Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 328: Strengthening the Battalion independently

“What are you doing down here today, Werekoni?” Claude looked strangely at Doris, skilled and smooth, and slipped down the stairs along the hanging sheets, saying you weren't afraid your husband would find out either.

Doris slipped into the quilt: “I wrote him home. ”

“Well, what do you mean, you let him go home and grab us both at the scene?” Claude was shocked. Doris resented that Werekoni was useless. Even if Werekoni had a vacation, she didn't want him to come back. She didn't want to get upset. How can she let him go home now? This January alone saw Werekoni go home three times.

“Scratch my ass, I'll let him come home to us as an arrow sign.” Doris has already sat up: “I want a child, I can't. If he doesn't come home, I'll get hungry...”

Well, Claude has nothing to say but bow down to meet Doris' needs. Since Doris knew Claude had become a father, she had begun another round of squeezing on Claude, and she was going to be a mother, asking Claude to give him a child. For this reason, a special letter was also sent to bring home the husband in the name of Velekoni, so that she could become pregnant without any doubt.

Time passed so slowly and so quickly that Doris finally got as big as she wanted in early April after the March rainy season. When Claude learned of the news, he had just returned from the military academy, and as soon as he got off the courtyard door, he saw Aunt Natalie greeting him with joy. He served Claude a plate of white rice cake, which was filled with black sesame seeds.

This is a folk custom on Wang Du's side, which means that the women in the family are happy, giving the family flowers and leaves, meaning Tao Zi Dofu.

“This is...” Claude doesn't know much about this folk custom, he doesn't know what this black sesame white rice cake is, he's just wondering how Aunt Natalie, who has always had a family festival and spent small sums of money, wouldn't want to make such a confession.

“Here you go.” Aunt Natalie said very generously: “Today we have a happy family, I have steamed a lot, every family in the village has sent it, and tomorrow we have to send a basket to the Silver Moon Temple in Murdo Town...”

“What's the good news?” Claude was curious.

“It's Doris, she's finally happy.” Aunt Natalie's mouth is filled with joy: “I told you, let Velekonido go home and let them work hard together. This is not true. Verekoni has been coming back a lot in the past few months. Doris is about to have it...”

Uh... Claude could only take the white rice cake, and the heart said it was me who was trying, and my waist was going to be exhausted for two or three months. You and your old man are dizzy and you don't see how your baby son behaves like a man, even in a walking position and talking in military uniform?

“Congratulations… have you confirmed, a few months?” Claude asked.

“Confirmed, went to the military academy today and hired a pharmacist, who examined Doris and said she was about two months pregnant.” Aunt Natalie answered with a smile.

“What a joy!” Claude reached out and grabbed a silver tower out of his pocket and handed it over: “Come, Aunt Natalie, I've lived in your house for over a year, and according to our custom, something like this should be a gift. This silver taller, even if I give you the wedding money, you take it and buy some delicious food to replenish Doris..."

“How can that be, it cost you so much...” Aunt Natalie pushed it off very politely, but her hand held the silver coin tightly.

“It's all right, just take it. Speaking of staying at your place, we're for a reason. You're welcome. Okay, I'm going back to my room.” Claude returned to the room with the white rice cake. Sit in the chair and listen to the movement coming from upstairs. Now that Doris is pregnant, all of a sudden, she becomes the animal at home. Halbena is almost her full-time waitress. She is busy delivering food with water...

Claude sighed deeply, and Doris wished, but Claude didn't know what to do. This, the child, was his, but couldn't say. Aunt Natalie's family treated the child in Doris's belly as their own grandchild, but Claude would soon be treated as their enemy if something were revealed.

Claude climbed upstairs in the middle of the night, Doris wasn't asleep, and she was waiting for Claude. She told Claude not to think too much, in fact, that Werekoni had promised to treat her and Claude's children as if they were his own, so that Aunt Natalie and Old Zacilac would not be saddened.

Doris said that Verekoni was truly grateful to Claude for helping him make Doris pregnant. That sounds ridiculous and funny, but for Verekoni, it's a sincere thank you. Because this will better hide the truth that he is gay, no one will suspect that his wife's pregnant husband is a bastard, which will make him more comfortable at home and outside...

So, what if the kid grows up? Claude asked.

Besides... Doris doesn't want to think about it for that long, she just wants to enjoy being a mother and a woman. However, she promised Claude that if she waited for her child to grow up and maybe there would be a big change in the family, she would tell the child who his biological father was and let the child go to Claude...

Claude climbed back to his room...

At the end of April, Claude was summoned by General Michel at the military academy, and Claude waited half an hour for him to be notified that he could go in and see General Michel.

General Michelchi wore glasses and looked down at a document. Claude came to his desk and stood up with his hands raised.

“Rest at ease," General Michelch replied casually, pointing to a seat next to Claude: “Sit down, Claude, I'm here to discuss your assignment. ”

Claude sat in jeopardy: "Back to the General, I obey the distribution, wherever I go. ”

General Michel laughed, “Wherever you go? No, no, no, no. I want you to go to a position that's right for you to play your talent, otherwise you're wasting your talent. ”

“Let's just say, Claude, the military school training will be over by the end of May, which is a month away. Your training performance and appraisal scores are excellent and you rank high among the participants in the advanced workshops, of course your strengths and weaknesses are obvious and I'm sure you know them well.” General Michel stood up and slowly walked around the desk.

“After this military school training, you have been determined to be promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Kingdom, which is a reward for your excellent performance.” General Michelch told Claude the good news.

Claude immediately stood up and shook his fist in his heart: "My servant wishes to serve the kingdom! To Your Majesty! Thank the General for cultivating! ”

“Come on, don't say that in front of me. It's actually a glory you've earned with your hard work and talent.” General Michelchi waves: “Sit down, don't be so constrained. Just wanted to talk to you about your position in the Rangers, you have two options now. ”

General Michelch quickly explained to Claude that, according to the Rangers, it had four regular mobile field regiments underneath it, plus a light cavalry regiment, an independent reinforced combat battalion and a reinforced artillery battalion with a total strength of some 32,000 troops.

When Claude finishes his military training promotion to Lieutenant Colonel, he should serve in the regimental department according to rank. In the regular corps of the Kingdom of Ovilas, the commander in charge of the battalion is the rank of Major, while the commander in charge of the regiment is the rank of Colonel. The rank of Lieutenant Colonel is essentially that of deputy or chief of operational staff in the Regiment Department, as well as that of the head of a department, favouring civilian officers, such as the Chief of the Military Justice Branch or the head of the Logistics Department.

In fact, in times of peace, serving as deputy to the mission headquarters and as chief of operational staff is a leisurely task, with the head of the mission at the top and the officers in charge of the various departments at the bottom taking charge of the trivial matters. In the unlikely event that anything goes wrong, the deputy and the chief of operational staff are not involved, the head of the own regiment and the officers in charge of those departments backed up the pot and said it was hard to hear. In fact, nothing matters or can be cared for, and there is no right to ignore the goods in hand.

So the noble sons who entered the army, who were able to relate, would seek the position of deputy or chief of combat staff, as well as the staff of the regiment. In times of peace, gold plating qualifications in the military, usually free and unconstrained, is simply a tailor-made military position for rich disciples of power who spend money on bonded service in the military.

While it is unlikely that the Cavalier Regiment will bring in the sons and daughters of aristocrats, powerful, and wealthy families to serve, there is nothing to do in peacetime as deputy to the Regiment or chief of operational staff except to be a little busy making plans during field combat exercises.

General Michelch wouldn't want Claude to be a pay thief in the division and have a nice life. It seemed to him that Claude had wasted a great deal of talent going to the regiment, and he decided to put a strain on Claude and put him on his own for the position of battalion commander of the Rangers' independent reinforcement battalion.

The rank of Lieutenant Colonel promoted to the rank of battalion commander at the end of the training with Claude appears to be a poor match for the position of battalion commander for the independent reinforced battalion, but in fact the battalion size of this independent reinforced battalion is very different from other mobile field battalions. The Mobile Field Battalion of the Rangers is composed of four battalions of 920 personnel, plus one guard squadron, one artillery squadron, one gendarmerie squadron, one logistically heavy squadron and one light reconnaissance squadron, as well as the immediate personnel of the battalion headquarters, totalling more than 1,360 personnel, almost one battalion more than the battalion in other regiments in the Kingdom.

This independent reinforcement battalion is even more powerful, with four direct combat battalions staffed at 1,000, one additional light cavalry battalion of 280 and one artillery battalion of 240, the guard squadron, the gendarmerie squadron, but the logistical heavy squadron has become a large battalion, and with the direct personnel of battalion headquarters and one guard squadron, and a security squadron, the total strength is almost 1,800, which is equivalent to the total number of two battalions of a second-line regiment.

Claude wonders what happened to that security squadron. General Michelchi explained that the independent reinforcement battalion would be equipped with 2,000 horses, 600 kempeitai horses and 120 four-wheeled wagons. The Direct Battle Battalion and the Light Cavalry Battalion have their own horses, while the remaining horses are under the direct control of the battalion headquarters, which can be said to have horses for everyone. That protection squadron does not belong to combatants, but rather to a combination of logistical guarantees for various categories of craftsmen, veterinarians, carpenters, blacksmiths, tanneries and tailors.

Generally speaking, only divisional combat units are staffed with such logistical support units, most of which are formed as a squadron, which tend to serve as a free labour force for senior officers at the division level and provide them with all the conveniences of life. Like senior officers of some regiments, senior chefs are also hired into such logistical security units to facilitate their own feasts and meals.

The main reason for this independent reinforcement battalion's guaranteed squadron configuration is that the battalion has the task of independent combat, arguably the Rangers' sharp knife force. Not only does it have to be able to attack, it also has to be respectful. For example, a riot somewhere is unstoppable. If the Rangers have received orders for chaos, then the first step must be this independent reinforcement battalion. He needs to rush to the riot site as soon as possible, choose its key location to seize and firmly adhere to it, and wait for the arrival of the next big army...

Claude understood that this independent reinforcement battalion was equipped with so many horses, horses and four-wheeled wagons to increase the speed of the battalion's manoeuvre. As far as this Guarantee Squadron is concerned, it is intended to replenish the loss of armaments during combat by taking materials locally during combat in order to maintain combat power.

General Michelch expressed the hope that Claude would assume responsibility for this independent reinforcement battalion and told Claude that the position of battalion commander for this independent reinforcement battalion would have been decided by officers of the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. There are many eye-catching and well-informed generations in the Ranger Regiment, who have seen the battalion commander's position. Many Lieutenant Colonel officers have expressed their willingness to serve in this unit. In their view, the position of battalion commander of this independent reinforcement battalion would be the most solid ladder up their military career...

General Michelch, however, declined the requests of these self-proclaimed lieutenant colonel officers, and in his view, only Claude was fit to assume the position of battalion commander. For a very simple reason, during field exercises and sandbox rollouts during nearly a year of military school training, the forces below Claude Command Battalion were invincible and nobody was his opponent. The tactical evaluations obtained were eccentric and flexible, often surprisingly victorious in field exercises, with minimal troop losses, good at sneaking and ambushing, etc.

“The training of more than 800 grass-roots officers in military schools is coming to an end.” If you are willing to assume the position of battalion commander for this independent reinforcement battalion, you can prioritize the establishment of a framework of battalion officers for the 20 cadets who excelled and excelled during the training period among the more than 800 grass-roots officers, who will be assigned to you by the military academy. Then head to Castle Christo in early June, where the best soldiers are selected to form this independent reinforcement battalion… "

Claude stood up and bowed down: "Yes, General, I would like to serve in this battalion of independent reinforcements. ”