According to the rules of the Continent of Yarrow, unless the children of the nobility are physically handicapped, they must serve in the army for two years at the age of 12, and can only choose to retire after the age of 14.

Of course, this service is not to go to the grassroots level to become a small soldier, but to start with a grassroots officer; don't be unconvinced, who should call someone from a good background! On the one hand, this regulation is aimed at cultivating talents for the country to unify the army, and on the other hand, it is also aimed at safeguarding the ruling interests of the aristocratic class.

Paine will be 12 years into this world in a week, so it is not surprising that he has received a notice of registration from the military department. Paine took the enlistment notice from Xiu's hand and ordered, "Then I'll report on the last day of the deadline, and you prepare the carriage in advance." ”

"Yes, young master!" Xiu put his right hand on his chest, saluted Paine, and then turned and walked out of the room.

As soon as Xiu went out, Paine closed his eyes again and entered a meditative state.

Because he had memorized all the array diagrams on the first floor of the Purple Pagoda more than a year ago, in addition to meditating in the tower for 3 hours every day, the other time available to him at his disposal had also greatly increased. However, this time was either used by him to practice killing skills, or he was used to continue meditating.

In the blink of an eye, five days have passed, and today is the last day for the military department to notify Situ Jin of the deadline for official reporting. Early in the morning, Xiu had already prepared the carriage, Situ Jin was dressed neatly, glanced at the big sword leaning against the corner of the room, which Lele didn't know how to send it a few days ago, and then walked out of the door and boarded the carriage prepared for him by Xiu at the door of the Earl's Palace.

The carriage traveled very fast, and because the route had been determined in advance, it quickly reached the gate of the barracks. There are four military camps in the imperial capital, which are distributed in the four directions of east, west, north and south in the city, covering a large area, and the military camp that Situ Jin came to is located in the north of the city, and is called "North Camp".

After getting out of the carriage, he walked directly into the barracks gate. Bypassing a row of lush trees in front of you, a small open space appeared in front of you, and there were two camp tents on the left and right of the open space, and a rectangular white cloth strip was hung on the façade of the camp tent, and the cloth strip on the left camp tent said Camp 1-15 Registration Office, and on the right cloth strip wrote Camp 16-30 Registration Office.

Situ Jin took out the registration notice and walked directly into the camp tent on the left.

The inside of the tent was very large, but only two tables and a few chairs were placed, and there was only one person sitting in the tent, who was fat and had small eyes, looking about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a dark green military uniform.

Situ Jin nodded and handed over the notice in his hand.

The other party took the notice, glanced at it, and then suddenly said, "Huh, Situ Jin, what is the relationship between you and Situ Kai?"

Situ was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the other party to suddenly ask this question, but he still replied: "He is my younger brother." ”

"I see. The other party's tone was somewhat meaningful.

At this moment, another person walked into the tent, Situ Jin didn't look back, but a familiar voice came from behind him: "Big brother, are you here?"

"Kai?" Situ Jin turned his head and saw Situ Kai standing behind him, he was also a little surprised, although he knew that Situ Kai was in the barracks, but he didn't expect the two of them to meet so soon.

In the past few years, Situ Kai has also grown up, although he is shorter than Situ Jin, but his body looks much stronger than Situ Jin, and it may be because he has been in the army for a long time, and his complexion is much darker than Situ Jin.

Situ Kai walked up to Situ Jin with a smile: "Big brother, we haven't seen each other for a while! No, I heard that you came here to sign up today, I specially came to see if I could meet you here, but I didn't expect to really come." ”

Situ Jin smiled, and at this time, the young soldier on the chair who was still sitting just now also stood up, and said to Situ Kai with a smile on his face: "Sir Kai, you are here." "Although Situ Kai is not from the North Camp, because he has been mixed in the army with Situ Nan since he was a child, there are few people in the four major battalions of the imperial capital who do not know Situ Kai.

Situ Kai nodded to the young soldier, and then said to Situ Jin: "Big brother, today is the first day you have come to the barracks to report, and we brothers haven't seen each other for a long time, so let's go out for dinner together in the evening." ”

Situ said: "Kai, I've just arrived, I need to get used to it first, and there will be a chance after dinner, let's do it another day." ”

Seeing Situ Jin say this, Situ Kai could only give up, turned his head to the soldier standing aside, and said, "How is it?

When the soldier heard Situ Kai ask, he immediately said, "I'll arrange it immediately." ”

He walked behind the desk, lowered his head and took out two sets of dark blue military uniforms from under the table, then opened the drawer next to the table, and took out two epaulettes and a thumb-long golden nameplate from it, which was engraved with the words "Commander of the Thirteenth Battalion", and then handed it to Situ Jin with both hands: "This is your military uniform and nameplate, please keep it, and other daily necessities, please take your nameplate to the quartermaster office within three days to get it." ”

Situ Jin took the military uniform and nameplate, and when he saw the words on it, he was a little puzzled: "Battalion commander?"

Although he didn't know much about the army of the Yarrow Empire, after all, he was born in a military family, and he still knew some basic things.

For example, the size of the Yarrow Empire's army is divided into platoons, companies, battalions, joint battalions, brigades, divisions, and armies in descending order: platoon, company, battalion, joint battalion, brigade, division, and corps.

One of the platoons consisted of 30 soldiers, a company consisting of five platoons - a total of 150 men, a battalion consisting of about three companies - a total of about 500 men, a joint battalion consisting of five battalions - a total of 2,500 men, a brigade consisting of three joint battalions of 7,500 men, a division consisting of two brigades - a total of 15,000 men, and a corps consisting of four divisions - a total of 60,000 men.

For example, the four battalions stationed in the entire imperial capital had one division in each battalion, making a total of four divisions - which added up to one army, so one army commander was in charge of these four divisions.

The reason why Situ Jin was puzzled was because as far as he knew, although the children of the nobles started as officers from the beginning of the barracks, most of them started from the most basic level officers, such as platoon commanders or company commanders, and he didn't know why he started as a battalion commander in the first place, which was in fact no longer a grassroots officer.

Seeing Situ Jin's puzzled face, the soldier said: "The specific position of each soldier who comes to report is assigned by the above, if you have any questions, go directly to your superiors." ”

Situ Jin nodded and said to Situ Kai: "Kai, then I'll go to my military camp first." ”

Situ Kai nodded, and watched Situ Jin walk out of the barracks, a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then the young soldier standing aside spoke: "Sir Kai, the 13th battalion is not an ordinary battalion, many old battalion commanders are reluctant to take over that battalion, are you sure your brother is okay?"

Situ Kai smiled and walked directly to the outside of the tent, leaving a sentence that puzzled the soldiers before leaving: "We all have to have faith in him." ”