"It's just in time, I'm going to send someone to the police station to find you two."

Surdak wiped his mouth with a napkin and beckoned Andrew and Samira to sit down and eat together, while Rita brought a pot of cereal porridge and filled Andrew's plate.

Natasha followed in Rita's footsteps and brought a plate of fruit in front of Samira, who knew Samira well enough to know her eating habits and liked fish and fruits.

For the past two months, this half-elf archer has not only been guarding the village of Wall, but has also been training militia battalion members in archery every day at the police station.

The village also organized a group of young people who did not serve in the military to train, and this winter, in addition to practicing basic swordsmanship, the most improved was actual combat archery.

With the exception of sharpshooters, the archery skills of ordinary archers on the battlefield are very different from those of hunters, and the biggest difference is the control of the big picture, usually hunters will hide in the shadows like marksmen, and strike their prey with precision. Ordinary longbowmen, on the other hand, pay attention to the coverage of arrows thrown from a distance.

Almost all winter, Samira trained these young men in archery who had not served in the military.

According to the requirements of the old village chief, Uncle Bright, even if these boys cannot become cavalrymen, they must at least be selected to enter the archer battalion.

Samira lifted her hood, even though these people at the table had seen Samira's delicate face many times, when she lifted her hood at this moment, she was still attracted by the crystal clear and beautiful face, only the pale red pupils made her seem incompatible with the other elves.

Every time Surdak would think of the scene on the arrow tower of the wall of Warzhmara, with cold eyes, standing on the high arrow tower, condescendingly looking down at the hell dogs under the city wall, and he was unwilling to retreat when he was in a desperate situation, and one arm frequently used the power of blood to pull the bowstring, and the blood vessels and meridians exploded into a blur of flesh and blood.

Surdak smiled at the half-elf archer Samira and asked, "How are the young people in the village training?" ”

Samira pursed her lips, showing some dissatisfied expressions, and spread her hands a little helplessly, and said to Surdak: "If you use an alloy bow, you can almost reach the target from a distance of thirty meters. ”

This kind of result is not much better than that of a novice.

"The results are really bad!" Surdak chuckled dryly.

To Andrew, who was at the end of the table, he said, "Otherwise, let the young people in the village form a team of longbow shooters!" Longbowmen did not require much accuracy in archery, they mastered the most basic volleys, projectiles, and this period of intensive training can at least be somewhat useful on the battlefield. ”

Andrew nodded.

Surdak then asked Samira: "What about other aspects of training?" ”

"I learned some basic swordsmanship and defensive stance, and I don't know how to ride a horse." Samira said truthfully.

Seeing that the village chief of Bright, Luke, and Charlie looked at him with a puzzled expression, Surdak explained: "This time I will lead a cavalry battalion to Bena City, in addition to the two hundred cavalry that the cavalry battalion itself currently has, but also to recruit some cavalry, my idea is to give priority to recruiting from the barren land, if the number of cavalry is not enough, I plan to go to the city hall of Highlandsa to ask for some new soldiers, maybe there is a team of longbowmen in the cavalry battalion, no one should mind." ”

"How many more people are going to be recruited?" The old village chief asked Surdak.

"I'm going to take a cavalry regiment of five hundred men, so I'm going to recruit three hundred new cavalry." Surdak said.

"There are less than eighty young people participating in the winter training this time, and this is still from the neighboring villages to get some young people together, now it seems that the cavalry battalion is at least two hundred people, I will go to the villages to see, there should be young people of appropriate age who are willing to join, or this time I see the harvest of the veterans in the cavalry battalion in the desert, those veterans who have been hesitant before, this time they can also figure it out and are willing to participate in the cavalry battalion." The old village chief said.

With so many people in the Wasteland, it was not easy to assemble a cavalry battalion.

Subsequently, Surdak asked about the placement of Andrew's cavalry battalion.

……

After breakfast, Surdak and the old village chief and their party came to the cavalry camp camp - the row house.

The veterans temporarily surrounded a horse farm with straw ropes and sticks in the dry river loop, where Surdak's greatest harvest in the desert was kept - nearly 900 war horses and more than 100 camels, and a group of war horses circled around the horse farm, trampling the sand on the river loop to dust, and the war horses were panting, like a steaming mist in the horse pen on such a winter morning.

Fifteen cavalry battalion veterans squatted on the ground to fill the hay, the haystack as high as a hill was beside them, a group of kobold slaves crawled out of the haystack, they slept in the haystack last night, the kobold row house has been occupied by the cavalry battalion veterans, fortunately, the kobold slaves are covered with natural fur, and they are not too afraid of the cold.

The kobold slave didn't seem to have seen so many scenes of war horses galloping, and was stunned by the war horses in the horse farm for a while.

These kobolds were brought back by Luke last night, they pushed the four-wheeled carriage, and sent some forage from Pusbag Mountain overnight, these nearly a thousand cattle were raised in the horse pen, and the amount of forage consumed every day was very huge, and the village did not prepare so much forage, which is why Luke rushed back overnight.

The waiting veterans scattered pots of forage cut by guillotines into the manger, and so many horses crowded up together, and the horse pen was full of horse manure and the smell of urine.

"With so many horses, you can almost form two cavalry battalions."

Standing outside the stable, Luke said with an amazed expression.

He only came from Pupu Mountain in the middle of the night last night, and he didn't see so many war horses at night, and when he saw the horses, he couldn't help but exclaim.

Even if it was to build a cavalry battalion, Surdak didn't know how to get together five hundred cavalry, and he didn't plan to build two cavalry battalions at this time, so Andrew and the old village chief said: "Then pick one, choose some of the best physique to stay as war horses, the number of these war horses should be controlled at about 600, and the rest of the horses will be left to the village to form a convoy." ”

Chief Brett frowned and asked Surdak, "How many horses do you have here?" ”

"Almost 900 horses...... Surdak didn't know the exact number, but could only give a rough number.

"It's 916 horses." Andrew added on the sidelines.

Uncle Bright, the old village chief, frowned and asked, "Then it means that after removing the six hundred war horses of the cavalry battalion, there are still nearly three hundred horses to be left in the village?" ”

"That's pretty much it." Surdak nodded in acknowledgement.

Uncle Bright lowered his head and pondered for a while before saying: "You don't want to see if the village can eat it, the village has raised hundreds of yellow sheep at present, and the Beigou grassland is so big, even if the rain is sufficient, the grass that grows can't support these yellow sheep and horses at all, so let's do it, the village convoy only needs 100 horses at most, and the rest of the horses are left to us to not be able to feed, Duck, you can watch and deal with it yourself." ”

I don't know when the ogre Gulitum came up from behind, and with an excited look on his face, he suggested to Surdak:

"The rest of the horses...... Or kill them all and dry them into horse jerky? ”

Uncle Bright, the old village chief, blew his beard and glared angrily, and roared at the ogre with an angry face: "These are war horses, not yellow sheep that can be slaughtered casually, a war horse can be exchanged for at least forty yellow sheep on the battlefield, Gulitham, let you think about it......"

The ogre Gulitham stood behind everyone, smirking at the angry village chief of Bright, scratching his head before he said, "Then why don't we take out the horses that we don't need and replace them with yellow sheep, and then kill them to make jerky?" ”

Surdak thought Gulit had a good idea, but of course he didn't want to sell horse meat, but to buy the remaining horses to the horse market.

Even if two hundred war horses are sold for twenty gold coins each, they can get back four thousand gold coins, so that all the fees paid to the Sea Giant Mercenary Group will be earned, and there will be a surplus.

So Surdak took the opportunity to say: "This proposal of Gulitham is good, we will pick out all the good horses, and take the remaining retired war horses and injured horses to the horse market and sell them." ”

The old village chief didn't expect that everyone only stood in front of the horse circle and discussed for a few minutes, and it seemed that the fate of all the war horses would be decided.

Surdak thought that there were a few veterans in the cavalry battalion who were good at raising horses, and they should also be good at watching horses, so he instructed Andrew: "Andrew, you go to find those horsemen in the cavalry battalion to come here and choose war horses, first select 600 war horses for the cavalry battalion, and then select 100 horses for the village convoy, and we will take the rest to Bena City and sell ......"

"Okay, boss!" Andrew hurriedly agreed.

In order to choose a war horse, there would be no omission, Surdak found an empty tent and started the sacrificial ceremony, adding the blessing of the 'True Eye' god to himself.

When walking back to the horse farm, several horsemen have already stood in the horse circle and began to select excellent war horses, almost all the war horses they selected Surdak had to be re-screened to see if these war horses had dark wounds, after a round of selection, I didn't think that there were less than 600 horses that could still go to the battlefield, and I barely got together to select 550 war horses for the cavalry battalion.

A few horsemen then selected 150 horses and handed them to the village chief of Bright, so that he could reorganize the village convoy.

The remaining 200 or so inferior horses had to be transported to the horse market in Bena City, and it would be most economical for them to be transported overland to Bena City by normal means.

It's just that Surdak wants to lead the cavalry battalion to Bena City, and there is no time to transport so many horses back to Bena City by land, but fortunately, he has a requisition order for Bena Province in his hand, and the biggest effect of this requisition order is that he can requisition any magic airship at the airport dock and carry the cavalry battalion to any place in Bena Province, so this time Surdak led the team to Bena City, without paying a high ticket for a boat, and even took two hundred inferior war horses to Bena City.

Surdak's trip to the desert can be regarded as training 200 veterans with rich combat experience, and then when recruiting new recruits to join the cavalry battalion, the 200 cavalry will be scattered and scattered in various squads of the cavalry battalion, so that they can lead these new troops and quickly adapt to the lifestyle of the cavalry battalion.

In the morning, the old village chief asked the villagers to spread the news of the recruitment of new troops by the Surdak cavalry battalion.

……

In the afternoon, Surdak returned to the police station in the village of Wall.

Fifty young reserve knights had been waiting in the police station all morning, and they were not idle in the police station, and this trip to the desert touched them a lot, and there were many things to discuss and learn, not only the life of the march in the field, but also the way of fighting.

The mercenary regiment and the cavalry battalion veterans used two completely different tactics.

The Sea Giant Mercenary Regiment pays more attention to the personal strength of the mercenaries, and these mercenaries face several robbers at the same time in time on the battlefield, and they basically do not fall behind when fighting.

The veterans of the cavalry battalion paid more attention to the combat strength of the group, and under the knightly aura of Surdak, they were as brave as chickens.

It was also after nearly two months of contact that these young guard battalion reserve knights were completely convinced by Surdak, at least in front of Surdak, those lazy habits disappeared, and when they puffed up their chests one by one, they looked more like knights.

When facing Andrew and Samira, there is no contempt.

To say that the courses of the Knight Academy are still somewhat useful, at least these young knights are not bad at riding.

Seeing Surdak walk into the police station with Andrew and Samira, fifty reserve knights of the guard battalion stood up in unison and saluted Surdak.

Surdak stood in a group of reserve knights of the guard battalion and said with a serious face:

"After this period of experience, I think you have understood the cruelty of war, the barren land is located in the most remote area of the city of Hylanza, there are all kinds of bandit groups here all year round, the whole area is very vast, the guard battalion has set up a security squadron here, just to maintain the law and order of the barren land, if you plan to stay in the barren land security squadron, you must have the heart to fight with the bandit group, if you are still like two months ago, just want to live here, then I ask you to leave as soon as possible."

"Of course, I also welcome everyone to stay and help me manage the law and order in the barren land, if everyone stays, then I will work with you in the security squadron for the next period of time."

"Let's talk about your mission, the Badlands Security Squadron currently has only 8 squads......"

Surdak said a lot to the young reserve knights in the vigilante, and no one chose to quit the Badlands vigilante squadron.

If these reserve knights want to become official knights, they probably won't easily give up their status as guards battalion knights, and since they have all suffered so much in the desert, there is no reason to quit now.

Surdak led the knights of the guard battalion around the village of Wall, and promulgated the system of security squadrons, including the punishment of leave duties, etc.

This time, Surdak led the cavalry battalion to the White Forest Plane, and Samira and Andrew were bound to set off with the army, so the security of the Wall Village would fall on these young men.