Urban Sims

Chapter 43
A few days later, Solo's food caravan, escorted by several thieves sent by Zhou Ming, left Granland and headed towards the Iron Fort Kingdom in the south.

Of course, Zhou Ming will not put all his eggs in one basket. In addition to Su Luo's large grain sales caravan, he has also reached a cooperation agreement with some small and medium-sized traveling merchants, asking them to help sell grain, and by the way, to Gran Ling, How full they can eat after transporting back some needed resources depends on the respective skills of these traveling merchants.

The problem of grain sales has been preliminarily resolved, and Zhou Ming's focus of work has returned to military training.

Yes, Zhou Ming never entrusted the security of Granland to a group of gangsters who committed all kinds of crimes, were greedy, tyrannical, and poorly disciplined.

Although these robbers, under his money bribes, servants' service and warm hospitality, live happily and unrestrainedly in the castle with facilities like paradise, but they are also like time bombs, which will bring infinite happiness to Grandland at any time. hidden dangers.

Even these robbers still listen to him now.

For example, in April and May of this year, he asked the thief Roger to take a group of people to plunder and wreak havoc in several territories around the Gran Territory, set up traps and killed several knights, and let Earl Lausitz treat Edward After being killed by a robber, he no longer had any doubts, and admitted Downey's identity as Lord Granlord.

Also, in July and August, Zhou Ming personally led a group of thieves in Nathan Territory to prevent Baron Sean of Nathan Territory from sending people to investigate the cause of Fanny's death after he noticed the changes here in Grand Territory. After wreaking havoc, burning farmland and houses, poisoning wells, and setting traps to kill three or four knights, it was determined that Nathanland had no ability to retaliate, and then returned to Granland with the unscathed thieves.

Zhou Ming's positioning for these thieves is that when the regular military force of Gran Territory has not yet been established, he is responsible for clearing the obstacles around Gran Territory and escorting the stable development of Gran Territory. If there is any sign of it, he will let the "Alibaba Thieves Group" go out to carry out activities, and kill these threats in the cradle.

The thieves are naturally willing to accept such a "positioning". After all, their bounden duty is to burn, kill, loot, and do all kinds of evil. The Grand Land is their old nest, and the grass beside the nest cannot be chewed. Naturally, other territories are when they are extremely bored. Go to a place to exercise your muscles and bones.

However, such a chaotic and disorderly force like thieves cannot always serve as the defense army of Granland. Training a regular army with strict discipline and strong combat effectiveness has become Zhou Ming's top priority.

In fact, if quick results are desired, Zhou Ming can also ask Downey to recruit some knights and entrust them among the ten knight fiefs of Granland. The knights would even recommend themselves to apply for the job, and it wouldn't take long to recruit some knights.

but--

If the knights are recruited, all the reforms that Zhou Ming made before are basically abolished. After the knights are sealed, the villages, population and farmland in the fief will be autonomous and managed by the knights. The lord's control over the territory will be Eighty to ninety percent was lost at once.

What Zhou Ming wants to do now is to take all the resources of Granland into his own hands, reform agriculture, develop industry and commerce, strengthen the military, and then embark on a road of continuous external expansion. A few knights, how is it possible?

October.

At the end of the busy farming period, and after the farmers in Grandland had rested for more than a month, Zhou Ming asked someone to issue a "Winter Training Announcement".

All able-bodied male farmers aged 12-40 must come to the castle to participate in a two-month "winter training".

As soon as the announcement was issued, the farmers talked a lot, and even caused a local riot and panic.

"Is there going to be a war again?"

"How can I do this? Do all 12-year-olds have to go? They haven't grown up physically yet. Isn't it going to die if they go to the battlefield?"

"If you can't do it, run away. In the big battle last year, two men died in the family. Now there are only two boys left. Do you want to send them up?"

Seeing that these local panics tended to turn into rumors and spread rapidly, Zhou Ming had to ask someone to issue another explanatory announcement, saying that the "Winter Training Announcement" was just a two-month winter training called for farmers to come to the castle. After the period is over, the farmers will go home and will not take them to war.

The panic of the farmers in the territory was calmed down, and they gathered in the castle to participate in the winter training.

Training ground in front of the castle.

Looking at the 11 phalanxes gathered together in units of villages and towns below, Zhou Ming asked the training instructors of each phalanx to count the number of people.

"From a 12-year-old immature boy to a 40-year-old middle-aged man, there are a total of 1067 men who can hold weapons in the entire Grand Land. If you want to select qualified soldiers who can go to the battlefield, I don't know how to choose How many?"

That's right, the purpose of Zhou Ming's collective winter training is to select a group of high-quality soldiers who can fight.

For these soldiers, he will train a group of crossbowmen, spearmen and light cavalry according to the organization method of Qin's tiger and wolf division.

Crossbowmen are equipped with powerful crossbows, catapults, or longbows with a long range. They are long-range attack arms for attacking the enemy.

The pikemen are responsible for resisting the impact of the heavy cavalry. During the training process, the discipline requirements are extremely strict.

The role of light cavalry is mainly to cover one's own flanks, harass the enemy's flanks, and annihilate the enemy's fleeing forces in the pursuit battle.In the later stage, a group of heavy cavalry can also be developed on the basis of light cavalry according to needs.

Crossbowmen, pikemen, and light cavalry, the army formed by the combination of these three arms is the one with the best balance and cost-effectiveness among all arm combinations. Dressed cavalry is any single branch of arms, no matter how powerful it is, it can't get any benefit from this army formation.

However, the defect of this army array combination is also obvious, that is, it needs a large number of soldiers. If there is not a large number of soldiers, forming an army array with a thickness that meets the standard will not exert its due huge power on the battlefield at all.

Zhou Ming estimated that he would have to train at least 300 troops including 300 elite light cavalry, 600 elite crossbowmen and 1200 elite pikemen, in order to be able to hang out within the scope of the Earl of Ross. Fight against all other military forces.

But the potential soldiers standing in front of Zhou Ming now, ranging from immature boys to middle-aged men, are only in the early 1000s. After excluding a group of weak, timid and worried people, 200 people can be selected in the end. Zhou Ming thought it was very impressive.

"It's better to train them for two months first, pick out all the good seedlings, and then promulgate the reward regulations for joining the army and the reward regulations for military exploits. I don't believe that we can't recruit a group of qualified soldiers!"

So, in the next two months, under Zhou Ming's personal supervision, these ordinary farmers were trained according to the training outline he had prepared.

Zhou Ming trained them not to be tired. They ran 2000 meters in the morning and evening, and practiced marching and standing in the middle. Or for farmers who want to learn how to ride horses, they can carry out simple riding training.

During the boring training intervals, Zhou Ming will also organize these farmers and carry out some interesting activities, such as beating drums to pass flowers, folk song competitions, impromptu performances, unique skill demonstrations, etc., just like the military training he participated in in college. Farmers who are not too interested in winter training gradually like this kind of training.

Not only that, Zhou Ming also set up a list of honors, the top three fastest runners, the top three most accurate bow and crossbow shooters, and the best performances in riding spears, after public praise, There are material rewards, and for a while, among the farmers, there is a training atmosphere of chasing each other.

Nearly two months later, the weather was getting colder and colder, and it was not suitable to continue training. At the end of this winter training, Zhou Ming released a blockbuster in front of the group of farmers.

　Let's try to restore the third update. Please send more recommendation tickets. The recent chapters are relatively boring. I hope that the first experience of the second dungeon will be over in these two days. I still hope that readers will continue to support!
　　


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