Ten days later, Arte swaggered all the way from the south to the city of Tignets with a dozen sturdy men in uniform black burqas.

In the town hall of Tignets, Viscount Pierre stood by the window of the official room and looked at the soldiers in black robes and cloaks arranged neatly in the small square downstairs, turned to Yat, who was sitting on a wooden bench, and said, "Man, you are more powerful than I thought. You've really raised this patrol team in one winter. Well, it looks a little more powerful than the sergeant of the city's vigilantes. ”

Art twisted his sitting posture and said to Viscount Pierre: "My lord, these are the soldiers I have carefully selected to patrol the border, and they all have the courage to kill thieves and bandits. ”

Viscount Pierre glanced at Yat and Ron, who was standing straight behind Yat, and said, "Well, you go to the clerk as soon as possible to register the soldiers on patrol, and I will write a letter to report the completion of the patrol team to the Minister of Justice." In addition, the winter is coming to an end, Provence and Lombardy in the south are still fighting on the central front, the fortress of the eastern front, Vilno, was just recovered by the Duke of Vladis last month, but it was captured by the Lombardy at the beginning of this month, and now the war in the east has begun to spread to the north again, we will face greater pressure on refugees, and the southern region of Tignaz will be more chaotic, so you have to do your part and take your patrol team to maintain law and order in the southern region. ”

Yat nodded yes again and again, and then euphemistically made a request for money and food, "My lord, now the patrol team has more than a dozen mouths waiting for food offerings, you see~"

Viscount Pierre sat back in his chair and interrupted Art by tapping his right hand on the table, "Alright, I don't want to hear you cry poor or talk to you, you didn't disappoint me, so I'll give you another five hundred pounds of food and one thousand two hundred pfennigh salaries, plus three military tents." ”

Art was overjoyed and was about to express his gratitude, when Viscount Pierre continued: "Don't rejoice too soon, my money and food will not be given in vain!" I want you to do something. ”

"Speak, please." Art straightened his seat.

"Last autumn Alsburg on the southeastern border was captured by a gang of mountain bandits on the Pozhe Mountains, and if it had not been for the capture of a thief who escaped from Alsburg in the city of Tignets last month, I would not have known that there was such a thing, and that mongrel of this landless crime Antayas dared to hide it from me. But I can't send troops to retake Alsburg in a big way now, so the court and the Marquis will know about it, so I need you to help Antayas clean up the mess instead of me......"

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When he came out of Viscount Pierre's office, Ron expressed his incomprehension of Viscount Pierre's behavior, "My lord, since Lord Pierre already knows that Alsburg has been captured by mountain bandits, why didn't he personally send troops to levy or directly order Baron Antaas to recruit soldiers to recover?" Why do we have to pay us to quietly assist Baron Antayas? Could this be a way to hide from the court? ”

Art put his hands on the cowhide belt around his waist, and replied as he walked out of the lord's hall: "Lord Pierre is a human spirit, since Baron Antayas has not officially reported the matter of Alsburg, he will not take the initiative to ask, once the court and the Marquis are blamed in the future, he can also excuse Baron Antaas from him, he does not know." Even if he will be implicated in the crime of losing his land, it is much better than knowing it, and now he can't control Alsburg, Alsburg is only his nominal territory, and the safety of Tignac City is his most immediate matter, so he will let me be bribed to help recover Ars. ”

"As for giving us so much food, he killed two birds with one stone. The more we take him, the more we will sell our lives, and he will certainly report back to the court and Bishop Orlof Hannes that the county of Tignets has given the Inspector great support without compensation in extremely difficult circumstances~"

"It's so cunning, these aristocratic lords' intestines are more TM than the looms of the mothers-in-law......" Ron couldn't help but curse a few foul words.

"Okay Ron, at least we're getting the benefits. As for helping Antayas recover Ars, that was what we were meant to do, and we were able to earn some food from Lord Pierre for it. ”

"Lord Pierre asks us to go to Fort Andermatt before the end of spring ploughing, and I request that the newly recruited patrol soldiers need further training to be stationed in the city of Tignets for half a month, and that our food supply for this half month will be in charge of Tiniecs, and you go and store the food and supplies we have brought and allocated by the county to the warehouse, and then inform Otto to arrange food and lodging."

Ron took the order and left......

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In the open space of the barracks square in the city of Tignac, a few candles were lit in a military tent that could accommodate three people, and Yater sat on the carpet on the ground at the top of the tent, and Otto sat at the bottom with Ron, Bass, and Kazak.

"Are the soldiers all settled?" Art asked.

Ron replied, "My lord, except for the sentry on duty, the rest of us are asleep. ”

"Well, I've called a few of you here tonight for this military meeting because I'm going to go to the clerk tomorrow to register and make a register, and once the registration is completed, our patrol team will be officially formed. Now the court will not care about you so-called "officers", and you will not get any benefits from the palace because of this false title, after all, even me, the patrol officer, is only a temporary position, but if the court can give some rewards in the future, you may be able to benefit from it as a recorded "officer". ”

"You were the first to follow me, and we had two brushes with death last winter alone. The patrol team is about to be formed, and from now on we must always be prepared to fight the bandits, the bandits, and the bandits, and your heads are already on the tip of the spear like mine. ”

Art paused and continued: "Working with your head should have a harvest worthy of your hard work, and in the future, my strength will be strong, and naturally I will not treat everyone badly." But now that we are few and weak, I can only let you eat and drink enough, and receive your salary on time every month. ”

The Otto listened quietly, knowing that Art was going to pay the people tentatively.

"Now let me first talk about my temporary arrangements for the troop establishment of the patrol team: the patrol team is temporarily organized into three levels: combat group, squad, and team. There are three people in one combat group, two combat teams in one team, and two teams in one team, and I am the team leader. Right now, I'm not appointing team leaders and squad leaders. In addition to me, there are fourteen people in the whole team, Odo, Bass, and Kazak, the three of you each choose three recruits to be divided into three groups for training, Otto is the first group, Bass is the second group, and Kazak is the third group, and the remaining recruit is selected as my escort for the time being, and Ron is responsible for leading the training. Half a month later, the soldiers of the four groups will compete, and I will appoint you according to the results of the training of the four of you soldiers and your performance in peacetime. As for the salary, ten recruits will be paid 10 pfennigs per week, and the four of you will be paid 15 pfennigs per week, and I will adjust the salary according to your position after half a month. ”

"In this half a month's time, I will train three items: individual combat skills training, three-person battle formation training, and contradictory line array training, these are all projects that you have been training in the valley wooden fort in the past winter, especially the contradictory front formation training, this is our main battle formation, you have basically mastered the essentials, now it depends on whether you can teach the skills you have learned to the recruits."

"Otto, in addition to training recruits, you will also be in charge of the logistics of the whole team for the time being, and you will be responsible for arranging the rotation of guards and food supplies."

"Bass, you're in charge of military discipline for the time being. Besides, no one is allowed to enter or leave the camp of the patrol party at will unless I give permission, and especially not to provoke the soldiers who defend the city, for we have occupied the camp of others, who are looking for trouble; But if an outsider dares to break into the camp, they will all take it. ”

"Is there anything else you'd like to say?" Art looked around at the people in the tent.

Ron twisted his ass a few times and was about to speak, but Art interrupted directly, and said: "Ron, I know what you want to say, we only have so many recruits for the time being, and you are slightly inferior to them in terms of personal combat skills and battle formation training, so I will give you a recruit training first, if you can train this recruit well, I can still appoint you as the team leader." ”

After hearing this, Ron had to swallow the bitter water in his stomach.

On the second day, Art took the clerk and his assistants to the station of the patrol team, and one by one they registered the officers and soldiers of the patrol team and made a cross and pressed their handprints, and Art signed his name at the end of the paperwork, Art Wood Wells. Finally, the Border Patrol of the Count of Burgundy was formed, and the clerk stamped the parchment with the coat of arms of the Ram of Viscount Pierre, and the document was to be sent to the office of the Minister of Justice, along with the Viscount Pierre's letter.

For the next period of time, every day in the corner of Tinetz's barracks square was the muffled sound of recruits killing and slashing and Odto beating recruits with sticks, all of which they had inflicted on the recruits when they had been trained by Art.

Ron looked at the Otto people on the side who had already started training their respective groups of three, and the guy in front of him hadn't even learned the basic spear and shield movements, and couldn't help but feel anxious, and shouted at the recruits in front of him: "Jason, remember that the round shield must be raised to your chest, it is to protect your chest and abdomen and not to block your big head, your eyes must be able to see the opponent!" The short spear should be held flat on the upper right edge of the round shield, and it should be raised horizontally!! Pingju~"

"Whew~"

Ron hit Jason on the shoulder with a stick, and Jason was even more flustered by this stick, completely forgetting the essentials of Ron teaching the movement of holding a spear and raising a shield~

So Ron had to yell, and start from scratch to teach the stupid guy who was a year older than him......

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On the first Sunday after the Patrol was officially formed, Art paid everyone and allowed them to rest for half a day, and the rest of the Patrol Barracks went out except for Otto and a sentry who remained behind.

In a large clay pot in a straw hut at the base of the city wall in the free market southeast of Tignets, four men in black robes and capes sat on a crumbling wooden table in a crumbling wooden shack, and the tavern owner brought four large bowls of choppy soup to the wooden table, and poured several large glasses of homemade cider from the round wooden barrels beside him.

A dark-complexioned and stout guy raised the wooden wine glass and poured down the fruit wine in the glass, then directly reached out and grabbed a piece of boiled fat intestine from the wooden bowl in front of him, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it, and then said vaguely to a young man with a sad face next to him: "Jay~Jason, want me to ~say~ You are lucky, little chief Ron is not ruthless in beating people~"

A guy with a slightly red face who was drinking opposite the big black man also chimed in: "Yes Jason, you also saw that Tuba and I have been beaten by Chief Otto in the past few days, you see that Tuba is full of bruises on his arms......" As he spoke, he got up and rolled up Tuba's sleeve, revealing the scars left by the wooden stick on his forearm.

The guy named Jason glanced at the blue-black bruises on Tuba's arm, and touched his shoulder, as if his grievances seemed to be nothing more than Tuba, he frowned and changed the subject and asked, "Where did the other guys go?" ”

The red-faced man smiled and said ill-intentionedly: "They~ went to the slum shack in the northeast of the city to have fun, those big-breasted girls ......"

The red-faced man spoke with his eyebrows fluttering, and Jason listened with a red face.

Drinking in the dilapidated hut tavern were the soldiers of the first recruit and escort group of the patrol team, and the price of goods in Tignats was now very expensive, and a cup of wheat beer in the better taverns in the city cost half a pfennig, and a roast pork and rye bread with a bowl of pea broth cost four pfennigs. The recruits, who were paid only ten pfennigs a week, were reluctant to spend all of them on drinking, so they found this dilapidated straw hut tavern in the free market southeast of the city, and each of them spent less than two and a half pfennigs to buy half a barrel of homemade cider and several large bowls of greasy chowder.

While the recruits were drinking fruit wine in the free market, Zhongart, a hotel (and tavern) called the Free Bison in the southwest of the city, was hosting a banquet for the steward of the Tinies arsenal, accompanied by Bath, Ron and Kazak.

The fat-headed, big-eared manager of the arsenal was already drunk under the onslaught of Buzz and Ron, and he raised his glass and said loudly to Art: "I don't have to say, Lord Art, as long as the weapons and materials allocated to you in the future, I will definitely keep the best for you." ”

Art raised his glass and touched it, leaned sideways into the fat steward's ear and said, "Steward Pete, you say that if I order weapons and armor from the blacksmith and weapon shop in Tignets through the arsenal, it will be cheaper?" ”

The fat butler looked at Art with misty eyes, and replied: "Lord Art, Lord Pierre will personally take care of the order list of the arsenal, this ~ is a little difficult~" After saying that, he shook his wine glass and drank it all.

Art glanced at Kazak, who picked up the small wine barrel on the table and filled the fat steward's glass, flattering: "Who in Tignets doesn't know Pete's ability to steward, as long as you want to do it, there is nothing you can't do." ”

The fat steward was very flattered by Kazak's words, smiled and took a big sip of the wine glass, and said with a smile: "Haha, exaggerated, exaggerated, but there is really nothing in Tinets City that I can't do Pete, you want you to offer a reasonable price......"

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The fat housekeeper, who was drunk that night, did not come home, and Yate paid the hotel owner another six-puff for the room, and told the owner to find a caring girl to "take care" of the fat housekeeper.

The Artsmen also burped back to the camp......