Art arranged the key tasks of the valley wooden castle in the near future, and then turned to the Ottos.

"Otto, tell me about the soldiers." Art's voice was clearly not as relaxed as it had just been.

Otto is still feeling guilty about the attack and killing of the soldier Amber in Wincheston Manor, "My lord, Amboe's death is all my fault, I don't deserve to be this vice-captain~"

"Odo, the past is gone, you can blame yourself but don't dwell on it. Remember this lesson. ”

"Go on."

Otto adjusted his mood, cheered up and said, "Yes! My lord. In this Wincheston Manor encounter, we lost one person, seriously injured one, slightly injured three, Bass's leg was also injured, a total of six casualties, almost everyone in the team was wounded, but our results were also good, in the face of several times the enemy, we killed four enemies on the spot, knocked down eight enemies, of which the first squad and the second combat group performed well, and Ron was also very brave. Now there are eleven soldiers in the team who can still fight, and the other two who are seriously injured should be able to return to the team after a period of treatment. In terms of captures, at Wincheston we captured a suit of iron-plated armor, a heavy sword, two iron chains, a cavalry lance, two armed swords, two infantry bows, two iris shields, three short spears and three short swords, and a black warhorse. I counted that at the moment all our weapons and military resources can barely equip eighteen light infantry, two light cavalry, four archers. However, after the first battle, it was no longer suitable for us to go out to clear the mountain bandits until we replenished our troops and strengthened our training. My lord, I'm done. ”

When Otto had finished talking about the patrol, Yat added: "As for money, I would like to add, we have received four thousand dophines from the city of Tignatz twice, and about seven thousand five hundred pfennigs at Wincheston, in addition to a small amount of silver. With the surplus from before, we currently have nearly 14,000 pfennigs, which can support the consumption of our valley wooden fort and patrol team for a year, and the people of the fort can support themselves after the autumn harvest, so our money can support us for nearly two years. ”

"My lord, it's better to get money from war, and if we can meet a few more Winchestons, we can feed more soldiers." After listening to Yat's words, Buzz swept away the gloom, stood up and said excitedly.

"Bass, Wincheston Manor we'd better not have to do it again. This time we have taken the money and supplies from the manor, and I wonder if the wrath of the court vice-minister will burn on us, although I have asked the Bishop of Orlof to help us, but perhaps disaster is coming. But since we've done it, don't be afraid, we'll do whatever we have to do. ”

After Yate finished speaking, he saw that Kazak sitting in the corner was a little silent, so he asked, "Kazak, did you have anything to add?" ”

Kazak changed his usual hippie smile, raised his head and replied heavily: "My lord, in this battle, my squad suffered the heaviest losses, one of the team leaders was seriously injured and basically scrapped, and one of the assisters also died, and I now regret not training them as hard as Otto and Bass." Therefore, I think we should be more ruthless in our training in the future, so that everyone usually takes more sticks than knives on the battlefield. ”

Art nodded heavily and said, "Yes, this is all a lesson in blood." After you go down, you should learn more lessons with the soldiers, especially the problems that arose in this sudden battle. For example, there is an obvious flaw in our three-person battle formation, in which three people can only attack one target at the same time, lacking effective offensive strength. Moreover, as the main attacker of the three-person battle array, the physical strength is limited after all, and once the battle is stalemate, the main attacker's physical strength is exhausted, and the three-person battle array loses its attack power. In addition, from the point of view of defense, the three-person battle formation is attacked on three sides, once one of the defensive surfaces is missing, the rest of the people will be exposed to the enemy's swords, axes and spears......

In the face of the defects in the current military formation and training of the patrol team, Yate was unable to come up with a perfect strategy for a while, originally he thought that the three-person battle formation he had drawn on from later generations could play a huge role, but in the era of "physical strength is combat power", this kind of military formation was obviously a little unsuitable. When the trio was in Tignets, Yat noticed its flaws in attack and defense, but he didn't expect it to be so big. However, the number of soldiers under his command is too small now, and no one has formed a good formation, so he can't think of a better formation for a while except for using the contradictory line formation that is common in this era.

"The scattered three-person battle formation will only be used as our auxiliary army formation in the future, and it will only be carried out in the training of recruits, and it will also be mainly used to pursue the remnants of the enemy and scattered operations in the battle, but the establishment of the combat group is still temporary, but the combat group generally does not fight alone, and we use the six-person squad composed of two combat groups as the basic combat formation. In the future, the focus of our military formation training will still be on the dense contradictory line array (referred to as the shield array), but our shield array also has a flaw, that is, the thickness of the shield array is not enough, and it is easy to be physically exhausted by relying only on a row of shield-holding soldiers, and there is no reinforcement to support the strength behind......

"Ladies and gentlemen, there must still be many such flaws in our training and military formations, and these need to be improved in our daily training and battles.

Everyone nodded yes.

"Bass, do you have anything else to add?"

"My lord, seeing that the weather is about to get warmer, we not only have to start patrolling the border security, but also have to go to Fort Andermatt to help suppress it, and judging from the performance of this battle, our soldiers may still not have enough manpower and combat strength~" Bas raised the problem of insufficient manpower and low combat effectiveness of the patrol team.

"Well, Basti's problem is also the problem of our patrol team at the moment. So, tomorrow you can ask the three young men who came back with us last time if they would like to join our patrol party, and if so, I will recruit soldiers. ”

Arte paused and continued: "Everyone has performed well in the battle at Wincheston Manor, and if you follow me, I can't let you sweat in vain. This time we have some victories in Wincheston, and I will give you a military reward, thirty pfennigs for one ordinary soldier, fifty pfennigs for the leader of the battle group, and sixty pfennigs for officers above the squad leader; In addition to these, there is an additional reward of 20 pfennigs for wounded, 50 pfennigs for soldiers killed by one enemy, and 30 pfennigs for officers killed by one enemy. It's up to you, Odo, and the military reward will be based on the number of captures in the future. ”

Otto answered.

"Now I order the patrol party to repair in the valley wooden fort for a month, and you guys will train me hard in this month, because we will soon face a stronger and more ferocious enemy."

"Bass, tomorrow you and Ron will go with me to the southern frontier to recruit outcasts and patrol soldiers."

"Otto and Kazak train soldiers in the wooden fort."

"Lawrence, you will also have to participate in the basic training of the patrol team during this free time before the start of sowing, and then train the peasants of the fort guard team during the slack time......"

Several people stood up and agreed.

…………

Art took Buzz and Ron to the north-south trade route on the west side of the boulder pile for two days, and selected six families and seventeen homeless people and five slightly stronger lone men from among the refugees who fled north, these lone men were weaker than the recruits recruited in Kitsby City last time, after all, those young and strong men always find a way to survive, and they will not choose to flee north to a foreign land unless they have to......

The valley wooden fort has welcomed a new group of residents.

Art handed over the displaced people to Cooper for resettlement, and after registering the newly recruited men and the three able-bodied men he had brought back last time, he formed a recruit team, which was trained by Otto himself for six days, and then mixed with the previous soldiers according to their training, and reorganized into six combat groups and three squads.

Arte's wooden house, which had become the council hall of the wooden castle, took up most of the room with a long wooden table surrounded by seven or eight wooden benches, and a chair on the top of the door.

Yat, who was sitting in a chair, announced the grouping of all the soldiers of the patrol team: Bass, the leader of the first squad, Kazak, the leader of the second squad, and the leader of the third squad, which was concurrently served by the deputy captain Odo.

"Guys, that's the distribution of soldiers, the extra soldier will be handed over to Ron for the time being, and let him be my bodyguard."

Yate said to Odo, who was sitting on the right side of the leader: "Odo, you are now the deputy captain of the patrol team and the leader of the third squad, not only to manage the military ring, weapons and materials, and enforce military discipline, but also to do a good job in the training of the third squad. ”

Otto was very happy, originally he did a lot of things as a deputy captain and had a high status, but he didn't have any real soldiers, and now he was satisfied as the leader of the newly formed third squad.

Ron, who was sitting at the entrance of the wooden table, was a little silent, he always thought that he could become the captain of the squad this time, but last time he didn't have his share, and this time he missed the opportunity. Even though Art had spoken to him beforehand, he couldn't help but lose his face.

Sensing Ron's emotions, Art comforted, "Ron, you don't have to be discouraged, think about how many of us were there when you first came to Wooden Castle?" And how many of us are there now? You have to admit the gap between you and Otto, and you should try to catch up with them now, instead of being sad and deflated like a woman. ”

There were too few people available around Art, but Ron was still young and not strong enough to convince the crowd, so Art had to let him stay by his side to continue his training.

For some time to come, the wooden fort resounded with the cries of soldiers training and the muffled sound of sticks and meat.