Although the spring sun is bright, but the temperature is not very warm, the new immigrants are working hard to build the castle, although they are all marauding immigrants or William's migrated lords, but there is always some benefit, so William promises that as long as they build the castle, William will give them three years of tax exemption.

At this time, William was in the barracks, sitting leisurely on the recliner and watching them train, in front of him were the trained heavy infantry and ordinary infantry, and in the rear, the trainee knights trained by William.

The apprentice knights held wooden swords and shields in their hands and confronted each other, and the sound of wood colliding was incessant, mixed with a slight scream.

These apprentice knights underwent a variety of rigorous daily training, more intense than William's training at Novin, physical training such as running and push-ups, followed by swordsmanship, horsemanship, and the use of horseback and spears.

In the past two years, this group of trainee knights has made rapid progress, and those probationary knights over the age of sixteen are no worse than their fathers, as long as they are given the status of knights, they are excellent knights.

Of course, the younger trainee knights were of course not able to go to the battlefield, and William also relaxed the policy for them, if the knight's family still has a second son, then they can also be sent to William for training.

Even if he can't become a knight in the end, then William will give him the status of a quasi-knight, serve in the heavy cavalry unit, and as long as he makes meritorious contributions on the battlefield, he can be canonized as a knight immediately.

This was a privilege for the knights, so that they did not have to kick their second son out of the house or send him to the monastery.

As soon as this policy came out, of course, it was supported by all the knights, and they couldn't wait to send the second and even the third sons of the family.

For a time, the number of trainee knights trained grew rapidly, from fifteen to twenty-eight.

It has to be said that this policy was very successful, not only did it not give William any losses, but it was also able to provide him with more knightly troops.

Even if you can't become a knight, the combat effectiveness of a quasi-knight trained since childhood will definitely not be bad, not to mention that these people are all beneficiaries of William's policy, and they will definitely be loyal to William.

Therefore, with this one policy, he won over the knights in the territory and increased his armed forces.

Of course, this kind of policy of his could not be replicated, as the other nobles did not have the financial resources of William to afford the heavy cavalry troops, so there was no place to arrange the unsuccessful would-be knights.

William plans to let these trainee knights be older and have stronger combat effectiveness on the battlefield to temper themselves, and after the baptism of war, they are different from rookies who have not been on the battlefield after all.

However, this plan has not been implemented for the time being, first, there will be no war in the near future, and second, there are no bandits or robbers in the two areas of Menders and Comos.

It's just a plan.

For more than a month, the soldiers who followed Lolitsa to join William could be regarded as tortured, not to mention running push-ups every day, and even undergoing such rigorous queue training and the use of spears.

They never needed these things when they were mercenaries before, and they were trained by the regiment leader for fifteen days when they joined the gang, but that was only training in swordsmanship or using spears, and there was no so-called physical training and queue training at all.

The reason for their strong combat effectiveness is entirely because they have fought a lot of battles, and they are more amazing, and they have not been exposed to these trainings at all.

There is also work and rest time, get up at five o'clock in the morning, that is almost their old life, this group of mercenaries when there is no task, that is always sleeping until they wake up naturally, no ** o'clock who will get up.

But here, if they can't get up at five o'clock, they will be whipped, and they will have to train for a morning immediately after eating, and they will complain for more than a month.

However, under the threat of whips and spears, they did not dare to kick, although they kept complaining, but the training was completed.

In fact, the training here is not very difficult for them, and they can survive on the battlefield until now, and their physical quality is good in all aspects, so they can adapt to physical training in addition to the initial difficulties.

What really made them unbearable was the queue training, as a mercenary, Lolita basically had no discipline requirements for them.

As long as they can fight bravely, they basically don't care about anything else, so their discipline is quite poor, and it is normal for them to exchange heads and ears when they are in line.

But then they tried William's strict requirements for the army for a long time, and if they dared to turn heads and ears, they would directly double their training, and if they dared to whip them directly.

The only thing that satisfied them was that the food here was much better than what they had eaten before, not even on Holy Grace Day.

And I heard that there is a salary of five copper coins a month, which is much better than before, when they only had one copper coin per month, and the bulk of their income was still in the share of the spoils.

Not to mention being stable here, being able to get such a salary is one of the main reasons why they can continue to train.

After more than a month of training, they finally got rid of their unruliness and disobedience, and became orderly and tame.

Of course, although they have changed a lot, they are still not as good as the Manders infantry in terms of discipline, and there is still a long way to go if they want to truly become the Menders infantry.

Looking at the mercenaries who had become tame, William couldn't help but nod his head, and selected a group of people from the first batch of veterans to serve as the officers of this group.

Now there were more than 720 ordinary infantry under William's command, and every 10 people were in a team, and there was an officer in charge of commanding, and the whole unit had a total of 72 officers, and he selected nine officers from these 72 officers according to the ninety-nine multiplication table, and was responsible for commanding the six officers under him.

Of course, the army of sixty people is not what they can command, anyway, there is no war now, William plans to take these nine people with him, and start to teach by word and deed, even if he can't, isn't there still Delseth and Bansteske, the two of them can sit in a principality as the commander of the heavy cavalry and the commander of the berserk guard respectively, then the military quality is definitely not covered.

When the time comes, directly throw these nine people to teach the two of them, and they will definitely be able to command a column of people very well, and William found in the Battle of Lomi Valley that it is unreasonable to divide and structure according to his rough branches.

In many cases, it directly caused a waste of troops, so he began to refer to the modern military system, hoping to transform the troops into efficient troops.

Soon, William had already planned all this, and in three days, he had selected the team officers and the officers, and then threw the nine officers to two.