King of German Mercenaries

The discipline required by Marin was very strict, basically reaching the level of the modern army. But this also made many mercenaries dissatisfied. However, Marin told them that if they didn't work hard, they might not be able to pass the selection of the emperor. If you can't pass the selection of the emperor, you can't get a salary, and you can't go to Italy to make a fortune.

These men endured at the prospect of a robbery in fertile Italy. They have heard the legends of some half-true and half-false mercenary predecessors. For example, a certain mercenary, when a city-state in Italy captured a certain city, rushed into the house of a wealthy Italian businessman, robbed a lot of property, and put all the money in his pocket. are gold coins.

As for Marin, he also used the imagination of an online writer to fool them and fabricated a lot of legends in the mercenary world. According to legend, a mercenary group that captured a big city in Italy, everyone became a rich man, took a beautiful woman, and went to the pinnacle of life...

These fake news made these novice mercenaries who had never seen the world excited. In fact, they have no way to judge whether the news is true or false. After all, this year is the Middle Ages, and information is extremely occluded. They couldn't verify what Marin said was true or false. So, they were all crippled and lame by Marlin, and then they were trained hard by Marlin's abusive training...

It took 20 days just for the battle formation and steering training. After that, Marin, the "devil", started tossing them in the middle of the night, doing some "emergency assembly". A whistle sounded in the middle of the night, representing the enemy's night attack. All personnel must get dressed and armed within 5 minutes, and assemble and form in front of the barracks door. Moreover, no one is allowed to make a noise during this process, except the officer shouting the password. Otherwise, military law will serve.

The reason for this is to train soldiers to deal with enemy night attacks. In the middle of the night, the barracks is the most taboo to make noise. If one does not do well, there may be a camp whistle.

Camp roaring is very terrifying. In many cases, small-scale troops launch night raids, causing serious chaos and even collapse of the attacked army.

The reason is actually very simple - in the middle of the night, everyone can't see the situation in the distance. Once attacked, everyone doesn't know how many enemies there are, or even who the enemies are and in which direction. Once panicked, fear spreads. And once the fear spreads, it may cause the morale of the army to collapse. Then, no matter how many enemy troops there are, the soldiers will simply flee, or even trample on each other.

Therefore, Marin demanded that even if they were attacked at night, loud noises and loud noises were absolutely forbidden to avoid the spread of fear. Everyone was silent, and it was easy to calm down. Moreover, everyone is silent, and it is easy for the officers to speak and command. Once the battle formation is formed, the morale of the army will stabilize, and a counterattack can be made.

However, this made the mercenaries really unbearable. Often, they were sound asleep, and then the whistle suddenly remembered. When they heard the whistle, they had to get up from their warm bed and quickly get dressed, then took up their weapons and went to the barracks door to join. If it is slow, it is a beat.

As mercenaries who are not afraid of death, they are full of resentment, but every time Marin beats the disobedient guys, he immediately tells them about the wealth of Italy and the prospect of robbery... Then, when everyone falls into YY, forget about the dissatisfaction now...

In this regard, Schwartz, who aspires to become an officer, is incomparably admired. Secretly, Schwartz began to learn and imitate everything about Marin. He found that although Marin was not as tall and strong as himself, he was not even as good at martial arts as himself. But that head--Schwartz is ashamed of himself...

Marin also made adjustments for the night-time situation. According to the practice of Europeans in the Middle Ages, the so-called night duty is to arrange several sentries to stand guard at the gate of the camp, usually every 4 hours.

such a mechanism,

Marin knew very well that it was full of loopholes. Not to mention, in many war movies that I have watched in my previous life, there will be a few people with particularly good skills, who use a dagger to kill the sentinel while the sentry is dozing off at night. Then, the entire barracks was tragic...

In modern times, in addition to the open post at the door, there are usually several hidden posts near the camp gate. The reason why the dark whistle was set up was for fear that the bright whistle would be touched and it would be too late to warn.

To this end, Marin selected a few soldiers and ambushed in the tent near the camp gate. When the lights were not lit, only a gap was left to observe the outside, and the guard changed every 4 hours.

In this regard, the soldiers naturally complained very much, and Schwartz, with reverence, worked hard to write down these methods in a small notebook. If it wasn't for a diary and a ballpoint pen, Schwartz would probably have written it all down on the spot. After all, I still use a quill pen now, and I have to put it into the ink bottle and suck it before I can write a few words.

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When everyone's formation was trained to the point that everyone could keep the formation and move forward quickly, Marin finally began to train the specific battle formation.

Originally, Marin's selected formation is the Spanish square - this is the most suitable for the current conditions. However, the number of people in his hands was too small to be able to form a phalanx at all.

After thinking about it, Marin decided to keep the 100 people in the Spanish phalanx, but instead of making a complete phalanx, he only trained the two or three lines in the front of the phalanx...

20 archers, and Marin didn't divide them into rows. Because the archer has no reload time, if it is not aiming to kill, but just "barrage strike", the archer can shoot all the arrows (30) in one breath and quickly. Of course, after that, most people will experience a period of loss of strength. But after a break, you can continue.

Because of the fast shooting speed of the bow and arrow, Marin put the 20 archers in the middle of the first row first. The distance between each archer is about 30 cm. Unlike arquebusiers, you can't get too close. Because the arquebus shooter's arquebus is tied to his arm. If they are too close to each other, their match ropes may burn to the gunpowder bag on the side of the owner, which is likely to cause a major safety accident. Therefore, the Spanish phalanx generally has a distance of 1 meter between horizontal soldiers. Archers, on the other hand, don't have that danger and can stand closer to each other. As long as they don't squeeze each other, keep a certain gap.

After experiments, it was found that the power of 20 archers shooting arrows together is very good. Of course, because of the limited number of people, the effect of "arrows falling like rain" cannot be formed. However, it can definitely cause a lot of damage if it is used to deal with hundreds of opponents.

However, after group confrontation, Marin also discovered a problem-that is, if the enemy rushes forward, the archer is quite vulnerable, and basically only gets slaughtered by the opponent's spearmen.

To this end, Marin thought about it, and then came up with a solution - he lined up two rows of spearmen in front of the archers. When fighting, the two rows of spearmen in front of the archers sit on the ground first to avoid blocking the archers' sight.

When the archer finished shooting and shot all 30 arrows in the quiver, the commander gave an order, and the spearmen in front of the archer stood up again and formed a spear formation to block the possible assault of the enemy.

In this way, the enemy's attempt to kill the archers in close quarters with the spearmen will fail. Moreover, if the archer hiding behind the spearman regains his strength, he can take a few steps back, face forward at a 45-degree angle, and shoot with his bow and arrow to hit the enemy's spear formation from above.

After Marin's research, Marin arranged 80 spearmen in two rows of 40 men each. And behind the 20 people in the middle, there are archers in a row of 20 people.

The archer is responsible for firing the arrows in the quiver before the enemy forces charge, but if the enemy army is charging too fast, it gets too close to the formation. Then the officer will order the archers to stop shooting in time, and the 40-person spearmen in the two rows in front of the archers will stand up under the order. Put spears on the shoulders of the first line of people to defend against the enemy's attack.

Then, the archer took a few steps back, estimated the position of the enemy's formation, and shot arrows in the air ahead to strike the enemy's formation, causing damage. The longer the front row spearmen hold, the more damage the archers can bring. If it takes a long time, the enemy army will definitely be defeated or collapsed because of the excessive casualties. Of course, the premise is that the spearmen in the front row must withstand the impact of the enemy without being torn apart.

To this end, Marin hired a blacksmith in the town and built 40 shovels for him, which were specially used to dig trenches in front of the battle formation to block the impact of the enemy, especially the cavalry.

In order to block the possible attack of the enemy cavalry, the trenches that Marin dug in front of the formation were generally divided into two, and the two trenches were only 2 meters apart. If the enemy crosses the first trench, they will appear on a 2-meter-wide strip. And in this area, it is within the attack range of the front row spearmen. Whether it is the enemy's horses or infantry, as soon as they crossed the first ditch, their foothold is definitely not stable. At this time, the spearmen in the front row stabbed out spears, which would definitely make the opponent unable to resist.

Moreover, in order to prevent the enemy's artillery fire, the soil dug out of the trenches will be piled into a rectangular mound behind the two trenches.

Once the enemy hits with artillery first, everyone lies on the ground and hides behind the mound to guard against artillery fire. The artillery these days are all solid bullets, and most of the infantry artillery is used for flat shooting. As long as you lie down on the mound, you will basically not be hit by shells.

Moreover, on the mound in front of the battle, Marin also imitated the English, and filled it with pickets to block the enemy's impact. Even if it is too late to dig a trench, Marin will quickly insert pickets in front of the formation to block the impact of the enemy, especially the impact of the enemy cavalry.

Of course, this is just a remnant. Because of the lack of numbers, Marin can only platoon two platoons of pikemen. In fact, such a thickness is insufficient. Because, in a really cruel battle, the first two rows of spearmen are easily consumed, and more rows of spearmen are needed to replenish.

But the problem is, Marin has no one at the moment. Therefore, he can only get a residual formation first, as a sample, and show it to the officer in charge of recruiting. Moreover, the main thing is his absolute control over the team, as well as the team's strict discipline and efficient ability to execute orders. In general, it's just a look now, it's not necessarily great on the battlefield, but it's definitely eye-catching to show and show off.