King of Mercenaries Chapter 254

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:18:02 AM

In the battle with Saxony, Marin obviously also needs the militia. Because he can gather up to 10,000 regular troops. However, these regular forces are decisive in the field against the main forces of the Saxony army.

So Marin still needs a lot of people to guard several cities and various bunkers. This task must of course be entrusted to the militia.

However, although the current East Frisian militia has five or six thousand people, the biggest problem is the lack of officers. Because before, the senior officers of the militia, that is, the nobles who followed the Sexner family, had been killed by Marin. The middle and low-ranking officers of the militia are mainly the 1,000 straw hat swordsmen who originally defended Emden.

Although Marin captured 600 straw hat swordsmen, he did not dare to release these straw hat swordsmen from prison and appoint them. Because these straw hat swordsmen are warriors raised by the Sexner family for many years. The ancients were not as easy to betray as the moderns, and if some of them suddenly turned away while commanding the militia, it would easily cause huge troubles for Marin.

Therefore, Marin decided to-reselect the militia commander ...

Choosing a militia commander is not easy, because it is impossible for Marin to promote a serf to become an officer. Not to mention the serfs' ability, if Marin promotes serfs at will, he may offend the local nobles and lose their hearts.

Although in the Marin Army, many small captains were formerly serfs. However, the small captains in the regular army, he is not local, but instead recruited mercenaries from Wurttemberg and Alsace. Even if Marin promoted them, they would not break the native class composition of East Frisian. Therefore, the local aristocracy could not object.

However, if Marin promotes local serfs as officers without promoting the children of the local nobles, he will definitely anger the local nobles. And Marin was severely illiterate. Therefore, at this stage, he can only rely on the children of the local aristocracy. The selection of militia officers must also be made from local noble families.

Fortunately, before that Marin was fierce enough to kill the hostile noble families, but did not give them the opportunity to escape abroad and become an opposition. Therefore, the little nobles left behind were either descendants of former Bullock advocates, or early surrendered families.

But those who surrendered the family, Marin was not very trusting. The descendants of the Brock family advocates, because of decades of decline, are not as talented as those who surrendered.

In the end, Marin selected 100 direct and collateral children from the two camps of the Brock family supporters and the surrender camp. Among them, Marin chose 50 people among the Brock family advocates, which is almost the same as the capitulation. In fact, the Brock family advocates are not as talented as capitulation, but Marin still selected 50 of them as officers, and even some illegitimate children were included. Although the surrenders are somewhat dissatisfied, it is not too bad to get half of the posts.

In this way, Marin had enough officers to command those militiamen. However, most of those who have been selected as officers do not have much military commanding experience. In particular, the supporters of the Brock family had no experience in commanding the army because they had fallen for many years.

But this is not a problem. Marin has selected a group of good instructors from the regular army and first trained these 100 officers to familiarize them with the strict discipline and training methods of the Marin Army. While training, those instructors not only let the 100 reserve officers know what to do, they also often explained the points in the training to them in order to facilitate their future practice.

After all, these 100 people are more or less people who read some books, and their abilities are much better than ordinary serfs. Training them is not the same as training ordinary serfs. Some of the requirements that seem simple to these people may be difficult for serfs. And the instructors responsible for teaching these reserve officers made these difficulties one by one and let them remember.

In addition, in order not to waste talent, Marin also invited his old man and boss Adler, and asked them to help control the militia.

My old man, Marin can trust. Therefore, Marin appointed the old Huffman as the head of the militia corps and led more than 6,000 militia nationwide. Adler, however, was appointed as the first front of the militia.

自然 Naturally, everyone has no opinion on Marin's appointment. Adler actually wanted to be the head of the militia. However, in the presence of the old Huffman from his childhood to his old, Adler did not dare to make a mistake, and had to be the leader of the square.

However, for Adler, who has never commanded more than 30 people, a square array of 1,250 people is definitely a qualitative leap. So, after hearing the good news, he immediately flew from his home in Lyle County to Orich. This made Liv very dissatisfied and wanted to suppress. But in the face of the temptation to lead the army, Adler violated his wife's meaning for the first time. Liv had no choice but to follow Orich to raise her baby.

In fact, this is also strongly demanded by the old Huffmans. Lyle County, as a border county, remains less secure. What's more, Adler's castle was built outside Lyle County. With Liv, the third generation of the Huffman family in her belly, it is obviously very dangerous to stay outside Lyle. Therefore, the old Huffmans naturally wanted Liv to come to Orich. Although Liv didn't like to be disciplined by her mother-in-law, she had to follow her husband to Orich.

After Adler arrived in Orich, Marin sent him and the old Huffman to train the instructors ...

Both of them belong to the old school of knights. Although they have both learned simple military command, they are both backwards. So Marlint asked Schwartz and Fronzberg, two experienced commanders, to teach his father and son how to command the "Marin-style" modern army. In fact, Marin can know the two men, however, he knew that the old Hoffman Marin too proud, if Marin dare to find fault with him, chances will be beaten. Therefore, it is more appropriate for two outsiders to guide them.

Marin had a plan for militia arrangements. After the militiamen were trained, Marin planned to let the old Huffman lead the second and third parties to station in Orich to ensure the safety of the capital. After all, Marin had to personally oversee the final battle with Saxony. Is there a more reliable person in the rear of Orich's defense than the old Huffman?

As for Adler, Marin originally planned to send him to lead the first party in the barn of Lyle County. However, considering that Adler was originally in Lyle County. If it is arranged that Adler is stationed there, it is easy for Adler to grow locally and become a strong local.

After much deliberation, Marin decided to let Adler take the militia first side and station in Emden. The city of Emden, currently the first trading port in East Friesland, is of great importance. However, the residents of the city are not very attentive to the Huffman family. Adler was able to defend in the past and prevent him from growing up in Emden.

In fact, Marin is not worried that Adler will have other thoughts. However, his big sister Liv was not a fuel-efficient lamp. Of course, Liv is not bad, but she just wants to do her best to fight for more benefits for her man.

If Adler becomes the defensive officer of Lyle County, Marin can believe that at that time Liv will invite family members from the Hamler family and put them under Adler's men to work ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Lin probed that the males of the Hamler family were not mindless. Once they reached Adler, it was easy to control the entire large granary in Lyle County, which was very unsafe for Marin.

But it's different for Adler to guard Emden, the city of Emden just washed by Marin's blood. Therefore, the people in the city have some hostility towards the Huffman family and will not dissipate for many years. Even if Liv brought his brother's uncle to His Majesty Adler, it was difficult for them to unfold here. After all, this is not the simple agricultural county of Lyle County, but an area where merchants gather. Want to fight with the well-informed businessmen and citizens here, the people of the Hamler family are not so capable and it is difficult to form control ...

Although Marin believed in Adler, he did not think he would threaten his position. However, he didn't trust Adler's men. You know, in ancient China, Zhao Kuangyin had an example of being "yellow in robes" by his men. Therefore, it is necessary to make some precautions in advance.

As for the fourth wing of the militia, Marin planned to send defense to Lyle County. As for the commander, Marin decided to choose one of the 22 knights from Mark's country left to defend.

In addition, there are actually only 5,000 people in the 4 militia squares, and there are more than 1,000 people left. Marin intends to disperse them in various bunkers in the future to protect the security of food reserves in various places. At the same time, he was responsible for giving Marin a warning.

Of course, before this, these militiamen had to undergo rigorous training before the autumn harvest. At least, be disciplined. Before the autumn harvest, the only work left in the field was to remove weeds and other casual work. This kind of work can be done by women. Those militiamen can take advantage of the autumn harvest and do some training so that they can be competent to defend the city ...

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