Spring has arrived, but it's still a bit chilly.

After being stationed in Tyniec for half a month, the new recruits of the patrol team ushered in a training competition. Standing neatly in the open space of the military camp square were a row of soldiers wearing black robes and capes, holding a log shield in their left hand and a short spear in their right hand;

The three of them, Odo, stood behind the three soldiers they trained, while Ron stood beside the soldiers he trained.

The square was surrounded by a circle of Tinets city guards and idle citizens who came to watch.

"It's really powerful." The crowd of onlookers sighed with emotion.

A man in the crowd who looked like an officer with his arms crossed said sourly, "You are trained like an animal every day. It's strange that you can't stand up well." But although this officer hated these guys who were trained like animals all day long, he still couldn't stand up.

I have to admit that as soon as they stand up there, they gain a sense of momentum, which is different from those of my own city guards who stand crookedly.

Art ignored the crowd of people watching from a distance. He stared at the soldiers in front of him and said loudly: "You have been training for half a month, and today I am going to see your results. The competition is divided into three items. The first item is contradictory.

, the second item is a three-person battle formation, the third item is individual combat skills. The first two items are compared between three combat groups, and the third item is a single battle between soldiers. The team that wins the first two items is rewarded with half a barrel of beer, and the winner of the third item is

The reward is five pfennigs for an individual.”

"Now let's start with the first item, the front line of contradictions."

"Listen to my order—form up!"

roar!

Everyone shouted loudly, raised their shields to chest level, raised their short spears, looked straight ahead, bent their left legs, kicked back half a step with their right legs, and leaned slightly forward.

Art glanced from left to right. Everyone's movements were basically uniform. The first group trained by Odo was the most standardized, while the young soldier trained by Ron was a little flustered, with his hands and feet shaking slightly.

"Defend from arrows!" Art then shouted the second command.

"Ho! Roar!"

The three combat groups each contracted, with the middle person in the horizontal formation as the center. The two people on the left and right retracted in front of and behind them. One crouched down and held a shield to protect his legs, and the other tilted back and raised his shield to protect his head; Ron's formation was missing.

Leggings round shield.

Art stepped forward and checked the defensive formations of the four combat groups in turn. Although they all completed the basic movements, some of the gaps between the three round shields were too large, and some of the three people were not in a line, resulting in the body being exposed to the protection of the round shields.

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"Array up!"

"Roar!" The three people huddled together separated again and resumed their previous formation of standing in a row with shields and spears raised.

"go ahead!"

"Ho! Ho! Ho!" Everyone kept holding their shields and spears, roared three times, and took three steps forward.

Ron, who was on the far right, glanced at Jason, who was lagging behind because he took too small a step, and scolded him ten thousand times in his heart.

"attack!"

"Ho ho ho!" Everyone kept their postures unchanged, and stabbed forward three times with their short spears held flat.

"Case in!"

"Roar!" Everyone stood up and retracted their legs, put their round shields back on their left sides, and stood their short spears on their chests.

Art walked to the Odo people who were standing behind and watched, and said: "The first competition is over. The movements of the first and second groups of recruits are relatively neat, but the formation of the first group is tighter. The recruits in the first competition are

The first group wins.”

Art ordered all the soldiers to return to their positions.

"Then move on to the second item, the three-person battle formation."

"The first group will face off against the third group, and the second group will face off against the guard group. The two winning groups will then play against each other. The loser will be the one who loses if the main attacker is hit. I will join the guard group." Art took it from Odo.

After passing a log shield and long stick, he stood on Ron's right side as an assister.

Odo's first group and Kazak's third group began a three-man battle, and the short spears in the soldiers' hands were replaced by long sticks stained with white ash on one end.

The big man Tuba is the main attacker of the first group. He holds the shield in front and points the long wooden stick in his hand directly at the opponent's battle formation. His eyes are fixed on the main attacker on the opposite side. The two assists beside Tuba are holding shields to protect the left and right.

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Hearing the attack order from Chief Odo, Tuba took the lead and rushed towards the opponent's battle formation. In a blink of an eye, the two battle formations collided with each other and became stalemate. Seeing that his own battle formation was beginning to be pushed back, Tuba pushed forward with all his strength, and the opponent's battle formation was blocked.

Taking half a step back, a gap was exposed. Tuba found the right moment and inserted the wooden stick through the gap...

On the other side, the escort group that Art joined was also competing against the second group. During this period, Art was busy making friends with some of the powerful people in Tyniec City, such as the city guard captain, the weapons depot manager, the grain warehouse manager, the agricultural officer and other powerful people.

He tried every possible means to obtain agricultural tools, seeds, weapons and supplies for the wooden castle and the patrol team, and also had to supervise and guide the training of the four Odos, so he could only find time to participate in the training of Ron's escort team. The result was a battle formation of three people in the escort team

There is a lack of tacit understanding in cooperation.

Although the soldiers in the opposing battle formation took Art's face into consideration, they were also newly trained recruits and were not masters of the battle formation. Even if they wanted to deliberately lose to the escort team, they could not grasp the scale. Therefore, the escort team, who did not cooperate tacitly, were defeated one after another, and within a short while

Jason was stabbed by the opponent's main attacker and left the game.

The three-person battle formation with Art and Ron remaining became stronger. Although Art was more active in defense in order to make the competition fair, Ron, who was suffocating, raised his wooden shield and took advantage of the small number of people.

Taking advantage, he avoided the opponent's main attacker, went directly to the right assister, and repeatedly poked the right assister's lower plate. As a result, the opponent's formation was disturbed, and Ron hit the opponent's main attacker's wooden shield with his spear.

, Ron, who was concentrating on attacking fiercely, did not notice that a long stick had been thrust towards him from the left...

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In the first round of the match, the third group just faced off for a while before the main attacker of the first group found an opening and stabbed the main attacker off the field. After losing the left assister, the guard group attacked the opponent bravely, but because of Luo

En ignored the protection of the left wing and was stabbed by the second set of assists and was defeated.

In the second round of the match, the first group faced off against the second group. The two groups were evenly matched and fought hard on the court for a long time. However, with the rapid loss of physical strength, the formation of the second group began to loosen, and the two assisters were obviously unable to keep up with the main attacker.

With the pace of their hands, the two wing guards began to be exposed. The three Tuba people in the first group always gritted their teeth and insisted on staying together. The main attacker noticed that the opponent's battle formation was loose, so he led the two assisters and slammed into it. The second group

The group's formation was shattered...

Art saw the guys in the second group who had fallen on the ground being helped up by the soldiers in the first group. He turned around and announced: "In the second three-person battle formation competition, the first group wins."

In the next third individual combat skills competition, Tuba, the big man in the first group who had the greatest hope of winning, failed to win the final victory. The first place in personal combat skills was won by Simon Kunz, the lean man in the third group.

This result is not surprising to Art. Simon Kunz was originally a professional bounty hunter in the south of Provence. He was hunted for killing the second son of a lord. He has been wandering around the north of Provence, working as a guard for caravans and traveling in

Working as a guild thug in the city makes a living.

On the night when the competition ended, Odo bought back half a fan of mutton, hired a cook from the city of Tyniec, lit a bonfire in a corner of the camp, set up an iron pot, and stewed a whole pot of mutton soup; Art also cashed in.

In compliance with his promise, he brought back a barrel of thirty pounds of light beer from the beer shop as a reward to the first group, and then personally handed five pfennig copper coins to Simon in front of everyone.

The first group, under Otto's instruction, distributed large barrels of beer to the brothers in the patrol team, so all soldiers in the patrol team could grab the mutton with bones and meat in one hand and hold a full bowl of beer in the other, and enjoy

The rare leisure and indulgence after hard training.

The dinner lasted until midnight. After seeing that everyone had eaten and drank, Art gathered all the officers and soldiers of the patrol team and sat down together around the bonfire. He stood by the bonfire and said loudly: "Everyone, it is God's will to let you

When we come together, you have become soldiers of my Art, and you will also become my brothers. After half a month of hard training, you have mastered the most basic skills of a professional soldier. We are stationed in Tyniec.

The deadline is up, and tomorrow we will set off to suppress bandits and promote public security in various places along the southern border."

"Now I will formally confirm the current distribution of our soldiers and appoint officers, and determine their salaries."

"Before recruiting more soldiers to expand, the patrol team is divided into three levels: combat group, squad, and team. The combat group has three soldiers, with the main attacker of the three-person battle formation as the leader; the two combat groups form one squad, and the squad leader also serves as the team leader.

The leader of the first combat group; the two teams form one team, and I am also the leader."

The patrol team composition announced by Art was similar to that in the previous military meeting. In the past half month, everyone's training has been basically carried out in combat groups, so I was not surprised.

"The first group of recruits was changed to the second combat group, with Tuba as the leader, and the second group of recruits was changed to the fourth combat group, with Simon as the leader. The first and third combat groups were led by Bass and Kaza respectively.

Gram was selected from the remaining soldiers and Jason was incorporated into Bass's combat team."

Art paused for a moment to let everyone clarify the distribution of soldiers.

"The first and second combat groups form the first squad, and Bas serves as the squad leader and the leader of the first combat group."

"The third and fourth combat groups form the second squad, with Kazak as the squad leader and the leader of the third combat group."

"Ron will be my bodyguard and mounted sentinel, and he will receive the salary of a squad leader."

Everyone was quiet for a moment~

Bass and Kazak secretly turned to look at Odo. Everyone was surprised that Odo, the best, did not become the squad leader, but Odo remained unmoved as usual.

The mystery was soon revealed.

Atla said in a long voice: "Odo Fernand has performed the best since he followed me south, so I appointed him as the deputy captain of the patrol team, responsible for training soldiers, managing military equipment and weapons and supplies, and enforcing military discipline...

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"In terms of salary, the average soldier's salary is ten pfennigs per week, the combat team leader is twelve pfennigs, the squad leader is fifteen pfennigs, and the deputy captain is eighteen pfennigs."

During this period, Art went around asking for or purchasing a batch of military supplies such as military boots, belts, blankets, and daggers, swords, hand axes, hammers, arrows and other weapons that had been replaced by the defending troops. He also purchased several items through the weapons depot manager.

Bring a slightly rough-made armed sword and several sets of armed clothing and leather armor.

Therefore, in terms of weapons, ordinary soldiers are equipped with a black oak buckler, a six-and-a-half-foot short spear, and a black robe and cloak. Therefore, ordinary soldiers are also issued with a cowhide belt and a short knife with a wooden handle of about 13 inches (

Sword). The combat team leader's weapon is based on the ordinary soldier's weapon and adds a short sword of about 18 inches or a battle ax and hammer; the squad leader's weapon is based on the ordinary soldier's weapon and is added on a three-foot broadsword.

Or an armed sword and a set of armed clothing. Odo and Ron have one more single-layer leather armor than other squad leaders.

In terms of odds and ends, all patrol soldiers each also have a set of tableware, a pair of leather boots, a water bag, a sheepskin bag, a whetstone and other odds and ends. Each team is equipped with a military tent, and the entire team also has a tent.

A carriage and two mules (purchase) a horse as well as a batch of grain, wheat seeds and farm tools...

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In the early morning of the next day, after bidding farewell to Viscount Pierre, Art led his patrol team out of the southern city gate of Tyniec and headed south...

Viscount Pierre stood behind the wall stacks on the south city gate, looking at the backs of the group heading south, and asked the captain of the guard beside him: "Did he really divide the patrol team into a three-level organization?"

The captain of the guard replied: "Yes, sir, I arranged for someone to hear it personally next to their station last night~"

Pierre thought carefully about Art's team composition and muttered: "Art, are you a religious guard or a forest hunter? Or do you have other ulterior identities?...
Chapter completed!