Cavalry schools, unlike ordinary schools, are not trained at a very young age, but from the age of 13. 13 years old is the age of graduating from elementary school, and at the same time, the children are basically tall enough to climb on horseback, so it makes sense to start training cavalry courses.

Just like an ordinary knight, he went to the house of a great nobleman as a squire, although he was sent there at the age of 7. However, between the ages of 7 and 14, they can only work as a waiter and do chores. At the same time, learn some basic cultural knowledge, as well as various knightly etiquette. It wasn't until he was 14 years old, when he was taller on horseback, that he began to practice knightly martial arts, and then, after practicing for 7 years, he didn't leave the school at the age of 21. It's a bit like an apprenticeship, which is also a 7-year apprenticeship. However, what is better than the apprenticeship of craftsmen is that during the seven years from the age of 7 to 14, the knights have the opportunity to learn cultural knowledge and various manners while working as acolytes. Although they had to do service work for the great nobles, these cultural knowledge were never accessible to the children of the common people.

Of course, Western European knights began to get into contact with riding training at the age of 14 because Western European war horses are relatively tall, and their shoulder height can reach more than 1.7 meters. The Beihai State now generally uses Eastern European Mongolian horses from the Crimean Khanate, and the shoulder height is generally only 1.5 meters. Therefore, knights should start riding martial arts training from the age of 14, and students of the Beihai State Cavalry School can be 13 years old. After all, the Mongolian horses of Eastern Europe are much shorter than the war horses of Western Europe, and the height requirements are much lower.

Under normal circumstances, the school system of the Beihai Cavalry School is also 7 years, and like the training of knights, it also requires graduation at the age of 21. The reason why I chose to graduate at the age of 21 is because at the age of 21, my body has basically grown up, and I can customize the plate armor of the matching size. If it is too early, the height will continue to grow, and the custom-made plate armor may be too small, and when the time comes, a set of plate armor will be wasted. And a set of plate armor is at least a few dozen gold coins, which ordinary people can't afford to waste. Therefore, it is generally necessary to wait until the age of 21 before you start customizing plate armor. Some of them are late, and they will even delay until they are twenty-five or sixteen years old before they officially customize the plate armor set for use in battle.

Of course, this is a knight family with relatively poor economic conditions, so it will be so serious. In the case of a wealthy aristocratic family, you can customize plate armor at the age of 18, and it is a luxury version of the plate armor inlaid with gems. As for the fact that you can't wear it when you grow tall in the future, it's a big deal to make a new set every year......

Just like Caesar, although he is only 14 years old now, he has already begun to train in armor. Of course, Marin didn't dare to let Caesar wear heavy plate armor. It's too heavy, and it's easy to be crushed every day and don't grow tall. Therefore, the armor that Marin made for Caesar was a rhinoceros leather armor made of rhinoceros skin from Africa. The rhinoceros leather armor has high protection and is lightweight, which cannot damage Caesar. Moreover, as the heir of the North Sea Kingdom, what armor does Caesar want? Since the age of 14, Marin has been customizing rhinoceros leather armor for him, one set a year, which is extremely luxurious.

It stands to reason that the first graduating class of the cavalry school, which was established five years ago, should be two years later. However, there are exceptions, and when the cavalry school was established five years ago, some sixteen or seventeen-year-olds were eager to join. The key is that many of their fathers are bigwigs in the Beihai Army.

The officers of the Beihai State who held military positions in the army knew very well that the cavalry had a higher status than the infantry. If you have the opportunity to enter the cavalry school, you will become a cavalry officer after graduation, and your qualification is much higher than that of an infantry officer.

Therefore, when the cavalry school was established, many officers begged Marin to come to Marin's side, hoping that their sixteen or seventeen-year-old sons could also go in to study. Marin doesn't like to cold the hearts of his old subordinates, and it's nothing.

Therefore, Marin specially approved and approved hundreds of sixteen or seventeen-year-old officers' children to enter the cavalry school. At the same time, hundreds of German Cossack children were specially recruited to study at the officer school. In the end, the total number of overage students reached as many as 1,000.

Now, five years later, all of the overage cadets are over 21 years old, and it's time to serve in the military.

Originally, this is a trivial matter, just follow the process normally. According to the normal process, the principal of the cavalry school in Alsace does not have to come forward, just send an instructor to take the graduates to the cavalry section of the military department to sign up, and then wait for the arrangement.

But Arthas had a small idea in his heart, hoping to take this opportunity to show his teaching achievements at the same time, and hope to get Marin's approval and let him return to the mountain as a real general.

He now enjoys the treatment of a corps commander, but he has no soldiers in his hands, similar to a civilian general, and has no title. If he hadn't commanded an army before, that would be it. But he once commanded a cavalry corps, and after being replaced by Marin, he was very unwilling and hoped to return to the mountains as a general.

After all, in addition to the problem of face, as a real general, there is also an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, which can improve the title......

Although Arthas served as the commander of the Cossack cavalry corps, he is still a hereditary knight because of his lack of military achievements. Among the nobles at the level of the legion commander, it is definitely the existence at the bottom. And Jurgen, who was also the commander of the Cossack cavalry corps, was promoted to a first-class baron because of his outstanding performance against the coalition of the princes of the Eight Kingdoms. If there is still a war to fight in the future, it can be promoted upwards.

This made Arthas very envious and a little jealous. He didn't want to just live like this with the title of hereditary knight, but if he wanted to improve the title, he couldn't get it as an instructor. Only by going to the battlefield and making military exploits can you get the promotion of the knighthood.

Therefore, Arthas did not have to come forward in person, but he personally came to Orich with the overage graduates of the Thousand Cavalry School. After arranging for the teacher to take the students to the military headquarters to register, he himself went to the palace and asked to see Marin.

As an officer with the same status as a corps commander, Arthas was also entitled to see Marin. Marin also wanted to know the current situation of the cavalry school, so he summoned him.

Hearing that there were 1,000 more graduates of the cavalry school in his hands, Marin's eyes lit up:

"Really? Have a thousand graduates? What's the level? ”

That's a thousand cadets! Although they had only studied for five years, not seven years, Marin knew that they had learned a lot. Because, the cavalry stuff doesn't have to learn for seven years at all. As mentioned earlier, the reason why the knight graduated at the age of 21 is that in addition to the reason for the stereotype, the 21-year-old young man's strength has basically grown and he can fight against people. If you are too young and your strength has not yet grown, even if your martial arts are good, your strength is not enough to fight against others.

In fact, the peak of knights often has to wait until they are twenty-seven or eighteen years old. At this time, the knight's strength is the fullest, and the combat experience becomes very rich.

However, the cavalry of the North Sea Kingdom did not have the same requirements as ordinary knights, and they did not need to carry heavy cavalry guns to collide with people. Therefore, the requirements for strength are not particularly high. At 21 years old, it's basically enough. Next, it's time for actual combat training.

Marin was also very satisfied when he learned that there were a thousand graduates of the cavalry school. So, he went on to ask:

"How's that kid's martial arts? Can you fight against ordinary knights? ”

In this regard, Alsace is full of confidence:

"No problem! At least, it's okay to fight against knights of the same age. Of course, they were not trained to use mounted spears, and could be defeated in the cavalry battles of traditional knights. However, they do not fall behind when they use the spring riding spear created by Your Majesty and the bulky traditional riding lance. ”

"What about the military strategy?" Marin asked again.

At this time, Arthas's face turned red:

"This ...... This doesn't seem to be very good...... As you know, these over-age students have a relatively poor cultural background, and they are not as good as the children who graduated from regular primary schools who entered the school later. Therefore, in terms of military strategy exams, there are very few people who can pass 70 points, and only about 100 people ...... "Marin has higher requirements for officers, and only 70 points can be considered qualified, not 60 points."

After a pause, Arthas added:

"Of course, those who didn't score 70 points can still serve as ordinary cavalry squad leaders. At the very least, they are skilled in martial arts and familiar with the basic cavalry confrontation command process, and all they lack is actual combat experience. And ......"

Seeing that Marin's face was not too bad, Arthas said again:

"Those graduates who are not very good at military strategy can also serve as your Majesty's cavalry of your guards......"

"Guards cavalry?" Marin was stunned at first, but soon his face was full of surprise.

"Yes, Guards Cavalry!" Marin happily slapped the table, startling Arthas. He thought that Marin was mad, but when he saw Marin's happy face, his heart was relieved.

Considering that Napoleon was always guarded by four Guards Cavalry regiments during the war, Marin also planned to form a Guards Cavalry Regiment to protect his own safety in wartime.

Obviously, most of the over-age graduates of the cavalry school who graduated in this first batch do not seem to have good cultural performance, and they seem to be somewhat deficient as generals. But as Arthas said, those people can't be generals, but they have no problem serving as guards cavalry!

Moreover, those graduates of the cavalry school who have poor cultural grades are not unable to serve as officers, but they are not capable enough to serve as senior generals, and it is no problem to serve as ordinary cavalry squad leaders. As a cavalryman of the Guards, it would be even more fine. After all, the Guards don't need to be smart, they just need to be loyal enough.

So Marin instructed Arthas:

"You send someone to investigate in detail, except for the more than 100 people with a cultural score of more than 70 points and handed over to the military department for arrangement, the remaining 800 people, you select the 500 people with the highest loyalty, I will form a Guards Cavalry Regiment!"

Arthas looked overjoyed, but then asked cautiously:

"What about the remaining 300 people?"

As the principal, he has also had a relationship with the students in the past few years, and he doesn't want the future of the remaining graduates who have been selected by the more than 300 to be unsettled.

Marin thought about it for a moment and decided:

"Leave it to the military department to arrange! However, the more than 100 outstanding graduates started as cavalry squad leaders, and the remaining 300 or so who were picked could only start from ordinary cavalry. In the future, if you have combat merits, you can be promoted more than those uneducated cavalry......"

"Okay, I'll take people to understand the situation, and select the most loyal 500 people to serve as Your Majesty's Guards Cavalry!" With that, Arthas turned and left.

Just as he was about to walk out of the door of Marin's office, Marin's voice came from behind:

"Do your part well, do a good job, and in the future, you will have the opportunity to lead the troops......"

Apparently, Marin also saw what Alsace was thinking. Moreover, he did not reject the use of Alsace. After all, if he was to annex the entire northern German kingdom in the future, he would need a lot of troops and officers. Therefore, there are still many opportunities. Although Alsace is not very talented, he is not very bad, but his thinking is a bit biased towards traditional knights.

However, the Cossacks who commanded pure light cavalry may not be qualified for this kind of heavy cavalry mentality, but the cavalry of the middle line of the half-heavy cavalry and half-light cavalry like the lancers is suitable. After all, he was able to stand out from so many German Cossacks, in addition to the distinctive name and taking advantage, his own ability should not be underestimated.

Arthas was stunned at first, but then his face was beaming with joy. Then, with brisk steps, he left the palace of Aurich, and his whole person seemed to be full of power......