Chapter 64: The Farewell Party (I)
General Hamilton Marshall was born in 7109 and is now 140 years old.
As the soul of Alpha Academy, General Marshall's life was wonderful.
He is a graduate of Alpha College himself. At the age of 26, General Marshall graduated from the academy with honors and became a second lieutenant officer after entering the army.
In 7140 he took part in the Battle of Bigmar, where he excelled and was promoted to Lieutenant Commando. The following year, he led a commando team to make a surprise attack on the rear of the enemy army, and became famous.
In 7152, Hamilton Marshall was ordered to South Anderber, by which time he was already a lieutenant captain of a light ship. On the way forward, they encountered an enemy attack on the road, and in the face of three times the number of troops, Marshall did not panic, and commanded the battleships to fight a beautiful counterattack, destroying two battleships and capturing one.
In 7168, Colonel Marshall commanded his starships at the Battle of Depton, sinking four enemy starships and capturing three.
The following year, Marshall had a son, who was 59 years old, a legitimate age for those whose childbearing age is generally delayed.
In 7187, a rebellion broke out among the Rumers and an attack on the fortress of Raschel. With seven times his own strength, Major General Marshall commanded his troops to maneuver around and eventually drag out the battle until reinforcements arrived, keeping the fortress.
In 7209, Marshall, who celebrated his 100th birthday, announced his retirement from the post and announced his candidacy for the Star District Councillor in the year of his retirement. In the name of a hero, he successfully ran for office and entered politics. Five years later, he resigned due to the Tumen incident. He was a successful general, but also a failed politician.
In 7215, General Marshall was invited to become the dean of the Alpha Military Academy, where he remains to this day.
In the thirty years that he has been in charge of the academy, Alpha Academy has developed day by day, becoming the most outstanding academy in the past hundred years, and has trained a large number of outstanding soldiers for the Federation.
Many of them are now the backbone of the army, and many heroes such as Admiral Hannibal of the Seventh Fleet, Brisbane of Scarlet Fortress, and Admiral Haggis of the Federal Expeditionary Force are all part of his teachings.
The hero of the war, the loser in the political arena, finally created his second glory in the place of Alpha Academy and became the soul of the academy.
However, in '76, General Marshall suffered the biggest blow of his life, when his son and daughter-in-law died at the Battle of Lacmort.
It was a war with the gods, and after two hundred years of war with the gods, the Terrans gradually turned from a disadvantage to an advantage, and they began to become arrogant and thought that they could win, and it was under this situation that the Battle of Lackmut began.
It was the biggest defeat since the Battle of Rembrandt, and in less than twenty years, countless brave soldiers have died in that starry sky, and the pain it caused is still affecting the entire Federation to this day.
The war left Claire and Nora without their parents, countless others without their loved ones, and shattered the Federation's dreams of finally settling the gods. The advantage that had been built with the blood of countless heroes was wiped out by the First World War, and the war was once again at a stalemate.
The blow brought General Marshall to a close breakdown.
He's old after all.
Over the past 5,000 years, human science and technology have made rapid progress, but in life sciences, progress has always been slow. Human beings have stepped out of the earth and rushed out of the solar system, and the steps of rushing out are tens of millions of times that of the past, but the progress of life has only doubled, and 200 years old is almost the limit of human lifespan.
However, despite this, he still worked hard, never slackened, and finally survived that difficult time.
No one expected that he would announce his retirement at this time.
General Marshall's retirement was a regret for many.
After 30 years at the helm, Alpha Academy has long been deeply imprinted with General Marshall's unique style.
Strong, brave, wise and never give up!
Marshall is like the soul of the Academy, influencing generations of people in the Academy.
However, now the soul is leaving, which makes many people, especially the cadets of the ship command department, feel reluctant.
At the moment when they first got the news, some of the students even cried.
In order to commend the outstanding contributions made by the old dean, the hospital held a grand farewell banquet on the day of the old dean's departure. A number of outstanding cadets, especially those of the Ship Command Department, were invited to the banquet.
It was no surprise that General Marshall was the centerpiece of the evening's banquet, and he was surrounded by a crowd throughout the banquet. The old general has spent his whole life in encirclement and breaking out of the encirclement, and finally one day, he no longer has to think about breaking through, but enjoys the blessings that people send him.
In addition to him, there is another person who is also receiving everyone's attention.
It was a middle-aged man with a mustache, his suit was ironed neatly, without a trace of wrinkles, and his hair was oily. He always has a smile on his face, which makes him seem very approachable.
"Who's that?" Sfield asked Renault.
"Alexandra Courtman, our new dean." Renault replied.
Li Zonghan walked over and said: "The farewell party of the old dean is also the meeting of the new dean, the standard farewell to the old and welcome the new." ”
"Hey, man, your tone doesn't sound so comfortable. You don't seem to like the new dean? Xiao Budian came over and asked Li Zonghan.
Li Zonghan pouted: "That's because you don't know who our new dean is. ”
"So you know him?" The students were interested, and they gathered around to ask, and the little commotion here also attracted Claire and Nora, who looked this way.
Li Zonghan snorted, first looked deeply at the middle-aged man, and then lowered his voice and said, "Alexandra Cottman is not a soldier, he hasn't fought a day. ”
"What did you say?" Everyone was amazed.
The pock-faced Philippe Ball had snorted, "What are you kidding? This is a military academy, but the dean is not a soldier? ”
"Hey, pockface, your voice is softer." The handsome guy Hanks glanced at the distance a little nervously, and habitually shook his hair before saying, "How did you become the dean if you weren't a soldier?" ”
Li Zonghan replied: "This is the arrangement of the college committee. Over the past three decades, General Marshall has produced countless fine military personnel for the Union, but he has also caused some trouble for the Academy. The committee believes that the military academy needs not only a dean who understands the skills of war, but also a dean who understands politics and the overall situation, knows how to compromise, and knows how to think about the future of the academy. So they brought in this Cottman...... He was a parliamentarian, a politician by the word. ”
"What the hell." Everyone let out a helpless cry.
The leader of an organization is like its soul, which directly determines the characteristics and character of the organization.
No one knows what kind of results will come from putting a politician at the head of a military academy.
Renault thought it would be a long time before he could see the difference, but he didn't expect the change to come faster than he could have imagined.
That night, near the end of the farewell party, Marshall and Courtman were invited to speak on stage, and Marshall was the first to speak.