberty to keep the door closed, no matter what the size of the front line is. The Officer-in-Charge should then also work actively with the Royal Ministry of the Army to dispose of the nearly one million Royal soldiers placed on the front line, discharged from the army and the drawdown of the army. Those second-line regiments also need to return home. Forced soldiers can go home and wait for the outbreak of the next war to come back as cannon ash...

But now it's not what the Royal Army envisioned, replacing the great prince Michelle. General K. Priest reportedly went to rest and recuperation because of his ill-health, and was not given a replacement for him in charge of Front Line Command. On the other hand, nearly a million members of the Royal Front Line are under the responsibility of a so-called Front Line Operations Staff, all of whom are aristocratic officers at the lieutenant and school levels.

The situation has become a major sickness in the Army Department, and it is not that they did not intend to send someone to take responsibility, but the problem is that the Grand Prince will not be able to leave the door and will not care about anything, and that the noble officers of the so-called Front Line Operations Staff will not resist sending the past candidates. Even with the endorsement of His Majesty King Sterling X, the commander of the army of nearly a million kingdoms on the front line is His Royal Highness Prince Hamsburg. Without his endorsement and warrant, if the orders issued by the past candidates were not complied with, that would be an embarrassing situation for both the Army and Sterling X, with very serious consequences.

And that was when Captain Duriolo, the battalion commander of a local guard battalion placed on the front line, and a pilot combat unit set up by the great prince, a large battalion commander of the first Battalion of the Rangers, Captain Claude, the winner of the Knights Medal, clashed with the noble officers in charge of the front line command. First they captured four front-line commanders impersonating the Kingdom's official officers, then two military justice officers who went to the front-line commands to take away the prisoners were rejected by them and two military justice officers were killed after the clashes.

The incident shocked not only the Royal Army Department, but also the noble officers of the Front Line Command, who ventured to claim that Captains Doriolo and Claude were rebellious and were going to fight. This is the most wrong step for them because they don't have the right to deploy troops, so they can't put themselves on top of the table...

This is a very good opportunity for the Royal Army Ministry to take a flight to the front line to intervene in the Front Line Command on the grounds of investigating the incident, to understand the most real situation and to ascertain the purpose and details of those noble officers. No one has responded to the declarations and actions of these noble officers in their fight against rebellion, and the Ministry of the Army has seen a good opportunity to regain control of nearly a million Royal Armies on the front line.

So on the one hand, the Army sent a hawk message instructing Captain Duriolo and Claude not to yield to pressure from the Front Command and the Front Corps. On the other hand, Hawk was informed by means of a fact-finding mission composed of military magistrates drawn from the various regiments on the front line to investigate the real situation in Squirrel Village. Finally, the Ministry of the Army sent a senior general with Sterling X's Royal Decree to the Front Line Command for the evacuation of nearly a million Royal Armies.

Captain Duriolo, referring to the tall stack of letters on his desk, was proud to say: "See, there are 20 second-line regiments on the front line, two ace field regiments, only thirty secrets from the senior ranks of the regiment above the division to persuade us to confess guilt to the front line command, while their battalion-level battalion units below have sent nearly a hundred secrets expressing their support for us. So you don't have to let your men set up defensive positions, and even if those regimental executives dare to order us to crusade, there's no battle unit down there to carry out such a brainless command. ”

“Being prepared is not a good idea to keep soldiers so lazy, and moving them is the way to stay combatant.” Claude retracted his gaze, sipped all the fruit wine in the glass, and asked: "When did the MIA mission say it was coming? ”

Captain Duriolo found a confidential letter from the table and looked at the answer: "It was said that three days later, the investigation was led by General Welst, the head of the Military Justice Department of the Guardian Corps, accompanied by eight second-line corps and sixteen military law enforcement officers, a gendarmerie squadron of the Guardian Corps, with a total of 136 members. ”

“I hope that the fact-finding mission that came here will have an impartial attitude and not blame us.” Claude thought.

“Haha, you don't have to worry about that. The head of the Military Justice Department of the National Guard Corps, General Welst, was described by the soldiers as impartial Welst. He is highly prestigious in the Garda Síochána, precisely because he is impartial in the administration of justice, and the same punishment is in his hands, whether he is a noble officer or a civilian soldier, and will not be mitigated by virtue of his noble status and the presence or absence of intercession. So some noble officers gave him a nickname called Woodhead Welster, meaning he had nothing to say...”

Captain Duriolo poured another half a glass of fruit wine to Claude: "In addition, I found that five of the eight second-line corps heads of the Army Department, who were from civilian officers and half of the sixteen law enforcement officers, were also from civilian officers. For us, they are natural allies, and no one will like noble officers who have high toes in the army and look up to noble people. ”

Claude laughed dumbly: "You're actually supposed to be a noble officer. ”

Captain Duriolo shook the bottle in his hand and argued, "No, no, no, you're wrong. Brother Claude, I'm just a noble man, not an aristocratic officer, and I can't compare myself to noble officers who have been in the Royal Army for generations running old classic aristocratic families. They have a huge power relationship in the Royal Army and control the kingdom's military industry, so the royal family has to give them a few points.

And I became an officer just because everyone in this war is serving the kingdom, and nobility is no exception. Now that the war is over, I believe the local guard battalion will need to be disbanded soon, and then I can take off my uniform and go home and continue my peaceful life. Occasionally go hunting, go to proms and banquets, talk to beautiful ladies and pretty ladies in the garden, instead of just drinking all day here to relieve the boredom... "