The soldiers in the audience are the new soldiers that Anduin has recruited in Hetan Town in the past eight days. There are 70 male soldiers, 25 female soldiers, and 30 logistics troops. These logistics troops are also called "assistant defense forces."
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Including the 9 Silver Hand recruits under Sean's command (a total of 11 people, 2 of whom are guarding the plantation), it can be regarded as an "army of a hundred"!
Don't laugh yet!
In Hetan Town, it is not easy to gather a main battle force of 110 people. After all, Hetan Town only has 4,500 people, and the military-civilian ratio has reached 1:40.
In many countries in the previous life, even during the most difficult World War II, the military-civilian ratio was only about 1:20, so being able to recruit 110 main battle troops in the first batch is already a very good achievement.
As for why female soldiers are recruited, it is mainly because this world has magic elements, fighting spirit and the power of faith. Women can also cultivate to a very high level and are no longer weak and need protection.
So Sean allowed them to join the army to learn how to control the three energies, and allowed them to go to the battlefield.
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The soldiers in the audience had not received much training, so their formation was a little skewed.
But the morale of the soldiers is very high!
In the past few days, they not only received their first weekly salary, but their food treatment was also much better than expected, and they occasionally had meat.
So the soldiers in the audience looked very energetic and energetic.
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Not long after, the first military parade in Hetan Town officially began!
Windsor directed the soldiers to line up and salute, and everyone's eyes were focused on the rostrum.
On the rostrum, butler Henry took a step forward, took out a thick stack of speech scripts, and began to deliver the opening speech:
"In these days when everything is recovering and spring is bright, we ushered in the first military parade in Hetan Town..."
After hearing this, Sean suddenly became impatient. He was still sleepy and didn't want to hear Henry say these unnutritious things.
So Sean raised his hand to cover Henry's speech and said to the audience:
"I have one thing to ask you: why do you want to be a soldier?"
The soldiers in the audience looked at each other in confusion, and no one dared to answer Sean.
Sean waited for a while and saw no one answered, so he smiled and said:
"Then let me tell you! You are either doing it for the 5 gold coins/month salary, or you are doing it to learn and practice fighting spirit, magic, and the power of faith to become a practitioner. Am I right?"
As soon as Sean finished speaking, the soldiers immediately began to respond enthusiastically to Sean:
"Lord, you are absolutely right!"
"I dream of learning Dou Qi! Becoming a great warrior!"
"You can't know what others are thinking like Lord Anduin, right?"
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Sean continued:
"Now that everyone agrees, I will make a decision:
All the basic techniques for cultivating fighting spirit, magic, and the power of faith are open to you for free! Those that are slightly more advanced can be exchanged for military merit. What do you think?"
"Great! We have finally waited for this day!"
The soldiers in the audience began to cheer and cheer, and some even threw their military caps into the air.
After the soldiers' voices dropped a little, Sean smiled and said:
"Benefits are available now, but discipline must also be clarified! In the future, the most important thing in the army is to abide by discipline and obey orders. If anyone violates discipline, he or she will be dismissed, or even court-martialed! Do you understand?
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"I understand." The soldiers replied one after another, their expressions becoming serious.
"Wendsor, please read out the discipline." Sean turned his head and looked to his side.
"Okay, sir!"
Windsor gave Sean a military salute, then took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and said loudly:
"This is the 'Three Major Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention' drafted by the Lord.
three disciplines
1. Follow the command in all actions;
2. Don’t take advantage of the masses;
3. All seizures must be returned to the public.
Eight things to note
1. Speak kindly;
2. Fair sales;
3. Borrow something and return it;
4. Compensation is required for damaged items;
5. Don’t hit or curse others;
6.Do not damage crops;
7. Do not tease women;
8. Do not mistreat prisoners.
The above is the entire content of military discipline.
After joining the army, the first thing you have to do is to recite all the above content proficiently, and then you can obtain the cultivation techniques of fighting spirit, magic, and the power of faith. Do you understand?"
"Okay, General!" the soldiers replied in unison.
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The "Three Major Disciplines, Eight Points of Attention" are the disciplines formulated by the people's army of the flower growers in the previous life. Sean had memorized it before and knew the terms in it, so he copied it shamelessly.
After all, in another world, there should be no one to investigate his rights, right?
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After the discipline was announced, the military parade began to enter the last and most important item - the display of new weapons.
Under the command of Windsor, the Silver Hand recruits picked up the "Minnie rifles" they had just equipped and began to perform target shooting demonstrations.
In order to fully demonstrate the power of the musket, Windsor also deliberately used discarded iron armor as a target.
The barrel of the gun sprayed flames, and bullets streaked across the sky, easily penetrating the thick iron armor.
Just now, ordinary soldiers were guessing what the steel pipes the Silver Hand recruits were carrying were, but now they saw that musket bullets could penetrate armor from a hundred meters away, and every one of them was so surprised that they were speechless.
Penetrating iron armor from a distance of 100 meters is something that only archers above the Black Iron level can do. Unexpectedly, new weapons can do the same!
The soldiers all showed fiery gazes. After all, being equipped with a musket means becoming a high-level black iron archer. There is no faster improvement than this.
After the musket demonstration, the next step was the artillery demonstration.
White Bronzebeard ignited the cannon, and the shell accurately hit the target on the Thorn Ridge 5 kilometers away. The scene was even more astonished and silent.
An attack at this distance is beyond the range of a bronze-level magician, right? It’s hard to imagine that His Highness Sean actually possesses such a powerful weapon!
So even the soldiers who were not very confident in their cultivation talents became happy.
If new weapons can be equipped in the future, the combat effectiveness will be much higher than that of the opposing army, and the survivability on the battlefield can also be greatly improved!
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After participating in the military parade, Windsor began to continue training soldiers, and Sean and Anduin walked side by side on the way back to the town center.
Sean said as he walked:
"Anduin, the Kingdom of Anjou may attack the Principality at any time, and war may come, but we should be fine here in the short term.
But we also need to prepare in advance. During this period, you need to recruit more troops to strive for 200 regular soldiers. There is also a supporting defense force responsible for logistics, which must reach at least 600 people!
There are also regular army weapons and equipment, so the dwarf blacksmiths should work harder to ensure the army’s material supply."
Chapter completed!