When they arrived at the boulder pile, it was already dark, and the sentries stationed in the boulder pile found several black shadows approaching them, because they had not received the news in advance that the Yat would come to inspect the station, several people in the patrol team were nervous in their hearts, and if there was really a group of horseback bandits to attack with the combat strength of several of them, their fate could be imagined.

When Obote, the new captain of the patrol team, learned of the arrival of the unknown cavalry of the brigade, he hurried out of the camp, took out the fast horses allocated to the patrol team, ordered a soldier who could ride a horse to get on his horse and be ready to rush to the valley to report the news, and then put on his armor and took his weapon and stood on the highest and largest stone in the boulder pile to meet the enemy.

Obote pulled out the broadsword at his waist and said to Benson, who was close to him: "Benson, you have come to the wrong place, you think it is safe here, but the first enemy we encountered was a team of cavalry, if you can survive this time, you should return to the legion~"

Benson stopped trembling slightly, and replied forcefully: "Okay, it's all here, why are you talking about this, it's all God's arrangement, I should die at the time of Sapp......"

"Everyone, prepare to meet the enemy! The Lords and the Legion will avenge us! ”

Benson and another patrol soldier clenched the short spear and wooden shield in their hands, their eyes fixed on the shadow of the approaching cavalry......

"Obote, I'm Ron! The lord is here to patrol the patrol team! ”

More than a hundred paces away, Ron, who was in the lead, yelled a few words into the boulder.

"Not an enemy! It's an adult coming!! We don't have to die!! Benson said, his tone full of excitement for the rest of his life......

The appearance of the boulder pile has changed a little, the boulder pile is not large, two military tents are built in the open space next to the central boulder, and a deep barrel copper pot hangs on a bonfire. A large number of small stones from the original boulder pile were cleared out by Obote and piled up around the camp to form a stone wall about two feet high. Inside the stone walls are stacks of large stacks of wood.

"My lord, we brought this wood from the valley, and there are no woods nearby, so we have to rely on picking up dead branches and fallen leaves from the upper reaches of the stream a mile to the east to make a fire. When the next caravan returns to the valley, it will help us transport another batch of timber, and then we will build a fence and build a small guard tower at the station~ My lord, in the future, the valley will not only have to deliver food and materials for us regularly, but even firewood must be supplied by the valley~"

Art came to the campfire and picked up a wooden spoon to scoop a spoonful of food in the copper pot and tasted it, and said: "It tastes good, you are really hard to garrison in this wasteland, I have already told Cooper, your supplies are given priority, and the caravan will also leave you some supplies when they go back and forth to the valley and pass through here, I also thought about it during this time, it is indeed too difficult for only the four of you to garrison such a large piece of land, so I will send you a few more soldiers after the next batch of recruit training is over." ”

"Thank you, ...... you."

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Early the next morning, Art left the boulder pile and returned to the valley.

After returning to the Valley Knights' Domain, Art is busy with two things every day - training his army and building his territory.

At present, the training of the army is mainly carried out by Otto and Angus with three squadron leaders, but Yate is also responsible for training several squadron leaders such as Otto and Ron Bass.

The individual combat skills training mainly follows the soldiers' personal training items during the patrol team, including soldiers' physical training, sword, spear, sword, axe, shield and hammer training, and selective riding and archery training. On the training day, soldiers are required to run two miles in the morning, noon and evening, lift weights 300 times, and wrestle once a day, and use these training contents to enhance the soldiers' personal physique. The training of swords, spears and axes is mainly under the guidance of several squadron leaders and several officers with outstanding skills such as Odo, Angus, Lusignan, and Klaus. Riding and archery training is not something that every soldier can learn, only those who have a certain amount of talent can be selected for riding and archery training, although these selected soldiers will also have priority in future promotions.

The three-person battle formation training will not play a big role in the grand battle, but it has a certain advantage in dealing with bandits and small-scale scattered operations, so although the three-person battle formation is no longer the main item of army training, Yate retains it as the content of squad training. At the same time, the training of the shield array has become the main content of the army's training, and in the confrontation between the two armies, they can skillfully master the shield in their hands, and the infantry that forms a solid shield array can effectively resist the projectile of enemy arrows and the charge of soldiers; After actual combat exercises and military discussions, the army's combat array cooperation training has improved the defect of the original shield array combat power level, and the new shield array has added formation-breaking heavy infantry, they are not only wearing heavier armor (iron armor, cotton armor or leather armor) than ordinary soldiers, but also have more armor-breaking and breaking ability than ordinary weapons such as page hammers, heavy axes, and chain hammers in their hands in addition to swords and spears. They will fight their best to break through the enemy's formation as dead soldiers, and lead the ordinary soldiers around them to rush into battle.

Tactical training is a recently established training content, which mainly includes three aspects:

The study of military law, military knowledge, and treatment of the wounded. The study of military law is to tell soldiers what can be done in the army, what things can not be done, and established more than ten things that will be severely punished for evading the battle, disobeying military orders, escaping from the battle, hiding war captures, causing trouble in the army, and oppressing the good, and promulgating the things that will be rewarded by the army for killing enemy soldiers, breaking through enemy formations, capturing enemy soldiers, handing in war captures, and outstanding training. Literate officers preach to soldiers every day, so that every soldier can know military law and fear military discipline;

The military knowledge of ordinary soldiers is very simple, mainly taught by Otto, Angus, Lusignan and Claus, so that soldiers can master the meaning of some military orders, master the sound of military horns, master some simple tactics such as surprise attacks, night raids, defense, marching, flank cover, frontal attacks, etc., and of course also learn some of the simplest general texts that are closely related to marching and fighting.

The study of military knowledge of officers above the squad leader is much more in-depth, and the military knowledge of officers is taught by Art and Angus themselves, they must not only learn how to train soldiers and lead troops to charge into battle, but also must master how to march, camp, establish defensive lines, arrange sentry posts, analyze military conditions, ensure army supply, and many other matters, these things are difficult for officers to accept for a while, they do not feel that commanding thirty soldiers to fight still need to learn so many complicated things, but Art repeatedly insisted, The crowd had no choice but to sit around Art and listen to it;

The study of wounded treatment is the most active learning of soldiers and officers, because their identity determines that each of them may be injured in the next battle, how to save themselves or treat their companions, reducing casualties is the most concerned by everyone, after all, everyone is very sorry for their lives, the valley doctor Thomas taught the officers and soldiers how to identify calendula grass, thistle, nettle, wormwood and other herbs that can treat the wounded and poisonous and harmful grasses such as poppy, belladonna, and amanita mushroom, and taught soldiers and officers how to treat wounds with fresh honey, How to dress the wound with linen so that the wounded person can hold out until the medics or healers arrive for treatment. Ordinary soldiers only need to learn the most basic medical skills, while the medics of each squadron and the heals of the baggage squad and all the soldiers must follow Thomas's physicians to master the art of treating the wounded.

It is also worth mentioning the parish school, where most of the orphans recruited by the thirteen caravans were trained, and later Lynn and Lawrence also sent their sons to the school for training, which was under the jurisdiction of the civil magistrate, but it was mainly a reserve force of the army.

As with the chapel of the wooden castle, the construction of the chapel and the school did not stop while Cooper was busy building the lord's mansion, and Cooper sent almost all the idle farmers and prisoners of war to work in the wooden fort, and by the time the lord's mansion had just completed the foundation, a fine chapel and spacious school hall had been almost completed, and the chapel had three parts—the sanctuary hall for ceremonies such as mass and sermon and prayer, the inner sanctum and confessional room for the believers to confess, and the bedroom and office for the priest to live in. Since there was only one clergyman in the entire church, Hamish, the church was very small, except for the slightly larger sanctuary and the more elaborate decorations.

Compared with the church, the school is much more spacious, the main body of the school is three parts, in front is the hall of learning, there are more than a dozen long tables and wooden benches in the hall and a wooden board that can be hung in front of the writing, each table has a few birch bark and a few charcoal rods, behind the school is a large bedroom for the apprentices of the school to sleep, there are more than 20 thick hay floor bunks and animal skin quilts and a few tables and chairs for eating, in order to keep the bedroom warm, a heating fireplace was also built at the end, Next to the bedroom is a slightly smaller room for the school clerks.

On the day of the school's official establishment, Art brought the commander of the army and the civil affairs stewards to the school to celebrate more than a dozen school apprentices, and Art told these orphaned apprentices that from now on this valley knight leader was their new home, and encouraged the apprentices to study hard and become the pillars of the army and civil affairs as soon as possible......

In addition to being busy with military training, Art would take time to visit the construction site of the lord's mansion every day.

Soon after, Felix, the only son of Baron Sapp Galvin, rode on a war horse with two selected personal retinues and a dozen craftsmen recruited from all over the world to the Knights of the Valley......