King of Mercenaries Chapter 186

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:22:25 AM

Although it was decided to use the glass greenhouse to cultivate oriental medicinal materials, this matter is not urgent. Because the temperature is very high right now, there is no need to use a greenhouse.

Moreover, Marin's side is also inadequate. Because last time he brought back 50 glass artisans from Venice. However, he lacked soda, an important raw material for glass.

Soda is a very important raw material for making glass, because the main material of glass, quartz sand, if not put in soda, the melting temperature is as high as 1700 to 2000 degrees. If you add soda, it will drop to about 1000 degrees, and firewood stoves can do it.

Now, the Venetian burned glass with a wood stove. In fact, this is no way. Although, the coal stove burns glass and the temperature is higher. Why, there is no coal mine in Italy ...

英国 The British side has many coal mines, but the glass industry is underdeveloped, and the benefits of burning glass with coal have not been found. Until the 17th century, British talent will find it better to burn glass with coal.

There is no shortage of coal on the Marlin side, and quartz sand is also available. Soda is lacking. Soda is usually produced in the desert areas of West Asia and North Africa. Because soda is sodium carbonate and is easily soluble in water. The European climate is humid and naturally lacks natural soda. Only the saline lakes in the desert are rich in this stuff. The Phoenicians who first discovered glass were those living in Lebanon on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. Where they are, next to the desert, it is not difficult to get natural soda ...

Now, because of the hegemony of the Mediterranean, the Venetian, it is not difficult to buy natural soda in the Middle East. As for the rest of Europe, if you want to make glass, you can only rely on the alchemist to extract soda ash from the grass and ash.

The Venetian decline later, in addition to being robbed by two teeth and blocked by Ottoman Turkey, is also an important reason.

Ottoman Turkey will occupy Egypt in 20 years, and Egypt is now an important source of natural soda in Venice. As soon as the Turks blocked, the Venetian business was difficult to do. Later, a glass mirror was rescued to save the business trend, and the technology was stolen by the French. Therefore, without technical support, maritime trade was robbed, and the natural soda production area was also occupied by the Turks, the Venetian business inevitably declined.

As a later college student, Marin also studied chemistry in middle school. He also knows the "Hou's sodmaking method"-however, this is not useful for eggs because the most important raw material in Hou's sodmaking method One of the ammonia gas, Marin can not get a large amount. Synthetic ammonia, but the technology of the 20th century, requires top-level industrial equipment to get it.

Lu Branfa Marin also knows, but using Lublan Method has a lot of investment, and requires specialized chemical personnel ...

I am not afraid to invest in Malaysia. The most important thing is the lack of chemical talents to control the reaction. Therefore, this can only be stranded temporarily.

Of course, it's not that Marin doesn't make glass anymore. Instead, wait for this matter. After a while, Marin will send someone to Venice to buy cheap natural sodas produced in the Middle East. He buys many of them at a time, enough for one or two years ...

Alas, that matter is not anxious. What Marin is most anxious about now is the problem of training ...

Before the 2500 soldiers, they were all trained. However, Marin has recruited another 2,500 people in recent months, making up 5,000. In addition, Marin, who had previously arrested 1,000 Frisian prisoners of war, suddenly wanted to cheat, and will not return it for the time being.

Anyway, the nine Frisian nobles who fled to the Principality of Gerdes are now too poor to dwell and have no money to support these 1,000 people. Therefore, Marin planned to take them as artillery soldiers and join the team attacking East Frisian.

In this way, Marin was able to get together with the 6000 army, even if he just faced East Frisian, there was no major problem. In particular, among the 1,000 Frisian prisoners of war, there were 200 heavy armored swordsmen. They were very good at onslaught and street fighting, and were suitable for the lead.

Of course, there are many problems. The main problem is the lack of training for 2,500 recruits and 1,000 Frisian prisoners of war.

Although Friesland prisoners of war are veterans, they are all veterans of the feudal army in the old times, and their discipline is very bad. And Marin's army is a new era army with strict discipline.

林 Marin is confident in training 2,500 recruits recruited from the German countryside into a new army. But Marin was a little unsure about training the 1,000 Frisian prisoners of war.

Because those people are veterans, they have their own ideas and concepts of war. Marin went to train them, they might not listen.

Therefore, Marin decided to go back and forth, but decided to use strict military methods to discipline and restrain the 1,000 Frisian prisoners of war. Anyway, under the pressure of 2500 Texel veterans, the group would have to weigh up to resist.

As a result, under Marin's arrangement, the most clever group of 2500 veterans was selected to train the 2500 recruits and 1,000 Frisian prisoners of war.

Among them, the veterans who train Friesland prisoners of war are all those who have a stronger aura. Because in the face of a group of veterans oil, the gas field is insufficient and it is easy to be passive.

Moreover, Marin also set up the Military Law Department for the first time, directly putting the sticks of the Military Law Department to the training ground, ready to hit the army stick at any time ...

The establishment of the Military Law Office made the recruits who had been obedient even more honest, and basically had no thorns to dare to blame. And the 1,000 Frisian veterans had barbed heads and came out to resist, but they were quickly picked up and beaten with batons ... Even if the veterans of oil wanted to make trouble, they had to look at the 2000 Texel standing next veteran……

He Marin arranged a total of 500 veterans to help train, while the other 2,000 were all armed and stood side by side, watching coldly. In fact, this group of people came to the town to guard against the chaos of Frisian veterans.

I saw the murderous 2,000 veterans, and only the Frisian veterans who had trained wooden sticks in their hands, naturally they could only swallow their breath. Even if you want to resist, you have to see if you can fight the 2000 killing **** on the edge ...

The training methods of the 2500 recruits and the 1,000 Frisian prisoners of war are different. Because of the 2,500 recruits, Marin planned to form two Spanish squares and needed a large number of muskets. The 1,000 Frisian prisoners of war were trained in accordance with the requirements of the Cold Weapons Force. Because they are also the cannon fodder responsible for the charge.

Marin can predict that the battle in Emden, the capital city of East Friesland, is definitely a brutal street fight. The 1,000 heavy armored swordsmen of East Frisian State were not vegetarian.

If you accidentally let the enemy's heavy armored swordsman rush into the musketeer pile, it would be absolutely terrible. In the face of the fierce heavy armored swordsman, the musketeers with little melee ability will definitely lose a lot, and may even mess up their positions.

The role of the 1,000 Frisian prisoners of war was to hold them against the East Frisian heavy armored swordsmen. Then, the musketeers under Marin could hide behind and put the cold guns leisurely. What if the armored swordsman wore breastplate? In front of the Musktor musket, the knight in plate armor was also kneeling ...

Of course, there is a very complicated project that makes Marin scratch his head. That is the issue of the coordinated and unified command of the four large squares.

Prior to that, Marin only commanded a square matrix, which was naturally simple. With two squares, the command is not complicated. Two squares, one left and one right.

But if you replace it with 4 square matrices, it will be a bit troublesome. Because the formation of the four square formations has become a big problem ...

For example, on the battlefield of this era, the battle array is generally divided into left, middle, and right. If it is a three-square matrix, it is naturally easy to arrange. But for the extra square, Marin didn't know where to put it ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Because, he hadn't commanded the big army ...

After thinking about it, Marin suddenly thought of the legendary "reserve team". Since the beginning of modern wars, people seem to be used to using reserve teams on the battlefield.

The role of the reserve team is great. For example, if the enemy's left wing is defeated by the enemy, if it is not rescued in time, it may be torn open by the enemy forces, resulting in a chaotic formation and the collapse of the entire line.

However, whether it is the right wing or the main force part, it is not suitable for rescue. Because as long as the middle part or the right wing sends someone to rescue, its own defense force will be greatly reduced, and it may be attacked by the enemy.

So, the best rescue team is actually the reserve team. The reserve team had no mission at all, and if they saw that it wouldn't work, they would replenish. Moreover, if the enemy can't hold up one wing, the reserve team can also pull out to increase the output, defeating the part that the enemy can't hold up.

Thinking of this, Marin finally established the arrangement of the four Spanish squares-the oldest square, which was personally commanded and sat in the middle of the town; the second veteran square, commanded by Schwartz, was responsible for the left wing; then, Of the two newly recruited squares, a better one was selected, and it was Frentzberg who took charge and was in charge of the right wing. In the last one, Marin had not yet thought of who to lead. However, it was a reserve team, ready for support.

For the 1,000 Frisian prisoners of war, Marin only planned to train their street fighting ability. Because, after playing East Frisian, Marin planned to return them to the Frisian nobles, let them and the Duke of Saxony stir up the foundation, it is best to stir West Frisian upside down ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Book friends are welcome to come and read, the latest, fastest, and most popular serial works are all at ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Mobile users please go to read.

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