In the following month, Su Lin lived a very moist life every day, either taking a mandarin duck bath with Felicia and Shi'an, or going to the field every day to see and fertilize.

On this day, just as he was sleeping soundly with Felicia in his arms, Tim's voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Lord Duke, our mission for this month has been completed, please go and take a look!"

As soon as he heard this, Su Lin, who was still asleep, immediately turned over and sat up, and then quickly got dressed and ran out, without even noticing that he had pulled the quilt off Felicia's body.

Soon the two of them came to the warehouse where the weapons were stored, and when they entered the door, they were greeted by a row of longbows arranged in order, a row of five hundred, a total of six rows.

If you go further inside, you will see that there are recurve bows, about a thousand of them.

At this time, Su Lin was also very excited in his heart, with these weapons, he had a lot of confidence in the face of any accidents in the future.

"Lord Duke, in addition to these, the warehouse also has a lot of bows and arrows, armor, shields, spears and short swords, all of which have been done together. Tim explained as he walked.

Immediately Surin saw the weapons he had mentioned, bundles of bows and arrows, rows of dense spears, armor consisting of simple chain mail and iron sheet armor, and three wooden shields of different sizes placed on the walls.

One is the rectangular shield, which is used by the infantry with a spear to resist the impact and carry out positional warfare, the second is a circular shield, which is used with a short sword to carry out an assault, disrupt the formation or carry out the finish, and the third shield is the smallest, directly only more than 20 centimeters, which is a knight's shield.

These three shields were also proposed by Surin for them to be made, so that they can be used by different branches of the army, although they are small in number now, but as long as they use different arms reasonably, I believe that it is not a problem to resist twice as many enemies.

He also recruited another 1,000 soldiers from Gordon, the commander of the infantry, and now the town's strength has reached 4,000 men, 1,000 each for archers, cavalry, spear and shield men, and sword and shield men.

After sighing, Surin walked back again, and saw the last weapon in the warehouse, the sixty-seven-centimeter long Roman short sword, the other weapons were made of wood, so those soldiers participated in the production, but these short swords were made of pure steel, and it took the blacksmiths several months to build.

Su Lin picked up a short sword and observed it carefully, the previous one was made of wood, and naturally there were deficiencies in all aspects.

The first impression of holding it in the hand is that the center of gravity of the sword is at the back, not at the front of the sword, which means that the short sword is suitable for stabbing rather than chopping, with a blade width of five centimeters and two blades.

After a few gestures, Su Lin also put the short sword back, shook his head, and prepared to officially start the systematic training of those soldiers, which was only for them to train their physical fitness and standing posture before.

Just as he was about to walk out, Tim looked embarrassed and said to Surin in a deep voice: "Lord Duke, now that we have no extra iron weapons in our town, it is impossible to make weapons again. ”

After hearing this, Su Lin also sighed, these weapons in the warehouse were all found from the Hebrew secret room before, and the rusty ones were newly made into short swords, so there is no iron to use now.

Fortunately, the current weapons and farm tools can meet the needs of this stage, so we can only wait until later to go to the mountains to find out if there is any iron ore.

He then instructed Tim to build a batch of crossbows, which could be made without iron.

Tim also gladly accepted this order, and now he has more than 100 people under his command, plus Schliman's carpenters, there will be no shortage of manpower.

After visiting the weapons warehouse, Surin went to the archers to see how their training was going.

When they arrived, they saw everyone holding stone locks, which was also the training task assigned to them by Su Lin, and they were sweating profusely.

He also asked these people to draw the longbow one by one, except for a small number of people who can easily pull it full, most of them are very difficult to pull after being full, and they can't hold on for long, for archers, arm strength is very important.

At this time, the captain of the archery team, Viba, also came over after seeing Su Lin, put his right hand on his chest and saluted, and then said, "Lord Duke, you are here." ”

"I'll see how you're training. Su Lin replied with a smile.

"After a month of training, their arm strength has improved and they are ready for full-fledged shooting training. Wiba looked serious and looked forward to starting shooting training.

Hearing this, Surin also asked him to take people to the warehouse to carry a thousand bows out, and then distributed them to everyone.

When they got the longbow, they also had a smile on their faces, they had been training for so long, and the purpose was to wait for this day.

Then Surin picked up another bag of arrows and handed it to Viba, and at the same time said: "Shoot the arrows in the shortest time as fast as you can, and see how many you can shoot?"

Seeing that Su Lin was deliberately thinking about himself, Wiba also decided to show his hand in front of him, and immediately stuck all the arrows on the ground, took a deep breath and began to shoot into the distance.

After the arrow was fired, Su Lin first wanted to know the specific range of the bow, and saw that Viba shot a distance of one hundred and seventy meters after drawing the bow, which was considered an ultra-long range in this era.

When Wiba shot the eighth arrow, he could clearly feel his speed slow down, and thin beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Seeing this, Su Lin knew that he had reached the limit, so he hurriedly stretched out his hand to make him stop: "Okay, it's not bad, but I still have to continue training, I have to do ordinary physical training with other soldiers every morning, and I only practice shooting in the afternoon, I know!"

"Understood"

When Surin turned around, everyone was also standing upright, with their right hands on their chests, watching him leave.

Surin was also a little disappointed with Viba's shooting results, a qualified longbowman could shoot ten to fifteen arrows in one minute, which was beyond the reach of crossbows and early muskets, and also showed that they had to continue training.

After leaving the archers, Surin went to the infantry camp again, where two thousand men were lying on the ground doing the push-ups, and Stara and Gordon were supervising in front.

Before, everyone didn't understand why they did this push-up, but later they found that their physical level had improved significantly.

"Lord Duke, you're here. ”

"Your Excellency. ”

Starr and Gordon also hurriedly ran over when they saw Surin coming.

Then Su Lin asked everyone to get up and assemble again, looked at them and said, "Today we are going to have a selection, and the 1,000 people who have won the victory will become sword and shield soldiers, and the other 1,000 people will become contradictory soldiers. ”

When everyone heard this, their faces were the same, but there was only one purpose in their eyes, to become sword and shield soldiers.

Su Lin saw that they didn't start talking because of their words, they still stood up straight, didn't squint, and secretly said that the training in the past few months had not been in vain!

"The selection is very simple, just two, running and individual fighting, and after the first 500 in each event, they will become sword and shield soldiers. Surin said the content of the selection.

Then the two thousand men were randomly divided into two groups, and then the battle began on the field, and then the victors were divided into two groups, knowing that the final victory would be determined by five hundred.

This competition is mainly to test personal martial arts, after all, the sword and shield soldiers will undertake the task of advancing at that time, and they must have higher requirements for personal martial arts.

Su Lin saw that the fight on the field was in full swing on the side, and from time to time someone was punched to the end, and he saw that people were boiling with blood.

At this moment, he also noticed that a large group of people had gathered outside the camp, all of them climbed on the fence and watched the excitement.

Soon the five hundred people who won in the end were selected, their faces were all wounded, and they were all ruthless, but in this way they could achieve the effect of the cast, and it was also Su Lin's own request, and if he shed a little blood in peacetime, he might have an extra chance of surviving in wartime.

Looking at the 1,500 people who failed in the competition, Su Lin also shook in front of them, and then said: "Now you have not failed, you still have a chance to run later, remember, you are the strongest, I am here waiting for you to return, go!"

As soon as the words fell, the group rushed out, and it seemed that they were running along the usual training route.

The route is about five kilometers long, and they have to go up and down the mountain, so it is also a very big test for them.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, some people ran back, all sweating profusely, panting, but their faces were full of joy of victory.

Then the selection was successfully completed, and Surin appointed Starr as the captain of the Sword and Shield Soldiers, and Gordon as the captain of the Contradictory Soldiers.

"Lord Duke, I don't know anything about shield and short sword training, what can you do?" Sta leaned over to Surin at this time, and asked for advice seriously.

"Don't worry, I have my own arrangements. Su Lin smiled smugly.

Now because the number of people is too small, and there are no accidents, he can't train in battle, but he is not out of the way, and he has prepared a big meal for them.

At this time, the two teams were sitting on the ground resting, and then they saw a group of people pushing wooden carts with wooden daggers wrapped in cloth and sticks wrapped in cloth.

After seeing this, everyone is a head of sewage, and I don't know what kind of novel training method it will be.

"Okay, you've all seen these weapons, they won't hurt anyone, but they're going to make you suffer a little, so are you ready for battle? Are you ready for a brutal war?"

Listening to Surin's loud roar, everyone's faces turned heavy, knowing that they might be moving in earnest.