The Rise of the European Emperor

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Of course, not every seaside fishing village is suitable for landing an army. For the army to wade and land, the prerequisite is that there must be a large area of ​​shoals in the landing area, which can be waded. If they are all deep water areas and there are no coastal shoals, it is impossible to wade and land.

However, it is easy to judge whether there are shoals, as long as a few spies with good water skills are sent to investigate. The big ship approached, and then let the spy row a small boat close to the sea, look for the shallows, and personally test the water. Only after confirmation can a final decision be made. Otherwise, if you rashly choose a location that is not suitable for beach landing, many soldiers will be drowned. After all, not all soldiers are very good at water.

For example, most of the elites of Marin's First, Second, and Third Legions came from the southern German mountains. Mountain people are good at climbing mountains and ridges, but most of them are landlubbers. On the contrary, the Fourth Army in Saqqara is mostly English, and most of them are good at water.

Just in time, it was the end of June and the beginning of July, and the weather became hot. Marin thought for a while, and decided to bring all the 15,000 mountain infantry soldiers who were going to Italy to the coast of East Frisia, to train for wading and landing, and to swim...

Landlubbers are not always landlubbers. If you learn to swim, you may not be able to learn it. In particular, these soldiers are still young and have relatively strong learning ability.

Marin mobilized 3,000 Frisian sailors to take turns teaching those landlubber infantry how to swim. The method of teaching is very simple and rude. Tie a rope around the waist of those landlubbers, and then throw them into the water... After drinking the water and pulling them up, teach a few basic movements and swimming skills, and then throw them into the water...

Of course, this process takes place on the river Ems. After all, drinking seawater is very uncomfortable. Even if those landlubbers are allowed to drink water, they must drink fresh water...

There is great terror between life and death. After experiencing the terrible experience of drinking enough water for many times, most of the landlubbers who struggled up and down learned to swim. There are only a small number of bastards who have no useful talent at all, and every time they are thrown down, they are pulled up after drinking water, completely out of control...

But Marin didn't care, anyway, he was not the coach of the swimming team, and he didn't need every soldier to learn how to swim. It is already a surprise that most of the soldiers can learn to swim. After all, these infantry are just ordinary infantry, not special forces, and they generally don't need such remote skills as swimming. The difference is that all scouts must learn to swim. Because it is normal for scouts to cross the river for reconnaissance. Can't swim, can be called a scout? Marin remembers that in his previous life, when he was a child, he watched a movie called "Reconnaissance Crossing the River". The scouts even swam across the Yangtze River...

Seeing that the soldiers trained well in swimming, Marin sent a fleet to secretly transport the 15,000 infantry to Italy. The fishing village on the Papal State side has been vacated, just waiting for the army to settle in.

Calculating the time, it is estimated that this batch of troops will be shipped to Italy in September. Then, plus the waiting time for the rhinoceros leather armor, it is estimated that it will not be possible to start until October. And at that time, it was the autumn harvest time. The autumn harvest is definitely inseparable from people, so Marin decided not to bring Minzhuang this time. Because, folks have to participate in the autumn harvest.

But if you don't bring auxiliary troops, it will be very difficult to supply. Marin thought for a while, and transferred 7,000 sailors from the Frisian fishermen to accompany them as auxiliary soldiers.

Of course, these auxiliary soldiers did not participate in the raid across the mountains. Because they are not good at climbing mountains and mountains. However, they will be stationed in the small fishing village where they landed and will be responsible for supplies. When necessary, they will also leave the fishing village and advance inland from the main road to meet the main force.

Although these sailors are not soldiers, they have also been trained in fighting on board and can fight on board. Therefore, they are not farmers without combat effectiveness. If it is pulled out to fight, it may not necessarily lose to those cowardly Italian mercenaries. However, they have only practiced one-handed sword skills of pirates, and have not practiced spear combat skills. Therefore, it is impossible to expect them to form a spear phalanx.

However, Marin intends to provide some broken wood escapes, and let them play sword and shield soldiers as a cameo, which also has good combat effectiveness.

However, sailor tactics are different from that of the army. The army needs strict orders, cannot move casually, and needs to act in unison with its comrades. Sailors, on the other hand, mainly practice jumping from the ship and chopping people while swinging on the deck of the ship, and they don't pay attention to uniformity and unified actions.

Therefore, Marin never regarded those sailors as regular troops. However, at sea, the regular army can't beat them. Because, on a swaying ship, holding a spear with both hands can easily become unstable. And those sailors are more flexible when using a single sword. They can hold the side of the boat or other places with their left hands, and slash the enemy with a knife in their right hand. Even, some powerful sailors can hang the cable with their left hand and fly over from the sky, while their right hand can also take care of cutting people...

But in any case, these sailors who are good at chopping people on shaking ships have relatively average combat effectiveness when they are on land. You can also wrestle with the Italian mercenaries, and when you meet other mercenaries, you will be defeated. Therefore, this time Marin just asked them to play support and transport supplies. Only after the 15,000 main force encountered difficulties, these people would take the risk to attack. If there are no special circumstances, they should stay in the small fishing village where they landed and make preparations to meet the army.

In addition, the autumn harvest has nothing to do with these fishermen who are sailors. Even if they went to Italy, it would not affect the autumn harvest of Beihai. If it is replaced by ordinary people, it will affect the autumn harvest.

But those 15,000 soldiers themselves had an impact on the autumn harvest. Because, during the autumn harvest, in order to grab the harvest and avoid possible rain, Marin will allocate half of his troops to help the autumn harvest every year. This year, Marin allocated half of his troops to Italy, and the autumn harvest may be short of manpower... Marin thought about it, and decided to second more than 10,000 fishermen from the fishermen to help with the autumn harvest. Of course, the fishermen helped with the autumn harvest, and Marin paid them wages.

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However, news soon came from Rome that Maximilian I promised to send 20,000 troops south to Italy to help the Holy See build momentum. However, the other party made a request, that is, the time for dispatching troops must be after the autumn harvest is over, that is, in October. And the Austrian army moved to the vicinity of Siena, it is estimated that it will be November...

November is late autumn and early winter...

This change caught Marin by surprise. why? Because if the attack is launched in November, the weather factor will become a huge problem. Because, at that time, the weather will become colder. If they landed by wading, some soldiers may get sick. What's more, it will be very cold when you go over the mountains and camp at night in early winter. If the soldiers are frozen, there is no need to fight...

However, Marin had no choice. Because, he could not influence the decision of Maximilian I. Therefore, he can only accept it passively. Then, it is to find a way to avoid those troubles.

In fact, the main trouble is that soldiers cannot catch a large area of ​​cold when wading to land and sleeping overnight. Because, in Europe, a cold may kill a person.

Speaking of colds, Marin suddenly thought of brown sugar and ginger water. This is the magic medicine for cold and cold. Moreover, Marin also has ginger and brown sugar in his hand, so he has the conditions to make ginger syrup.

But the problem is, the army has no conditions to cook ginger syrup on the way over the mountains...

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Coincidentally, on the island of Grenada, a batch of ginger, brown sugar, and dried bananas were shipped back at this time...

Marin was immediately inspired. Dried ginger? No, it seems that there are candied ginger slices sold in roasted seeds and nuts shops in later generations...

"Yes, candied ginger!" Marin's eyes lit up immediately. Sugar ginger slices combine ginger and granulated sugar into one, which is the dry version of ginger syrup. Eating candied ginger slices also has the effect of ginger syrup. Eating candied ginger slices can drive away the cold and sweat, which is exactly what Marin needs because he is afraid that the soldiers will be frozen. As long as you eat a few slices of candied ginger every night, you can protect yourself from the cold to a large extent.

Of course, Marin wouldn't really count on eating this to prevent a cold. While preparing to make candied ginger slices for the army, Marin also ordered the acquisition of woolen blankets. At that time, let the soldiers eat candied ginger slices, wrap them in woolen blankets at night, and gather together for warmth, basically there will be no major problems. If it doesn't work, you can also snatch the houses of local Italians to spend the night along the way. Anyway, Marin didn't want to gain a good reputation in Italy. For him, his fighters are the most important.

After figuring this out, Marin began to order the purchase of 15,000 woolen blankets. Meanwhile, started ordering candied ginger slices.

Candied ginger slices are very simple to make, just slice fresh ginger, add black sugar and knead it. Then, take it out and expose it to the sun...

Finally, seal the prepared candied ginger slices in an oiled paper bag at high temperature. Then, it is shipped to Italy. Of course, it is not available for soldiers to use now. After the wading landing and raid in November, it will be distributed to the soldiers. Moreover, the amount will be strictly regulated to prevent the soldiers from eating all at once. After all, the taste of candied ginger slices is indeed not bad...

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