Chapter 7 Recruit Training 1
Chapter 7 Recruit Training 1
The day after the meeting with the knights, Paul divided the troops according to his new establishment, the old and new soldiers totaling nearly 600 people were divided into two infantry battalions of disgruntled formations.
After finishing the soldiers, he remembered that there was still a group of Lord’s House guards, and with his obsessive-compulsive disorder, he decided to get an establishment for them as well, and set up a separate unit – the internal guards unit.
Modeled after the armed police system of the previous generation, the two levels at the grassroots level were still squads and platoons, and then upwards were squadrons, brigades, and detachments, corresponding to companies, battalions, and regiments, respectively, and in order to save time, the same rank system as in the army was also implemented. The Lord’s House guards had only 60 men, so they were organized into two platoons.
As for the knights and their squires, this is more difficult, after all, the knights of this class has already touched the threshold of the nobility, and according to his observation, this world’s nobility and commoners between the gap is still quite large, mix them in a system may cause them to be dissatisfied, and his own ass under the seat of the lord is not yet secure, but so has been a sizable force will be independent of them but also feel strange.
So he looked for the first to find Bryce had a secret talk, will his own ideas and concerns out, unexpectedly Bryce old face red, said he was too much to worry about, and gave him some explanation.
It turns out that at that time, when the Greiman family was kicked to the northwest coast by the king, it was with a strong dispatched nature, and the previous vassal either together with the strain of punishment, or change the family to rely on others.
Now the knights of the domain ……
“Uh …… how do I put this?” Bryce stammered up, “It’s a bit offensive to say, Lord Lord’s family was forbidden to enthrone new vassal nobles by the royal family at the time, and although your ancestors bestowed us with knight’s cognacs, our knighthood is not recognized by the kingdom’s officials and other nobles, and people generally call people like us ‘wild knights’ ‘. Aside from knowing some words and practicing martial arts, we are no different from ordinary people, and most of us often work in the fields by ourselves.”
Paul asked curiously, “Then Baron Ford is ……? “
“He inherited his title from a distant relative, and served his lordship’s family for a long time before he inherited it, and he is a ‘vestment noble’, which means he only has the name of noble, but no fief. “
“I see, then it’s up to you to pull them into the army, I see you have a lot of prestige within them. “
Bryce sweated profusely and responded with a mouthful, “No, no, no, no, I’m just able to drink them all down at the wine table. Don’t worry, I won’t let Lord Earl down. “
As expected, as Bryce said, there was no resistance from the knights and their escorts, and most of them were appointed as officers at all levels of troops, with Bryce and another knight named Claude being appointed as the commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion and the commander of the 2nd Infantry Battalion respectively.
Then a series of physical fitness tests were conducted, as a result of which the squad leaders of each squad were selected. Originally, it was intended to use the number of literate people as the biggest scoring item of the selection, but when asked, hundreds of people were almost all illiterate, and the few who were able to recognize and spell their own names, so there was no choice but to take a test of physical fitness first.
It is also because of the overall cultural level of the team is not high, the selection of low-ranking officers in front of the name of the position are added to the word agent, the rank is also a temporary rank, now the soldiers are all soldiers, the acting squad leader is a temporary corporal.
“Alright, in light of the recent military tensions, there is no time to lose, start training right away.” The young earl said with excitement, he was adamant about pulling the team to the woods outside of the town for training despite the objections of the crowd, and announced that they would be camped in the woods for the duration of the training.
He only brought with him the 2nd Infantry Battalion and the 1st Platoon of Internal Guards, and the 1st Battalion was left behind in Lakeheart Town to deal with unexpected situations. After choosing a place, the recruits began to set up camp under the leadership of the veterans. Paul sought out Knight Claude – now Major Claude – to discuss the training program.
He gave Claude a piece of parchment, sprawled with words, and said, not without amusement, “Take a look, Claude, ever seen a more genius training program!”
Claude took it and quickly skimmed through it, sweating profusely, “My lord, training like this will kill you.”
“What, how is that possible, this is already a scaled down version with many subjects cut out.”
“My lord, the intensity of this kind of training is almost comparable to the training I did when I was a knight’s squire.”
“If you can withstand it, why can’t they?”
“Nutrition is important! My lord, I wasn’t generous then either, but at least I could eat meat once in a week, these soldiers of civilian origin don’t have such conditions, according to the previous food standards, it only ensures that they won’t starve, but once the amount of exercise increases, it’s hard to hold up without eating meat.”
Paul slapped his head, “I can’t believe I didn’t consider this, let’s do it this way, I’ll immediately write a letter and send it to Philip, so that he can strengthen the food supply to our side, especially increase the supply of meat, in addition we ourselves also organize manpower to hunt every day.”
Claude laughed, “Uh …… I don’t have any problem with that, but Steward Philip is probably going to spit blood again.”
“Lord Lord, in addition to physical training, it also mentions standing in military posture, kicking in the right step, formation training, and other puzzling words, I can understand it just from the words, but can you explain it again?”
“Discipline, discipline, Claude, see the foreign appearance on the previous parade? Our army must be neat and organized, in and out of order, and move as one at all times, so as to have a sense of momentum, not a bunch of sparse stragglers.”
Claude’s head was sweating, “The Kingdom’s regular army doesn’t have such high requirements! Well, you are right to say so.”
“Now that it’s getting late, let’s skip the other subjects for now and have an appetizer of military standing before dinner! Hey hey hey hey ……”
Looking at the busy soldiers, the young count who was eager to try his hand rubbed his fist while letting out a sinister laugh that sent chills down Claude’s spine.
(End of chapter)