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#228 - Horn's Own Demon Hunter

Here, I've made a bet with Colleoni, and Horn has a 90% chance of winning.

This isn't just because he's both a contestant and a judge, but also because of his understanding of this assembly line soldier production method.

Whether it's the Thirty Years' War or the later Napoleonic Wars, you can see that the military books of the time had very low requirements for the quality of ordinary soldiers, but very high requirements for officers.

This is because ordinary soldiers were almost like tools that could be mass-produced on an assembly line.

The emergence of the musket greatly reduced the time required to train an infantryman who could compete with cavalry to a certain extent.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Dąbrowski put together a new Polish army from Polish serfs, who learned to shoot in 14 days and went to the battlefield in 30.

Horn's men, on the other hand, are actually training for three months.

Horn has somewhat restrained the habit of officers beating soldiers for no reason, but he still issued 'piety injection sticks' to the veteran soldiers leading the recruits.

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

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

If it were the Empire's training system, this process could only be slowly developed through practical combat experience, but Horn is using scientific training methods that countless people in later generations have explored, and the efficiency is much higher than theirs.

After the recruit camp ends, Horn will transfer the 'piety injection sticks' to the child soldiers' military judge led by Duvalon, separating the power of law enforcement and justice.

This method of producing soldiers on an assembly line can bring them back unless they are completely beyond redemption.

Isn't that why they say the army is a melting pot?

Even if Horn misjudges, it's just letting a knight go, and he can let her go three months later, which is enough time for Jeanne to learn what she needs.

The bet has been made, but Horn is struggling with 'Who to fight for? Why to fight?', which is essentially a matter of setting the tone.

Solving 'Who to fight for? Why to fight?' is equivalent to determining who to fight and to what extent.

These two questions involve and entangle too many areas, and Horn's CPU is burning without being able to analyze them clearly, and he often falls into repeated self-denial of 'Oh yes yes, oh no no'.

At least one thing, Horn can see clearly.

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

With Horn's late medieval productive forces and relations of production, it would be a blessing to understand the Enlightenment and nationalism.

Although the founding pioneers of his hometown are full of wisdom, knowing and doing are two different things. Insufficient knowledge, insufficient practical experience, the methodology is useless.

So Horn decided to investigate this issue carefully before slowly determining it.

After all, 'Why to fight' only makes soldiers do their best on the battlefield, and what drives them to the battlefield and win still depends on material things.

After all, slogans can't kill people.

"Jeanne, pack up, come live with me tomorrow."

"Okay."

Entrusting the details to Jeschke and Hakuto does not mean that Horn completely delegates power. He still needs to micromanage the specific training.

One is that he himself needs to learn from it, two is that the experience of his hometown may be able to learn from others' strengths, and three is that he has to act as a human seed spreader and sprinkle divine grace on these recruits.

After saying goodbye to Jeanne, Horn returned along the road to the courtyard building where the legion commander lived in the military camp.

Pushing open the wooden door of the courtyard, there was a crisp creaking sound. The gravel, weeds, and garbage in the yard were basically cleaned up, and the walls of the house were repaired.

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

"This is?"

"Haimertin designed and manufactured this twelve-hour clock for you," René introduced softly.

Unlike the Kingdom of Leia, which still uses the ancient system of temporal hours, Haimertin, as a Frank, prefers the Frankish decimal time system.

Although I don't know why the Holy Grandson insisted on a twelve-hour system, Haimertin still made a Pope-specific twelve-hour clock, and its hands are currently pointing at one o'clock in the afternoon.

Every time he sees this familiar clock face, he feels like he has returned to his hometown.

"There's about an hour before the Holy Father meeting, I can take a half-hour nap," Horn inserted the quill into the ink bottle, "René, Duvalon, and Raphael, the three of you can tell me about the child soldiers."

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

The current third期 (qí - phase/term/period) of child soldiers has expanded the entire child soldier corps to nearly three hundred people, all of whom are orphans between the ages of ten and sixteen.

The training order and procedures of the new recruit camp outside have basically been gone through by them first.

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

The military judges actually perform the functions of military police and were once responsible for some public security work, but this part of the power has been transferred to the public security bureau.

The Cheka are secret agents and scouts, mainly responsible for collecting intelligence. The former is internal, the latter is external, and Horn has not temporarily issued law enforcement powers.

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

Horn wants to create the Papal State's own witch hunters.

Although the Secret Party and himself are in a cooperative state, they are not monolithic, and who knows what will happen in the future?

Magic is ever-changing, and maybe someday a wizard will open their hearts from a distance.

Arranging law-prohibiting guards as bodyguards is reasonable. In Horn's vision, these law-prohibiting guards will also undertake some intelligence gathering functions.

"...Currently, 53 members are being trained, a quarter of whom were transferred from Lord René," Raphael read the briefing in his hand steadily, "According to the current guard instructor Gillo, they probably need another 3-5 years of training, and even potions."

Potions are the source of power for witch hunters to resist witches and wizards. They give witch hunters the ability to perceive the magic power of others without having 'magic power' themselves.

When facing wizards or witches, especially divination and physical wizards who are relatively secretive when casting spells, witch hunters can quickly identify them.

In this way, they can gain a considerable advantage in attacks, tracking, or defense.

Because only witch hunters can feel the existence of 'magic power', they often use this to collude with armed farmers to brand wealthy widows in the village as witches, burn them to death, and then divide the property.

However, this behavior was severely prohibited by the church, and it almost broke off the alliance with the witch hunters.

"If we have breech-loading rifles, some weapons training is not needed. Besides, skills such as disguise don't need to be taught."

Horn picked up the quill and wrote a few lines on the paper: "The same goes for future internal education in the battle group. It should be concise and easy to understand. Formalism and secondary things don't need to be learned for the time being. There are only a few basic principles. If you learn them thoroughly, you can use them freely."

"Understood, Your Excellency."

"Can Cécile make the potions?" Horn leaned back in his chair, looking at Raphael, who had a polite smile on his lips.

Raphael shook his head: "She can't, and the mortality rate of potions is extremely high, almost catching up with witchcraft."

The biggest difference between this kind of potion and the potions made by ordinary pharmacists is that it uses magical creatures or alchemical materials.

Moreover, the potion recipe has always been the top secret of the witch hunters and has always been stored in the headquarters castle.

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