Chapter 52 Organizing the Army

The Kingdom of Jerusalem is a young kingdom, founded in 1099 of the Confucian calendar.

It has been exactly 87 years so far. In these 87 years, the royal family has changed again and again, and Anjou is the most prestigious among the many royal families...

After all, the Kingdom of Jerusalem reached its peak in the hands of the Anjou family, and it was also in the hands of the Anjou family that it defeated the pagan armies several times, and even had the Leper King, a king with such a legendary story.

And if you sort out the succession of thrones in this kingdom through the ages, almost everyone will subconsciously feel that a mortal should not be king in Jerusalem.

In the nine successions of the throne in 87 years, there were six generations of kings without queens, one generation of kings without children, and one generation of kings without daughters but with both sons and daughters.

In such a difficult situation, the Anjou-Jerusalem dynasty was able to occupy 4 seats among these 9 generations of kings, leading the kingdom to its peak. It naturally has a very high reputation among the folk Franks.

When Garris displayed the royal seal ring, the villagers present could not help but show their admiration. The late King Baldwin IV added too much sanctity to the pattern on the seal ring.

Of course, from another perspective, these village heads don't really care about the authenticity of the seal ring. They didn't even realize that the young man Isabel writing the records on the side was the real owner.

The Royal Seal Ring provided them with great righteousness, but what really impressed them was Garris in front of them.

After Garris showed his scars to the village heads present, everyone's expression could be described as fanatical.

There is no need to deliberately show more miracles. Just this scar that ordinary people cannot survive is enough to make these people subconsciously pray in admiration.

"Great Heavenly Father, all things are under your control, you are the supreme ruler."

"However, in this chaotic era, what we see is that the destiny of heaven has been desecrated, and the person sitting on the throne is actually a pheasant, no longer the hero he should be."

"The order you established has been torn apart, and justice and truth have been buried."

"At this moment of rupture, you gave the deceased with a knife wound a mission. He is your son, and you are his father. He returned to the world in order to turn things around. He should reshape order and light."

"Now, we pray to you, may you give us extraordinary strength, wisdom and will, so that we can follow him and realize this great mission. May your grace and justice come back and re-establish the eternal Change the truth and justice and restore the peace and glory that the world deserves. ”

"Your kingdom come, and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

"Amen."

……

This meeting did not immediately conclude a long-term feudal contract.

However, there is already a consensus that most of this summer’s taxes will be exempted.

In return, each village needs to send at least one-fifth of its young men to come to Ahmed's mansion to receive military training in preparation for the potential rural clearing operation by Leonard's army this year.

This number is actually not that much, but Garris and the others still have very high requirements for young people. This will soon be seen in real life. Garris values stability in quality more than the advantage in quantity.

After all, Garris didn't expect these newly recruited recruits to be able to kill the enemy heroically on the battlefield. The main reason why Garris needed to recruit these farmers was to have a relatively stable infantry formation.

This is so that the knights can have reinforcements to fish them out after they rush into the enemy formation, and it is so that the knights or himself can be protected after they are exhausted.

According to the experience of the Kingdom of Jerusalem over the past few decades, knight charges have invincible power on the battlefield, but if there is a lack of a stable infantry formation in the rear.

Then the probability of the knight not giving it in vain... is as metaphysical as the carpenter John's wife saying she is a virgin.

The same goes for Garris. He doesn't know how many enemies he has to face, whether he can absolutely frighten the enemies, and whether there will be accidents on the battlefield.

For this reason, he should be lenient if he anticipates the enemy, and he should make more preparations.

What's more, this is also an opportunity for more people to integrate into their own sect.

While the young men from each village were being selected and sent here, the three villages that had been taxed were also happily refunding their taxes.

Gairis and the others did not refund all the taxes collected by Ahmed in one fell swoop. They retained a portion of the royal tithe, which would be used for rations for recruit training.

In addition, Gairis and the others also used the money collected from Ahmed's family to purchase some livestock from various villages to ensure that the recruits could get enough protein during the training period so that they could survive the hard training.

There are roughly two to three hundred families in several Frankish villages nearby. Each family has two young men, which means five to six hundred people. One-fifth of them are allocated for training, which means that there are more than one hundred people. .

These more than a hundred people, plus some of the previous recruits, almost formed a company.

Garris appointed Knight Puldock, who had previously conducted military training for the villagers in the village of Monterey, as the company commander, and assigned two attendants to assist him in training the new recruits.

As for the seven recruits who were being trained by Simon, Garris did not move them and allowed Simon to continue training. Their group, blessed by Gareth, was called Paladin, meaning paladin.

These recruits are different from the temporarily recruited militiamen. They have served for a long time and have a strong sense of religious order warriors. Their training is more intensive and they follow more rules and regulations.

After passing the examination, if they voluntarily take the oath, they will be awarded the title of Paladin, which is a lifelong honor.

As for the other knights, except for those who were assigned fixed duties by John, they all gathered in Ahmed's mansion and began to prepare for the battle.

After everyone had assembled, before starting to organize the troops in more detail, Gairis gathered everyone on the martial arts field at Ahmed's house and stood on the stage

"Today! Are you all united because you want to rebel? No! It's because in today's world, if you don't stand up, you will hardly be able to survive!"

"As far as I know, the taxes that everyone has to pay every year have reached appalling proportions! A Frankish village, in the eyes of tax collectors and Leonard, is just a big treasury!"

"They are determined to take away 40% of the grain every year! After everyone's hard work for a year, the average person can only get 400 pounds of grain, but those guys who eat people without spitting out their bones have to take away 40%. This is not Are only 160 pounds of grain gone? Is the remaining 240 pounds enough to feed myself?”

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