The garrison headquarters of the Geide Special District is located in the town of Had on the outskirts of Gir City. It is located on the back foothills of the half-mountain villa area. It has beautiful scenery and is surrounded by mountains and rivers. More than ten years ago, the town was also a gathering place for wealthy Geide people. Later, it was requisitioned by the occupying forces for military use. It was transformed from the headquarters of the army group to the current garrison headquarters after many reconstructions.
Overall, the headquarters is an octagonal concrete building with a certain degree of resistance to air raids. It is only two stories high and extends three stories underground.
The town is home to a guard regiment and an air defence regiment.
It is also very close to the Air Force Base.
The 208th Infantry Division and the 209th Armored Division of the Garrison Corps were also stationed nearby.
Next to the headquarters, there is a military prison with three buildings for men and one building for women. It was originally used to detain members of the Gad resistance. At that time, the occupying forces could directly arrest members of the Gad resistance organization, interrogate them and sentence them, including the death penalty.
There are very few resistance elements imprisoned today. They are all less important members who have been sentenced to life imprisonment or several decades in prison. Most of the important elements have been hanged.
The execution ground where the hanging was carried out was behind the prison.
Lu Ming walked around and looked at these buildings with characteristics of the times, feeling a little complicated.
Accompanying Lu Ming on his inspection tour around the headquarters was Colonel Willy, director of the headquarters' Adjutant General's Office (General Office).
Although the chief officer of the Adjutant's Office has a low military rank, he can be said to be Lu Ming's butler. The duty of the Adjutant's Office is to help the commander deal with various chores, including personnel statistics and replenishment of subordinate troops, personnel and manpower management of the headquarters, material replenishment and all miscellaneous affairs, the transmission of daily orders, the transmission of documents and letters, and the security work of the headquarters.
There are more than 30 people in the Adjutant's Office, including Willy, the Chief Adjutant, as well as Lieutenant Colonel Adjutant, Major Adjutant, Captain Adjutant, etc.
In fact, the Adjutant's Office was completely replaced with fresh blood, including Adjutant Willy, who was transferred from the First Control. He was in his forties, recommended by Candice, and had once served as Candice's adjutant.
During Lu Ming's inspection, the new Corps Chief of Staff, Major General Heinz, the Corps Logistics and Quartermaster General, Major General Coles, and others came upon hearing the news.
Finally, the commander of the 208th Infantry Division, Matthäus, also hurried over.
But the commander of the 209th Armored Division, Becken, has never been seen.
Although the Adjutant's Office had actually revealed the news to Bacon's adjutant as Lu Ming intended, it did not explicitly ask Bacon to accompany the commander on the inspection.
In fact, the 209th Armored Division was developed from the Military Police Armored Regiment that Lu Ming once served in the Western Regions.
But now nature and people have changed.
The United Kingdom currently implements a conscription system. All male citizens of the United Kingdom must register with the local conscription committee within 5 days after their 18th birthday and fill out a "classification questionnaire". Then they are classified and numbered, and those who meet the service requirements are selected by lottery.
Under the conscription system, ordinary soldiers will be discharged after five years of service.
Therefore, most of the former military police soldiers have now retired, and only elite veterans who have been given the opportunity to sign a sergeant contract will continue to serve.
But no matter what, the history of an armed force's number is one of the forces of its military soul. The glorious history of the Military Police Armored Regiment in the Western Region cannot be something that is written about when new recruits join the army, even if most of the officers have been replaced by fresh blood.
In particular, the Gendarmerie Armored Regiment even defeated the military provocation of West Montenegro Castle, which is the only potential conflict between the two major military powers today.
It should be a happy thing that the founder of this unit becomes the current commander of the corps. Therefore, Division Commander Becken is the most resistant to the new commander, and there are naturally internal reasons for this.
Lu Ming thought about this question and, accompanied by Willy, came to the residence prepared for him.
Just behind the headquarters is a dark green three-story building where former Lieutenant General Scholz once lived, but it has apparently just been renovated.
According to convention, there will be a special guard company and service company to serve the commander. Usually, a guard squad and a service squad will be sent to work at the commander's residence, and they will rotate every week. When traveling, in addition to the security arrangements along the way and wherever he goes, he will usually be followed by a guard platoon.
However, the three-story building is still empty. Willy said, "You said you would move in a few days. I am also urgently reviewing your personal guards and service soldiers. It is the recruit season now, so I can carefully select from military academies and various recruit training camps."
Lu Ming nodded slightly.
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On the fifty-eighth floor of the Gaston Building, Lu Ming stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window and looked at the matchbox-like building downstairs.
The soldiers who were standing guard in front of the building have been ordered to withdraw. Otherwise, it would be like notifying some people that they are here, and it would also affect the operation of the public areas in the building, although there are still not many people in the restaurant.
The guard company serving as the "personal guards" is still in the stage of being formed, but since they are staying here, the guard regiment directly under the headquarters has sent a company of soldiers as guards.
A graceful figure slowly walked towards me, with slightly curly blonde hair falling like a waterfall, deep and charming blue eyes, a high nose bridge, and an extremely delicate face. Her figure was still as hot as before, the kind that ordinary people could hardly control, but this female lieutenant general was becoming more and more majestic, and when others looked at her, they probably wouldn't pay attention to her figure or anything, and didn't dare to think about it.
But Candice's appearance and figure have not changed much over the years, and she looks like a girl in her twenties.
In fact, the same is true for "Bit". According to "Bit's" age, he is almost forty years old. However, even though Lu Ming deliberately added a beard and forehead wrinkles, he still looks seriously inconsistent with his actual age. He looks like he is only twenty-seven or twenty-eight at most.
"You're leaving tomorrow. You've been here for more than a month, helping me, but I haven't seen you many times. I'm so sorry!" Lu Ming sighed.
This old friend does not have a close relationship with me, but in my heart now, she is no different from my close female friends.
Candice no longer needs to use the golden ring to control her mind-reading ability. She can control it freely and it seems that she has gained some other abilities.
According to Liuli Digu, it was because she was too close to him, and the golden ring was originally meant to restrict her abilities, which was like turning her into his Western slave. So this evolution was brought to her by her master, but he was just trying to help her mentally. She could take off the golden ring freely by herself, so it did not have that kind of psychological slavery effect on her.
I just listen to these as rumors.
"What a good ending! You are in charge of the army again. However, I hope you are in charge of the army to bring true and lasting peace to the empire!" Candice stared at Lu Ming with her blue eyes.
Lu Ming coughed. Candice was acting strangely during this meeting. She kept saying inexplicable things, as if she was the one who could change the world.
"Can you promise me?" Candice asked, her deep blue eyes still staring at Lu Ming.
Suddenly using a respectful title, Lu Ming turned around and looked at her quietly.
"Promise me that what you are doing now is not to eventually enslave us Sonyans." Candice's tone was slightly more urgent.
"You know?" Lu Ming sighed softly.
"Yes, I don't know how, I just knew it..." Candice lowered her head slightly, "Will you, will you promise me?"
Lu Ming thought for a moment and said, "I came here to seek peace. I don't want this world to become a Shura field."
"Yeah, I thought so too, but I feel relieved to hear you say it out loud." Candice looked up, her green eyes were filled with joy and tears. "I'm also very happy that you admit that you are you. In fact, I wasn't sure at first. How could this be possible..."
Lu Ming smiled and said, "You and yours, it seems that we are alienated. Let's just be like before, right? I basically don't have any friends I can get along with on an equal footing. I have a good friend like you, and I cherish our friendship very much."
"I can't go back to the past..." Candice smiled bitterly and looked at Lu Ming, "Can I see the real you?"
Lu Ming nodded slightly, and his true face was revealed instantly.
Candice subconsciously took a step back, then stood still, staring at Lu Ming blankly.
Lu Ming waved his hand and turned into Bit again. He smiled and said, "Are you scared?" He then said, "Actually, this is also the real me now. It is one of the several forms I can exist in. It cannot be considered fake."
Candice nodded slightly: "It seems that you are no longer defined by the human category..."
Lu Ming smiled: "That's right, only you can call me a non-human!"
Candice was startled and said hastily, "That's not what I meant!" Seeing the smile on Lu Ming's face, she suddenly burst out laughing, "You really can't be called a human..." After thinking for a while, she said, "The Ounian Hawkeye tribe started to support you because they knew your identity?"
Lu Ming nodded, looked at her, gently reached out his hand, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, you will always be my good friend, and I have no ambition to enslave the whole world." He gently embraced her in his arms and kissed her forehead lightly, "What I do will not make you choose between my people and me."
Candice was originally stiff, but in Lu Ming's gentle words, she gradually relaxed, leaned gently in Lu Ming's arms, and nodded: "I feel that the increase in my strength also comes from the golden ring you gave me, right?"
Lu Ming smiled and said, "I don't know about that, but my West Palace, Liuli Palace, said so." He gently let go of Candice, "You are leaving tomorrow, let's have a good drink today. I haven't had a drink and chat with you for a long time."
Candice sighed softly, "I have to say, I'm suddenly a little disappointed. Just a moment ago, I thought His Majesty was going to favor me!" As she spoke, she showed a playful smile.
Lu Ming also smiled: "How difficult is it to favor you? However, if it's the first time, I still have to choose an auspicious day. This is my first time to have close contact with a Western alchemist, so there may be taboos."
Candice was helpless: "With your statement, there is no romance at all. It sounds like you are God, you love the world, and you want to give love to me."
Lu Ming coughed, "Is there?"
Candice snorted, "I don't want to think about it now. I'll let you know when I do."
"Okay, okay..." Lu Ming smiled, "Let's go, let's drink and watch a movie. There's a new movie that's pretty good." After thinking for a while, he said, "Before you go to bed, I'll help you wash your bones. I learned this from a kid in Japan. Liuli Palace likes it the most. It's very good for your cultivation."
Candice smiled and said, "Children? Your women are now like your children in your eyes. And you still say that you are already a god who is high above?"
"Okay, whatever you think..." Lu Ming sneered in his heart. Actually, what Candice said was right. He didn't know why he gradually developed this mentality, but he didn't think it was because of Liuli's daily praise for his self-inflation.
Chatting and laughing, the two walked towards the movie room.