Chapter 360: Knights Training
"That's great!" The two replied heartily.
William had this idea, but he didn't plan to put it into practice right away, after all, William had so much to do right now, and many things needed to be redeployed due to the changing situation in the kingdom.
Moreover, Prince Hechard's enthronement ceremony will also be held more than a month later, so William will definitely not have any military action for at least two or three months.
The reason for this came from many sources, there were so many things that there was no time to worry about, and the re-argument and training of William's army was also in full swing.
The disabled veterans of the battlefield have been relegated to the villages, and the villages of Issamdenburg have been assigned some veterans to fortify.
And there are many elderly veterans who choose to retire, and William agrees, but William gives them many options, they can become militia instructors, stay in the army as a logistics officer, or go to Issamdenburg to allocate a piece of land and become a squire.
William's policy of securing his territory can hardly be said to have relaxed at all, and whenever he has the opportunity, he will let his loyal people spread all over his territory.
After the war, there were more than 700 disabled and voluntarily retired soldiers, and now there are only more than 1,100 remaining veterans of Düllenburg.
However, the rest of them are all veterans who survived the battlefield, and some of the previous recruits in Denlenburg have also experienced the tempering of this battle, and their combat effectiveness is very good.
However, this number is always insufficient, just like the territory that William now controls, even if it is restored to the previous 2,400 Dengrenberg infantry, it will not be enough, after all, the enemy he needs to face in the future is uncertain, and now he no longer has the strong protection of the Tskema Kingdom.
Therefore, he may face attacks from other territories and countries at any time, and a certain number of strong fighting troops will be necessary.
Therefore, William now tentatively planned to expand the Denlenburg infantry to 4,000 men, and to draw from the militia that had fought in the previous battles and had undergone some training.
In addition, the heavy cavalry is also being selected, oh no, not the heavy cavalry, the previous heavy cavalry establishment has been assigned to the Knights, the former heavy cavalry is the current trainee knights, and the trainee knights are also selected among the cavalry-trained soldiers.
After all, the number of the Iron Cross Knights is still too small, and the Knights with only more than 500 people left cannot compare with the Astra Grail Knights or the Templars with more than 2,000 people, let alone the Lion Knights of the Rhodeland Empire.
Therefore, William included all the 700 militiamen who had received cavalry training into the training of the cadet knights, hoping that they would succeed in becoming cadet knights and contribute to the combat effectiveness of the Iron Cross Knights.
William had already deduced from the previous battles that according to the previous training method, in terms of individual combat effectiveness and tactics, William's Knights of Denlenburg surpassed the Knights Templar, that is, the Knights of Denlenburg surpassed the Knights Templar in combat effectiveness.
Of course, this also has something to do with the training of the knights of Dellenburg, and their tacit cooperation with each other is enough for them to crush their enemies.
And after this time with the command system, they will cooperate with the training of specific people in Gil, and they will have a more tacit understanding, and it is certain that they will go to the next level.
William doesn't want to immediately catch up with the Knights Templar and the Knights of the Holy Grail in numbers, but you can't just call yourself a knight with five hundred people, it's a joke.
With these seven hundred people, at least William can make up a knight order of 1,300 people, and he will not be ridiculed.
As early as the beginning of William's return, the militia in Denlenburg began to intensify their training, and everyone was gearing up, because they knew that after the end of the war, the day of William's re-enlistment would come.
Joining William's army can be said to be the dream of almost all young people and teenagers in Denlenburg, because as long as he joins William's army, it means that he will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life.
The generous salaries and benefits were enough to tempt all the young people to join the army, and even if they unfortunately died on the battlefield, William would ensure that their families would receive a generous pension, and all kinds of benefits and preferential policies, including their children, would also be well taken care of, and even have the opportunity to become a small official when they grow up.
With these guarantees, how could the Denlenburg infantry not fight desperately, so they were all training hard, and only ten days ago, William selected 2,900 young men from the tens of thousands of young people who had signed up and began to train them.
William was very satisfied with their training, after all, they had been trained as militiamen for four years, and their physical fitness and discipline were very good, so to speak, as long as they were polished for a few months, they could be used as regular troops, and in a few wars, they would be soldiers comparable to the veterans before.
Now William has completely established a complete conscription training system in the territory, and now as long as the young men in Denlenburg are not injured in large numbers, then William will soon be able to gather enough troops among the militia even if he suffers heavy losses, and build up a strong army again in a short period of time.
In full swing in the training ground, William asked the veterans to teach these recruits the battlefield experience hand-in-hand, 1,100 people taught 2,900 people, an average of two or three per person.
Their current training program is battlefield experience and some skills, endurance, strength, and further queue training will be carried out in the future.
The knights of Denlenburg, another large military camp, trained outside the castle.
The training ground required by a cavalry of more than 1,300 men was several times larger than that of 4,000 infantry, and this requirement could only be met outside the city.
Now the trainee knights in the knights are also very strong in combat effectiveness, they have all experienced brutal battles and years of service, and their combat effectiveness is far from being comparable to these newly recruited soldiers who have undergone horse training.
It can be said that the apprentice knight is the mainstay, the theme of combat on the battlefield, and the knighthood is only available to those who have a certain degree of military merit and the original knightly status, as for the grand knight and the patron knight, they are all command class.
Now many of the great knights and patron knights were furiously scolding the newly recruited cavalrymen, and they were angry when they watched their clumsy horse control and riding spears again and again.
Since these soldiers would have to serve as probationary knights in each flag team and wing in the future, William simply gave them the task of training and divided the wings and flag teams they served in advance.