The Ominous Lord of the Skaven

Chapter 77
Ickert is very concerned about the training of territorial scouts.

These hidden forces before the main battles rarely appear in the records of the famous battles.

It is like the shadow of the army, but it is also an indispensable part of an army.

To train such troops, much of the experience of organizing large armies no longer applies.

Units like scouts need to emphasize subjective initiative and control of combat skills more than soldiers in tight battle formations.

As far as Ickert knows, many European countries have liked to use skirmishers and reconnaissance troops composed of criminals and thieves since the era of line infantry.

Because in the era when quality education was not yet popular, subjective initiative and skills were strong, which was often reflected in stealing things and fondness for trouble.

For the Ratmen, these two characteristics are reflected in the two aspects of crawling faster and licking harder than other Ratmen.

Not to mention how the team selected by Ickert stood out from the many cunning ratmen, just because they can seize the opportunity in such a dangerous environment and maintain their own group status, Ickert recognized them mobility.

Of course, apart from those reactionary rats who are doing the opposite, except for the really bad ones, the remaining handful of true reactionaries are also full of subjective initiative.

But it is obvious that they will never become the target of Ickert's wooing, but will only become the target of eliminating counter-revolutionaries.

"I won't say much else. Since you were selected by me from the forty teams, it means that you all have your own abilities.

Our reconnaissance brigade is no better than the Ratmen of the four main teams. Everyone here can become a pacesetter rat. As long as you do a good job, your chances of becoming a clan rat are definitely much greater than them! "

Ickert said to the forty rats who surrounded him, his words quickly caught the eyes of all the rats, and those slave rats who had not yet become pacesetter rats also looked forward to it even more, feeling that their efforts were not in vain .

Good days are coming so soon!

"Okay, next I want to confirm your captain, so that I can arrange your follow-up training tasks, whoever wants to take the initiative to take up this position, raise your paw!"

As expected by Ickert, all the Ratmen present raised their paws high, but it's a pity that the first-level officials crushed people, and it's useless to think about it. The position of team leader finally fell to the Clan Rats. hands.

Seeing this, the Good Rat Targaryen could not help but silently clenched its paws, thinking that if he performed actively every day, he would be reused or something
Unexpectedly, he was still cut off by these insects with a vegetarian diet!

The newly appointed clan rat is named Ezio. This rat is very impressive. This rat was very active in learning in the love education class.

The name Ezio was also given by the mouse after studying in the education class.

"Ezio, according to the rules of the territory, I will promote you to Stormrat now, and I will allow you to use black plum berries to dye your fur black."

"Grateful, grateful, clan leader."

Ezio replied with a sinister smile, this is his little pride, a successful class transition.

Seeing that a storm squirrel was promoted on the spot, the other squirrels also began to plan in their hearts how to express themselves, no matter what they did, they had to find a way to make the clan chief look at them high.

But this is not over yet. After appointing the team leader, Ickert immediately changed the organization of the investigation team.

The reconnaissance team was not suitable for the large squad of eleven mice, so Ickert split them into teams of four mice, a total of eight teams.

10 outstanding ones were selected from the slave rats and incorporated into the headquarters of the brigade, responsible for intelligence collection and order command.

The fact that there are so many teams is also because there are too many scouting teams, but as long as Stormrat Ezio is well-organized, this number of brigade teams should be enough for him to play around with the scouting team.

Due to the lack of enough pacesetters and clan mice to serve as squad leaders, Ickert promoted another pacesetter on the spot.

As for their training, Ickert first asked all the squad leaders and half of the team rats to learn to read and write. This will be a long-term and arduous task.

In terms of troop skills, Ickert's first requirement is to learn to hide himself, so as the first training, he asked all the ratmen to go to the jungle to pull some leaves, and then ordered them to lie down when they covered the rats .

Just lie down all morning, and the lunch time is also postponed with the training time.

Investigative work is not just a hand-to-hand fight. It is best to obtain information without alerting the enemy. Even if you want to attack, you must try to conceal yourself and be patient.

Ickert hopes that the rats in the investigation brigade can have a good understanding, develop good habits, and overcome the constraints of hunger and nature.

The rats who thought they were about to usher in the endless hell did not expect the training task to be so easy.

But Ickert's next words lifted their spirits.

"Don't be distracted, if I find out who moved, or which mouse fell asleep."

After Ickert finished speaking, he pointed to the oxen and mules pulling the plow outside.

"Then the whole brigade will replace those animals and use rat power to plow fifty acres of land a day!"

As soon as these words came out, the rat man who was lying comfortably on the ground just now became energetic.

Rat people are not animals after all, with [-] acres of land a day, the rats who have been working all year round know what that is.

Even if you give more food!I don't want to do it either!
After distributing the Ratmen under him, Ickert began to sort out the skill arrangement of the brigade. As a scout, he had to do things like survival in the wild, willpower training, and so on.

The most important thing is that you must know the direction and know the way.

There is no good way for Ickert to do this, and the currently available positioning methods will not be learned by mice in a short time.

But he thought of a very suitable identification method for rat people.

Eckert then called Genil and arranged for him a mission.

"Jenil, you are famous for your good nose. I want you to come here every afternoon and serve as their scouting instructor. Do you have anything to say?"

"There is no patriarch, you have ordered me to follow it."

Genil wiped the sweat off the mouse's face again as he spoke, it took him a while to come from the construction site as he couldn't ride a horse.

"Well, by the way, those ratmen who went to work on the mountain, how are they doing?"

Ickert asked again, although there is the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the clan rats, but the forest is so dense and there are so many caves, there is no guarantee that the rats will not have problems.

Fortunately, Genier replied that everything is normal, and there is no blind mouse to provoke trouble at this time.

After getting the answer he wanted, Ickert settled down and started to deal with other things in the territory. The cave monitor lizard lost its magic power, and would come to him to replenish its magic under the escort of the rat man.

After a while, Sasha, who had thick dark circles under her eyes, also came over and said that the seeds had sprouted.

Ickert asked her to find Maria, and asked the maid to arrange for people to scatter the seedling seeds in the field, and then went to sleep by herself after finishing.

Now that the seeds have been planted, the canals and drainage systems have been established, and the scouting force is also being formed, the development of Ikert's conscious territory has been on the right track.

(End of this chapter)