In the vast wasteland training ground outside the Beiguan Military Fort, Art was observing a confrontation training of the Wells Legion.

This was a long-prepared confrontation training, and the main forces of the confrontation training were the 1st and 2nd companies of the Welsh Corps, and the gōng nǔ team and the cavalry team also abandoned their bows and dismounted to join the 1st Company camp as infantry, while the heavy infantry team joined the 2nd Company camp.

Art and five soldiers of the Guards stood on a high platform outside the training ground as arbiters to judge the results of the two armies, and Robert, the military priest, was invited to accompany Art to observe this special training.

The two teams were separated by more than 100 paces, lined up in a neat formation, and behind them were each a large eight small and nine military flags.

The flags of the Welsh Legion are all vertical stripes, and the military flag is based on the blood-eyed howling wolf coat of arms, declaring that the commander of this army is the frontier baron Art? Wood? Wells, beneath the Howling Wolf coat of arms are two crossed knightly swords; The knight of the company flag has the words "X Company" written in Latin with white dye, and the words "X Company X Flag Team" are written under the knight's sword of the flag flag.

The content of today's training is very simple, there is a military flag planted on the ground on both sides of the center line of the field, the width between the two military flags is 100 feet, the two sides of the military flag represent the territory of the two armies, the two sides charge in formation, the company that first captures the other party's nine military flags is considered to win, but the two armies must pass between the two military flags in order to enter each other's "territory", otherwise I am afraid that the hundreds of soldiers on the entire training ground will be scattered into a large area, and the meaning of the line confrontation will be lost.

The two sides of the confrontation training are holding long sticks and short sticks used in training, wearing armor and lifting shields, and hundreds of people stand facing each other, which really feels like a battle against each other.

Originally, according to Yat's idea, it should also simulate the real battle scenario and add traps, trenches, horse rejection obstacles, small group raids, attack and defense, turnback reinforcements, cavalry charges, gōng nǔ cover, and many other simulation training contents, but considering that almost all of the recruits who participated in the confrontation training were recruits who had just completed basic training, Yat simplified the confrontation training to the extreme, and the two sides were completely dressed in a full set of cumbersome armor and holding clubs and shields to wrestle under the command of the officer.

As a reward for the victors of this training, they will receive a full day of rest and a full ten 30-pound barrels of the valley's own "Wells Beer" and a wild boar that has just been hunted. Wild boars weren't unusual, but Humul's plus three hundred pounds of beer were a big draw for these good drinkers.

"Wave the flag and get ready!" Art commanded a guard beside him who was acting as a trumpeter.

The trumpeter pulled out a black Howling Wolf Fork Sword Banner from the wooden flag slot on the side, and held it high in the air, drawing circles in the air, this flag means "ready for battle".

With the waving of the military flags on the high platform, the two armies began to prepare for the flags, first two company flags were erected, then eight flags were erected, and finally a large pennant was erected.

The flags fluttering on both sides of the entire training ground were all in place, and although the scene was not spectacular, it was also exciting.

To Art's left, the first company led by Otto is surrounded by six elite soldiers, and each flag team also has three strong soldiers as flag guards; In front of the flag guards there is also a team of twenty people, apparently they are also the "defenders" of the "territory", once the "enemy" breaks through the border and approaches the flag, they will come forward to "fight to stop"; In front of the "defenders" was the main force of the battle, numbering nearly two hundred, divided into four rows of lines the same width as the central flag, and after the order was blown, they would march towards the "border" and there defeat the "enemy army" and capture the "enemy territory......

To the right of Art was the second company of infantry led by Angus, and unlike the first company, which was steady and steady, the second company did not arrange a "left-behind defense" team at all, they only had two guards under each banner, and all the rest of the soldiers would be used for the "border charge". The second company was also different in formation, and they selected the fifty strongest soldiers in the army to form a triangular pyramid, and behind the fifty awls were three rows of flag-width columns. The second company is on offense and defense, and once the order to charge is blown, these fifty men will tear the breach from the "enemy" formation in the shortest possible time, and then fifty soldiers will nail into the gap, and then all the soldiers will run along the crack to the "enemy" flag......

"Guys! Do you want to beat your opponents? ”

"Yes!"

"Would you like to lie in bed and drink a delicious beer?"

"Yes!"

"Then cheer me up and crush them!"

Angus, the commander of the second company, is doing a "pre-war" mobilization.

When the second company was shouting and cheering, Odo of the first company also raised the shield in his hand and mobilized the morale of the soldiers from left to right...:

Woo~woo~woo~~~

Three trumpets sounded.

Charge!

Charge! Charge!

An earth-shattering shout rang out from the training ground, and the two armies rushed towards each other with a scream, and the two black iron streams soon collided violently......

Robert, the priest of the army, looked at the two teams that were fighting together, and reminded Art with a worried face: "Lord Art, is it too cruel for you to train soldiers like this. Hundreds of people charged, and there was a high risk of casualties, even with sticks. ”

Art stared intently at the confrontation in the training ground, and replied, "Father Robert, I firmly believe that you can only survive in a bloody battle. If the soldiers are not allowed to sweat and blood during training, how can they become the toughest warriors? ”

"As for the casualties, it is really unavoidable, so my medical team is waiting on the sidelines, ready to treat the wounded." Art gestured to the six medics at the training ground, with three wooden beds called "stretchers" beside them.

"Lord Art, I still have to remind you that your soldiers are human beings and not gods, they are all flesh and blood, and your training is too harsh, and the soldiers will definitely resist your training." Robert's words are not groundless, he has already smelled the smell of resistance in the Wells Legion, those veterans who have followed Art all the way through life and death are fine, those new soldiers who have not experienced the cruelty of war do not have such an awareness, they just think that Art is torturing them, the dissatisfaction is getting stronger, and the fights between soldiers and the conflicts between soldiers and officers have begun to sprout.

"Lord Art, not every soldier understands your intentions, and the seeds of resentment have begun to sprout among those soldiers."

Art had already noticed that some of the soldiers were beginning to complain, they could not understand this inhuman torture of Art until they had been trained in the war, and the high salary could not make every soldier break through his nature, and this kind of seed born from the heart could not be destroyed by harsh military law.

"Father Robert, you're right, there have been several new soldiers in the legion who have been punished or even removed from prison by military law for resisting training."

Art obviously had plans to deal with it, "So I plan to create a new position of Monk in the Legion, which will be responsible for transmitting the idea of fighting for God and Lord for the legionnaires, for channeling the dissatisfaction of the soldiers, and for conveying the true thoughts of the soldiers to relieve the resentment in their hearts...... In short, they will play an important role in stabilizing the morale of the military and rallying the people's minds. What do you think of these friars who will become part of the Welsh Legion, be under the control of the Legion and enjoy the salary of a squadron leader? ”

Father Robert was terrified to hear this, and it was really appalling that Art wanted to appoint the clergy of the Church in the army, and that a small baron should dare to usurp the authority of the Church.

"Lord Arte, you must not set up this military monk, although the right of the clergy to temporarily serve as a clergyman in your territory last time is not in accordance with the rules of the church, after all, it can be inferred that there is a shortage of clergy, and devout believers have spontaneously risen up to serve God. When the church asks, you can barely get through. ”

"But the establishment of monks in the army is still controlled like your officers, and once this matter is known to the church, you can't afford to say that you, a secular lord, interfered with the church's priesthood without authorization." Robert Baptized the Church for many years and knew which were off-limits.

Art had already thought of this, and replied, "Then I will not call them the monks of the army, but I will call them the political and political officers, and they will be the most devout believers." The church will not interfere with my appointment of ordinary officers? These people are just helping me control the minds of the soldiers, not the clergy. But I hope you will be able to teach them some communication skills between God and believers. ”

"This~This seems to be~" Robert couldn't refute it for a while.

Just as Art and Robert were discussing the matter of the ideological and political officer, Ron, who had been in charge of torturing the "Assasin" killer, hurriedly came to the high platform to find Art, and said in his ear: "Master, that guy is angry. ”

Art turned his head and asked softly, "Have you asked everything you should ask?" ”

"Assasin's secret den in the city of Thorne has been known, and the codes, contacts, and activities between them have been clarified......"

Leaving the guard and the priest with Robert, to continue watching the referee, he took Ron back to the North Pass Fort, where Stanley, the guard who was interrogating with Ron, was cutting off the head of the corpse, and there was another recently cut off head in the corner of the room......

Looking at the headless corpse in the stone house, which had already stiffened, Art's eyes lit up fiercely, "The Dean family has been pestering us like shit and rotten snakes, and now they are using this kind of sinister and vicious tricks against us again, this time I must eradicate the Dean family!" ”

Ron heard that Art was finally going to make a move on the disgusting Dean family, and said excitedly: "Master, we should have killed the Dean family a long time ago, the father and son are too disgusting." You ordered, and I immediately led the Guards to infiltrate Wincheston Manor and cut off the heads of Dean and his son. ”

This breath has been held for too long, from the midshipman to the baron of the frontier, the Dean family is as disgusting as flies, not only Ron and a group of young and vigorous officers have already sharpened their knives, even Odo, who has always been calm and tolerant, feels very angry, and the officers do not say anything but privately complain about Arte's "weakness".

Art didn't rush to give Ron an an order, he said slowly: "You all think that I am too weak in the affairs of the Dean family in private, and everyone is very unhappy? ”

"Ron, do you know how much the Dean family's fortune is? After three generations of business, the Dean family has a fortune of at least five million Fennig! Baron Galvin struggled for decades, and his family's wealth was no more than a million. ”

"Do you know how many powerful people in the court are pointing to the Dean family to make money?"

"Although Dean is just a knight, his energy is much stronger than that Bazel, I don't blink an eye when I kill Bazeel, but it is too risky to kill Dean rashly, especially at this cusp, Count Bernard is worried that there is no valid reason to destroy us. The Western Army stationed at Wincheston Manor was a signal. ”

Ron was still a little unconvinced, "It's really tired, it's better to fight on the battlefield." ”

Art's face sank, "Ron, it's okay if the others don't want to endure this grievance, but you will be in charge of my intelligence network and Hawkeye in the future, and you must get used to thinking about these bad things." ”

"But this time we don't have to hold back our fire, the Dean family dared to collude with the heretics and murder the devout believers of God, this crime is enough to bring down the Dean family."

"Sir, then we shouldn't have killed this guy, we should have forced him to confess the crime and then take him to Besançon to report to the archbishop......"

Art waved his hand, "It's not enough, just grabbing a small minion won't bring down the Dean family, and we can't count on Archbishop Besançon in this matter." ”

"What do you mean?"

"I'm going to take Assasin's lair, wipe them out, and bring down the Dean family with a heretical organization!"

"This matter must be tackled as soon as possible, once the Dean family realizes that the matter is revealed, there will be no chance. Ron, I'll give you two days to select thirty of the most elite soldiers in the legion to form a temporary team, from ordinary soldiers to squadron leaders. ”

"After being selected, you and Stanley are specifically responsible for training this temporary team, and in the past two days, you have figured out the way of those killers of Assasin, and you will train this team specifically for these killers, so that they can learn to track, lurk, close, and assault, and I will also personally participate in the training. I'll also send a message to Spencer that you can choose from the weapons and armor of the entire Legion's arsenal and return them when you've completed your mission. ”

"But time is pressing, and I'm going to take you to this big thing in a week, so you two must hurry."

"Yes, sir!" A hint of vengeance came to Ron's excited face.

At this time, there was a sound of mountain roaring in the wasteland outside Beiguan, and the confrontation in the training ground should have been decided.

"You two clean up this place and hang your heads at the gate." With that, he walked towards the training ground.

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