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Two weeks have passed since the Demonic Moon, and the accumulated snow has turned into streams and flowed into the Redwater River.
After the white veil faded, the trees on both sides of the river sprouted new buds again, and now they have become lush and green.
The land outside the east end of the town was baked by Anna and was temporarily designated by His Highness as a training ground for the First Army of Border Town.
In the field, Carter Lannis held the blade end sleeve and twisted it twice to check whether the bayonet was firmly installed.
This is another new thing invented by His Highness, but compared with the black pimple machine that can operate automatically and the improved snow powder that can explode when ignited, this thing is much simpler. As soon as Carter held it in his hand, he knew that it was not a qualified weapon.
In essence, it is just a sharp triangular iron sheet, slightly folded in half based on the center line. Although the blade is sharpened, it is impossible to use it to chop the target - the blades on both sides after bending are extremely short, with almost no front end and only the width of a thumb nail at the back end. Even if the enemy is not wearing armor, it may not even cut through the clothes if it is chopped horizontally.
This weapon has only one purpose, which is stabbing, and it must be connected to a musket before it can be used. When held alone, it is not even as good as a dagger.
Wasting a lot of pig iron to make a weapon with only a single attack method is naturally an unqualified work in the eyes of the Chief Knight. If there is a blacksmith in his territory who dares to do this, he will definitely tie up this person and beat him up.
But even with such a low-quality weapon, he can see the uniqueness of His Highness in the details, such as the slot design of the sleeve. There are two right angles in a tongue and groove. As long as you align the small iron bar on the barrel and insert it, and then turn it half a circle, you can fix the bayonet on the barrel. This special-shaped tongue and groove makes it unnecessary for the sleeve and the barrel to fit very closely. If the sleeve is too loose, some paper can be stuffed into it and then rotated. If there is none, leaves can also be used.
"Get the bayonets!"
Upon hearing the command, the musketeers who were assigned bayonets drew out the blades from the bayonet bags on their waists and put them on the barrels. Only more than 40 new weapons and matching knife bags have been produced so far. Those who have not received them have to temporarily use short wooden poles of the same length as the muskets instead.
This set of movements took almost a whole morning to practice. Now most people can fix the bayonets in two or three breaths. According to His Highness, this is a last-minute struggle. He does not want to see his subordinates engage in hand-to-hand combat unless it is absolutely necessary. Carter disagrees with this statement. If he has not personally stabbed the sword into the enemy's body, he is still just a rookie. Only by seeing blood can they transform from miners and hunters to warriors.
Iron Axe is also in the team. Although he claims to be a hunter, Carter can see from his skills that this person has definitely received special combat training and his skills are not much worse than those of knights.
When His Highness asked Carter to teach the soldiers to practice assassination, he was a little guilty. He had never heard of such a thing as a bayonet. What if he didn't know how to use it at all? However, after seeing the prototype, he immediately became confident. Isn't this just a shorter lance? Moreover, due to the special nature of the blade, it is much easier to use than a lance.
The only advantage of the bayonet attack method is that it is easy to train. There is no chopping, slashing, blocking, or sweeping. There is only one action, stabbing. The chief knight asked all the team members to line up in several rows and taught them the most suitable stabbing action for exerting force - standing with legs forward and backward, bending at the waist and knees, and extending both arms forward with the greatest strength.
This repetitive training was extremely boring, but what surprised Carter was that everyone was meticulously completing the stabbing action. Before winter, they were still a group of weak and lazy civilians, but now they behaved like real people. They would be executed immediately after shouting the command, and training them was even easier than training followers. Of course, after changing them to swords, which was what His Highness called cold weapons, these people still could not last more than three moves under his hands. But in terms of willpower, their progress was worthy of his high regard.
After practicing for half an hour, Carter asked the musketeers to sit down and take a short rest. At this time, His Highness also happened to appear in the practice field, and there was a hooded woman beside him. The knight was not surprised by this. His Highness had already informed him in advance that today's practice would be carried out with the cooperation of witches.
However, the witch was really tall, almost the same height as His Highness at a glance. It is better for girls to be petite. In addition to witches, the petite Cheryl last time was good, Carter thought. Then he asked everyone to stand up and salute the fourth prince.
"Hi, Your Highness!" The soldiers raised their hands to their foreheads and shouted loudly.
"Thank you for your hard work," Roland nodded, walked to the knight and was about to speak, when a big man suddenly rushed out of the team. Carter Lannis frowned, took a step forward to block the prince behind him, and his hand was already on the hilt of the sword. And Nightingale also showed up at the first time and grabbed Roland's arm. As long as the situation was slightly wrong, she could pull the prince into the mist.
The big man who rushed out was Iron Axe.
He did not run to the prince, but knelt directly in front of the woman. He did not use the single-kneeling salute of the Continental Kingdom, but lay on the ground with his head deeply buried between his arms, "Patriarch!"
The training of the musket team was forced to stop.