June 10th was sunny and the sun was scorching.
At the training ground outside Beiguan Army Fort, with the help of his own soldiers, Rigg pulled off a long-sleeved chainmail suit over his head. After adjusting the cuff rings and putting on the locking hood, he put on a gray-white tight-fitting burqa, then pulled it all together, tied a leather belt with an iron buckle around his waist, and hung up the three-foot fine iron broadsword and short knife, a water bag, a waist bag and other items.
The scorching sun was shining in the sky, and by the time Rigg hung a whole set of equipment on his body, he was already sweating profusely.
Looking at Weitz, who was also adjusting his armor and military uniforms, Rigg couldn't help complaining: "Mr. Weitz, you said that the black burqa we used to have was quite good. People call our black robes more majestic, but now this military uniform is just made of cotton and is not majestic enough."
“But don’t tell me yet, the branch and rank badges on this robe are quite good. When we meet in the future, we don’t need to say much. As long as we see the rank badges, we will know each other’s military status.” Rigg couldn’t help but touch the palm-sized pennant badge above his left chest. The badge was sewn onto the military uniform. The pennant was a symbol of the knight’s rank. Rigg’s current military position was flag captain.
Weitz, who was standing in front of Rigg with two soldiers wearing chain mail and burqas, had a swallowtail flag badge on his left chest, which was a symbol of the rank of a trainee knight. Weitz's military position was company captain.
The second batch of officer academy training, which was originally planned to last for three months, ended early due to the sudden tension of the situation. All apprentice officers in the officer academy successfully graduated and were assigned military positions according to their military merits and academic performance...
During the discussion between the two, Odo, who was wearing a black half-helmet of fine steel, fine plate chainmail, a horned Pegasus coat of arms, a knight's sword on his waist, and cowhide boots on his feet, walked towards Weitz. As a banner knight and the adjutant of the legion, he also serves as the commander of the first infantry division. Odo's military uniform is different from that of ordinary people. He is qualified to use his knight's coat of arms on his military uniform.
Weitz, Rigg and several soldiers saw Odo coming over, and they immediately straightened their bodies and beat their chests with their right fists, "Lord Odo!" Have you collected your armor and military uniforms? "
"Go back to Lord Odo, the first and second flag teams have been collected, and Rigg's third flag team is receiving equipment."
"Hurry up, the reorganization ceremony will begin soon."
"Yes, Lord Odo!"
Odo finished his instructions and walked towards the other side of the training ground. There were the troops who had just received the order from Art and came to the Beiguan Army Fort to be reorganized and refitted.
They are respectively one hundred and fifty county soldiers of Tyniec, fifty private soldiers of Sarp led by Felix (not all arrived due to guarding the border to defend against enemies), and one hundred and sixty baron private soldiers led by Baron Antayas.
除此之外，山谷守备军团六十常备农兵、边境驻军代表、巡境兵代表、各处直属领地的驻军代表也都纷纷齐聚于此......
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午后斜阳，北关军堡外荒原训练场旌旗飘扬，一千四百余名士兵肃立期间，鸦鹊无声。
The soldiers standing in the middle are all wearing uniform black and white burqa uniforms. Their standing posture is the most serious and their momentum is more majestic.
The training ground is located on the general stage near the dense forest of the valley. With Art as the center, there is a row of high-ranking officers standing. Odo Angus is naturally his right-hand man. Bass and Kazak are also high-ranking knights. Cooper, as the representative of civil affairs, and Robert, as the messenger of God, are also present.
Baron Antayas was of course invited to the stage because of his high title. Felix had just been promoted to a frontier baron because of his outstanding military exploits at Stone Castle and his special status as Flanders' cousin, so naturally he would not be in the audience.
Hate wears bright Milanese plate armor, a white cloak hanging from his shoulders and hanging behind his back, and his left hand holds the hilt of the knight's sword at his waist.
Riat usually doesn't like to wear plate armor. As the supreme commander, he does not need to personally charge into battle. Such heavy armor is more suitable for heavy cavalry or powerful heavy armored infantry. However, in today's ceremonial event, he could only endure the heat and heavy pressure.
There are thousands of people, and it is very tiring to speak in a spacious training ground to be heard by everyone, so Art's workshop used scrap iron to make a morning glory-style large speaker. With this thing, Art's voice can spread farther...
Robert, the bishop of Tyniec, has led everyone to complete a simple and solemn prayer. Robert took two steps back, and Art walked up.
「Everyone!」
More than 1,400 people stood in silence. The soldiers and officers of the former Wells Corps clenched their fists and beat their chests to salute Art. The troops who came from various places did not know the military salute, but they all stood at attention.
At returned the salute by raising his hand and beating his chest, then lowered his right hand, "Today we are gathering here to complete the reorganization ceremony of the Wells Legion."
I, Art Wood Wells, serve as the Border Viscount of the Court of the County of Burgundy, the Knight of the Palace Guard, the Military Officer of the Southern Territory, the Wells Legion and In the name of the commander of the Southern Border Guard Corps, it is announced that the Wells Army will be established today. "
"I will serve as the commander of the Wells Army, and Odo and Angus will serve as the deputy commanders of the Army."
"The Wells Army is divided into three sub-regiments and several directly affiliated squadrons of the Chinese Army. The command camp of the Welsh Army's Chinese Army will be located at Beiguan Military Fort.
The first sub-regiment was transferred from the original Wells Army to the Beiguan Army Fort. It has three companies and nine flag corps. The commander of the first sub-regiment is Odo concurrently, and the deputy commander of the sub-regiment is Kazak. It is directly subordinate to the captain of the first company Kazak and the deputy commander of the company Bangeda. The captain of the second company is Colin, the deputy commander of the company is Andrew, the captain of the third company is Weitz, and the deputy commander of the company is Tredok.
The second branch, known externally as the Southern Xinjiang Garrison Corps, has three companies under its jurisdiction. The first company was transferred from the soldiers of Tyniec County and was established in the town of Tyniec County, with a strength of 160 people; the second company was transferred from the private soldiers of the Sarp Army to the army and was stationed in the barony of Sarp, with 160 people; the third company was transferred from the private soldiers of the Andermatt Army to an army of 100 people and was stationed in Andermatt Castle. Angus serves concurrently as the commander of the second branch, and Antayas, the deputy commander of the branch; the second branch is stationed at its respective garrison on weekdays and gathers for operations in wartime.
The third division, also known as the garrison corps. The garrison was expanded, with 80 standing peasants and soldiers stationed in wooden forts (separately stationed in the workshop area and prisoner-of-war custody), and the number of registered peasants and soldiers increased to 500.
· Patrol troops, border garrisons and three lords' garrisons directly under Wincheston, Southwest Farm and Lane Manor were organized into the garrison;
· Bass, the commander of the third branch...
· After the reorganization of the Welsh Army on June 10, all the "guest" troops who came to participate in the reorganization stayed at Beiguan Army Castle for a two-week training period, during which Art would personally train them.
After the training, they will receive slightly better weapons and armor from Art, and then return to their respective stations to wait. As long as Art gives a military order, these armies must unconditionally assemble for battle...
In mid-June, the new king of Burgundy, Flanders, sent a special pardon from the court of Besancon to Tynets. The content of the pardon was very simple - it was announced that all the lords of Tynets County would terminate their relationship with the original lords and vassals, and all would be loyal to Art.
This sudden pardon surprised Art. The fundamental reason why Art could not fully control the entire county after being granted the title of Tyniec County was that it was originally the direct territory of the Marquis of Ivrea. Ivrea had been under the control of the Marquis of Ivrea for decades. The territory of the county was successively entrusted to many palace nobles and cronies, and the palace nobles distributed it to retainers and confidants one by one. Eventually, Tynets County was divided into fragmented forces. Behind an inconspicuous small manor, there might be a palace noble.
At present, Art can provoke most people, but there are still some dignitaries who have taken refuge in Baldwin that Art cannot act arbitrarily. Therefore, in addition to more than a dozen directly-controlled territories in the entire Tyniec County, Art can actually control the two baronies of Sapp Castle and Andermatt Castle.
Now Flanders has completely solved this problem with a pardon.
Matt can imagine that the new ruler Flanders also went through a lot of trouble. The deep-rooted old-school forces behind Tynets County are not so easy to deal with. It is very difficult for them to give up a territory, even in the remote Tynets Mountains. There must be various compromises and exchanges of interests behind this.
Flender's intentions are also very clear to Art. The first is to bribe Art, making him grateful and willing to drive; the second is to set an example. Art has previously transported military supplies and raised weapons, and performed well when Flanders was in the most critical situation. Flanders must set this example; the third is also to let Art, who lives in the south, Obtain real power, start momentum as soon as possible, and think of strong support...
Such a result is of course Art's dream. Originally, he was thinking about how to deal with the complicated forces in the county after the war. Now, Flanders has directly removed an obstacle with the exchange of power and interests.
After receiving the pardon, Art immediately took action.
He issued an order in the name of the lord of Tynets County to all the lords, squires and representatives of various industries in the county, asking them to rush to the town of Tynets County within five days after receiving the order and swear allegiance to him.
The order quickly extended to the entire Tynets County through dozens of horses of the cavalry, and then Art led the reorganized first division of the Welsh Army to the Tynets County City.
Five days later, more than 50 representatives of lords and squires at all levels in Tynets County and some representatives of the people came to the city of Tynets County to swear allegiance to Art.
In order to let the people who came to take the oath see the strength of the lord, after the oath-taking ceremony, the first branch of the regiment staged a massive military exercise in the military camp outside Tyniec. Four to five hundred burly, armored, and well-organized soldiers completely overwhelmed the dissatisfied lords. They knew that the good days of being the dominant force in the past were completely over.
Yat also took advantage of the excitement to announce two orders.
First, a system of registered peasants and soldiers was established in all non-direct territories of Tyniec County. All healthy men over the age of 18 and under 35 in the county were registered and became registered peasants and soldiers. Taking villages, manors and settlements as units, one standing peasant soldier was selected from every ten households. The remaining nine households provided weapons, armor, food and supplies to the standing peasant soldiers. Registered peasant soldiers and standing peasant soldiers were under the jurisdiction of the garrison corps. Scattered settlements with a population of less than ten households were divided into groups by the garrison.
Second, Yate issued a wartime food collection order. Except for Fort Sapp, all the winter wheat harvested this year and the spring wheat harvested in a few months in the county, except for the rations reserved for next year's grain harvest, were all bought to the Wells Corps, which sent people to buy them from village to village.
Of course, Art is not ready to drink poison to quench his thirst. He promised everyone that the price of grain purchased by the legion will be 10% higher than the price of grain purchased in previous years...
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On June 20, Art, who had finished swearing allegiance in Tyniec County, had just put on his armor and was preparing to go south and return to the Beiguan Army Fort. The officer guarding the north gate of the county hurriedly ran to the Lord's Hall and knocked on Art's mansion.
"Lord Viscount, there are a few refugees outside the north gate who want to see you, and one of them seems to be a leper~"
Ron, who was giving Art a message, heard the words of the city guard officer and asked, "Can you be smarter, a group of refugees and a leper will also come to trouble my lord? Get away!"
The young officer looked apologetic, "Sir Ron, we were originally going to blow away, but the leper asked me to tell you that he is a guest of the Iris family ~ us~"
Art felt something strange when he heard this, "The Iris family?"
"Ron, go and see for yourself."