Chapter 571: Training and Behind the Scenes
Limited by the education level of the people at the bottom of this world, William could only adopt the military system of the ancient Roman Empire in his previous life.
A squad of 10 people is formed, and there is a squad leader.
Every ten squads form a squadron, also known as a hundred-man squadron, with a squadron leader and an adjutant.
The five squadrons form a regiment with one regiment commander and two deputy regimental commanders.
William named the infantry regiment "Thunder Fury" for the slaves and mercenaries, and appointed himself as the commander, with the former mercenary leader David as the deputy commander, and the other deputy commander vacant.
The five squadron leaders are all mercenaries, and the squad leaders are mercenaries and slaves.
But in front of the official positions of these deputy regiment commanders, squadron leaders, and squad leaders, William added the word "generation" to them.
In other words, in the process of training, if the performance is not good, he will be replaced by Willian at any time.
The capable go up, and the mediocre go down.
This was the heaviest sentence that William said when he was speaking, which made a group of slaves and former mercenaries feel close to each other.
The day after the lecture, William's training began.
He had wasted a lot of time on these worldly things, and because of that, William was very demanding.
The first step is to practice standing in line, turning left and right, and running in unison.
To this end, William also specially asked the tailor shop to make a batch of sleeve scarves and tied them to the right side of the trainees to allow the trainees to better distinguish the direction.
But the results are still miserable.
In the army, only good soldiers can appear with sticks, like the ancient famous generals in William's previous life, who trained soldiers at every turn, and killed their heads at every turn, and severely punished when they made mistakes, so that they could train good soldiers in a hundred battles.
William has experience, so naturally he will not be confused in these areas.
He dispatched twenty mercenaries, directly under his command, and the magic mirror fully monitored all the queues, as long as they did something wrong, they would command the mercenaries to go up, and they would be beaten, or the entire queue would be punished directly.
The whole team is punished or the whole team is rewarded, this is to cultivate a sense of community in the queue.
After a meal of fierce medicine, the queue slowly became regular, and there was a little taste.
At this time, more than half a month has passed, and the next step of training can continue.
Platoon training, long-distance running training, basic martial arts movement training, team signal knowledge learning, and basic text learning are carried out uninterruptedly.
After a full day of high-intensity training, many newly transferred soldiers secretly complained and complained.
But the first to go into action and not want to continue training were a few of David's selected mercenaries.
They begged William to lower the intensity of his training, but William refused.
They asked to go back to the city to patrol the city, but William ruthlessly refused.
So, when their demands were not met, they were led by a bold guy named Frank, and together with five mercenaries, they tried to escape from the barracks at night.
The result speaks for itself, he was caught by William.
Frank, the only son of a good brother who died, has been taken care of by David, and has developed a naughty and bold personality because of this.
He knew that William was just a hunter and only became a nobleman by good luck, and he had always been jealous and unconvinced of him in his heart.
That night, he saw that William was only one person, and he wanted to resist, but he was directly suppressed by William.
The other four mercenaries did not dare to resist.
The next day, William summoned everyone in the barracks, announced the charges of Frank's five people in full view, and directly sentenced them to death and executed them on the spot.
Frank was frightened on the spot when he heard this result, crying and crying and crying to plead with his Uncle David.
David couldn't bear it, looked at William, but only saw a pair of emotionless eyes, his heart was terrified, thinking of his own children, he didn't dare to speak, and watched William cut off the heads of five mercenaries.
The so-called killing chickens and monkeys is nothing more than that.
After this incident, no one dared to complain anymore and the training continued.
But this is only to make the army afraid of him, not to make the army respect him and obey him, and become his tool like a commander.
Therefore, William also had to lead by example, exercising with the army every day, training together in the cold and windy weather, eating together, and suffering together.
What the soldier did, William followed.
The uninterrupted supply of meat, the treatment of diseases, medicine, brainwashing, idolatry and other means were used by William, so that the noise in this team of 500 people was completely erased, and he completely obeyed every order given by William, and became his hall.
By this time, more than a month had passed.
The real training begins.
William let the magic mirror refine a simplified version of the knight training method, although it cannot reach the level of stimulating life energy and becoming a knight, but it can also greatly improve his physique, strength, reaction and other quality attributes.
That's not all, there are some special herbs in William's blue plaid apron space, which can be configured into some physical fitness-enhancing medicines, just like the "home remedies" that William used at the beginning.
Of course, William is no longer the original William, he has a lot of resources at hand, and the "home remedies" made by the magic mirror have long been less side effects than before.
It's just that correspondingly, the magnitude of the lift is not so exaggerated.
William mixed the potions into everyone's diet.
Take them for an ultra-simplified version of knight training during the day.
Under such circumstances, the physical strength and strength of the soldiers are increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye, but they are not beyond the scope of normal people, and they are fat and strong, and they are full of energy.
It was only to this extent that William began to train them to carry out military training.
Depending on the weapon, it was divided into a squadron of swordsmen, three squadrons of spearmen, and a mixed squadron of spearmen and archers.
Different squadrons conduct targeted training.
At this time, another few months passed, and some excellent seeds also came to the fore, and some bad acting captains were taken down by William and replaced by excellent soldiers.
William is not a capable soldier who does not bring soldiers to blood, but goes out with different teams every once in a while, secretly crosses the border, and goes to the territory of Prince Freette next door, attacking the border area, which is located in a relatively remote village.
It must have been unsatisfactory at first, and there were all kinds of situations.
Fortunately, with William and the Magic Mirror, no one managed to escape, and no one was able to spread the news smoothly.
After capturing several villages, William's team was trained and became an elite who had seen blood and fought battles.
All the officials of the territory or the knights of the fiefdom were killed, and the common people, even with their families, were taken captive, and all the wealth that could be taken away was taken away, and the property that could not be taken away, such as houses and fields, was to be burned in front of all the captives, and the people's delusions were cut off.
Then he brought all these captives to his village of Novonese, where they were to be used as the lowest slaves, to be strictly supervised, and to become the screws of the Novonese village.
Anyway, these things, the two princes did the first year of junior high school, don't blame him for doing fifteen, he is just a courtesy.
And William knew that it was Prince Charles who did it at the beginning, but later he was looking for trouble with Prince Ferrett.
This is for a different purpose.
In addition to the previous and backwards, a total of five villages in Prince Ferrett's territory were destroyed by William with the "Thunder Fury".
As a result, the village of New Nesse was replenished with a large number of laborers, and its population swelled all the way to 2,100 people.
That's infinitely close to the population of a barony's town.
Because of the magic mirror, the slave's range of movement is also limited to a certain area, so there is no wind to show up.
Those who think this way and act on it have become fertilizer in the village of Neunese.
Of course, although most of it is William's credit, Thunder's Fury has no credit and hard work, after all, it cost more than a dozen lives.
William also made the reward.
In addition to the pensions for the war dead, his family was promoted directly from slaves to freemen. In addition to food, shelter and food, there is also extra pay for work, and of course, most importantly, freedom!
Among the "Thunder Fury" infantry regiments, those who performed outstanding in the battle process, those who made war exploits, and those who were slaves, directly became free people. Those who were freemen were rewarded with money. The best performance is directly given to the house.
The clear rewards and punishments, and the open path to social ascent greatly stimulated all members of Thunderrage.
In the ensuing battle, they simply forgot to die. As a result, the results of the battle became more and more abundant, and William also got an army that could barely be seen in combat effectiveness.
And the other side.
Poor Prince Feret, five villages in the territory have been uprooted, and he is so angry that he is about to vomit blood, and he doesn't know who the murderer is behind the scenes?
Prince Freette also sent men to William's territory to inquire about the situation, but before the spies could enter William's village within fifty miles, they were detected by the magic mirror and reported to William.
William Shi Shiran hid the captured slaves, and then waited for Prince Ferrett's spies to come to the door under various identities, but the investigation did not yield any results.
Actually, Prince Ferret didn't think that William, a newborn little lord and little nobleman, would be a murderer!
The real object of his suspicion is actually his older brother, the eldest prince Charles.
In this vicinity, only Charles has such strength.
As for why you attacked him?
Ferrette had always thought that his brother had poop in his head, and that it was possible to do whatever he wanted on impulse.
So Prince Ferret sent a large number of men into Prince Charles's territory to investigate.
It didn't take long for the spies to be discovered by Prince Charles' men.
The two former princes, who work together to deal with their younger brother, get into a heated quarrel.
It was only a serious suspicion, a strong denial, and in such a situation, the quarrel would never have come to fruition, but the relationship between the two princes was thus cold.
When the new king Liszt heard the news in the palace, his face gradually turned pale, and he was happy to eat a piece of white bread.
And William's territory, under the noses of the two princes, developed rapidly.
Through trade, William's fiefdom continued to buy slaves, replenish the population, and engage in manual labor.
Some slaves who had done well in the past were constantly promoted, promoted to first-class slaves, to freemen.
All the soldiers of the infantry regiment like Thunder Fury are free people.
The population has grown to more than 7,900 people, which is very close to the minimum population of a city.
Cities, on the other hand, are generally owned by nobles above the earl's level.
The increase in population brings about the improvement of other aspects.
The original village of Novonese was certainly not enough to live in, unless most of the slaves lived outside the village.
So new civil works were launched.
With the village of Novonese as the core, a new nine-square grid was built.
The new village of Nisse directly occupies more than a third of William's entire territory, and the rivers and fields are encased in it, and it is not far from the village gate to the wilderness plain.
At this time, the name of the village is not suitable, and the name of the city is almost the same - the city of Nise!
Few lords dared to build a village or city near the wilderness plains, because too conspicuous buildings would attract attacks from unknown beings in the wilderness.
But William was clearly not the one who was afraid of this little danger.
A city is not the same as a village.
In addition to the infantry regiment of Thunderfury in the city of Nisse, a second infantry regiment, Red Flame Storm, was also established, and there was also a cavalry squad.
In addition to this, the city also had the City Guard, a violent unit of internal violence that acted as a police officer and managed the city's population according to the rules laid down by William.
In fact, it is mainly caravans coming and going.
Taverns were built, as were schools for teaching crafts...... Spring has passed, summer is coming, and the whole Hanlai Territory has developed too amazingly.
At this time, Prince Charles and Prince Ferret suddenly discovered that Hanlai Ling had become a hard bone that was difficult to gnaw.
William didn't bother to hide it.
As a result, Prince Freette found among William's freedmen that the villagers of the burned villages in his former territory had become a little fatter.
Only then did Prince Ferrette know that William was the real murderer behind the scenes.
He frantically accused William and said that William would pay the price, remove William's title, and reduce William to a slave.
And William's response was a silent back of his head.
Prince Freette was mad, lost his previous forbearance, and did not wait for the new king Liszt's ruling messenger, and directly gathered most of the army in the territory, a full 5,000 people, dressed in excellent equipment, and crushed towards William's territory.
At the beginning, William's troops were all panicked, after all, there were 5,000 people on the other side, and the total number of people on their side was only more than 1,000, which was five times that of them.
Five to one, no matter how you look at it, it's a loss.
The result is definitely not much better if you lose!
The villagers who had lived a good life in William's Hanley had difficulty accepting the old days.
But such worries disappeared after William led them to a few victories.