King of Mercenaries Chapter 34

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:30:43 AM

After all, Maximilian I was not a fool. He was considered to be more powerful in the Habsburgs (conversely, the rest of the Habsburgs were not very powerful), so after calming down, he wanted to take Take a look at Marin ...

"Ai Qing, how effective is your mercenary group?"

"Properly, the mercenary regiment's training tactics are specifically aimed at Swiss mercenaries!" Marin said with confidence.

真的 "Really?" Maximilian I refreshed.

You know, Swiss mercenaries are the main force in the French army. Regardless of the number of French knights, the newly formed spearmen can also be restrained.

瑞士 The Swiss spearmen are not only good at defending the impact of the Cavaliers, they can also launch attacks, which can be called Europe's top power in this era.

Moreover, the emperor himself and the Swiss mercenaries were also hostile. His father-in-law "Bold Charlie" died at the hands of Swiss mercenaries. The large territory of the Principality of Burgundy also fell into the hands of the French because of the help of the Swiss. Even the birthplace of the Habsburgs, Eagle Castle in the Swiss canton of Aargau, fell into the hands of the Swiss.

In fact, the Swiss spearmen had been in Europe for decades after the Battle of Nancy until they were stepped on by German mercenaries who used large-scale muskets and learned the Spanish Phalanx (the specific commander was the "German Mercenary Father "George Flenzberg).

In other words, the Swiss spearmen are very melee, but they are afraid of long-range strikes. In particular, the large muskets of the Spanish Phalanx are powerful enough that even if the Swiss wear plate armor, they cannot stop them.

Marin's temporary plan, although the more powerful muskets were replaced with bows and arrows. However, most of the Swiss spearmen are basically poor, and they cannot afford expensive plate armor.

Therefore, the bow and arrow formation is very powerful in the face of the Swiss spearmen wearing cloth or leather armor. When the Swiss spearmen were shot and flew in, it wouldn't matter if they spent their blood to equip their breastplates. At that time, Marin will change into a large musket, and it will still be crushed ...

验证 In order to verify whether Marin was bragging, Count Hohenzollern decided to have a real soldier confrontation exercise to see if Marin was bragging.

Alas, Marin went to the recruiting office and took 80 long sticks, and took back his 20 hunting bows ...

"Bow and arrow ... Isn't this thing about to be eliminated? Can't shoot through plate armor ..." Count Frederick had some Spartans. In Europe, due to the emergence of plate armor, the killing ability of bows and arrows was greatly reduced. As a result, bows and arrows were gradually ignored. There are only lowly civilians fighting, and bows and arrows are still prevailing. Because low-level civilian soldiers are not capable of equipping plate armor and have low protection against bows and arrows. For nobles and knights, the threat of bows and arrows is really limited.

"Master, our archer, not the French plate knight, but the Swiss mercenary," Marin reminded.

"What to say?" The emperor was also curious.

His Majesty, "Swiss mercenaries are mostly poor mountain people. Do they have money to buy plate armor?"

The emperor and the count both shook their heads ...

那就 "That's it, these poor ghost Swiss, since they don't have the money to buy plate armor, can they stand the blow of the bow and arrow?"

The emperor and the count shook their heads again ...

"That 's why he said that this formation is specifically restrained from Swiss mercenaries."

Marin's mercenaries all took wooden sticks as spears, and the arrows of bows and arrows used arrows without arrows in ox carts. These headless arrows are used by Marin to train these guys in order to avoid casualties during training. Even, for safety, the arrows of these headless arrows were covered with rags to reduce the impact when shooting.

When the two sides lined up, Count Frederick frowned:

"Knight Marin, why is your battle line so thin?" Including the archers, Marin's battle line is only 3 rows, so Count Frederick is naturally dissatisfied.

"Mr. Earl, I also want to make a lot of humiliation, but unfortunately I do n't have enough money. You know, for more than a month, all humiliation has paid for the **** ..." Marin said silently.

Because of the large amount of training, although Marin led hunting, he shared some of the meat pressure. However, this group of second goods still consumes as much as 4 marks of Marin for meals every day, with a total of 640 fennies, and an average of 6.4 fennies per person per day. At this time, civilians in the empire earned only 2 Finneys a day. In other words, this group of rice buckets consume more than three times the income of ordinary people every day.

I thought that Marin was only born of a knight family. It was really difficult to feed No. 100, and the emperor and the count were silent.

表示 In order to show fairness, Count Frederick also sent 100 old mercenary lancers to form a Swiss square, which is about the same thickness as Marin.

But before the two sides confronted, Marin asked for an hour delay ...

Then, the emperor and the earl were surprised to see—under the command of Marin, they took out 40 engineering spades (the emperor and the earl did not know this thing) and began to dig trenches before the battle ...

The emperor and the count arrived on horseback and asked Marin:

"Marin Knight, are you digging a ditch?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, Earl, the trench can hinder the charge of the enemy, whether it is a knight or an infantry, the charge will be blocked."

The emperor and the count then saw two trenches separated by only 2 meters in front of Marin's battlefield. The trench is not deep, but it is relatively wide. It can be expected that after the enemy rushed up, he couldn't jump over two wide trenches at once.

Then they saw again that Commander Marin was planted with wooden spikes slanting forward on the edge of the trench near the battle array ...

"This is ... the Englishman's way against the French knights?" Maximilian I had a better vision, and at a glance, this was the way the English Longbowmen blocked the French knights' charge. The difference is that the British's wooden picket was inserted directly into the ground. Marin's wooden stakes were inserted in the trench. Enemies want to charge, not only to jump over the trench, but also to avoid the sharp stakes in the trench, which greatly increases the difficulty.

Sure enough, before the exercise began, the German spearmen led by a Swiss mercenary officer looked at the two trenches in the distance and the spiked piles full of embarrassment.

In fact, the numbness of their scalp is still behind ...

When the exercise officially started, the two teams were separated by 100 meters. According to Marin's request, they were the defensive side, while the opposite 100 spearmen were the offensive side. Their weapons are also wooden sticks without spearheads.

After the Swiss officer ordered the attack, the well-trained German spearmen, lined up in a neat line, began to march slowly, forcing the Huffman mercenary regiment.

After entering a distance of 80 meters, I estimated that the archer had lethality and also had a hit rate. With Marin's order, 20 archers opened their bows ...

"Ah ... ah ... ah ..."

Although there is no arrow, and the arrow is covered with rags, it still hurts when shooting at people. In particular, the German spearmen, like the Swiss spearmen, all wear fancy cloths and cannot resist bows and arrows ...

If the bow and arrow fall on the body, unless it is in a very unimportant position, the soldier will be judged to be "killed" or "injured" to withdraw from the battle.

At 80 meters, the archer's hit rate is not high, and everyone doesn't think so. At a distance of 70 to 80 meters, the German Spearman lost only 5 people. But after entering within 60 meters, "injury" began to increase. Because this distance does not need to project, it can accurately shoot "point kill".

At a distance of about 60 meters, a round of bows and arrows came down, and the German spearman lost 9 people at once. This is also the reason why the spearmen accidentally blocked some of the "arrows" with their lances. After all, with so many guns, there is also a little defensive area. After entering the 50 meters, it was just giving away.

At a distance of 40 ~ 50 meters, the archers of the Huffman Mercenary Regiment fired two rounds of arrows, which brought down 20 people.

By the time the German Lancer entered a distance of 10 meters, there were only 40 left for 100 people ...

In other words, 60 people were "killed" or "quit the battle due to injuries" on the way ...

Moreover, many people are not "convicted" of casualties, but are really injured. After all, bows and arrows are also hard objects. Under the strong kinetic energy, even if the arrow is wrapped in rags and hits a person, it is very painful, just like a stone hitting a person. Some unlucky eggs were directly hurt by the arrows.

"This ... the archer is so powerful?" Maximilian I and Count Frederick both played knights. The knights wore Gothic plate armor and despised bows and arrows. However, the infantry cannot ignore the threat of bows and arrows. Although Count Frederick commanded the spearman, he also pierced the opposite spearman, and never encountered a formed archer. Therefore, he has never seen such a strong bow and arrow injury.

In fact, in this era, except for the insignificant number of archers in Britain, other countries, in fact, did not have archers on a large scale. Because, the archer's training difficulty is not lower than the knight. With that spare time, it's better to train more knights. Therefore, fewer countries have archers. After the plate armor replaced the mail armor, the protection of the bow and arrow was greatly improved. Therefore, no one wants to train archers in large numbers.

Originally, in the early days of the British-French war, because of the excellent performance of the British longbow soldiers, many countries imitated the formation of bow and arrow troops. But after the defeat of the English, everyone stopped learning and the temporary bow and arrow unit was dissolved.

40 surviving spearmen, led by Swiss officers who also survived wearing breastplates, began to attack the Huffman mercenary front.

But when they rushed forward, they were a little dumbfounded. Two wide trenches blocked them. I don't see anything in the distance, I really feel trouble when I really come to attack.

The trenches dug by Marlin were not deep, only 40 centimeters deep, but 2 meters wide. Two 2m wide trenches, plus a 2m distance between the trenches. This makes the "unnormal ground" within 6 meters in front of the Huffman mercenary regiment. If you want to rush through, you must first make the first ditch, and then climb up.

However, the length of the spear (long stick) on both sides is 6 meters. When the people on their own side just climbed the second trench and stood on the 2m wide ground between the two trenches, their feet were not stable, and the "spears" on the other side rushed over ...

Our soldiers went to block and pierce the spears on the opposite side, but the people on their side had just climbed a ditch and had not stood still, and the spearmen of the other side had long been waiting for their lives. Unstable, how to stab each other? So, a lot of downsizing ...

Well, when the Swiss officer took the remaining 30 men to stand on the 2 meter wide ground, the Huffman mercenary regiment took a two-step back as a whole, and did not give the stabilized German spearmen a chance to fight each other. . Then, the archer took a break, and once again in the front row deliberately let go to start "clicking" on the opponent ...

The German spearman is also very helpless with wooden spikes on the ground. You go to pick up the stub, the spearman opposite will certainly take the opportunity to hit you. Not only that, if you want to pull the tip, you have to go to the second trench. You're in a ditch, and the other side just happens to lie down and shoot you ...

I ca n't continue to move forward without removing the stakes. The Swiss officer who responded ~ www.novelhall.com ~ hurriedly led the team and walked to the left. However, he only has more than 20 people left ...

He's rounding to the left, but the numbers on both sides have been seriously unequal. At this time, Marin waved his hand directly, and all members of the Huffman Mercenary Regiment quickly turned the team, using the beautiful queue changes to face the remaining 20 German spearmen. Then, everyone kept up the team and overturned the remaining people and horses ... Finally, only 10 people on Marin's side were confronted by the opponent's wooden sticks because of their martial arts. casualties……

"It's a slaughter!" The emperor sighed.

是 "Yeah, a soldier without plate armor is really difficult to resist the bow and arrow formation. But if you rush forward, the archer is useless."

"Haha, Frederick, haven't you seen? Your spearmen can't kill the archers. Because there can be two rows of spearmen in front of them."

"That's true, too, but, Your Majesty, in real combat, the troops are far more than that. There are only two rows of spearmen in front, which is far from enough to protect the archers."

"Marin also said that he has no money, so he only recruited such a few people. If there are enough staff, I don't think he will put such a person in front, right?"

"Perhaps."

"The defensive tactics of those two trenches are also very good, it is difficult to break through positively. Even the Cavaliers charge, it is extremely difficult to break through."

"That's right, but you can go to the flanks. Just like the Swiss did at the end."

"Well, yes. But let 's ask the Marin Knight first to see how he responds to the enemy 's flanking ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Welcome the book readers to read, the latest, fastest, most popular serial works Mobile users at ~ www.novelhall.com ~ please read.

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