Chapter 53: Training
"Is there going to be war again?"
"What can I do about this, 12-year-old children have to participate, they haven't grown up yet, isn't this going to death?"
"Doesn't the krone housekeeper treat the farmer well, why is he so ruthless, there are already two men dead in the family, and there are only two boys left, and now it's going to be gone, my hard life, woo~"
As soon as the winter training order was issued, it quickly caused a local panic, and rumors spread everywhere and spread rapidly, so Li Feng had to quickly issue a supplementary announcement and release the preferential treatment policy for the army that was to be released only after the winter training was over.
Soon the people knew that they would not fight, and that it was just a two-month winter training, and after two months, the best ones would be selected and incorporated into the army.
Of course, everything is based on volunteering, and if you don't want to join the army, you can go home if you want to.
However, integration into the military has the following benefits:
1. Those who join the army do not need to work anymore, the army implements a 24-level military merit grading system, starting from small soldiers, and has been able to do the great court pillar (pillar general), each level corresponds to a different monthly salary, small soldiers have 3 gold coins per month (the average monthly salary of the people is 2 gold coins), and every 1 level, increase 3 gold coins........
2. Anyone who has military merits will be rewarded with 2 gold coins/head for small soldiers, and the rewards will increase in turn......
3. Once killed in battle, build a military merit tower, burn meritorious deeds on it, for future generations to pay respects, and give a pension of 500 gold coins, and children will be raised by the castle until they are 18 years old.
4. If you are disabled on the battlefield, you will enjoy the service of being discharged from the army, or arranged to work in the civilian service, or enter the security team in the rear to help the knights or grassroots officials of the mining estates to govern the people.
.......... There are more than a dozen of them.
After reading this, the leaders not only calmed down their panic, but became very active and gathered at the castle training ground, demanding to participate in the winter training immediately.
The enthusiasm of the masses is hard to quench.
Li Feng gave an order, and the winter training began.
The number of people is counted and then screened again.
Don't be weak, don't be cowardly, don't have only one man in the family, don't have a hippie smile, don't be smart, don't be opportunistic.
As a result, a total of 820 men from Dia Ling and Luke participated in the winter training.
With each village and town as a unit, 10 phalanxes were gathered, and each phalanx was divided into 10 squads, and the original 100 officers and soldiers of the training camp were integrated into it to serve as instructors and team leaders.
These soldiers were trained by Li Feng in accordance with the formation method of the tiger and wolf division of the Qin State, and trained a group of crossbow soldiers, spear phalanxes, heavy cavalry and light cavalry.
Crossbowmen are equipped with scimitars and longbows as standard, and the legions are equipped with powerful crossbows, bed crossbows, and ballistas, which are long-range attacks against the enemy.
The phalanx of spears is composed of the bravest warriors who are not afraid of death, and are responsible for resisting the onslaught of those heavily armored knights.
The light cavalry was responsible for covering their flanks, harassing the enemy's flanks, and launching pursuits to kill the remnants of the enemy when they were defeated.
The heavy cavalry served as a supplementary force, and while the pikemen supported it, they attacked from both sides, coordinated with the light cavalry, and penetrated directly into the enemy's center to disrupt the formation.
The military formation combined by the four arms is a strategy specially formulated by Li Feng according to the characteristics of the World Legion, and the balance and cost-effectiveness ratio are very high.
This combination of military formations, coupled with sufficiently sophisticated equipment and sufficiently excellent training, is not a big problem against those heavily armored hoplite knights and rubbing them on the ground.
However, the only drawback of this combination of military formations is that it requires size, and there are enough soldiers, especially the spear phalanx, which cannot exert its due power without a large number of soldiers forming a thick formation.
Li Feng roughly estimated that he had to train an army of 800 spear phalanxes, 300 elite crossbowmen, 300 hoplites and 300 light cavalry in order to be invincible in the Kingdom of Chris, and to defeat all military forces.
There are still about 1,200 people left, excluding the more than 800 soldiers who are standing in front of him, it is already the limit of Luke Leader and Dia Leader, and it is not meaningful to relax the requirements even if there is a shortage of them.
Moreover, at present, it is still necessary to fight steadily and steadily, and it is not appropriate to mobilize a large number of young and strong forces to launch an all-out war.
"Train for a few months first, and then wait until you build an iron army and take the Gran Territory and the two surrounding territories."
Next, Li Feng's focus shifted to military training, and he attached great importance to this first army that really belonged to him, personally compiled the training outline, and took time to take them to special training and eat and live together every day.
His training methods are very different from those of the knights of this world.
At 9:00 a.m., he led the soldiers to run three kilometers, rested for 20 minutes for standing and marching, and then rested for another 10 minutes for bow and spear training.
At 2:00 p.m., the training of military skills, followed by riding and slashing training, completed a wave of 30 minutes of military ideological education, teaching them various terrain combat skills and military knowledge, military ethics and beliefs.
Toss until 6:00 p.m. for a three-kilometer run and dinner.
In the evening, Li Feng organized the soldiers, told them stories, carried out some interesting activities, what drumming and passing flowers, mountain song contests, martial arts competitions, unique displays, etc., for good performance, Li Feng will also give rewards.
In addition, Li Feng also set up an honor roll, during the training period, such as the top three in running, the top three in archery, the top three in marksmanship, and the top three in riding.... Not only can you get public praise, but also rich material rewards.
Gradually, the soldiers suddenly felt that although the training was hard, it was a very happy thing, and they gradually fell in love with this feeling, and a kind of atmosphere of chasing after me was formed in the army.
From Li Feng's point of view, the harvest on the other side is more important.
That is, the soldiers' loyalty to him has skyrocketed, and their obedience to his orders is extremely high, and after showing a few hands and beating all the experts in the army in all directions, the soldiers' admiration for him has also reached its peak.
Of course, Li Feng did not delay other things.
Every time he came back from the barracks, he had to deal with the day-to-day affairs of government affairs, trade, and situations, especially about the situation in the Gran Territory, as early as the winter training began, he had already asked Vic to send people into the Gran Territory.
Originally, he wanted to deal with the other two territories at the same time, but Vic's men were limited, and Lansha's Dark Rose organization was not yet mature, so he could only come one by one.
"Boss, we have more than thirty people who have infiltrated the Grand Territory, and three of them have infiltrated the castle, as long as our army enters the Grand Territory, we will be able to open the castle gate immediately and control the entrances and exits at the same time."