The Rise of the European Emperor

As long as this decisive battle can be won, Marin's future road to the European Emperor will be a smooth road, and there will be no obstacles. on the contrary……

Therefore, no matter how much Marin values ​​and overestimates his opponent, it is not an exaggeration. Only if you pay attention, you are more likely to defeat your opponent. And if you don't pay attention or are arrogant, you may lose your life.

Malin is a person who is greedy for life and fear of death. He not only likes to hide high-manganese steel chest plate armor in silk robes, but also likes to make all preparations to avoid GG.

After starting the construction of border fortifications, the only thing that worries Marin now is probably the lack of troops. Ordinarily, Marin now has 6 legions in his hands, plus 10,000 sailors, it is estimated that he can make up an army of 60,000 or 70,000.

However, two legions were trapped in England and could not be used at all. Therefore, the only people Marin can really use to fight on the mainland are only 40,000 corps and more than 10,000 sailors.

But the Sixth Legion needed to protect Goslar, the silver capital, and could not give up easily. Therefore, Marin can really use only 30,000 regular troops and 10,000 sailors at present.

Of course, Marin can also gather the 20,000 to 30,000 strong men in East Frisian who have been fighting with the army all the year round, and train them to have a certain combat effectiveness.

But a strong man is a strong man. Although he has strength, he is not necessarily suitable for fighting in the army. Just like Marin selects soldiers, qualified soldiers are not based on whether you are strong and powerful, but on whether you have courage.

Those who have the courage to go forward bravely and fight the enemy on the battlefield. Even if you are not strong enough, even if you can't beat it, you still dare to show your sword and fight the enemy desperately.

And those who have no courage, even if they are full of muscles, are afraid to fight the enemy. Seeing the enemy coming, it is easy to be frightened and throw away the weapon and run away.

So, for soldiers, the body can be exercised and the shooting level can be fed with bullets. However, courage is innate and cannot be practiced.

Just like Uncle Marin in his previous life, when he was sent to South Vietnam as a volunteer army, the commander who picked the person at that time gave him a task - to carry a female corpse from a hut on a hill to another by being alone in the middle of the night without a flashlight. a mountain...

In those days, despite propaganda against superstition, people were still very afraid of ghosts. Anyone who can carry a woman's corpse in the dark alone in the middle of the night is very courageous. Then, Uncle Marin was selected and went to South Vietnam to work as an artilleryman.

During this experience, Marin often listened to his uncle at the wine table in his previous life. Therefore, the ears are calloused. After crossing, use this as a standard to select warriors, so as not to choose a strong coward.

And because this era emphasizes fighting with cold weapons,

Therefore, Marin simply chooses those who are not afraid of injury and indomitable in the competition, which is also an improved version of "carrying a woman's corpse in the middle of the night".

In fact, Marin didn't know that this method of courage selection was generally used to select elites or dead soldiers, not ordinary soldiers.

Therefore, Marin has selected tens of thousands of mercenaries for so many years. In fact, ordinary mobilized soldiers do not value courage at all when selecting them, as long as they are physically strong.

It doesn't even matter if you are obedient or not. Anyway, when you are in the army, you will be beaten up if you are not obedient. As for deserters or something, the execution is...

Like those conscripts who were recruited by the strong, including the conscripts of later generations, how many are really bloody and brave? In the end, it is still necessary to use harsh military law to force these people to grow up.

And the most brutal means of elimination is probably actual combat training. Many anti-Japanese troops are often formed hastily. Recruits are young men recruited from villages plagued by devils, and they have no foundation.

Of course, this is also a means of provocation - using their hatred of devils!

Sometimes hatred can make a coward burst into unparalleled courage. Ordinary people can become brave as long as they fight a few more battles. No, it should be said that it has become numb... Only those few people who are really unable to support the wall will be hopeless...

Seriously, though, in the age of hot weapons, fighting a bit depends on luck. Lying in the trenches, the ghost knows if the enemy's artillery shells will happen to fall on your side and explode...

Sometimes, in the blink of an eye, your head is gone...

In other words, in the hot weapon war, many soldiers have not had time to express their bravery or fear, and they have received a lunch.

In the age of cold weapons, it was all face-to-face fights, not luck. Therefore, the requirements for courage are even higher. Because, fighting against the enemy in person, and being killed by stray bullets with bad luck, the requirements for courage are different.

Of course, the most test of courage is not actually fighting with cold weapons, but lining up to be shot...

This is a real test of one's courage, because you can't even find cover to avoid ammunition, you can only stand there stupidly and wait for the enemy to fire. It's a bit like a turn-based game, but brutal. Therefore, the harsh military law of the modern army is needed. Otherwise, ordinary soldiers really can't stand it.

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That is to say, the reason why the Beihai Kingdom's army is strong, in addition to Marin's use of advanced battle tactics, the high-demand method of selecting soldiers is also an important guarantee.

This method of selecting volunteers or dead soldiers makes the regular army of Beihai Kingdom have a high fighting will, and the army is not easy to collapse.

But it is precisely because of this high requirement that the number of people he recruits is limited. Fortunately, Marin recruited troops in the German region. If you change the place, you may not be able to recruit tens of thousands of soldiers.

You know, the German region has a tradition of martial arts, and the people have always been fierce. In addition, Marin is picking people among the more agile mountain people, so it is easy to recruit suitable soldiers. If it were another area, he would not be able to recruit tens of thousands of horses...

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However, the biggest problem now is that many vassal states in the south have prohibited Marin from recruiting troops in the mountains of southern Germany at will.

This makes Marin very uncomfortable, because many good soldiers are located in small mountain villages in the southern mountains...

There are many brave people among those fierce and even barbaric mountain people. It's a pity that their lord does not allow Marin to pick people...

"I'm short of brave warriors, how can I break it?" Marin asked the sky silently.

Marin had already decided that once the allied forces of the princes and France attacked him together, and when he was victorious, the first requirement was not to let those princes cede land and pay indemnity, but to allow them to go to those princely states in southern Germany to select fierce mountain people as soldiers.

But, before that, how did he get so many brave and fearless warriors?

"Brave... savage..." Those words flashed through Marin's mind. Suddenly, a thought jumped out...

"Otherwise, I'll learn from wild boar skins and go catch wild people and become a death squad?"

Although he did not agree with the barbaric dynasty of "My Great Qing", Marin had to admit that after the establishment of the Later Jin, the "dead army" tactics of arresting savages in the white mountains and black waters in the northeast as a charge of death squads were really strong.

Those Jurchens caught from deep mountains and old forests are real barbarians who are savage and ignorant. As long as you catch it and fool around, then wash your brain, and then... um, put on cotton armor, ride a horse, and you can act as a death squad cavalry...

"Maybe, I can also catch some fierce savages from the North American jungle and act as a death squad?"