Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 298 Thoughts

Claude stayed in squirrel village for the next 10 days. While the Ministry of Military Justice investigation mission cleared Captain Claude and Captain Duriolo of the charges of treason in the Kingdom, it did nothing to help him in his attempt to free Major Skerry. The faces of the noble officers of the Front Line Command were punched in the face by a fact-finding mission of the Ministry of Justice ordered by the Royal Army, and no longer claimed that Captains Claude and Duriolo were treasonous, but they stopped supplying the logistical heavy supplies of the Ranger Battalion and demanded that the commander of the Ranger Battalion go to the Front Line Command himself to claim them.

One battalion commander was Claude, two battalions captain Captain Haemklin was still lying in the battalion treatment facility, three battalions captain Captain Heikem was sent to the treatment camp under Front Line Command because of premature injuries, and did not participate in the battle that later guarded the Castle of Count Clellaus, three battalions commander and commander of Major Skerry. The captain of the four battalions is Captain Codwalk, who is also currently in charge of battalion headquarters following the arrest of Major Skerry.

Major Scully had a hunch when he decided to lead the first Battalion of Rangers after evacuating the Castle of Count Clerous, so he ordered Claude to lead the first Battalion to the Squirrel Village to assist Captain Duriolo's local guard battalion in preparing for the crossroads. In addition to his orders, he had drawn out all three remaining battalions of veterans to fill the gap in the first battalion. It can be said that Claude, the first battalion, is the most combatant of the currently less than three battalions of Rangers, both fully staffed and equipped, in addition to strengthening a squadron of artillery.

Originally supplied by the battalion headquarters located in Rosa town, Claude's first battalion was sent to Squirrel Village, but now the Front Line Command Logistics Service has stopped supplying the Rangers' First Battalion, and Captain Codwalker has no choice but to move to Front Line Command to apply. As a result, he was detained by the noble officers who asked him to write a material report on the deliberate withdrawal of Major Claude and Major Scully from the Castle of Count Clerus to abandon the Kingdom's territory.

Captain Codwalker was also hard-hearted, biting his teeth and saying that he was newly transferred to the Ranger Battalion. He knew nothing, and was currently only running the Ranger Battalion on behalf of Major Skerry for the time being, killing him and writing nothing about the revelations. The noble officers had no choice but to write articles on supplies, check the remaining strength of a Ranger Battalion in the town of Rosa, allocate only so many supplies, and squeeze Claude's first battalion out.

The Front Line Command Logistics Service sent Claude a letter stating that since the war was over, there was a need to reconcile the strength and equipment of the various forces. Since Claude is stationed in Squirrel Village, there is no battalion headquarters, and in the absence of a battalion commander in the Ranger Battalion, Claude is required to conduct his own verification at the Logistics Service of Front Line Command to prevent the embezzlement and waste of strategic materiel…

The papers are official, but when Captain Codwalker returns to battalion, he sends someone to inform Claude, never go to Front Line Command, they're lying to you. Claude wasn't planning on going over there. He wasn't stupid, but he didn't work for the team. What should we do with the supplies? Fortunately, Captain Duriolo's local guard battalion was stationed here for three months, so he could temporarily replenish Claude with a batch to solve Claude's eyebrow rush.

Lying in her own little lover Sheila's bed at night, Claude thought. Claude was deeply touched by the experience of these days. Those aristocratic officers at Front Line Command were afraid to continue sending people to Squirrel Village to find their own trouble for a very simple reason, because this was Claude's territory, with a large battalion full of troops and a strong fighting force, but orders came from.

And the noble officers of the Front Line Command, although they had jurisdiction over nearly a million Royal Armies, had no power to mobilize, so they had no bottom line to find themselves, because they could only mobilize one team of guard soldiers, and this was the point where people came to their own trouble. It was just delivery, no return. That's the real reason they had to find a way to trick themselves into front-line command. They went there and fell under their control, and life and death were beyond their control...

If those aristocratic officers of the Front Line Command had the authority to redeploy troops, they would certainly not have waited for a Ministry of Justice fact-finding mission mandated by the Royal Army to investigate and characterize the two cases. Sooner or later, they would have commanded the army to jump over, crush themselves and Captain Duriolo into dust, and when the dust settled, they would have put any hat and charge on the dead man's head.

Claude felt really lucky that if his men didn't have the strength of this battalion, the noble officers at Front Line Command would send two men to escort themselves into their hands and become slaughtered fish meat. Even if I did what they arranged to do, framing Major Skerry and implicating Lieutenant Colonel Ledfank would not receive their attention.

When the value of his body was used up, Claude believed that noble officers would never give themselves a good ending. The biggest possibility is to be silenced, either by suicide, or by accident, such as being choked to death by bread or something. In the eyes of those noble officers, the fate of the captain of this kingdom, the knight medal winner, will not be much better than that of an ant...

It follows that the best way for the world to preserve itself is to have the power to control its own strength. I used to think that I had learned magic and enlisted in the army to acquire national identity, so that I could live a life of freedom when I retired. Now I think of it as childish and ridiculous. A lot of things are none of your business if you don't mess with it. This is what the popular phrase on the Internet said in previous life was, lying down and getting shot.

Major Scully was captured this time, resisting all charges. I was fine, but the noble officers tried to find a way out of me and implicated Major Ledfank, the former battalion commander, and struck up their own ideas. What a man sitting at home, evil comes from the sky. There is no other way to deal with it than to face it with courage and resilience.

Captain Duriolo would not have stood on the same front as Claude had those noble officers not been guided by the old noble families behind him to the detriment of their commercial nobles. Compared to Claude, a hillbilly who doesn't know the time, Captain Duriolo's response to these conspiracy schemes appears to have been superfluous and can be described as a long sleeve dance.

Like the deaths of Lieutenant Becky Milo and Lieutenant Geprick, one was killed by him and one by suicide. Captain Duriolo, assisted by Claude, arranged the deaths of the two men as if they had nothing to do with each other, which was also endorsed by the Military Justice Department investigation mission…

Claude himself thought it was terrible, and after going through the incident, he realized that there was actually another unknown truth hidden behind the somewhat publicized facts. If you don't want to be the hidden one, what you need is more power and strength to ensure that your interests are not accidentally harmed.

Originally Claude felt satisfied to be a captain, and returned to his hometown of White Deer City to show off in front of many of his neighbors. But now he just feels weak and easily rubbed to death by a noble officer who sees himself badly. Had it not been for the nominal pharmacology teacher behind her, Lady Maria, perhaps Captain Duriolo, the commercial aristocrats, would not have stood by her side, but watched the buzz beside her...

Don't look, Captain Duriolo is just the battalion commander of a local guard battalion, the captain of a sequence of guard forces, and the official captain of his kingdom. But when it comes to power and influence, Captain Duriolo is more capable, more allied and more powerful than himself. The allied forces formed by these commercial aristocrats are able to fight against the old-fashioned chambers of nobility and even make the higher royal family more dependent on the wealth in their hands.

After seeing Captain Doriolo refer to the deer as a horse and invert the black and white means, Claude inevitably raised his guard against Captain Doriolo in his heart. Even now Captain Duriolo stands in the same position as him, befriending each other and confronting together those noble officers of the Front Line Command and the old-fashioned noble family forces behind them. Claude still needs to be mindful of Captain Duriolo, the commercial aristocrats, to prevent them from selling themselves and counting their money one day...

In a previous life Claude had heard his boss say an old saying that there were no forever enemies in the mall, no forever friends, only eternal interests. So we all do business in hypocritical masks, talking to each other, but each one of us has a very clear calculation, weighing their earnings before signing the contract.

Claude thinks Captain Duriolo, these commercial aristocrats, look like the mall businessmen the old bosses used to call them. Only in his previous life he had the boss take care of him, plus he didn't like the rewards in those places, so he could do his favorite technology work under the boss's shelter, trying to vent a place where he could go with the boss to be an old driver without having to wear a mask pretending to be a serious gentleman and go around with others.

The world is not a past life, and he has no boss to shelter, and he has to face it himself. Learning to deal with these business aristocrats and those in the upper echelons of society, trying to climb up, is not a question of whether you like it or not. It is only in this way that he can build a safe living environment for his beloved family and trust his men. In short, he has to learn to be the boss himself, gain more power and strength...

“Why aren't you asleep? What's on your mind?” Side by side Sheila's delicate body tangled up, interrupting Claude's contemplation.

“Well, I'm going to sleep...” Claude hugged his little lover: “Mostly the war is over, I miss home. After almost five years of not going back for a look, my mood was a little excited, so I had a bit of insomnia during this time...”

After an in-depth interactive morning exercise with Sheila, Claude awoke refreshed and used breakfast, which led her to cling to her little lover, crossing a mountain horse and embarking on a return journey.

When he returned to Squirrel Village, he met Captain Duriolo's deputy, and Sergeant Siegfried stood at the door of the village, looking at the Prime Minister, and saw Claude returning to rejoice: “Knight Claude, you are finally back, sir has been nagging in the morning, saying that you went to see your lover and didn't even give him an address, so he couldn't find you. He asked me to wait here all the time. As soon as I saw you back, I asked you to go to his office..."

Claude got off the horse and said, "What happened? ”

“The officer received an eagle message early in the morning and was ecstatic and asked me to come to you. Then I thought you told him yesterday to go find his hunter girlfriend and come back this morning. He ordered me to stand at the gate of the village and wait for you..." Sergeant Siegfried took over Claude's reins.

“All right, I got it. I'll go get your chief.” Claude said.

I went to Captain Duriolo's office, and I saw him filling a glass of wine one by one, and his whole face was red. When he saw Claude come back, Captain Duriolo jumped up excitedly and waved a secret letter in his hand: "Dude, we won, and Prince Hansburg has returned to the front command and taken over all power. None of the dog legs of the old aristocratic family dared disobey the orders of the great prince...”

Happiness came so suddenly, Claude couldn't help but be surprised. When the Grand Prince returns to the Front Command, everything will be disturbed anyway, and Major Skerry will be free. He asked hastily, "Why didn't you hear from me the other day? When did the Grand Prince return to Front Command? ”

“According to the secret letter, the Grand Prince appeared suddenly at the Front Line Command last night. According to his escorts, the Grand Prince took his own guard 11 days ago and said that the kings had gone hunting in the nearby suburbs. No one noticed that the Grand Prince's destination was the Front Line. As soon as the queen left the capital, she hurried to the front line day and night, while concealing her identity, pretending to be a messenger sending a secret message to the front line, so no one noticed the journey..." Captain Duriolo looked at the secret message and replied.

Claude picked up the fruit wine on the table and poured himself a glass of it, sipping it and shouting: “Now we can truly rest assured that the noble officers of the Grand Prince returning to the front command will not be able to bundle. I just don't know when Major Scully will be released. ”

Captain Duriolo nodded: "It should be all right. This secret letter from a friend of mine said that this morning the Grand Prince ordered the Communications Office to send a message to the commanders of all the regiments on the front line, asking them to arrive at the front command within three days. At the same time, a division of the Garda Síochána was ordered to travel to the town of Pakasia, where the Front Line Command was located, for security and preparedness. I think the purpose of the Grand Prince may be to have a big cleansing...”