'Full-Regiment, All-Arms Live Combat Exercise'

However, Nalant had begun preparing for this autumn war long ago. Now, he only needed to arrange matters in the territory and load the war supplies onto carts before he could kick up his heels and head for Tulip City.

With that, the full fifteen days allotted for assembly were more than ample.

Still, to deal with his first great duchy war since transmigrating, Nalant felt he needed to patch up his troops one last time before departure—by holding a mixed live combat exercise.

Nalant planned to hold the exercise on the seaside beach, because there happened to be enemies there that could serve as targets.

Although the Tulip Knight Order had slaughtered the merman sea monsters under the Count's orders last time, there had simply been too many merman sea monsters. Quite a few had escaped into the sea at the last moment, becoming fish that had slipped through the net.

Now, more than a month later, these fish that had slipped through the net had surfaced again. Six or seven hundred merman sea monsters had once more occupied several hundred meters of beach.

These merman sea monsters were not very strong, but they were quite fearless when first facing an enemy's attack. They were the perfect whetstone for training troops.

However, before this live combat exercise, Nalant needed to reorganize his men.

Since Vivian's archer squad and Quick's swordsman squad had both begun cultivating Battle Qi, these twenty-five people would henceforth become a single unit: the Storm Cavalry Regiment.

Nalant had arranged things this way because, after a month of Catherine's instruction, every guard under his command—apart from several Daughters of Luck and the guards recruited later—whether barbarians, Quick, or the ten Longbowmen, had now mastered proficient swordsmanship.

It could be said that the ten Longbowmen, who had