Today is a sunny day, with blue sky, white clouds, and golden sunshine. The mountains and fields are lush green, and the gentle breeze brings the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers...
However, the soldiers who accepted the orders of the joint investigation team composed of the staff of the frontline headquarters and the officers of the Military Disciplinary Department felt a creepy feeling, with a cold wind blowing all over their bodies. It was very simple. They were ordered to dig the big pits where the enemy corpses were buried.
, the people from above want to re-check the number of enemies that have been eliminated, and then they have to check again whether there are so many corpses...
Major Liederfunk stood up with a cold face and asked the soldiers to obey the order. There was no other way. This time Claude led three squadrons and the result of the battle with the territorial nobles of two principalities was really unbelievable. His military exploits
The victory report was questioned by countless people. After all, the disparity in strength was so great that even the most conceited officers did not dare to admit that they could win under the same circumstances. It is said that the staff of the frontline headquarters conducted countless deductions on the map based on the battle report.
, but the best outcome is to resist the enemy's attack for half a month and end with all the soldiers on guard dying on the battlefield.
Therefore, for Prince Hansback to shelve this victory report and not deal with it, many officers in the frontline command headquarters who knew about the matter secretly talked about it and felt dissatisfied. They even made several suggestions to the prince on this matter.
It is required that such false reporting of military exploits must be severely punished. Otherwise, once the troops below begin to follow suit, the consequences will be disastrous.
However, Prince Hansback ignored the suggestions of his subordinate officers. It was not until the temporary passage in the Picklet Mountains was set up and reinforcements were sent to the three southern counties that a military meeting was convened and a joint force was dispatched for this victory report.
The investigation team went to the 1st Ranger Battalion to investigate the authenticity of this victory report.
It is worth noting that most of the officers participating in this joint investigation team were those who believed that the victory report was false and suggested severe punishment. The prince only sent his personal adjutant, Captain Skerry, for supervision to prevent the joint investigation team from
Some members resort to fraud to achieve their goals. People are unpredictable, and it is not impossible for a arrogant person to become angry and deliberately distort the facts to frame others after discovering that they have made a mistake.
Because the temporary passage in the Picklet Mountains was still being erected at that time, Major Leedfunk, who had no direct contact with the rear, could only use falcon messengers to convey victory reports to the frontline headquarters. To be precise, the establishment of the four ranger battalions should be
In terms of temporary wartime establishment, it was established with the support of the eldest prince and was a combat unit directly under the jurisdiction of the frontline headquarters. Even if it entered the three southern counties and was under the temporary command of the Blue Feather Army, the power of reward and punishment still rested with the frontline headquarters.
The hawk communication is the same as the carrier pigeon communication. The report should be concise and concise. Therefore, Major Leedfunk only briefly reported the results of the battle. All supporting documents and battle report were still left at the battalion headquarters. He was very aware of this victory report.
It’s easy to believe it when you pass it on, but I didn’t expect it would cause such a big disturbance in the frontline headquarters and attract so many staff officers’ disgust and doubts.
As soon as the joint investigation team arrived at the headquarters of the 1st Ranger Battalion, they turned over all the certification documents and battle reports, trying to find evidence of fraud from these documents. But unfortunately, it was Major Leedfunk who did the work.
They were very prudent and thoughtful, and did not let the staff officers of the joint investigation team pick out the bones from the eggs.
Unable to find any evidence of fraud, the joint investigation team simply threw all the supporting documents aside and decided to go through the process again. First, they interrogated the six unlucky territorial nobles who had been arrested, and then found the nearly a hundred people who had recovered from their injuries.
prisoners, then checked the captured trophies. Finally, they inspected the battle scene in Squirrel Village where Claude was.
After arriving at Squirrel Village, Claude and the staff officers of the joint investigation team spent three days surveying all the battle scenes and recalled in detail how he directed the entire battle. Although Squirrel Village was in the process of reconstruction,
However, traces of the fire were still everywhere. Claude had no choice but to rewrite a battle report, draw the original floor plan of Squirrel Village, and mark on the map how he set up traps to lure the enemy...
After torturing Claude for three days, it was the turn of Markchi, Muriel and others. Every soldier who participated in the battle was inevitably questioned by the joint investigation team, who basically recalled the entire battle process and
Check to see if anyone is making up lies. Even Diavid, who went out to suppress local riots, inevitably returned to Squirrel Village with his squadron to accept questioning from the joint investigation team.
After the soldiers, it was the turn of the 130 or so prisoners who were regarded as young laborers by Claude. They also had to be interrogated. Claude took the opportunity to ask Major Lederfunk for the dozens of injured prisoners who were detained at the battalion headquarters.
The recovered prisoners, since those prisoners are locked up in the camp headquarters with nothing to do, why not come and contribute to the new construction of Squirrel Village.
Due to the new construction of Squirrel Village, some villagers from Heishi Village and Kaimen Village who are related to the villagers of Squirrel Village want to move here. There are more than 20 households in total. However, this also leads to a problem: there are not enough mountain fields around Squirrel Village.
The village elder conspired with Sergeant Markey to find Claude later, hoping to rent out the more than 130 captives to open up some new fields in Squirrel Village. During this time, the tavern opened by the village elder was doing a booming business, and there were people around him.
With a small amount of money, the village elder straightened his head and back, and was willing to pay to hire people to do the work.
Claude is happy to see the result. The mountain fields in Squirrel Village have opened up more, so whether it is food or vegetable cultivation, it is a good thing for the officers and soldiers stationed here. At least they don't need to ride a horse and walk all day and night to the mountain road.
We went to other towns to purchase fruits and fresh vegetables. Coupled with the livestock and poultry raised by the villagers, Squirrel Village will be self-sufficient in food. Perhaps it won’t take long for Squirrel Village to turn into a small town if this development continues.
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The village elder is also planning to open a brewery, mainly brewing some wild fruit wine and rye wine from the mountains. This is because the wine he currently provides in the tavern is mixed wine brewed by the mountain people themselves, and it would be a long journey to purchase the goods.
It would make the wine much more expensive, which was not very cost-effective for him. He might as well open a few more acres of farmland and hire people to grow more rye to make wine.
Claude agreed to the request of the village elder. The gunpowder that happened to be seized from the nobles' camp was of no use. He decided to use the gunpowder to blow up several hills around Squirrel Village, fill in some ravines, and create a
A large area of flat land was opened up for Squirrel Village to open up new fields. The laborers were all prisoners anyway, and the employment fees received from the village elders could be given to the soldiers below to make up for their expenses in the tavern. This was a good business.
Major Lederfonk thought that Claude had a good idea. He helped the villagers build a squirrel village and open up new fields to encourage them to breed and plant more. On the one hand, it was used as compensation for burning down the squirrel village, and on the other hand, it could win over the loyalty of the villagers in this mountainous area.
.With Squirrel Village as a model, other mountain people will easily lean towards the kingdom. Then when a war breaks out again, the mountain people here should be on the side of the kingdom and will not be easily instigated and incited by spies sent by the Eskiline Principality.
, can avoid local rebellion incidents.
Therefore, Major Leedfunk decided to have all the prisoners in the battalion sent over to work. In addition to the prisoners he took there to recuperate last time, those prisoners who were arrested for suppressing local riots were also prepared to be handed over to Claude's care.
They worked hard here. However, he also reminded Claude not to just seek benefits for Squirrel Village. It would be better to send people to repair this mountain road, so that it would be more convenient and faster for the battalion to transport logistical supplies.
The joint investigation team struggled for another three days to interrogate all the prisoners. Facts proved that this victory was indeed real and credible. Several members of the joint investigation team who were unwilling to admit defeat resorted to the last resort, which was to demand to see all the prisoners who had been eliminated.
of enemy corpses, confirming that there were as many enemy corpses buried as recorded in the certification documents...
Claude had to admire the rigor and thoughtfulness of Major Leedfunk's work, which could be said to be watertight. He might have expected that such a situation would happen when he came to verify the results of the battle for the first time, so he buried those enemies.
Not only did he mark the corpses in detail on the map, he even ordered the prisoners who carried the corpses into the pit to arrange them according to his requirements.
After more than two months, the weather gradually warmed up and became hotter. As soon as the big pit where the enemy's corpse was buried was dug, a rotten and foul smell almost made everyone present vomit. Claude had no choice but to
He found several bolts of clean linen in the warehouse at the camp and cut them into strips for the prisoners and soldiers digging holes to cover their faces. At the same time, he ordered McJack to prepare disinfectants in the barracks for the prisoners and soldiers to use for bathing.
, so as not to be infected with any epidemic...
When Major Leedfunk originally buried the enemy's corpses, he ordered the prisoners to stack the corpses in layers with the heads and feet in the same direction. There was also a layer of straw mats spread between the upper and lower layers of corpses. A large burial pit could contain as many corpses as needed.
According to the data, the distance between the two large burial pits is about two meters. Therefore, there is no need to re-extract the corpses one by one when digging the pits this time. This will become evidence that the joint investigation team deliberately made things difficult.
.No one wants to carry those half-rotted corpses that smell bad and are infested with countless maggots.
Therefore, to count the number of corpses this time, we only need to lift off the floating soil on the corpse pits, and then dig out the soil partition between the two corpse pits. Then we can see and count the stacked rows of corpses. Each corpse pit
The number of enemy corpses in between was all clearly recorded on the certification documents. There was no difference in the corpse data in the first dozen corpse pits. Even Captain Skerry, who was in charge of supervision, could not see it and thought that Major Leedfunk
The reports of successful military exploits reported are true and credible, and there is no need to dig up the remaining corpse pits. Counting these rotting corpses has already made all members of the joint investigation team lose their appetite and cannot eat...
However, Major Leedfunk firmly disagreed. He must insist on digging up all the corpse pits and counting the enemy's corpses clearly to prevent anyone from raising doubts about this victory in the future, because it related to him personally.
and the honor of all the officers and soldiers of the 1st Ranger Battalion. Under his insistence, the joint investigation team could only hold their noses and vomit with a grimace. Finally, they completed the inventory of all corpses and confirmed the results of the battle one by one on the documents.
Sign to certify this miraculous victory.
The joint investigation team arrived with great momentum, but after half a month of toil in Squirrel Village, they all left like quails infected with the plague, dejected. The main reason was not that they could not find any evidence that the battle was faked.
, it was not the loss of appetite caused by counting the rotting corpses. It was the contempt of the soldiers participating in the war that made these arrogant staff officers who thought they were military geniuses really couldn't stand it.
Just as one of the soldiers who participated in the war told them straightforwardly, just because you can't do it doesn't mean that others can't do it. At first, we didn't believe that Chief Claude could hold Squirrel Village under the attack of so many enemies, but in the end
We personally experienced and saw with our own eyes how Commander Claude planned to defeat the enemy. We all respect him because he puts our safety first, instead of treating us as cannon fodder for military exploits...
It was then that the staff officers of the joint investigation team discovered that the soldiers here looked at them with contempt and disdain, especially behind the perfunctory salutes and titles in front of them, they seemed to be laughing at their incompetence and
Jealousy, this is very embarrassing. So as soon as the investigation is over, everyone wants to leave here immediately.
Captain Skerry naturally went to report the results of the joint investigation to Prince Hansback.
"So this victory is a real and credible fact?" the eldest prince asked.
"Yes, Your Highness." Captain Skerry replied: "This is indeed a miraculous victory, an unquestionable victory. This is the report of the entire battle. Lieutenant Claude explained his battle plan in great detail.
and planning.”
Prince Hansback couldn't wait to pick up the battle report and read it: "So it turns out that the enemy's attack from the Principality of Kannas was resisted by virtue of the geographical location. The plan to burn Squirrel Village turned out to be to deal with the territories of the Principality of Eskilin.
Nobles. I just didn’t expect that the territorial nobles of the Principality of Karnas would join forces with the territorial nobles of the Eskiline Principality and attack Squirrel Village together. This forced Second Lieutenant Claude to modify his plan. After Squirrel Village
He set up a defensive position on the mountain to reduce the enemy's strength, then retreated back to the garrison camp, luring the enemy into the Squirrel Village, and then used red-hot iron pellets to cause a fire..."
"Yes, yes, this Claude is indeed a talent. This plan is really unexpected. I didn't expect those territorial nobles to be so cooperative. Building a wooden cart in the village to use as a shield is simply asking for death.
..." Prince Hansback turned around and asked: "By the way, Skerry, how is the Ministry of Military Affairs going to reward this Claude?"
"Your Highness, according to the military regulations of our kingdom, Officer Weiji can be credited with one first-level meritorious service for leading his soldiers to eliminate a thousand enemies. If calculated based on this, Second Lieutenant Claude can be credited with five first-level meritorious deeds this time, plus
He used a small number of troops to defend his position and destroy the enemy's army when the enemy was heavily pressed. He can also record two more first-level meritorious deeds. In this case, Second Lieutenant Claude can be directly promoted to major..."
Captain Skerry paused and then said: "But this promotion and reward caused objections from many officers in the command. They believed that Second Lieutenant Claude was too young. He was only 21 years old and it was inappropriate to be promoted to major. In addition, Lieutenant Claude was only 21 years old.
, because the enemies he eliminated were private soldiers of territorial nobles and conscripted citizens. Although they were large in number, their combat effectiveness was extremely low. Therefore, they requested that this military exploit be discounted and that Second Lieutenant Claude be promoted to lieutenant. After all, he was still very young.
, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future..."