Another component of the Lockin army was the private soldiers of the nobility.

It is said that it is a private soldier, but in fact, it is not the kind of ancient China that privately raised and raised family thugs, and the weapons were restricted, and the armor and crossbow were found to be raided and exterminated.

No matter what, the nobles of this world also have the right to raise soldiers reasonably and legally.

If you're rich enough, let alone maintain a team of warriors in iron armor, it's not against the law to keep a ballista trebuchet in your possession.

According to feudal obligations, since Luo Ming is now the county guard, it is completely feasible to require most of the nobles in the county to send a certain amount of troops.

Although the purpose is not to defend the country, but to go abroad to fight, there is a slight suspicion of abuse of power, but Luo Ming will pay well, and most nobles will not refuse.

Originally, renting out combat power was a way for nobles to make money, but sometimes they would lose the battle, and sometimes the other party would refuse to pay the bill, so this channel was not very reliable.

But if Luo Ming, who has not tasted defeat and has a good credit, and is not short of money, goes on the expedition, no matter what kind of risk is very small, they will not refuse to contribute some helpers.

Although the aristocratic private army has the disadvantage of being chaotic and not easy to command, it has to be said that there is indeed a rare elite force among them.

Knights and knights were of course the most elite warriors, and were trained in horsemanship, swordsmanship, spearmanship, and weight-bearing operations from an early age.

Their nutrition and training intensity will not be much lower than that of Luo Ming's elite soldiers, and the training time will definitely be longer in more than ten years, so the quality is naturally needless to say.

Luo Ming had actually given up on training cavalry of the same level from scratch on his own - if he recruited inexperienced people to learn from scratch, no matter how much he compressed the learning time, it would take ten years to compare with the feudal knights who were serious.

His current plan was, on the one hand, to train weaker, but cheaper and easier to mass-produce cavalry by relying on firearms and formations, and on the other hand, to concentrate on his knights, and then conduct training to strengthen their discipline.

In addition, the nobles also had some standing or semi-standing armies other than knights.

These men were generally called armed sergeants, and were provided with armor by the nobles, or they were able to prepare their own armor (e.g., kulak small landowners), and were in a state of full-time or semi-full-time.

Although they do not necessarily have war horses to use, they also often receive combat training, which can be said to be a rare elite.

What is commendable is that they are also very proficient in skirmishing, unlike most of Luo Ming's soldiers who are mainly proficient in phalanx warfare and are not familiar with squad combat or heads-up.

These armed sergeants can then be used to cover phalanx flanks, surprise enemy troops, or fight in a chaotic scuffle.

Of course, the evaluation of the aristocratic private soldiers has always been mixed, and this is not without reason - of course, there are elites under the command of the nobles, but at the same time, they often rely on their power to bring in some miscellaneous fish to gather a large number of people.

For example, an ordinary peasant uncle with a pitchfork, or a miscellaneous soldier with no half-inch armor on his body, only a plank shield and an axe......

They can help shout and cheer, scare people with their strong voice, help a little when fighting a tailwind, and can also be used to consume the enemy's physical strength or arrows, which seems to be cheap cannon fodder that is not used in vain.

But of course, Luo Ming has always rejected this kind of thing, in his opinion, the increase in food consumption and military salary expenses of miscellaneous soldiers is not proportional to the improvement of the army's combat effectiveness, and even they sometimes add chaos to themselves, so that the combat effectiveness of the negative growth.

For example, if they are frightened, they may simply break up, and then in turn they will disrupt the army formation on their side and help the enemy.

However, even if Luo Ming's standard of important people is very high, only the elite are selected, and there is no problem in getting five hundred people from the nobles of Van Shee County.