When the Saint comes, she does not collect food.

Making the Witch Mask isn't actually that difficult.

According to Gilo, the Witch Mask is essentially linen cloth sewn with superstitious materials like activated carbon, sulfur, bat droppings, and frog legs.

In Horn's view, the main ingredient is probably only activated carbon, the principle being to use activated carbon to absorb substances harmful to witches in holy water.

Thus, on September 20th, 1444 of the Imperial Calendar, Horn officially appointed Witch Hunter Gilo Don Kamado as the Director-General of the Corner Tower Manufacturing Bureau.

The Corner Tower Manufacturing Bureau is considered a remarkable super-department in the Gulag Papal State.

The bureau has five divisions: Sewing Division, Filling Division, Transport Division, Testing Division, and Design Division.

Moved by His Holiness the Pope's trust, Director Gilo, to express his determination, took office wearing shackles, concurrently serving as the head of all five divisions.

The bureau currently has a staff of one person per division, totaling one person for the entire bureau, with the office located in the abandoned corner tower.

After arranging Gilo's affairs, Horn's eyes blurred; today had been too busy.

Last night, he was fighting to the death with Tomley, this morning he inspected the warehouse, received a message from Granpwen, and urgently convened a Privy Council meeting.

In the afternoon, he announced the special athletic event for the villagers, appeased the witch's tantrum, dragged Jeanne to smelt iron, and communicated with Gilo.

Everything was happening at once, leaving him no choice but to hurry; in five days at the earliest, seven days at the latest, he would have to fight the Church for real with these good-for-nothing subordinates.

Although Horn was anxious, he couldn't rush this matter; the more he rushed, the easier it was to ruin things.

Dragging his tired body, after explaining the specific matters to Busak and Jeschka, Horn hurriedly ate dinner and fell asleep.

Of course, he couldn't stay in bed; early the next morning, while eating breakfast, he had to listen to Jeschka's report on the military training.

Taking the two-page New Recruit Training Regulations from Jeschka's hand, Horn carefully browsed while scooping soup with a spoon.

The first page was fine; these new recruits, according to Horn's request, had decided on the name of the new army: "Black Hat Army."

This was because the uniform Horn had planned for them was a black hooded cloak.

As for why he chose a black hood, it was because the church's warehouse had the most fabric of this color.

The Black Hat Army's banner was relatively simple; because Horn didn't provide them with many materials, they simply sewed red and black cloth together to serve as the military flag.

But when he turned to the second page, Horn's eyes suddenly widened, and his body straightened up.

Putting down the spoon and picking up that page of regulations, Horn pointed to a paragraph of text on it and asked in disbelief, "What is this?"

On that regulation, it was clearly written:

Black Hat Army, under the command of 2 Edict Masters, each Edict Master commands 6 Edict Brigades, each Edict Brigade commands 10 Edict Companies, each Edict Company commands one soldier.

In the Black Hat Army, the lowest position is Company Commander.

When Horn saw this regulation, he felt a darkness before his eyes.

The Lia Kingdom only has 42 Edict Companies; your Black Hat Army has 120 Edict Companies; you are more powerful than the Lia Kingdom.

This did give Horn a small Gulag Papal State shock.

"What is going on here?"

Jeschka said with an embarrassed smile: "Originally, when electing squad leaders, they were not convinced, because you know, the captain gets more credit.

They felt that you are a clergyman, and I am also a clergyman, so why should you be the captain and I be the soldier?

Then there was a team where everyone nominated themselves as squad leader, and others followed suit, nominating themselves as captain.

Then someone felt that the captain had high merits, wouldn't the higher-level ones get even more merits, and then they kept stacking up layer by layer, and it became like this."

"How did they know about these military formations?"

"This has to start with the Second Division Commander of the Black Hat Army, Rafael," Jeschka explained with a bitter smile, "This Rafael is an armed farmer, and his ancestors were a branch of the nobility, said to be relatives of Duke Kush Danner.

Their ancestors didn't pass down anything else, but they left behind a book introducing the military organization of the old El Empire, and then everyone else knew about it."

Do you even know what you're doing?

Horn looked at that passage repeatedly several times before he dared to believe it.

It hasn't even started yet, with a total of 120 people, how did you create two division commanders, twelve brigade commanders, and one hundred and twenty company commanders?

Where did they get their inspiration from?

Horn was silent for a long time before putting down the regulations in his hand: "Since things have already happened, let's follow this."

"As you command, Your Highness."

After breakfast, Horn changed his clothes and called Granpwen to go and see the training of the new army.

But when he walked to the door of the church, before Horn even got close, he heard a burst of noisy arguing.

In front of the door, two young Papal Guards were pushing against the spears in front of them, while two Child Soldiers were blushing and holding them back, not letting them in.

"It's not fair," a young guard of the Papal Guard shouted, holding the spear shaft, "These new troops are all latecomers, coming to beg for food from His Holiness; we supported His Holiness from the beginning."

"We also want to form a legion, Jeschka, you stinky outsider, give me back my legion!"

"Let me go, let me in, I want to see His Holiness, I have made contributions to the Papal State, I have shed blood for the Papal State!"

At the door of the church, two Child Soldiers raised their spears, blocking the two young guards of the Papal Guard outside.

But after all, they were only eleven or twelve years old and were really no match for those two young guards; it looked like they were about to squeeze in.

"You also want to form a legion?" Horn's eyes widened.

Seeing Horn walking forward, the two guards immediately let go and bowed respectfully to Horn.

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"Your Highness, it's not that we are noisy, those Black Hat Army are obviously latecomers, and now anyone they randomly pick is a company commander who can issue orders to us."

"Yes, Your Highness, we are not convinced."

Taking a deep breath, Horn rubbed his face hard and sighed: "Okay, then, the Papal Guard will be changed to the Papal Guard Corps with immediate effect, and the military system will follow the Black Hat Army..."

The two young guards left happily, and before Horn could catch his breath, Duvaron poked his head out from the side again:

"Papa, I can actually be the legion commander too."

Since Rene became the Cheka director, the first spokesperson for the Child Soldiers has fallen to Duvaron.

As a leader, he naturally has to speak up for the brothers of the Child Soldiers.

"You?"

"Yes."

"You also want to form a legion?"

"Yes, we are all your godchildren, closer than the Papal Guards; why can't we form a legion?"

Looking at Duvaron in front of him and then at the departing young guards, Horn completely gave up.

"Okay, in that case, let's change everything, let's change everything! As you wish!"

Thus, in the front-door military reform that changed the history of the Gulag Papal State, Horn had four major legions in one day.

The First Legion, the Papal Guard Corps, has 55 Edict Companies, with Horn himself as the legion commander, totaling 55 soldiers.

The Second Legion, the Black Hat Army, has 120 Edict Companies, with Jeschka as the legion commander, Bunian as the first division commander, Rafael as the second division commander, totaling 120 soldiers.

The Third Legion, the Child Soldiers, has 35 Edict Companies, with Duvaron as the legion commander, totaling 35 soldiers.

The Fourth Legion, the Holy Grail Knights, has 2 Edict Companies, with Danji as the grand commander and Jeanne as the knight commander, totaling 2 soldiers.

The Gulag Monastery now has 212 Edict Companies, which is more than 5 times the number of Edict Companies owned by the Lia Kingdom, and its military strength is unprecedented.

This military reform is also unprecedented, transforming from a mob into 212 Edict Companies through synthetic reorganization.

What synthetic brigade, what synthetic battalion, Horn directly took it one step further and synthesized people.

One company of three hundred people synthesized into one person.

Every soldier of the Four Legions is both a hundred armored knights, a hundred melee knights, and a hundred reconnaissance knights, and even holds the positions of hundreds of archers, swordsmen, and spearmen.

One person is one company, how small can this combat power be?

Now that things have come to this, what else can be done?

No matter what, let's get things done quickly.

Thus, under Jeschka's coordination, the Four Legions finally began training and preparing for war.

ps: There will be another chapter later.