After a short break, the Badston cadets left the Hoffentis military base aboard a flying transport. This time, the whole flight time of the transport ship was less than an hour and a half, and before it landed, everyone was already in tears. The familiar scenery outside the porthole told them that this was the outskirts of Aocheng, and it was the Badton Military Academy. They're home.

Administrators, faculty and first-year students from the military academy lined up at the shooting range to welcome the members of the Basston Student Corps back from the expedition. Stepping out of the hatch of the transport ship, the whole person was bathed in clear sunlight, and Weiss's heart was filled with the happiness of returning from purgatory to the world. Thinking of the hardships and tiredness I have endured in the military academy in the past year or so, as well as all kinds of grievances and helplessness, compared to the battlefield full of death, these are nothing at all.

The returnees once again stood on the familiar fertile soil, but those partners who sacrificed their lives for the country could never return here.

Looking at the sparse queue of second- and third-year students, many instructors burst into tears on the spot. A similar situation occurred twenty years ago. Time has changed, things are not people, but sadness has been copied.

General Ademir Leno, the rector who was keen to perform, stood at the front of the greeting queue and hugged the teaching staff who had returned from the battlefield one by one. Although the Baston Student Regiment had only been on the battlefield for more than a month, and the time they had actually fought against the enemy was only about 10 days, they encountered the enemy's most elite and courageous troops, and under extremely unfavorable circumstances and at the most difficult moments of the situation, they showed indomitable tenacity and withstood the "stormy waves" set off by the enemy with their enthusiastic youth.

With their contribution to defending the border defense, they fully deserved the respect of the headmaster, General Leno, and all the personnel left behind, but there was no smug and proud application on their faces. Returning to the military academy dormitory with a heavy heart, walking through the quiet corridor and into the empty room, many people finally couldn't hold back their tears.

The big man who lived with Weiss, Trenger, is said to have been killed on the first day of the battle between the Durm battle group and the Norman Royal 1st Marine Division.

No one will ever explain to Nikolai in all seriousness that his name is Trengue instead of Trent.

Weiss laid down his bags and sat down on his bed in despair, staring at Trenger's chair for a long time.

For lunch that day, the cafeteria prepared extraordinarily sumptuous dishes, but the students just buried their heads in the meal and didn't say a word.

In the afternoon, the cadets received a notice from the school that in view of the high-quality performance of the members of the Baston Student Corps on the battlefield, the third-year students will graduate two months early, and although the established graduation assessment process cannot be omitted, everyone will receive extra points for participating in the battle.

As for the second-year students, in addition to the corresponding military merit awards and achievement bonuses, they will also get a special opportunity to choose: they can continue to study in the military academy next, or choose to go to the army as a trainee officer to train for battle, so that they will not delay their graduation, and they can complete the officer probationary period in advance, and they can obtain official officer status earlier than their peers who stay in school. You must know that in a long military career, it is often one step ahead, step by step, and one step earlier, it is possible to achieve higher achievements.

Over the next five days, 35 third-year students, including Weiss and Lunders, were in good health as the first batch of wartime graduates. After experiencing the test of war, it seems that every student has a deeper understanding and better grasp of military skills, and the results of various courses have been improved compared with the previous training assessment, coupled with a considerable amount of bonus points for participating in the war, the comprehensive results of all 35 people have reached the excellent level!

According to the "market" of previous years, the top graduates of the Gaston Military Academy are the most sought-after goods favored by the legions and garrisons of the Federal Army. Although the dispatch of graduates depends on the recommendation of the school and the deployment of the General Staff of the Army, if the top students want to go to that unit, as long as they write a letter or ask someone to bring a message, the other party will naturally go through the corresponding procedures, which is equivalent to grasping the right to choose their own destiny.

Before the results were announced, Vice President Joseph Grumman asked his right-hand man to bring Weiss a handwritten letter suggesting that he consider pursuing a career in armaments after graduation to develop his firearms design expertise or pursue a career as a trainee staff officer in the Army General Staff. If you are sent to an army combat unit as a trainee officer, Vice President Fat analyzed that it is a time of war, and all units may go to the front line at any time to fight the Norman army, even if they stay in the division-level or even corps-level staff organization, they cannot guarantee absolute personal safety.

Having experienced the way forward before and after the war, I had completely different ideas. In the past, Weiss felt that gold would always shine, go to the front-line troops to be grounded, accumulate contacts, and slowly go to a high place, so that the path to climb the peak is solid enough, if you go directly to the senior staff organization, you can follow the famous generals to see more and learn more, increase knowledge, expand thinking, plus the prophetic foresight of "later generations", it is not difficult to become a top strategist.

Now, Weiss has a clearer understanding of his own capabilities and positioning. Without rich practical combat experience and sufficient physical and mental training, strategizing is just talking on paper, and the advantages of later generations are tantamount to castles in the air. He pondered repeatedly, since fate had arranged for him to come to such a magnificent era and become a promising Patton cadet, why should he cower and consider retreating. There is a way that the country does not exist, and the people will be attached. There are only two choices in front of him: one is to go to the front line, grow up in the tempering of blood and fire, and lay a solid foundation for the future commander-in-chief of thousands of troops, and the other is to go to the flying fleet to give full play to the super talent of human radar, learn by doing, and strive to become an invincible fleet commander.

Jumping ship to the aviation forces to play "unlimited talent", Weiss considered it very seriously. It's just that as the first military academy of the Federal Army, the graduates of the Gaston Military Academy naturally have to be used by the Federal Army. Over the past half century, there have been 1,200 graduates of the Gaston Military Academy who have been transferred from the army to serve in the aviation unit, and more than 30 have reached the rank of major general or above.

If you take the initiative to "throw yourself into the arms" of the aviation unit, you may be saddled with the notoriety of a traitorous general, but as long as you can save the country and save the common people, what about the infamy?

If Nikolai was here, it should not be a trouble to transfer to the aviation unit, but this cargo has disappeared for a long time, except for the letter from the battlefield that did not leave an address or the number of the unit, there was basically no news. Weiss had no choice but to turn to Vice President Fat, and said that if there was no way to directly enter the aviation unit, he could also first take the aviation major such as the Dale Fig Senior Staff College, and then logically enter the aviation unit.

After clarifying his thoughts, Weiss inquired about the enrollment of the federal senior staff academies with the instructors of the military academy, and the reply he received was that during the war, the senior staff cadets only conducted short- and medium-term rotation training for staff officers and officers at all levels, and did not recruit cadets and non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the active duty troops.

It seems that this "curve to save the country" has to make a detour.

The fat vice president's reply was delayed, but the Gaston Military Academy moved quickly. In view of the special situation in wartime, they decided to adopt the method of graduating students in batches, that is, those who are physically fit to be assessed and graduated first, and those who have recovered from injuries will be assessed individually, and those who have passed will graduate immediately. In the second week after the first batch of 35 students passed the comprehensive assessment, the school held a graduation ceremony for them. This year, there would have been 239 students to participate in the graduation assessment, and the vast majority of them will successfully pass and start a new journey in life, but at the graduation ceremony, only 78 third-year students were present, and more than half of them postponed the graduation assessment due to injury, 11 people were in wheelchairs, and 3 people were unable to witness the graduation moment of their peers due to serious injuries.

The familiar sound of military music was still impassioned, and many people understood its generosity and tragedy for the first time......

At this special graduation ceremony, Rector Leno spoke for more than half an hour, the rhetoric was still flowery, the content was still empty, and his blindly confident arguments were more disappointing than the supply efficiency in the border battle. Fortunately, the old principal Van Luo was also invited to give a graduation speech to the young men who had devoted a lot of effort during his tenure. The old principal's tone was as peaceful as in the past, and he talked about his military school years to his experience of the war, from post-war construction to his return to the military academy. In the long time of nearly half a century, he has encountered setbacks and hesitations, won glory and created brilliance, and when the bad news of the outbreak of war came, he seemed to have returned to his youth, and saw countless familiar and unfamiliar faces. At that moment, he suddenly realized that his former friends sacrificed their lives on the battlefield, which seemed unfortunate, but the troubles and sorrows had nothing to do with them from now on, and it was a complete relief, and he survived, seemingly lucky, but he had to always bear the responsibility and mission, and constantly face new difficulties and challenges. From the crushing defeat of the Wessex army and the situation of the Ulster-Wessex border battle, a regrettable conclusion can be drawn: the current Norman army is stronger and more difficult to deal with than the previous war, and the kingdom of Wessex has basically lost its ability to fight, and needs the Federation to fight independently against the Norman Empire, and it is more difficult than ever to win the war.

Although the battle was not ideal, and the sharp fangs of the Normans were terrifying, the thought of the expectant eyes of those comrades made me feel that I should be fearless and give it my all. Because of this, the old principal took the initiative to ask the military high-level for help, hoping that his old bones could still make some contributions to the country and the army.

Although the national mobilization system sent wave after wave of recruits into the barracks, causing the size of the Federal Army to swell rapidly like a balloon, the drawbacks of the weak combat strength of the garrison divisions and reserve divisions have been fully exposed in the border battles, and they have repeatedly become a breakthrough for the Norman army to break through the federal front. In order to reverse this situation as soon as possible, the top military leadership has decided to split up the combat divisions that suffered relatively large losses in the early stage, with them as the backbone and the garrison divisions and reserve divisions as the main body, to reduce the number of combat units, increase the number of personnel, and form a number of completely new combat units: national defense divisions.

In the face of the sudden increase in the number of combat units and the shortage of active generals, a group of retired veterans have returned to combat posts, and the old principal Van Luo is also among them. He was appointed commander of the 1st National Defense Division and will soon be on his way.