On the ninth day after the Council of the Territories, in the arsenal of the Wooden Fort in the Valley.

"Bensen, you really want to join the patrol team, if you stay in the legion, you may be able to be promoted to the leader of the combat team, there is no battle team leader in the patrol team, and there is nothing around the boulder pile where the patrol team is stationed, you have to think about it." Obote, the new captain of the patrol team, said to Benson, who was planning to join the patrol team.

Benson carried the four short spears and a military tent allocated by the baggage officer Spencer to the new patrol team, turned to Obote and said: "I want to stay in the legion, but tomorrow the legion will start to cut soldiers, I~ I will definitely not be able to kill those guys, anyway, I will be eliminated, I might as well take the initiative to ask to join the patrol team, so that I can save some face."

Obote grabbed Benson, who turned around and went out, stared into his eyes and said, "Benson, do you still want to be a deserter?" I'm telling you, if you don't want to be a soldier, you can ask to be a burgher. Don't go with me to the boulder pile and run away, I can't afford to lose this person. ”

Benson turned to Obote and said, "Obote, don't talk nonsense, I never thought of being a deserter. ”

Obote looked at Benson with a look of disdain.

Benson glanced back at Obote with some embarrassment, and said, "Okay, I used to think about escaping, but how long ago was that, since I was injured in Sapu, I really didn't think about being a deserter, and now that there is war in the north and south, where can I escape?" I swear to the Holy Lord that I really want to go with you to the Frontier Patrol. ”

Obote was still staring straight at Benson.

Benson's hair stood on top as he stared, "Well, I'll admit it, I just can't stand the Legion's daily training and torture, and I want to be more relaxed and comfortable with you. Besides, I was attacked by bandits in Sapp last year and suffered an arrow wound in the shoulder, until now I can't use too much force in my right arm, and when I was in Tarburg, I was almost hacked to death by the Swabian enemy army on the wall, if you hadn't saved me, I would have become a pile of bones outside Tarburg by now, I think I might be able to live a little longer with you......"

Obote let go of the eyes nailed to Benson's face, and said: "I can tell you in advance, don't think that if you go to the patrol team with me, you will go to heaven, where you have to face the homeless merchants and bandits every day, don't think that you are at ease, if you just want to live longer, it is still too late to regret quitting the army and become a farmer who cultivates the land, if you decide to enter the patrol team with me, you will definitely avoid war, if you still want to escape, don't blame me for not being merciful."

"I don't want to be a farmer, how much money can I earn a month by plowing the fields? Don't worry, I will obey you and never embarrass you! Benson patted his chest and agreed.

"Okay, let's go, we'll have to go to the barn to get food in a while." As he spoke, Obote picked up his broadsword and cotton armor belt on the ground and led his first soldier out of the arsenal......

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In a small wooden shed next to the Wooden Fort grocery store, on a broken table in Emma's tavern, Andrew the leader of the former Peasant Squad who has been appointed as the leader of the second squad of the first squadron of the Yat Legion, is drinking Emma's homemade wild fruit wine with several brothers from the former Peasant (New) Squad .

A guy with thick eyebrows and a big beard poured a big sip of sour fruit wine, grinned and said: "Brother Andrew, you are better now, you are directly appointed as the leader of the combat team, but we guys are not so lucky, we are all new recruits who have just joined the army, we have neither the records of those veterans, nor their combat skills, it is estimated that we will have to be eliminated tomorrow."

Andrew grabbed a piece of rye bread from the wooden plate with his hand, put it in the soup in the clay pot on the side, dipped it, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it a few times, raised his head and said to a few people at the table: "If you want me to say that you are also underestimating yourself, although you are not as many people as those veterans killed, but you are also all men who have experienced fighting, and you all have bravery, what are you afraid of?" Are you really worse than the veterans? Besides, even if you are not selected as a soldier, there are still patrol teams and outposts to go to~ Even if you are not selected by the patrol team and outposts, you can still enter the recruit team, train hard for three months, and have the opportunity to be selected into the legion in the future. Even if the worst outcome is to be handed over to the valley wooden castle for resettlement, you can still be allocated land to become farmers, what's the bad thing? ”

Andrew looked at the thick eyebrows and beard beside him again, and said, "Especially you, you used to be just a shepherd herding cattle for the squire in the village, and now that the adults have taken over your family, what's wrong with you separating the land and being a farmer?" The tax here is so low, if you can get five or six acres of land, it will be enough for you to support your wife and son. ”

The thick-eyed bearded man took a sip of wheat paste from the wooden bowl, opened his mouth full of wheat paste and said, "If there is really no way, I am also willing to be a farmer." But if I become a soldier, I will be paid seventy pfennigh a month, and the legion will be able to take care of my food and lodging, and all my pay will be left to my wife and children. It's really rare to see such a good thing......"

"Then you have to be able to save your life to receive this salary, a guy like you who has a wife and a son and daughter had better not enter the legion, you may go out to fight at any time with the legion, that head is not your own ......"

Seeing that a few people were a little depressed, Andrew took a sip of fruit wine and sighed: "Alas, since you have chosen to beg for food with your head up, don't care about these, anyway, everyone will work hard tomorrow, if you can fight side by side with your brothers, it will be excellent." ”

"Don't talk about this, Aunt Emma, you can bring some more fruit wine and bacon, count it as mine, and pay it later~"

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The next day, on the army training ground outside the wooden fort, except for a few soldiers who took the initiative to enter the outpost and the patrol team, they were taken away by the outpost and patrol team in advance, and the remaining fifty or sixty members of the army were all concentrated on the training ground.

At this time, the adjutant of the legion, Odo, was lecturing dozens of soldiers in the field, and he said loudly with a slightly hoarse tone: "The order of the legion to eliminate the soldiers has been notified to you nine days ago, according to the order of the adults, from today onwards, the army will begin to select the most elite soldiers to enter the legion, the better ones can enter the outpost and patrol team, and those who are not selected will be temporarily accepted into the recruit team for a three-month training, and then select the elite of the recruit team again to form the third squadron." ”

"Today's selection is divided into three parts, first of all, select the light cavalry who can fight on horseback, if any of you feel that you can barely fight on horseback, you will stand behind Chief Ron in a while, and they will select the soldiers who are suitable for cavalry, and once they are selected, they will be treated as the leader of the battle group."

"The second is to choose a crossbowman who can draw a bow and shoot arrows, if someone thinks that their archery skills are good, they can stand aside, Jason will test your archery skills, and those who pass the test can directly stay in the combat soldiers."

"The last is to select soldiers, and the test of selecting soldiers is divided into two parts, one is personal combat skills, including arm strength, endurance, swordsmanship, short spears, and shields; The second is the battle array, including the three-person battle array and the line shield array. Individual combat skills are mainly fought between soldiers, and the battle formation is composed by yourself, and every six people are in a team, fighting each other. ”

"The three squadron leaders and I will select the best soldiers to join the legion and become soldiers. I was not selected to join the recruit team. ”

"Okay, you guys start discussing now, start the selection after lunch, each team will be disorganized and free to participate in the selection~"

Dozens of soldiers scattered, each ready to move their muscles, or looking for familiar brothers to form a team......

On the other side of the training ground, the long and short wooden sticks used for training were ping-pong, and Art was fighting with the new cavalry Lusignan with a long stick and wooden shield.

Through the observation some time ago, Art has confirmed that the guy named Lusignan in front of him has extraordinary combat skills, after all, he is the son of a knight, and he has also experienced battle formations, and Odo, a group of civilian soldiers who rely purely on brute force and are not afraid of death, Lusignan's combat skills are stronger, and every move is appropriate for attack and defense.

Art rubbed his shoulder, which was knocked in pain, lowered the wooden stick in his hand and reached out to pull up Lusignan, who was lying on the ground and rolling from side to side with his stomach covered, and said: "Man, I know that you are dissatisfied with being sent to the recruit team to participate in training by me, but you don't need to be so ruthless, remember, you have to be able to distinguish between the battlefield and the training ground, if I hadn't stabbed you in the stomach just now, maybe I would have lost my arm in the next few days."

Lusignon lay on the ground for a long time before recovering and said, "My lord, why didn't you just dodge?" If I hadn't had a wooden stick in my hand, I'm afraid your arm would have been gone. ”

Art pulled Lusignan up, patted the dust on his body, and said: "If it is really a battlefield, I must have a layer of armor on my shoulder, your sword is not so easy to cut off my arm, but yourself, whether you have armor in your abdomen or not, the wooden stick just now can be replaced by a long sword can pierce your stomach." Your move may not kill the enemy, but the enemy's sword will never let you live! ”

Lusignnan looked at the deep marks on his abdomen, realized the mystery of Arte's swordsmanship of attacking and defending, handed the short stick in his hand to Art, bowed his head and said, "My lord, I'm ashamed. ”

Art fended off the wooden stick handed over by Lusignan, and said, "Okay, this is an army, not a martial arts competition, and I am not here to duel with you." I can tell you that the reason why I sent you to the recruit team for ten days of training is not because I think you are not skilled enough, but because I want you to know that from the moment you enter our army, everything is starting anew, and no matter how many enemies you have killed and how many opponents you have defeated in the past, you are now officers and soldiers under my Yat. What I need is not a lone ranger, but an elite soldier who obeys the legion. If it weren't for your pretty good performance in the recruit team these days, I would have kicked you out of the valley. ”

"Lusignan, from now on, I appoint you the vice-captain of the legion's sentry cavalry, the treatment of the squad leader, with a monthly salary of one hundred pfennigs. You go to Ron in a moment, he's younger than you, but he's your commander, if you don't accept it, you can come to me. ”

With that, Art walked towards Klaus, who was fighting with Angus on the other side......

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Two days later, all 42 elite soldiers (including officers) of the three squadrons (one missing) of the Yate Legion had been selected, the main force of the legion was veterans who had participated in the battle, and a small number of outstanding recruits were selected into the legion, and the soldiers who were not selected into the legion were again selected to serve as escorts in outposts, patrol teams and caravans, or remained in the recruit team for three months of training and then selected and settled.

In the following time, the legion was about to start a new round of training, the original squad and combat group were basically disrupted in this reorganization, and the squadrons and squads had to retrain and run in the battle formation cooperation between the soldiers, and Odogus Angus and several squadron leaders began to discuss the training of legionnaires.

Art, who had just finished sorting out the Valley Knights and Army, was about to start a new round of busyness when he received a private message from Fort Sap......