At arranged the recent key tasks of the wooden castle in the valley, and then turned to the Odo people.
"Odo, please tell me about the situation of the soldiers." Art's voice was obviously no longer as relaxed as before.
Odo is still feeling guilty about the attack and killing of soldier Amber in Wincheston Manor. "My lord, Amber's death is all my fault. I am not worthy of being the deputy captain~"
"Odo, the past is in the past. You can blame yourself but don't be immersed in self-blame. Remember this lesson."
"Go on."
Otto adjusted his mood, cheered up and said, "Yes! Sir. In this encounter at Wincheston Manor, we lost one person, seriously injured one person, and lightly injured three people. Bath's leg was also injured, with a total of six casualties. Almost everyone in the team was injured, but we The battle results were also good. Four enemies were killed and eight enemies were defeated on the spot in the face of multiple enemies. Among them, the first team and the second combat team performed well, and Ron was also very brave. There are now eleven soldiers in the team who can still fight. The other two who were seriously injured should be able to recover after a period of treatment. Returning to the team. In terms of battle gains, we captured a set of iron-clad armor, a heavy sword, two iron flails, a lance, two armed swords, two kite-shaped shields, three short spears and three short swords. I also captured a black war horse. After a while, our current weapons and military resources can barely equip eighteen light infantry, two light cavalry, and four archers. However, after this battle, we are no longer suitable to go out to clear out the bandits before we replenish our troops and strengthen our training. My words are over."
After Odo finished talking about the patrol, Art added: "In terms of money, let me add that this time we got 4,000 pfennigs twice from the city of Tyniec, and about 7,500 pfennigs were seized in Wincheston, in addition to a small amount of silverware. Including the remaining money, we currently have nearly 14,000 pfennigs. This money can support the consumption of our wooden castle and patrol team in the valley for a year, and the castle residents can support themselves after the autumn harvest, so our money can support nearly two years."
"Sir, it's better to make money from war. If we can meet a few more Winchestons, we can feed more soldiers." After hearing Art's words, Bass cleared away the gloom and stood up and said excitedly.
“Bath, it’s best that we don’t encounter something like this again at Wincheston Manor. This time we took away the money, food and materials from the manor. I don’t know if the anger of the Vice Minister of the Palace will be burned on us, although I have asked Bishop Olof to come forward to help us. , But maybe disaster is coming. But since we have done it, don’t be afraid. Let’s do whatever we need to do.” After Art finished speaking, he saw Kazak sitting in the corner and asked, “Kazak, do you have anything to add?”
Kazak changed his usual playful smile, raised his head and replied seriously: "Sir, in this battle, my team suffered the heaviest losses. One of the team leaders was seriously injured and basically disabled, and one of the assistants died. I regret now that I did not train them as hard as Odo and Bass did. Therefore, I think our future training should be more ruthless. It is better for everyone to receive more sticks than to receive knives on the battlefield."
Matt nodded heavily and said: "Yes, these are all lessons learned through blood. After you go down, you should summarize the experience and lessons together with the soldiers, especially the problems that arise in this sudden battle. For example, our three-person battle formation has obvious flaws. Three people in the three-person battle formation can only attack one target at the same time, lacking effective attack power. And as the main attacker of the three-person battle formation, after all, the physical strength is limited. Once the battle begins, When the battle reached a stalemate and the main attacker was exhausted, the three-person formation lost its offensive power. In addition, from a defensive perspective, the three-person formation was vulnerable to enemies on three sides. Once one of the defensive aspects was missing, the remaining people would be exposed to the enemy's swords, axes and spears. This time, Simon of the fourth combat group was injured because his left wing assister lost protection during the fierce battle and did not replenish his assister in time, so the enemy took advantage of the weakness and chopped off his arm..."
Faced with the shortcomings in the patrol's current military formation and training, Art was unable to come up with a foolproof strategy for the time being. He originally thought that the three-person combat formation he had learned from later generations would play a huge role, but in the era of "physical strength is combat power", this military formation was obviously a bit acclimatized. Art had noticed the shortcomings of the three-man battle formation in offense and defense when he was serving in the competition in Tinets, but he did not expect that the flaws would be so big. However, the number of soldiers under his command was too small now, and no one was able to form the best formation. Therefore, other than using the contradictory line formation common in this era, he could not think of a better formation for the moment.
"The dispersed three-person battle formation will only be used as our auxiliary military formation in the future, and will only be used in recruit training. It will also be mainly used for chasing down the remaining enemies and sporadic scattered operations. However, the combat group organization will still be retained for the time being. However, combat groups generally do not fight alone. We use a six-person team composed of two combat groups as the basic combat organization. In the future, the focus of our military formation training will still be on In the dense contradictory line formation (referred to as the shield formation), our shield formation also has a flaw, that is, the thickness of the shield formation is not enough. It is easy to be physically exhausted by just one row of shield-holding soldiers, and there is no reinforcement behind it. To solve this problem, we need to wait until the number of soldiers is sufficient in the future, and then we can increase the number of shield formation rows, formation changes, and replacements..."
"Everyone, there must be many such flaws in our training and military formations. These need to be improved in our daily training and battles. I will personally do the improvement of the battle formation training this time, and you should think more about it after you go down."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
“Bass, do you have anything to add?”
"Sir, the weather is about to get warmer. Not only do we have to start patrolling the border, but we also have to go to Fort Andermatt to assist in the suppression. Judging from the performance of this battle, our soldiers' manpower and combat effectiveness are probably not enough~" Bass raised the issue of the patrol team's insufficient manpower and low combat effectiveness.
"Well, Basti's problem is also a problem for our patrol team. In this way, tomorrow you can ask the three young men who came back with us last time if they are willing to join our patrol team. If they are willing, they will be included. In addition, I will go out to recruit soldiers." You are bleeding and sweating in vain. This time we have gained some victory in Winchester. I will distribute military rewards to everyone, thirty pfennigs for each ordinary soldier, fifty pfennigs for combat team leaders, and sixty pfennigs for officers above the squad leader. In addition to these, there will be an additional twenty pfennigs for wounded soldiers, fifty pfennigs for each enemy killed, and thirty pfennigs for officers. Odo, you can do this. From now on, the military rewards will be based on the number of captures. "
Odo answered the call.
"Now I order the patrol to be repaired in the wooden fort in the valley for a month. During this month, you guys will train the soldiers hard for me, because we will soon face a stronger and more ferocious enemy."
"Bath, tomorrow you and Ron will go with me to the south. "Odo and Kazak are training soldiers in the wooden fort."
"Lawrence, you should also participate in the basic training of the patrol team during the free time before sowing, and then train the peasant soldiers of the fort defense team during the free time..."
Several people stood up and agreed.
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Att took Bas and Ron to the north-south trade road on the west side of the boulder pile and stationed for two days. Among the refugees fleeing from the north, they selected six families of seventeen refugees and five slightly stronger single men. These single men were better than those recruited in Kitzby City last time. The new recruits are weaker. After all, those young and strong men can always find a way to survive. They will not choose to flee north to a foreign country unless they have to...
The wooden castle in the valley has welcomed a new batch of residents.
Matt handed over the refugees to Cooper for resettlement, and registered the newly recruited men together with the three strong men he brought back last time to form a new army. Odo personally took charge of the training for six days, and then mixed them with the previous soldiers according to their training conditions to reorganize six combat groups and three squads.
At's wooden house has become the meeting hall of the wooden castle. A long wooden table occupies most of the room. There are seven or eight wooden benches around the long wooden table, and an armchair is placed above the door opposite the door.
Sitting in the armchair, Art announced the grouping of all soldiers in the patrol: Bass, the captain of the first squad, Kazak, the captain of the second squad, and Odo, the deputy captain of the third squad.
"Everyone, this is the distribution of soldiers. The extra soldier will be temporarily given to Ron and asked to be my escort."
At said to Odo, who was sitting on the right side of the head, "Odo, you are now the deputy captain of the patrol team and the captain of the third squad. Not only do you have to manage military noise and weapons supplies, enforce military discipline, but you also have to do a good job in training the third squad."
Odo was very happy. Originally, as his deputy captain, he did a lot and had a high status, but he had no real soldiers. Now that he has become the captain of the newly formed third team, he is satisfied.
Ron, who was sitting at the wooden table at the entrance, was a little silent. He always thought he could become the squad leader this time, but he didn't have the opportunity last time, so he still missed the opportunity this time. Even though Art had spoken to him beforehand, he couldn't help but look pale.
Sensing Ron's emotions, Art comforted him: "Ron, you don't have to be discouraged. Think about it, when you first came to the wooden castle, there were only a few of us? And how many of us are there now? You have to admit the gap between you and Odo and the others. You should work hard to catch up with them now, instead of being sad and flat-mouthed like a woman."
There were too few people available around Art, but Ron was still young and weak in martial arts, and it was difficult to convince the crowd, so Art had to let him stay with him to continue training.
In the following period, the wooden fort was filled with the sounds of soldiers' training shouts and the muffled sound of sticks hitting meat every day.