The onlookers outside the practice field were encouraging and praising Witt's heroic performance, but Witt in the stadium did not dare to take it lightly, the duel was not over yet, and Witt still understood the truth that the arrogant soldiers would be defeated, and victory or defeat was only in a thought.

Seeing that the light infantry had not fully recovered from the axe he had just received, Witt just stood on guard and immediately wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, lest the other party relieve himself, and it would be even more difficult to deal with at that time.

As soon as the thought flashed, Witt took advantage of the length and strength of the two-handed axe, and immediately jumped forward gently, stopped less than two meters before the opponent, and skillfully swung the axe in his hand against the broken wooden shield like a wood.

The opponent faced the two-handed axe with all his might, so he had to passively take it with a wooden shield. The moment the shield axe touched, the light infantry felt that his arm had completely lost sensation, and the wooden shield almost broke away from his arm and fell to the ground, but fortunately he could barely hold it with both hands.

Witt saw that the wooden shield was not just dented, and the iron nails that held the wooden planks on the wooden shield had fallen off, as if they were about to fall apart. The opponent's face was even more pale, and he could feel the opponent's trembling hands when he looked at the wooden shield. Witt knew that the other party would not last long, and his confidence suddenly increased, and he swung another axe.

With a "bang", the entire wooden shield was smashed open, and the debris was scattered all over the ground, and some of the debris bounced off and hit the flesh of the surrounding people.

"Stop! I give up! I give up! The left hand of the Vicchian light infantry trembled violently, his face was pale, and he looked distraught, and he dropped the one-handed axe in his right hand and shouted in supplication.

Danny Sr. once told Witt that the best defense is offense. A normal soldier who attacks three times in a row or defends three times in a row will use up all his stamina in a short period of time, if he can't do it

If you open up the battle or defend or attack effectively, you will be defeated due to exhaustion of stamina. From the opponent's defensive stance, Witt has learned that a truly effective defense should allow itself to move and be able to effectively offload the opponent's attack, rather than taking the opponent's attack with all its might. The Vecchia light infantry made the latter mistake, and only then did they exhaust their physical strength in a short period of time and finally had to admit defeat.

Sure enough, old Danny was right, only in actual combat can you improve your combat ability faster. In this short period of time, Witt has learned far more combat skills than he had fought with Danny Sr.

Witt was full of emotion, but he ignored the strange surprised expressions of the onlookers, and the silence of the audience was followed by the deafening cheers. Witt was awakened by this deafening voice, both surprised and delighted, and did not know what to use to express his feelings at this moment, until Cass came over and patted Witt on the shoulder and said, "I really didn't misread you, congratulations!" You have successfully passed the test! Cass looked at Witt with appreciation in his eyes, which made Witt feel a little uncomfortable, after all, he had never been exposed to this kind of thing before, and then hurriedly responded: "In the future, Lord Lao will cultivate!" As soon as this statement came out, it became a kind of almost feeling in Cass's ears, which was really self-defeating.

The next test didn't seem to have much excitement either, and the Wecchia Light Infantry had already been replaced, with the exception of Joey and the other two physically stronger youths who could suppress their opponents, the others either barely managed to take the opponent's ten attacks or were eliminated outright.

The test was over, no one was waiting outside the fortress, and the iron fence door was slowly closed. Witt visually measured the number of people left behind, about thirty or so, and probably half of them were eliminated. Thankfully, both Witt and Joey passed the test.

As everyone exchanged ear to ear to ear to ear to discuss their experience and today's anecdotes, Cass summoned everyone to an open space in the middle of the practice range, and asked the guards to assist in the formation of the queue of those who passed the test, forming them into a phalanx.

After everyone was lined up, Cass stood in front of them, first glanced at the lazy phalanx, and then said, "Everyone here is one of the people who passed today's test, and there are thirty-one people who have passed the test. In other words, now that you have officially become a recruit of Vecchia Fesdna, you belong to the regular army, so please put yourself in the right posture and stop putting on that ugly posture of a peasant. Of course, I will not break my promise, I promise to give each person one dinar first, and I will send it to you now. After saying this, the recruits in the audience cheered, and the guards who distributed the dinar were distributed to each recruit, one dinar each.

After the distribution was completed, Cass continued: "Now that each of you has received a dinar, you will have to obey the military regulations for the rest of the day, and no one shall leave the fort without an order. Recruits have to undergo a lot of military training every day, and their work and rest must obey the arrangements except for their free time. Did the recruits hear that? ”

Cass's voice was very loud, and his tone was full of bitterness, which made the recruits who had just received the dinar very excited suddenly dare not come out, so they had to shout in unison: "I heard it!" ”

Satisfied with the reaction of the recruits, Cass cleared his throat and continued: "Now I am going to divide your group of recruits into two, one of them will be trained as full-time infantry, and the other part will be trained as full-time archers. Cass raised his right hand and motioned for them to come out and gather in the clearing on the right.

As soon as Cass finished speaking, several recruits came out of the phalanx and stood in the open space to the left of the phalanx. If you count carefully, there are only six people, including Witt and Joey, of course, and the other four also seem to be of a certain age, estimated to be in their thirties.

Cass didn't have much hope, learning the bow and arrow was a peerless skill, and those who were familiar with the art of bow and arrow could generally survive in this era. Cass was surprised that there were six people who knew bows and arrows, and according to previous years, four was a lot, and Cass was glad that Witt was one of them.

Cass wanted to know how good their archery skills were, so he said to the recruits, "In order to better arrange the tasks and positions for you, now I want to confirm the mastery of bows and arrows for a few of you, starting with you!" Your name is Witt, isn't it? Cass asked, pointingly at Witt.

Seeing Cass pointing at him, Witt nodded and replied, "Yes, my lord!" ”

Witt walked to the nearest to him, stopped in front of the training range next to him, took the oak bow off his back, pulled out a practice arrow behind him, and stretched the bow sideways to take the arrow, and the movements were skilled. I only heard the sound of "boom", and the arrow flew out of the string, and it was in the middle of the middle circle of the grass target thirty meters away. There was silence in the room, then applause, and even Joey marveled at how quickly Witt had progressed.

Cass watched Witt's coherent archery movements, twelve archery processes, almost impeccable, and even dumbfounded and speechless. I have to say that he has never seen such an excellent recruit, and if he hadn't come to Witt to join the army today, he would definitely think that Witt was a regular army who had been on a real battlefield.

The next time Joey hit the inner circle with an arrow, which made the audience boil, and Cass was shocked to think that he had gone to the wrong set. But the next few recruits were not as eye-catching as Witjoy, and could only barely shoot grass targets or even deviate from them, and their movements were not very standard, and they could only be said to have barely touched the bow and arrow.

"Okay, let's get a few of you together!" The six of them returned to the phalanx under Cass's order, and then Cass continued: "I have recorded everyone's abilities, and now I will assign troops and positions to everyone according to their performance today. A few of you recruits who are familiar with bows and arrows have been assigned as archers, except for Witt. ”

Witt and Joey first heard the first half of the sentence and thought that they could both be assigned archers, and they were immediately very excited. Who knew that Cass gave Witt a slap in the face in the second half of the sentence, and he didn't react for a long time.

"But ......" Joey was about to argue for Witt, but was directly blocked by Cass sternly: "It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders!" Joey was speechless and had to hold back his anger and remain silent.

Seeing that the recruits were speechless, Cass continued: "In addition to Joey and the other five people, I will select five other recruits to be selected as archers. Ten people make up the Archer Recruit Corps, which is captained by Joey. ”

"Yes! Xie Daren promoted! Joey was still indignant and had no choice but to obey.

Seeing Joey's obedience, Cass nodded in satisfaction and continued: "The remaining twenty recruits will form an infantry recruit team, with Ricky as the infantry captain. ”

Ricky was one of the other two young men besides Witjoy who could defeat the Vikia Light Infantry, and he was also tall and large, and looked like he was in his twenties.

"Command! The subordinates must live up to the promotion of adults! Ricky was grateful, spoke sonorously, and with a lot of pride.

"Now please the two captains organize their teams separately and line up in a square to standby!" Cass was pleased with the attitude of both captains, so he ordered.

Thinking that he had been assigned to the infantry recruit team by default, Witt reluctantly followed the infantry team and prepared to accept the arrangement. At this time, Cass suddenly said: "That recruit named Witt!" Just because I didn't assign you as an archer doesn't mean I assigned you as an infantryman! ”

Cass's words made the recruits sound like Cass was deliberately trying to embarrass Witt, some of the recruits secretly laughed at Witt, and some cast sympathetic glances at Witt, and more watched with the mentality of watching the show. Only Joey blushed with anger, eager to step forward and tear Cass to shreds.

Witt looked embarrassed, but helpless, he didn't know what to do, so he had to ask in a low voice, "Dare to ask Lord Cass where is this going to assign me?" Witt was nervous, and it was the first time he had met him when he was forced to do this, but he couldn't do anything in front of the powerful.

Cass looked at Witt's groveling gesture and felt as if he had gone too far, but he also felt that it was worth it. As a recruit, Witt just wanted to frustrate his spirit, otherwise, as in previous years, some recruits had a little ability, and they all ended up in the sky. Cass didn't know if Witt was one of those people, but it wouldn't hurt him.

"You are neither assigned infantry nor archers, from today onwards, you will be fine with me." Cass said bluntly, and the recruits in the audience were boiling, and even the guards standing guard took a curious look at Witt, the immature boy.

Witt and Joey glanced at each other, both of them were inexplicable, and the anger in Joey's heart had already been washed away by Cass's words, and he didn't know why.

Cass motioned for Witt to stand next to him, and looked at the swaying heads below, which soon formed two not very neat phalanxes. Cass looked at the recruits and said, "From today onwards, there will be dedicated veterans to teach you all melee combat skills, and archers will have additional veterans to teach you bow and arrow skills." Now it's getting late, everyone washes up and prepares to rest, and tomorrow morning at dawn to start training. ”

After saying that, Cass turned to leave, with a sentence: "You come with me." Seeing that there was no one else around, Witt hurriedly followed, and all the recruits present cast envious glances at Witt because of Captain Cass's favor, and there was a lot of discussion, but they could only watch the figures of the two go farther and farther away, disappearing at the door of the lord's hall.

"My lord, what should I do next?" Witt finally couldn't hold his breath and was the first to break the silence and asked. Witt was still a little afraid of the middle-aged man in front of him, who was nearly twenty years older than him, although the other party didn't seem to dislike him.

Cass didn't answer Witt directly, but went straight into the hall of lords with Witt. The lord's hall is the habitat of the nobles, and under normal circumstances, ordinary soldiers are not allowed to enter at will except for standing guard, let alone Witt, a new recruit. Witt didn't know it, just followed closely behind Cass.

The hall of lords is very dimly lit and quiet, and the sound of soldiers training outside the hall is completely unknown here, and the sound insulation effect is quite good. There are many paths in the hall, and both the floor tiles and walls are paved with blue bricks and stones, which looks very neat. Some of the stone bricks are carved with artistic statues, and the roof of the hall is also carved with patterns, which is quite artistic. Most of the small windows in the rooms in the hall are small square windows, and there is very little light that can be revealed, adding a touch of artistic conception to the hall.

Witt felt the breath in the hall and compared the residences of the villagers outside the fortress, and sure enough, it was not a level, it was simply one in the sky and one on the ground.

Witt followed Cass around the alley of the hall, unable to tell where he had arrived, except that Cass finally stopped in front of the door of a small room, pushed open the door and entered the room. The house was a little dirty but not messy, and it should have been unoccupied for a while.

"This is your room from now on, and a servant will come and help you clean up later, and you can change into clean clothes by the way. From now on, you are my attendant, I see that you are still young, your skills and understanding are not bad, there are still many aspects to cultivate, in the future, I will train you in all aspects of ability, you don't let me down. Cass said bluntly, his tone flat.

Witt was obviously surprised, and didn't understand why Cass would look up to him, he was obviously not related to Cass for no reason, but Witt wouldn't ask directly, just silently and nodded.

Seeing that Witt was silent, Cass didn't follow up, but just asked, "By the way, can you read?" ”

Witt shook his head, and Cass said: "That's right, it is difficult for non-noble descendants to receive text education, so you also have a few books on text teaching in your room, as well as some books on the art of war, and you can learn more when you have time in the future, which will definitely be beneficial to you in the future." Okay, that's it for today, you pack up and rest early, and you have to get up early tomorrow to train, my room is opposite you, remember to get up early to report! Cass walked out of the room.

Witt watched Cass walk out the door, then took a closer look at the slightly dark room in front of him. There was only a bed, a desk, a chair, and a small bookshelf and a candle stand on the desk, and some books on the shelves, but Witt was illiterate and did not know what they were. There was nothing else in the room except for a few other essential household items. The room seems very small, but it makes people feel neat and orderly, and the owner who used to live here must also be a person with a good temperament.

After looking at it, there was a sudden knock on the door behind Witt, and Witt hurriedly turned around to see that a maid-like maid was standing at the door with her head bowed, and said softly: "My lord, Lord Cass asked me to clean up the room." "In the eyes of the maid, anyone who can live in the lord's hall is a person with a certain status, so she doesn't dare to offend.

Witt was very uncomfortable with being called for the first time, but he did not want to be embarrassed, so he had to let him in and clean up, and in a calm tone he hoped that the maid would bring him a well-fitting dress. The maid, of course, did not dare to slack off, and soon after leaving the house, she brought Witt a few pairs of clean clothes that could be washed and changed, and then quickly cleaned up the room, and then respectfully withdrew from the room.

After the maid had cleaned up the room and gone out, Witt had washed up and changed into clean clothes, and it was already past the hour. Witt was uncomfortable with being served for the first time, but it was still early, and Witt didn't want to waste his time, so he didn't care anymore, and while he still had some time, he sat down on his desk, and by the faint candlelight, he found a book on basic philology and studied it carefully.

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