The weather is getting warmer, and the flowers are blooming beside the stream in front of the wooden castle in the valley, making the valley full of life.

Except for the Scott family, who has a wooden house in the fort, all the farmers have moved to the valley. The farmers have built four or five shacks on the gentle slopes of the valley. The gentle slopes are surrounded by thorns and miscellaneous tree branches.

A simple fence was built to prevent sneak attacks by wild beasts.

The wooden castle has become the exclusive garrison of the patrol. Now it is stationed with soldiers returning from Andermatt and newly recruited laborers and miners from Lucerne. The patrol soldiers who returned early are stationed in Odo and

After several days of repairs under the leadership of Bass, they have begun training. The fifteen prisoners of war were detained by Odo in a temporary small shack built with dead branches next to the wooden castle. They were manned by soldiers from the patrol team.

Take turns in custody.

Three soldiers were killed in the Battle of Alsberg a month ago. One soldier suffered a facial wound that could not be treated due to ulceration, and the injury spread to his left eye. Although he survived in the end, he was completely blind in his left eye.

At present, apart from At, there are still sixteen people in the patrol team, four officers and twelve soldiers, who can continue to fight.

On the third day after the team headed north to Lucesne returned to the wooden castle in the valley, the sun had just risen. Ron, who was feeding and grooming several horses in the stables of the wooden castle, heard Art's call, and he hurriedly put the cloth in the bag.

Shaking all the black beans and wheat bran into the long trough, he loudly agreed and ran to Art's wooden house.

"Ron, the old butler and your father sent the new farmers to the valley yesterday. I originally said I wouldn't be back today, but I plan to go out tomorrow to recruit refugees and soldiers for Baron Antayas, so I have to make arrangements today.

For some matters, you will go to the valley soon and call the old housekeeper and the three of them back to the wooden castle to discuss the matter. By the way, call Simon back and tell him that I have other arrangements."

Ron took the order and came out of Art's wooden house, took off a pair of saddles in the stable, passed the small courtyard, passed through the wooden door, ran to the kitchen in the wooden castle and said to his mother who was making breakfast for Art alone.

: "Mom, the master has already gotten up. You will send the food over in a moment." After that, he was ready to leave.

Ron's mother walked around the stove and grabbed him, saying: "Ron, I have already prepared Master's meal. You should go home and eat quickly. Camille is waiting for you. I left a piece of delicious food for you."

Honey Bread.”

When Ron returned from Lucerne, he brought some spices, salt and some fermented honey-smeared loaves to his family, which Emma was reluctant to eat.

"Mother, I brought that bread to you. Don't leave it to me. I've already eaten it. The master ordered me to rush to the valley to call the old housekeeper and father back to the wooden castle to discuss the matter. I have to leave immediately.

It's over." Ron held the saddle and walked towards the newly built barn.

Emma turned around and picked up a piece of rye bread from the stove, broke off a piece, walked to the barn and stuffed it into Ron's arms, "Go and do what I asked you to do quickly. You can take the bread and eat it on the way."

Ron took the bread and put it in his arms, took out a green mule, saddled it, got on the mule's back and ran out of the castle gate.

Outside the wooden castle, in a large open space less than half a mile south along the creek, Odo was conducting the most basic training for the laborers and miners who had just been recruited from Lucese.

After being exposed to such training for the first time, they had not yet adapted to formation, advance and other orders. They were slow to respond to Odo's orders, and their formations were always crooked. Odo was not in a hurry. Compared to those farmers, these miners and laborers

Brother's execution of the order has been calculated well.

Otto stopped the new recruits in front of him, turned around and shouted to Kazak who was training veterans on the other side of the clearing: "Kazak, bring your team over and give them a demonstration."

Kazak obeyed the order and stopped the soldiers who were practicing fighting with long wooden sticks. Several soldiers stopped fighting and followed Kazak to the new recruits.

"Contradictory line formation, prepare!" Kazak led several soldiers to stand in a neat row.

"Defensive array!"

"Roar!" Following Kazak's order, several soldiers shouted, holding their shields up to their chests, holding up their long sticks, looking straight ahead, bending their left legs, kicking back half a step with their right legs, and leaning slightly forward.

The twelve recruits had just arrived in the valley and had never seen patrol soldiers training before. The soldiers in front of them were different from ordinary sergeants and guards. They were shocked and a little novel. They had seen lords training soldiers, but they had never seen them before.

In an army that trains its soldiers every day, in their perception, soldiers who can train two or three days a week are elite.

The "forward" command continued to sound.

"Ho! Roar! Roar!" The soldier shouted three times and took three steps toward the new recruit while still holding up his shield and stick.

A new recruit was startled by the sudden loud shouts and instinctively took a step back.

"If you dare to take another step back, I will break your legs." Odo angrily kicked the miner who backed away to the ground...

On the other side of the open space, Bass's team also stopped training and sat on the ground watching the demonstration training over there.

Tuba, the leader of the second combat team of the first team, stared there for a while, then turned his hand and slapped a soldier next to him on the head: "It's all your fault, you idiot. If the short guy hadn't been gone, we would have lost a team member.

, I won’t let you join my battle group even if you are beaten to death.”

After returning from Alsberg, Jason, who had recovered from his injury, was temporarily assigned to Tuba's combat team to participate in training. However, due to the addition of this idiot soldier, the second combat team, which had always been the leader, suddenly became a laggard.

Jason touched his head and said with an apologetic smile: "Brother Tuba, I don't know what happened. Once I entered the battle formation, I didn't know how to lift my feet."

Colin on the side also cursed angrily: "Jason, I'll beat you to death. Tell me, how many times have we been scolded by Chief Odo in the past few days since you joined the first team? You can even shoot archery and ride horses."

Yes, but why can't you practice the battle formation well? Now that Commander Ron is back, you should go back to Commander Ron."

"I still want to go back~ We agreed to train me as an archer, but I ended up coming back with you~" Jason muttered, turning to look at Odo who was carrying a shield and a stick to demonstrate to the new recruits.

.........

Over at the wooden castle, Art was giving instructions to Emma, ​​who had brought food, about the banquet in the evening.

"After a while, you will prepare breakfast for the soldiers and then prepare dinner. If you are too busy, call the carpenter Bud's old lady to help. In addition, although the newcomers will not attend the dinner tonight, they will still be given dinner.

Add a side of bacon bisque.”

"Okay, sir, I'll go get ready right now." After speaking, Emma closed the door and left.

Art drank the bread crumbs soaked in broth in the wooden bowl on the table. He stood up and took off the leather knight's sword sheath hanging on the wall. He opened the wooden door and walked out of the small courtyard to the gate of the wooden castle.

When Camille and Bud's little granddaughter, who were playing in the wooden castle, saw Art coming out, they quickly knelt down and saluted, calling them "Master".

Art walked to a twenty-foot-square room next to the big wooden castle house, which had become the carpentry workshop in the castle. The old carpenter Bud kept making shields, long sticks and spears for Art here. Since Art

After contracting the Bard family's board and lodging and paying their wages on time every week, the old carpenter became more and more motivated. In addition to being responsible for making and repairing shields and spear shafts for Art, he also took on the responsibility of building some houses and making and repairing wooden utensils.

Work.

Seeing Master Art appear at the door, Bud quickly greeted him, "Good morning, Master."

"Good morning, Bud."

Art picked up a newly made spear shaft from the carpentry table and said to Bud: "The old butler told me what you have done for the wooden castle during this time. Thank you for your hard work."

Bud was frightened and replied: "It was the master who brought our family here from outside to provide us with food, accommodation and salary. God cannot feed lazy people, so these are what I should do."

Bud pointed to a large pile of semi-finished wood for making wooden shields in the corner of the wooden house, "Sir, you have more and more soldiers now. I can't handle it alone. It would be great if you could send me a helper."

Even if you are an apprentice, you can at least help me with some rough work. I am old and I need help with chopping and chopping~"

Art agreed to the old carpenter's request and promised to arrange a helper for him as soon as possible.

Art briefly walked around the wooden fort, inspected the barn, stables and surrounding fences, and then walked out of the gate to the training ground outside the fort.

"Everyone gather!" Seeing Art arriving at the training ground, Odo loudly ordered the soldiers to stop training and assemble into two lines, with the veterans in front and the recruits behind.

Art came to Odo and the others who were standing at the head of the team and said: "Odo, I won't care about the training of new recruits. Later you will take the veterans to train the contradictory line formation. We have already seen the close contradictory line formation in Alsburg."

Power, but this is far from enough. The soldiers still lack cooperation, and when the shield formation is concentrated in one place to break the formation, the shield formation is not as strong as we imagined. In addition, personal combat skills must be trained as soon as possible.

Remember, you guys, don’t worry about getting injured during training. The reason you bleed and sweat now is to save your life in the battle."

Otto nodded in agreement.

Art suddenly remembered something again and said: "By the way, in the last battle in Alsberg, I saw that the long-handled chain hammer (iron flail) used by Bass was very fierce, and the chain hammer was not like an armed sword.

It is rare, but its power is no less than that of a knight's sword. It is especially powerful when dealing with enemy shields and armor. Now we have also captured a lot of chain hammers. You can also add chain hammer training to the soldiers.

During personal combat skills training, I saw that Bass was very good at using a hammer, so I asked him to be the hammer trainer~"

"It's my lord! I will make arrangements."

"Okay, Odo will take the new recruits there for training."

"The rest of you follow orders"

"Contradictory line array, array!"

"roar!"

"defense!"

"roar"

…………

The roars of Art and Baskazak rang out in the training ground. The recruits who were training alone looked at the veterans howling among the sticks, and their steps couldn't help but become more messy.

After training for more than two hours, until everyone's clothes were soaked with sweat, Art ordered the soldiers to stop training and return to the wooden fort for breakfast.

On the way back to the wooden castle, Art told the Odo people who were following him about the matters that should be paid attention to in training soldiers, "The personal combat skills training of soldiers must summarize the most practical ones from the two battles we have experienced. Our soldiers

They are not knights who have been trained in swordsmanship since childhood. They are more concerned about how to kill the enemy quickly while protecting themselves. The most important thing is to master the basic movements of blocking, slashing and thrusting. In addition, they can

It's a bit ugly to use the moves you used when fighting with guild gangsters, but in battle the enemy won't let you live just because your moves are good-looking. In addition, focus on training soldiers who are really not suitable for swordsmanship training.

Heavy weapons such as axes and hammers. Last time when we dealt with the bandit leader in Alsburg, if there were more soldiers with heavy hammers, one person would be hammered down, no matter how thick the chain armor was, they would not be able to save their lives."

"Soldiers must continue to strengthen their arm strength and physical strength. They must lift stones and heavy wood a hundred times every morning, noon and evening, and run long distances every five days. Those who run first eat meat, and those who fall behind eat shit."

"Well, remember to give the soldiers something good to eat before each long-distance training."

"As for riding skills, commanders above the squad leader level must learn it. Soldiers who have this talent must also learn it. Others only need to be able to sit on a horse."

"The other thing is military discipline." Art stopped and turned to stare at Odo, "There are a lot of soldiers fighting and making trouble during this time, right? Also, I heard that a soldier entered the kitchen and stole bread last night?"

"Sir, it's like this~"

Odo was about to explain, but Art interrupted him, "You don't have to explain to me. You are responsible for enforcing military discipline. If you find this person, I won't punish him severely this time. I will just starve him for a day. But you have to do it as soon as possible."

Think about how to restrain the discipline of soldiers. There are more and more of us now. If there is no military discipline to restrain us, we will become a pile of mud."
Chapter completed!