Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 368: shortcomings

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Claude suddenly felt like he had thrown himself into a trap and asked for trouble. He had never imagined how hungry a woman who had been a widow for five years would be. If it weren't for the fact that this matter couldn't be exposed, and the two of them had to appear in front of Aunt Natalie and her family during the day, Claude doubted that he would be tied up on the bed by Doris and fucked for several days in a row. How many nights of juice, until the juice is gone and everyone dies...

When Claude came to this different world, he was no longer the first brother. He had experienced four women. The first one was Baroness Wakusili whom he detained in Squirrel Village. Although she had been widowed for many years, her behavior in bed was still passive, and she would only become more passionate and obsessed when she was in love. The next one is the young mage Sheila, and the other is Claude's new wife Kaifni. Not to mention the two of them, they are both characters who are allowed to be bullied by Claude.

But now this Doris is a complete exception. She is proactive and fierce. Even during the day, she doesn't say a word to Claude in front of her family, her face is cold, and she has a business-like attitude when delivering meals. But at night, when the two of them get along, she will become passionate. She always finds ways to arouse Claude's interest. She is open to any posture and willing to try any tricks. In just one week, Claude felt as if he was as hollow as an old man in his 70s or 80s, and he had to hold on to the wall when walking.

Fortunately, after a week, Doris's needs were finally met. From then on, she was satisfied once a night, and she no longer kept squeezing Claude as she had in the past few days. Claude slowly regained his composure, and it happened that Doris was having her period. This made Claude very happy, and he finally saved his life...

However, with the physical communication, Claude also understood the origin of Doris, and why old man Zacilak was so wary of Doris dating other men. Seriously speaking, Doris is a legal villager in Kaleben Village, and is the wife of old man Zashirak's second son who is in the army. But if Doris goes to the royal capital, she will become a wanted person because she is the wife of a butcher in the royal capital who ran away from home...

Doris said that her parents privately mortgaged her to a neighborhood butcher who was twenty-six years older than her when she was sixteen. They said the mortgage was because the kingdom's laws stipulated that slave trading was against the kingdom's laws. But the parents who were in debt and did not want to go to the labor camp could only use their own daughter to pay off the debt, saying that when she reached the age of eighteen, she would marry this butcher who could be her father. But in fact, the first night Doris arrived at the butcher's house, the butcher forcibly took away her first sex.

The butcher treated Doris like a slave, beating or scolding her if she did anything wrong. He did not regard Doris as his wife at all, but just a tool to give him offspring. It's just that because of his own body, the butcher couldn't get Doris pregnant as he wished, so he put all the blame on Doris and abused her more and more cruelly.

At this time, Doris met Velekoni, the second son of old man Zasilak. The Butcher is a small supplier of meat ingredients to the Guards Corps. Velekoni was appreciated by a major in the logistics department of the Guards Corps and became his entourage. He ran errands for him and was also responsible for food suppliers like the Butcher. connection. He sympathized with Doris's plight, so he helped Doris escape on the condition that Doris marry him, took her home, and married Doris in the village of Kaleben.

Speaking of which, Veleconi was kind to Doris, and Doris' affair with Claude was considered unruly. But in fact, Doris was in trouble, because the real reason why Veleconi helped her was to hide that he was a victim. Doris never expected that she escaped from the sea of misery but fell into a bigger pit. Her husband turned out to be gay. The reason why he was appreciated and promoted to the entourage by the major was actually because they were a couple. Same-sex lovers…

The problem is that old man Zasilak and Aunt Natalie don't know that their second son is a crook, and they still hope that Velekoni and Doris will have a baby soon. But even when Veleconi went home to visit relatives, he and Doris slept separately. Firstly, Veleconi was not interested in women, and secondly, his thing was useless. Doris had tried it before, but she couldn't get hard. So Doris had been a widow for five years, and Claude finally understood why she was so proactive and eager.

Well, homosexuality is a sin in this other world. In the propaganda of various temples, those who are gay are all tempted by the devil and embark on a path of depravity. Therefore, if someone is discovered to be homosexual among the people, it is like a source of plague. Everyone is afraid of avoiding it and will be spurned and humiliated. But in fact, in the King's team, there are endless homosexual incidents, but most people just pretend not to see it and pretend they don't know anything.

The matter between Veleconi and Doris was a normal way to handle it. He married Doris to avoid being suspected of being gay. After all, he is a victim. According to Doris, her husband looks very feminine, and sometimes his movements are more feminine than hers...

After understanding the inside information, Claude no longer felt guilty. He decided to seduce Doris because he was dissatisfied with the old man Zasilak's wariness towards him. It was only after he succeeded that he remembered that Doris had a husband, which made him feel uneasy and guilty on his conscience. But now he has no scruples and can enjoy his love with Doris.

The rainy season of more than twenty days has finally passed, and Claude once again resumed his days of going to the military academy to have three meals a day. To be honest, he was deeply resentful of the food at Aunt Natalie's house. Although there was meat at noon and evening, these were either bacon or bacon. They were all saved from last year. There was no fresh meat. Chloe De ate so much that he felt like he was going moldy.

On April 1st, Claude went to the seminar room to submit his summary report, and then discussed the shortcomings and improvements in their respective reports with several officers with whom he was relatively close, and applied again from the confidential archives. Check out some combat case documents. At noon, Claude finally enjoyed a delicious meal in a small box in the cafeteria, which made him only hiccup.

In the next three or four days, the students in the advanced seminar were very leisurely, but on April 7, General Michelic came with five other generals. He did not introduce to the students who these five generals were. Who, instead, began to comment on the battle summaries submitted by each student one by one, and conduct sand table deductions in the seminar room. Based on the opinions in the battle case summary reports submitted by the students, conduct review exercises directly on the sand table to judge whether the opinions are valid.

Claude's battle summary report is ranked very low, which means that he was rated very high. However, Claude was not among the top three, he was ranked fifth. General Michelich's comment on Claude's battle summary report was that the details were perfect, but the overall picture was not enough. He could influence a battle, but could not dominate a battle.

Claude was a little unconvinced after reading this comment. Wasn't the victory of Squirrel Village a battle? Didn't I win completely? Otherwise, I wouldn't have received the Knight Medal...

Only in the next few days, after Claude saw the combat case summary reports and sand table deductions of the four officers ranked above him, did he understand why General Michelich criticized him for being too small and too detailed. It's perfect but it doesn't affect the overall situation of the battle. Compared with the four above him, Claude is more entangled in the way of fighting below the strength of the squad and the group. Whether it is offensive or defensive battles, Claude gives people a more detailed and comprehensive grasp of all battlefield changes.

However, this kind of overall control cannot be realized in a battle where regiments and divisions are the main body. There will always be many unexpected changes on the battlefield. After all, people are not machines or computers, whether it is the dispatch of our own combat units or the enemy. In many cases, unexpected situations that arise cannot be controlled by the commander above.

To put it simply, if two combat units join together to launch an attack, it is likely that the battle will fail because one of them arrives at the battlefield ten minutes late. This requires the commander above to delegate part of his power to the combat units below and assign Combat orders take various contingencies into account so that the following combat units can correct their mistakes on their own...

The battle examples chosen by the four officers ranked above Claude were all offensive campaigns launched on a legion scale. Although they did not pay attention to the details of the battle, they did have a better strategic vision than Claude. This is something Claude feels ashamed of. Speaking of which, Claude never went to a military school in this life and only received short-term military training in high school and college in his previous life. The main reason why he was able to reach this point in the King's Team is that he was a pseudo-military fan in his previous life. He received more information, broadened his horizons, and had clearer thinking. His ideas were very different from those of soldiers in this other world, and it was easier to break the usual.

In the days of late April and early May, the villagers of Kaleben Village were busy harvesting winter wheat and replanting the fields for sowing. During this time, Doris became much more honest. She was so exhausted from being busy doing farm work all day long that she almost fell asleep when she came back. She had no energy to pester Claude anymore.

And Claude was also very busy at this time. The students in the advanced seminar class had already begun to participate in the task of forming the Ranger Division. Nearly a regiment of newly formed soldiers were sent to Kaleben Village, where they would test various methods. The new tactics proposed by the trainees were conducted on-site exercises to allow the division officers to conduct combat evaluations.

Claude met Major Skerry again. He had been transferred to the Division's General Logistics Department as the Director of the Statistics Division, responsible for the dispatch and supervision of the entire Ranger Division's logistics and supplies. Major Skerry told Claude the good news that there would be a large-scale promotion opportunity at the end of this year at the Ranger Division. He saw a list of candidates who were eligible for promotion, and both he and Claude were on it.

Claude is a little surprised. This is not a war period. Isn't it said that in peacetime, officer promotions are based on years and seniority? It had only been a year since the war ended. Why was there such a sudden large-scale promotion? Is there another threat of war

Major Skerry smiled and told Claude, don't think nonsense, this is actually just a compensation. This promotion was not available to other legions in the kingdom except for the Ranger Division. The main reason is simple. Civilian officers who can join the Ranger Corps have more or less suffered a lot of injustice and oppression during the war. After the formation of the Ranger Division is completed, it will be a guard unit directly under the Sterling royal family. The promotion at the end of this year is firstly to provide compensation, and secondly, the royal family is to win people's hearts.

Another unspeakable reason is that the Ranger Division lacks officers, both at the senior level and at the grassroots level. The war has been over for more than a year. If officers are transferred from other legions to serve in the Rangers, the royal family is very worried about being infiltrated by others. There are also many civilian officers attracted by the old aristocratic families and emerging business aristocrats, and no one will There was no way to guarantee the loyalty of the civilian officers deployed.

Therefore, the Sterling royal family decided to simply digest it internally. During the armistice agreement negotiations, there was a deep conflict between the civilian officers who were deployed to form the Ranger Corps and the aristocratic officers. Those combat units preparing to form the Ranger Corps were all reliable. Especially when the Ranger Corps was forced to downsize to the size of a division, it aroused great repercussions among these soldiers and officers. They hated the upper-level figures who hindered the formation of the Ranger Corps. For the royal family, these soldiers and officers are the most loyal and reliable military support in their hands. It is better to promote them on the spot than to dispatch officers to serve.

In the past three months of June 78, Claude spent most of his time in the military camp conducting field exercises with the students in the advanced seminar. From a certain point of view, Claude is now invincible in field exercises with troops below the battalion level. None of the school-level officers is his opponent, whether it is an ambush or a surprise attack, a positional offensive or a defensive and defensive battle, the battalion All the advanced seminar students who were fighting against the following equal forces voluntarily admitted defeat, believing that they were no match for Claude.

Because Claude always has all kinds of fantastic ideas, which often make his opponents suffer big losses by surprise. As a result, the students who were conducting field exercises with him became frightened. Every step they took, they suspected whether Claude had any conspiracy waiting for them. They all thought that conducting field exercises with Claude was too mentally draining and stressful for anyone to handle.

But when the troops reached the level of a regiment or above, Claude was beaten by the students in various ways. This is because Claude has never experienced a battle on the scale of a regiment-level combat unit. He is more accustomed to dividing his troops into battalion-level combat units, which gives the opponent the opportunity to defeat them from all directions. The other is that regiment-level combat units are equipped with medium-sized infantry field artillery. Claude is completely unfamiliar with this and is not familiar with its performance, so he has repeatedly suffered disadvantages in positional battles.

If the regiment is used as a combat unit, Claude can still win three or four times out of ten field exercises, and learn lessons to increase the winning rate as time goes by. Then when it comes to the sand table deduction of the division's combat unit, Claude will lose ten of the ten battles. He simply couldn't coordinate the various combat units under his command. He always focused on one thing and neglected the other. His opponents seized on the flaws and drove them forward, so he had to surrender.

The main reason for this is that Claude has never attended a military academy in this world and received formal military training. His classmates in the advanced seminar class all graduated from the Royal Military Academy. They have received complete military training since they were young, and their graduation internships are Having experienced in the Army Staff Department, I know very well how to make choices and how to delegate power when commanding large-scale operations. Therefore, in the sand table deduction with Claude, I can often crush him head-on and defeat Claude...

However, Claude was able to absorb experience and lessons even though he suffered too much. He made rapid progress and was repeatedly praised by General Michelchi.

After the September Harvest Festival, the students of the advanced seminar led a regiment of soldiers on a long-distance training, from Kalebun Village to the border between the former Eskilen Principality and the Karnas Prairie, and received the Ten thousand horses, and then rushed back to the village of Kaleben at the end of November.