Chapter five hundred and seventy first training and behind the scenes
Limited by the education level of the people at the bottom of this world, William could only adopt the military system of the ancient Roman Empire in his previous life.
Every ten people form a team, with a team leader.
Every ten teams form a squadron, also called a centurion, with a squadron leader and an adjutant.
The five squadrons form a regiment, with one regiment leader and two deputy regiment leaders.
William named this infantry regiment composed of slaves and mercenaries "Thunder's Fury" and appointed himself as the regiment leader. David, the former mercenary leader, was the deputy regiment commander, and the other deputy regiment leader's position was vacant.
The five squadron leaders are all mercenaries with outstanding performance, while the squad leaders are equally composed of mercenaries and old slaves.
But in front of the official positions of these deputy regimental commanders, squadron leaders, and squad leaders, William added the word "generation" to them.
In other words, during the training process, if the performance is not good, William will be replaced at any time.
The capable ones go up, the mediocre ones go down.
This was the most important sentence William said when he was lecturing, which made a group of slaves and former mercenaries feel sad when they heard it.
The day after the training, William's training began.
He had wasted a lot of time on these worldly things, and therefore, William had very high requirements for this.
The first step is to practice standing in line, turning left and right, and running in unison.
To this end, William specially asked the tailor shop to rush to make a batch of sleeve scarves and tie them on the right side of the trainees so that the trainees could better identify their orientation.
But the results were still disastrous.
In the army, only sticks can produce good soldiers. Just like the famous ancient generals in William's previous life who trained their troops, they were beheaded at every turn and severely punished for mistakes. Only in this way can we train good soldiers for every battle.
William has experience and will naturally not be confused in these aspects.
He mobilized twenty mercenaries, who were directly under his command. The magic mirror fully monitored all queues. If anyone made a mistake, he would direct the mercenaries to go up and give them a beating, or the entire queue would be punished directly.
The whole team is punished or the whole team is rewarded, this is to cultivate a sense of collectiveness in the queue.
After a strong dose of medicine, the queue slowly got back on track and started to feel a little bit different.
At this time, more than half a month has passed before the next step of training can continue.
Formation training, long-distance running training, basic martial arts movement training, team signal knowledge learning, and basic writing learning are carried out continuously.
A whole day of high-intensity training left many newly transferred soldiers secretly complaining and complaining.
But the first group of people who took action and did not want to continue training were some of David's selected mercenaries.
They asked William to reduce the intensity of his training, but William refused.
They asked to go back to watch the city patrol, but William ruthlessly refused again.
So, their demands were not met, so under the leadership of a bold guy named Frank, five mercenaries tried to escape from the military camp under the cover of night.
The result is self-evident, he was caught by William.
Frank is the only son of a good brother of David who died. He has always been taken care of by David and has developed a naughty and bold character.
He knew that William was originally just a hunter and became a noble through good luck, so he was always jealous and unconvinced of him.
That night, seeing that William was alone, he wanted to resist, but was suppressed by William.
The other four mercenaries did not dare to resist.
The next day, William summoned everyone in the military camp. In full view of the public, he announced the charges against Frank and the five men, and directly sentenced them to death and executed them on the spot.
Frank was so frightened that he peed on the spot when he heard the result. He cried and begged his Uncle David for mercy.
David couldn't bear it. He looked at William, but he only saw a pair of emotionless eyes. He felt horrified. He thought of his children and didn't dare to speak. He watched helplessly as William chopped off the heads of the five mercenaries.
The so-called killing of chickens to scare monkeys is nothing more than that.
After this incident, no one dared to complain anymore, and training could continue.
But this only makes the army fear him, rather than making the army respect and obey him and become his tool.
Therefore, William had to set an example by going out with the army every day, training together in the cold and windy weather, eating together, and suffering together.
Whatever the soldiers did, William did the same.
Uninterrupted supply of meat, medical treatment, brainwashing, idolatry and other means were used by William to completely wipe out the noise in this team of 500 people, and completely obey every command issued by William.
The command became his one word.
More than a month has passed by this time.
The real training begins.
William asked the magic mirror to refine a super simplified version of the knight training method. Although it is not enough to stimulate life energy and become a knight, it can also greatly improve one's physical fitness, strength, reaction and other aspects of quality attributes.
That's not all. There are some special herbs in the space of William's blue plaid apron, which can be configured into some potions to improve physical fitness, just like the "recipes" that William used originally.
Of course, William is no longer the same William as before. He has a lot of resources at hand, and the "recipes" created by the magic mirror no longer have the same side effects as before.
But correspondingly, the magnitude of improvement is not that exaggerated.
William mixed these potions into everyone's diet.
During the day, I took them for a super simplified version of knight training.
Under such circumstances, the physical strength and strength of the soldiers were increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye, but they did not exceed the scope of normal people. Each one of them became fat and strong, and full of energy and energy.
Only after this level did William begin to let them conduct military training.
According to different weapons, they were divided into a squadron of swordsmen, three squadrons of spearmen, and a mixed squadron of spearmen and archers.
Different squadrons conduct targeted training.
At this time, several months had passed, and some outstanding leaders had emerged. William had removed some poor acting captains and replaced them with outstanding soldiers.
William did not train his troops well and did not lead the soldiers to see blood. Instead, he took different teams out every once in a while, secretly crossed the border, went to the territory of Prince Feret next door, and attacked the relatively remote villages in the border area.
It will definitely be unsatisfactory at the beginning, and there are various situations.
Fortunately, with William and the Magic Mirror on the town, no one managed to escape, and no one could successfully spread the news.
After capturing several villages, William's team was finally trained and became an elite team that had seen blood and fought in battles.
All territorial officials or fiefdom knights were killed, and ordinary people and their families were taken away. All the wealth that could be taken away was taken away. The property that could not be taken away, such as houses and fields, had to be taken away in front of everyone.
The faces of the captives were burnt away, cutting off the people's wild imagination.
Then he brought all these captives to his New Nise village and served as the lowest slaves. They were strictly supervised and became the screws of the New Nise village.
Anyway, if the two princes did these things on the first day, don't blame him for doing the fifteenth. He was just reciprocating the courtesy.
Moreover, William knew that Prince Charles was the one who did it in the beginning, but later he specifically sought trouble for Prince Ferret.
This has another purpose.
All told, a total of five villages in Prince Feret's territory were wiped out by William with his "Wrath of Thunder".
As a result, the village of Xinnisei received a large number of labor force supplements, and the population continued to expand, directly rising to 2,100 people.
This is infinitely close to the population of a barony town.
Because there was a magic mirror watching over it, the slave's movement range was also limited to a certain area, so no news was leaked.
People who have this kind of idea and put it into action have quietly become fertilizer for the villages of Xinnisei.
Of course, although most of the credit is due to William, there is no credit but hard work for Wrath of Thunder. After all, it cost more than a dozen lives.
William also made a reward.
In addition to receiving pensions for those who died in war, their families were directly promoted from slaves to freedmen. In addition to including food and accommodation, the work also provided additional wages, and of course, the most important thing was freedom!
Among the "Thunder's Wrath" infantry regiment, those who performed outstandingly during the battle and made military exploits, and who were slaves, directly became freedmen. Those who were originally freedmen received monetary rewards. Those who performed the best were directly killed.
Give a house.
Clear rewards and punishments, and an open path to social class advancement greatly stimulated all members of Thunderfury.
In the ensuing battle, they simply risked their lives. As a result, the results became more and more abundant, and William also obtained an army whose combat effectiveness was barely noticeable.
And the other side.
Poor Prince Feret, five villages in his territory were uprooted. He was so angry that he almost vomited blood. He didn't even know who was behind the scenes?
Prince Ferret also sent people to William's territory to investigate the situation, but before the spies entered within fifty miles of William's village, they were detected by the magic mirror and reported to William.
William then hid all the captured slaves, and then waited for Prince Ferret's spies to come disguised as various identities, but the investigation yielded no results.
In fact, Prince Ferret did not think that William, a new little lord and aristocrat, could be the murderer!
His real suspect is actually his brother, the eldest prince Charles.
Around here, only Charles has such strength.
As for why you attacked him?
Ferret always believed that his brother had shit in his mind, and anything he wanted to do impulsively was possible.
So Prince Ferret sent a large number of people into Prince Charles' territory to investigate.
But it didn't take long for the spy to be discovered by Prince Charles' men.
The two former princes, who worked together to deal with their younger brother, got into a fierce quarrel.
It was just a serious suspicion and a strong denial. Under such circumstances, the quarrel would never be fruitful, but the relationship between the two princes became cold due to this.
When the new king Liszt heard the news in the palace, his face gradually turned pale, and he was so happy that he ate a piece of white bread.
William's territory developed rapidly under the eyes of the two princes.
Through trade, William's territory continued to purchase slaves to enrich its population and engage in manual labor.
Some slaves who had performed well before were continuously promoted to first-class slaves and freedmen.
All soldiers in the infantry regiment like Thunderfury are free citizens.
The population has been increasing and has grown to more than 7,900 people. This population is very close to the minimum population of a city.
Cities are generally owned by nobles above count.
The increase in population brings improvements in other aspects.
The original Xinnisei village would definitely not have enough housing, unless most of the slaves lived outside the village.
So new civil engineering work was started again.
With Xinnisai village as the core, a new nine-square grid was established.
The new village of Nisei directly occupies more than one-third of William's entire territory. The rivers and fields are wrapped in it. You don't have to go far from the village gate to reach the wilderness plain.
At this time, the name of the village is not suitable, and the name of the city is almost enough - Nisei City!
Few lords dare to build villages and cities near the wilderness plains, because buildings that are too conspicuous will attract attacks from unknown entities in the wilderness.
But William is obviously not someone who is afraid of this small danger.
A city is still different from a village.
In addition to having an infantry regiment like Thunderfury, the city of Nisei also established a second infantry regiment, Red Flame Storm, as well as a cavalry squad.
In addition, the city of Nice also has a city guard, which is an internal violent unit that acts as a police officer and manages the population coming and going from the city according to the rules set by William.
In fact, it is mainly caravans coming and going.
Taverns were built, and schools focusing on teaching crafts were also established... Spring has passed, summer is coming, and the development of the entire Han Lai collar has been astonishing.
At this time, Prince Charles and Prince Ferret suddenly discovered that the Han Lai collar had become a hard nut to crack.
William was too lazy to hide it.
As a result, Prince Ferret discovered among William's free people the villagers who had been burned down in his own territory, and he also became a little fatter.
Only then did Prince Ferret realize that William was the real murderer.
He accused William crazily and said that he would make William pay a price, remove William from his title and demote William to a slave.
And William's response was a silent back of the head.
Prince Ferret was so angry that he lost his previous forbearance. Without waiting for the new king Liszt's messenger, he directly gathered most of the troops in the territory, a total of 5,000 people, wearing sophisticated equipment, and marched towards William's
The territory was crushed away.
At the beginning, William's troops were all panic-stricken. After all, the opponent had 5,000 people, and their total number was only more than 1,000, which was five times their number.
Five against one, no matter how you look at it, you will lose.
If you lose, the result will definitely not be much better!
The villagers who had lived a good life in William's Hanley had difficulty accepting the old days.
But such worries disappeared as William led them to win several battles.