Spring has arrived, but there is still a chill around.

After being stationed in Tignets for half a month, the new recruits of the patrol team ushered in a training competition. In the open space of the barracks square stood a row of soldiers wearing black robes and cloaks, carrying a log shield in their left hand and a short spear in their right hand; The three of them stood behind the three soldiers he had trained, and Ron stood beside the soldiers he had trained.

The square was surrounded by Tignets guards and idle citizens who had come to watch.

"There's a lot of power." The crowd of onlookers sighed.

A man in the crowd who looked like an officer with his arms in his arms said sourly, "It's strange that you train like an animal every day, and you can't stand well." But although this officer hated this group of guys who trained like cattle all day long, he had to admit that as soon as they stood there, they immediately had an imposing momentum, which was different from his own guards who stood crookedly.

Yate ignored the crowd of onlookers from afar, he stared at the soldiers in front of him, and said loudly: "You have been training for half a month, and today I will see your results." The competition is divided into three items, the first contradiction first-line formation, the second three-person combat formation, and the third individual combat skills. The first two are fought between three battle groups, and the third is a solo battle between soldiers. The first two winners will be rewarded with half a barrel of beer from the group, and the third winner will be rewarded with an individual five copper pfennigs. ”

"Now let's start with the first item, the front line of contradictions."

"Listen to my orders - array!"

Roar!

Everyone shouted, raised their shields to their chests, raised their short spears, looked straight ahead, bent their left leg, kicked back half a step with their right leg, and leaned forward slightly.

Art glanced from left to right, and everyone's movements were basically uniform, the first group trained by Otto was the most standardized, and the young soldier trained by Ron was a little flustered, his hands and feet trembling slightly.

"Defend against arrows!" Art then shouted a second command.

"Roar! Roar! ”

The three battle groups shrink separately, with the middle person in the middle of the formation as the center and do not move, and the left and right two people shrink to the front and back of their bodies respectively, one crouches to hold the shield leg, and the other raises the shield and head guard diagonally; Ron's formation lacked the round shield of the leggings.

Yate stepped forward to inspect the defensive formations of the four battle groups in turn, although they all achieved the basic movements, but the gap between some of the three round shields was too large, and some of the three people were not in the same line, causing the body to be exposed to the protection of the round shield.

"Array!"

"Roar!" The three of them, huddled together, separated again, resuming the formation they had just formed with their shields and spears raised.

"Forward!"

"Roar! Roar! Roar! The crowd kept their shields and spears raised, roared three times, and took three steps forward.

Ron, on the far right, glanced at Jason, who was a little behind because of his small steps, and scolded him ten thousand times in his heart.

"Attack!"

"Roar, roar, roar!" The group remained in the same position, and the short spear raised flat stabbed forward three times.

"Close!"

"Roar!" The people got up and gathered their legs, the round shield was put back on the left side, and the short spear was on the chest.

Yate walked to the side of Otto who was standing behind and watched, and said: "The first competition is over, the first group of recruits and the second group move more neatly, but the formation of the first group is tighter, and the first group of recruits wins. ”

Art ordered all the soldiers to return to their positions.

"Next, the second one, the three-man battle formation."

"The first group and the third group are played against each other, the second group is against the escort group, and the two winning groups play against each other, and the competition loses when the main attacker is hit. I joined the Escort Group. Art took a log shield and stick from Otto and stepped to Ron's right as an assister.

Odo's first group and Kazak's third group began a three-man battle formation, the short spear in the soldier's hand replaced with a long stick stained with white ash.

Dahan Tuba is the main attacker of the first group, he carries the shield in front, the long wooden stick in his hand is pointed directly at the opponent's battle formation, and his eyes are fixed on the main attacker opposite. The two assisters next to Tuba held shields to the left and right.

Hearing Commander Odo's order to attack, Tuba took the lead and rushed towards the opponent's battle formation, and in the blink of an eye, the two battle formations collided together and stalemate. Seeing that his own battle formation began to be pushed back, Tuba pushed forward with all his might, and the opponent took a half step back, revealing a gap......

On the other side, the guard group that Yat joined was also playing against the second group. During this time, Art was busy making friends with some powerful people in Tignats City, such as the captain of the city guard, the steward of the arsenal, the steward of the grain store, and the agricultural officer, and did everything possible to ask for agricultural tools, seeds, weapons and materials for the wooden fort and the patrol team, and also had to supervise and guide the training of the four of Odo, so he could only find time to participate in the training of Ron's escort group. The result is that the battle formation of the three members of the escort group lacks tacit understanding.

Although the soldiers of the opposing battle formation took care of Art's face, they were also newly trained recruits and not masters of the battle formation, even if they wanted to deliberately lose to the escort group, they couldn't grasp the scale. Therefore, the guard group, which was not tacitly coordinated, retreated one after another, and within a while, Jason was stabbed by the opponent's main attacker and went down.

The remaining three-person battle formation of Art and Ron became stronger, although Art was more active defense in order to compete with the fairness of the test, but Ron, who was holding his breath, raised the wooden shield to take advantage of the small number of people and flexibility, avoided the opponent's main attacker, and directly detoured to the right side of the assister, and repeatedly poked the lower plate of the right assister, so the opponent's formation was disturbed, Ron raised his spear to hit the opponent's main attacker's wooden shield, and Ron, who was engrossed in the fierce attack, did not notice that a long stick on the left side had been stabbed......

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In the first round of the battle, the third group had just faced off for a while before the first group of main attackers found a gap and stabbed the main attacker off the field. The guard team attacked the opponent very bravely after losing the left assister, but was stabbed by the second assist team because Ron neglected the left wing defense.

In the second round of the battle, the first group played the second group, and the two groups were evenly matched, and they fought against each other on the field for a long time. But with the rapid loss of physical strength, the formation of the second group began to loosen, and the two assisters obviously could not keep up with the pace of the main attacker, and the wings began to be exposed. The three Tuba in the first group always gritted their teeth and insisted on leaning together, and the main attacker noticed that the opponent's battle formation was loose, so he led the two assisters to slam into it, and the formation of the second group was broken up......

Seeing that the second group of men who had fallen to the ground was helped up by the soldiers of the first group, Art turned his head and announced: "In the second three-person battle battle, the first group wins." ”

In the next third individual skill competition, the first group with the greatest hope of winning failed to achieve the final victory, and the first individual skill was won by Simon Quintz, a fine man in the third group, and it is not surprising that Arte was surprised by this result, Simon Quintz was originally a professional bounty hunter in southern Provence, because he was hunted down for killing the second son of a lord, and he has been wandering around the north of Provence, making a living by serving as a guard for caravans and as a guild thug in the city.

On the evening of the end of the competition, Otto bought half a fan of mutton, hired a cook from the city of Tignac, lit a bonfire in a corner of the station, set up an iron pot and stewed a whole pot of mutton and mutton soup; Art also made good on his promise, bringing back a barrel of thirty pounds of pale beer from the brewery and rewarding it to the first group, and handing Simon a five-pfennig coin in front of everyone.

At the behest of Odo, the first group distributed the large barrels of beer to the brothers of the patrol team, so that all the soldiers of the patrol team could hold the lamb with bones and meat in one hand and a bowl full of beer in the other, enjoying the rare leisure and indulgence after hard training.

The dinner lasted until midnight, and after seeing that everyone had eaten and drunk enough, Art gathered all the officers and soldiers of the patrol team to sit down by the campfire. He stood by the campfire and said in a loud voice, "Ladies and gentlemen, it is God's will that we will come together, and you will become my Ath's soldiers, and you will be my Ath's brothers." After half a month of hard training, you have mastered the most basic skills of a professional soldier, and the deadline for our stationing in Tignats has arrived, and tomorrow we will go to various parts of the southern border to suppress bandits. ”

"Now I have formalized the current distribution of our soldiers and the appointment of officers, the determination of salaries."

"Before recruiting more soldiers and expanding the patrol team, it is divided into three levels: combat group, squad, and team. There are three soldiers in the combat group, and the main attacker of the three-person battle formation is the team leader; The two combat groups are a squad, the squad leader is also the leader of the first combat group; The two squads are one team, and I am the captain. ”

The formation of the patrol team announced by Art is similar to that of the previous military meeting, and the training of everyone in the past half month has basically been carried out according to the battle group, so I am not surprised.

"The first group of recruits was changed to the second combat group, with Tuba as the leader, and the second group of recruits was changed to the fourth combat group, with Simon as the leader. Combat Groups 1 and 3 were formed by Bass and Kazak respectively from the remaining soldiers, and Jason was incorporated into Bass's combat group. ”

Art paused for a moment, letting the group figure out the number of soldiers.

"The first and second battle groups form the first squad, with Bas as the squad leader and the leader of the first battle group."

"The third and fourth combat groups form the second squad, and Kazak is the squad leader and the leader of the third combat group."

"Ron is my bodyguard and cavalry sentry, and receives the squad leader's salary"

Everyone was quiet for a moment~

Bas and Kazak secretly turned their heads to glance at Odo, the best Odo did not become the captain of the squad to everyone's surprise, but Odo looked as usual and was unmoved.

Soon the mystery was revealed.

Yatra raised his voice: "Otto Fernand, he has performed the best since he went south with me, so I have appointed him as the deputy captain of the patrol team, responsible for training soldiers, managing military rings and weapons and supplies, and enforcing military discipline ......"

"In terms of salary, the weekly salary of an ordinary soldier is 10 pfennigs, the leader of the combat team is 12 pfennigs, the squad leader is 15 pfennigs, and the deputy captain is 18 pfennigs."

During this time, Art asked for or purchased a batch of military supplies such as military boots, belts, felt blankets, and short blades, axes, page hammers, arrows and other weapons from the defending army, and also purchased a few armed swords with slightly rough workmanship and several sets of armed clothes and leather armor through the armory manager. Therefore, in terms of weapons, ordinary soldiers were equipped with a black oak round shield, a six-and-a-half-foot short spear, and a black burqa cape, so ordinary soldiers were also issued with cowhide belts and a short knife (sword) with a wooden handle of about thirteen inches. The weapon of the battle leader is a short sword of about 18 inches or a tomahawk on the basis of ordinary soldiers; The squad leader added a three-foot broadsword or armed sword to the normal soldier's weapon, plus a suit of armed clothing. Otto and Ron have one more layer of leather armor than the other squad leaders.

In terms of odds and ends, all the patrol soldiers also had a set of cutlery, a pair of leather boots, a water bladder, a sheepskin bag, and scrappy stones each. Each squad was equipped with a tent, a wagon and two mules (purchased) a horse, as well as a collection of grain, wheat seeds, and farm tools......

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Early the next morning, after bidding farewell to Viscount Pierre, Art led his patrol party out of the southern gates of Tignaz and headed south......

Viscount Pierre stood behind the battlements on the south gate and looked at the backs of the group heading south, and asked the chief of the guard beside him, "Did he really divide the patrol team into three levels?"

The chief of the guard replied, "Yes, my lord, I arranged for someone to hear it myself next to their station last night~"

Pierre pondered for a moment about Arte's team, and muttered, "Art, are you a religious guard or a forest hunter?" Or is there some other ulterior identity? ......”