William's riding skills are now quite reasonable, so Norwin added another training to him - horse fighting, that is, the use of various weapons when riding horses, mainly the use of long swords and shields and riding spears, because the riding spear has not yet been made, so William can only train in sword and shield first.

Look, this way! Be careful, don't get distracted! Norwin swung a wooden stick about the length of his sword as he fought William.

William is the same, holding a wooden stick and shield in his hand, and constantly fighting with Norwen, although in the foot battle, William is not too bad for Norwen, but the horse battle William is really the part of being beaten, although Nuowen's riding skills are not as superb as the wood, but the victory is superb in swordsmanship, up and down and slashing, all fine.

William could only balance his horse in embarrassment, then parried with his shield, occasionally counterattacking with the wooden stick in his hand, and he had been hit by Norwin no less than ten times.

However, although William did not know a single counterattack, there was not a single Volkswagen Nowen, who did not even take a shield, and only used a wooden club to disintegrate all of William's attacks.

"Oh! I'm not fighting! William yelled angrily, threw the wooden stick in his hand on the ground, and said angrily. This ghost swordsmanship is so difficult, I'm sure I won't be able to learn it! William shouted.

"Hmm! William, you must know that a knight can no longer be called a knight if he can no longer fight immediately, you are now at most a powerful infantryman, or a powerful infantry who can ride a horse, but not a knight, as long as you master the method, it is actually very simple" Norwen began to persuade and preach.

After a day of training, William was bruised by Norwen, and although the injury was not serious, he grinned in pain.

When he returned to Stream Village in the evening, he brought back several colors of dye, cloth, and twelve slender, triangular spear heads with an iron head at the end that could be inserted into the riding spear, and a hole in it that could be held in place with nails.

"Where is dinner, after eating, let's think about how to change this coat of arms." William pointed to the table, picked up a spear from the ground, and played with it in his hand.

When the wood was finished, the three of them sat around the ground and discussed the pattern of the coat of arms.

"I think there should be a lion painted on it, which represents our bravery!" Norwen spoke first, he was deeply influenced by chivalry.

"Hmm...... I think it's a wolf, cunning, no, wise, and warlike! "This is what Urimu said, and the totem of the Kriza people is the wolf.

Of the three, only William did not speak, although there were no rules about heraldry in this world, but he felt that a little knight engaged in those bells and whistles of heraldry was a bit flashy, and it was easy to arouse the disgust of others, as far as he thought, the Teutonic and Prussian iron crosses in the previous life were good.

So, he said, "I think let's use a cross as a coat of arms, because the Son was tortured on the cross, so we will use the crucifixion of the Son as the coat of arms, and we will paint the cross black, black for iron, and the cross for holiness, and we are the holy iron cross for the Son!" ”

Norwin was moved, and he agreed with William's proposal, after all, in many kingdoms, lions are also representatives of the royal family, even if there is no explicit prohibition on the use of lions as coats of arms by the lower nobles, but it may also provoke the displeasure of some big people.

In fact, more than a hundred years ago, the wolf was not an evil thing, and there were many nobles who used the wolf as a coat of arms, but later the Kriza people invaded and started a war with the Holy Spirit world, and the wolf slowly became a symbol of evil, and slowly no one used it anymore.

Therefore, if the wolf is used as a coat of arms, it is certain that even if it is not regarded as a heretic, it will be disliked.

Unifying one piece, William put the powdered dye into the water in proportion, and the black dye immediately dissolved into the water, becoming a pure black dye, and painted the knightly shields of the three with a black cross.

All that remained was for the villagers to process the cloth into smocks, which were then painted into iron crosses, and William intended to tie the four-cornered flag to the rifle and then paint the cross.

William had already begun to fantasize about the three men in the smocks in his mind, and his thoughts continued to spread, and he saw tens of thousands of heavy infantry in iron cross smocks and elite bell knights following him......

"What do you think, William." He touched William's shoulder.

William touched his nose: "Nothing, nothing!" ”

Half a month later, William practiced horse warfare for half a month, and made great progress, although he was still not as good as Norwen, but he could already do a good job of swinging a sword on a horse, parrying and other actions, maybe what he lacked was long-term muscle memory and battlefield training.

Thirty mounted guns had been painted to ensure that there would be no wooden thorns, and William began training with the mounted rifle without the head attached.

It was not easy to stab the enemy accurately on the back of a bumpy horse, and William tried, and the result was not only that the stab was inaccurate, but that the head of the spear pointed upwards into the sky and the head of the spear pointed down to the ground.

It's an exaggeration, but if you aim at the enemy's head, you may be holding your thigh when the tip of the gun hits the enemy.

The difficulty of using a mounted gun accurately on horseback is so high.

William scrapped several riding guns, and finally, under the joint guidance of Norwen and Urimu, gradually found a sense that at least the tip of the spear could occasionally pierce the center of the target.

In the end, when William scrapped all eighteen cavalry guns, William was fifty percent sure that he would be able to stab the enemy in the torso in a gallop.

Although this result is not very good, most knights can do better than this, but it is good to be able to make such a result in a month's time, after all, most of those knights start training in their teens before they can use the riding gun accurately.

It was obvious that the amount of training for eighteen riding spears was not enough, so William once again gave the villagers the task of making riding spears, the number of which was twenty, and he felt that twenty riding spears were enough to practice himself.

After all, there had already been an order to make a cavalry spear this year, and it would not be good to issue a second one, although no one would condemn him, but the village had always been his fief, and he did not want to offend the people.

So William gave a tax reduction of five kilograms per riding spear, and now the villagers didn't complain in their hearts, and they actively made riding guns.

After the construction of the cavalry spear was completed, William was training in riding the spear while gathering the young adults in the village for training.

The first event is not a queue, running everything, these are useless for the time being, because he has received a dispute between Baron Comos and Baron Wells, the baron next door, and it is very likely that he will go back to war in the near future.

And the war mode here is different from the battle formation in the east, the battle formation here is very simple, that is, a simple phalanx, a circle formation and a scattered formation, which will only be used in large-scale battles, and it is not particularly well maintained, and many times the formation may collapse due to inconsistency in the middle of the war.

And small battles, it is similar to melee, although at the beginning it will be arranged in a simple formation, but when the two armies meet, it will evolve into a melee, and even many knights do not have enough discipline to pursue any glory.

Therefore, William did not ask them to put on a strict array like that of China, after all, the Loerdes are not like the Han people, they do not have the national characteristics of natural obedience to orders, and many of these people are farmers who have survived the battlefield and have some battlefield experience.

So William only asked them to have a certain degree of cooperation in the melee, so William divided them into ten small teams of four people and let them fight each other with long wooden sticks and wooden shields.

At first, the ten teams fought very ugly, all of them were rogue fighting moves, and in the end, Norwen couldn't stand it anymore, and taught some simple ways to use spears, that is, actions such as stabbing and blocking, as well as the key points of cooperation with companions, and after a month passed, it gradually got a little shape.

In addition, during this time, William opened the granaries of the village, so that they could eat at least two meals, so they also became a little stronger, William was confident, these farmers, oh after the conscription, were light infantry, and these light infantry were absolutely top under the baron.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages, the grain that could have been able to support until next winter has been sharply consumed, and now it can only be supported until the beginning of spring next year, but fortunately, there are only three or four months left in the autumn harvest season, and there will be more grain soon.

Three months later, when the autumn harvest began, William dismissed all the farmers and sent them home to harvest the wheat in the fields.

Xiliu Village has a total of more than 500 acres of fields, although the rate of return is extremely low, only more than 50 kilograms per mu of output, and the previous life of the Celestial Empire often more than 1,000 kilograms of output is not comparable at all, but it is also a very wealthy village, can produce more than 40 silver coins every year, William believes that the annual output of other villages is definitely not more than 25 silver coins.

But just then, a fast horse broke the silence of the village.

"Sir William, Lord Baron, let me inform you that there may be a war between the Comos family and the Wells family, and you need to lead no less than ten light infantry to guard your feudal lord, here are the documents." The messenger who worked part-time as a guard at the manor said to William.

"It's finally coming!" William took the document and looked at the messenger who had left the dust, and a trace of excitement flashed in his heart.

War here is equal to enrichment, of course, this is only for the victorious side, and the losing side often pays a heavy price, it may be life, territory or population.