Chapter 175 Just Like This Moment

Daily Thought: There are always thousands of reasons for betrayal, but not for loyalty.

Since September, the headquarters led by Calvin has entered the capital of the Kingdom of Norton.

Calvin was not in a hurry to settle accounts with the local forces here, but first focused on the security war to eliminate the rebels in various places and the establishment of logistics and communication systems.

The second-line reserve officer system and militia system, which cost a lot to maintain, finally came into play. Nearly ten legion-sized soldiers were mobilized in batches within half a year and went to the Principality of Norton.

During this period, the main productivity index of the tribe was not affected. It has to be said that this is another great victory of modern military theory.

The second-line troops of nearly 100,000 people were reorganized in this context, and fifteen regimental units were established with 5,000 people. Then, holding their own bedding and bags, they gathered on the road to the Principality of Norton while collecting their weapons from the passing military stations.

Most of them had received specific garrison tasks on the way to Norton King City, and then moved forward to the target assigned by the base camp. A few were lucky enough to arrive at the base camp for a short period of repair, and then moved forward to the province further south a few days later.

The military stations and communication systems along the way had been established by the three major fronts when they attacked and advanced. They didn't have much to do, just to add personnel and weapons to the original framework, and once again strengthen these channels connecting the provinces with the King's City Base Camp to ensure the smooth flow of materials and information.

After they entered the capitals of various provinces, they left 3,000 main forces in the middle to coordinate, and then sent the rest of the cavalry in units of 500 people to sweep towards the resistance forces in the countryside of the province.

The bloodline of the middle-level nobles was imprisoned at the first time, and the grassroots nobles and military nobles were also consciously surrounded and killed separately.

There were also well-prepared large-scale resistance forces, which were concentrated in certain castles and fortresses in advance.

But with the arrival of the 3,000-man main force and the heavy artillery in the capital, the last remaining roots of the Norton Principality were uprooted and burned.

In two months, as these second-line troops gained a foothold in the cities between the provinces, the voices of rebellion and restoration in the Norton Principality quickly weakened. Until the news of the fall of Ibanez, the last city in the south, came, the last resistance also disappeared.

In the Imperial Calendar 001.021.M36, Calvin, who had been stranded in the Royal City for 4 months, finally completed the reception of various parts of the Norton Principality.

He and the staff headquarters with core command functions, under the protection of tens of thousands of soldiers of the Central Corps, set off to the Mendoza Province where the Allen Janus Front was located before the arrival of February, the coldest month of winter.

Calvin, the leader of the tribe, came with them. The leaders of the other two armies: Elvis stationed in Kendal Province and Mars stationed in Lorraine Province, were on their way here under the escort of their personal soldiers.

Both of them are closer to Mendoza Province where Allen Janus is located than the royal city.

The former is stationed in the heart of the principality, right between Mendoza and the royal city. The Elvis front army based here can move freely and support the operations of the two front armies at the same time;

The latter is close to the intersection of Norton, Farias and Mulan, which is the best place for the defensive Mars front army to contain Mulan's possible reinforcements.

The three heavy troops are arranged in the shape of a finished product in the direction of Farias and Mulan, which is the pocket that Calvin originally prepared for the reinforcements of these two countries.

It's a pity that the opponent's timidity is beyond his expectations. This hard work is just a precautionary measure and a battle of wits and courage with the air.

The three armies, with nearly 100,000 brave soldiers, have been resting at the border for nearly a season. It is less than two months away from the beginning of spring, and it is a good time for the tribe to train and reorganize its armaments.

This is the first meeting between the top leaders of the tribe since the war began, and it is also a major adjustment of the military personnel work in Calvin's plan.

The time agreed with Constantine is coming, and he needs to return to the northern tribe to prepare for the arrival of the other party.

At this point in the war, the combat effectiveness and discipline of the troops have given a perfect answer under the test of a real war of annihilation.

In the digestion link in the next few months, the fine-tuning of the base camp and the staff made Calvin very satisfied with the maturity of the existing combat system.

In his eyes, there is no need for him to personally participate in the war between the next two countries. The technological progress and productivity development of the tribe will be the focus of his next step.

And the promise with Elvis - the purification of the seeds of the Fiery Eagle Regiment, on the basis of Constantine's return, has also come to fulfillment.

Calvin planned to hand over the command of the war to Allen during this meeting. Mars would serve as his deputy and lead more than 20 corps including the headquarters with Allen, and the subsequent war of annihilation against the remaining two countries...

The Central Corps marched very slowly. The leaders of the three fronts waited for two weeks after the reunion, and waited for Calvin's late arrival in the heavy snow at the end of January.

The welcoming team and ceremony were presided over by Allen Janus himself, and extended ten kilometers from the gate of Ibanez. This was not only a respect for his genetic father, but also a manifestation of the legality of the tribe's rule here.

Accompanied by three people, Calvin led the endless iron division into the main city gate. The endless cavalry line lasted from noon to sunset.

The next day, in the city square, Calvin inspected the soldiers under Allen Janus under the watchful eyes of the legion officers and the staff of the headquarters.

The elite cavalry wore lead-gray steel breastplates and tribal robes and formed a square formation. The forest of steel guns were raised and held flat, shining like the shining scimitars behind them. Waves of cheers responded to Calvin's greetings.

Everyone was looking at the unusually burly white figure on the high platform. The legend of that man, like his bravery, was the source of courage for all tribal soldiers.

After the solemn and solemn military parade, it was the much-anticipated medal awarding ceremony. Under the gaze of the legion officers and soldiers, Calvin placed the laurel wreath symbolizing rights and obligations on Allen Janus's head.

"You are like my son. We fought side by side throughout the galaxy..." Okay, that's a bit off. Let's do it again.

Ibanez, which is still in a wartime state, does not have such luxurious resources, and the ceremony it can undertake is naturally much simpler than the legendary scene.

Calvin is not an emperor, and he does not have so many sons for the time being; Allen is not bald, and his loyalty will not be circulated as a joke among the Astartes warriors.

The silver hair inherited from Calvin on his head may not be as dazzling as the former, but when this 2.5-meter-tall giant kneels in front of Calvin with a helmet and armor, pushing a golden mountain and overturning a jade pillar, everyone can sense his loyalty and admiration for Calvin.

Calvin, who has recovered to a height of three meters, is wearing a silver armor, and a snow-white wolfskin cloak flutters in the wind behind him. His huge and majestic body has its own majesty, and the natural sense of sacredness makes his every move involve the eyes of tens of thousands of soldiers below the stage.

Under the gaze of all the northern soldiers, Lieutenant General Calvin drew out the long sword on his waist and placed one hand on the shoulder of Allen Janus.

Looking down at Allen's crowned head, his first offspring in the true sense, a Grey Knight who had passed the gene seed transformation and was directly transformed from his blood, Calvin felt a little complicated.

He said to Allen Janus meaningfully:

"Time has no meaning to us. I hope you will keep your oath in the days to come and be worthy of your blood. I now hand over all the military power of the tribe to you. From today on, your words are my words, and they must respect you as they respect me. We all have more work to do, and more people are waiting for our liberation. I hope you will remember this."

As his voice fell, tens of thousands of soldiers on parade under the high platform began to cheer. The huge sound waves spread around like a tsunami, passing through the pale faces of the invited representatives and spreading to the snowfields farther away...

In the Imperial Calendar 002.021.M36, in Ibanez at the end of winter in February, this simple and solemn but profound ceremony came to an end.

After the ceremony, Calvin did not stay any longer. Accompanied by Elvis, he met with Allen and Mars for three days.

In this meeting, Calvin explained to them in detail the strategic expectations of the tribe in the next year and the overall policy changes.

When the possible problems in the war in the next year were confirmed, and after communicating with Allen and others to confirm the general guidelines, Calvin knew that his last work here had been completed, and the time to return north was finally ripe.

Outside the city the next afternoon, he quietly disappeared with his guards in the wind and snow at the end of winter.

The entire team returned northward from the southernmost part of Norton across the entire principality. In the last few days of early March, after a month, Calvin and his followers finally arrived at the tribal royal court in the north.

Calvin, who returned to the power center, did not stop, but inspected the warehouses and production workshops in various parts of the tribe without stopping after a short rest for three days.

He needed to make final preparations for Constantine's return, and the basic data of various places was what he needed most at this time.

In the next month, the overall operation direction of the tribe remained roughly unchanged, but the details began to be slightly adjusted.

The spoils of the Principality of Norton in front were being transported back in an orderly manner, and the weapons workshops and grain storages in various places were still transporting materials to the front in a steady stream.

Everything seemed to be the same as the previous wartime state, and even the officers and senior bureaucrats in it did not notice the abnormality.

But change is change. The person in charge of warehousing and logistics found in the monthly statistics that the number of vehicles going north had not decreased, but although the logistics going south was still continuing, there was no additional capacity reserved for the next few months.

This was a precursor to the tribe's support for the front line being stopped, and it was also a warm-up for Norton to bear the support for the next war after a comprehensive assessment within the territory.

Calvin in the rear and Alan in charge of the front both knew that from now on, the overall focus of the tribe would slowly shift.

A number of officers on the front line had made meritorious service and received awards in frequent battles, rising as a new force in the army.

Correspondingly, the veterans who had received a long period of political training before quietly gave up their posts.

Under the order of the royal court, they returned to the rear of the tribe and became the first members of the civil service group, continuing to participate in the construction of this new country in another way.

The personnel changes were smoothly handed over under the inspiration of the victory of the general environment. The adjustment of productivity in the tribal territory was also carried out in an orderly manner.

The productivity of the Principality of Norton will be digested on the spot and continue to support the next war, while the tribe, under the leadership of Calvin, will accumulate for the transition from handicrafts to the first generation of industry.

This political system, which has just taken the form of a country, is undergoing subtle changes, from the full expansion stage of fully supporting external armed forces to slowly changing to a state of continuous war of half farming and half fighting.

During this period, the status and treatment of soldiers will only increase and not decrease to ensure the bottom line of military morale.

However, the increasingly strict military discipline and the complete personnel exchange system and advanced degree will effectively stifle the possibility of the emergence of a military merit aristocratic group.

Under Calvin's intentional cultivation, the civil service group, with the dividends of the policy tilted towards production and construction, has grown from nothing to something, from weak to strong, and has begun to rise rapidly while gradually making their own voices at the top.

In this process, the struggle between the old forces and the army is inevitable, but it was eventually wiped out under the tacit suppression of Calvin and Allen.

Calvin learned a lesson from the history of the empire that he should never relax his control over the armed forces.

He did not want that tragedy to happen again on this land, so both the reserve system and the new civil service group were the exit channels he prepared for those soldiers.

The war in the front was still going on, and the reform in the rear was still going on. In Calvin's busy work, time came to the end of 021.M36.

It was still a quiet working day, and Calvin handled official business in his mansion as usual. Just as he finished reviewing the documents in his hand and was about to get up and move around, the low-frequency vibration in the air stopped him.

The adjutant, Little Mal, took over his father's position. As a mortal, he could not perceive the information in the air.

But the increasingly strong vibration waves had clearly let Calvin know that a giant celestial body was entering the atmosphere.

Just as he walked out of the house to prepare for his own observation, a guard who had been following him for a long time ran in in fear and stopped him.

"My Lord! The palace that descended from the sky! Just like the last time! Bigger! More!"

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