The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Although Hayes was walking alone, the patrol teams would salute him as they saw him. After all, he had the insignia of silver crossed swords and three silver Aquila stars on his shoulders, and a chainsword hanging from his waist, representing that he was an Auxiliary Captain.

Of course, in addition to the patrol teams, his figure also attracted the curious eyes of those hiding in the houses.

Bypassing the last bend, Hayes arrived at his destination, a requisitioned school, originally a place providing primary education for wealthy children, but after the war began, all classes were suspended, and the school was also requisitioned by the army. Because the environment here was relatively good and the buildings were relatively comfortable, it was used as the temporary location of the regimental headquarters.

Walking through the heavily guarded gate, Hayes saw hundreds of green supply crates piled up in the school's front square, with the Imperial Aquila pattern printed on them. Beside the crates were some figures laboriously carrying things. Most of them were soldiers wearing faded brown uniforms, representing their status as militia.

Not far away were several regular soldiers leisurely smoking, pointing at the sweating militiamen and laughing. Discrimination was not limited to the Astartes towards mortals. Auxiliary soldiers also regarded the local militia as bipedal livestock. Hayes, who was willing to treat the militia equally, was actually a very small minority. Most of them were used as coolies and cannon fodder.

Many Auxiliary soldiers held this view, that they worked hard and sacrificed themselves to help the locals, so it was not excessive to ask these people to do anything.

After all, this was not their home.

It can only be said that, regardless of the environment, the enlightened are always only a very small minority.

Walking through the front square, Hayes first came to the main teaching building, which was the location of the regimental headquarters, made a simple report, and then went to the dormitory building on the right side of the teaching building, where the flag of the military police corps was hung.

Now the instructor system in the Auxiliary Army has gradually spread, and has even been strengthened compared to the Commissar system of the Astra Militarum. The Imperial Commissar system is composed of Cadet Commissars, Junior Commissars, Formal Commissars, Senior Commissars, High Commissars, and Commissar Generals. Generally, a regiment has only one Formal Commissar, or a temporary team composed of a Junior Commissar and several Cadet Commissars assigned by the Senior Commissar. Although there seem to be many Imperial Commissars, when spread across the more numerous Astra Militarum, the manpower is actually extremely tight. And this is still the Astra Militarum. As for the Planetary Defense Forces, or PDF, usually there is only one Commissar per planet, or even one per star system, or extremely, one per sector. Therefore, Commissars play a very small role in the Planetary Defense Forces, or even no role at all.

When Sosiun was building the Auxiliary Army, he invested considerable resources in the instructor system. Four professional military police academies were built in the Naison Star System and Brakato. The students basically came from the descendants of the Chapter serfs, emphasizing origin and background, and only recruiting male students. They received complete militarized life from the age of eight. The training they received was stricter than that of the Schola Progenium, but the dogma was different, adding a considerable amount of personal worship elements towards Sosiun. The first batch of students were not born until ten years of training, and after graduation, they did not directly become formal instructors, but served as junior officers in the Vatiş and Püştiban for 8-10 years. That is to say, the first batch of instructors took nearly 20 years from training to actually taking up their original posts.

Due to the relatively large number of recruits, even after repeated 'losses', there were still hundreds of thousands of instructors who eventually took up their posts. Compared to the Astra Militarum's tight manpower, the instructors were much more abundant. They had the same ranks as regular officers, but in principle, they could enforce battlefield discipline on commanders of the same rank, but they could not arbitrarily use their power in non-wartime conditions, because commanders could also appeal and report to a third party, that is, the Chapter's administrative department. At the same time, the instructor was no longer in the mode of one Commissar supervising one regiment. The regimental instructor had an independent military police team under his command, composed of 6-10 lower-level instructors. They would also go down to the company level as company instructors when necessary, but considering that the manpower was not yet abundant to this point, the Vatiş regimental military police team usually only had 6 people and it was difficult to go down to the company level to perform tasks for a long time. Currently, company instructors usually appear in Püştiban.

Having served in the Imperial Army, Hayes actually had some shadows about Commissars. Even though the core task of the instructors was often emphasized as 'guidance' rather than punishment during regimental meetings, these low-level officers rarely wanted to get involved with these people unless necessary.

But there was no way, who let his company have an accident.

Of course, it wasn't just his company, almost all companies had accidents. As he walked towards the gate of the temporary military police department, he saw another company commander in the regiment walking out with a gloomy face, followed by three dejected soldiers.

"Kate, what's wrong?"

Hayes then walked over to say hello. The company commander saw Hayes, sighed, and said:

"What else could it be? One said that his mattress stank and was infested with insects, so he didn't know where he got a piece of thick flannel, and then someone reported him to the military police. It turned out that he saw it hanging outside someone else's shop and just tore it off to use. And these two, secretly ran to-"

Before the man finished speaking, two gunshots rang out. The two company commanders turned their heads to look at the right side of the military police department at the same time, a place that was originally used as a ball field by the school, and was separated by barbed wire all around, but now it has become a place that makes people shudder - the execution ground.

Soon, two corpses on the ground were put into body bags and dragged away by the militiamen. An instructor with a cold silver mask on his face then walked out of the execution ground.

These low-ranking instructors wore Püştiban-like segmented carapace armor, but the paint was silver-gray, representing that their real superiors were the Chapter. Their weapons were also very good, power swords, plasma pistols, and the regimental instructor even wore feedback power armor.

Seeing the two company commanders, the man paused briefly, then changed direction and walked towards Hayes, and took off his silver mask to reveal a young face of twenty-five or six years old.

His name was Ponle, and he was the only instructor Hayes was relatively familiar with. It is said that his ancestors were low-level crew members on the lower deck of the Chapter's battlecruiser Spark, and died in a naval battle. Then his father became a Püştiban soldier and married a wife who worked in the Chapter's administrative system, and was promoted to company commander before his death. By the time it was his turn, he became the second batch of instructors. In addition, he also had an older brother and an older sister. His older brother had already served as a regimental commander in Püştiban, and his older sister was the wife of a frigate captain.

"Company Commander Hayes, here to pick up people?"

Hearing Ponle say this, Hayes nodded with an embarrassed expression.

"Ah, two little bastards."

"Discipline Section One?"

"Yes."

"That's good. It's currently a wartime state. The fifteen-day confinement can be carried out after the battle is over."