After Seeing the details, Francis decided to train 10 people first, in terms of the current population of Sylphford Village, 10 people are already a limit.
Moreover, the combat effectiveness of Musket men is not that good, although they have the advantage of having hot weapons, due to them being single-shot muskets, they take a long time to load and shoot again, which decreases their advantage when the number of enemies is huge.
Francis called Wei Guozhi again and asked him to select ten people among the villagers so that they could be trained to become Musket men.
Soon Wei Guozhi brought the ten villagers who looked relatively strong. After that Francis let the ten people enter the barracks first.
As soon as they entered the barracks, Francis heard the notification.
[Detected 10 people who can be trained, Do you wish to train them?]
"Yes"
[Deducting 200 units of Food.]
[Please wait, training in process...]
After a while, the villagers in leather armor and holding Musket and pouches filled with bullets and gunpowder walked out of the barracks. They also had swords hung at their hips.
Francis looked at them, after the training, their momentum became stronger. At the same time, all the seven heroes too came near the barracks to check out the new trained soldiers.
Seeing them arrive, Francis took the newly trained soldiers and the heroes to the nearby forest to check how well they were trained.
After that few gunshots were heard in the forest as Francis asked the new soldiers to shoot at the trees nearby.
Seeing them shoot with good accuracy, Francis and others nodded and discussed among themselves about the soldiers' effectiveness. After that, they started to get back to the village to further discuss today's exploration.
Just as they came back, they heard panicked shouts.
"Run!!!" "Run!!!" "Run!!!"
"Run, the mountain bandits are coming!"
"Run, the mountain bandits are coming!"
Francis looked towards the west side, in the direction of land being reclaimed, a group of villagers ran towards the village in panic, followed by more than a dozen mountain bandits armed with weapons.
Sylphford Village has not even built a wall, and Francis didn't expect the enemies to come near the village.
The bandits were disheveled, some in leather armor and some didn't even have that.
The weapons they had also were in wide range, some had kitchen knives, some had spears, and some even were holding wooden sticks. All of them had yellow faces and thin bodies and looked starved. If not for their fierce faces, people would have believed that they were homeless people.
The mountain bandits chased after the village and shouted,
"Hand over the food, and this uncle will let you live!"
"If you don't give us the food, we will kill everyone in the village."
"Brothers follow me to kill the bandits!" Francis ordered the new soldiers.
It's just that the ten soldiers were dripping in sweat, and their hands were trembling.
Although they were trained, these people were all homeless people who were oppressed by the bandits and had to leave their village, so they were scared and didn't dare to fight the bandits.
"Come with me, Kill the enemy, and defend your homeland!"
The usually quiet Lady Silver suddenly shouted and raised her guns and with a 'bang' sound shot towards the bandits that were chasing the villagers and killed one of them.
The soldiers glanced at each other, and someone shouted
"Kill the enemy, and defend your homeland!"
Francis took a look at the soldiers whose morale had risen. He immediately let the soldiers to protect the villagers.
Due to one of the bandit's death, the other bandits became furious and sped up to catch the running villagers. One of the bandits caught up with the villager and raised his long knife to cut the villager.
A cold light flashed like a flash and the bandit's head got separated. It was Captain Traves who quickly arrived to save the villager.
"Captain Traves is Mighty!!!" Shouted in unison the soldiers behind him, and the morale rose again.
All the mountain bandits became angry seeing that.
"What are you afraid of, it's just one guy, surround him we can ki..."
Before the little boss in the middle could finish, Turenne charged over and hit him with his shoulder.
Due to charge speed and impact, the little boss flew over four to five meters and fell to the ground, there was a large stone, and his head hit it hard and cracked open, bled heavily, and then died.
"Boss!!"
"What kind of person is this?"
"How is he that strong?"
The other bandits were shocked seeing that.
"The enemy boss has been killed! Come kill the rest with me!"
Captain Traves raised his sword and shouted. With that, he too charged forward and started swinging his sword at the bandits and killing two more people. The other heroes too joined the battle and started killing.
The mountain bandits see more people dying, and they start to panic and run in all directions.
At this time, the soldiers were already in a high morale state, so seeing the bandits run, they immediately raised their guns and started shooting the running bandits.
Before Francis could even join the battle, the battle was over.
More than a dozen mountain bandits were killed by Captain Traves and others, most of them were killed by Lady Silver either by shot to the head or by shot to the heart. And a few of them were killed by the soldiers.
"Captain Traves is mighty!" "Lady Silver is Mighty!"
The soldiers raised their hands in front of the corpses of the mountain bandits and started shouting.
"This time, although everyone's performance is still not very good, I believe that in the future, under the leadership of Captain Traves and others, you will all be able to perform brilliantly."
"And we will all be a strong force! Now clean up the battlefield and tend to the soldiers that are injured." Francis shouted.