The weather is getting warmer, and the valley is full of life by the stream in front of the wooden fort in the valley.

With the exception of Scott's family, who had a hut in the fort, all the farmers had moved to the valley, and the farmers had built four or five large and small huts on the gentle slope of the valley, surrounded by a simple fence with thorns and miscellaneous wood branches to prevent wild beasts from attacking.

The Wooden Fort has become the exclusive home of the Patrol Force, which is now home to soldiers returning from Andermatt and newly recruited laborers and miners from Lucesen. The soldiers who had rushed back in advance had already begun training after a few days of recuperation, led by Otto and Bass. The fifteen prisoners of war were held by Odo in a small makeshift hut made of dead wood and branches next to the wooden fort, and were guarded by the soldiers of the patrol team in turn.

A month earlier, three soldiers had been killed in the Reconquest of Alsburg, and one soldier had suffered a facial wound that could not be treated due to a festering wound, and the wound had spread to his left eye, and although he survived stubbornly, he was completely blind in his left eye.

At present, there are sixteen men left in the patrol team who can continue to fight, four officers and twelve soldiers.

On the third day of the return of the Lusesen team to the valley of the wooden fort, the sun had just risen, and Ron, who was feeding and brushing the hooves of several horses in the wooden stables, heard Art's call, and he hurriedly shook all the black beans and wheat bran in the cloth bag into the long trough, and ran loudly to Art's hut.

"Ron, the old butler and your father sent the new farmer to the valley yesterday, and they won't be back today, but I'm going to go out tomorrow to recruit homeless people and soldiers for Baron Antayas, so I'm going to arrange something today, and you can go to the valley in a moment to call the old housekeeper and the three of them back to the wooden castle to discuss things. By the way, call Simon back and say I have other arrangements. ”

Ron was ordered to come out of Art's hut, took off a pair of saddles from the stable, passed through the courtyard, passed through the wooden door, ran to the quarters in the wooden castle, and said to his mother, who was making breakfast for Art alone, "Mother, the master has gotten up, and you will bring the food in a moment." "Let's get ready to leave.

Ron's mother walked around the stove and grabbed him, and said, "Ron, I've already cooked my lord's meal, you should hurry home and eat, Camille is waiting for you, I left you a piece of delicious honey bread." ”

When Ron returned from Luces, he brought some spices, salt, and a few fermented honey-smear flatbreads, which Emma was reluctant to eat.

"Mother, I brought you those breads to eat, don't keep them for me, I have already eaten them. The lord ordered me to hurry to the valley and call the old butler and father to go back to the wooden castle to discuss matters, and I had to set off at once. Ron grabbed his saddle and walked towards the newly built barn.

Emma turned around and picked up a piece of rye bread from the stove, broke off a piece of it, walked to the barn and stuffed it into Ron's arms, "Do what the master tells you to do, take the bread and eat it on the way." ”

Ron took the bread and put it in his arms, took out a green mule, put it on its saddle, stepped on the mule's back, and ran out of the wooden castle gate.

Outside the wooden fort, in a large clearing less than half a mile south along the creek, Odo was conducting the most basic training for the laborers and miners who had just been recruited from Lucesen, and the newly recruited recruits were exposed to such training for the first time, they had not yet adapted to the orders of formation and advance, and they were slow to respond to Odo's orders, and the formation was always crooked, and Odo was not in a hurry, compared to those farmers, these miners and laborer brothers had already carried out the orders.

Otto stopped the recruits in front of him, turned to Kazak, who was training veterans on the other side of the clearing, and yelled, "Kazak, bring your team over and give them a demonstration." ”

Kazak listened to the order and drank the soldiers who were practicing with a long wooden stick against the rushing soldiers. Several of the soldiers stopped fighting and followed Kazak to the recruits.

"Contradiction array, prepare!" Kazak stood in a neat row with a few soldiers.

"Defensive array!"

"Roar!" With Kazak's order, several soldiers shouted, raised their shields to their chests, raised their long sticks, looked straight ahead, bent their left leg, kicked back half a step with their right leg, and leaned forward slightly.

The twelve recruits had just arrived in the valley and had never seen the patrol soldiers trained, and the soldiers in front of them were different from the ordinary sergeants and guards, they were both shocked and a little surprised, they had seen the lords train soldiers, but they had never seen an army that trained soldiers every day, and in their minds, soldiers who could train two or three days a week were elite.

The command to "advance" continued to sound.

"Roar! Roar! Roar! The soldier kept his shield and raised his stick, and took three steps towards the recruit with three shouts.

One of the recruits was a little startled by the sudden shouting and took a few steps back.

"Coward! If you dare to take a step back, I'll break your legs. Odo angrily kicked the retreating miner to the ground......

On the other side of the open space, Bass's team also stopped training and sat on the ground to watch the demonstration training over there.

Tuba the leader of the second combat team of the first squad stared at the side for a while, and then turned his hand and slapped the head of a soldier next to him: "TM blame you stupid, if it weren't for the short man and one less of our team members, I wouldn't have let you join my combat team if I was killed." ”

After returning from Alsburg, Jason, who had recovered from his injury, was temporarily placed in Tuba's combat group to participate in training, but thanks to the addition of this stupid soldier, the second combat group, which had always been the best, suddenly became a laggard.

Jason touched his head and said with a smile: "Brother Tuba, I don't know what's going on, I don't know how to lift my feet and take steps as soon as I enter the battle formation." ”

Colin on the side also scolded indignantly: "Jason, I'll shoot you to death." Tell me, how many times have we been scolded by Commander Otto in the past few days since you joined the first squad? Archery and horseback riding are not bad, but why can't you practice battle formations? Now that Chief Ron is back, you might as well go back to Chief Ron. ”

"I still want to go back~ I said that I would be trained as an archer, but I still came back with you~" Jason muttered, turning his head to look at Otto who was carrying a shield and raising a stick to demonstrate to the recruits.

......……

On the side of the wooden castle, Art is instructing Emma to bring food to the banquet in the evening.

"In a moment you will prepare the soldiers' breakfast and go and prepare dinner, and if you are too busy to do so, call the old woman of Bard the carpenter to help. Also, although the newcomers will not be attending the dinner tonight, they will also have to add a bacon bisque to their dinner. ”

"Okay sir, I'll go and prepare." With that, Emma closed the door and left.

Art drank the broth in the wooden bowl on the table in a few sips, got up and took off the leather knight's sword sleeve hanging on the wall, opened the wooden door and walked out of the courtyard to the gate of the wooden fort.

Art walked to a twenty-foot-square room next to the big house of the Wooden Fort, which had become a carpentry workshop in the fort, where the old carpenter Bard kept making shields and long clubs and spears for Art. Since Art contracted the Bard family's room and board and paid them on time every week, the old carpenter became more and more motivated, and in addition to being responsible for making and repairing the shield spear shafts for Art, he also undertook some house construction and wooden utensils making and repairing them.

Seeing Master Art appear at the door, Bard hurried up to meet him, "Good morning, sir." ”

"Good morning, Bud."

Art picked up a freshly made spear shaft from the carpentry table and said to Bard, "The old butler told me what you have done for the wooden castle during this time, and you have worked hard for you. ”

Bard replied, "It was the master who brought our family back here from outside for us to eat, shelter and pay me a salary, and God can't feed the lazy, so these are all things I should do." ”

Bard pointed to a large pile of semi-finished wood in the corner of the wooden house to make wooden shields, "Master, now that you have more and more soldiers, I can't be busy alone, it would be good if you could send me a helper, even if it is an apprentice, at least you can help me do some rough work, I am old, and I need someone to help me do the chopping work~"

Art agreed to the old carpenter's request, promising to arrange a helper for him as soon as possible.

Art briefly walked around the wooden fort, inspecting the barn, the barn, and the surrounding fence, and then walked out of the gate to the training ground outside the fort.

"All assembled!" Seeing that Art had come to the training ground, Otto loudly ordered the soldiers to stop training and assemble in two columns, with veterans in front and recruits behind.

Yate came to the side of Odo, who was standing at the head of the team, and said: "Odo, I don't care about the training of recruits first, you will take the veterans to train the contradiction line formation in a while, we have seen the power of the close contradiction line formation in Alsburg, but this is far from enough, the soldiers still lack cooperation, and the shield array is not as strong as we imagined when the enemy concentrates on breaking the formation." In addition, you should also pay attention to the training of individual combat skills, you few remember, don't worry about injury during training, now blood and sweat are to leave a life in battle. ”

Otto nodded in agreement.

Art suddenly remembered something again, and said: "By the way, last time in the Battle of Alsburg, I saw that the chain hammer (iron chain flail) used by Buzz was very fierce, and the chain hammer is not as rare as the armed sword, but the power is no less than the broadsword knight sword, especially when dealing with the enemy's shield armor, it can exert more powerful combat power, and now we have also captured a lot of chain hammers, you add the chain hammer training to the soldier's personal combat skills training, I think Buzz uses the chain hammer very well, let him be the chain hammer training officer~"

"It's my lord! I'll arrange it. ”

"Alright, Otto will take the recruits over there for training."

"The Rest Obey the Order"

"Contradiction array, array!"

"Roar!"

"Defense!"

"Roar"

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The roars of Yat and Baskazak rang out in the training ground, and the recruits who were training alone on the sidelines couldn't help but look at the veterans howling among the sticks, and their steps couldn't help but become more messy.

After more than two hours of training, until everyone's clothes were soaked with sweat, Art ordered the soldiers to stop training and go back to Wooden Fort for breakfast.

On the way back to the wooden fort, Art told the Odoji who followed him about the precautions for training soldiers, "The soldiers' personal combat skills training should summarize the most practical ones from the two battles we have experienced, our soldiers are not knights who have been trained in swordsmanship since childhood, they are more concerned about how to kill the enemy quickly while protecting themselves." The most important thing is to be proficient in the basic actions of blocking, slashing, and stabbing, and the other is that you can use those moves when you fight with guild hooligans, which is ugly, but the enemy will not spare your life in battle because of your good-looking moves. In addition, for soldiers who are really not suitable for training swordsmanship, focus on training heavy weapons such as broadaxes and heavy hammers. The last time I dealt with the bandit leader in Alsburg, if I could have a few more soldiers armed with heavy hammers, one person would have hammered down, and no matter how thick the chain mail was, it would not have been able to save my life. ”

"The soldiers' arm strength and physical strength should continue to be strengthened, and they should lift stones and heavy logs three hundred times every morning, noon and evening, and run long distances once every three days, and those who run at the front eat meat, and those who fall behind eat."

"As for horsemanship, commanders above the squad leader must learn it, and those who have this talent among the soldiers must also learn it, and the others only need to be able to barely sit on the back of a horse."

"The other thing is military discipline." Art stopped and turned his head to stare at Odo, "There are a lot of soldiers fighting and making trouble during this time, right?" Also, I heard that a soldier entered the house last night and stole bread? ”

"My lord, it's like this~"

Odo was about to explain, but Art interrupted him, "You don't have to explain to me, you are responsible for enforcing military discipline, you find out this person, I will not punish him severely this time, just starve him for a day." But you have to think about how to discipline the soldiers as soon as possible, we are now more and more people, and if there is no discipline discipline we will be a mess. ”

Otto nodded ashamedly in agreement......