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A few days later, the food sales caravan of Solo, escorted by several thieves sent by Zhou Ming, left the Grand Collar and headed towards the Iron Fort Kingdom in the south.

Of course, Zhou Ming will not put all the eggs in a basket. In addition to the large food sales caravan of Solo, he also reached a cooperation agreement with some small and medium-sized traveling merchants, so that they can also help sell food and give it to Glencoln by the way. Transporting some needed resources back, and being able to eat more, it depends on the ability of these merchants.

The problem of grain sales was initially solved, and Zhou Ming's work focused on returning to the military training.

Yes, Zhou Ming has never pinned the security guard of the Grand Collar on a group of bandits who are evil, greedy, and poorly disciplined.

Although these robbers, with his money bribes, servant service and warm hospitality, lived in the conditions and facilities like a castle in paradise, they are extremely chic, but they are like time bombs, which will bring infinite to the Grand Collar at any time. Hidden dangers.

Even these robbers still listen to what he says.

For example, in April and May of this year, he asked the robber Roger to take a group of people to loot in several territories around the Grand Domain, set up traps and killed several knights, let Count Lautzitz to Edward After dying of robbers, he no longer had doubts and admitted the identity of Lord Granny of Downey.

In addition, in July and August, in order to prevent Baron Shawn of Nathan ’s collar from discovering the accident in the Grand collar, he would send someone to investigate the cause of Fanny ’s death. Zhou Ming personally took a group of thieves in Nathan ’s collar. After devastating, burning farm houses, poisoning wells, and setting traps to kill three or four knights, it was determined that Nathan had no ability to retaliate. This brought the unscathed thieves back to Granland.

Zhou Ming's positioning of these thieves was when the regular military power of the Glen Collar was not established, and was responsible for sweeping the obstacles around the Glen Collar and escorting the steady development of the Glen Collar. When he jumps out, he will let the "Alibaba thieves group" go out for activities and kill these threats in the cradle.

The thieves are naturally willing to accept such "positioning". After all, their duty is to burn, rob, and do nothing. The Grand Collar is their old nest, and the grass beside the nest cannot nibble. Other territories are naturally when they are extremely bored. Go to the place where you can exercise your muscles.

But the chaotic and disorderly forces of thieves cannot always serve as a guard against the Grand Collar. Training a regular army with strict discipline and strong combat effectiveness has become Zhou Ming's top priority.

In fact, if you want to see results quickly, Zhou Ming can also ask Downey to recruit some knights and divide them into the ten knights of the Grand Collar. After all, there are many wandering knights in this world who have lost their land for various reasons. The knight will even recommend himself to apply for the job, and it will not take long to recruit some knights.

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If the knights were recruited, the various reforms that Zhou Ming had made were basically abolished. After the knights were sealed, the village farmland in Caiyi was all under the knights ’autonomy and management, and the lord had control of the territory. Eight or ninety percent was lost.

What Zhou Ming wants to do now is to take all the resources of Grand Collar in his own hands, reform agriculture, develop industry and commerce, and have a strong military force, and then embark on a road of continuous expansion. How many knights?

October.

After the busy period of farming, after more than a month of recuperation by the farmers of the Grand Collar, Zhou Ming asked people to issue a "Winter Training Notice".

All healthy male farmers of 12-40 years old must come to the castle to participate in the two-month "winter training".

The announcement came out, and the farmers talked a lot, and even caused a local disturbance and panic.

"Are you going to fight again?"

"How can this be done? Do 12-year-old children have to go, they haven't gotten any good health, aren't they going to the battlefield to die?"

"Let's just run if it doesn't work. Last year's big battle, two men were dead at home, and now there are two boys left. Do we still have to send them?"

Looking at these local panics, there is a tendency to shift to rumors and spread rapidly. Zhou Ming had to make another interpretive announcement, saying that the "winter training notice" was only a two-month winter training that called farmers to come to the castle. After the period, the farmers will go home and will not take them to fight.

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

Training ground in front of the castle.

Looking at the 11 squares gathered below each village and town as a unit, Zhou Ming asked the training instructors of each square to count the number.

"From a 12-year-old young boy to a 40-year-old middle-aged man, the entire Grand Collar has a total of 1,067 men with weaponry. If you want to select a qualified soldier who can go to the battlefield, I do n’t know if I can choose it. How many? "

Yes, the purpose of Zhou Ming ’s collective winter training is to screen out a group of high-quality soldiers who can fight.

The soldiers, he will imitate the Qin State Tiger Wolf Division's establishment method, training a group of crossbowmen, pikemen and light cavalry.

Bowmen are equipped with powerful giant crossbows, ballistas, or longbows with a long range. They are long-range attacks against the enemy.

Lancers are responsible for resisting the impact of heavy armored cavalry. During the training process, the discipline requirements are extremely strict. In the face of the impact of heavy cavalry, they can be as immobile as a mountain, and they are not afraid of death.

The role of light cavalry is mainly to cover your own flanks, to attack the enemy's two wings, and to annihilate the enemy's escape power in the pursuit battle. In the later period, a group of heavy cavalry can be developed on the basis of light cavalry as needed.

The combination of these three arms, the crossbowmen, the pikemen, and the light cavalry, is the best balance and cost-effective ratio among all arms. This kind of army, not to mention the heavy armor A cavalry unit is any single unit, no matter how powerful its performance is, in the face of this formation, it can't get a little benefit.

However, the shortcomings of this combination of military formations are also more obvious, that is, a large number of soldiers are required. If there is not a large number of soldiers, a military formation with a thickness that meets the standard will not be displayed on the battlefield.

Zhou Ming estimated that he had to train at least an army of 300 elite light cavalry, 300 elite crossbowmen and 600 elite pikemen, and the total number of UU reading www.uukanshu.com reached 1200. The Earl's Collar hanged all other military forces within this range.

But the potential soldiers standing in front of Zhou Ming, from the young boy to the middle-aged man, but only 1,000 people, excluding a group of weak, timid and cowardly, finally 200 people can be selected, Zhou Ming felt very impressive.

"Let's train them for two months first, pick out the good seedlings inside, and then issue the military rewards and military rewards regulations, and you can't believe that you can't recruit a batch of qualified soldiers!"

So, in the next two months, under the personal supervision of Zhou Ming, he trained these ordinary farmers according to the training outline he had written.

Zhou Ming trained them not to be tired, morning and evening two thousand meters each, running in the middle of the queue and standing training, learning to turn back and forth, left and right, and simple bow and arrow and spear training, and brought dozens of horses, so that those who will A horseman or a farmer who wants to learn to ride a horse and conduct simple riding training.

During the boring training interval, Zhou Ming will also organize these farmers and carry out some fun activities, such as drumming and passing flowers, folk song competitions, impromptu performances, extraordinary shows, etc. Like the military training he participated in at university, the fun is endless, many originally Farmers who are not too cold to winter training gradually like this kind of training.

Not only that, Zhou Ming also set up an honor list. The top three fastest runners, the top three most accurate crossbow shooters, and the best performers in riding guns. After praise in public, There are material rewards. For a time, among the farmers, there was a training atmosphere that you chased after me.

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