It's August, and the weather is unusually hot.

The wasteland outside the north pass of the valley has been turned into a large training ground.

More than 30 officers were divided into six or seven groups and worked for more than half a month to recruit a total of 312 soldiers, of whom most of the new recruits were laborers, miners, and bankrupt peasant households, hunters, woodcutters, unemployed citizens, caravan guards, and young and strong vagrants, and there were also seven or eight free-form mercenaries who had been strictly selected.

More than 300 newly recruited soldiers plus nearly 100 recruited by the previous caravan, a total of more than 400 people were divided into five recruit flag teams, all of which were undergoing basic training for recruits at Beiguan Military Fort.

The basic training of recruits is carried out by recruit instructors under the garrison corps, the term "recruit instructors" has been written into the "Legion Decree", they are non-combatants between officers and soldiers, and the "recruit instructors" under the command of Yat are mainly composed of three categories of personnel, one is those elite wounded soldiers who cannot continue to fight but do not need to be handed over to the civilian administration, the second is the group of trainers that Art recruited from the north of the Count of Burgundy, and the third is that the commander of the army squad leader and above can be appointed to serve as recruit instructors when needed.

At present, there are 17 recruit instructors under the command of the garrison corps, which are roughly divided into three categories: military formation instructors, physical fitness instructors, and weapons instructors {many instructors wear multiple positions}.

According to the requirements of the "Legion Decree", under normal circumstances, all newly recruited soldiers need to undergo no less than one month of basic training for recruits, and only after passing the training and assessment can recruits be promoted to soldiers and enjoy the treatment of soldiers.

The content of recruit training is relatively simple, matching the type of instructor, and there are only three items: military formation training, physical training, and weapon mastery.

Military formation training is the first hurdle in the training of recruits, every day there are wounded veterans transferred to the military formation instructors carrying short sticks to "teach" the recruits how to form formations, form formations and divide formations, rush and retreat, those former labor miners and homeless farmers have seen this kind of special military formation training, the first three or five days of recruits even the most basic line formation can not stand neatly, the military formation instructors will not say anything more to these stupid guys, the slightest mistake means a stick, a few days later almost all the recruits are injured.

Physical training is the second hurdle for recruits. Different from the simple exertion of being a labor miner, the so-called physical training is simply a torture of recruits.

Every morning, as soon as the sky was slightly light, a physical instructor led a short stick to "invite" the recruits out of the straw hut (the military tent was not yet in place}, and first ran back and forth in the wasteland for two "two miles" until the sun rose into the sky; After breakfast, after half a morning of military training, it was immediately followed by physical training, three or five people carried hundreds of pounds of heavy wood to squat and jump, or picked up fifty or sixty pounds of stones and kept lifting and putting down, this kind of training continued until noon, when the scorching sun was at the head, and then they could return to the Beiguan Military Fort with a sweat and rest for a while; In the afternoon, as soon as the sun tilted, some began to repeat the morning's training content; Finally staying up until the evening and being able to rest? No way! Repeat the "two-mile" run again before sunset; Finally got up until dark and it's time to sleep? Don't worry, there is also the "Legion Decree" that recruits must learn, and by the time the instructors sent by the Military Academy explained the "Legion Decree" to the recruits, many of them were already sitting on the ground and snoring......

Compared to the first two items of recruit training, weapon mastery training is simply a rare rest pleasure for recruits. The basic training of recruits does not require much mastery of weapons, and its purpose is mainly to make the recruits familiar with the weapons they will use, so as to facilitate the training of soldiers after being promoted. There are three main types of weapons that recruits need to have a preliminary understanding of: long {short} spears, broadswords, and shields. In the daily basic training of recruits, weapon mastery training is only conducted for one hour before lunch and dinner each day.

Bearing such an inhumane heavy training, Art certainly wouldn't treat the recruits badly in other ways. According to the regulations, the monthly salary of new recruits before they were promoted to war was only 20 pfennig (equivalent to the previous miscellaneous salary}, but the food provided to the recruits was very rich.

Three meals a day, breakfast, noon and dinner are already a treat that those civilian low-level families have never had {most people eat two meals a day}, and each meal is served with rye bread with wheat cereal with table salt is an unimaginable luxury in the past, and what surprises the recruits is that every day at noon, there is a bowl of broth with meat and a serving of fruits and vegetables. Every three days, recruits can also see a piece of bone-covered meat or a fat, shiny stew on their plate......

However, even with such favorable conditions, a small number of recruits could not withstand this kind of purgatory-like basic training, or cheated and cheated, or directly asked to quit, and some even ran away in the middle of the night.

For recruits who refuse to change their ways or openly defect, the "Legion Decree" has been written very clearly, and the light ones are flogged and imprisoned, the heavy ones are punished as slaves, and the most heinous crimes have a direct beheading for public display.

After nine fights, three lockdowns, and one killing, the remaining recruits were much more honest, because they had understood that what was waiting for them in hard training was a good daily supply of food and a high salary after being promoted......

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While the recruits are undergoing basic training, the soldiers and officers are also undergoing separate training.

The army's original dozens of soldiers were trained by the two army adjutants of Odogan Angus and Kazak, Tuba and others, and several "masters" who were proficient in swordsmanship and contradictions among the recruit instructors would also lead the training of soldiers from time to time.

According to Yate's arrangement, these veterans who have experienced the war will become the low-level commanders and backbone of the new army.

Compared with the combat skills training of recruits and ordinary soldiers, the training of officers pays more attention to cultivating an intelligent brain

In the stone house of the Beiguan Military Fort Military Academy, the army's supreme commander Yate is personally teaching the officers.

Holding a piece of parchment in his hand, he said to the officers in the room: "Ladies and gentlemen, the day before yesterday, I explained to you how to improve the combat effectiveness of the army in three aspects: combat skills training, morale improvement, and battlefield strategy. I have just analyzed the important role of an army's command ability, so I will tell you in detail how to command an army as if it were your right and left hands. ”

Arte paused to attract everyone's attention, and then continued: "The command of the army is actually the transmission, refinement, and execution of the commander's orders. For example, in the final battle for the recapture of Wallonburg, I was only in the rear with the guards, how was my order to start the offensive carried out? ”

"First, I have to convey the order to the adjutant {or other commander} through the herald; Second, after receiving my order, the adjutant thought about how to distribute the battering rams, siege towers, siege ladders, and the troop disposition and attack direction of the gōng nǔ squad, and then conveyed them to the next squadron leader through the horn or password. After receiving the adjutant's order, the squadron leader had to carry out the siege order, and the squadrons in charge of the siege had to take their soldiers into the battering rams, siege towers, or carry wooden ladders to rush under the wall, while the gōng nǔ squad in charge of covering had to find the best angle to shoot. As the lowest level of soldiers, they must receive the most direct and clear orders before they can exert their combat effectiveness. ”

"What kind of things are needed for the final execution of such a commander's order? The first is the person who executes it, mainly the officers present, and the second is the way through which the military order is transmitted......"

Art was dancing at the top, and the officers were listening with relish below.

As the training of recruits proceeds day by day, the first batch of more than three months of officer training at the Military Academy is coming to an end.

In the past few months, these trainees have completely separated themselves from the army and have devoted themselves to all kinds of training, from learning the common language {there is a certain basis for learning}, simple arithmetic and medical skills, to selecting the battlefield and arranging troops, from how to train soldiers and improve their combat effectiveness to strict military discipline, rewards and punishments, from allocating weapons and armor, setting up camp on the battlefield to collecting food and salaries on the battlefield and ensuring the supply of the army, and from the single combat skills of the infantry to the exploration of coordinated operations of multiple arms of the infantry and the bow......

In just two or three months, the officers have been instilled with a large amount of knowledge about army command and operations like cramming, and it is impossible for these things to be digested and absorbed by a few military classes, so they can only be poured into their stomachs first, and the officers will slowly reminisce and chew in the future when they manage the soldiers and march to war......

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In mid-September, in the middle of summer, the air was still hot.

In the shallow pit of the stream in front of the wooden fort, Yat and Odo Angus soaked in the clear stream with only pants in their clothes, enjoying the most rare coolness in the hot summer.

Art submerged himself in the water, rested his head on a flat stone on the bank of the stream, and looked up at the sky and looked at the blush; Odo Angus on both sides also enjoyed this leisure with their eyes closed.

"My lord, it would be nice to have another big beer." Angus said with a look of enjoyment in his eyes.

Art smiled, "Don't worry, Ron has already gone to fetch beer, I asked Ron to bring a large barrel of beer to the dense forest upstream of the stream this morning to chill, this should be the coldest time." ”

Sure enough, it wasn't long before Ron walked up to the stream with a guard holding a beer cask and a few wooden cone cups, opening the casks and filling each glass with white foaming beer.

Angus took the wine glass that Ron handed over, looked at the pale yellow bubbling beer inside, and asked, "My lord, this is the beer brewed in our Valley Brewery?" ”

As he spoke, he raised his wine glass and took a big sip, and a cold breath poured into his belly down his throat, and his whole body was soaked with ice in an instant......

Belch~~~

"My lord, this, this is so comfortable to drink!" Otto hiccuped and couldn't help but exclaim.

Art also took a big sip from his wine glass, "It's really good!" The brewer at the brewery was hired from Lucesen at a premium price, and the hops we brew are also the best quality hops ever bought. ”

A few more people clinked glasses and took a few big sips, and Art brought up an important topic, "Otto, Angus, the first phase of the military academy will end tomorrow, and the basic training of recruits is also about to end." The time has come for us to formally establish the corps, and I would like to talk to you again about the establishment of the corps, the appointment of officers, and the restructuring of ranks. ”

"After the expansion, the legion will be named the Wells Legion, which is the name given by Earl Balwin, and I still plan to set up two infantry companies......"