"If you read it, I won't read it," the eldest prince said.
"Yes, Your Highness." Captain Skerry held the notebook in front of him.
"Claude Field was born on March 18, 558th year of the Holy Light Calendar, from Bailu City in southwest China. He is twenty-one years old this year. He graduated from Bailu City National High School and tied for first place in physical education at the age of eighteen.
After graduating with good grades, he was recommended by Viscount Felidos, the first steward of White Deer City, to participate in the non-commissioned officer training of the Blue Feather Corps, so he enlisted in the army.
During the training, Claude clashed with veterans twice, seriously injuring six veterans once, and maiming a master sergeant once. He himself was seriously injured twice and entered the treatment center. After investigation, Claude was involved in both conflicts.
Just in self-defense, he just resisted the bullying and revenge of the veterans. In addition, during the recruit training, he ranked first with excellent overall results. Second Lieutenant Most, who was in charge of recruit training in the 11th Field Battalion of the Blue Feather Army, was listed in the file.
He spoke highly of Claude and thought he was born to be a soldier.
It is worth noting that this Claude is the pharmacy disciple of Baroness Maria of the Royal Capital..."
"Wait a minute," Prince Hansbach interrupted Captain Skerry's report: "Baroness Maria? Is she my nominal aunt?"
"Yes, Your Highness," Captain Skerry replied.
Prince Hansback frowned and thought for a moment: "I remembered that my aunt was originally from White Deer Town in the southwest, and she would go there for vacation every September. But I am a little strange, how could she
Accept a physical education student as her pharmacy student?"
"Your Highness, there is a record in Claude's personal family archives that his father seems to be the administrative director of White Deer Town. Perhaps it was for this reason that he got in touch with Baroness Maria. Later, his father was involved in opening up a tunnel.
They were dismissed from public office for the incident of the new route to the mainland of Nubicia. It is said that Baroness Maria interceded in front of His Majesty to save them from prison. However, Claude's father was still robbed by pirates because of the smuggling merchant ship on the new route.
And owed a huge debt, and finally had to commit suicide by jumping off a building..."
Captain Scree inquired in detail, and even found out the details of Claude's father's suicide. This was mainly because he was responsible for the eldest prince's notebook, and whenever the eldest prince was interested in an officer, he thought
When they have good development prospects and are worth cultivating, Captain Skerry needs to register the names of these officers, find out their origins and details, and confirm whether they are worthy of the prince's attention.
The names of hundreds of junior officers were recorded in the notebook. Captain Skerry spent a lot of effort and effort on this. After all, the eldest prince now has hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, and there are countless senior officers and generals alone.
Prince Hansback was too busy dealing with these senior officers and generals, so how could he pay so much attention to the junior officers.
However, Prince Hansback has always liked to go to the army in person to check the real situation, so as to prevent senior officers from reporting good news but not bad news. It can be said that he is a military expert who knows soldiers very well. He also prefers to talk with grassroots officers and soldiers every time he leaves the army.
When he sees a junior officer who arouses his interest, he will ask Captain Skerry to register his name and secretly observe to see if this junior officer is worthy of training and promotion.
From this point of view, the eldest prince Hansback is a high-ranking person who is very good at finding and using talents. He has a reputation among the royal army as a knowledgeable person. But no one knows that the eldest prince actually has a tendency to forget other people's names.
If Captain Skerry hadn't registered and understood the situation of those junior officers behind the scenes, and made suggestions and consultations to the eldest prince at any time, it is guaranteed that the eldest prince would have completely forgotten the junior officers he thought had great development prospects a few days ago.
net.
"Bah!" Prince Hansback spat disdainfully on the precious shag carpet on the ground: "Those scraps in the Admiralty cost the kingdom so much money and resources every year. They only know how to build ships, and then ship them one after another.
Was sent to the bottom of the sea by the combined fleet of the anti-Austrian alliance. In peacetime, he could not even open up new routes. He was not as adventurous as a few local officials and businessmen. When others opened up new routes, they were accused of attracting pirates.
On top of them, I really don’t know how they have the nerve to call themselves the Dreadnought Fleet. They are all a bunch of idiots who are just trying to make ends meet. They are still avoiding war and do not dare to attack the three maritime ports of the Principality of Limodra. Thinking about it makes people sad.
angry!"
Captain Skerry smiled bitterly. He knew that the Grand Prince of the Kingdom's Navy would be angry when he mentioned it. Unlike His Majesty Sterling X who received strong support from the Kingdom's Navy before ascending the throne, Prince Hansback received almost all the officers and soldiers of the Kingdom's Army.
support. As for the Kingdom's navy, it is incompatible with the eldest prince. The eldest prince has ridiculed the Kingdom's Navy more than once in the capital, saying that they have turned the kingdom's offensive force on the sea into a giant turtle. The navy
It would be better if the ministry is renamed the Ministry of Maritime Transport...
After the war broke out, the eldest prince proposed to advance simultaneously on land and sea, giving the anti-Austrian alliance countries an equal blow on both sides, making their economic and military power unable to compete with the kingdom. But the kingdom's Navy Minister Andrek von
However, Marshal Carlos has been ordering the Royal Navy to avoid war, lest the Royal Navy's wealth accumulated over decades of hard work become garbage on the seabed. As we all know, the strength of the Royal Navy is indeed not as good as the anti-Austrian alliance's combined fleet, but the Navy is sitting back and watching.
The fight between the Army and the five anti-Austrian allies was really too much.
Precisely because of the navy's avoidance of war, the eastern waters of the mainland became the domain of the Anti-Austrian Alliance combined fleet. Even though the Blue Feather Army and three other legions raided the three southern counties and blocked the retreat route of the anti-Austrian Alliance forces of the Principality of Rimodra, the sea
The routes are still open. Food and military supplies from the Kingdom of Nasseri, cavalry from the Principality of Karnas, and weapons and ammunition from the eastern region of the Eskilen Principality can still be continuously transported to Rimodra through sea routes.
Principality.
Prince Hansback has sworn more than once that as long as he ascends the throne, he will make a major change in the Kingdom's Admiralty and thoroughly liquidate his inaction and corruption during the war. Because he is responsible for seven conflicts with the Nubisian continent.
As for the trade transportation of overseas territories, all the people in the Navy Department are smuggling private goods in this lucrative shipping. This is no longer a secret in the royal capital, although the Navy Department unanimously denies this.
But the eldest prince is not unaware, it’s just that he hasn’t found any evidence yet.
Prime Minister Krius suggested forming a new Storm Fleet, upgrading White Deer City and opening up new routes in order to give the Dreadnought Fleet a competitor and maintain some combat effectiveness to prevent it from completely rotting into an armed merchant fleet. The Kingdom's wisdom
Everyone knows that a fleet that only knows how to make money has no combat effectiveness. It’s just that the Admiralty has controlled the Dreadnought Fleet for too long, and the Minister of the Navy, Marshal Andreik von Carlos, relied on Stirling X
His favor prevents others from interfering with the Dreadnought Fleet to implement reforms...
"You continue to read your words..." After sulking for a while, the eldest prince remembered that what he had to do now, the Minister of the Navy and the Kingdom's Admiralty Department were helpless, so he could only do it in frustration.
"Yes, Your Highness." Captain Skerry continued to look at the notebook in his hand and read Claude's information: "Because of Baroness Maria's letter, the Blue Feather Army realized that there was such a backer behind Claude. For a moment,
Claude soon became a hot potato in the eyes of the senior officers of the legion. At that time, Claude was seriously injured and undergoing treatment due to injuries from veterans. In order to compensate, the legion promoted him to sergeant major and was ordered to form a security team and a treatment center.
The stretcher team..."
"Wait a minute, has this Claude used my aunt's name to seek any benefits in the legion?" Prince Hansback asked.
"No." Captain Skerry shook his head and said: "In fact, if Baroness Maria's reply had not been sent to the legion, no one would have known that Claude was still her disciple. He had not mentioned it to anyone, and even sent it to Baroness Maria.
The lady’s reply was just a very ordinary polite greeting, without mentioning the fact that she was injured in the military camp, just like an ordinary relative or friend. I heard that when the Second Highness went to the Blue Feather Army to supervise the battle, he once thought about it because of the letter from Baroness Maria.
I took care of this Claude, but he refused. It is said that His Highness was very angry and scolded him for being disrespectful, but he still kept Claude's 11th Field Battalion with him as his own escort battalion."
The eldest prince nodded: "My brother grew up with my aunt. Unlike me, he only knows how to go crazy outside, so he will handle everything my aunt tells him very well. Continue to read this information about Claude.
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"Because the security team and the stretcher team of the treatment center are both temporary teams before the war, the recruits arranged for Claude are all those eliminated from the Blue Feather Legion recruit training, and are not suitable for being soldiers. Several of them are
Idiot. But it only took Claude two months to train these eliminated recruits into qualified soldiers, earning him the title of being good at training. During this period, the security team led by Claude also interacted with the 11th Field Battalion.
A veteran combat squadron conducted a field confrontation exercise, with Claude taking the lead and winning a complete victory..."
"Well? How could he win?" The eldest prince felt very strange.
Captain Skerry laughed: "Your Highness, it's very simple, just like the battle to capture Wilf's Hill."
"You mean..."
"Claude's security team was all equipped with Obash type III standard muskets. They lay on the ground and approached the defensive position. The veteran combat squadron lined up and became their target. Both artillery pieces were useless.
In the end, the whole army was wiped out. It is said that this result shocked all the onlookers present, because the leading officer of the squadron later reprimanded Claude for being too clumsy in his tactics. He did not have the courage of the kingdom's army to face the artillery fire, so this small-scale
There are only rumors within the Blue Feathers about the on-the-ground confrontation drills..."
"I remembered, this Claude is the squadron leader guarding the entrance to the Odin Mountains, right? I remember he made the soldiers lie on the ground to load the muskets, which made the uniforms very dirty. So I transferred him.
After arriving at the Ranger Camp, he finally led the soldiers to capture Wilf Hill. He also lay on the ground, shot and launched an attack, and soon rushed to the enemy's defensive position. Didn't I hear that he was injured and went to a treatment center? "
"Yes, Your Highness, you finally remembered." Captain Skerry breathed a sigh of relief. But there is no way, the eldest prince is busy and forgetful, so it is natural for a second lieutenant not to remember.
"How did he get to the three southern counties?" the eldest prince asked.
Captain Skerry smiled bitterly: "Your Highness, you have forgotten that you later expanded the Ranger Battalion into the 4th Ranger Battalion. After Claude recovered from his injury, he returned to the 1st Ranger Battalion and was a subordinate of Major Lederfang. It is said that Lederfang
Major Gram relied heavily on Claude. I wonder if you still remember that the 1st Ranger Battalion once spent fifty-four days to capture the easily defended and difficult-to-attack Black Maple Castle, with only twenty-seven casualties. According to me
Investigation revealed that this strategy to capture Black Maple Castle was planned by Claude. It was unexpected that the casualties were so light. For this reason, His Highness deliberately delayed their rewards for fifty-four days to punish them for taking so long.
Capture Black Maple Castle..."
"Really? There's also this matter..." The eldest prince touched his nose, feeling a little embarrassed. He didn't expect that he would get angry with the officers and soldiers below because of this. It sounded too childish.
Captain Skerry ignored the eldest prince's embarrassment and continued to read the information in his notebook: "After capturing Black Maple Castle, the 1st Ranger Battalion was ordered to go to the Picklet Mountains to find a smuggling route to the three southern counties of the Eskiline Principality.
They completed their mission and stayed in the three southern counties. After the Blue Feather Army captured the three southern counties, because the rear guard battalion was not dispatched, they had to separate the first ranger battalion to garrison various transportation and strategic points in the three southern counties.
Claude was ordered to lead a squadron to garrison Squirrel Village to prevent the armies of the two principalities from raiding the three southern counties through the mountain roads..."
The information recorded in the notebook ended here. Captain Skerry looked up at the eldest prince: "Your Highness, your evaluation of this Claude is still marked on it. Do you think Claude is a whimsical person who has the courage to put it into practice?
As a kid, unexpected actions often bring unexpected results..."
The eldest prince understood what Captain Skerry meant and pointed to the good report on the table: "Then do you think this good report is true and credible? Isn't it a false report of military exploits?"
"I think Your Highness should understand the character of Major Leedfunk. He has been with you for many years and is an honest man who cannot lie. That's why you asked him to be in charge of the newly formed logistics department of the Ranger Battalion. Later, you promoted him to Ranger Battalion."
Commander of the 1st Battalion. I don’t think Major Leedfunk would have sent such a false-looking victory report at all if there was no solid proof.
And this Claude is the person involved. I have read the victory report. The last part briefly explains that he used a fire attack strategy to eliminate most of the enemies and achieved this great victory. According to the records in this notebook, I
I believe this must be a real victory and not a false report of military exploits."
The eldest prince touched his chin and pondered for a moment, then made a decision: "Let's put this good news on hold for a while, and wait until the temporary passage in the Picklet Mountains is restored, then we will carefully check the authenticity of this good news. If it is true, then I will
I will personally summon this Claude and award him a medal."