Three days later, the city of Alençon had returned to its usual order, and the streets were long gone with soldiers scurrying in groups and twos, replaced by policemen in black leather armor and armed with large shields and daggers patrolling the streets to maintain order.

These policemen were composed of the surrendered Alençon town militia and the Evler conscripts who followed William, and the number was about 350 people, of which most of the original town militia accounted for most of the number belonged to the lowest level of second-class police officers, and the former Evreux conscripts of more than 100 people served as first- and second-class superintendents (squad leaders) and first-class police officers.

As for their officers at all levels, including the police inspector (chief), the first and second class inspectors (squadron leaders, group captains), they were knights, petty officers, and soldiers who were disabled after the war.

Although the current young police force has only been born for less than two days, with the support of William regardless of investment, it was quickly formed.

Of course, there are more than 350 policemen, and these policemen are subordinate to the newly established police station, in addition to the tax police subordinate to the tax bureau, the urban management brigade subordinate to the industrial and commercial bureau, the bailiff subordinate to the court, the household registration police subordinate to the civil affairs bureau, and the urban defense wing subordinate to the urban defense bureau, which roughly calculates the scale of more than 1,500 people.

It can be said that the operation of the new Alençon city government is basically carried out by the police force subordinate to the various departments.

Among the 1,500 men, William had filled in all the more than 1,200 captives who met the recruitment requirements and were willing to defect to William, and more than 300 levies with experience as overseers were also stuffed in by William.

Their commander is none other than the old Knight Nelson, and he and more than 50 disabled soldiers will serve as police officers at all levels, directing the police training and operations.

Fifteen hundred policemen armed with leather armor, large round shields, short swords, and javelins could defend against the attack of 5,000 enemy troops if they relied on the walls of Alençon.

It was also during these two days that William sent 400 cavalry and 600 light and heavy infantry (mainly knights and soldiers of the knights' legion led by Ronald Knights) in addition to his partner cavalry, to receive the territories and estates in various areas of the Barony of Alençon and purge the remnants of the rebel bandits, while William's army left in Alençon City, including 1,500 soldiers and 300 levies, was too scarce to make William feel insecure.

Just as Faller arrived in Alençon with more than 900 Evre levies and more than 1,000 Ding Zhuang who had taken refuge in the small town of Mortagneopes before the war, William, who was short of troops, unceremoniously began to recruit soldiers among them.

These two thousand or so Ding Zhuang conscripts were honest and hard-working serfs, not as slippery as the surrendered town militias, and they were excellent materials for serving as soldiers.

At this time, William was not a picky eater, and eliminated more than 100 Ding Zhuang, who was really thin, and the remaining more than 1,900 people and the 800 young men recruited by the nearby manor were all organized into a huge new battalion by William, ready to train them.

To put it mildly, the original town militia that William recruited before was too slippery, and none of the more than 3,000 original town militia prisoners were honest in training.

Of course, these town militias are not without strong fighting power, but all of these soldiers have lost much of their losses in the siege of the city and the pursuit of the remnants of the enemy.

There is no way. William had no choice but to recruit more than 1,200 people, and as for the remaining half of them, William was ready to make them slaves to fill the shortage of manor labor caused by the conscription of young and strong.

After another four days, the 2,700 recruits and 1,000 police officers who were in the training of Sir Hubert, Knight Geoffrey, Knight Faller, and one hundred and twenty companion cavalrymen who had undergone modern military training were able to form a decent formation.

Although it was still crooked when he walked in unison, and it was even more of a mess when he was urgently assembled, William couldn't ask too much, after all, there was a huge difference between training the white soldiers at the beginning and the huge team of nearly 4,000 people training together now.

Looking at the queue of recruits walking by in unison, William touched his chin with his right hand and calculated: "Not counting the knight corps of more than 800 people and the police team of 1,500 people, plus these recruits in training, I have nearly 4,500 direct troops on hand. ”

Thinking of this, William turned around, looked at Adolf beside him and said, "Uncle Adolf, I want to build a huge army directly under me, I wonder if the army of more than a thousand people directly belonging to Uncle Robert's grandfather can belong to me?" ”

"Okay, William, you can take that army, your uncle Robert sent them, I'm afraid I already have the intention of handing over this army to you!" Uncle Adolf nodded in agreement.

"Well, then thank you Uncle Adolf, when the time comes, when I go back to Evle, please help me talk to Uncle Robert." William smiled and thanked him.

"No problem, William."

"Uncle Adolphus, Sir Hubert, and Steward Osborne, show you the plan for the immediate army I am going to form." William handed a roll of parchment to the three of them to circulate and said.

"A standing army of 7,000 men? Alençon alone cannot afford to have the income and the provision of the land! Adolf took the parchment from William's hand, looked at it, and exclaimed.

Sir Hubert, who came over when he heard this, glanced at the contents of the parchment, and couldn't help but question: "Not counting the knight legion?" Without the help of knights and cavalry, we could have won the battle. ”

"No, Uncle Adolphus, Sir Hubert, the brigade of 7,000 men is counted as a regimental of police officers and a regimental of logistical baggage (composed of eliminated recruits and conscripts), and generally speaking, this army retains only two regiments, namely 3,000 infantry and an unstaffed cavalry regiment, that is, 500 men (150 light cavalry, 350 light cavalry), plus a total of about 4,000 men such as the cavalry of the personal guard, the reconnaissance light cavalry company, the siege equipment soldiers, and the craftsmen and doctors of the army, etc., We can afford to provide for it.

As for the Knights' Legion, in my imagination they were originally a temporary formation, and as long as the forty days of service were over, they would be disbanded and returned to the territory, so our cavalry force could not rely on them alone, but must have its own cavalry force.

And I have already communicated with twelve knights who are loyal to me, such as Knight Nelson and Knight Ronald, who are willing to stay with their cavalry and prepare to serve as officers of all ranks of the new army to help us train cavalry. William raised his hand and pressed down, and said in a calm tone.

When everyone heard this, they breathed a sigh of relief.