King of German Mercenaries

Marin is not a stingy person. He heard that everyone only gets more than 80 gold coins per person on average (the officers get more coins), and he feels sorry for everyone. So, he took out 30,000 gold coins and distributed them again, so that everyone could get 100 gold coins.

In fact, the reason why the money was distributed is to appease the military. After all, the fact that this group of people followed them and captured 4,000 people is clear to everyone. Although, Marin can also make up lies and prevaricate them. However, if you don't give some benefits to satisfy everyone, maybe someone will think too much. Once someone is unhappy and goes for a walk with news that is not good for Marin, it will be over. Therefore, take out some of the money, let everyone rate it, and first smash these bastards with money, they will be immersed in joy and have no energy to think wildly. After all, this group of mercenaries, most of whom came from serf families, had rarely even seen gold coins before...

But Marin is also worried that these guys will run away when they get the money. So he had to do ideological work for everyone, telling them not to run around. Because it is very dangerous for a person to go on the road with 100 gold coins, and it is easy to be robbed.

At the same time, Marin promised that after the war, when he returned home, he would agree to leave for those who wanted to leave. This group of old and rough, they don't know where the lost prisoners and horses go, and they don't know how much they sold for. And the literate officers who could roughly estimate the value were bought off. So, no one was making trouble.

This is also due to the fact that they have no culture and do not know how to calculate. Otherwise, if they knew that Marin got the huge benefit of 1.25 million gold coins, this group of people might be "getting paid"...

As for how the money came from, Marin had already thought about it, saying that it was the spoils he got while capturing the French. Even Marin insisted that the Venetians cooperated with them to complete the ambush against the French. Although, everyone seems to have not seen the Venetian army appear. But the big boss Marin said so, and the other four company captains also said the same, which made the big bosses believe it with confusion. In their opinion, the Venetians were out of their sight and cooperated with everyone to complete the ambush...

In the days that followed, Marin brainwashed everyone with these two lies every day. He told a lie 100 times, and everyone believed it, not to mention that Marin said it dozens of times every day. Even Marin himself almost believed the lies he made up and was brainwashed by himself...

However, something unpleasant happened in the middle. For example, the knights sent by the three emperors and counts did not seem to be satisfied with the income of 30,000 gold coins, so they found Marin in private and asked for more benefits.

Marin is also worried that they have missed the point, but when he traded with the Venetians before, Marin kept his mind. For example, when communicating privately with these three guys, Marin lied that the prisoners and weapons and armor were sold at low prices. In this regard, the three have no doubts. Because stolen goods are generally sold at very low prices. However, they didn't know that because this batch of "goods" was too significant, the Venetians were eager to get them, so they didn't lower the price too hard. Therefore, the three people's valuation of "goods" is only like 300,000 to 400,000 gold coins. Because this is also the tradition of medieval thieves selling their stolen goods. Moreover, they are just warriors with a bit of culture, and they don't quite understand the strategic value of this batch of goods, so they only treat them as ordinary thieves...

In order to appease the three, Marin "gritted his teeth" and added 10,000 gold coins to each. So all three were satisfied. After all, the three of them got a total of 120,000 gold coins. Combined with their own estimate of the "total value" of 300,000 to 400,000 gold coins, they also believed that Marin had done a good job. Because, Marin has already taken out 130,000 gold coins to share. Counting the 120,000 gold coins they got, Marin himself, they estimated that they could only get tens of thousands of gold coins, no more than 100,000 at most. But Marin was the biggest officer in the operation, and with only "so much", they couldn't ask for more. Thus, after the "second division of spoils", the hidden dangers within the army were eliminated.

After dividing the spoils,

Marin intends to rush back to the imperial army station...

With a huge team of 6,000 people, he slowly moved towards the residence of Count Alfred. At the same time, Emperor Maximilian I hurried to Italy from Worms, where the Imperial Parliament was convened, after hearing about the outbreak of war in Italy.

Maximilian I was a visionary, he knew very well that if France became stronger, then the Holy Roman Empire as a neighbor would definitely become the target of the French. In particular, the Duchy of Burgundy under his control was bound to become a target for the French.

Therefore, his idea is to unite the Italians and completely defeat the French army, and it is best to capture Charles VIII. In this way, the arrogance of the French can be destroyed, and in addition, the French can be weakened. For example, Charles VIII can be exchanged for a large ransom. Even, it can be exchanged for the Duchy of Burgundy, which was taken by the French.

In addition, the kingdom of Naples had better be taken from the French. If you can get it into your own hands, it will be perfect... Maximilian I is on his way, while YY arrives...

In short, the strategic goal of Maximilian I was to drive the French out of Italy and weaken France as much as possible...

Not long after he arrived at Count Alfred's garrison, Marin's large force also rushed back to the garrison...

"Stop here!" The guards on duty of the Shinra army were shocked when they saw five or six thousand people rushing towards the imperial army station. They hurriedly shouted and warned the inside of the camp. And Maximilian I thought that the French came to sneak attack, probably knowing that he was here...

But after the team approached, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Because the characteristics of Marin's subordinates are too distinctive - they all wear black cross white vests...

"No, isn't there only more than 1,000 people in the black cross square, why are there three or four thousand people in this group wearing black cross vests?" Count Alfred, who was standing on the tower, was a little puzzled.

"Then be on guard first, and ask questions later."

After the team arrived at the camp, Marin stepped forward and talked to Count Alfred on the high wall:

"Lord Count, I'm back! Ah, His Majesty the Emperor is also there? Wei Chen has seen His Majesty the Emperor!" Marin quickly dismounted, took off his hat, and bowed to Maximilian I.

"Marin Phalanx Commander, what's going on? Why are there so many people behind you?" Count Alfred asked cautiously.

"This, it's very simple, I temporarily hired 1,000 mercenaries in Italy, and then took them, along with about 2,000 Venetian soldiers, to ambushed the French king's army and captured 2,000 French prisoners..."

"What? Didn't you say that the coalition fought a draw with the French at the Battle of Fornovo?" Emperor Maximilian I asked suspiciously. He was informed that the French had been repelled at the Battle of Fornovo. But the emperor knew better that the Italians suffered 2,000 casualties, and the French suffered 1,000 casualties. Obviously, the Italians are bragging, they are at best a draw with the French.

"Oh, that's true, but after we joined a Venetian army, we ambushed the retreating French army south of Piacenza, captured 2,000 French knights prisoners, but unfortunately let Charles VIII escape..." Marin's tone was full of pity.

But it was this tone that made Maximilian I take a deep breath. Capture the king, how big is that? In particular, Charles VIII was accompanied by 8,000 French knights. He knew that this was quite difficult. At least, the emperor asked himself that he could hardly do it.

However, the knight in front of him was so outspoken. However, the prisoners they were holding, the thousands of war horses, and the plate armor loaded on a row of carts proved that this was true. Because, Marin's origin is very clear to the emperor. It is impossible for this poor knight to have so many war horses and armor. Even if people loot in Italy, they can only grab money, not war horses and armor...

Then, the emperor ordered Marin to be let in. As for the others, the emperor was very cautious and let them temporarily camp outside the camp.

"Tell me now, what's going on?"

Since there was no publicity about Marin's ambush against the French, everyone basically didn't know the situation.

So Marin hyped up the ambush. The other episodes are fine, but Marin added something. For example, he encountered Venice's 2000 army on his way south. Their commander Paciano (a real person who also came to the imperial camp with the team) seemed to admire Marin, so he went on the road with him, and cooperated with Marin to complete the beautiful ambush battle - this In order to respect Marin's military exploits, the Doge of Venice specifically recognized that Marin was headed...

"What? 4,000 French knights were captured, what about the other 2,000?" The emperor stood up excitedly. This is absolutely a big thing, capturing 4,000 French knights is usually only done by tens of thousands of troops. In Marin's mouth, they only used a few thousand people.

"It was taken away by the Venetians. We agreed before the war that the spoils would be divided equally..." Marin said innocently.

"Why do you have so many people?"

"Oh, that was a temporary conscription. In addition, there are 1,000 people lent to me by the Venetians, those under the commander of Legion Paciano. After the prisoners are brought back, Legion Paciano has to take them back to Venice. What..." Marin and Agostino Barbarigo discussed that Paciano would represent Venice and bring back the 1,000 Italian farmers who had trained in the queue, and let them pretend to be heroes to prevent their lies from being exposed. .

"How are these Italian soldiers fighting?" The emperor was also a little tempted, thinking that the Italians were very good at fighting, otherwise how would they defeat the French...

"Your Majesty, with all due respect, the combat power of the Italians cannot catch up with the Germans..."

"Then didn't you defeat the French's 8,000 knights?"

"Your Majesty, it was a sneak attack! It was a night attack! The French were eager to escape, so we ambushed halfway and threw stones down the mountain, killing many French people. Otherwise, if it were on the flat ground, I might have been killed long ago. The French killed..."

"This... is it okay?"

"Yes, this is the oriental tactics that my teacher taught me!" Einstein came out to take the blame again...

"East? That great empire?"

"Yes, the ancient military tactics of that mighty Eastern Empire."

"So powerful?" Maximilian I was very tempted.

"Your Majesty, it's actually not too powerful. The main reason is that the timing is too coincidental. The French escaped in the middle of the night and just ran into the ambush of the minister... After all, it is difficult for them to notice the ambush of the minister in the middle of the night..."

"This is also..." Maximilian I was not someone who didn't understand the military. He knew that the French army who fled in the middle of the night had indeed suffered from blood and mold for eight lifetimes before the little knight in front of him seized the loophole and made a beautiful ambush. On another occasion, the French would never be so unlucky. Even, as the little knight said, kill Marin...

"But, how did you know the French would run away from you?" Maximilian I was not a fool and sensed the problem.

"Uh...Actually...I wasn't sure, I just thought the French wouldn't be willing to fight. So, I set up an ambush. I thought the French would retreat the next day, but I didn't expect to come in the middle of the night. I also hurriedly responded, But the French were even more hasty, and they were obviously frightened by our army's ambush, so they were defeated..." Marin pointed out that this was a coincidence in order to describe it reasonably. Otherwise, he couldn't explain how he knew the French would run away in the middle of the night...

"This...Marin Knight...your luck...is really against the sky..." Maximilian I opened his mouth wide and wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to say it. As for Marin's prediction that the French escaped in the middle of the night, Maximilian I didn't believe it either. Because Marin happened to ambush the French, which is more reasonable...

"Your Majesty, this time the minister's harvest is the boss. Among these 2,000 prisoners, there are one French count, six barons, and 200 fief knights. The others are all landless knights, but they are also French royal knights... "Marin didn't want the emperor to struggle with this unanswerable question, so he started to change the subject.

"Count...you caught the count?" The emperor was stunned...

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