It took less than a day and a half for Art and his team of five to gallop on horseback before they arrived at the huge pile of rocks in the wasteland. The journey along the way was definitely not peaceful, but a knight in armor and heavy sword and four fully armed light cavalry were a force that should not be underestimated. While the rogue bandits who were watching eagerly along the way were still hesitant to take a risk, Art and the others had already left on horseback, so they were not disturbed on their way back.
In the pile of boulders, Ron took a piece of grilled bacon handed over by Jason and put it into his mouth and took a big bite. He muttered excitedly in his oily mouth: "Master, if our patrol team is all cavalry, then we will no longer be afraid of those bandits. If they rush past on horseback, those bastards can't even touch our shadow, haha."
"Ron, do you think cavalry is so easy to get? You have also seen this time. Compared with Dean and others, our war horses can only be regarded as marching horses or traveling horses at best. The remaining horses in the wooden castle are not even capable of marching. These are just war horses. There are also cavalry weapons and armor, spears, vests, and a large amount of fodder and food consumed by the war horses every day. The army horses and mules in the wooden castle every day The amount of fodder and food consumed was so huge that I had to ask the farmers in the valley to harvest the grass. All the black beans we bought from outside were used to feed the horses. It will be difficult for us to increase the number of cavalry until the wooden castle and the valley have stable food income. You should train the only cavalry better now."
Ron's enthusiasm was extinguished.
“However, our team will definitely grow bigger and bigger.” Art felt that Ron’s passion and confidence should not be dampened.
"Ron, I am going back to Valley Wood Castle in the afternoon. You take Red and send this private letter to Sapp Castle. In the letter, I told Baron Galvin about my promotion to a trainee knight, and promised to marry Miss Lottie. In addition, I made a request to borrow a batch of weapons, armor, and several healers and craftsmen from Baron Galvin. I guess Baron Galvin will not refuse me, so this time you two need to bring these supplies and personnel back to the valley safely, and we have no time to delay."
Ron took the order and went down to prepare, and soon he led Red on horseback and ran towards the west...
In the evening of the same day, Art took Jason and the remaining sentry back to the Valley Wood Castle. Everyone was really happy for Art, who was newly promoted to the apprentice knight, and spontaneously organized a small dinner to celebrate the knight Art. Compared with the banquet in Tyniec City, the celebration dinner in the Valley Wood Castle was much shabby - half a knight. The hunted roasted wild boar, a large pot of thick broth with spices and wild vegetables, a dozen browned rye breads, and a large barrel of home-brewed wild fruit wine bought from Emma, all the officers and soldiers of the patrol team and several castle stewards also caroused all night...
A new round of high-intensity training has begun in the Nameless Valley. Ever since they learned that they would participate in the border war between the Count of Burgundy and the Principality of Swabia in the eastern region, several squad commanders of the patrol team have worked hard to train their respective squads of soldiers.
Odo has fully adapted to the role change from a laborer to an army commander in the more than half a year since he left Lucese and went south. Perhaps it was due to the command and management habits he had developed among the labor brothers over the years. His army command and management skills improved by leaps and bounds under Art's instruction. Over the years, he had been leading Lucese's labor brothers to grab territory and fight in groups. He understood the importance of battle formation killing techniques and coordination of battle formations better than the average person. Especially after being exposed to Art's military training, he gradually began to realize the methods of forging a powerful army.
Since Art appointed him as the deputy captain of the patrol team and responsible for the daily training of the patrol team, he has urged several squad captains and combat team leaders to conduct serious training every day. He has also constantly used examples from his hard work in Lucese and the battles (fights) in the past six months to tell the soldiers the importance of personal combat skills and battle formation training.
The enemy's spear pierced your stomach. So how can we increase our arm strength? In addition to our daily martial arts competitions, the main thing is the weight training taught by adults. We lift weights two hundred times in the morning, noon and evening. Over time, your arm strength will naturally become stronger..."
Att wore a light linen shirt and cowhide short boots, with a knight's sword slung around his waist. He held his hands not far away and watched Odo explaining the functions of the training program to the soldiers during the training break. After returning from Tyniec City, Art temporarily put aside all the trivial things in the valley, and concentrated on supervising and guiding the soldiers' training, and enhancing coordination with the commanders and soldiers. In addition, he also personally trained four squad captains and four cavalrymen in the Sentinel Cavalry. In addition to training personal combat skills and battle formation coordination, he mainly taught several commanders some wartime marching, camping, defense facilities and buildings against enemy attacks, day and night sentries, emergency order transmission and evacuation sequences, as well as Skills such as identifying the enemy's situation and analyzing the battle situation, but Art also knew that these knowledge exclusive to military nobles could not be learned by all of his commanders in a short period of time, so Art could only force them to remember some of the most commonly used and basic things, and then use and understand them through actual combat.
During the forced training at the Valley Wooden Castle, Ron and Red came to the Valley Wooden Castle with two pairs of iron-lined leather armors, two broad swords, three battle axes, two chain hammers, ten short spears, two hundred arrows, two hundred pounds of fine iron, a healer and two blacksmiths temporarily borrowed by Baron Galvin of Sarp Castle.
In addition, in order to congratulate Art on his promotion to a trainee knight, Baron Galvin also presented Art with a special piece of armor. The main body of this armor is a full-body mail armor with a hood, throat guard and knee pads. The outside of the mail armor is inlaid with many plate armor pieces. The chest, abdomen and back are protected by large pieces of plate armor. In addition, there are also armors on the shoulders, knees and elbows. This set of plate and chain composite armor is very exquisite in workmanship. The riveted mail rings are dense and firm, and the plate armor made of solid steel is also very thick. It is paired with a nose helmet with mail padding. This set of armor is much stronger than Kiaat's own full-body chain armor. Of course, the price is definitely much more expensive. I am afraid that Baron Galvin will be in pain for a long time despite his generosity.
What Art didn't know was that Baron Galvin initially only planned to give Art, his future son-in-law, a high-quality riding horse. This set of plate and chain composite armor was only reluctantly given up by Miss Lottie after she repeatedly begged him.
Turning back to the training ground outside the wooden castle, the soldiers of the patrol began to train their personal combat skills again. Bass's first team and Kazak's second team were practicing fighting with two-foot-long oak sticks and log shields. The winner's reward was the loser's dinner. Odo was leading his third squad in wrestling; Tuba, who had just become the new squad leader, was driving his fourth squad of soldiers along the edge of the open space with a stick. Once he caught up with the soldiers, he would definitely get a hard blow from the stick...
On the carriage path leading from the wooden castle to the edge of the northern dense forest, Art was leading Ron's sentry team to practice horseback killing on the carriage path. Twelve thatched dummies were arranged in a long and uneven row along the carriage path. Art was riding a black horse. On the horse, holding a broadsword in his right hand, staring at a row of thatched men fifty steps away, he gently clamped the horse's belly and started slowly, slowly raised the broadsword in his right hand, and then lightly kicked the horse's belly with the spurs under his feet. The horse immediately galloped quickly under his crotch, and the distance of fifty steps was reached in the blink of an eye. Art's body on horseback tilted slightly to the right. The broadsword in his hand rose and fell with Art's right hand. The "heads" of the thatch men were cut off one after another. Art ran on horseback for more than twenty steps before he stopped the horse. He looked back and saw that there were six thatched men in total. The straw man was "decapitated". For a well-trained knight, this beheading result was not excellent, but for the guys in the Sentinel Cavalry who had just learned to draw a sword and slash on horseback, 56 out of 10 was already an insurmountable combat skill.
“When riding a horse to charge at the enemy, you must coordinate the war horse and your body. Especially the war horse under you, you must be able to ensure that it charges forward according to the route you expected, so when your body is sideways, you must learn to control the war horse with the hand holding the reins...” Art was explaining to the sentinels beside him. He leaned to the right and controlled the reins with his left hand to demonstrate how to swing the horse and slash.
「好了，就这样，罗恩领着大家开始训练。」
众人开始在马车道上排成一条纵队在罗恩的带领下朝着茅草人慢慢冲将过去……
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傍晚之时，木堡小院中响起了亚特的声音，他在自己的小屋中为战斗组组长以上的指挥官讲授战斗之事。
"...This time we are going to defend the eastern border of Burgundy. I will try my best to be stationed on the southeastern border, because it is close to Andermatt Castle. We are relatively familiar with the surrounding area, and with Baron Antayas taking care of us, it will be more advantageous for us." Complete preparations. According to Mr. Pierre, the first thing we need to do is to defend the front line of the east border, so we will start to join the city defense offensive and defensive training the day after tomorrow. Ron has found a low cliff in the valley that can be used as a castle defense. When the time comes, one of the four teams will defend and the other three teams will attack. Those who can defend or attack will be punished. Odo will go down and take everyone to prepare for this, especially making siege ladders. "
"Next, I will talk about the transmission of military orders. First, I want to tell you about the horn..."
In the corner of the hut, Tuba, the captain of the fourth team, listened carefully to every word and every combat-related skill taught by Art, these military strategies. If a commander like Art, who has rich military training, had not personally taught such things, Tuba would probably never have had access to them in his lifetime. In addition, he was the weakest in terms of strength and qualifications among the five squad leader-level officers, so he cherished every opportunity for progress and promotion...
In the wooden castle warehouse where the hut is located, the "kitchen steward" Spencer has recently added a new task - to learn the skills of rescuing the injured from Thomas, the old doctor sent by Lord Galvin.
Old doctor Thomas is an unpopular old man with a white beard. When he was young, he learned medical skills from a crappy quack doctor. After seven or eight years of apprenticeship, he finally became a "barber." However, after a serious illness, Thomas seemed to be a different person. He began to question the traditional medical treatment of injuries. He actually started to use some strange methods to treat patients like those "wizards" in the jungle. Although he saved many people, he also killed many people, so gradually everyone was unwilling to accept his treatment and threatened to send him to the church tribunal if he dared to use those evil drugs to treat people again. Fortunately, Thomas once saved Baron Galvin's life, and Baron Galvin was forced to owe Thomas a favor, so he protected him openly and secretly.
So when Art proposed to temporarily lend a healer to Baron Galvin, Baron Galvin first thought of kicking this "scourge" out of Sarp Castle.
When Thomas came to the wooden castle in the valley and accidentally discovered that the castle steward Cooper secretly crushed the herbs from the forest to treat the wounded soldiers, the gloom in his heart was swept away...
At this time, he was taking Spencer to select the leaves, grass roots collected from the forest, and seal them for future use.
Outside the warehouse, the blacksmith shop built by the kitchen shed is being hammered. The blacksmith who came to the Valley Wood Castle from Sapp is twenty-seven or eighty years old. He has just left his apprenticeship. His eyebrows and hair are always scorched from having to deal with charcoal red iron all the time. The blacksmith picked up a broadsword that was so chipped that it could no longer be used and put it in the furnace to melt and melt it into a single dagger and an iron spear that could be used by the peasants and soldiers of the fortress. Although he was not a professional weapons craftsman, Art paid him and his apprentices six pfenniers a day, so he was willing to work day and night to build and repair weapons.