"Father, please allow Sugar Candy to stay in the castle as a knight, so that those rats and dogs will not take advantage of the gap to breed illegal thoughts. Lu Jingzhi took advantage of this opportunity and hurriedly suggested.

The duke stroked his palms and laughed, and said, "Sure enough, my son is smart, since the sugar knight does not go to war, he needs to take the responsibility of defending the city." Old Gasu, if you follow your method, our city will be guarded by no one. ”

When Old Gaso heard this, he smiled bitterly, if he followed his own way, the people guarding the city would naturally be able to find it, so why should he hand it over to this human boy's cronies? But at this time, he had to pretend to praise and said: "Exactly, I am old and confused, and it is rare for the Duke to see that I am following the left and right, and not to worry about me." Please allow me to retire. ”

The duke didn't leave him either, waved him down, picked up the sword on the table and handed it to Lu Jingzhi, and said with a tired face: "Magician, my child, you are too impulsive today. ”

Lu Jingzhi hesitated, took the sword, and carefully inserted it into the sheath on his waist, a little unsure of what to say, so he had to say: "Father, I shouldn't ......"

The Duke smiled indifferently: "Do you want to say that I shouldn't use my feelings for you to deal with old Gazo?

Lu Jingzhi's face tightened for a while, and he said embarrassedly: "Father, do you see it? You don't mind that this is a ...... Do you want to use it?"

The Duke shook his hand and said, "Don't think so, my child. You use me against your enemies, and I use you against my enemies. My enemies can be seen and touched, and they can shoot with a bow and slash with a sword, but your enemies often lie in ambush where we cannot see, and are always looking for your death. Besides, you are my son, so I naturally want to favor you. ”

Lu Jingzhi's heart was a little empty, and he didn't know whether the duke's words to him were true or false, so he said: "Father, your love for me is only afraid that there will be no way to repay it, and only by doing my best to serve you can I relieve the fear in my heart a little." ”

The duke smiled and said, "Let's go and prepare for battle." As long as our father and son join forces, whether he is a visible enemy or an invisible enemy, we will kill him. ”

Lu Jingzhi nodded in agreement and left.

On the other side, old Gaso was secretly complaining. He hadn't gone far from the duke's room when he felt a murderous aura slowly approaching him. Before he could turn back, a sharp Roman dagger was pressed against the back of his neck.

"Is it the Sugar Knight?" Old Gaso didn't have to look back, he knew who was coming. The Roman dagger was only used by archers, and the only archers who could enter and leave the castle's main building at will were Leviatan and Sugar Candy, and only Sugar Candy had a reason to attack him.

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, he heard a cold snort in his ear, "Don't make a sound, or I'll cut off your head." ”

Gasso leaned over and chuckled in a low voice, "No, little girl, you won't do anything to poor old Gasso." ”

Sugar Candy gently let go of the short sword, and the broad blade on the sword immediately pierced the skin on Gaso's neck, and she also lowered her voice and said, "You think I won't? Oh, but you guessed wrong, I would." ”

"Okay, okay, sweet little girl, what are you doing to bully poor old Gasso?"

Tangtang said: "I heard everything you said inside, you want to deal with Brother Jing, aren't you?"

Gaso laughed: "I thought it was a big deal, but it turned out that you were talking about Your Excellency the Magician." I'm not trying to deal with him, I'm just trying to help him. ”

Sugar Candy stabbed the sword a little deeper, and said, "Don't try to lie to me, you know that he won't let you hurt me, but he said to his face that he wants me to eat that messy mess and make him angry." I saw them all. ”

Gasso laughed softly: "Good girl, if you stab harder, my head will fall off, so that people can see that your brother Jing will also be implicated." ”

Tangtang said: "I don't believe it, if I kill you, you can escape quickly and won't be seen by anyone." ”

Gasso laughed: "Even I can guess that it is you standing behind me, and of course others can guess that you killed me." You see that your blade is so thin, the incision must be very smooth, and the only ones who can kill me with a short sword here are you and your swordsmanship teacher, but you are the only one who has a reason to kill me. If I were you, I would pick an axe or a sledgehammer and do it again. Alas, little girl, you are still too young to understand such a superficial truth. ”

Sugar Candy thought to herself, why was she so stupid that she couldn't even think of changing her weapon beforehand?

"You...... Don't deal with Brother Jing in the future, or I will have a chance to kill you!" Tangtang didn't relax in her tone at all, she was still fierce, but she didn't know that this sentence was already indicating that she wouldn't kill him.

"Okay, okay. Old Gaso laughed, "Good girl, take your sword away." It's useless to put it here, you're not going to kill me again, are you?"

Tangtang thought for a moment, put away the sword, and said, "Even if you guessed right this time." But you may not always be able to guess correctly. ”

Old Gaso took a few steps forward on crutches and said, "Do you want to take me back to the right tower, or do you want to stay with the Duke?"

Tangtang said, "Hurry up and leave you, I won't send you." ”

Old Gaso turned back to Tangtang and smiled: "Lovely little girl, you know that your brother Jing will go with me with the duke's army, and you can't go." If you really want me to be nice to him outside, then you have to promise me one thing. ”

Tangtang's heart tightened and asked, "What's the matter?"

Old Gaso said: "If I have any requirements, as long as it does not endanger your brother Jing's safety, you will do it for me." ”

Tangtang's heart was like fifteen buckets of water, up and down, for fear that this old guy would make any outrageous requests, but he was worried that he would be unfavorable to Brother Jing after the expedition, so after thinking for a while, he finally nodded and said, "Okay, I promise you." But if I see you breaking your word, I'll cut off your head with my own hands. ”

Old Gaso smiled and walked away slowly. Sugar Candy was still in place, she was thinking about who had won in the secret confrontation just now, why didn't she not scare this old guy, but gave him a promise?

When Lu Jingzhi returned to the right tower, he ordered all the knights and servants to be reorganized, so that the knights were equipped with newly made half-body heavy armor and served as heavy armor knights, and the servants all received simple training in knightly etiquette and were promoted to trainee knights. The so-called half-body heavy armor is a special heavy armor made by Lu Jingzhi with the blacksmith, the front half of this armor is the same as the general heavy armor, but the back half of the body is made of leather armor and iron sheets. After many improvements by charcoalsmiths and blacksmiths, the heavy armor was made of new carbonized steel, and the thickness of the front was only half that of ordinary heavy armor, but the hardness was increased by 15%. Not only was the iron material saved, but the weight was also much lighter, and the knights wore them on their bodies, and the speed of the longitudinal horse impact was faster than that of the real heavy cavalry.

The etiquette training they received was even less valuable, and they simply told them some etiquette on the battlefield, such as what to do before launching a charge and what to do after the battle. As long as these guys aren't too rude, no one on the battlefield will care too much about the details of their mannerisms.

The infantry also wore the same heavy armor and became heavy infantry. According to the different weapons, they are divided into heavy-armored pikemen and heavy-armored swordsmen. After Lu Jingzhi learned the lesson of the pikemen who were vulnerable to attack in the Battle of Border Village, he issued the spears with weighted triangular brackets. When defending, it is difficult for the enemy's cavalry to pick up the spear to attack the unarmed spearmen as long as they are placed on the triangular support, and when attacking, the spear can be taken off the triangular bracket to become a light attacking weapon.

As for the human slaves who accompanied the army, Lu Jingzhi thought twice and decided to train them to fight. In battle, even the most obedient slave will inevitably be harmed. Rather than let them beg for mercy to survive, it is better to have the ability to protect themselves. Lu Jingzhi is confident that under his own tactical arrangement, even the cannon fodder soldiers can have a high survivability. This has been verified in the ambush of the hill.

Blacksmiths and carpenters worked together to build ballistas, and in addition to the large 22-pounder ballistas they had used last time, they also creatively made several 1-pounder light ballistas. This ballista can be mounted on the back of an undead warhorse, and it only takes 3 to 5 minutes to wind it up by one person. It's just that the life of the spring has not yet been completed, and it can only be fired three or five times, and it will have to be replaced.

If you can quickly change the spring, wouldn't it save a lot of time? If you can let other people compress the spring that can be replaced at the same time as the launch, the firing efficiency can be greatly improved. Lu Jingyi thought while asking Sijiu to call the blacksmith master and the carpenter master again.

"Just like this, the master carpenter made more shelves, and forty springs were hung on each rack, which could be pressed separately and released together. After firing, take out the rack of the spring that has been released, then put the pressed one on it, and the projectile can be fired again immediately after it is placed. Lu Jing looked at the carpenter and blacksmith excitedly. The two masters looked at each other and said, "If you follow the adult's method, I'm afraid that this thing can be used a few more times." "Springs have been used simply as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty in China, but the metallurgical technology has not been up to par, so the life span is extremely short. However, in applications, the effect of metal fatigue on spring life has been discovered.

Lu Jingzhi's face was overjoyed, and he said happily: "This is a big deal, if the ballistas in our army can use replaceable components, then the stone balls will be sent out continuously, it will be like a rain of bullets, who can resist it?"

In less than three months, the heavy cavalry formation of the knights has been trained, the knightly etiquette and basic battle formation coordination of the subordinates have also been almost trained, and the double-arm mixed defense line of the heavy infantry has also been trained. However, the light infantry composed of human slaves in the army has not made progress. It's not that Lu Jingzhi's training is ineffective, it's that those humans are unwilling to cooperate. In their words, it is already very hard to go to the battlefield by yourself, so why do you have to find nothing to do to help those undead fight?

Lu Jingzhi also persuaded them to learn to protect themselves, otherwise once the battle line was broken, they were afraid that they would be burned in the flames of war, which was a danger; he also said that if they were trained as light infantry, at least everyone could ensure that they had two meals and one porridge every day, and that they would have meat to eat at every meal, which was a temptation to benefit. Helplessly, these human slaves would rather lie on the training ground and pretend to be dead than do their best to practice.

Is there really nothing Lu Jingzhi can do with them? Will he be able to send troops smoothly in another three months?

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.