King of German Mercenaries

After recruiting all the squires, Marin began to train them. After all, he was going to fight on the battlefield. His servants could not understand anything.

Marin paid for himself and bought a leather armor and a spear for each of the six attendants. In addition, Marin also asked the blacksmith to build an iron helmet for everyone. Its style is naturally an imitation of the famous German M35 steel helmet. Of course, this is not a steel helmet, but an iron helmet made of pig iron, which is incomparable to a real steel helmet in quality. But in this day and age, it is enough.

Old Hoffman is not stingy, knowing that his son is going to the battlefield. Moreover, now that the family is well-off, coupled with Marin's oriental farming techniques, the family has a surplus of livestock. So he simply took out five draught horses and equipped them for Marin's attendants.

As a result, each of the five able-bodied attendants was assigned a drawn horse. As for the thin Kohler, he was still driving a four-wheeled bullock cart pulled by the big black bull "Li Chen". As for Dallas the calf, he was thrown at the Hoffman Manor, and when he grows up, he will also join the ploughing army...

The next thing is to train the riding skills of the 5 attendants. In fact, the 5 squires, except for the cows that Kahn had ridden for a long time, had a bit of riding skills. The other four, including Schwartz, had basically never ridden a horse.

In the days that followed, Marin trained five men to ride horses in the morning, and in the afternoon, they trained them to use spears on horses, and to fight on foot.

In riding training, Kahn stands out. In combat training, it was Schwartz who crushed the others. Even, in foot combat, Marin is not Schwartz's opponent. The main thing is that although Marin's fighting skills are no worse than Schwartz, his physical fitness is too far behind that of Schwartz. The 16-year-old Marin is about 1.73 meters tall, with a thin body and average strength. The 20-year-old Schwartz is 1.83 meters tall and has muscles all over his body. Therefore, two people with similar martial arts skills, Schwartz crushed Marin with his body...

Only on horseback, Marin can rely on his superb riding skills to make Schwartz unable to find the north. But that's also because Schwartz can't ride. By the time Schwartz got up on his riding, Marin was going to be pinned down again.

So, the helpless Marin started drinking pork rib soup every day, striving to grow taller and stronger...

As for Kahn, the idiot, Marin discovered in training that his spear was not very good. But with a stick to smash people, the powerful Kahn is very talented...

So, Marin simply asked the craftsman to build a mace, and let the idiot Kahn swing it hard...

Then, in the foot fight, Kahn, who found the feeling, started to smash Schwartz with his mace (the one with no spikes attached). Unlike before, when he was trying spears, Kahn was always easily "turned over" by Schwartz...

And when fighting on horseback, Kahn, who was wielding a mace on horseback, seemed to have a lot of power. Even Marin, who was the strongest in cavalry, did not dare to easily confront Kahn, who was wielding his mace.

However, at the beginning, Kahn only knew how to smash people with a mace, but did not know how to dodge or block a lance. So, Kahn was always knocked off his horse with a lance. But after that, Marin, who had a big brain, began to teach Kahn how to use the mace to smash the opponent's lance first, and then quickly swing the mace back to smash the knight himself...

(This move can only be used to deal with plate armor knights, because knights usually charge with a thick lance with one hand, which is easy to be smashed by the mace waving with both hands. Moreover, knights wearing a full set of plate armor, The waist is not flexible, and it cannot be flexibly evaded.)

The result of this was that Marin himself was tricked by himself - Kahn used this method to smash Marin off the horse in the following horse practice battle...

Fortunately, the ground where they practiced was covered with thick grass. And Marin and Kahn are also wearing breastplates against each other. So, being smashed off the horse won't hurt too much. But falling off such a high horse is also painful. And, despite wearing a breastplate, Marin was hit in the chest with a mace,

Still got some damage. Of course, only minor injuries. Because, when the two were fighting, the horse speed was not mentioned, just jogging to hedge. Otherwise, in the high-speed hedging horse battle, the side who was knocked off the horse was basically knocked into the air, and it was easy to be maimed or even killed...

In addition to training the five squires in martial arts and riding, Marin also began training their ranks. In particular, familiarize them with their commands. The most basic is queue training, such as turning left and turning right.

But even the most basic left and right turns drove Marin a little crazy. Among the 5 people, only Schwartz, who has read books, is smarter. The other four are all idiots with well-developed limbs and simple minds.

Whenever Marin issued the "turn left" or "turn right" command, the scene suddenly became chaotic. Only Schwartz, for these two instructions, is done relatively well. As for the other four elm heads, it took a month of training and a lot of military sticks before they basically mastered...

Then, there is the question of the queue going forward and backward. Get these 5 guys in line and it's generally fine. After all, I also trained for a month. However, as long as a charge is initiated, someone will immediately rush in front, and someone will fall behind...

Eventually, Marin gave up the idea of ​​charging in formation. He also felt that this kind of request was too difficult for these inflexible guys. No wonder the infantry phalanx requires all soldiers to advance slowly in accordance with the rhythm. The reason is that as long as they rush up, the formation will basically dissipate. Generally speaking, release of the charge is only required when chasing a fleeing enemy.

After he figured it out, Marin didn't ask them to charge in formation, but only required to move forward and back neatly at a normal walking speed in formation. In this way, 5 people barely qualified.

So, in mid-October, Marin estimated that Maximilian I also began to collect war taxes in his own territory. By the time he arrived in Vienna, his first taxes should also be in place. At that time, he may have the opportunity to enter the emperor's army. After all, to fight the French army of 60,000 people, the emperor had to prepare more troops. And the emperor's own army of 16,000 people has to maintain the security of the homeland. If nothing else, the Habsburg family is currently in a state of hostility with the Kingdom of Hungary.

A few years ago, King Matthias I of Hungary also invaded most of the territory of Austria, the home of the Habsburg family, and also occupied Vienna, the home of the Habsburg family. Had it not been for the sudden death of Matthias I, Maximilian I would never have had a chance to retake Austria. And now the Jagiellonian Dynasty in Hungary, which controls the Kingdom of Hungary and the Kingdom of Bohemia, is very powerful. Therefore, the army recruited before must guard against the Hungarians. To participate in the Italian War, a new group of troops must be recruited to participate in the war.

In order to join the emperor's army as soon as possible and strive to be a "senior", Marin decided to go to Vienna with five attendants whose training had been slightly successful, as well as Kohler's ox cart.

By this time, the family's coal mine was finally turning a profit, much earlier than Marin expected. But it is not surprising, because Marin has already helped to solve the biggest problem of coal mines - the problem of sales. Now, as long as the Hoffman family transports the excavated coal to the wharf, a cargo ship from the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce (Wright's Chamber of Commerce) comes to load it. Moreover, the people of the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce are very proud, and the payment for the goods is settled on the spot. After selling several cargoes of coal, the Hoffman family immediately had funds.

After Marin decided to officially set off, the old Hoffman gave Marin more than 300 marks of funds, which made the money in Marin's hands reach 800 marks. And, under the guidance of the old Hoffman, Marin put his own money and deposited 600 marks into the bank of the Hanseatic Business League. With the credit of the Hanseatic Merchant League, Marin could get money from any large city in the Holy Roman Empire by virtue of the certificate of deposit. As for himself, he left 200 marks in cash and gave it to Kohler, who drove the ox cart, for safekeeping. At the same time, Marin's armor and horse armor, as well as 5 lances (when the lance is charging, if the opponent wears hard armor, it is easy to break, so prepare spares), are also placed on the ox cart. .

As for Marin himself, he usually wears an M35 iron helmet, a two-thirds breastplate, and a saber on his back as he drives his horse forward. As for the other five battle attendants, in fact, each of them also wears a two-thirds breastplate (all made by Hoffman Manor's own blacksmiths, the quality is average), but they are generally placed on ox carts and will not wait until the battle. put on.

At the same time, rushing to Vienna on horseback is actually a kind of exercise for the five attendants' riding skills. Usually, these five people wear steel helmets, leather armor, and hold spears (except for Kahn, who is holding a mace), some of which are similar to the later Polish Lancers who poked German tanks with spears.

In order to exercise 5 followers and their own courage, Marin also took them to the forest to attack wild boars. How scary are wild boars in the forest? Ordinary hunters do not dare to provoke wild boars easily. Because it is difficult for bows and arrows to hurt wild boars. And muskets, the muskets of this era are not powerful enough, and it is difficult to kill wild boars with one shot. Only the powerful guns of later generations can kill wild boars with one shot. Therefore, in this era, hunting wild boars is a very dangerous thing.

However, Marin is not alone, he has 5 thugs to follow. Moreover, Kahn and Schwartz are also fierce brothers.

The first time he was hunting wild boars, there was an accident. The horse Sauer was riding was frightened by the wild boar, causing Sauer to be thrown to the ground by the horse and injured a little.

After that, Marin simply let Kohler take care of the horses. He took five thugs and walked to kill the wild boars...

Kahn and Schwartz are really strong generals, and Marin has to give in to the disadvantage in foot combat. Especially Kahn, who slammed it with a mace. There was a wild boar, just rushed up, and before it hurt anyone, it was smashed by Kahn's mace...

Schwartz is also extraordinary. He often uses Kahn to make Kahn yell to attract the attention of wild boars. And he attacked and stabbed the wild boar from the side.

As for Marin, he stood behind the others and instructed everyone:

"Quick! Surround it, Sauer, Tara, Garand, raise your spear, just hold it... Kahn, loudly, howl... Schwartz, prepare to attack, yes, stab it chrysanthemum... …”

Then, a suffocated wild boar was stabbed by Schwartz on the chrysanthemum, screamed miserably, blood flowed, and it was in pain...

Along the way, Marin led five thugs and killed more than a dozen wild boars. Not only did he exercise everyone's courage and cooperation, but he also sold the wild boars for a lot of money. At least, the food expenses for everyone along the way have been solved. You know, with the addition of 3 big men and 5 horses, the cost has increased a lot...

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