King of German Mercenaries

The games of a few bear children gave Marin a great inspiration - who said that towns can't be ambushed?

The town of Malham is special because of the marshes to the north and south. Therefore, the Roman Avenue in Malham has become the only way to go. While Malham is a long strip town, houses are built on both sides of Roman Avenue. Marin went downstairs and observed, and found that he could ambush the enemy passing by the Roman Avenue behind the roadside house or on the roof. If stoned from the roof...

But Marin turned around the town and found no source of stones...

No wonder, Malham is deep in the swamp, with a lot of mud, but lack of stones. So, throwing stones down from the roof is a good idea, but impossible. Unless, demolish the house, maybe you can get a little stone. However, when the houses were demolished, there would be no shelter for our troops, and the enemy could see it at a glance, so there would be no ambush.

However, after seeing a lot of firewood and haystacks piled up behind each house of the local residents for cooking, Marin had an idea in his heart...

At the beginning, when watching a movie called "The Overlord of Western Chu", during the Battle of Julu, there was a scene where the Chu army set the spherical haystack on fire, rolled down the hillside and rushed towards the Qin army camp.

Marin thought that if the large spherical grass balls were set on fire on the roof, and then pushed off the roof and pushed onto the Roman Avenue, then the enemy army in the middle of the road would definitely cause confusion. Best, pour some oil on the haystacks, it is difficult to put out... When the enemy is in chaos, the Swiss mercenaries will kill from the side alley... Marin laughed "hehe"...

In the age of cold weapons, once the battle formation is in chaos, it is easy to be overwhelmed by the enemy, or even massacred. What's more, the main battle this time was the strongest Swiss mercenary in the European Cold Weapon Age.

Soon, Marin rode back to the city of Groningen and asked Ziger to take the Swiss mercenaries westward and follow him to ambush the Frisian army.

"Ambush? Like the last time you attacked the French king?" Ziger was very interested. Although the Swiss were brave, they were not very good at strategy. The best strategy of the Swiss was to go around the back of Charles the Bold's army and launch a surprise attack like the Battle of Nancy, which was already the limit of European strategy in this era.

However, the Swiss like to learn, so Ziger is very interested in how Marin uses his tactics, and he also wants to learn a trick so that he can use it in future battles.

So, Ziger excitedly took 3,000 of his men, followed Marin, and rushed to the small town of Malham when it was dark. At Marin's request, Swiss mercenaries drove the town's residents out. Then, a team of Swiss mercenaries took care of all the old and weak women and children in the town. The strong men in the town are arranged to tie the firewood behind each house into bundles, preferably in a ball or cylinder shape, so that it can be easily dropped from the roof.

Malham is a coastal lowland area with a lot of rain, and the houses are naturally inclined, with a high middle and a downward slope in the front and rear to facilitate the rainwater to slide down. This makes it easy for people to hide behind the roof. When the Frisian army passed the road, it suddenly lit up and threw it into the crowd, causing chaos.

However, when Marin tried to pour some oil on the tied grass balls, he ran into trouble...

It turned out that in this era, ordinary people in Europe did not have vegetable oil at all. Even a bit of animal fat is hardened and cannot be poured onto grass balls.

In the end, in the largest restaurant in town and the homes of wealthy families in town, Marin found a few barrels of olive oil, but it was not enough. But Marin had no choice but to make do with a little less water on each bale.

Next, Marin directed the strong men in the town to build two stone walls on each side of the road on the east and west sides of the town. Of course, these two stone walls are very unstable, and they will fall down when pushed. But that's what Marin did on purpose.

These stones were all dismantled from broken houses in the town. The reason why these two walls are built is to facilitate the overthrow, so that the stones block the road.

Intercept the Frisian army trying to advance east. Once the ambush began, Marin had no intention of letting any Frisian troops pass. If they escaped into Groningen, it would be inconvenient for Marin to attack Groningen. So, blocking them all here is the best choice.

After the stone wall fell to the ground, the rocks scattered all over the ground, which would definitely block the way of carriages and war horses. There might be a small number of infantrymen who would climb over the rocks and flee, but that was not a problem.

Marin's biggest target in this battle is the nine Frisian MPs. As long as you catch them, all goals can be achieved. As for escaping a few infantrymen, it is not a matter at all, and it does not affect the overall situation. As a congressman, he must either ride a horse or ride a car, and he cannot pass through the rocks. And it is unrealistic to let those gentlemen dismount and climb over the rocks and then flee for their lives on foot. These gentlemen, like modern people, are accustomed to riding cars and horses, and are no longer comfortable with walking. If they walk, Marin can also lead the Swiss to chase. After all, aristocratic clothing is conspicuous and easy to identify. And, when it comes to walking, these gentlemen are certainly no match for the Swiss mountaineers.

After fixing all the tied grass balls to the back of the roofs on both sides of the road, Marin set up ambushes in a few larger alleys beside the road. The task of these ambush soldiers is to intercept the enemy into several sections so that they can be easily eliminated.

Because the Roman Avenue in the town is only a few meters wide, it can only accommodate four or five people in parallel or a heavy four-wheeled carriage (a carriage used by nobles to ride in pomp). Therefore, when the Frisian army passed through, it had to put a long snake array to pass through, not a square array. In this way, it is convenient for the ambushers to cut them into several sections and divide them to encircle and destroy them.

In order to hide the people and horses in the alleys, there were several alleys with large groups of ambush soldiers. At the entrances of the alleys, Marin sent people to build simple walls to block the sight. Once the battle begins, the ambush can rush out simply by knocking down the fragile walls. When rushing out, it was the spearmen who cleared the way and stabbed the enemy at the alley. On both sides of the spearman, there are two-handed swordsmen and halberdiers guarding him. After clearing a space on the street, the spearmen arrayed back-to-back in two directions, advancing forward and backward.

The reason why the cover was arranged on both sides of the spearman was that the side protection was poor when the spearman rushed out (the spear was too long, the street was not wide, and it was difficult to turn). Therefore, let the epee and the halberdier clear an open space first, and at the same time protect the flank of the spearman. When the spear is cast down the street, everything goes smoothly...

In addition, behind the houses on the side of the street, there are also a large number of Swiss in ambush. As long as an order is given, they will quickly run out from the back of the house and rush to kill...

In the middle of the night, Sauer's scouts came to report that the Frisian army had been refurbished, and they would continue their eastward journey tomorrow morning and arrive at Malham after about noon tomorrow.

So, the next morning, after sending a small number of soldiers and horses to send all the townspeople to the villages to the east, Marin began to rehearse the ambush battle. The main exercise project is how to quickly form a spear formation after the Swiss rush out of the alley. Then, how to resist the possible counterattack of the enemy forces on the east and west sides...

After half a day, the Swiss basically mastered some ambush essentials, although not perfect, but barely enough. After all, this is an ambush enemy at noon, not a midnight ambush, and the requirements are not that high.

After lunch, Marin sent people to close the doors of all the houses in the town, and all people evacuated to the designated ambush location...

And the Frisian army, who seems to have eaten in a village west of Malham, is now slowly walking towards Malham at a leisurely pace...

After entering the long street, the Frisian people found that the doors of the houses in the town were closed, but they didn't pay much attention...

Because the army of this era has a bit of a bad habit of robbery. So it's not surprising that residents see the army closing their doors in fear.

But when Frisian army coach Siwag rode into the middle of the street, he found a lot of wrong...

It stands to reason that it is normal for the army to cross the border and the residents to hide. However, residents should be afraid and curious about the army crossing the border. Therefore, there are always residents who secretly observe the army through the hidden windows and door cracks.

However, after walking half a street, Sivag did not find such a situation. The whole street was very silent, as if no one was there. So, Sivag waved his hand and shouted:

"Stop! Send someone to the roadside house to see what's going on, why is there no one?" With an order, the Frisian marching team stopped.

In the distance, Marin, who was standing on the top floor of the church on the east side of the town, saw this scene through a telescope and knew it was broken. So, instead of waiting for the nobles' motorcade to reach the center of the town, he could only order someone to ring the church bell in advance...

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