On the way back to the valley from the northeast of Wincheston Manor, Stanley, one of Art's guards, straddled his horse and wiped the crossbow in his hand, and then asked Ron, the captain of the guard, "Sir Ron, do you think the guy who was repaired with a sword will come back to life?" ”

"It's best to be alive, it doesn't matter if you're dead, our priority is done anyway." Ron's tone was extremely cold, as if he were discussing a slaughtered chicken.

The ambush yesterday evening was carefully designed by Ron, Jafar, Stanley and the bandit leader Redogan, from finding out the target's action route, activity trends, defense forces, ambush locations, ambush methods, to formulating retreat routes, preventing leaks, blaming the Dean family, and a series of links were completed by a few people, although the whole thing was planned by Art himself, but it was enough to make several people proud to complete the assassination mission almost perfectly in just three or four days without any accidents......

A week later, the news of the murder of Baron Bazel, a baron of Tignets, in the Count of Burgundy, caused another storm.

Bazel had just extorted a large sum of money from Wincheston Manor, but he was killed on the front foot and on the back foot when he walked out of the manor, tens of thousands of Fenni were robbed, and there was a Bazel guard who kept repeating "Dean, Dean" before he lost his breath, and the Dean family was also at a loss for words.

However, what is more concerned about the world is the ownership of the two estates and a barony left behind by Bazel's death, and it is believed that it will not be long before the gates of the mansions of those court magnates will be broken down by the landless nobles who are eager for fiefdoms......

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The turmoil outside the valley did not affect the world inside the valley.

From the moment Bazel was angry, the whole thing seemed to have no direct connection with Arte, and Art forgot the name Bazel after rewarding the few people who went on the mission and telling them to keep it secret......

In June, a new round of busyness began.

From the end of the summer to the present, Art's army has been in a state of battle, from clearing out bandits to fighting against the Deans, from southern Provence to the northland and eastern battlefields, fifteen battles in a year.

The fierce fighting brought with it the turnover of casualties, and the army gained combat experience {especially the surviving veterans}, but the overall combat effectiveness was weakened.

Soldiers lack effective coordination in battle, and the ability of soldiers and officers to communicate and enforce military orders has declined.

And next will face an unprecedented round of large-scale military expansion, according to the task given to Art by Earl Balwin, Art's army of 100 people will be expanded to more than 500 people in a short time.

Between 500 and 100 soldiers, it is not only a surge in the number of soldiers, but also a series of complex issues such as daily training, soldier coordination, officer distribution, armament allocation, army establishment, baggage support, command system, maintenance of military discipline, and stability of military morale.

Such a "large-scale" army management was a challenge for his officers, and it was not a challenge for Art himself.

However, Yate firmly grasped one core point - the training of officers and backbones.

A small team of ten people can be completely controlled by Yate alone, a team of thirty people is also like an arm for him, an army of about sixty people needs the help of his competent officers, and an army of about 100 people must have a preliminary management and control system.

And an army of hundreds of people cannot be controlled by Yate alone, he must establish a command network with officers at all levels as nodes and military order transmission system as the line, only by relying on this net, Yate can keep this army under his control.

One of the core tasks of organizing this network is to train officers.

The exploration of officer training has begun since the time of the patrol team, and now all officers above the squadron leader level of the army have received this kind of training from Yate, and some squad leaders and even combat team leaders have also been exposed to this special training.

At first, he taught some simple basic general writing and calculations, and then gradually taught the officers how to march and fight, how to set up camp, how to raise food and supplies, how to collect and analyze enemy information, how to administer military law, etc., compared with other armies of similar size, the officers under Arter were definitely excellent.

However, after all, the officers who have received training are a minority, and in the past year, the fighting has been so fierce that Yate rarely has time to teach the officers, and there is a large shortage of officers after the expansion of the army, so Yate made up his mind to establish an officer academy.

This military academy is different from the previous training of Yat's key soldiers and officers between battles, and it will serve as a permanent institution like the parish school.

The original parish academy was renamed the parish college, and the function of training officers was transferred to the military academy, and the parish college became a subordinate institution of the civil affairs system, responsible for cultivating civil affairs talents, with the parish priest Hamish as the honorary president of the parish college, and the civil affairs officer Cooper as the vice president.

The military academy was set up in the stone lord's mansion in the Beiguan Military Fort, and the old carpenter Bard took the craftsman's workshop to urgently produce a batch of tables, chairs and other utensils for the college, and the army arsenal also allocated a batch of weapons, armor, military horses and other armaments for the college.

The first batch of apprentices to enter the military academy were 29 backbone combat officers above the head of the army's combat team (including a small number of outstanding ordinary soldiers), plus eight apprentices from the parish academy headed by Matthew {Son of Ledoan} and two peasant captains of the garrison corps {wounded veterans}, a total of 39 people. {In addition, the group of gladiatorial trainers recruited from the Northland also entered the academy for a month, and then were assigned to the army as full-time instructors {mainly to train soldiers, not to participate in battles}.}

These thirty-nine men were temporarily removed from the army and no longer held military positions, nor did they have to train and manage the army. Their troops were to be stationed at the North Pass Fort, where they were trained directly by Otto, Angus, and the commander of the garrison, Bass.

There were no permanent teachers in the first phase of the Military Academy, and the physician Thomas and the tax collector Guy of the parish school of Arterlet were also medical and arithmetic instructors at the Military Academy, and Robert was transferred to the Military Academy as a theological and general literature teacher; Otto and Angus were military instructors at the Military Academy, while Kazak, Tubba, Ron, Colin, Lusignan, Jafar, Tridok, Rejerk, Spencer, and the gladiatorial trainers who were in attendance were all assigned to study at the academy and to teach according to their own strengths, both apprentices and instructors.

Yate appointed himself president of the Military Academy.

The teaching of the military academy is divided into three aspects, namely, the teaching of knowledge (including writing, arithmetic, military command, combat skills, tactics, military law enforcement, military situation analysis, baggage management, etc.), military training (personal combat skills, soldier training, etc.), and theological training {loyalty to God, loyalty to the lord, and obedience to orders}.

On the first Sunday of June, the official formation of the Military Academy was announced.

In order to show the importance attached to the Military Academy, Baron Yat and Baroness Lottie, all the troops, officials above the rank of deputy steward of the valley, and two priests, Hamish and Robert, all rushed to the Beiguan Military Fort to attend the formation ceremony.

As the chief dean of the Military Academy, Yat delivered an impassioned speech at the ceremony......

While the officers were being trained at the academy, the ordinary soldiers were not idle.

Prior to the official expansion of the army, these soldiers were temporarily organized into seven squadrons in squadrons (arms) - Soldiers 1 to 5, Cavalry (including guards), Gōng Nǔ, and Baggage.

Otto and Angus each selected a veteran from each of the seven teams as a temporary captain to be responsible for the day-to-day management of the soldiers, while Otto, Angus, and Bass were each responsible for the daily training of two or three teams, and Art occasionally trained the soldiers himself.

Yate also attaches great importance to these soldiers who have experienced the experience of war, the officers are the head of an army, and the veterans are the skeleton of the army.

Yate initially planned to set up non-commissioned officers (non-commissioned officers) below the officer level, and select a group of elite soldiers from this group of soldiers who came down from the battlefield to be promoted to sergeants, and they would serve as low-level commanders such as squad leaders and even squadron leaders.

In addition, the production, repair, and purchase of military weapons and armor, as well as the issuance of statistics on military merits in previous battles, and the issuance of military rewards, are also advancing step by step......

On the second Wednesday of June, Felix, who had been badly wounded in the East, was picked up by Baron Galvin, along with two soldiers and a group of wounded soldiers.

Baron Galvin originally intended to take Felix directly back to Sapbburg, and when he was fully wounded, Felix would build a strong army of Sapborg.

But Felix did not go directly back to Sapbourg, he insisted on returning to the Barony of the Valley to personally say goodbye to Atroti and the men with whom he had fought.

In the dining room on the second floor of the Lord's Mansion in the Valley, Atroti and Felix were enjoying a family feast, and the maid Ollie was waiting with a servant.

Art handed a bunch of grapes to Lottie, and a piece of charcoal roast beef in front of him was brought to Felix's plate with a silver knife and fork, and then asked, "Felix, did you ask you to go back to Sapburg to form an army, or did your father-in-law arrange it?"

Felix threw a few gnawed bones to the two hound hounds under the seat who were sticking out their tongues and waiting for the guests' rewards, and then forked the roast beef and brought it to his mouth to chew and swallow a few bites, and replied, "It was arranged by my father, and I wanted to train with you for a while, but my father seemed to be in a hurry, and he had never been so eager to build an army as he is now."

"Well, my father-in-law has seen the situation in the entire country clearly, and he hopes to protect himself in the troubled times."

"Yes, he has already told me everything that has happened recently, our Huge family is finally about to rise, and I am a little excited to think about the hurricane that is about to rise."

"Felix, you came to our army to return to Sapp after some training, and I agree with you to go back. However, I have formed a military academy here, and I plan to let you enter the military academy for training for a few months before returning to Sap, how about it? ”

"Of course it's excellent! Then I will bring a letter back to my father, saying that I will complete this ~ this officer training and then go back to the valley. But brother-in-law, I still want to discuss something with you. ”

Art put down his fork, looked at Felix, and asked, "You say."

Felix also wiped the food scraps from the corners of his mouth, and said seriously: "I want you to ask a few soldiers to take away!" Two of my retinue guards died on the battlefield to protect me, and now I have no one under me who can be used, and if I go back to Sapp to form an army, I must have someone to help me. ”

Art pondered for a moment, deciding that Felix's request was not excessive, and asked, "How many people do you want to take with you?"

Felix held out five fingers, "Not much, just five people!" ”

"I'll give you a maximum of three soldiers, and you can only choose soldiers below the current squad leader. I'm about to expand my army into the war, and I need these backbones more than you do. ”

"Okay! Thank you, brother-in-law. ”

"By the way, brother-in-law, my father specially asked me to tell you that he asked you to come to Sapburg as soon as possible in the next few days to find him, and he said that he had something very important to discuss with you......