Chapter 439: Cultural Class (Part 1)

January 10, 291 AD, 290 AD of the Britannia Empire.

Britannia Empire, Northern Territory, Michael Knights Base No. 1.

After dinner.

——My back hurts so much... My feet hurt so much... Being a soldier is so hard

Darlene, who had been trained hard by instructor Lindsay for a whole day, felt severe pain everywhere on her body - especially her back and feet.

I trained on 2 things today.

Stand in a military posture and walk in step with the phalanx.

In the morning, they practiced standing in military posture. After taking a short break after lunch at noon, they began to practice walking in step in the square formation in the afternoon.

Thanks to practicing her military posture all morning, Darlene's back and feet have been hurting to this day.

Because the back should always be straight when standing in the military posture, so when you finish standing in the military posture and bend down, you will hear "click" and "click" sounds from your back.

The walking training in the afternoon made Darlene's already painful soles even more painful.

Darlene was also very puzzled by this walking-in-step training and didn’t understand why she had to keep pace with her comrades around her.

Wouldn't it be enough to just wave the weapon in your hand and rush forward to fight the enemy?

However, no matter how puzzled Darlene was by the training content, Darlene had no choice but to bite the bullet.

Darlene took some comfort in the fact that the food here was pretty good.

There are three meals a day - breakfast, lunch and dinner, and each meal is very rich.

The most sumptuous of these three meals is lunch. Breakfast and dinner are vegetable porridge, and fragrant white rice is eaten at noon. At the same time, everyone can get a piece of dried meat.

Darlene is not in the habit of eating dinner. When she was still living in her hometown in the countryside, Darlene and her family only ate two meals a day, breakfast and lunch.

At night, I would only eat something so small that it couldn’t even be called a meal, and then go straight to bed.

Therefore, Darlene, who was not used to eating dinner at all, couldn't finish it after just one bowl of vegetable porridge.

Before Darlene came to the Knights of Michael, her schedule was very regular and she went to bed as soon as she had something to eat at night. The disadvantages of this are now apparent.

After eating the vegetable porridge, Darlene began to feel sleepy.

However, the instructors did not intend to let Darlene and the new recruits rest so soon.

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——Where is...where?

After entering a large, empty room with the other recruits beside her, Darlene looked around curiously.

Commander Lindsay took Darlene and the others, all members of the 1st Squadron of the 17th Battalion of the 4th Army of the Knights, into a several-story building in the base, and then was led into a room Empty room.

The room was large, and Darlene felt that it would have no problem accommodating hundreds of people.

This room is truly empty, with almost nothing in it. What is worth noting is that there is a huge wooden board hanging on one of the walls.

After entering this room, Darlene discovered that there was already someone in this room.

There are already more than 200 boys and girls sitting on the floor of this room.

After Darlene and others entered the room, the more than 200 boys and girls looked at Darlene and others with curious eyes, and Darlene and others also looked back with curious eyes.

——They should be just like us, they are all newly recruited soldiers.

"Hurry up! Come in quickly!" Lindsay shouted while pointing to the wall with a large wooden board hanging on it. "Sit down on the floor obediently like them! Face this direction! Yes! , yes, facing the wall with a big wooden board hanging on it!"

The "they" in Lindsay's mouth naturally refers to the more than 200 recruits who entered the room early.

After a day of hard training by Lindsay, all the recruits in the 1st Squadron of the 17th Battalion were already afraid of Lindsay.

After hearing Lindsay's roar, all the recruits of the 1st Squadron of the 17th Battalion immediately acted like a conditioned reflex.

People who had not yet entered the room immediately entered the room, while those who had already entered the room immediately looked for an empty floor and sat on it quickly.

All the recruits from the 1st Squadron of the 17th Battalion filled the remaining empty seats on the floor of the room.

——So sleepy...I really want to sleep...

Darlene, who was sitting cross-legged on the floor, rubbed the muscles on her legs vigorously to relax the muscles in her legs and use this to refresh herself.

If she did nothing and just sat here, Darlene believed that she would fall asleep.

——The sun has gone down. Do you still need to train? It’s already dark. Do you still need to train?

Darlene, who was born in a rural area and was accustomed to a life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset, felt very incomprehensible and unaccustomed to the fact that she continued to work instead of going to bed after dark.

——What on earth are you here for? Ugh...I'm so sleepy...Is it so hard to be a soldier...I really want to go home...

This is the first time Darlene has had the idea of ​​going home today...

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"Okay, children, open the booklet in your hands and let us see the first page. I will teach you how to count tonight. I believe that most of you can count from 1 to 1. Not until 10."

Darlene looked at the old man standing next to the big wooden board hanging on the wall with a look of astonishment. She looked at the old man, and then looked at the booklet in her hand.

Just now, everyone in the room was handed a booklet that was as big as a palm and half a finger thick.

After opening the booklet, it was filled with the words -.

——I’m illiterate, what’s the point of giving me a book? I'm not willing to use this thing to go to the toilet. Leaves are more comfortable than paper.

Just as Darlene was wondering why each of them was given a book, another old man walked in.

This old man has a kind-faced appearance and is full of intellectual aura. At first glance, he looks like an educated man.

After the old man entered the room, he walked to the big wooden board hanging on the wall. After briefly greeting them, he told them this, which made many people, including Darlene and others, People are shocked by the words.

——Teach us... to count? Tonight's training is about studying?

Darlene suspected she had heard wrong.

——What’s the use of learning this kind of thing? Does it make it easier to survive on the battlefield, or does it make my sword swing more powerful? Um? Chief Lindsay?

At this time, Darlene found that Lindsay, like them, was sitting in the corner of the room, holding the same booklet in her hands.

Next to Lindsay, there were also several generals whom Darlene didn't recognize, but they looked like generals.

Like Lindsay, they were sitting in the corner of the room very obediently, holding this booklet in their hands.

——Do the superiors also come to study? !

Just when Darlene was surprised that the superiors wanted to study with them, the old man picked up the charcoal pen that had been prepared and started writing on the large wooden board hanging on the wall.

"Okay, without further ado, let's quickly start tonight's study. First, I will teach you how to write 10 numbers from 1 to 10. Please see, this is '1'."

As the old man spoke, he made a "please" gesture toward the wooden board that he had written a big character on just now.