Odo, Bas, and Kazak have been working as laborers for many years, and they are all good at work and fighting. However, they are very unfamiliar with plowing, so Art has no intention of letting them participate in land reclamation.

Farming, not to mention these guys are the core strength of Art in the following troubled times.

After helping Old Cooper build the shack in the valley, Art took Ron and Odo to train in the wooden castle. He did not train like the knight training that the original owner had received since he was a child. He was still training more than a few months ago.

For farmers and workers, how to quickly master the most practical killing techniques and self-defense techniques is the most important, but as the core force of the future, Art does not want these guys in front of him to be just elite soldiers forever.

So Art picked out the simplest and most practical parts of the knight training he had received since childhood as the training content for the Odos.

The first is swordsmanship. It is too difficult for civilians in this era to learn complete swordsmanship, so Art directly taught Ron the most practical swordsmanship he inherited from the original owner.

Cutting, stabbing, and blocking are done by several people.

Secondly, from a practical perspective, in addition to learning some basic swordsmanship, several people mainly learned the use of long and short spears, battle axes, heavy hammers, long knives and other weapons based on their actual conditions. These weapons are not as complicated as swords to train and expensive.

Expensive, these weapons are not only easy to obtain and master the skills of using them proficiently, but they can also exert powerful combat power in battle.

And as the core force of the first generation, Art's requirements for Ron O'Do and the others are beyond the reach of ordinary soldiers. In addition to practicing swords, axes, spears and offensive and defensive battles every day, they must also take turns to learn basic riding skills.

At the very least, you must be able to drive a horse and gallop.

The last and most difficult thing is learning writing. When Art proposed that several people learn common writing, they were shocked. They had never thought of learning writing. Learning writing knowledge was the exclusive privilege of the nobility and the church; and they

I don’t think that living with swords requires the help of words and knowledge. In the end, under Art’s insistence, a few people could only bite the bullet and comply. However, the effect can be imagined. These can wield the heavy hammer of the battle ax with great ease.

The man with arms can only scratch his head when faced with the crooked words...

After determining the content of the preliminary training, in the following days, several people used wooden swords and sticks to fight each other during the day. Every day, everyone would have a few bruises on their bodies, and of course, Art himself would be beaten occasionally;

To be fair, if they rush into the formation one by one, the three of Odo and Ron are no match for Art, but once a few people form a formation to take care of each other, Art will be tired of dealing with it, especially Odobas and Ron.

The three Kazaks often fought with other laborers when they were working as laborers. The three formed a battle formation and cooperated with each other to attack and defend properly. They could often withstand Art's sword and shield offensive, and even occasionally win.

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At night, Art would try to teach a few people some simple common words and come up with some calculation methods in the wooden house. At this time, several guys covered in sweat would be sleepy and yawning to listen to Art's teaching.

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In order to balance everyone's emotions, after hard training, Art will also take a few people into the mountains and forests to hunt. On the one hand, he can train everyone's formation coordination and practice offense and defense during the hunt, and form a more tacit understanding between them;

On the other hand, both the Odo people and the farmers working in the newly opened wasteland undergo high-intensity training and work every day. The demand for food, especially meat, has greatly increased. Ate needs to add more food to the wooden castle that does not have much food.

A guarantee of life, under the command of Art, every time a few people go into the mountains to hunt, they can bring back a wild boar or goat, elk and other prey.

Half a month has passed like this. Ron O'Do and the others have improved their combat skills through continuous training every day, and their relationship with each other has become closer.

The farmers in the wooden castle were led by Cooper, Scott, and Lawrence to reclaim the wasteland in an orderly manner. Although Art took people into the mountains to hunt and add meat from time to time, the food in the wooden castle was only enough to support about twenty people.

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Two experiences of nearly being ambushed in the woods made Art give up his plan to send Cooper and Scott to the north to buy food, and decided to take Ron Odo and the four of them personally to try their luck in various villages and estates in Tynets County.

, he has not forgotten that Viscount Pierre promised him to collect the security tax on his own.

The night before departure, Art called Cooper and others to his cabin, and ordered that while he was out raising food and wages, Cooper would be responsible for all matters in the cabin, with Scott and Lawrence assisting him.

Cooper Management.

Art told a few people that the current main task of the people in the wooden castle was to open up wasteland and wait for next spring plowing and sowing. If the weather is too cold and the land freezes and plowing cannot be done, he will lead everyone from the wooden castle to open a path to the edge of the dense forest in the north.

On the carriage road, when the weather is too cold to even go out to work, he will lead everyone to build a complete wooden castle. Anyway, the purpose is, "There must be no idlers here."

The success or failure of going out to raise food and wages was uncertain. To be on the safe side, Art left five hundred pfennigs for food purchase with Cooper. If the team that went out to collect food did not have time to return with food before the wooden castle ran out of food, Cooper would have to organize it himself.

The manpower went to the place with manors and villages in the north to buy rations.

"Cooper, I will leave some weapons for you when I leave. You ask Bard to chop down some beech, ash, oak and other high-quality wood in his free time to make spear shafts, and make the iron spearheads into short spears for me.

Spears are temporarily distributed to a few trustworthy and courageous farmers, so that they can guard the safety of the wooden castle when we go out. If we have to go out to buy food, we must bring more people and weapons. It is already a chaotic world outside, and we have to

Always be cautious."

"Lawrence, you will be responsible for the safety of the wooden fort while we are out. Now that we have more people and more space, we must be on guard against attacks by wolves and wild beasts, and prevent anyone within us from becoming restless. Can you please

It turns out that the few men who had participated in the escort were each issued a short spear to form a temporary guard for the wooden castle, and they had to carry their weapons with them when working on weekdays."

"Scott, you also join the temporary guard in the valley and help the old housekeeper take care of the home. We will come back with food as soon as possible."

"In addition, you have to tell everyone that no one is allowed to leave here without permission from the old housekeeper, let alone leave the northern jungle at will."

"Yes, sir"

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After arranging everyone in the wooden castle, Art took Odo and others to start preparing for going out.

Winter has arrived, and the refugees and bandits outside will not be too active, so Art guesses that this trip will not be too dangerous. Considering that the purpose of this trip is to collect food and supplies, Art only plans to carry it for three days.

rations, a carriage and a horse to pull the carriage, and the green mule was to stay to help Cooper plow the land.

However, it is not too shabby to raise food and wages from various places in Tyniec County. In order to prevent the villagers and lords from treating a few people as refugees or bandits, Art took people to the forest to collect some tallow leaves, oak leaves and other leaves.

The peasant women in the wooden castle made black dye, took out the original cloaks and linen collected in the wooden castle, and dyed them all black, making six sets of black cloaks and robes with a uniform shape.

The robes and capes can at least make them look like people with an "official" background.

Art himself wore double-layered leather armor, an iron helmet with a nose guard on his head, a bear-skin turtle on his head, a riding bow with horns on his back, and a stainless steel knight's sword and dagger on his waist; Odo wore another double-layered leather armor on his waist.

Among them, Ron wore a repaired single-layer leather, Kazak and Bass each wore a cotton-armored armor, and the cowhide belts Art gave to the four of them all had a short sword or a heavy ax hung on them.

Hammer, and everyone held a short iron spear in their hands.

After the four Ottos unified their weapons and equipment and wore black cloaks and robes, they really looked uniform, energetic, and brave immediately.
Chapter completed!