Chapter 359 102nd Division

As a country born out of the northern nobles, the Northern Principality did not operate completely according to the past model.

This is also the reason why Derek would rather delay for a few years. Relying on the prestige of the founder, he used various means, both overt and covert, to severely suppress the old nobles.

Of course, the vested interest class will definitely appear, but the power of each class can be planned from the top.

Strengthening centralization, controlling military power, supporting capital aristocrats, a series of combined punches, made the Northern Principality a new country in the skin of the old principality.

Perhaps many people do not realize this, but some changes are still difficult to detect.

Viscount Barin is very clear-headed, and he understands the military organization of the principality.

The power of the military chief has been greatly reduced, and the staff and ideological staff have divided part of the power. The collective conscription of new soldiers and the collective distribution have cut off the roots of the separatist regimes.

Even the payment of soldiers' salaries is paid separately through new institutions such as banks.

So for grassroots soldiers and officers, they will never follow the chief officer to rebel.

If someone really wants to challenge the difficulty of hell, they will soon find that they have gone to hell.

Viscount Barin was very content. As a member of the reserve noble class without inheritance rights, it was already very good for him to have the current status.

So he happily handed over the military power and rushed to the recruit camp to receive his own army.

The first to arrive were a group of company and platoon officers. These people were either from the training class with clean backgrounds or from the advanced training class.

Each of them was of good origin, and some were even members of the Northland Knight family.

In terms of ability, the perfect military education model means that at least those who can graduate are not useless.

Even if they lack experience and overall perspective, they are definitely qualified to serve as middle and low-level officers.

However, the first unit formed by the 102nd Infantry Division was the artillery regiment.

As a technical branch of the army, the crash course of the recruit camp certainly cannot meet the requirements.

This time, the artillery regiments are all from the backbones drawn from various divisions and some officers' training classes.

It is worth mentioning that there are also several graduates from Hadley University.

Although Viscount Barin has been engaged in commercial and intelligence subversion work, he is not unfamiliar with the military. This group of backbones shows that His Excellency the Duke attaches great importance to the 102nd Infantry Division.

Compared with the ragtag army in his father's hands, the 102nd Infantry Division is obviously more promising.

Then the new recruits in the occupied Holy Cross Kingdom will give priority to the 102nd Infantry Division.

The Class B organization of 10,000 people was filled in more than two months.

After several simple trainings, most of the recruits have undergone intensive training.

Coupled with the reliability of middle and low-level officers, some of Viscount Barin's previous worries have completely disappeared.

He dared to guarantee that his army could attack now.

It only needs to go through a few low-intensity battles and it will soon be able to stand up.

Perhaps the higher-ups also knew this, and the 102nd Infantry Division immediately received its first mission.

The 102nd Infantry Division, which had just rested and replenished its equipment, was in the best condition. Viscount Barin also had the idea of ​​actual combat, and this mission just satisfied him.

Viscount Barin has not been idle for more than two months, and he is well aware of the progress of the war.

The Holy Cross Kingdom was indeed seriously injured. Although Duke Fernandez tried his best to resist and the materials in the rear were produced overtime, they were still defeated on the battlefield.

The royal army kept retreating, reorganizing, and recruiting soldiers. The scale has been expanding, but the territory has been getting smaller and smaller.

Now it has retreated to the vicinity of the royal capital. The vicinity has been a wasteland due to the previous civil war, and the support for the royal army is not great.

The front-line troops are divided into several routes to attack. The Northern Principality no longer actively accepts the surrender of the Holy Cross Kingdom, and now there is a wailing.

The goal of the 102nd Infantry Division is to assist the 101st Division in an offensive battle.

Viscount Barin is not sure if there are other reasons for this, anyway, he just follows the order.

It was fifteen days later when he took the 102nd Division to the designated location.

Without railway transportation of troops, this speed is already fast.

This also means that the 101st Division has been fighting for half a month in advance.

When they met again, Viscount Balin found that his father's condition was not very good.

Although the 101st Division was a miscellaneous division, it still had a Class A organization of more than 12,000 people.

When Viscount Balin was transferred, the 101st Division had just been replenished.

But after more than two months, from what he saw, the entire division was definitely short of a lot of people.

When he entered the barracks, he found that the general morale was not very high.

"Captain."

On the way, he met several former subordinates, all of whom came over to say hello with excitement.

After all, they had worked together, Viscount Balin stopped.

"How are things going recently?"

Viscount Balin asked, but from what he saw, these subordinates were all dusty and looked not in good spirits.

As the dominant party, morale should be okay.

Is it possible that someone is making things difficult for the 101st Division?

This makes sense. After all, it is a ragtag division reorganized from aristocratic private armies. It is normal that the military does not like it.

"Captain... No, I should call you the commander now. Why are you here? Are you here to help us?"

"Tell me slowly. What is the situation now? Is there anything difficult?"

When Viscount Bahrain asked, several officers started talking at once: "Division Commander, Fernandez is too stubborn. The brothers in the regiment suffered heavy losses. After this battle, we will probably have to go to the second line to rest for a while."

"Yes!! But fortunately, we are loyal to His Excellency the Duke together with you. Now the principality no longer accepts the surrender of nobles. Look at the earl on the opposite side, who is forced to fight with us here."

"It's not that we don't accept surrender. If he doesn't want this title, we are still willing to accept it."

A group of middle-level officers have been able to access a lot of intelligence.

After listening to Viscount Bahrain, he knew what was going on with the target.

It was obvious that the military didn't like them. Fortunately, there was no shortage of supplies, and they didn't deliberately cheat them.

It's just that the resistance organized by Fernandez was too fierce, and the combat effectiveness of the 101st Division itself was not very good, so the losses were a bit large.

Of course, the policy changes on surrender are also the focus that needs attention.

Viscount Barin was keenly aware that the principality's political strategy had changed.

After agreeing to meet up sometime, Viscount Barin went to visit his father.