Chapter 228 Horn's Own Demon Hunter
Horn has made a bet with Colebo and has a 90% chance of winning.

It's not just because he is both a player and a referee, but also because of his understanding of the assembly line soldier production method.

Whether it is the Thirty Years' War or the later War of Naga, we can see that the military books at that time had very low requirements for the quality of ordinary soldiers, but very high requirements for officers.

This is because ordinary soldiers are almost tools that can be mass-produced on an assembly line.

The emergence of muskets greatly reduced the time required to train infantry that could compete with cavalry to a certain extent.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Dombrovski recruited some Polish serfs to form the Polish New Army. They learned how to shoot in 14 days and went to the battlefield in 30 days.

Horn has been practicing hard for three months.

Horn restrained the officers' habit of beating soldiers without reason to a certain extent, but he still issued piety-infusing sticks to the veterans leading the recruit camps.

The purpose is to use pain to make them obey orders and make them fear the officers' sticks more than the enemy's swords.

These enforced behavioral patterns can train their concentration and obedience, truly transforming them from farmers into soldiers.

If it were the Empire's training system, this process could only be developed slowly through trial and error in actual combat, but Horn used a scientific training method explored by countless people in later generations, and his efficiency was much higher than theirs.

After the boot camp is over, Horn will transfer the Piety Infusion Rod to the hands of the military judges of the Children's Army led by Du Valon, separating the law enforcement power and the judicial power.

This assembly line method of producing soldiers can save him unless he is completely hopeless.

Otherwise, how can we say that the military is a melting pot?

Even if Horn made a mistake, he would only let a knight go, and he could do so three months later, which would be enough time for Na to learn everything.

The bet was made, but Horn was a little confused about "who to fight for? Why to fight?" This was essentially a matter of setting the tone.

Solving the questions of "who to fight for? why to fight?" is equivalent to determining who to fight and to what extent.

The scope of these two issues is too large. Horn did not even analyze the CPU burnout clearly, and he often fell into repeated self-denial of "Oh, right, right; oh, no, no."

At least there was one thing Horn could see clearly.

The economic base determines the superstructure, and the economic base is determined by the productive forces and production relations.

Horn's study of productivity and production relations in the late Middle Ages is a blessing if he can understand the Enlightenment and nationalism.

Although the founding pioneers of my hometown said every word wisely, knowing and doing are two different things. Without sufficient knowledge and practical experience, it is useless to have a methodology.

So Horn decided to investigate this issue carefully first and then slowly confirm it.

After all, "why we fight" is just to make soldiers do their best on the battlefield, but what drives them to go to the battlefield and win the battle still depends on material things.

After all, slogans can’t kill people.

"Jeanne, pack up and move in with me tomorrow."

"it is good."

Entrusting the details to Jeshka and Hakuto does not mean that Horn has completely delegated power. He still needs to micro-manage the specific training.

First, he also needed to learn from it, second, the experience of his hometown might be of some use to him, and third, he had to act as a human seeder and spread the divine favor to these new recruits.

After saying goodbye to Jeanne, Horn returned to the small courtyard building where the corps commander lived in the military camp.

When I pushed open the wooden door of the courtyard, I heard a crisp creaking sound. The gravel, weeds and garbage in the yard had basically been cleaned up, and the walls of the house had been repaired.

After putting his luggage in the house, Horn went up to the second floor and saw a person-high walnut clock placed in the corner.

"What is this?" "This is a twelve-hour clock designed and made for you by Hemodin." René introduced softly.

Unlike the Kingdom of Leia which still uses the ancient hour system, Hemodin, as a Frank, prefers the Frank ten-hour timekeeping system.

Although she didn't know why the Holy Grandson insisted on a twelve-hour clock, Heimerting still made a twelve-hour clock specially provided by the Pope. At this moment, its hands were pointing to one o'clock in the afternoon.

Every time he sees this familiar clock face, he feels like he's back home.

"There is still about an hour before the meeting of the Holy Fathers. I can still take a nap for half an hour." Horn inserted the feather pen into the ink bottle. "René, Duvalon and Rafael, you three can tell me about the situation of the Children's Army."

"Okay, then I'll go first." Duvalon cleared his throat and began to narrate, followed by René and Raphael.

Today, the third batch of the Children's Army has expanded the entire Children's Army to nearly three hundred people, all of whom are orphans aged ten to sixteen.

They basically went through the training order and procedures of the recruit camp outside.

These child armies can be divided into three major parts: the military judge system led by Duvalon, the Cheka system led by René, and the guard system led by Rafell.

Military judges actually perform the functions of the gendarmerie and were once responsible for some public security work, but this part of the power has been transferred to the public security office.

The Cheka are spies and scouts, mainly responsible for collecting intelligence, the former for internal affairs and the latter for external affairs. Horn has not yet delegated the law enforcement power.

The guards are different from the previous two. They are a new function specially arranged by Horn. They are mainly responsible for preventing core members such as bishops and elders of the Papal State from being harmed by supernatural forces.

Horn wants to create the Papal State's own demon hunter.

Although the secret party and I are in a cooperative relationship, they are not a united front. Who knows what will happen in the future?

Magic is ever-changing, and you never know when a wizard might open up to you from a distance.

It is reasonable to arrange the Forbidden Guards as bodyguards. In Horn's vision, these Forbidden Guards will also take on the function of collecting intelligence.

"...There are currently 53 members in training, a quarter of whom were transferred from His Excellency René." Rafael calmly read the briefing in his hand. "According to the current guard instructor Gilo, they will probably need another 3-5 years of training, and may even need potions."

Magic potions are the source of power for demon hunters to fight against witches and wizards. They give demon hunters the ability to sense the magic power of others without having magic power themselves.

Demon hunters can quickly identify wizards or witches when facing them, especially divination-oriented and physical wizards who are relatively hidden when casting spells.

In this way, whether it is attacking, tracking or defending, you can gain a considerable advantage.

Since only witchers can sense the existence of "mana", they often use this as an opportunity to team up with armed peasants to label wealthy widows in the village as witches and burn them to death, then divide up their property.

However, this behavior was severely stopped by the church, which almost broke off the alliance with the witchers.

"If we have clockwork guns, some weapons training won't be necessary. In addition, skills like camouflage won't need to be taught."

Horn picked up a quill and wrote a few lines on the paper: "The future internal education work of the Chapter is the same. It must be concise and easy to understand. Formalistic and minor things do not need to be learned for the time being. There are only a few basic principles. Once you learn them thoroughly, you can apply them freely."

"Understood, Your Majesty."

"As for the potion, can Ceci do it?" Horn leaned back in his chair and looked at Rafael who had a polite smile on his face.

Rafael shook his head: "It can't be done, and the potion has a very high mortality rate, almost as high as witch disease."

The biggest difference between this potion and potions made by ordinary pharmacists is that it uses monsters or alchemical materials.

Moreover, the formula of the potion has always been the top secret of the witchers and has been stored in the castle at the headquarters.

Horn yawned in disappointment: "Okay, I'll ask Pasrick tomorrow, maybe he has some ideas."

(End of this chapter)