Chapter 3 Military Training and Goose Steps

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"Military training? What is that?" Militia Captain Harrison was not fully recovered, but he was able to get out of bed and walk, and he couldn't let go of the defense of Canaan Town, so he ran directly to Leon for advice. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info But before it was his turn to make suggestions, Leon was directly stuffed with a recruit training plan, which is the so-called military training.

"Military training, as the name suggests, is the training that allows ordinary people to become regular soldiers. Leon held a piece of parchment in his hand, which he had spent two days tossing and crafting, the draft of military training: "I took the time to look at the training of the militia, and in my opinion, it only deserves the word 'mess', and in my plan, the old training mode will be replaced with the new one." ”

The medieval training model of Canaan is naturally quite rudimentary, with the militia sticking a few scarecrows in the leveled open space, poking them with guns and slashing with their swords, which is what they call "training". If the training level of the human soldiers on the Broadland plane is at this level, then Leon probably knows why the orcs, who are more backward than humans, can be destroyed.

But Harrison didn't think so, after all, he had been trained like this since he was a child, and he had a deep affection for it: "No, you can't do that! We swear the lads are doing the best training right now, and to be honest I can't believe ......"

Harrison shook the parchment in his hand and looked at Leon and Carrot beside him with questioning eyes: "Is what you said about walking in unison and shouting slogans really work? No matter how you look at it, it's like a child's game!"

"Captain Harrison, don't worry. Leon comforted him: "This is how the central government trains recruits, and the military training program I provide is only at the entry level in the central training program. Although generally speaking, the young men who have been trained in this way are not even qualified to be militiamen, but they are enough to face the current situation. ”

Seeing that Leon pulled out the tiger skin of "Imperial Center", even if he was as stubborn as Harrison, he had no way to refute it, but Leon still had some doubts and distrust in his eyes when he looked at him.

There is no way to do this, after all, not everyone can calmly accept new things that they can't understand, but Leon believes that as long as he sees the results of military training, Harrison will definitely be convinced - this is the essence of nearly a hundred years of military research by earthlings, how can he not do the extensive training in the Middle Ages in Canaan?

In fact, the core content of Lyon's simplified military training is simple: discipline. Earthlings realized the importance of discipline to the military until the so-called era of queue shooting, and before that, although there were so-called elite troops such as Macedonian pikes and tiger and leopard cavalry, these were the products of the unconscious use of discipline by military generals.

The reason why the modern army was able to crush the feudal army was because of such a discipline, by orders and prohibitions, not by the so-called elite troops!

Of course, it is impossible to build the militia in Canaan Town into a modern army that is forbidden in a short period of time, not to mention that Leon is an archmage, even if the emperor himself who is worshipped as a god by the people, it is estimated that it will not be possible. So Leon's purpose is very simple, he doesn't need to make the militia into an elite force, he just needs to make the militia obey the command before the next invasion of the orcs.

Good troops will infect each other, as long as there are the first troops who can obey the command and can walk in unison, then the next training will be much easier. In this case, as long as you survive the second attack of the coming orcs, wait until a month from now that winter will come - the winter in Broadland will last for three months, during which time the temperature will plummet and the snow will be heavy, the orc attack will be forced to stop, and the town of Canaan will have a three-month respite.

Leon, on the other hand, could take advantage of the winter to make contact with the dwarves in Felt City, and it would be even better if he could take the opportunity to bring back a batch of crossbow arrows.

Of course, this may be a bit far away now, and the current focus is on the training of new recruits. Leon and Harris went to the open space where the militia was training, and Carrot was sent by him to oversee the expansion of the wall, which was still too low in Canaan, so Leon ordered the demolition of some of the badly damaged houses and the use of surplus materials to reinforce the wall.

In the wide open space, the militia training was proceeding in an orderly manner, but they were clearly divided into two groups. One group is made up of old militias that are stubbornly reluctant to accept new forms of training, while the other is made up of residents who have volunteered to join the army and militias who are willing to accept new training.

The old militia is still hehehaha, poking at the scarecrow in no order. The new militiamen, on the other hand, were barely lined up, training in a strange walking posture.

The goose step, also known as the positive step, originated in the Napoleonic period and was carried forward in the Kingdom of Prussia, the predecessor of modern Germany, and is still a necessary way of walking for the **** army to this day. Leon had suffered from this rather uncomfortable pace before the crossing, but he knew that although the goose step was difficult to practice, it was immeasurable for the improvement of discipline, after all, one wrong step would affect the march of the entire queue, which would unconsciously exercise the collectivist spirit of the recruits.

At the top of the queue of recruits was a tall middle-aged man, and Leon had some impression of him, and he remembered that this seemed to be the first guy to answer his call after falling from the sky, and was stimulated by his magic to fight orcs with a sledgehammer. He is also the most serious one in the entire queue, although his head is covered with beads of sweat, he still insists on the goose step leg raising posture, not only that, but he also stares at the swaying guys in the queue with very serious eyes, like a captain.

"Harris, I have a proposal. Leon knew that it was impossible to make everyone willingly accept the new training program, and instead of forcing them, it was better to speak with facts: "For these two groups, you train your group in the old way, I train this group in the new way, and in a week let the two groups have a real fight - if your people win, I will cancel the military training program, and if I win, I will ask you to be the head of the military training program." What do you think of this?"

"My lads are the best!" Harris looked up, his upper body still wrapped in several bandages, but it didn't affect his training.

Seeing that Harris was in high spirits and ran to train people, Leon smiled and shook his head, and then he turned his gaze to his own team.

The tall middle-aged man at the head of the line made a deep impression on him, so Leon stepped forward and said, "Everyone is doing a good job, but I hope you can do better! ”

Leon deliberately started in the opposite direction of the middle-aged man, leaving him to be the last.

The leg lift of the goose step was already tiring, and now Leon asked them to distract themselves to introduce themselves, which immediately upset the balance, and almost all of them staggered when introducing themselves, and a few even fell to the ground without holding on.

Only the last one, the tall man, although his head was covered with fine beads of sweat, although his whole body was trembling slightly, he persevered.

"My name is Reinhardt, I used to be a deserter in Volcano City, and now I work as a helper in the town's blacksmith shop!" the tall man almost roared out, "I used to be a coward, until you appeared, it was you who guided me to overcome the weakness of my heart!

"Well said, Reinhardt! Now you can put your legs down and rest. Leon applauded: "Reinhardt is the best of all, I now appoint Reinhardt as the captain of the squad, and he will be in charge of training when I am not there - speaking of which, Reinhardt should know how to read, right?"

"Yes, I know how to read!" Reinhardt stood up straight even though Leon said he could rest.

"Well, this is the training plan, your mission is very simple, train according to the requirements for the next seven days, and then put over there after seven days-" Leon pointed to the militia on the opposite side who were slashing the scarecrows under Harrison's scolding, "Can you beat them down?"

"No problem!"

"Alright, I still have something to do, so you can continue. ”

Leon didn't want to be the boss of the house, but he did have a lot of things waiting for him to deal with - whether it was the resumption of production or the resettlement of residents.

However, Leon thought about the parchment handed to Reinhardt, which in addition to the requirements of goose steps and military postures, had a lot of training to strengthen the discipline of the troops—a week was enough time for Harris, who had been trained in a disorderly manner, to drink a jug.

It's just that...... Leon looked up at the distant sky, hoping that the orc attack would be a little later, a little later......