Chapter 136 Instructor Caitlin

Caitlyn has resigned from her job as Piltover's law enforcement officer following the events of the Iron Fist Gang.

But she did not give up her dream of becoming a law enforcement officer.

She still wants to be a law enforcement officer, a law enforcement officer led by a leader in the future who truly serves the public.

However, the current Leaders Association does not have a real base of its own, and is not even a political power, so naturally it does not have its own law enforcement agencies and violence agencies.

There is neither army nor police, only a "community patrol team" that actually maintains the community security of Zuan people and protects the career security of leaders, and has both military and police functions.

The patrol team currently has 500 people, consisting of one battalion and four companies.

Caitlin served in one of the patrol companies.

Like Seraphine, the "Three-person Negotiation Team" is just her part-time job. Her official position is:

"I say, Instructor Caitlin!"

Wei was walking down the street, complaining to her friend and colleague:

"I think since we are almost soldiers, we should spend more time on combat training."

"You carry out political propaganda and ideological study in the company every day, and you also hold reading clubs and discussion meetings to let everyone read books, newspapers and news - isn't this turning our company into a library?"

"We are all rough people from Zaun, not college students from Piltover. Why do we spend so much time reading books and newspapers?!"

Hearing her friend's complaints, Caitlin sighed helplessly: "We rarely have a day off, are you sure you want to talk about this?"

"Hmm..." Wei scratched her head a little embarrassedly.

"I am the company commander ," she said.

"You shouldn't be a company commander." Caitlin snorted unceremoniously, "With your personality, being a squad leader is the best you can do."

This is also true.

If the Leader had not developed too quickly in the early stages and lacked professionals with firm beliefs, with Wei's rough and reckless character, he would never have been able to become the leader of this company.

"I don't care!" Wei said stubbornly: "I'm the company commander anyway, you have to listen to me!"

"What kind of study club is this? I don't want to study anymore! What's the point of studying it? It's enough to be able to fight! College students have high education, but no matter how high their education is, can they beat the Piltover guys away?"

On this matter, her differences with Caitlin were indeed deep.

Wei has never liked studying since he was a child, he only likes boxing and practicing martial arts.

These days Caitlin organizes reading and newspaper reading for Wei, which makes her eyes tired.

But Caitlin calmly replied: "I am the instructor and the president of the company branch."

"Even if you are the company commander, you must obey the command of the Leader Association."

"and--"

She patiently explained to Wei:

"You are also a leader after all. Don't you know where our faith comes from?"

“If you don’t read books, newspapers and history, you won’t understand the past and the present; if you don’t understand the past and the present, you won’t know what to do now and how to move forward in the future.”

"I am the president of the branch, and I need to make everyone think about these issues and help everyone build true faith."

"But that can't take up time for combat training..." Wei was still a little dissatisfied: "If there is not enough training, where will the combat effectiveness come from?"

"We've had enough training time." Caitlin couldn't help but roll her eyes at her colleague who was all about muscle. "It's just that you think it's not enough."

"And, speaking of 'where does the fighting power come from'..."

Caitlin paused.

She thought of Li Wei's teachings to them, the political cadres, as well as her own thoughts and understandings after joining the Leaders.

Caitlyn suddenly asked, "Wei, do you think the Zaun Independence Army led by Fandel ten years ago was combat-ready?"

"I..." Wei's expression was a little complicated.

She could tell that Caitlin was comparing the Zaun independence forces led by Vandal with the armed forces led by the Windleader.

"No...it doesn't count?" Wei was very reluctant, but still answered.

After all, Van der Leyen lost that year, and lost badly .

How can the losing side deserve the evaluation of "fighting effectiveness"?

But Caitlin replied: "No, their 'individual' fighting power is actually very strong."

"I have read the internal records of this battle by the Piltover law enforcement officers—"

"Even the Piltover law enforcement officers who generally discriminated against the Zaun people had to admit after the war that the fighting power displayed by the Zaun people in this battle was much stronger than they had initially imagined."

"Especially the Zaun chem-barons led by Vandel who organized the armed uprising."

"They generally have a strong fighting capacity of one against a hundred, and their fighting will is extremely firm. At the beginning of the battle, they took the lead in breaking through the defense position of the Piltover Enforcers, which greatly boosted the morale of the Zaun Independence Army."

So at the beginning of the battle, Vandel's side actually suppressed the Piltover Enforcer.

They almost made it across the canal bridge.

"But personal power has its limits after all."

"Those Zaun warriors who led the charge, after a fierce battle, still fell one after another in front of the well-trained and well-organized army of law enforcers."

"At this time, a ridiculous thing happened-"

"Originally, the Zaun people had almost broken through the canal defense line after a hard battle, but with the fall of these few strong men, the Zaun people, who were originally so powerful, suddenly began to retreat like a deflated balloon."

"At first, only a few people escaped, then dozens, hundreds of people... In a few minutes, most of the people from Zaun had fled."

"Many Zaun people in the rear of the army didn't even see the face of the enemy. They were knocked to the ground and trampled by their own people while fleeing, causing serious injuries."

"And the Piltover law enforcers, who were almost unable to hold on, somehow managed to hold on to their canal defense line."

"This..." Wei was a little dazed after hearing this.

Yes, she still remembers what it was like back then.

At that time, Vandel brought everyone from Zaun, including her and Jinx's biological parents, and rushed to the canal bridge in a menacing manner.

At first, the two sides were still entangled in fighting, and it was difficult to separate them. But later, somehow, the Zaun side was defeated.

People rushed back to escape, leaving only a few people like Vandel still fighting.

They shouted at everyone not to flee and to continue fighting.

But it's no use.

Then, the law enforcement officers launched a one-sided pursuit and massacre of the Zaun people.

That horrific scene remains an indelible shadow in Wei's heart.

"Why did this happen?" Caitlyn asked, "The Zauns were clearly still capable of fighting, so why did they suffer only a few casualties and then inexplicably collapse?"

"Because they lack faith and organization."

"Their morale comes entirely from the inspiration of a few strong men. Once these strong men are defeated, they will begin to fear. Fear will spread among the group, causing a chain reaction."

Wei was silent for a while.

She seemed to understand.

Caitlin further explained: "The branch of our Wind Leader Association is directly established on the company."

"For example, our patrol company has three platoons and 10 squads, with 12 people in each squad."

"Our company branch currently has 30 official leaders, who are assigned to each class, so that each class can have three 'leaders' with firm beliefs and strong will."

"These three leaders can at least bring up three more positive followers in the class, so that the leaders and followers can have an advantage in numbers over other small groups and play a leading role in practice."

People are affected by their surroundings.

The branch is established in the company so that the leader can be directly assigned to each class, play the role of a leader in the most basic combat unit, and lead the way on the battlefield to inspire the morale of the whole class.

However, the resistance army organized by Vandel was a makeshift team with a chaotic organization.

They also have leaders, but they are just a few powerful alchemy barons.

Once these strong men are defeated, people's hearts will be dispersed.

"Wei , do you understand now why we want soldiers to read books and newspapers and engage in ideological study?"

"We carry out political propaganda and ideological learning in order to cultivate more soldiers with firm beliefs and qualified leaders."

"It is to allow everyone to be influenced and infected by the leader, and to bring everyone's fighting power to the limit;"

"It's not like the Zaun resistance back then, where everyone rushed forward in a swarm and dispersed after getting hit a few times."

"Hmm..." Wei listened.

But she looked a little lonely and her mood was low.

Caitlin felt something was wrong.

Then she realized that her words seemed a little harsh, as if the people led by Vandel were just a bunch of rabble, a bunch of cowards who would surrender at the slightest sign of trouble.

And Wei's deceased biological parents were among the group of rebels at that time.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..." Caitlin tried to apologize.

"It's okay." Wei turned around and put on a smile: "You're right, Caitlyn."

"We should learn lessons and avoid the tragedy that happened back then."

As she spoke, Wei took Caitlin's hand and apologized sincerely:

"I shouldn't have said that your study activities were a waste of time, Caitlin."

"I should apologize to you."

"Yeah." Caitlin couldn't help but smile.

Wei, who was so stubborn, actually took the initiative to admit his mistake.

It seemed that the differences between her and this rough and sturdy company commander had finally been resolved.

However, Caitlin looked at Wei's hand, which was tightly grasping hers:

Apologize...why do we have to hold hands?