Iron Powder and Spellcasters

  Chapter 117 Graduation package distribution, not necessarily a good thing

  The roof of the Army Province of the Republic of the United Provinces was about to be blown off by the noise. After the consul of Parato in Guitucheng made a big noise and left, the chief advisor of Veneta in the United Provinces came to the door angrily.

   The interprovincial military was stealthy, swift and efficient, without warning.

   When the Veneta officers stationed in the United Provinces learned that all the Veneta apprentice officers in the military academy were missing, it was three days after Winters and the others were taken away.

"[Vineta's swear words]! What are you doing! What are you trying to do!" Domenico Royer, the chief adviser of Veneta in the United States, slapped the table and cursed, spitting on the head of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Army Province. William Barents was all over his face.

In terms of military rank, Barents is still one level higher than Royer, but now he is the provincial justice, Barents can only smile to appease Royer: "Don't be impatient, please listen to my explanation. I promise you Lieutenant Colonel Royer. , our Army Ministry is really completely ignorant of this matter..."

  Royer smashed the top of the office with a punch: "You dare say you don't know? The big and small things in Guitucheng are under the eyes of your Army Ministry. How dare you say you don't know?!"

"I really don't know!" Barents said sincerely, "The Military Command took care of this matter and kept the Ministry of the Army in the dark. We didn't know anything about it beforehand, and we just learned about it. "

  The separation of military, government and military orders in the United Provinces Republic is a chronic problem that has existed since the beginning of independence. The Veneta soldiers have only one "palace", while the United Provinces soldiers have the "provincial ministry".

  Other republics were aware of the hidden dangers of the Union Provinces and took their cues from them. In particular, Veneta, for fear of becoming the second in the province, severely restricted the power of military personnel with a large number of bills.

   But Domenico Royer could not be fooled by Barents' rhetoric.

"You fart!" Royer was even more angry: "You can't control the military command, but when will the military command reach your army province?! When will the military academy be included in the military command system?! You dare to say that the military academy will not return. Are you in charge of the military and political system?!"

   "Yes, the jurisdiction of the military academy belongs to the military and administrative system." Barents said helplessly: "But the jurisdiction of the Military Academy is in the hands of the 'Union Army Headquarters'!"

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  The carriage was driving on the stone-paved solid road, the wheels bumped and bumped slightly.

   Winters is closing his eyes and taking a nap.

  The nicks on the wooden boards meant that they had spent sixteen days in the carriage, during which time Warrant Officer Venetta could only eat hard bread and drink water that had begun to stink.

  The big wooden barrel full of excrement was placed in the corner of the carriage, and it was a miracle that it was not knocked over along the way.

   But the wooden barrel still inevitably emits a stench, which is mixed with the smell of sweat in the poorly ventilated carriage, and it is difficult to disperse for a long time.

  The Veneta people were numb, and they couldn't figure out whether it was the smell on them that was worse, or the smell in the barrel was worse.

   If it weren't for the fact that the physique of military officers is generally stronger than ordinary people, this long and painful "journey" would be enough to bring down most of them.

   Everyone was tortured enough. On the first day, the Veneta youths were still cursing, and from the sixth day onwards, everyone lost the strength to speak.

   There were six people in the carriage that Winters was in, and only Andrea Cellini had the energy to speak. Andre stubbornly tried to sharpen the edge of the iron spoon on the iron plate, and after a few times of sharpening, he cursed hoarsely.

When    was imprisoned in the car, the federal soldiers searched the people's weapons, but Andre smuggled a spoon on him.

   "Okay." Andrei tried the sharp edge of the spoon with his fingers with satisfaction: "Enough."

   "Show me?" Winters opened his eyes.

   "Here." Andre handed Winters the spoon.

  Winters tried it on his face, smiled and said, "You have a hard time shaving, so don't think about other uses."

   "That's enough." Andrei also chuckled: "They can't keep us locked... Hmph, as soon as the door is opened, I'll go out and kill those scumbags!"

   Another voice came from the darkness: "Okay, that Japanese sheep guy is left to me, I have to pull out his beard."

  Everyone in Veneta didn't know the name of the mustache, so he was nicknamed "goat guy" according to the characteristics of the beard, and scolded the nickname and evolved into "Japanese goat guy".

   Everyone was having fun, and there was a deep roar of laughter in the carriage.

   However, the carriage suddenly stopped, and the carriage suddenly became quiet.

   Winters listened carefully, as the horses seemed to be changing again outside the car.

   Since the start of the journey, the carriage has been non-stop day and night, changing horses but not cars along the way. The only possibility to achieve this level is to use the station system.

  If the post system is used, it means that this **** is not a random person, but at least has a certain degree of official support.

   Every time I think of this, everyone in the carriage becomes more and more worried.

  It took an unexpectedly long time to change the horses this time, and the warrant officers only felt that the outside became quiet. Those who were locked in the carriage did not know the time, and could only observe the height of the sun through the iron window on the top of the carriage.

   And after a long time, the carriage did not start again.

   "Didn't you just throw us on some wild country?" Andrei was startled, he slapped the carriage hard: "Where's the people? Let us out! Did you hear me! Let us out!"

   Moustache's beaten-up face didn't appear by the bars, but Winters heard other sounds: the familiar shouts of the classmates, the same sound of slapping the carriage.

   The Venetas in the other cars heard Andre's shout and responded in the same way.

Although they could not see each other, the warrant officers used this method to determine a total of four carriages, and all the twenty-seven warrant officers who returned to Guito from Veneta to participate in the entitlement ceremony were there—even Bard, the federal province. exist.

   But other than that, the warrant officers got no response.

  The sun set and rose again outside the iron window, and only Winters was still pounding the carriage with his spoon.

   When Winters, who had started to dehydrate, was about to give up, footsteps sounded outside the car.

The    iron lock was smashed open, the car door was torn apart, and the dazzling light made the accustomed dark warrant officers cover their eyes subconsciously.

   Winters, who couldn't see clearly for a while, clung to the arm of the man who came to rescue him and asked eagerly, "Where are we now?"

   "Where?" The person who was asked was very inexplicable: "Where else can I be? Of course it is in the castles of the kings."

  [Note: Hetumoger, the capital of the Republic of Palatu, named after the legend that seven kings swore an oath here in ancient times]

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   In a sense, Marshal Ned Smith's last wish came true when Winters was locked in the carriage.

   was only in an unexpected way and for the exact opposite of what Marshal Ned had originally intended.

  When Winters learned that he was in the castles of the kings, the news that the Veneta graduates were sent to the Republic of Palato also passed back to Hailan.

   This move by the Interprovincial military is absurd, funny, inexplicable, and even... childish.

  Why do they do this? This is the question that lingers in the hearts of all Veneta military and political personnel.

  Why do they do this? This is the anger that surged in the hearts of all Veneta who learned of this.

   But things have happened, and the problem has to be solved first.

   "This matter is really a bit complicated." Colonel Andro said, smoking a suffocating cigarette, "It's not a very easy solution."

  The throne room of the Veneta Army Headquarters is filled with smoke, where the war plan for Taneria a year ago was finalized.

   A year later, the top brass of the Veneta Army gathered here again. But it was discussing the careers of a group of second lieutenants, which gave the officers a sense of black humor.

   "What's so difficult about this?" Another officer in the conference room was puzzled: "They sent people to Palatu, why don't we just bring them back?"

Colonel Andro glanced at the questioner and said impatiently: "They were not sent to Palatu, they were 'assigned' to Palatu, understand? Assigned! Military rank has followed! Graduated this year. The children are now full-fledged officers of the Republic of Palato!"

   "Huh? Why are we Veneta people assigned to the plateau?" The questioner was shocked.

  Andro sighed, and had to explain the reason carefully.

  Why did the Military Academy assign the Veneta to the plateau?

  Procedurally speaking, the Military Academy really has the right to assign Veneta graduates to the Republic of Palato.

  Because the cadet of the Military Academy is not in the Republics, but in the Cenas Union.

  Take Winters as an example, he was still an ordinary citizen when he attended Army Infant School and Army Prep School. It was not until he was admitted to the Army Officers College that he began to have a military status and became a real soldier, with the rank of private soldier.

   Therefore, although Winters was born in Veneta, his military registration was not in the Republic of Veneta during the military academy, and in the Army Officers Academy, his files were also kept by the Military Academy Archives.

  The Army Officers Academy is again attached to the Union Army Headquarters…

   In other words, cadets are not "soldiers of the Republics", but "soldiers of the Union".

   Before cadets are assigned to the Republics, the Union Army has absolute and complete personnel authority over them.

The problem of    arises in this "allocation".

   "Where do you come from, where do you go back?" This is a rule that has been implemented for nearly 30 years since Marshal Ned's founding of the school, and there has never been a mistake.

  Vineta students returned to Veneta, and the students from the United Province stayed in the United Province. Everyone was clear, and the well water did not make the river water.

   But the problem is that Marshal Ned also kept the clause in the school seal that "when conditions permit, the whereabouts of graduates should not be reasonably allocated based on their origins".

  Ned Smith is a well-intentioned hope to bridge the rift between the republics.

   But what is "when conditions permit"? What is "reasonable distribution"?

   No explanation.

   There is no explanation... The person holding the school badge can explain it however they want.

   That is, although this kind of power has never been used, in fact, the Union Army Committee can distribute military school graduates as they want.

  When Winters and others were "reasonably assigned" to the Republic of Palatu, they legally became soldiers of the Army under Palatu.

   "[Expletive]! Isn't the Alliance Army Committee just a layer of skin for the Alliance Provincial Army?" After listening to Andro's explanation, the generals and colonels of Veneta who attended the meeting were dumbfounded: "Why... why?"

   All the generals in the conference room were from the Military Academy, but they had never heard of such a doorway.

"Yes, the alliance agency is the puppet of the United Province. But from a procedural point of view, the Alliance Army Committee has complete and absolute personnel distribution rights for military cadets. That's all, we were put together by the United Provinces." Andro The colonel was also quite depressed.

"Are the U.S. people's brains broken? Why are they doing such disgusting things? We can't fight if two dozen second lieutenants are sent to Parato? Isn't this purely disgusting?" Colonel Born was furious.

  Many officers followed suit, and there was chaos in the conference room.

   "Have you ever seen a man and a woman who are passionately in love?" Admiral Zio, who had not spoken for a long time, finally spoke up.

  The throne room was suddenly quiet, and the sudden talk of men and women made everyone else a little puzzled.

Zio said calmly: "If men and women love each other, they are willing to go through fire and water. But if they turn against each other again, they will use all means to hurt each other. I see, we and the people of the United Province are also like men and women. Breaking up, getting along naturally becomes more and more uglier."

   These words are like a joke, but not a joke. The others in the room chewed on the words, wanting to laugh but couldn't.

"Is there any significance in sending the children to the plateau this time?" Qio stood up and looked at the subordinates, "Is it meaningful?" He said coldly: "It doesn't make any sense, but these actions are of great significance. The United Provinces are nothing more than provocation, provoking us in every way they can think of. Big actions, small actions, the purpose is the same. For us, the core There's only one question. If the federal provinces go to war with us, can we win now?"

  The officers here were silent because the answer was obvious.

Seeing that his subordinates did not speak, Zio sat down again and said calmly: "Then you can only endure. This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just the end of the beginning. Look, the United Province will still be in the future. There will be more action...but we'll just have to bear with it for now."

   "What about the children this year? They can only be thrown on the plateau?" Major General Pegorotti couldn't help asking.

   "If they can send people over, we can bring them back. Just send someone to bring back this new class of second lieutenants." Colonel Born spread his hands, and his attitude was quite optimistic.

   "Military status is allowed to flow, but they are from the Republic of Palatu now, and they have to nod over there." Colonel Andro's expression was still very worried.

  Bonn said as a matter of course: "Then ask them to agree. Isn't it reasonable for the Veneta people to return to Veneta?"

   "I'm afraid the plateau people won't agree easily this time." Andro sighed.

"why."

   "Because their children were sent overseas."

   It is a small foreshadowing of recovery... When the distribution mode was explained at the beginning, Winters and the others were already destined to be taken to Palato.

   Packet allocation also means "you have to go where you want to go".

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