Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 315 Accommodation Issues

The three Claudes spent more than a decade in the military academy with a remaining guard team, finally waiting for the arrival of a large group of horses. Since January 23, a large convoy of cars from Wangdu has been transporting a variety of supplies, as well as several squadron soldiers who have come to carry out simple construction. Three or four more days later, many cadets and military academy instructors arrived at the academy, except Claude didn't see Muriel, Diaved.

And Lieutenant Colonel Manridge, who had been badly acquainted with Claude, finally showed that he was favored by Grand Prince Hansburg and had acquired the talent of the school's chief administrative officer, and that no matter how cumbersome the matter reached him, it would always be well organized and quickly handled. Claude watched almost all the snowy military schools in just a few days turn into something else, tented dormitories, tented classrooms, logged canteen sheds, bathroom wooden houses quickly appeared in this wasteland...

Soon a notice was posted at the front door and Claude looked at it and found that the training was divided into 16 training courses at two levels, 10 of which were at the rank of sergeant, i.e. sergeant to the rank of sergeant chief, for the purpose of training qualified officers at the grassroots level. McJackie and Big Gummy both ranked among them. Another level is the training of lieutenant officers, ranging from lieutenants to captains, with six training courses aimed at enhancing the tactical level and force management skills of battle units of squadron size in carrying out their tasks, as well as the training of soldiers.

Claude saw Muried, Diaved, and Berkelin, assigned to the second Battalion of Rangers, on this list of lieutenant officer training, and the remaining familiar names were officers of the other battalions of Rangers. But the problem is Claude didn't find his name on the list, did he miss himself...

Claude decided to go find the busy Lieutenant Colonel Manridge. What the hell is going on? Colonel Manrich just nodded when he saw Claude, saying I was looking for you, and you waited for me to finish what I was doing.

So Claude waited for most of the day, and finally waited until Lieutenant Colonel Manridge arranged what he had at hand, and drove his subordinates to execute it. The office didn't clean up until after a while.

“This is for you.” Lieutenant Colonel Manridge found a document from the table and handed it over to Claude.

Claude took over the papers. Look, advanced workshop? No, how did I get into this advanced seminar? Twenty-six names, with the exception of Claude hanging the rank of captain, the remaining 25 names are all suffixed to school titles, and Colonel alone has eight.

Looking at Claude with some confusion, Lt. Colonel Manridge laughed. “Surprised, I was just as shocked as you were when I received this document. But I didn't know you were Michelle. General K. Priest personally designated a candidate to join. General Michelch said that even he couldn't take less than a team of men and horses against more than 5,000 enemies, and that if you could beat out Squirrel Village Dajie, you wouldn't have to go through any more officer training, enough to qualify for this advanced seminar. ”

Claude was a little embarrassed: "It's the general's love, and I'm lucky, too. By the way, Colonel Manridge, what does this senior seminar do? ”

Instead of answering Claude's question, however, Lieutenant Colonel Manridge turned to the cavalry regiment that was being formed: "You know, after this training, all the grass-roots officers involved in the training would be promoted to the first level and transferred to the cavalry regiment. Unfortunately, there are no more Rangers...”

“What do you mean?” Claude stunned: “No more Rangers? So the Royal Family is compromised and not ready to have an independent armed force? ”

“No,” replied Lieutenant Colonel Manridge, "the Rangers are gone, but the Rangers still exist. ”

Rangers, what kind of preparation is this? There has never been a division in the kingdom. Claude's face doesn't understand.

The Royal Auvellas Army, with battalions as independent battalions with more than 1,100 troops, could also strengthen two artillery squadrons with a total strength of around 1,200 troops. A brigade of four battalions, plus a guard brigade and units under the brigade, with a total strength of under 5400 troops, comprising a division, four brigades plus a guard battalion and artillery battalion, as well as units under all divisions of the division, with a total strength of nearly 24,000 to 25,000 troops.

The division is composed of two divisions under one regiment, plus one cavalry regiment and one guard regiment, two artillery battalions, with a total strength of around 60,000 troops under each department.

Soon, however, Colonel Manridge's explanation made Claude understand what a regiment was called. It is a division-led battalion, supplemented by a cavalry regiment and an independent reinforced battalion of artillery with a total strength of some 32,000 combatants.

Compared to the regiment, the division size varies by almost half. In addition, the biggest difference from the regiment is that the following five regiments are organized to carry out combat tasks. Instead of attacking or defending with the strength of one division, as is the case with the Legion, another division rotates as a reserve.

Since the formation of the Ranger Corps was unanimously boycotted by royal noble officials and kingdom ministers, even the four major Ace Field Corps of the kingdom saw the 80,000 horses prepared for the formation of the Ranger Corps, it was also implicitly stated that they did not want multiple Ranger Corps to increase the Kingdom's military spending...

The greatest difficulty for the Sterling royal family to have an independent and credible armed force is therefore the allocation of funds and equipment for the formation of the force. The Royal Minister of Finance stated that the treasury was empty and unable to absorb the military expenditures of another regiment. The Ministry of the Army, on the other hand, called for the reconstituted Blue Feather Corps to be converted into a cavalry corps in response to the light cavalry of the Principality of Kanas.

This was the idea of the 80,000 horses delivered by the Principality of Kanas in the next three years, clearly said that the 80,000 horses were traded with the Principality of Kanas, but in fact the Principality of Kanas paid compensation to the Kingdom of Ovieras. They were paying 80,000 horses, and the Kingdom of Orvilas was able to trade them for arms by sorting out the anti-Olympic coalition weapons seized on the battlefield and selecting the semi-new and old weapons and equipment that had been given to the two regiments of the Principality of Kanas.

For the Kingdom of Orvilas, these seized weapons and ordnance are not as powerful as the Royal Army's manufactured equipment and are also used to destroy them. It would be a good deal to exchange war horses for them, with the cost of destruction remaining. And what the Army means is that the tragic defeat of the Battle of the Kanas Prairie has proven that the infantry is a light cavalry that cannot resist the enemy. So converting the Blue Feather Regiment into a cavalry regiment would avoid the same failures in the future when there is another war.

The Blue Feather Regiment was placed on the border of the Principality of Kanas, and its transformation into a cavalry regiment would effectively suppress the harassment and attacks of enemy light cavalry on the newly occupied territory of the Kingdom. You should know that, although peace agreements have been signed between the two countries, attacks by nomadic tribes of the Principality of Kanas on the border areas of the former Principality of Eskilin have never ceased, a folk custom of nomadic tribes fighting grass valleys for nearly a thousand years and not even the Grand Duke of Kanas, even though the two Principals were allies at the time.

As for the Rangers, it goes without saying whether the Kingdom's military spending is affordable, since the Ministry of the Army does not have such a budget. In addition, the Ranger Corps to be formed is a motorized force, not a cavalry, but a horseback infantry. In other words, use horses as a substitute to quickly get to your destination and get off the horse to fight. In this way, there is absolutely no need to equip the horses, you can use the second-degree Ken Horse, and you do not need to ride the horses to fight anyway.

Faced with the blame of these kingdoms' ministers and noble officials, Prince Hansburg had no choice but to consult with his father, King Sterling X, and adopt Michelle. The recommendations of General K. Priest reduced the size of the Corps and created an unequal divisional structure. This led to a compromise with the Ministry of the Army, which obtained disbursements for arms and materiel, including heavy logistics. This cavalry is also defined as the Royal Immediate Guard, whose formation funds and military expenditures will be paid by the Royal Family.

Legions have been transformed into divisions, half smaller in size, and General Michelch believes that this would make it easier to achieve the operational effects of his flexible, mobile and rapid response. Another point is that the division will use all of the Obash triple fireline guns, which are precisely aimed at firing guns that have already fully leveraged their power on the battlefield enough to alter the operational pattern of the Royal Army's original line of marching firing.

In the future, the Rangers did not need to attack or defend one division, like other regiments, and they broke down and went to the top of another division. In the war that has just ended, which has swept across the eastern part of the continent, the Royal Army employs the old method of warfare and, in the event that the enemy has set up a defensive position and refuses to take a field action, it has proceeded to the enemy's defensive position, causing very heavy casualties.

Lieutenant Colonel Manridge told Claude that General Michel had organized this high-level seminar to explore the new methods of warfare of the Order and to conduct exercises to test the effectiveness of the new methods of warfare.

Turns out, Claude suddenly realized that he was only a captain, but he was the first to figure out how to lie down, load up, crawl forward, and suppress enemy fire in defensive positions with precise shooting, so that the performance of the Obash 3 type firerope gun to accurately target the shooting was fully realized, so it was no surprise that he entered General Michelchi's eyes, combined with Squirrel Village Dajie's record, to be named to this advanced seminar.

“But there's one more question, and it's about you.” Lieutenant Colonel Manridge said with some embarrassment: "It's just that there's been a little bit of a glitch in the accommodation allocation plan...”

“Home?” Claude's a little confused: “What's wrong with my place now? Isn't it nice to have a single tent? ”

“Here's the thing…” Lieutenant Colonel Manridge explained for half a day and Claude finally understood why.

Simply put, with the arrival of a large number of trainees, camp tents in military schools need to be organized and distributed in a unified manner. The participants in the 10 sergeant training courses, who were placed in the tents of the twelve like soldiers, had no problem. Participants in the training courses for six lieutenant-ranking officers were treated better, and a platoon of simple cabins had been set up in the military academy, distributed as a cabin arrangement for eight people.

As for school instruction and school officers who came to this advanced workshop, they were accommodated in the villa area built outside the military academy. As a result, Claude became a problem, as he was a captain rank, and should reasonably live with those officers trained in the ranks of captains. But Claude was attending an advanced workshop, and it would be inappropriate to place him with those trainees without training.

Claude doesn't care. He can live anywhere. Lieutenant Colonel Manrić, however, said that the trained lieutenants were required to retrain their military skills this time, meaning that they were required to assemble at the playground every morning for exercise. And Claude's participation in this advanced workshop sometimes involves a sandbox projection, and staying up all night is something that happens naturally.

In that way, Claude, who had completely different operating hours than those of the trained lieutenants, could not live in the cabin of the military academy, affecting each other's rest. Lieutenant Colonel Manridge also feared that Claude would become a target, envied and jealous by the lieutenants. Imagine, they got up early in the morning and were trained like a falling dog, but Claude went back to the dorm to bed with a huge arrears, and it was too bad for morale to see who was suffering.

And Claude's tent now, which the military academy had to recycle, the three Claudes stayed in the military academy for more than a decade because of the early report, and the winter camp tent that Lieutenant Colonel Manridge had made for them. Now that the military academy is about to start, the logistics have arrived, and the preparations are almost ready, the college dormitories have been arranged and can no longer be left alone by Claude's tent on the playground, so recycling is not negotiated.

“So I'm moving to a villa outside the military academy?” Claude asked.

“No, you don't have enough rank.” Lieutenant Colonel Manridge is also difficult, but the rule is that you cannot stay in this villa area unless you are a school officer. In addition, the villa area is now overcrowded, with three school officers crowded in one villa cabin. First, the military academy was underfunded and the villa cabin was missing. The other is that I didn't expect General Michel to invite so many school-level officers to this senior seminar. There were only sixteen of them, and now there are nine more school polar officers and this Captain Gaklord...

“And you're not teaching in a military academy...” Lieutenant Colonel Manridge made up another sword. Houses in the villa area that are slightly behind the villa's wooden house have also long been assigned to military school instruction. No one welcomes the fact that some instructors drag their families along and others bring their servants or maids to take care of their daily lives.

Claude had a dark face, no wonder Colonel Manridge said that his place of residence had become a problem and that he was unconsciously isolated.

“What do you want me to do?” Claude said, “Why don't you give me a tent and I'll find myself a place to camp in the village...” `

“No, I've solved the problem.” Lieutenant Colonel Manridge said, "I have appointed a family in the village to solve your accommodation problem. During the training of the military school, you will be staying at their house and the cost will be settled by the military school and them...”