Wella returned to Comos Manor after the engagement was over, after all, it was not yet the agreed wedding date, so it was not good to stay in someone else's house like this.

When everyone dispersed, William's prestige was raised again, and the name of William the Generous began to spread.

William "inadvertently" revealed that the price of this distilled spirit surprised them, and William could also provide such an expensive liquor in such large quantities, so the name of this generous man began.

Do the math, how many names does William already have?

"The Madman", "The Fox of Denlenburg", "The Generous"

With so many titles, it can be regarded as an affirmation of William's achievements.

The busy farming season has passed, the earl is more kind, the grain left last year has not been taken away, the two villages of Orchard Village and Xiliu Village have been operated by William, and the grain production has exploded, so William's hands are very abundant.

Now there are about 3,500 people under his direct control, and about 300 people can be drawn out of completely unemployed soldiers, and after selection, William selected 350 villagers with good talent and physical fitness, and he intends to train them into soldiers.

William still had thirty-seven horses left in his hand, and William planned to train thirty-seven cavalrymen, who were cavalrymen and not knights.

It would cost nearly a hundred silver coins to arm a heavy cavalry with the same equipment as a knight, ten for a thousand, and if William didn't have a distilled liquor business, it would be a year's income for the entire territory, and that would be if all the harvest was sold.

Even if William had distilled liquor now, his annual income would only be more than 8,000 silver coins, and if he was armed with such heavy cavalry, thirty-seven men would have cost 3,700 silver coins just for equipment.

Coupled with the food and drink of the war horses, the maintenance of equipment, the wear and tear of training, and the salaries of personnel, it is estimated that the total amount will be nearly 7,000 silver coins, and there may be expenses in the future.

But don't forget, there are still more than 300 infantry to be armed and trained, which is a lot of money, so even if William wants heavy cavalry, he can only arm some of them first, and it is impossible to arm them all.

William intended to leave the cavalrymen's riding training to the Urimu, and the Kriza's horsemen were skilled, while the slashing of horses and the use of mounted spears were the responsibility of Norwen.

The training of the infantry was the responsibility of William himself.

Cavalry needs to be selected in the infantry, the number of war horses is scarce, of course, the strongest soldiers must be selected to act as cavalry, William's selection method is very simple, is to run, keep running, run until only thirty-seven people remain.

William looked at the trained soldiers who were running desperately, and couldn't help but nod, their perseverance was still good, although they began to pant after four or five laps, none of them were left behind.

After a few kilometers, there were many soldiers who couldn't hold on, some withdrew from the ranks, and some slowed down and fell behind.

However, William only asked people to carry them down to rest, and the cavalry must be able to do it, which can be regarded as a kind of tempering for them.

In the end, most of the soldiers withdrew from the competition, and in the end there were thirty-seven soldiers left, who became the best of all the soldiers, and they were the cavalry that followed.

These thirty-seven people are estimated to have run nearly twenty kilometers, close to the limit of their human body, but in order to become cavalrymen, they still gritted their teeth and persevered.

William planned to arm ten of the thirty-seven men into heavy cavalry, which would depend on their results to determine who would become the heavy cavalry.

In terms of the combat effectiveness of knights and heavy cavalry, although there is some gap, but it is not too big, although the training CD of the knights is better than these heavy cavalry, but the number is not much, and the heavy cavalry is a type of army that can be quickly completed in two or three years, so the formation of heavy cavalry troops in the future is certain.

William first asked the soldiers to run to exercise their endurance, and then they ran in formation, because ancient warfare required more discipline than modern warfare.

William's training in addition to running and platooning, as well as modern fitness exercises such as push-ups, seems to be very useful, and with adequate nutrition, their physique rises rapidly

As for the use of weapons, there is no need for that for the time being, first, the head and shaft of the spear are still being made, and second, they only need to do a good job of physique first, and the weapon training is later.

Platoon training is really the best training method for discipline, William leads by example, training with them, they are now not said to have steel and general discipline, but there is no casual collapse, or disobedience to orders.

Their food is also good, because the territory is backed by forests, so the villagers can always catch a lot of prey, and the sheep in the booty can also produce milk, so their tables are full of protein.

There were about seventy or eighty hunters in William's domain, and they were allowed to hunt freely in the forest by the lord's consent, so that they could have a group of qualified archers to use in case of war.

William, of course, would not let them go, and let this group of hunters come to the manor in two groups with their hunting bows to train, one group to train while the other group hunted, so that they could neither delay the hunt nor delay the training.

The archers were not trained as the infantry cavalry, and the hunters did not need any additional training in the use of bows and arrows, they only needed to practice shooting with their comrades and some tactics.

Although the strength of the hunting bow is not large, it is almost able to cope with the armored levies, although it is useless against armed infantry and knights, but there is no way, there is no good enough bow-making technology here.

Thinking of this, William was a little helpless, not expensive, William's mind flashed, bow-making technology should be able to do it, the horn bow of the Kriza people seems to be a kind of recurve bow, this kind of bow and arrow is much more advanced than the hunting bow.

After a full day of training, William found him.

"How's the cavalry training?" William asked casually.

"Well, yes, their talent is good, many people have been able to sit on horseback in the past few days, it seems that they can basically learn to ride a horse in another month, of course, it will take a while to train to use weapons on horses."

"Well, that's good, by the way, you Kriza's horn bows, do you know how to make them?" William gets to the point.

"Ah, this, of course, it's not a secret, basically every Kriza would do it!"

William took a closer look at the horn bow of the wood, and found that although the horn bow was recurved, it was not a compound bow, and William had the impression that the power of the compound bow was greater than that of a single material.

William said, "Urimu, give the technique of making this recurve bow to a few villagers, the quality of the bow in the hands of our archers is too poor!" ”

Yu Limu nodded naturally, and it was not something that could not be passed on.

The next day, William gathered a dozen villagers and asked them to learn the technique of the recurve bow, plus three composite materials, and it took them more than a month to learn how to make a recurve composite bow.

Combined with the process of taming, winding, and drying, it took more than three months to make a high-quality recurve compound bow, but fortunately, the quality was finally reasonable.

This kind of compound bow has a range of about two or three hundred meters, but it is estimated that it will not have much lethality at three hundred meters, but compared to most of the bows here that are only a few tens of meters, it is simply an artifact.

The archers were equipped with recurve bows and trained them, and William continued to train the soldiers every day, although they complained about such high-intensity training, but they would never give up good food and salary.

The two blacksmiths in the village have been busy lately, and the tasks assigned to them by the Baron are really heavy, although they have been recruited by the Baron, and have a salary far beyond his own work, but if he can, he still wants to be a little more relaxed.

After all, these thousands of elongated spear heads are a big project, for the knights and cavalry to build chain mail, the processing of cavalry gun heads, the leather armor embellished with iron plates, leather armor stitching, these have to be done by them, the workload is simply amazing.

A month has passed, there are not many silver coins in William's hand, the cost is very large, the biggest consumption is the pig iron needed to make armor, Mendes Manor does not produce iron, so he has to purchase outside, and now there are only more than 500 silver coins left in William's hand, which will last for a month at most, and he will have to cut down on food and clothing.