"What should we do? All 12-year-old children have to participate. Their bodies haven't grown up yet. Isn't this going to end in death?"
"Doesn't Butler Krone treat farmers well? How can he be so cruel? Two men have died in the family, and only two boys are left. Now they are gone again. My miserable life, ugh~"
As soon as the winter training order was issued, it quickly caused local panic. Rumors spread rapidly. Li Feng had to quickly issue supplementary announcements and early release of the military preferential treatment policy that was to be released only after the winter training was completed.
Soon the citizens knew that they would not fight, and it was just a two-month winter training. After two months, the outstanding candidates would be selected and incorporated into the army.
Of course, everything is based on volunteerism. If you don't want to join the army, you can go home if you want.
However, joining the army has the following benefits:
1. Those who join the army do not need to work anymore. The army implements a twenty-four-level military merit hierarchy. Starting from a small soldier, one can reach the rank of Datingzhu (General of the Zhuguo). Each level corresponds to a different monthly salary. The soldiers have 3
Gold coins per month (the average monthly salary of the leader is 2 gold coins), and for each level, 3 gold coins are added...
2. Anyone with military exploits will be rewarded based on their merits. The soldier will be rewarded with 2 gold coins/head, and the rewards will increase in sequence...
3. Once someone dies in battle, build a military merit tower and record meritorious deeds on it for future generations to admire. A pension of 500 gold coins will be given and the children will be raised in the castle until they are 18 years old.
4. Those who are disabled on the battlefield will enjoy retirement services, or be assigned to civilian jobs, or join the security team in the rear to help the knights of various fiefs or grassroots officials manage the people.
..........There are more than a dozen of them.
After reading this, the citizens not only calmed down their panic, but also became very active and gathered at the castle training ground, demanding to participate in winter training immediately.
The enthusiasm of the masses is hard to quell.
Li Feng gave the order and winter training began.
Count the number of people and go through a round of screening.
Don't want it for those who are weak, don't want it for those who are timid and cowardly, don't want it for those who have only one male in the family, don't want it for those who have a playful and smiling face, don't want it for those who like to be clever, and don't want it for those who are opportunistic and like to play tricks.
As a result, a total of 820 men came to participate in the winter training from the entire Dialing and Lucking areas.
Taking each village and town as a unit, 10 phalanxes were gathered, and each phalanx was divided into 10 squads. The original 100 officers and soldiers from the training camp were integrated into them to serve as instructors and captains of each squad.
These soldiers were trained by Li Feng as a group of crossbowmen, spear phalanx, heavy cavalry and light cavalry according to the method of the Qin State's tiger and wolf divisions.
The crossbowmen are equipped with scimitars and longbows as standard, and the legions are equipped with powerful giant crossbows, bed crossbows, and ballistae. They are long-range attack arms that attack the enemy. Basically, after one round, the peasant legions rushing over will be frightened and scatter.
escape.
The spear phalanx is composed of the most fearless and brave warriors, responsible for resisting the impact of those heavily armored knights. With spears, shields, sabers, and horse ropes, all who come will die.
The light cavalry is responsible for covering one's own flanks, harassing the enemy's flanks, and when the enemy retreats, they launch pursuit and kill the remaining troops.
The heavy cavalry served as a supplementary force. While supported by the pikemen, they attacked from both sides and cooperated with the light cavalry to penetrate into the enemy's center and disrupt the formation.
The military formation combining the four arms is a strategy specifically formulated by Li Feng based on the characteristics of the world's legions. It is highly balanced and cost-effective.
This kind of combined military formation, coupled with sufficiently sophisticated equipment and sufficient training, will not be a big problem against those heavily armored knights who are pressed against the ground and rubbed against each other.
However, the only flaw of this combined military formation is that it requires scale and enough soldiers, especially the spear phalanx. Without a large number of soldiers forming a thick formation, it will not be able to exert its due power.
Li Feng roughly estimated that he would have to train an 800-man spear phalanx, 300 elite crossbowmen, 300 heavy cavalry and 300 light cavalry in order to be invincible in the Kingdom of Chris and defeat everything.
military force.
There are still about 1,200 soldiers left. After excluding the more than 800 soldiers standing in front of him, it is already the limit of Luke and Dia. It is better to have a shortage than to overfill, and there is no point in relaxing the requirements.
What's more, at present, we still need to fight steadily, and it is not appropriate to mobilize a large number of young and strong forces to launch an all-out war.
"We will train for a few months first, wait until we build an iron army and take over Glenland and the two surrounding territories."
He just did what he said. Next, Li Feng's focus turned to troop training. He attached great importance to this first army that truly belonged to him. He personally wrote the training outline and took time to take them for special training every day.
Eat and live together.
His training methods are very different from the knight training methods in this world.
At 9:00 in the morning, we led the soldiers to run three kilometers, rested for 20 minutes for formation standing and marching training, and rested for another 10 minutes for bow and spear training.
At 2:00 in the afternoon, there was military skill training, followed by riding and slashing training, and a 30-minute military ideological education was completed, teaching them various terrain combat skills, military common sense, military ethics and beliefs, etc.
I kept busy until 6:00 pm for another three-kilometer long run and dinner.
In the evening, Li Feng organized the soldiers, told them stories, and carried out some interesting activities, such as drumming and passing flowers, folk song contests, martial arts competitions, unique skill displays, etc. If they performed well, Li Feng would also give them rewards.
In addition, Li Feng also set up an honor list. During the training period, the top three in running, the top three in archery, the top three in spearmanship, and the top three in riding... will not only receive public praise, but also receive generous material benefits.
award.
Gradually, the soldiers suddenly felt that although training was hard, it was a very happy thing. They gradually fell in love with this feeling, and a culture of chasing each other formed in the army.
From Li Feng's perspective, the other side of the harvest is more important.
That is, the soldiers' loyalty to him has skyrocketed, and their obedience to his orders is extremely high. After showing off his skills and defeating all the experts in the army, the soldiers' admiration for him has reached its peak.
Of course, Li Feng did not delay other matters either.
Every time he came back from the military camp, he had to deal with daily government affairs, trade and situation, especially the situation in Glenland. As early as the winter training started, he had already asked Piccolo to send people into Glenland.
Originally, we wanted to deal with the other two territories at the same time, but Piccolo's manpower was limited, and Lansa's Dark Rose organization was not yet mature, so we could only do it one by one.
"Boss, we have more than thirty people who have sneaked into Glenland, and three of them have sneaked into the castle. As long as our army enters Glenland, we will immediately open the castle gate and control all entrances and exits."