King of Mercenaries Chapter 37

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:30:36 AM

After arriving in the mountains south of Vienna, Marin immediately sent people to log and set up tents. Later, Marin did the same trick again, and began to promote straw shoes in the whole square ...

听说 When I heard that the grass can weave city shoes, all the newcomers who just joined the "Black Cross Square" were curious. When comfortable and lightweight straw shoes were put on, many people felt pretty good, except for the three knights. After all, they are knights from a powerful force, some wear leather shoes, naturally they will not wear straw shoes with those ordinary people.

After weeding the straw shoes, we naturally train in a queue. Marin had no possessions, and directly divided the entire square array into four groups according to the four company groups (the archers were grouped separately) for queue training. The first requirement of the queue training is for the soldiers to distinguish between the left and right. Then the recruits were surprised to find that the veterans asked them to take off their right straw shoes ...

鞋子 "Shoes!" The captains shouted, and the recruits stretched their left feet forward.

脚 "Foot!" The recruits retracted their left foot in a panic again, and extended their bare right foot ...

Repeatedly, in only a short period of 3 days, everyone has a deep understanding of left and right. Of course, Marin asked those small captains to gradually start using "left" and "right" instead of "shoes" and "foot" instructions. For the first time, it still needs to be mixed.

The sand mixed with the emperor and the count was not white. When the recruits completely distinguished the left and right, the report on the rapid training method of the left and right was sent to the emperor and the count's desks ...

"This Marin is still very clever. Even the idea of ​​such a strange second seemed to work quite well ..." Maximilian I was quite interested. So he printed this method into a booklet and distributed it to officers from the Habsburg family territory.

伯 The count of Hohenzollern was also impressed:

"I didn't expect such a small change to make the group of stupid idiots so clearly distinguished? Ordinary military officers may not be able to fix it after spending months." In the Middle Ages, where cultural levels were generally low It is not easy for the common people to distinguish left and right.

In fact, it is a small problem to distinguish the left and right. However, the outbreak of war is full of suddenness. If a group of recruits is recruited, it will waste a lot of time just to distinguish the left and right, and it will greatly jeopardize the fighter.

I should know that during the Napoleonic war, the French army mobilized soldiers, and the average training time was only about two weeks, and they would be drawn to the battlefield. If it takes a month to distinguish between the left and right, the daylily will be cold ...

Since sand was added to the team, Marin did not intend to expose his knowledge. Therefore, he gave up the motivational speeches and flickers that he had given every day when he started training the 100 people, and instead changed to stick-driven.

Anyway, he is now a genuine Imperial officer, and there is nothing to fight new recruits. Unlike at the beginning, he only convened 100 people temporarily. If those people are dissatisfied and can leave at any time, they can only coax. And these recruits of the Empire, even if they are stunned, these people generally will not leave.

新 With the demonstration and help of 100 veterans trained before Marin, these recruits have also made rapid progress. After all, the power of role models is endless. Marin had never trained himself before. The days when he trained the 100 veterans were difficult, and everything was fumbled. At this moment, Schwartz and the 25 squadron captains are all skilled in training. Moreover, Marin training requirements have been reduced. Before, those 100 people had two 5km cross-country runs every day, now these recruits only need 1 5km per day.

So, the three knights sent by the emperor and the earl saw the old men of Marin, beating the recruits and abusing them ...

Alas, even if the recruits wanted to resist, Marin was not afraid. His 100 veterans are much more cunning than these novices. Under Marin's training, these veterans all fought quickly, and initially learned the “cheats” of group siege and group fights. Even if the recruits are troublesome, they will not be troublesome together, and most people are dissatisfied. And these people can't escape the waves at all.

In this way, Marin spent the entire March watching the old men beat up the recruits. But Tara and his cooking class led many surprises to the soldiers.

Even the big cauldron that Marin couldn't stand, it was very delicious among the recruits, including those three knights. Tara's cooking is very exaggerated. They directly use the engineer's **** to cook. Fortunately, under the strict requirements of Marin, Tara washed the engineering spades before cooking. Moreover, engineering spades that have shoveled horse dung must not be used for cooking.

Marin, in order to convince everyone, also eat cauldron dishes with everyone. And Marin trains the queue with everyone every morning. He will be lazy only after 5km off-road in the afternoon.

Every day, these recruits were tossed to death. And in the middle of the night, they were equally uneasy. Once the birch whistle sounded, they had to quietly regroup at the barracks gate as quickly as possible. So, everyone is complaining.

However, the veterans who have long been accustomed to abuse by Marin are accustomed to it. Even when they took off their clothes, they only took off their jackets, and some simply did not take off. Once they heard the whistle, they put on their shoes, put on their coats and vests, and they could gather with their spears.

What makes Marin strange is that night blindness seems to be relatively rare in Europe. But thinking of European recipes, Marin was relieved. Europeans eat more meat and often drink milk and cheese. And these are all rich in vitamin A. Therefore, Europeans suffer from fewer night blindness. Therefore, there was no problem in the middle of the night.

Marin's training information was continuously sent to the emperor and count's desk. What the two big brothers think of Marin is a brutal officer who likes to abuse soldiers. However, I am very clever and can invent a method to quickly distinguish left and right directions ...

In addition, the sandals that Marin "invented" aroused great interest from the emperor. Because the emperor found that straw sandals were very cost-effective. For a poor ghost emperor like him, saving money is definitely attractive to him. Count Hohenzollern was a pure officer, not so sensitive to the role of straw shoes.

When Marin abused the recruits, the Italian side also exploded. On the Apennine peninsula, the French pushed all the way and directly occupied Naples, one of Italy's five great powers (Papal, Venetian, Florence, Duchy of Milan, and the Kingdom of Naples), without encountering much resistance.

The crushing posture of the French people frightened the Italian states. Italian power rulers headed by Venice, the Papal States, and the Principality of Milan (Florence has also been made into a vassal state by France). You know, Florence and Naples are one of Italy's top five powers. Unexpectedly, these two Italian powers were destroyed by the French.

And, to the disgrace of the Pope, the French army entered Rome, intimidating the Pope to crown Charles VIII as King of Naples. Obviously, this was a persecution by force, not the will of the Pope.

Across Italy, only Venice and Milan, two powerful nations, have not been attacked by the French army. In fact, this is also because the French have a clear goal and go straight south, regardless of the Duchy of Milan and the Republic of Venice.

In order to prevent the French from annihilating themselves next time, Venice, the Papal States and the Duchy of Milan formed a self-protected alliance on March 31, 1495-the "Sacred Alliance".

At the same time as the alliance, the three countries also sent messengers to invite the traditional enemy of the French, the Holy Roman Empire and Spain to join the alliance.

In fact, both the Holy Roman Empire and Spain were very dissatisfied and worried about the French annexing the Kingdom of Naples and controlling Florence.

France itself is very powerful. If Italy, which is the richest in Europe (Italy 's agriculture and commerce, is now number one in Europe at this time), has more adequate financial blood transfusions, Shen Luo and Spain will face being hanged by France. Dilemma.

For this reason, both Shinra and Spain responded positively. However, Maximilian I, the poor ghost emperor of Shen Luo, had a half-push attitude because of lack of money. UU reading www.uukanshu.com can see that the French successfully controlled Naples without any casualties. Maximilian I also let go of his restraint, and soon joined Spain to join the "holy" aimed at opposing France 's invasion of Italy alliance".

By April, the Holy Roman Empire had gathered 1,000 heavy cavalry and 10,000 infantry, including Marin's "Black Cross", and began to cross the Albis mountain to Venice, Italy, and join the Venetian.

In addition, Venice, the Principality of Milan and the Papal States also began to recruit local Italian mercenaries and some Swiss mercenaries. Ferdinand II of Spain (King of Aragon and husband of Isabella, Queen of Castilla) also started recruiting troops in the country.

Spain is the least prepared among the countries because they are the farthest from Italy. Moreover, Spain is divided into two countries-Aragon and Castilla. The Kingdom of Aragon, which is close to Italy, was very active in blending into the Italian war. Because King Ferdinand II of Aragon was more visionary and knew that the French could not sit idly by. However, the aristocrats of the Castile Kingdom were more opposed to tearing their faces from France. They worry that if the intervention fails, the war may be burned to the border between Spain and France. But Ferdinand II insisted that with so many countries together, the French's failure was affirmative and they would no longer have the ability to fight back.

Moreover, not only the five countries participating in the Alliance, other Italian states, seeing the strength of the "Sacred Alliance", but also seeing the helm of the wind, joining them, expressing willingness to send troops to participate in the war. It seems that the situation is very good.

I know Marin who is familiar with history, but I don't think much of this patchwork coalition ...

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