After the beginning of spring, although it was a little out of place, the little Count Tang still organized a big hunt. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Generally speaking, the best time to hunt is in late autumn, when animals are at their fattest and strongest during the year, and of course, their fur is at its best.

However, because the Count of Don was still at war with the Grand Duke of Murchid last autumn, the animals of the forest were able to escape, but they did not escape, and the serfs who cleared the land did not.

After the winter, the hungry animals began to forage for food, and the herbivorous animals could also eat leaves and lawns, but the carnivorous beasts soon found themselves without enough meat to eat! They breed too much!

Hungry beasts soon began to appear in the wilderness in droves, attacking crowds and poaching livestock, and within a month of spring, Count Don had already received several reports of beasts hurting people.

And the Count of Don, as we know, has always considered man, the obedient, to be a precious treasure, far better than the wolf that the nobles used for amusement. Moreover, when a wolf kills a man, he kills five children that he may have in the future, and five children have twenty-five children, so that there is no shortage of children and grandchildren......

Therefore, the Earl of Don decided to hold a hunt in the spring, firstly, to alleviate the beast plague in the territory, and secondly, to take the opportunity to test the recruits trained in winter.

Yes, recruits, although we said that the Desmonds have been actively joining the army since the Earl of Don Jr. issued the conscription compensation law, but how many are there?

Almost fifteen hundred.

That's quite a number! You know, there are only more than 50,000 people in the whole of Desmond, excluding women, the elderly, and children, and there are more than 10,000 middle-aged men left, which means that this number is almost one-tenth of Desmond's adult men!

With so many middle-aged laborers joining the army, almost, no, there will definitely be problems, and some of the village elders have come several times to ask Count Xiao Tang to let some young people go home, because the number of people who ploughed in the spring this year is really not enough, and he has to let the women and children also come out to plough the land together!

Then Count Tang replied to them with seven words: "Women can hold up half the sky."

Then the elders were choked home.

Xiao Tang Count is not without confidence in doing this, when he signed up for the army, the soldier's military expenses were also given, and the salary of the soldier every month was also paid on time, relying on these alone, as long as the woman in the family can take care of the family, every month is enough to live an ordinary life, and now you have enough money to tell me that you want to go home? Don't forget that your deed of sale is still with me!

To tell the truth, Earl Tang Jr. learned this trick from the British hundreds of years later, the most famous lobster soldier in Britain during the George Dynasty, signed a ten-year deed of sale, while Count Don only signed with them for five years, the lobster soldiers of the George Dynasty still ate rotten food, while Count Don Jr. here is good wine and good meat - uh, sorry, there is no good wine, because Count Don Jr. is afraid that they will get drunk and fight.

In short, even compared with the lobster soldiers hundreds of years later, the conditions given by Count Xiao Tang are better, so why can't these soldiers be as brave and fearless as the lobster soldiers, stubbornly withstanding Napoleon's cannons and bullets, and walking until they are only twenty meters away from the enemy before firing the first shot?

Count Tang Jr. thought that it must be that the training was not enough, or the sticks were not enough, otherwise these soldiers would have been obedient a long time ago.

So, after a whole winter of training as a reinforced pikeman, these soldiers also looked a little bit like soldiers, whether it was walking, lifting legs, or rhythm, it was time to see their actual combat effectiveness.

In fact, when hunting, more important than the seasons is the time of hunting. To have a sufficiently "professional" hunt, it is necessary to get up early in the morning, preferably at dawn, and arrive at the hunting grounds, when it is just dark. Upon arrival at the hunting grounds, an experienced hunter usually heads into the woods with a hound, falcon and weapons to look for prey. Lords, knights, and retinues, on the other hand, would use this time to recuperate, including eating food on the meadows, and re-examining and organizing hunting equipment.

However, this process, Count Xiao Tang can be saved.

Because as mentioned earlier, there are only two purposes for Count Xiao Tang to hold a hunt, one is to hunt fierce beasts to alleviate the beast trouble, and the other is to see the combat effectiveness of the recruits.

However, this experienced hunter cannot be dispensed with, and the experienced hunter can determine the type, weight, size, age, height, number, departure time, direction and distance of potential prey by carefully examining the footprints, feces, and traces of hair, horns, and teeth left on nearby plant branches.

This is simply indispensable for a hunt that requires a quick solution. However, it is obvious that because all the forests and rivers in the territory belong to the lord, the only people in the group who have hunting experience are probably a few knights - even if there is a farmer who knows what to do, he does not dare to say it, you know, the Woodstock Statute (the real English forest law) is clearly written, and the thieves are to be subject to harsh criminal punishments, including mutilated limbs, broken feet, etc.

So in the end, the Count of Don Jr. organized the army into this shape: every eleven people formed a squad, ten recruits, one veteran, and the veteran was the captain of this squad; Every tenth squad was formed into a squadron, with a squadron leader - for the time being, replaced by knights.

That's it, although it was set up in this way, but because there were only twelve knights in the hands of Count Xiao Tang, there were still 300 soldiers who could not be separated, so these soldiers were assigned to Count Xiao Tang.

And so, the Great Siege began.

It is said that it is hunting, but in fact it is similar to another modern action -- searching mountains, when searching mountains, people are also divided into teams, and then each team demarcates a certain range, and people search within this range. Now Count Don did the same, he divided a whole forest into 12 areas, each area was given to a squadron to be in charge, and he took the three hundred men with him to support - if any squadron encountered a ferocious beast, such as a pack of wolves or wild boars, they would first send someone back to report to Count Don, and then Count Don went hunting together.

Speaking of ferocious beasts, bears living alone are not terrible, although the six-meter spear cannot be used in the forest, but relying on the strict formation and gun formation, the bear can not do anything, and can only be consumed in the end.

And then there are the wolves, in fact, these wolf cubs are the most cunning, they smell the smell of a large number of humans gathering from afar, so they run away early and refuse to approach, so the real danger is to hunt wild boars.

Wild boars that live in groups are generally females, they are omnivorous animals, they eat everything, and they dare to harm anything, and wild boars have a short temper, and once they find themselves in a circle, they will immediately become restless, roar, erect spikes on their bodies, and be ready for battle.

At that time, the battle against the wild boar herd was a soldier under the leadership of a knight, because of the knight's arrogant character, he did not take this group of seven or eight wild boars in his eyes, so he commanded the soldiers to hunt them, and the soldiers, although the knight was a little arrogant, they still maintained the formation according to the usual training, held the super long spear, and slowly approached the wild boar.

It was at this time that something happened.

This group of wild boars, they rushed up desperately screaming, completely ignoring the obstruction of the super long spear, and some wild boars were even stabbed by the super long spear more than a dozen times, and the blood flowed profusely, but this only added to the ferocity of the wild boar. In addition, wild boars are generally quite solid, and they are often covered with hard mud shells and pine resin, so a little damage is nothing.

However, as the boar's blood flowed more and more, and became weaker and weaker, their ferocity reached its maximum, and these wild boars rushed up frantically, smashing several spears with their flesh and blood, and then slammed into the soldier's body - don't underestimate the boar's charge, in fact, in terms of the boar's weight and size, it is no different from the horse charge, and the wild boar, they are more aggressive, they also have a pair of sharp fangs.

Edward, Duke of York, wrote an essay in the 15th century about a wild boar hunt. A huge wild boar, while under siege, suddenly rushed towards a hunter. The poor man couldn't dodge, and was picked up from his knees to his chest by the sharp teeth of the boar's sharp knives, and in an instant he fell straight to the ground. In literary and artistic works involving hunting, wild boars are also dangerous elements in hunting, and in "A Song of Ice and Fire", Robert, who was drugged, died under the tusks of a giant wild boar.

And now, the fate of these soldiers is not much better than that of the hunter.

Sharp teeth, coupled with the weight of more than 200 catties of wild boars, and the sharp hair like a hedgehog, the picture at that time can be said to be ...... Appalling.

It's enough to make any guy with a dense phobia scare peeing their pants on the spot.

After Count Xiao Tang arrived, those unlucky guys had already lost their breath, and the gods couldn't save them, so the angry Count Tang could only punish the knight for three months, and at the same time, he was strictly guarded to prevent such a thing from happening again.

Thankfully, this only happened once, and in the other squadrons, there might be wounded, but not so severe as to become disabled or dead, and the hunt was nearing its end, and it was difficult to find large beasts unless they went deep into the heart of the forest.

So this hunt is over, the beast problem has been solved, this time so many fierce beasts have been hunted, there is no need to hunt again this autumn. And the recruits saw the blood - although the blood is of a beast, sometimes people are not as good as dogs, are they?

So, the ending is quite satisfying.

And so it was, and time began to pass until something happened that caused a sensation in Desmond......

PS: The next chapter will be released at half past eleven.