Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 175
Thoughts for the day: There are thousands of reasons for betrayal, but none for loyalty.

Since September, the base camp led by Calvin has entered the King City of Duke Norton.

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

The second-line reserve officer system and the militia system, which cost a lot of money to maintain, finally came into play. Soldiers of nearly ten legions 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 10 people were reorganized under this background. Fifteen regiment-level units were established with 5000 people as units. Pick up their weapons at the depot.

Most of them have received specific garrison tasks on the way to Norton King City, and turned to advance to the target assigned by the base camp. A few of them were lucky enough to arrive at the base camp for short-term repairs, and then moved to the southern provinces a few days later.

The military depots and communication systems along the way have been established by the three major front armies when they attacked and advanced. They only need to add personnel and weapons to the original framework, and once again strengthen the links between the various provinces and the capital of the royal city. Channels to ensure the unimpeded flow of materials and information.

After they stationed in the capitals of each province, they left the main force of 3000 people in the center to support them, and then swept the rest of the cavalry in units of 500 towards the resistance forces in the province's countryside.

The blood of the middle-class nobles was immediately imprisoned, and the lower-class nobles and military nobles were also consciously besieged and killed alone.

There are also well-prepared large-scale resistance forces, which are concentrated in certain castle fortresses in advance.

However, with the arrival of the main force of 3000 people from the capital and the accompanying heavy artillery, the last remnants of their roots scattered in the Principality of Norton were also uprooted and burned.

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

In Imperial Calendar 001.021.M36, Calvin, who had been stranded in the royal city for 4 months, finally completed the work of receiving all parts of the Principality of Norton.

He and the staff headquarters of the core command function, under the protection of tens of thousands of soldiers of the Central Army, set off for the province of Mendoza, where the Alan Janus Front Army is located, before the arrival of the coldest February in winter.

Not only Calvin, the lord of the tribe, came together, but also the leaders of the other two fronts: Elvis stationed in the province of Kendal and Mars stationed in the province of Lorraine, all under the escort of their own soldiers. On the way here.

Both are closer to the province of Mendoza where Alan Janus is located than the royal city.

The former station is located in the hinterland of the principality, just between Mendoza and the royal city.The Elvis front army based here can advance and retreat freely, and can support the operations of the two front armies at the same time;
The latter is within easy reach of the intersection of Norton, Fallas, and Mulan, and it is the best place for the defensive Mars army to contain Mulan's possible reinforcements.

The three heavy troop clusters were laid out in the direction of Farias and Mullan, which was exactly the pocket that Calvin had prepared for the reinforcements of these two countries.

It's a pity that the opponent's timidity really exceeded his expectations, and this hard work can only be regarded as preventing problems before they happen, and fighting wits and courage with the air.

The three armies with nearly [-] arrogant soldiers have been resting on the border for nearly a season.At this time, there are only less than two months before the beginning of spring, which is a good time for the tribe to mobilize troops and reorganize their armaments.

This was the first meeting between the high-level tribes since the war began, and it was also a major adjustment to the military personnel work planned by Calvin.

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

With the development of the war so far, the combat effectiveness and discipline of the troops have been tested by the real battle of destroying the country, and they have handed over a perfect answer.

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

In the next war between the two countries, in his eyes, it is no longer necessary to personally participate in sitting in the town.The technological progress and productivity development of the tribe will be the focus of his next step.

And the agreement with Elvis—the seed purification of the Blazing Eagles, it's time to fulfill it on the basis of Constantine's return.

Calvin plans to hand over the command of the war to Allen during this meeting. Mars will serve as his deputy, and together with Allen will be in charge of more than [-] legions including the base camp. The war of annihilating the country...

The marching speed of the Central Army Corps was very slow, and the leaders of the three front armies waited for another two weeks after they met, and then they waited for Calvin's belated footsteps in the heavy snow at the end of January.

The welcoming team and ceremony were presided over by Alan Janus himself, extending ten kilometers from the city gate of Ibanez. This is not only a respect for his genetic father, but also a respect for tribal rule. Here is a demonstration of legal rationality.

Accompanied by the three of them, Calvin led the endless Steel Division to enter through the gate of the main city.The endless cavalry line lasted from noon until the sunset in the sky.

On the inner city square the next day, Calvin inspected the soldiers of the legion under Alan Janus under the watchful eyes of the legion officers and members of the headquarters staff.

The elite cavalry, wearing lead gray steel breastplates and wearing tribal battle robes, lined up in a phalanx. Lin's steel gun was raised to the flat end, and the same shiny scimitar as the target behind him shone coldly, cheering again and again. Responding to Calvin's greeting.

Everyone was staring 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, there is the much-anticipated award ceremony.Under the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the legion, Calvin put the laurel crown symbolizing rights and obligations on the head of Alan Janus.

"You are like my son, we have fought the entire galaxy side by side..." Well, we got mixed up.Let's do it all over again.

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

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

The silver hair he inherited from Calvin may not be as bright as the former one, but when this 2.5-meter-tall giant kneels in front of Calvin like a giant with armor on top of a golden mountain and an upside-down jade pillar, everyone can feel his love for Calvin. Wen's loyalty and admiration.

Calvin, who had recovered to a height of three meters, was wearing silver armor, and a cloak made of snow-white wolf fur fluttered behind him in the wind.His huge and majestic body has its own power, and his natural sense of sacredness makes his every move involve the eyes of tens of thousands of soldiers in the audience.

Under the watchful eyes of a group of northern soldiers, Calvin pulled out the long sword worn at his waist, and placed one hand on Alan Janus' shoulder.

Looking down at Alan's head wearing the laurel wreath, this No. 1 heir in the true sense of himself, a Gray Knight transformed directly from his blood without gene seed modification, Calvin's mood was a little complicated.

He said to Alan Janus with deep meaning:

"Time is meaningless to us. May you keep your oath in the days to come, and be worthy of your blood. Now I entrust all the military power of the tribe to you. From today on, what you say is mine. That said, they must respect you as much as they respect me. We all have more work to do, and more people are waiting for our liberation, please remember."

As his words fell, tens of thousands of soldiers under the high platform began to cheer.Huge waves of sound spread like a mountain roar and tsunami wave after wave to the surroundings, passing through the pale faces of the invited local representatives and spreading to the snowfield farther away...

In 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 didn't stay any longer. Accompanied by Elvis, he had a three-day meeting with Allen and Mars.

In this meeting, Calvin explained to them in detail the tribe's strategic expectations for the next year and the overall policy change.

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

Outside the city the next afternoon, he quietly disappeared into the snowstorm at the end of winter with his guards.

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

Calvin, who returned to the center of rights, did not stop, but inspected the warehouses and production workshops in various parts of the tribe non-stop after a short three-day rest.

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

In the next month, the overall operation direction of the tribe will generally remain unchanged, but there will be some adjustments in the details.

The trophies of the Principality of Norton ahead are being transported back in an orderly manner, and the weapons workshops and food storages in various places are still continuously delivering supplies to the front.

Everything seemed to be the same as the previous wartime state, and even the military officers and senior bureaucrats in it could not detect 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 has not decreased, but although the logistics going south is still going on, there has been no increase in capacity reservation for the next few months.

This is a sign that the tribe's support for the front line will soon stop, and it is also a warm-up for Norton to undertake the next battle support after a comprehensive assessment in Norton's territory.

Both Calvin at the back and Allen at the front knew that the overall focus of the tribe would slowly shift from now on.

A considerable number of officers on the front line have been rewarded for their meritorious service in frequent battles, and they have risen in the army as a new force.

Correspondingly, the veterans who had received a long period of government affairs training quietly gave up their posts silently.

Under the order of the royal court, they returned to the rear of the tribe and became the initial members of the civil official group, and continued to participate in the construction of this new country in other ways.

Inspired by the victory of the general environment, the personnel changes were handed over smoothly.The adjustment of productivity in the tribal territory is also proceeding in an orderly manner.

The productivity of the Norton Principality will be digested in situ and continue to support the next war, while the tribal natives will, under the leadership of Calvin, accumulate for the shift from handicraft industry to the first-generation industry.

This political system, which has just taken shape as a country, is undergoing subtle changes, from the stage of full-scale expansion of all-out support for external armed forces, to the state of continuous warfare that is half-cultivation and half-war.

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

However, the increasingly stringent military discipline and complete personnel exchange system and advanced education will effectively kill the possibility of the emergence of military aristocratic groups.

Under the intentional training of Calvin, the civil service group, with the help of policies that favor production and construction, grew out of nothing, from weak to strong, and began to rise rapidly while gradually voicing their own voices at the top.

This process inevitably resulted from the struggle between the old forces and the army, but they were eventually wiped out under the tacit understanding of Calvin and Allen.

Never loosening his control over the armed forces from the beginning to the end is a lesson Calvin learned from the history of the empire.

He didn't want that tragedy to repeat itself on this land, so whether it was the reserve service system or the new civil service group, he prepared the exit channel for those soldiers.

The battle ahead is still going on, and the reforms in the rear are still going on.In Calvin's busy work, the time came to the end of 021.M36.

It was still a peaceful working day, and Calvin was also handling 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, a low-frequency tremor in the air made him stop his movements.

The adjutant next to him, Marl, took over his father's post, and with his mortal body, he was still unable to detect the information in the air.

But the increasingly stronger vibrations have clearly let Calvin know that there are giant celestial bodies entering the atmosphere.

Just as he was walking towards the outside of the house to observe by himself, a guard who had followed him for a long time ran in in terror and stopped his footsteps.

"My lord! The palace that descended from the sky! Same as last time! Bigger! More!"

　Two in one, update and ask for tickets.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)