The Rise of the European Emperor

The training of recruits is particularly tight because there is so little time. There are still more than two months to start, and Marin can only plan to let these 5,000 recruits learn while playing. Fortunately, the main Danish army is trapped in Sweden, and Oldenburg is also a scumbag. Instead, these new recruits can practice while playing with the veterans.

Army training is mainly divided into two categories, the first is naturally phalanx training, which is Marin's forte when he started his career. Because of being too good at it, the famous "Spanish Square" is now called "Marin Square". For this, Marin was proud of it for a long time.

The second item is siege training and street fighting training, which are mainly practiced in combination with the combat needs of this time. After all, there are a dozen large and small cities that need to be conquered in this attack on Denmark. Therefore, the necessary siege and street fighting training is also required.

However, for recruits, the above two items should be released first, which seems to be a training queue and can distinguish between left and right...

Then, the tragic recruits wore only one straw sandal and socks on the other foot...

It is also now that the conditions are better. When Marin first formed a mercenary team for training, he recruited a bunch of poor ghosts, and everyone had no socks. In the winter, they also trained barefoot. Marin had to spread a thick layer of hay on the ground to keep out the cold.

Now, Marin's recruits are equipped with woolen socks during military training, which is relatively cold-proof. In addition, the ground is also cushioned with hay, although it is also winter, I am not afraid of freezing my feet.

Within a week, under the supervision of the whip, the group of recruits finally learned to distinguish between left and right, and began to gradually learn to execute orders conditioned reflexively.

Then, Schwartz, a general who is good at training soldiers, began to bring a group of veterans and train recruits to walk in line...

However, although the queue is trained every day, in the afternoon and evening, there will be a period of time to train musket shooting and spear assassination. Sometimes, every two or three days, a large army is also trained to attack the city.

Originally, these items were not available during the recruit training period. However, because these new recruits will soon be on the battlefield. Therefore, they can only intersperse some technical and tactical training in the middle of their queue training.

During the siege, no one trained to climb the city, because that kind of tactics resulted in too many casualties. Marin directly asked everyone to train the tactics of infantry swarming in after blowing up the city gate or a section of the city wall.

After all, Marin now has enough gunpowder in his hands. He not only shipped 300 tons of saltpeter back from India, but also deployed 400 tons of gunpowder. He also sent people to buy gunpowder in large quantities while going to southern Europe to buy lead.

Moreover, in many fertilizer processing plants in China, the manure ponds have also begun to scrape the soil and boil the soil. Therefore, there is a lot of gunpowder in the army, and there are enough shells and explosives to blow up the city gate or city wall.

Even, Marin set up a blasting team headed by Doni Tserui, specially trained to use the oak gate as a barrier, and went under the city gate to place and bury the oak barrels filled with gunpowder to blow up the city gate.

The Demomen were all strong, with a big oak door and powder keg on their backs, and they walked like flying. In order to enhance the impact resistance of oak doors, Schwartz also had people give the oak doors they used to block attacks, and nailed iron sheets to enhance their resistance to attacks.

Inspired by it, Schwartz found Marin and wanted to establish a new army...

"What? You said you want to build a large shield? Isn't that a backward army?" Marin was a little dumbfounded. Great shield soldier, that's something that is only available in the pure cold weapon army, do you need it for the modernization army?

"Yes, sir, the defense of the Great Shield is very good. Recently, when I was training to siege the city, when the troops broke into the blasted city gate or city wall, they always suffered great losses. Because, The space is too small, and if the infantry rushes in without protection, it is easy to be injured by the enemy." Schwartz said seriously.

"So, you want the Great Shield to rush ahead to resist the enemy's guns?" Marin quickly understood what Schwartz meant.

"Yes, that's what it means! Young master, do you still remember? The last time we beat Jevre Castle, Donny Tserai rushed into the city with a large oak door, although the oak door was broken. , but I'm fine."

When Marin thought about it, it was true. The last time he attacked the gate of Jever Castle, under the stubborn resistance of the enemy, the East Frisian army suffered 20 or 30 casualties in a short period of time. Although, Marin's forwards all wore chest plate armor and helmets with face shields. However, the legs and arms, including the waist, lack protection. Therefore, although not many people died, many people were slashed.

On the other hand, Donny Tserui, a second-hand man, rushed forward with a door on his back, but he didn't suffer any damage, but the door was chopped down by the enemy...

Thinking about it this way, the Great Shield is really necessary. However, the shield is not very useful if it is too small. Small round shields like those in ancient Rome and ancient Greece are useless. At the very least, get a riot shield like a wicket. In this regard, Schwartz also strongly agrees.

In this way, the weapons of these large shield soldiers have been settled - an oak shield the size of a small door, with a layer of iron nailed on the outside, which is professionally resistant to swords and swords.

In addition, the large shield soldier's attack weapon is the sailor's scimitar. In fact, according to the plan, it is difficult for these so-called large shield soldiers to hold the shield in the left and the knife in the right when they hit the blasted city gate or the gap in the city wall. Because the shield is too big, it is best to hold it with both hands. At that time, the machete was hung around the waist. The large shield soldiers, holding shields in both hands, slammed into the defenders in the city, using the impact of the shield to knock the opponent into a daze. Even if you want to attack, you may not be able to cut through the door and test = that layer of iron.

Then, relying on the impact, this group of large shield soldiers rushed in first, occupied an open space, and put the people behind. If they could no longer move forward, they would put their shields on the ground, supporting them with their left hands, while pulling out the scimitars around their waists with their right hands to resist. At the same time, wait until the support of the comrades behind. For example, the method of two soldiers carrying a musketeer and shooting forward from a high place invented by Marin during the last attack on Jever Castle was heavily trained. This tactic is very clumsy. As long as the big shield soldiers in front can withstand it, the musketeers can shoot forward from the air to clear those brave enemies.

Of course, the premise of this tactic is that the enemy is not equipped with muskets. Otherwise, the large oak shield covered with only a layer of iron can block the sword, but it cannot block the musket.

If the enemy has muskets, the tactics will change. After the big shields came in, the pikemen would then rush in and stab forward desperately, until they were entangled with the opposing musketeers, making them unable to shoot leisurely.

But no matter what tactics are used, the big shield soldiers take the lead in rushing in with the big shield, this is the same.

However, there are not many places where the large shield soldiers are used, that is, they can be used when sieging a city, and they are not needed at all in field battles. So, Marin and Schwartz agreed to train only 200 Great Shields, mainly for cover during siege.

Because when rushing forward, you need to hit and smash the enemy with a large shield. Therefore, the requirement of the Great Shield Soldier is to be strong enough to use the iron-clad oak door as a weapon to smash people, to forcefully squeeze the space out of the enemy's army, and let the friendly army enter the city.

Therefore, Schwartz selected 200 Hercules, formed a large shield, and trained all day long how to use both hands to hold a large iron shield to smash people and squeeze people... Of course, if the large shield is damaged by the opponent, they will also pull it out. Out of the machete and people desperately...