Behind the Blackhawk Town Lord Castle, there is a large empty space.

Next to the empty site, a large row of low houses were built, and a large stable.

This was originally the lord's private ranch. After Sean arrived at the beginning of the year, he transformed the ranch into a territory training ground.

The houses around the training ground were the residences of Knight Morris and his ten trainee knights.

These eleven people belong to the permanent armed forces of the Black Hawk Territory, and the lords need to pay their salaries every month.

As for the dozens of militia, they were all serfs temporarily recruited from the territory. They all had their own farmland and families, and they usually cultivated farmland at home.

When I'm fine, I'll come here to gather for training.

According to regulations, these serfs had to work for the lords for three days a week. Since they were recruited to become militias, they no longer needed to pay labor taxes, and other taxes were reduced by a corresponding reduction.

On the training ground, dozens of serfs were arranged in a not-so-neat column. They were holding wooden spears and practicing melee fighting skills under the command of the Knight Commander Morris.

In front of them, more than a dozen dummies stood.

These serfs who were temporarily pieced together rushed to the dummy with wooden spears and stabbed them weakly.

The Knight Maurice saw it and his brows frowned very deeply.

The Fanged Thieves Group could invade the Black Hawk territory at any time. The ten trainee knights under him were sent to patrol around the territory.

The serfs in front of them said they were coming to the training ground to train, but in fact they were just going through the motions and doing things. It was impossible for a group of people who could not even have enough food to eat on weekdays to hope that they could train hard and fight bravely to protect their territory.

If you didn't join the militia regiment, you could get some tax exemption and you didn't have to build a line of defense. I guess these guys wouldn't even look good.

Morris knows this more than anyone else.

But what else can I do?

At present, there are insufficient combat personnel in the Black Hawk Territory. Apart from the Knight Commander, only the ten trainee knights are left.

Once you face the brutal attack from the thieves, you will not be the opponent of the thieves by yourself, and you can only train a group of serfs to help.

Morris did not expect to train them so well. He only needed these greedy and fearful guys, when facing the scattered soldiers and brave men from the thieves, they could hold a spear to ensure that the defensive formation was not messy.

This time, when facing the Fanged Thieves, there was no chance of winning, and Morris knew very well.

But as the Knight Commander of the Black Hawk Territory, he was not qualified to escape.

Others can escape, but he can't.

As a bronze knight who has sworn allegiance to Baron Sean, as long as the lord does not surrender and gives up, he will fight to the end, even if the strength is so dissatisfaction!

This is the pride and loyalty of the knight.

Thinking of this, Morris slowly drew out the knight sword that he had followed him for many years, looked at the serf militia who were like a mob, and then turned his eyes to his sword, revealing a hint of determination.

The Knight Captain Morris Stor will not be afraid of thieves.

Because they were Stor family, there were never cowards.

"Mr. Morris!"

Suddenly, Morris heard someone calling, turned around and found that it was the castle's male servant Tom.

Little Tom panting in front of the runway, "Mr. Morris, Lord Lord has something urgent to see you!"

Morris' heart moved, "I'll go there right away!"

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Sean waited in the room for less than fifteen minutes before Morris arrived.

"Lord!"

"sit!"

Sean waved his hand and signaled Morris to find a seat to sit down.

At this time, Old John, who was serving aside, poured glasses of wine for the two of them.

Sean took a sip of wine and said lightly: "Captain Morris, I'm sorry for calling you in such a hurry, but I have a very important thing that you need to do."

Morris was stunned, "Lord, please give me instructions if you have anything to do!"

Sean smiled, "Help me choose twenty smart and sensitive people."

Morris asked in confusion: "Lord, can I ask you why?"

"I want to train a group of crossbowmen as soon as possible to deal with the Fanged Thieves!"

"Train the crossbowman?"

Morris frowned and said, "Arrowers are not that easy to train. They require talent and time. Under normal circumstances, it takes at least three months to train a junior archer, and a good set of bows and arrows. Currently, there are only five people in our territory who can be called qualified archers. Moreover, our bows and arrows are all inferior wooden bows, and they have limited lethality and range and rate of fire. The most important thing is that we don't have that much time, nor so many bows and arrows..."

Before he could finish his words, Sean suddenly interrupted: "Under normal circumstances, it is indeed difficult. But what I am talking about now is abnormal."

"Unormal circumstances?"

Morris said with a suspicion: "Under abnormal circumstances, unless you can find twenty talented and extremely powerful people, you may train qualified archers in just a few days, but wherever you go, there is no such person in our territory."

Sean shook his head and looked at him with a smile, "Captain Morris, the crossbow I mentioned is a crossbow, not an archer. It seems that I didn't say it clearly enough?"

"Serial crossbow?"

This time, Morris finally understood, and then shook his head repeatedly and said, "The crossbowman is indeed easier to train, but the premise is that there must be a crossbow."

Speaking of this, he paused and looked at Sean and said slowly: "Lord, you should know that crossbows are different from other single-shot crossbows. They are standard weapons strictly controlled by the Tulip Principality. They are not only rare in quantity, but also expensive. In addition to the complex manufacturing process, there are only a few elite knights in the entire Tulip Principality that have a small amount of equipment. Where can we find so many crossbows in a short time? Besides, elite crossbows such as crossbows cannot be bought even if they have money."

Sean stood up with a smile, pointed to the corner of the wall not far away, and said, "I'm ready for the crossbow. You can just be responsible for choosing the candidates."

Following the direction he pointed, Morris looked down, his body trembled, and his pupils shrank sharply and became cold.

I saw twenty crossbows neatly piled up on the ground, brand new and shiny, and a large bundle of crossbow arrows.

Seeing this, Morris stood up with a rapid breathing and walked to the corner without control. He picked up a crossbow and tried to control it a few times.

Oh my God, the crossbows, these are really crossbows.

Morris put down the crossbow with trembling hands, looked at Sean with an abnormal expression, and sought, "Lord, can I test the shooting?"

Sean shrugged, "Of course!"

"Thank you Lord!"

After saying that, Morris picked up a crossbow, pulled the bowstring under Sean's guidance, then pointed it at the door panel and gently pulled the trigger.

I could only hear the bending strings fluttering, and a crossbow arrow shot out, and a dull "bang" sounded fiercely on the hard and solid door panel.

Buzz...

The crossbow arrow directly penetrates the two-finger thick door panel. Because its power is too strong, its tail is still trembling and buzzing.

This scene was shocked not only Morris, but also Sean.

Before, he just heard Feiya say that the dwarf's crossbow is very powerful, but he never expected that it was so powerful.

At this moment, Morris looked extremely shocked. It took him a long time to put down the crossbow.

"Lord, this crossbow is so powerful, almost comparable to the wolf-toothed crossbow equipped by the Knights of Earl Ryan's personal guard!"

Sean said lightly, "Captain Morris, with these crossbows, do you think you can still withstand the Fanged Thieves?"

Hearing this, Morris's eyes flashed with a cold light and he sneered: "With these twenty crossbows, if the Fanged Thieves dare to invade Black Eagle Town, there will be unexpected surprises!"

"This is the best!"

Sean laughed and said, "Then I will leave the next thing to you. Choose twenty crossbowmen and hurry up and train, the faster the better."

"I'll do it right now!"
Chapter completed!