Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 208: new recruits

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"Boss, I really can't stand it anymore. These guys they sent here are not military material at all. I can't teach them no matter how hard I teach them. It's been more than a week and they can't even walk in the simplest queue, let alone ask questions. Left turned right. Every time I shouted the command, at least two or three pairs would bump into each other." Belklin rushed into the cabin, took off the straight military cap on his head, threw it to the ground angrily, and complained again. .

Another month passed and Claude was able to get out of bed and walk around. However, Dr. Perente did not allow him to go out for more strenuous exercise to avoid re-traumatizing the newly healed wound. However, being able to recover so quickly was beyond Dr. Perrent's expectation. He originally thought that Claude would have to stay in bed for another month, but he didn't expect that he could get out of bed and move around alone now. He was very envious of Claude. physical fitness, which is considered to be the main reason for quick recovery.

In his reply to Madam Maria, Claude did not mention his injury at all, but focused on his excellent performance in the recruit training and won first place, thus gaining the respect of the legion and promoting him. Good news for Master Chief. At the same time, he explained that he would be responsible for forming the security team and stretcher team of the voluntary treatment center, saying that he would live up to the trust placed in him by the army and successfully complete this task.

All letters from soldiers must be reviewed by the civilian officers at the receiving station. The regiment was very satisfied with the content of Claude's reply to Baroness Maria, so on the day when the non-commissioned officer training ended, Claude was still lying on the hospital bed. Claude, who was recovering from his injuries, sent the sergeant chief's epaulettes, which meant that Claude had officially become a sergeant major of the Blue Feather Legion. At the same time, he also sent the sergeant epaulettes of four noble children.

Because the non-commissioned officer training has officially ended, the camping tent next to the military camp's playground will be used for other purposes, so the seven team members who became non-commissioned officers who were sleeping in the same tent gave Claude and the others their personal belongings in the tent cabinet. They will also leave here to go to the legion camp and be assigned to various recruit squads to serve as grassroots officers.

Since Claude received the order to form a security team and a stretcher team for the medical treatment center, he unceremoniously commandeered the two cabins at the treatment center as temporary residences for himself and four noble children. For this reason, Dr. Perrent expressed his delight, and asked Claude to help him form a medical team.

Well, when Dr. Perrent brought over the personnel list of the medical team, Claude realized that he had inherited a mess. Generally speaking, it is standard for a combat battalion to be equipped with a medical team. During war, it may be reinforced by army pharmacists and medical soldiers. In peacetime, one chief physician, one army pharmacist, and six medical soldiers are already the minimum staffing. The medical treatment center that Dr. Perrent is responsible for has only one physician, no army pharmacist, and only four medical corpsmen.

"I'm too lazy to deal with those bureaucrats. I can manage a small number of people, but when there are a lot of people, I can't take care of them when I'm busy. Anyway, I can still take care of the injuries and illnesses in the military camp, so I didn't ask for help from the higher ups. Establishment." Dr. Perrent shrugged and said to Claude without any embarrassment: "You can get out of bed and walk around now, and you have plenty of time. Since you can write a reply, help me argue with the boss and fight more. Several reports asked them to replenish us with army pharmacists and medics. I want smart, honest and capable medics, don't give me those bastards who like to be lazy and have dirty hands and feet."

Dr. Perrent's request is really difficult to handle. Where can he find those smart, capable and honest medical soldiers to come to him? Knowing that a war may break out in a few months, no army commander is willing to leave the military personnel in his camp. The medical soldiers are replenished to others. Claude sent several reports to the military camp, but there was no news. Finally, Claude got angry and wrote another report in the name of Dr. Perente, saying that the army pharmacist needed to be assigned by the superiors. The medical soldier asked himself to be recruited from the army. The new recruits who joined the army were selected for training, and this report was approved.

Claude threw the approved and stamped report to Dr. Perente and asked him to go to the recruiting office of the camp to select suitable candidates for medical training. As for the security team and stretcher team he was responsible for forming, he was not qualified to select new recruits and had to wait for the allocation from above.

The strength of one squad is twelve people, and the strength of two squads is twenty-four. There are already him and four noble children here. Claude thought that the higher ups would send nineteen recruits over, which would make two full squads. squad. But he didn't expect that the number of recruits allocated to him from above turned out to be twenty-seven. When he received the notice, Claude thought he had been blinded. When he asked the corporal who sent the recruits over, the corporal said that this was the order from the superiors. He just followed the order and didn't know anything else.

Claude had no choice but to ask Belklin to find Second Lieutenant Gilp at the recruitment office and ask what was going on. As a result, Belklin came back and told Claude that Second Lieutenant Gilp said it was okay. These people will be under Claude's care and training first. After a period of time, we will see if there are any suitable soldiers and then weed them out. What will be done then? Say it again.

Let's make do with it for now. Claude asked Belklin, who had already recovered, to go to the logistics office of the battalion headquarters to collect camping tents and other logistical supplies on his behalf. He then directly arranged the camping camp and training ground in the large yard behind the treatment center. This place It turned out that they were drying quilts, herbal bandages, etc. There was enough space for training this small number of people.

Then Claude took the personal files of the recruits and checked them again. Only then did he discover that the twenty-seven recruits who were dispatched here were not just new recruits. They had been in the army for a month at least. He was just eliminated in the recruit training. The instructors believe that they are not suitable to become soldiers of the Blue Feather Legion. Even if they are healthy, the best place is to do hard work in the logistics and logistics department.

It turns out that my place is a gathering place for garbage. Claude smiled bitterly. Seeing the personal comments on these recruits' files written with derogatory adjectives such as imbecile, slow, stupid, and brainless, Claude finally understood what kind of job he had taken. . No wonder the higher-ups were so generous and sent so many people to him at once. Second Lieutenant Gilp also said that it was okay. He would train for a while and then eliminate them. It seemed that he himself knew what kind of recruits these recruits were.

Claude picked out two out of the twenty-seven personal files of recruits. The first one had comments that said he could eat well, was lazy, was unwilling to move, hit people when he didn't get what he wanted, and was slow to react. Claude called Belklin over and asked him to bring the new recruit over so that he could see him.

Soon, a big man with a height of more than two meters appeared in front of Claude. Good guy, he was about two and twenty meters tall. He was taller than those who played basketball in his previous life. Claude had to look up. Look at him.

"Your name is Gremet Opus, twenty-one years old," Claude asked.

"I don't know," the big man replied angrily: "People in the city used to call me Gemi or Da Zhuang. They gave me this name because they asked me to serve as a soldier this time. I don't know Literary, don’t know what they wrote on it.”

"Okay, then I'll call you Gemie too." Claude continued to ask: "Why did you come to be a soldier? Did you have to come because you received the conscription order?"

The big man scratched his scalp: "I don't know what the conscription order is. Mr. Bechiko in the city told me that if I join the army, I can have enough to eat, so I signed up. I didn't expect that they all lied to me. I When I went to eat, they didn’t give me food. They also said that everyone had a daily quota and couldn’t exceed it, so I went to steal other people’s food and beat anyone who didn’t give it to me.”

"You came to be a soldier just to have enough to eat," Claude said curiously, "Then what did you do at home?"

"I don't have a home. I help people carry things in the city in exchange for a few pieces of bread. I sleep in the stables of the tavern at night and help them feed their horses. I never have enough to eat and I am always hungry, so they say that being a soldier can make me full. I'm coming"

Claude opened the training records in front of the comments in the file and saw several confinement punishments. The reason was that he grabbed other people's food in the cafeteria and beat them if they didn't give it. Very fierce. At the same time, he moved slowly during training, was unwilling to train with everyone, and refused to change despite repeated admonitions. The instructor had no choice but to eliminate him.

But why is this big man so lazy, unwilling to move, and unresponsive in his personal comments? When I asked the question just now, his answers were very logical, and there seemed to be no problem. Claude pointed to the file and asked: "Why is it that your personal review says lazy, slow to react, and unwilling to move?"

"They didn't let me eat, so I didn't want to train with them, otherwise I would get hungry quickly. I used to find a place to lie down when I wasn't working in the city, so I wouldn't get hungry easily." The big man said aggrievedly.

Claude understood: "Okay, you can eat enough here every day from now on, but you have to obey my orders, otherwise I won't feed you. Now go out."

"Really, I can really eat. What if they don't give me food?" The big man was a little surprised and stared at Claude with some suspicion.

"Really, it's okay. No matter how much you eat, I will pay for you. Don't worry about that." As for how much the food in the cafeteria is worth, Claude sometimes doubts that even a team's food is worth a riaso. This big man can eat as much as he wants. At worst, he will replenish the Master Chief's welfare allowance to the canteen. It's not like he has no money.

Once you get one done, you don’t need to think about the second one. This recruit is actually not yet an adult, only sixteen years old and a homeless orphan. Because the place where he was was recruiting him to fill up the quota for conscription, and no one was complaining for him, so he entered the military camp. At a young age, he was kicked out of training and kept hanging out in the military camp, so he was assigned to Claude.

After all, he is not yet an adult. He has been wandering around and is not well-nourished. He is not fully developed yet. He is not as tall as a musket. It is normal for him to be eliminated if he cannot keep up in the recruit training. Let's just follow him as an errand boy first. Claude sighed and called the young man named Mike in for a chat. He felt that he was quite honest, so Claude got a little guard who also acted as a guard. The role of the messenger.

In the evening, Belklin took these recruits to the canteen for dinner. When he came back, he looked at Claude and smiled bitterly: "Boss, your salary is going to be gone. The big man named Germi ate the food for eight people by himself, and he said that he was the only one When he was seventy percent full, I didn’t even know where he had eaten so much food. He was simply a waste of food.”

Because Claude was still physically inconvenient, he could only ask Belklin to take these recruits for queue training first. As a result, after more than a week, Belklin changed from the initial elation of becoming a training instructor to a look of dejection, and he complained every day when he came back.

To use his words to describe these recruits: "In addition to appearing relatively normal when eating, sleeping and resting, they all turned into idiots during training. It would be easier for him to train a group of pigs than to train these guys, at least those pigs would know how to train them." Know which direction to run”

Claude was very calm: "It's okay, I've been observing them these days, and I know how to train them. Just stay up for a few more days, and I'll be able to leave the room for some restorative exercises soon. Then I will teach you how to train them."

It’s the Chinese New Year and I’ve been a little busy these days. There are a lot of New Year’s and New Year’s wines. Although I don’t drink, I have to go along. After all, Chinese New Year means family reunion, so I can only try my best to update it every day, and I will add more if I have time. In addition, I wish everyone a happy new year and all the best.