Chapter 22: Cute Recruits
For example, if a team of soldiers is very good at fighting, they can go head-to-head with anyone. If you have good physical strength, you can run thousands of miles when you have an advantage, and you can make a move when you are fleeing for your life, leaving only billowing dust and sand for the enemy to sigh at. And if the weapon is sharp enough, and the armor is strong enough, and you kill the enemy one by one, and the enemy kills you with one sword, and the knife is curled, then the enemy will only be ravaged.
The strength of individual soldiers has improved, and the next step is the cooperation of the group. On the battlefield, Myron asks his soldiers to form a group of 2-3 people, and when you are fighting with all your strength against the enemy in front of you, someone will help you block the spear from the side, and when your sword is held by the enemy, your comrades can swing their blades from the other direction and lead the enemy to their true god.
These are the basics, and the most important thing is the formation. Whether a legion can survive after the battle depends mainly on whether their formation can always remain intact. A complete phalanx can effectively resist the onslaught of the enemy army and play the maximum lethality of the army. If the formation is scattered, then no matter how good you can fight, on the battlefield you can only be meat on the enemy's cutting board, or soft tender meat, and everything will be opened.
Let's take another example, let's say you're the shield wall at the front. When you are full, you are the mountain that holds back the rolling torrent, and you will still stand by the baptism of arrows. And if you stand there alone with a big shield, it can only make the enemy think that you are funny, and the advantage is that you can make the enemy laugh, and maybe you can break the enemy's fighting spirit through entertainment.
After that, the cooperation between the legions is not something that the soldiers need to think about. For soldiers, they just need to listen to the command.
Before training, Myron used to communicate with the soldiers first, otherwise when the training was over, everyone might not have the heart to communicate happily. So, Myron asked Kenny to gather the 1,000 soldiers of the infantry regiment and the 100 mercenaries of the Nine-Tailed Fox mercenary regiment to the training ground.
Ten minutes later, the soldiers stood in groups of three or five on the training ground, exchanging heads and talking in confusion, and there was no formation to speak of.
Myron walked up to a high platform, glanced at the soldiers below, and then spoke: "The first time we met, my name is Myron Hawke, and I am your commander, the only one. Speaking of this, Myron glanced at the entire team, and then continued: "You have entered my army, that is, my Myron's soldiers, and you can only accept my orders in the future, do you understand?"
"Yes. ”
"Understood. ”
"Yes. The following replied in a mess, obviously weak.
"Your next task is to garrison the base we are about to start building, in the deep mountains, there may be an orc legion that will attack our base, are you afraid of facing the aliens?" Myron raised his voice at the last sentence.
"I'm afraid!" replied very neatly this time.
", sincerely. Myron thought to herself. This answer almost gave him internal injuries, causing him to be unable to continue the words he had thought of about "not afraid". In his mind, there should be a lot of duplicitous guys.
"It's okay to be afraid, we still have plenty of time, and in the next three months from now, you will undergo very severe training, which is enough for you to defeat the orcs with ease. Of course, I know that the fundamental purpose of your joining the army is not to defeat the orcs, but to earn military salaries. Myron teased the recruits with a witty look.
In the face of such a reasonable commander, the embarrassing atmosphere of the recruits meeting the commander for the first time was really consumed a lot, and there were answers, laughter, and coaxing, and the atmosphere was a little unbearable for a while.
"But you also have to be considerate of me, it's not easy to have a big family, if you don't behave well, maybe one day our lair will be served by the orcs. At that time, the orcs didn't care if you really wanted to live and die with the mines, they just had to smash everyone's heads. Of course, you may survive, but only before the orcs eat. "Myron has an unusual passion for spreading negative energy.
Hearing that the orcs were so ferocious, the soldiers were in an uproar again. This is not to blame the recruits, if other commanders say to the recruits on the day of the recruits' report: "You may be smashed in the head or roasted and eaten by the orcs after a while", then the recruits will also not be calm.
"So, train hard, not only to protect my home, but also to save your own lives. Do you understand?" Myron shouted at the top of her voice.
"Understood. The soldiers answered neatly this time.
"Training hard is not only to save your life, but also to be very concerned about one of the issues, that is, military salary, which doubles for each level of military rank. Myron began to tempt these poor people again.
Hearing this, the recruits boiled again, most of the people who came to join the army did not have much money at home, and everyone was very excited to hear that there was money to be made. Myron has just emitted so much negative energy, and this time it is finally a bit of positive energy.
"I'll start with a promotion in rank. Myron knew what these recruits valued, so she decided to throw the bait out first to keep everyone in a state of euphoria. "In the next 30 days, I will select 100 squad leaders from among you, and after that, I will promote the outstanding squad leaders to platoon commanders, and then the excellent platoon commanders to company commanders. ”
Because of the key point, the soldiers below are listening intently.
"The squad leader manages 10 soldiers with a salary of 2 gold coins per month, the platoon commander manages 3 squads and pays 4 gold coins per month, and the company commander manages 3 platoons with a salary of 8 gold coins per month. There are a total of 150 vacancies, and I will only give them to fighters who have performed well. ”
Hearing that there were so many opportunities for promotion, the soldiers were already enthusiastic, and even the mercenary group was faintly excited. Although the mercenaries earn a bit higher than ordinary soldiers, they are also very limited, and it is already very good to be able to get 2-3 gold coins a month, because with their level, they can't do much business. And even for 2-3 gold coins, mercenaries are a high-risk industry, even more dangerous than being a soldier. Therefore, the mercenaries can't help but be excited when they see such a military salary. Besides, everyone knows that the military rank cannot be set only to the company commander, and there will be higher ranks waiting for everyone in the future.
"From now on, everyone has the opportunity to move up the ranks, as long as you work hard enough, as long as you are good enough. Remember, personal force, while an important criterion, is not the whole story. After each military exercise, I will raise or demote certain people based on their performance, and as long as your rank can remain undegraded for a month, then you will be officially appointed. ”
Seeing that the state of the recruits was almost transferred, Myron directly turned to the topic, "Okay, now let's start the first training: line up and stand in a military posture." ”
Myron first asked Warner, Kenny, and Nick to temporarily serve as the 3 battalion commanders and put the team in order. The recruits had no idea of the formation, so by the time they had all stood in line, it would be 15 minutes later.
Myron made the recruits stand motionless for 1 hour, during which he explained to the recruits about the discipline of the army, which generally revolved around obeying the orders of the commander.
After the military posture, there is a 5,000-meter jog, followed by 100 push-ups, 200 sit-ups and 200 meters of frog jumps. The recruits worked hard and did live up to the "expectations" that Myron had placed on them, and before half of the first day's workout was over, they all lay on the ground and moaned.
Three days later, Isaac finally completed his mission and made up 300 slaves.
Wingert City is located in the westernmost part of the Duchy of Lane, which is the closest point to the western forest. The army walked normally along the road for a day, and it was possible to reach the edge of the forest. After that, there would be no roads, and it would be relatively difficult for the army to advance through the forest, and if the supplies wanted to advance, they would have to have to take a path that exceeded the width of the wagon.
So, Myron decided to let the slaves go to build the road first. Trying to make a forest path that barely passed through the carriage, Myron estimated that it would take them two months to build it.
They didn't just need to build roads, in fact, they had three main tasks: to build a camp that could accommodate 2,000 people to stay and train, to build a mine, and to mine there ever since. It seems that the work of the slaves was not insignificant. Of course, in the eyes of all, it is right that the heavy work should be left to the slaves.
In Myron's plan, the mining of blue gold mines is not urgent, as long as he mines 100,000 gold coins worth of blue gold mines within a year, it will be considered to meet Olivia's minimum requirements. However, from the 5th month, Olivia will send someone to collect the blue gold ore, so the mining of the blue gold ore must also start from the 4th month at the latest. As for the ore owed to the boss, Myron didn't think about it, at least he didn't think that anyone in the base could stop Lord Alvin's progress.
And he took out 33,000 gold coins in the early stage to engage in the construction of the Chamber of Commerce, which will greatly reduce the construction speed of the mining area. Myron must invest more labor to make up for these shortfalls in the medium term.
No matter what happens, the wheel of time never stops, and he seems to be fair to everyone, and does not add or subtract a penny to the world for any reason. But he seems to be unfair, for some people it seems to fly by quickly, and for others it seems to stand still.
Myron is the first kind of person, and he feels that this month seems to have not had time to do anything, and time has slipped away in such a hurry. The soldiers, on the other hand, are the second kind of people, who feel that hellish life seems so long, especially when standing in a military posture under the scorching sun.
In this month, the soldiers have changed a lot. The first to adapt to this training were the three battalion commanders. Their physical strength is significantly superior to that of recruits and other mercenaries. So, from day three, they can already keep up with the pace of training.