Cavalry schools are different from ordinary schools. They are not trained at a very young age, but at the age of 13. The age of 13 is the age of graduating from elementary school. At the same time, children can basically climb on the horse's height. It is only meaningful to start training cavalry tutorials at this time.
Just like an ordinary knight, he went to the family of a great nobleman to be a servant. Although he was sent over at the age of 7, he was usually only a servant boy and did some chores. At the same time, he learned some basic cultural knowledge and various knight etiquettes. He started practicing knight martial arts until he was 14 years old and grew up on horseback. Then he practiced for 7 years until he became a master at the age of 21. This is a bit similar to the apprenticeship system, and he also learned 7 years. However, better than craftsman apprenticeship, the knights had the opportunity to learn cultural knowledge and various etiquettes when he was a servant boy. Although he had to serve the great nobles, these cultural knowledge were never accessible to ordinary children.
Of course, Western European knights began to engage in cavalry training at the age of 14 because Western European war horses are taller, with shoulder heights of more than 1.7 meters. The Beihai Kingdom now generally adopts Eastern European Mongolian horses from the Crimean Khanate, and shoulder heights are generally only in their early 1.5 meters. Therefore, knights have to start cavalry martial arts training at the age of 14. Students of Beihai Kingdom Cavalry School can be 13 years old. After all, Eastern European Mongolian horses are much shorter than Western European war horses, and their height requirements are much lower.
Generally speaking, the Beihai National Cavalry School is also a 7-year school system. Like the knight training, it also requires graduation at the age of 21. The reason why I chose to graduate at the age of 21 is that at the age of 21, my body has basically grown up and can customize matching size plate armor. If it is too early, my height will continue to grow, and the customized plate armor may be considered small, and at that time, a set of plate armor will be wasted. A set of plate armor costs at least a few dozen gold coins, which is generally impossible for people to waste. Therefore, you usually have to wait until you are 21 years old before you start customizing plate armor. Some of them have to develop late, and even delay until they are twenty-five or six years old before they can officially customize plate armor for battle.
Of course, this is the knight family with relatively poor economic conditions, so it is so serious. If it were a wealthy noble family, they could customize plate armor at the age of 18, and it was a luxurious version of gem-inlaid plate armor. As for the future, they could not wear it, at most they could re-customize one set every year...
Just like Caesar, although he is only 14 years old, he has already started to wear armor and train. Of course, Marin dared not let Caesar wear heavy plate armor. The thing is too heavy, and it is easy to be pressed down on it every day. Therefore, the armor that Marin made for Caesar is rhinoceros leather armor made of rhinoceros leather from Africa. The rhinoceros leather armor has high protection and is light and cannot be suppressed. Moreover, as the heir of the Beihai Kingdom, does Caesar want any armor? Since the age of 14, Marin has started to customize rhinoceros leather armor for him, one set every year, which is extremely luxurious.
Logically, the first graduates of the cavalry school established five years ago should be two years later. However, there are exceptions. When the cavalry school was established five years ago, some 16 or 17-year-olds were eager to join. The key is that many of their fathers were big bosses in the Beihai Army.
The officers of Beihai Kingdom who held military positions in the army knew very well that the cavalry status was higher than that of infantry. If they had the opportunity to study in the cavalry school, they would become cavalry officers after graduation, and their qualities were much higher than those of infantry officers.
Therefore, when the cavalry school was established, many officers asked Marin to come to study, hoping that his 16 or 17-year-old son could also go in and study. Marin was not happy with the hearts of his old subordinates, and it was nothing.
So Marin specially approved hundreds of children of sixteen or seventeen years old in the cavalry school. At the same time, he specially recruited hundreds of children of German Cossacks to study in the officers' school. In the end, the total number of over-age students reached as many as 1,000.
Now, five years have passed, and all the over-age trainees are over 21 years old. It is time to enter the army to serve.
Originally, this was just a small matter, just follow the normal process. According to the normal process, the principal of the cavalry school in Alsace did not have to come forward, and just send an instructor to take the graduates to the military cavalry department to register, and then wait for arrangements.
But Alsace had a small idea in his mind, hoping to take this opportunity to show his teaching achievements while also hoping to be recognized by Marin and let him come back to serve as a real general.
He now enjoys the treatment of a legion commander, but he has no soldiers in his hands, similar to a civilian general, and has only a title. If he had never commanded the army, that would have been fine. But he once commanded a cavalry corps. After being replaced by Marin, he was very unwilling to accept it and hoped to come out again to serve as a general.
After all, in addition to face issues, as a real general, there is also the opportunity to make meritorious contributions and can promote the title...
Although Arthas served as the commander of the Cossack Cavalry Legion, he is still a hereditary knight because he has no military achievements. He is definitely the lowest among the nobles at the level of the Legion Commander. Jurgen, who is also the commander of the Cossack Cavalry Legion, has been promoted to the first-class baron because of his outstanding performance in the fight against the coalition of the Eight-National Princes. If there is still war to fight in the future, he can still be promoted.
This made Arthas very envious and a little jealous. He didn't want to just live with the title of hereditary knight, but if he wanted to improve his title, he would not be able to become an instructor. Only by going to the battlefield and making military achievements can he get the title upgrade.
Therefore, Alsace clearly did not have to come forward in person, but he personally brought over-age graduates from the One Thousand Cavalry School to Orich. After arranging the teacher to take the students to the military headquarters to register, he himself came to the palace and asked to see Marin.
As an officer with a status equivalent to that of the commander of the Legion, Arthas was also qualified to seek a visit to Marin. Marin also wanted to know the current situation of the cavalry school, so he summoned him.
I heard that there were 1,000 more graduates from the cavalry school, and Marin's eyes lit up:
"Really? There are a thousand graduates? How good is the level?"
Those are a thousand military academy students! Although they only studied for five years, less than seven years, Marin knew that they did not learn a lot. Because they didn’t need to learn cavalry things for seven years. As mentioned earlier, the reason why the knights graduated at the age of 21 was not only because of their height-shaped height, the 21-year-old boy had basically grown up and could fight against people. If he was too young and had not yet grown up, even if his martial arts were good, his strength would not be enough to fight against people.
In fact, the peak of the knight often has to wait until he is twenty-seven or eight years old. At this time, the knight has the most strength and has rich combat experience.
However, the cavalry requirements of the Beihai Kingdom are different from those of ordinary knights. They do not need to hold heavy cavalry rifles and collide with people. Therefore, the requirements for strength are not particularly high. 21 years old are basically enough. Next, they need practical training.
Marin learned that there were a thousand graduates of the Cavalry School and was very satisfied. So he continued to ask:
"How are those kids' martial arts? Can they fight against ordinary knights?"
Alsace is full of confidence in this:
"No problem! At least, it's okay to fight against knights of the same age. Of course, they have not trained to use rifles and may lose in traditional rifles. However, they are not inferior to the spring rifles you created and the bulky traditional rifles are not inferior."
"How is the military strategy accomplished?" Marin asked again.
At this moment, Alsace's face turned red:
"This... doesn't seem very outstanding in this regard... You know, these over-age students have poor cultural backgrounds, and they are not as good as children who graduated from regular primary schools who later entered the school. Therefore, in terms of military strategy exams, few people can pass the 70s, only about one hundred people..." Marin had high requirements for officers, and only 70 points were considered qualified, not 60 points.
After a pause, Alsace said again:
"Of course, those who fail to get 70 points can still be the captain of ordinary cavalry. At least, they are skilled in martial arts and are familiar with the basic cavalry confrontation command process, and all they lack is practical experience. And..."
Seeing that Marin's face was not too bad, Alsace said again:
"Those graduates who have little military strategy can also serve as your guards cavalry..."
"Guards Cavalry?" Marin was stunned for a moment, but soon looked full of surprise.
"Yes, Guards Cavalry!" Marin slapped the table happily, scaring Arthas. He thought Marin was angry, but when he saw Marin's face was full of joy, he felt relieved.
Thinking that Napoleon always had four guard cavalry regiments guarding each other during the war, Marin also planned to form a guard cavalry regiment to protect his own safety during wartime.
Obviously, most of the first batch of graduates from the cavalry school who graduated from over-age age seem to have poor cultural scores, and they seem to be somewhat lacking in generals. But as Arthas said, those people cannot serve as generals, but there is no problem in serving as guard cavalry!
Moreover, those graduates of cavalry schools with poor cultural achievements are not unable to serve as officers, but are not capable enough to serve as senior generals. It is still okay to be an ordinary cavalry squad leader. It is even more okay to be a guard cavalry. After all, the guards do not need to be very smart, they only need to be loyal enough.
So Marin ordered Alsace:
"You send someone to investigate in detail. Except for the more than 100 cultural scores above 70 points, the military headquarters will be assigned to the remaining 800 people, and you will select the 500 people with the highest loyalty. I will form a guard cavalry regiment!"
Alsace showed a happy face, but then asked carefully:
"What about the remaining more than 300 people?"
As the principal, he has had feelings for the students over the years. He does not want the future of the more than 300 graduates selected to be unsuccessful.
After thinking about it, Marin decided to say:
"The same goes for the military department! However, those more than 100 outstanding graduates started as cavalry squadron leaders, while those more than 300 people were selected could only start with ordinary cavalry. In the future, if they had military achievements, they could be promoted first over those uneducated cavalry..."
"Okay, I'll take people to understand the situation now, select the most loyal 500 people to come out and serve as your guard cavalry!" After saying that, Alsace turned around and left.
Just as he was about to walk out of Marin's office, Marin's voice came from behind:
"Do your job well and do it well. In the future, you will have the opportunity to lead your troops..."
Obviously, Marin also saw Arthas's idea. Moreover, he did not reject the use of Arthas. After all, he would need many troops and officers to annex the entire northern German countries in the future. Therefore, there were still many opportunities. Although Arthas was not very talented, it was not very bad, but his thoughts were a bit biased towards traditional knights.
However, this kind of officer who is biased towards heavy cavalry may not be qualified, but it is appropriate to command the intermediate route of half-heavy cavalry and half-light cavalry like the lances. After all, his ability to stand out from so many German Cossacks was not only the name that was unique, but his ability should not be underestimated.
Chapter completed!