Compared with the ambitious Sui Xiong, Crick's ideas are much simpler and more down-to-earth. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At present, in addition to the new agriculture, the work he is focusing on is military training.

The last time he was ordered to participate in the volunteer army to support the Eagle Kingdom, Barony Keane suffered heavy losses, and less than a tenth of more than a hundred people returned, and even the knight Divol Oss died on the battlefield. This greatly damaged the vitality of the Barony Keane, and it can be said that the elite of the territorial army is almost gone.

Generally speaking, a barony should have three knights, and each knight should have roughly three cavalrymen, about ten professional soldiers (Orion sometimes counts them), and about twenty militiamen. And the baron himself should have had six cavalrymen, about twenty professional soldiers, fifty or so militiamen. In general, a barony can dispatch fifteen or sixteen cavalry, about fifty professional soldiers, and a militia in the early hundreds.

Barony Keane is almost a standard barony, and the loss of more than a hundred people at a time is really nerve-wracking. If it weren't for the fact that Creek still had some money, there were still a few masters in the territory, and he had pulled the support of the Void Mask Church, but he was afraid that the bandits would break through the town and loot it on a large scale.

But relying on the master alone is far from enough. Maintain order, hunt down bandits, patrol, collect taxes, checkpoint sentry...... All of this requires manpower. No matter how powerful the masters are, they can't be divided into several people.

Therefore, Creek must recruit more troops and fill the gap in the territory's soldiers.

After much deliberation, he decided to try a different way of training the army by following the example of some historical travel novels.

First, he gave up on recruiting adventurers as professional soldiers. The strength of the adventurers is undoubted. But both loyalty and discipline are very problematic, and professional soldiers themselves do not need to be too strong. What they need is training and discipline.

Then he also abandoned the idea of training militias. The reason why the militia is called the militia. To put it bluntly, it is the common people who have received a little military training. Even if such a soldier has weapons, his combat effectiveness and will to fight are very questionable. When they have the upper hand, they may not be able to catch up with the fleeing enemy, they can't stand the scene when they are in a confrontation, and they are thankful that they don't run away when they are at a disadvantage. Instead of wasting manpower and material resources to train the militia, it is better to save these resources and train a few more professional soldiers.

As for the cavalry, there was really no way, and even among the adventurers, there were very few who could fight on horseback. Most adventurers who "can ride horses" have a level of riding skills that is the level of being able to ride a horse, and they still have to dismount when fighting. Heroes who can fight on horseback, and even charge and shoot on horseback, let alone training, are difficult to recruit.

In fact, in the entire Barony of Keane, there are less than ten people in total who have this ability, including the knight Divor Oss who has died.

Now that it has been decided. Creek sent out a recruitment notice to recruit soldiers throughout the realm.

However, the requirements for recruiting soldiers this time are different from those in the past, and they do not require "physical strength," "fierceness," or "daring to kill," but "honesty and duty," "discipline," and "obedience to orders."

This was a surprise to everyone. James Knight couldn't help but ask.

"My lord, it's okay not to recruit adventurers as soldiers, it's okay not to train militias. But your requirements for recruiting soldiers are no different from those of the others!" advised the loyal Knight Howard James, "you are recruiting professional soldiers who are out of work. Of course, everyone should be required to be tall and big, and they should dare to fight and kill. The kind of honest guy who only listens to orders. What's the use?"

Crick smiled and said, "I didn't know that soldiers should recruit strong men who can dare to fight, but there are very few such people in our territory." If you recruit them again, if something happens, there will really be no militia. On the contrary, keep them in the people, and when there are more people in the future, you can train them to be militia captains, and maybe you can help them at any time. ”

James Knight was stunned for a moment, he felt that this statement seemed to be very reasonable, and it seemed that something was wrong, but after thinking about it, he couldn't think of what the problem was, so he could only frown and leave. As he walked, he was still talking to himself, muttering and pondering.

Crick smiled slightly, fooling a man with only nine intelligence was really not a challenging thing.

For Barony Keane, who had just died more than 100 strong men, it was not easy to recruit strong men who dared to fight and kill, but it was not difficult to recruit honest and obedient ordinary people. In just five or six days, Crick's scheduled thirty people were recruited.

According to his plan, after the thirty people were trained, ten of them were sent to their own direct villages, and the remaining twenty remained in the town. As for the two knights, Charles Oss and Howard James, they are both capable of defending their own realms, and they don't need to worry much about the lord Crick.

After recruiting thirty people, it is natural to train them.

Traditionally, the training program for professional soldiers has three main components: the use of weapons, the wearing of armor, and the simulation of actual combat.

In terms of weapons, professional soldiers are divided into three categories: swords and shields, spears, and bows and arrows. The sword and shield are used by the kind of people who are thick but not tall enough, they are the backbone of the army, responsible for fending off the enemy's attacks, the bow and arrow are used by professionals, there are not many of them, and the lethality is not great, but they can effectively break the morale of the enemy, and as for the use of spears without any special skills, this is the simplest.

In terms of armor, sword and shield soldiers wore heavy armor, usually inlaid armor, or even a composite of chains and animal skins, spearmen wore thick leather armor, and archers wore chain mail if they could, and light leather armor if they did not.

This is not to say that archers are agile and therefore wear light armor, but archers are shrunk back and generally do not need heavy armor.

Albeit...... In fact, the strength of the archers is often the highest, but most of the best archers are also very strong in hand-to-hand combat, but who will let them go into battle to fight with people!

When even the archers had to draw their swords to fight, it was almost the lord's own life that was about to be lost. At this time, who can take care of others!

But Crick's approach is very different. Of the thirty men he recruited, there was not even a single archer or sword and shield soldier. All pikemen. And the armor he prepared for the pikemen was also different, not the usual back leather armor. It's all chain mail.

Although those chain mail are relatively shoddy, no matter how poor the quality is, it is still chain piece mail!

A piece of chain mail, even if crudely made, often costs more than a hundred gold coins. This batch of thirty people's chain mail was almost three thousand five hundred gold coins at once. If it weren't for the fact that the territory itself still had some inventory, and the Eagle Kingdom had returned a lot of relics after the war, just buying these armors would have made Creek, who was not very rich in funds, feel a little distressed.

But I have to admit that thirty soldiers in chain mail armor. Standing in several rows with spears in hand, it is indeed majestic and majestic, and the momentum alone is amazing.

And the training program that Crick gave them was also very strange, not the usual grass man to shoot the target, but first started with lining up, walking in unison and so on.

"Does this stuff work?" asked Howard James privately.

Crick himself wasn't sure, but he felt that anyway, people were recruited and money was spent, so he should finish the experiment.

Under his orders, these soldiers, who not so long ago were farmers or small helpers, had enough to eat and drink every day, and after they had eaten and drunk, they stood in line, walked in unison, and exercised physical training such as long-distance running. In general, they are not like a group of soldiers, but like a group of actors.

Not only that, but Crick visited the barracks every few days to give them political lessons. Tell them that "you are fighting as soldiers, not to make money to support yourself, but to protect your stable life now". Tell them that "for soldiers, death is terrible. But failure and flight are even more terrible", giving them bittersweet memories. Compare the hard life of the past with the stable life of the present...... All in all, think of ways to motivate them.

To be honest, however, the results are mediocre.

It is true that the intelligence of these soldiers is generally not high, and the highest one is only nine, but there are several with seven intelligence. But they are definitely not stupid, and they will not be like some old-fashioned Long Aotian-style novels where the stubborn soldiers are like the protagonists, and when the protagonist's tiger body is shaken, they all bow down and worship, and their loyalty is immediately locked in a hundred.

They came to serve as soldiers, in the final analysis, to make money and live a better life.

And for them, there is nothing more terrible than death. In fact, they are not ready to kill or be killed at all, and they have not yet completed the transformation from ordinary people to warriors.

Why does the general recruitment of professional soldiers emphasize the courage to fight and kill? This is the key.

Crick is not in a hurry, he still trains them to stand in line, walk in unison, and do physical fitness every day, and still make regular rounds to give them lectures and talks.

After about a month, the soldiers were finally in line and walking in unison, so the training moved on to the next step, spears and stabs.

The spear marksmanship is actually a big system, and in general, there are roughly four parts: smashing, stabbing, sweeping, and topping. Smashing, which refers to smashing from top to bottom with a spear, is especially useful when fighting with the opposing pikemen, stabbing, which is the main means of attack, sweeping, which is to use a spear to sweep left and right, driving away monsters such as goblins, and sweeping mobs, which is very useful, and top, which is to fix the spear on the ground, forming a forest of guns that are difficult to reserve, which is naturally used against cavalry, although in practice it is almost impossible to use.

It takes more than half a year for a skilled soldier to learn the four main tricks of the spear. But Crick simply ignored the other three tricks, and only kept the collective stab.

In this way, the speed of training has naturally been greatly accelerated, but the combat effectiveness of the soldiers has also been greatly reduced.

Howard James Cavaliers became worried again, and privately persuaded him, suggesting that he should also train other tricks well.

"I don't have that time. Crick said, "First they have learned the formation-march-march-stabbing in unison, and then they have trained their physical fitness, and then they put on their armor, and they can fight." ”

"This won't work......"

"Anyway, for the time being, it's just for them to exterminate goblins and the like. Crick smiled and said, "I don't need any other tricks for the time being." ”

Once again, the knight of Intelligence Nine was convinced, though he still felt that something was wrong. (To be continued.) )