Chapter 214: It takes more than three months to become a cavalry general
After leaving the "Customs", Boritz followed Busak nervously towards the base of the Trinity Education Team.

He couldn't figure out the attitude of the chief civil servant of the Papal States, and he even suspected that his small group had been discovered.

After all, there has always been a legend among the believers that there is a harsh secret spy organization within the Children's Army, namely the Cheka.

Legend has it that the word "Cheka" comes from the Elish word for "God's Eye". They will investigate and capture traitors under the instructions of God's Eye Horn.

However, Boritz always regarded this as a rumor spread by country folk, but when Busak called him away with a serious face, Boritz couldn't help but think wildly.

Especially since their destination was the Trinity Education Team.

"Mr. Busak, what are we doing here at the Holy Trinity Education Team?"

Busak rode on his horse along the muddy path surrounded by gray wooden fences and said calmly, "Those refugees need a census, but don't these lost members of the Holy Trinity Education Team need an investigation?"

Lost Elements is the name given within the Salvation Army to these petty-evil low-ranking nobles, whose identities are between believers and devils.

Speaking of this, we have to mention the relationship between the Salvation Army and the Papal States. This issue was not officially determined until yesterday.

In a nutshell, the Salvation Army is the Pope's direct army, while the rebel army outside under the banners of the Holy Grandson and the Short Hair is the army under the Papal States.

The original intention of establishing the Trinity Education Team was because Horn discovered that they lacked sufficient military and cultural talents to complete their development plans.

After all, no matter how powerful Horn is, he can't remember all the knowledge. He also has the trouble that the knowledge he brought from Earth is not enough to solve the problem.

As the saying goes, to punish past mistakes to prevent future ones and to cure the disease to save the patient, Horn still kept some of the low-ranking nobles and knights of the Thousand River Valley whose crimes were less serious.

Anyway, after they come in, they will be kicked hard and made to behave themselves. The knight knows the breathing technique and will most likely be restless, so a thin rope will be tied around his neck tightly to prevent him from breathing normally. Then let him starve for a few days and even the strongest knight will have to work obediently.

When Boritz and Busak arrived at the scene, there was a tattered, one-meter-high spiked fence in a muddy depression.

There were a dozen wooden houses within the fence that gave off a foul smell, but they were kept quite simply.

Hundreds of lost people were dragged to the edge of the camp. They took off their woolen silk clothes and put on the linen short coats commonly worn by farmers.

The sky was gray, and the remaining raindrops from the birch branches occasionally dripped onto their heads. They could only shiver in the cold wind while digging the land with hoes to open up wasteland.

Friends who often reclaimed wasteland in ancient times know that reclaiming wasteland with manpower alone is a very difficult task.

Reclaiming land is not something that can be done by simply turning the soil over with a hoe. First, ditches must be dug, the soil must be piled up to form ridges, and then all weeds and shrubs on the field must be burned with fire.

If the terrain is low, it will even be more troublesome if drainage is required first.

Only after the problem of the land itself is solved can people take their turn.

These misguided elements must first dig out the weeds and then move all the rocks and stones out of the fields, as well as tree roots and rabbit holes.

Finally, the land was turned over once more, fertilized, and then turned over again and fertilized again before it barely met the standards for farming.

Next to the shed in the field, four registrars, holding paper and pen, were registering the haggard lost people.

But it is more like taking a record than registering.

After standing aside and listening for a while, Boritz discovered that these registrars were all child soldiers, and they would ask the same question repeatedly, requiring these lost people to answer honestly.

Sometimes they will even ask questions that they asked several days ago. If the answer doesn’t match, I’m sorry, you will be sent to the dark room.

Boritz had seen many ways of torturing prisoners, but these prisoners were only required to open up new land and do some labor, with food and shelter. This kind of torture was much better than being sold to work as hard labor in black mines.

Perhaps only these low-ranking nobles and priests felt humiliated. "Sir, when will my shift start?" Boritz observed for a while, then turned to Busak and asked.

Busak walked to a small courtyard and pointed inside the courtyard: "I asked you to investigate the lost elements, not the outsiders."

Boritz tiptoed in through the wooden door opened by Busak, like a thief.

A young girl in hunting clothes and leather armor and a middle-aged knight were standing in the center of the courtyard. Boritz recognized them at a glance as the witch Jeanne, who had killed dozens of knights in the bloody battle of Jeanne d'Arc.

His scalp suddenly felt tingling, and Busak behind him pushed him impatiently: "Go in quickly, don't block the door."

Following Busak, Boritz took two steps and finally reached a position where he could hear the conversation between the two.

"So how fast is a slow walk, a quick walk, a run, or a trot? Is it determined by the wind speed?"

"No, no, no." The middle-aged knight standing opposite Jeanna shook his head and said, "The wind speed is not enough to judge the speed."

"Then how do we know the specific speeds of these four cavalry steps?"

"It's very simple. Have you ever seen a horse walk normally? After its four limbs leave the ground one by one, they land on the ground in the same order they left the ground. This is a slow walk."

Standing in front of the warhorse, the middle-aged knight with sunken eye sockets had only his feet shackled, and his hands were not restrained at all. After all, with Jeanna here, he could not escape even if he had a hundred lives.

He coughed and continued, “Like a trot, that’s the hooves on the diagonal line, like the left front hoof and the right hind hoof leave the ground and land at the same time.

When running, for example, the right hind leg touches the ground at the beginning, followed by the left hind leg and right foreleg at the same time, and finally the left foreleg touches the ground.

The attacking step is used at the end of the charge, and is essentially just running at an accelerated speed."

"Then how do you determine what the current pace is?"

The knight glanced at the girl who was taking notes seriously, and his voice was filled with pride and pity. "We often say that the sound of horse hooves is like the rhythm of sacred music. When you walk slowly, there are four hoof beats, while when you walk quickly, there are two hoof beats, when you canter, there are three hoof beats, and when you march, there are two hoof beats again."

"I'll take you to test the specific speed of this step later." Jeanna held the pen awkwardly and wrote down a few simple words in her notes.

After thinking for a while, she handed the notes to Boritz beside her: "You help me write it down."

"As ordered, Your Highness."

Seeing Boritz's humble and flattering look, Jeanne frowned and said, "Since Madeleine recommended you to help me, you should work honestly and don't have any other crooked thoughts, okay?"

Boritz's heart stopped for a moment: "I understand, I understand."

As if she sensed something wrong with Boritz, Jeanne was a little confused as to why Madeleine recommended this man to her.

Jeanna shook her head. She didn't have time to think about this. She continued to look at the middle-aged knight in front of her and asked, "Is that all? Is that all there is to cavalry combat?"

The knight showed an irrepressible pride on his face: "Of course not, my honorable lady, in the slow walk, there are also divisions based on the length of the stride and the movement of the legs, such as the shortened slow walk, the normal slow walk and the extended slow walk. There are also more sophisticated steps in the trot and canter.

After taking the potion, there will be more sophisticated footwork and tactics, different commands during the charge, and complex step coordination during the march.

If a knight wants to become a knight, he only needs to be able to fight, but if he wants to become a cavalry captain, let alone a cavalry general, he needs to study for a long time.

If you want to become a cavalry commander, it will take more than three months. It will take at least three years."

Jeanne ignored the sarcasm in his words, and just stood up calmly, patting the dirt off her trouser legs: "I will come to see you tomorrow, go to work."

(End of this chapter)