"Today, I will teach you the first training subject after becoming a recruit. You must first learn to listen to commands and change your body shape. Laurie and Audrey, you two should also learn together."

Seeing the eyes of each guard shining, and the somewhat moved expressions of Laurie and Audley, Gervais was very satisfied and started the first training subject this afternoon.

Gervais plans to train these new recruits according to the methods taught by the instructors in his previous life's military training. Although this world has knights with titles, large-scale battles are still determined by these ordinary soldiers. In the era of cold weapons, it is necessary to always strengthen the army.

The factors are the execution of orders and prohibitions, and unified cooperation. As long as you have these two points, you will be a warworthy army.

The soldiers under the little nobles in this world are more like thugs. They don't look like an army at all. They are usually scattered around. Even the training is mostly to practice single-person slashing skills. When fighting, they look more like a group of hooligans.

When fighting in a group, rushing forward with a loud cheer is just the way to go.

Therefore, some small nobles will always be small nobles, because in addition to their limited military strength, they do not know that even a few dozen people will display doubled combat effectiveness if they can consciously train to fight in formation.

Because they have many soldiers under their command, the big nobles consciously order their soldiers to fight in formations. It is often the troops of these big nobles that are the main force on the battlefield and can determine the outcome of the war. After the guards of the small nobles are recruited, they are actually all

They are pioneers, or to put it bluntly, cannon fodder. When the main forces on both sides meet, the soldiers under the nobles will go out to fight.

As a modern man, Gervais deeply understands that a strong army must first learn to listen to orders, and at the same time develop their awareness of unity and cooperation, so that they can be fully integrated into a group, so that they can exert their greatest strength.

Next, Gervais first taught the guards to turn left and right, but what Gervais didn't expect was that what he thought was the simplest task actually took him half a day.

Many new recruits cannot tell the difference between left and right.

In desperation, Gervais even asked them to hold branches in their right hands to better distinguish left and right, but some people still turned wrong. In the end, Gervais finally understood that there was no way for these recruits to understand the difference between left and right in one day.

, they usually have no awareness of left and right at all, so Gervais stopped today's turning training. Turning training can only be mastered by time.

Next, Gervais directly started to train the next subject and asked them to walk in unison. Gervais also encountered the same problems as before in this training subject. Many recruits did not know how to distinguish between their left and right feet, and often could not follow the commands. The pace was inconsistent and they walked in a mess.

Gervais took the trouble to correct it over and over again, but still had little effect. This made Gervais deeply doubtful whether the system on earth is suitable for this alien world.

Gervais didn't know that except for himself, these recruits were also frightened. They were taught by the lord, and they made mistakes over and over again in front of the lord. They were worried that not only would they not be able to get along with the Guards, but they would even be worried if the lord was angry.

It is possible to get up and kick them out of the guard team directly.

After practicing walking in unison for a while, Gervais saw that it was still early and decided to teach him standing postures as well.

What Gervais didn't expect was that these recruits were not good at the first two subjects, but performed very well in the final practice of standing. After Gervais corrected some wrong postures, all of them held their heads high and chests high.

He stood without squinting, motionless, and no one shook him for half an hour.

You must know that the sunshine in the afternoon is extremely strong. During the previous training sessions, they were asked to drink water during the training, but there was no time for rest. This made Gervais very surprised at their endurance.

When the sun went down, Gervais asked Laurie and Audry to take a group of recruits to bathe in a creek outside the castle. The leather armor and long sword had not been made yet, but the brand-new linen blouses were in the castle.

Two sets were prepared for each person.

Even after an afternoon of training, when these recruits received brand-new clothes, they all laughed out loud. They had worn the clothes for several years. If they were torn, they would mend them, and if they had mended them, they would continue to wear them.

In order to prevent clothes from being damaged too quickly, they even deliberately control the number of times they wash them. Anyway, if you wash your clothes today, they will still be dirty tomorrow. Therefore, the most common disease for civilians and serfs in this world is skin disease.

These recruits will be permanently stationed in the wooden huts in the forecourt of the castle. Cleanliness is a must. The wooden huts prepared for the soldiers in the Viscount Castle can accommodate at least two hundred people, so Gervais does not need to worry about their accommodation.

After returning to the castle and taking a nice bath, Gervais ran to the study to check, and after making sure that Betty and Wally were fine, he took Anna, the maid, to the restaurant for dinner.

After dinner, Gervais ran to the mill without stopping, picked up three balls of black powder and checked them. After checking, Gervais determined that the three balls of black powder had dried completely, so he immediately found tools and started crushing these balls.

Black powder and then sifting.

In order to prevent static electricity from igniting the unfinished gunpowder, the tools Gervais used to make were all wooden. For example, he used a rolling pin as a roller.

He was just experimenting now. If he wanted to manufacture in large quantities in the future, Gervais felt that it was necessary to make a mill as big as a millstone, otherwise the efficiency of crushing gunpowder with a rolling pin would be unbearable.

After crushing and screening three different proportions of black powder, Gervais placed them in small wooden bowls and marked each wooden bowl with marks so that he could distinguish the proportion of each black powder.

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Now that all three types of gunpowder were completed, Gervais took a small spoonful of each three types of gunpowder and placed them on the ground next to him. He leaned down and ignited the three piles of black powder one by one.

In an instant, the entire mill was illuminated, but the burning process of black gunpowder did not last long. It was impossible to determine which ratio of gunpowder was better after burning like this. So Gervais thought for a moment, it would be better to make a grenade directly and use it to test explosions.

More intuitive.

Do it as you say, looking at the dark powder in the three wooden bowls, Gervais ordered to Anna.

"Anna, go and ask the valet to bring three small clay pots!"

The kitchen in the castle used clay pots with small mouths, the size of two fists, to store spices. Gervais estimated that they were just right. As a child in his previous life, he was an expert at this. He took out small firecrackers and put them into Wahaha jars.

Then it is sealed with soil, and the sound when put up is as loud as firecrackers, w. So Gervais still has some confidence in this.

"Yes, sir!"

While Gervais was making black powder inside, Anna had been waiting outside. After hearing Gervais's order, she immediately ran to the inner castle.

While Anna's little maid left, Gervais started making leads. Due to limited knowledge, he can only make the simplest one, which he often played with when he was a child.

I saw Gervais spreading the prepared paper on the wooden board, moistening it, and then evenly sprinkling a small amount of black gunpowder on it. After the paper was covered with gunpowder powder, Gervais would put the gunpowder on it.

The paper is rolled into thin strips. Once the thin strips dry, it becomes the most primitive and simple lead.

Of course, since it is the most primitive and simplest, there are also disadvantages, that is, it is afraid of water and burns quickly. Therefore, for the sake of safety, the length of each lead is reserved by Gervais at more than two meters, otherwise the lead will be too long.

Short, like those long strings of firecrackers that start to explode as soon as they are lit.

"Sir, is this the clay pot?"

After making four leads, Gervais stopped. As soon as he was done, Anna came to the mill with a servant. The servant was holding two small clay pots, and the other one was in the mill.

In Anna's hand, Anna handed the small clay pot to Gervais as she spoke.

"Very good, this is the clay pot!"

Gervais took the small clay pot and nodded with satisfaction, and then immediately began to put the black powder into it. When it was almost loaded to the mouth of the bottle, Gervais stopped. However, because the fuse was not dry yet, he could only

First seal the small clay pot with a piece of paper to prevent it from getting wet, and you can do the final sealing work tomorrow.
Chapter completed!