On Monday, July 14th, today was the second day of the funeral banquet held by Baron Walton for his eldest son, who died in the Scottish War. Invited to the dinner today are the traditional knights in the neighbouring counties and Yorkshire, who have been given official knighthoods, as well as the "knights" who have been promoted from the gentry by virtue of a certain amount of real estate income. These include magistrates with knightly titles who only know how to trade and hold local judicial and administrative positions.

Because there was a good turn for the better in the upcoming marriage, this made Isabel, who was in a marriage prison, jump up happily for a while. When the sun slowly rose at nearly 5 o'clock in the morning, she jumped out of bed and onto the ground. After dressing and grooming, calmly fastening the belt with two swords hanging from it, and munching on two fresh apples, he took a bag of prunes and walked towards the stable.

Two hours later, her pure white noble Andalusian horse, led six guards in cuirass and swords on horseback, and hurried to the southeast to the castle of Sharif Hatton. It took a little more than an hour for Pegasus to reach the castle gates. At this time, the person she was trying to find was still asleep on her gothic bed.

The valet Eugene, who was waiting outside the door, looked at her with sincere eyes and whispered, "I'm sorry, Your Excellency, Your Highness won't wake up until 9 o'clock." ”

Isabel tilted the corners of her mouth, "Okay, you tell Your Highness that I will wait for Your Highness in that open space to the west of the castle." ”

Leaving the third floor of the castle, she eagerly descended to the courtyard where the guards and servants outside the castle lived. Standing in the small square, he gave an order to one of the saber guards behind him, "Go and get Simmons and Peter." ”

When the two captains of the guards, who were sleepy-eyed and not fully dressed, trotted in front of her and hurriedly saluted. Isabel raised her right hand and waved it lightly, frowning and commanding, "Alright, two captains, now gather all the musketeers at once!" ”

Captain Simmons rubbed his eyes and looked at her, "Your Excellency, will you start phalanx training now?" ”

During the period from May to July, Isabel was part of training the Duke of Richmond's Guards using the Spanish Army's well-established theory of phalanx tactics. Her goal in training was to create a well-trained infantry phalanx of pure musketeers that was different from the Spanish phalanx, or an upgraded version of the Spanish phalanx.

At present, the Duke of Richmond has a total of 135 guards, and she brought back 240 Mushtec heavy arquebuses from the Spanish island. According to the one-person-one-gun firepower configuration, she can already build a pure arquebusier phalanx of 120 people. Although her phalanx was less numerous and less powerful than half of the musketeer companies in the Spanish infantry (spear + arquebus) phalanx, the lack of musketeers and arquebuses could be replenished in large quantities.

Isabel looked at the disheveled two, and just said calmly, "Today, we're going to start firing live ammunition." ”

"Your Excellency, is this true? My God, you can finally fire! Vice-captain Peter was so excited that he was babbling a little gibberish.

"Your Excellency, but, the 30 musketeers who guarded and patrolled the castle last night now need... Just sleep. The captain muttered.

Isabel with her hands behind her back still looked calm, and her voice was still so calm, "Captain, I know. You don't need so many people to guard the castle during the day, it's enough to find 10 people to replace them. ”

Then she gave another order, "Now, at once, let 90 musketeers assemble in the square." Once assembled, all went to the armory to pick up arquebuses and battle items. ”

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Shortly after 9 o'clock, the valet Eugene and another young manservant, while dressing the Duke of Richmond, whispered, "Your Highness, Your Excellency says that she is waiting for you in the open space to the west of the castle." ”

The Duke of Richmond held his arms flat to the right and side, and waited for the valet to arrange his clothes, and said, "Well, did she say anything?" ”

"No, Your Highness."

"Isabel is waiting for me there, what does she want to do?" The Duke of Richmond muttered, and without waiting for the manservant to tidy up his clothes, he hurried to the window on the west side of the room, and the two manservants had to follow him to the window to continue arranging his clothes. The Duke of Richmond pushed the window open.

When he saw the scene in the open space to the west of the castle, his eyes widened. Immediately, an excited smile appeared on his face, and he ordered repeatedly, "Eugene, you two hurry up!" I'm going to see the advisor right away. ”

Soon, the anxious Duke of Richmond left the castle with his valet Eugene, and walked briskly in the direction of Isabel through a gravel path between the south side of the castle and the forest-like curtain wall. At this time, the 90 heavily armed guards and musketeers had formed a neat phalanx of pure musketeers, standing motionless on the open field of the field.

When the Duke of Richmond came to Isabel in front of the right side of the phalanx, he glanced at the other party with excitement and curiosity, and then looked at the neat phalanx of musketeers, "Advisor, today... What are you going to do today? ”

After saluting and greeting, Isabel replied solemnly as she stood in front of the other party: "Your Highness, today you will not only see what the Spanish Musketeer Phalanx is, but also see the power of the Musketeer Phalanx!" ”

The Duke of Richmond walked slowly from right to left, inspecting each of the musketeers in the phalanx and asked in some surprise, "Power?" Uh, is it going to fire today? ”

Isabel, who was following beside her, solemnly introduced, "Yes, Your Highness. You see, this phalanx was fought with 6 platoons, each of which consisted of 15 musketeers. ”

Then, he added, "Of course, the Spanish infantry phalanx consisted of a company of spearmen and a company of musketeers of 300 men each. In terms of the strength of troops and the firepower of the arquebus, it can be changed at any time according to the changes in the battlefield. ”

"Excellent! Very good! Very good! Advisor, uh, now, can we get started? "The Duke of Richmond, who walked to the far end of the left side of the phalanx, was already a little impatient.

"Yes, Your Highness." After Isabel finished speaking, she immediately turned her head to the vice-captain and phalanx leader standing in the center of the team, "Peter, let's start!" ”

Peter nodded, looked squarely at the phalanx in front of him, and shouted, "Attention! Keep the formation moving forward! ”

After speaking, he immediately ran to the right side of the first row of the phalanx, turned around and stood upright. Then, he nodded at a drummer on the left who had a single-sided snare on his body.

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