Arte's group of five galloped horses for less than a day and a half before they came to the wasteland boulder pile, and the journey would certainly not be peaceful, but a knight in armor and heavy swords and four heavily armed light cavalry were forces to be reckoned with.

In the boulder pile, Ron took a piece of roast bacon handed over by Jason and put it in his mouth and took a big bite, muttering excitedly in his dripping mouth: "Master, if our patrol team is all cavalry, then we will no longer be afraid of those mountain bandits, and those mongrels can't even touch our shadows, haha."

"Ron, you think cavalry is so easy to get? As you can see this time, compared to Dean, our horses are at best marching horses or traveling horses, and the remaining horses in the wooden castle are not even capable of marching. This is only the war horses, as well as the cavalry's weapons and armor, spears, horse armor, and a large amount of forage and grain consumed by the war horses and horses every day, the amount of forage and grain consumed by the military horses and mules in the wooden fort is too huge, I have to let the grain field organize farmers to harvest pasture, and all the black beans we bought back from outside are used to feed the horses, and it is difficult for us to increase the number of cavalry until there is a stable grain income in the wooden fort and the valley. You'd better train the only cavalry you have for now. ”

Ron's enthusiasm was extinguished.

"However, our team will definitely get bigger and bigger." Art felt that Ron's passion and self-confidence should not be dampened.

"Ron, I'm going back to Woodcastle in the Valley, and you take Red to Sapu Castle with this private letter, in which I told Baron Galwin about my promotion to Cadet Knight, and promised to marry Miss Lottie. In addition, I have made a request to borrow a batch of weapons and armor and a few healers and craftsmen from Baron Galvin, and I suspect that Baron Galwin will not refuse me, so this time you two will safely bring these supplies and personnel back to the valley. Go and get back quickly, we don't have time to delay. ”

Ron took the order to go down and prepare, and in a few moments he led Red on horseback and ran west......

In the evening, Art took Jason and one of the remaining sentries back to the Valley Wooden Castle, and everyone was very happy for the newly promoted Cadet Knight, and spontaneously organized a small dinner to celebrate the knight Art, which was much more shabby than the banquet in Tignac City—half a roasted wild boar, a large pot of thick broth with spices and wild herbs, a dozen burnt rye bread and a large vat of home-brewed wild fruit wine bought from Emma, All the officers and men of the patrol team and several stewards of the wooden fort also had a carnival all night......

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A new round of intense training began in the Nameless Valley, and since learning that they were going to participate in the border war between the Count of Burgundy and the Duchy of Swabia in the eastern region, several squad commanders of the patrol team worked hard to train their own squad soldiers.

In the more than six months since he left Lucesin to move south, Otto has fully adapted to the transition from a force worker to an army commander. Perhaps it is the command and management habits that he has developed in the Zhongli brothers for many years, his military command and management level has improved by leaps and bounds under the guidance of Yate, and he has been grabbing turf and beating up with Luces's Ligong brothers for many years, he knows better than ordinary people the importance of killing skills and coordinating battle formations, especially after contacting Yate's military training, he also gradually began to realize the forging method of a strong army.

Since Yate appointed him as the deputy leader of the patrol team and was responsible for the daily training of the patrol team, he urged several squad leaders and combat team leaders to train seriously every day, and constantly used the examples of the time he worked in Lucesin and the battles (brawls) in the past six months to tell the soldiers the importance of individual combat skills and battle formation training.

“… The reason is as simple as this, if you have more strength in your arm than the enemy in the battle, then the broadsword in your hand can cut into the enemy's head; Conversely, if your arm strength is not as strong as that of the enemy, then you will have to watch the enemy's spear pierce into your stomach. So how can you increase your arm strength? In addition to our daily martial arts competitions, the main thing is the weightlifting training taught to us by adults, lifting 200 times in the morning, noon and evening, and after a long time, your arm strength will naturally be stronger......"

Wearing a light linen shirt and cowhide boots, and carrying a knight's sword at his waist and holding his hands, he watched Otto explain the role of the training program to the soldiers during the training break, and after returning from the canonization of Tinets City, Art temporarily put aside all the trivial things in the valley, concentrated on supervising and guiding the soldiers' training, and strengthened the coordination with the commander and the soldiers. In addition, he also personally trained four squad leaders and four cavalry of the sentry cavalry, in addition to training individual combat skills and battle formation coordination, mainly to teach several commanders some wartime marching, camping, defending against enemy attack facilities and buildings, day and night sentry, emergency order transmission and evacuation of the war zone, as well as identifying the enemy's situation, analyzing the battle situation and other skills, but Art also knew that these knowledge exclusive to military aristocrats could not be learned by his several commanders in a short period of time. Therefore, Art can only force them to memorize some of the most commonly used and basic things, and then use and comprehend them through actual combat.

During the training at the Wooden Castle in the Valley, Ron and Red brought two pairs of iron-encrusted armor, two broadswords, three battle axes, two chain hammers, ten short spears, two hundred arrows, two hundred pounds of fine iron, a healer, and two blacksmiths to the Wooden Castle in the Valley.

In addition, in order to congratulate Art on his promotion to a midshipman, Baron Galwin also presented Art with a special piece of armor, the main body of this armor is a set of full-body chain mail with hooded throat guards and knee pads, the outer part of the chain mail is inlaid with many plate armor plates, and the chest, abdomen and back are protected by large pieces of plate armor, in addition to the shoulders and knees and elbows. This set of plate chain composite armor is very exquisitely made, the riveted chain mail ring is dense and reliable, the whole steel plate armor is also very heavy, with a nose helmet with chain mail padding, this set of armor is much stronger than Art's own full-body chain mail, of course, the price must be much more expensive, I am afraid that Baron Galvin will have a long time of pain in addition to generosity.

What Art didn't know was that Baron Galvin had only intended to give Art's future son-in-law a good riding horse, and that this set of plate chain composite armor had been cut off after Miss Lottie's repeated pleas.

Turning back to the training ground outside the wooden fort, the soldiers of the patrol team began their individual combat training again, and the first squad of Bass and the second squad of Kazak were practicing fighting each other with two-foot oak sticks and log shields, and the winner's reward was the bacon's roast for the loser's dinner; Otto leads his third squad in the wrestling; The new squad leader, Tuba used his club to drive his fourth squad along the edge of the clearing, and if he caught up with him, he would be hit hard......

On the horse lane leading to the edge of the northern jungle from the wooden fort, Art was leading Ron's sentry cavalry to practice riding and slashing on the horse lane, twelve thatched dummies were placed in a long and uneven row along the horse lane, Art rode on a black war horse, holding a broadsword in his right hand, staring at a large row of thatched men fifty steps away, lightly clamping the horse's belly and starting slowly, the broadsword in his right hand was slowly raised, and then the spur under his feet lightly kicked the horse's belly, and the war horse under his crotch immediately galloped at speed, and the distance of fifty steps was in the blink of an eye, and Art's body on the horse's back leaned slightly to the right, The broadsword in his hand followed Arte's right hand to rise and fall, the thatched man's "head" was cut off in turn, and Arte ran out of more than 20 steps before stopping the horse, looking back at a total of six thatched men were "decapitated", for a well-trained knight, this killing performance is not excellent, but for the sentry cavalry, these guys who have just learned to draw their swords on horseback and swing their swords, five or six out of ten are already insurmountable combat skills.

"When riding a horse to charge the enemy, be sure to coordinate the horse and your body. Especially the war horse under you, you must be able to ensure that it charges forward according to the route you envisioned, so when you are on your side, you must learn to control the war horse with the hand holding the reins......" Art explained to the sentry on the side, leaning to the right and controlling the reins with his left hand to demonstrate to everyone how to swing the horse.

"Alright, that's it, Ron leads everyone to start training."

The crowd began to form a column on the horse lane, and slowly rushed towards the thatched man under Ron's leadership......

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In the evening, the voice of Yat rang out in the courtyard of the wooden castle, and he lectured in his hut to the commanders above the head of the battle group.

“…… This time we are going to defend the eastern border of the Count of Burgundy, and when the time comes, I will try to get to the southeastern border, because it is close to the Fort of Andermatt, and we should be relatively familiar with the surrounding area, and it will be more advantageous for us to have the Baron of Antaas to take care of it. ”

"Remember, we are going to face a well-trained Swabian army, not a rogue bandits, and we need to be prepared. According to Mistress Pierre, the first thing we need to do is to defend the eastern front, so we will join the city defense attack and defense training from the day after tomorrow, and Ron has found a low cliff in the valley that can be used as a castle defense, and when the time comes, one of the four squads will defend the other three squads, and if you hold it, you will be rewarded, and if you can't defend it, you will be punished. In this matter, Otto went down and led everyone to prepare, especially to make siege ladders. ”

"Now I'm going to talk about the passing of military orders, first of all, I'm going to tell you about the horn......"

In the corner of the hut, Tuba the leader of the fourth squad listened carefully to every word and every battle-related skill taught by Art, if these military strategy things were not taught by a commander with rich military training like Art, I am afraid that Tuba would not be able to contact it in his life, plus he was the weakest in strength and seniority among the five squad leader-level officers, so he cherished every opportunity for progress and promotion......

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In the wooden fort storehouse where the hut is located, Spencer, the "housekeeper", has recently added a new task - to learn the skills of helping the wounded from Thomas, an old healer sent by Lord Galvin.

The old healer Thomas is an unpopular white-bearded old man, he studied medicine with a lame quack doctor when he was young, after seven or eight years of apprenticeship, he finally became a "barber", but since a serious illness, Thomas is like a different person, he began to question the traditional medical skills of treating the wounded, and even began to treat the sick with some strange methods like those "wizards" in the jungle, although he saved many people, but he also killed many people, Gradually, therefore, the people were reluctant to accept his treatment, and threatened to send him to the Inquisition if he dared to use those evil medicines to treat people again. But fortunately, Thomas once saved Baron Galvin's life, and Baron Galvin was forced to owe Thomas a favor to give him protection.

So when Art offered to borrow a healer from Baron Galvin, Baron Galvin's first thought was to kick this "scourge" out of Sapburg.

When Thomas came to the wooden fort in the valley and accidentally found that the steward of the wooden fort, Cooper, had secretly crushed the wounded soldiers with forest herbs, the gloom in his heart was swept away......

At this time, he was taking Spencer to pick out the leaves and grass roots collected in the forest, and to seal them for later use.

Outside the storehouse, the blacksmith's shop, built by means of a wooden hut in the house, was hammering, and the blacksmith who had come from Sap to the wooden castle in the valley was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and he had just come out of school, and his eyebrows and hair were always burnt from the charcoal fire and red iron all the year round. The blacksmith took a broadsword that was too broken to be used and calcined and melted it into a single-bladed dagger and iron spear for the Bunker peasants, and even though he was not a professional weaponsmith, Art paid him and his apprentices six pfennigs a day, so he was willing to work around the clock to build and repair weapons.