Odo, Bass, and Kazak have been working as laborers for many years, and they are all good at work and fighting. However, they are very unfamiliar with plowing the fields, so Art has no intention of letting them participate in land reclamation, not to mention that these guys are the core strength of Art in the troubled times ahead.
After helping Old Cooper build a shack in the valley, Art took Ron and Odo to train in the wooden castle. He did not train his subordinates who were farmers and laborers just a few months ago like the knight training that the original owner had received since childhood. How to quickly master the skills for them? Mastering the most practical killing skills and self-defense skills is the most important, but as the core force of the future, Art doesn't want these guys in front of him to be just elite soldiers forever, so Art picks out the simplest and most practical parts of the knight training he has received since childhood as training content for the Odos.
The first thing is swordsmanship. It is too difficult for civilians in this era to learn complete sword skills, so Art directly taught a few people the most practical moves of chopping, slashing, stabbing and blocking in the sword skills he inherited from the original owner, just like he taught Ron. Secondly, from a practical perspective, in addition to learning some basic swordsmanship, several people mainly learned the use of long and short spears, battle axes, heavy hammers, long knives and other weapons based on their actual conditions. These weapons are not as complicated to train and expensive as swords. These weapons are not only easy to obtain and easy to master the skills of use, but also can exert tyrannical combat power in the face of battle. As the core force of the first generation, Art's requirements for Ron O'Do and the others are beyond the reach of ordinary soldiers. In addition to practicing swords, axes, spears, and offensive and defensive battles every day, they must also take turns learning basic riding skills. At the very least, they must be able to ride a horse and gallop. The last and most difficult thing is learning words. When Art proposed that several people learn common writing, they were all shocked. They had never thought about learning writing. Learning writing knowledge was the exclusive privilege of nobles and churches; and they did not think that writing and knowledge were needed to help them live with swords. In the end, under Art's insistence, they had no choice but to agree, but the effect was predictable. These men who could swing heavy hammers like their arms could only scratch their heads when faced with the crooked writing...
After determining the content of the preliminary training, several people spent the next few days fighting each other with wooden swords and sticks. Every day, everyone would have a few bruises on their bodies. Of course, Art himself would be beaten occasionally. To be fair, if they charged into the battle one by one, none of the three Odo plus Ron would be Art's opponent, but Once several people formed a formation to take care of each other, Art was exhausted to deal with it, especially the three of Odobas and Kazak. They often fought with other laborers when they were working as laborers. The three formed a battle formation and cooperated with each other to attack and defend properly. They could often withstand Art's sword and shield offensive, and even occasionally win. At night, Art would try to teach a few people some simple common words and come up with some calculation methods in the wooden house. At this time, several guys covered in sweat would be sleepy and yawning to listen to Art's professor...
In order to balance everyone's emotions, after hard training, Art will also take a few people into the mountains and forests for hunting. On the one hand, he can train everyone's formation coordination and practice attack and defense methods during hunting, and a more tacit relationship will be formed between them; The farmers working in the fields undergo high-intensity training and work every day, and the demand for food, especially meat, has greatly increased. Art wants to provide a living guarantee for the wooden castle with little food. Under Art's command, every time a few people go into the mountains to hunt, they can bring back a wild boar or goat, elk and other prey.
Half a month has passed like this. Ron O'Do and the others have improved their combat skills through daily training, and their relationship with each other has become closer.
The farmers in the wooden castle were cultivating the wasteland in an orderly manner under the leadership of Cooper, Scott, and Lawrence. Although Art took people into the mountains to hunt and add meat from time to time, the food in the wooden castle was only enough to last for about twenty days. Two experiences of nearly being ambushed in the woods made Art give up his plan to send Cooper and Scott to the north to buy food, and decided to take Ron Odo and the four of them to try their luck in various villages and estates in Tyniec County. He did not forget that Viscount Pierre promised him to collect the security tax on his own.
The night before departure, Art called Cooper and others to his cabin, and ordered that while he was out raising food and wages, Cooper would be responsible for all matters in the cabin, while Scott and Lawrence assisted Cooper in management.
Matt told a few people that the current main task of the people in the wooden castle is to open up wasteland and wait for next spring plowing and sowing. If the weather is too cold and the land freezes and cannot be plowed, he will lead everyone from the wooden castle to open a carriage road to the edge of the dense forest in the north. When the weather is too cold to even go out to work, he will lead everyone to build a complete wooden castle. The purpose is, "We must not support idle people here."
The success or failure of going out to raise food and wages is uncertain. To be on the safe side, Art leaves Cooper five hundred pfennigs to buy food. If the team that goes out to collect food does not have time to return with food before the wooden castle runs out of food, Cooper will have to organize his own people to buy food rations in the manor villages in the north.
"Cooper, I will leave some weapons for you when I leave. You ask Bard to chop some beech, ash, oak and other high-quality wood to make spear shafts in his free time. Give me all the iron spearheads to make short spears, and temporarily distribute them to a few trustworthy and courageous farmers. Let them guard the safety of the wooden castle when we go out. If we have to go out to buy food, we must bring more people and weapons. It is already a chaotic world outside. , we have to be careful at all times. "
"Lawrence, you will be responsible for the safety of the wooden castle while we are out. Now that we have more people and more space, we must be on guard against attacks by wolves and ferocious beasts, and secondly, to prevent anyone within us from becoming restless. You should give each of the former guards a short spear to form a temporary guard for the wooden castle. You must also bring weapons with you when working."
"Scott, you also join the temporary guard in the valley and help the old steward take care of the house. We will come back with food as soon as possible."
"In addition, you have to tell everyone that no one is allowed to leave here without the permission of the old steward. Let’s not go out of the northern dense forest at will.”
The cold winter has arrived, and the refugees and bandits outside will not be too active, so Art guesses that this trip will not be too dangerous. Considering that the purpose of this trip was to collect food supplies, Art only planned to carry three days' rations, a carriage and a horse to pull the carriage. The green mule was to stay behind to help Cooper plow the land.
But it shouldn’t be too shabby to raise food and wages from various places in Tyniec County. In order to prevent the villagers and lords from treating a few people as refugees or bandits, Art took people to the forest to collect some tallow leaves, oak leaves and other leaves for the peasant women in the wooden castle to make black Dye, took out the original cloaks and linens collected in the wooden castle and dyed them all black, and made six sets of uniform black cloaks and robes. With the uniform robes and cloaks, they could at least look like people with an "official" background.
Att himself wore double-layered leather armor, an iron helmet with a nose guard on his head, a bear-skin turtle on his head, a horn-riding bow on his back, and a stainless steel knight's sword and dagger at his waist; Odo put on another double-layered leather armor and hung it around his waist, and Ron wore it. After repairing the single-layer leather, Kazak and Bass each wore a cotton-armored armor. A short sword or an axe-hammer was hung on the cowhide belt that Art gave to the four of them, and everyone held a short iron spear in their hands.
After the four Odos unified their weapons and equipment and wore black cloaks and robes, they really looked uniform and energetic, and they immediately gained a brave momentum.
“Let’s go!”