Chapter 255: Easy to obtain, hard to find

The mercenaries recruited by Füssauer in Württemberg rushed to Orich in succession. These soldiers were selected according to Marin's requirements. They are all simple mountain people, without the lumps of the city. The key is good health and obedience.
In addition, Schwartz sent people to Alsace and recruited a group of rural youth. Although Alsace is not as mountainous as Württemberg, the folk customs here are relatively simple and obedient.
5000 mercenaries, from Marin's point of view, are easier to recruit. Because in this era, the German population grew rapidly, and many estates had surplus population. Being a soldier for food is not necessarily a way of life for poor German youth.
All in all, the recruitment of mercenaries is basically smooth. In contrast, the recruitment of mercenary officers was very difficult.
Marin stipulates that the squad leader can choose from the army. For example, a small captain of 5,000 recruits can select outstanding posts from veterans.
However, starting with the company captain, Marin requires that he must have read a book and recognized the characters, and it is best to be a homeless knight who has just left the house.
Because, Marin's company numbered up to 250 people. Taking control of so many soldiers can actually perform some tasks independently. However, when assigning tasks, if the company captain is illiterate, it becomes a joke. Although it is also possible to let the ordering soldiers give oral orders, word of mouth can easily cause errors. If the wrong order is communicated, it may affect the situation. Therefore, Marin insisted that commanders at the company level must be literate. Even though the Black Shirt Knight commander Steindorf was of civilian origin, his ancestors were also broader, so he also recognized the characters. Although not a lot, he could barely understand the military order. Moreover, at the request of Marin, Steindorfer now has a bad knowledge of culture.
Originally, after Marin became the new Count of East Frisian, there were indeed many young homeless knights who planned to join Marin. However, the Duke of Saxony soon spoke out, not recognizing Marin's status, and may also send troops to "regain justice" for the Sexner family who died. Now, those young wandering knights who had originally planned to run to Marin suddenly became hesitant. In the end, everyone chose to wait and see. If Marin can survive, naturally someone will come to him. If you ca n’t make it through, you do n’t need to talk about anything.
None of these young men from the Cavaliers family, though immature, none of them are fools. Of course, they want to build their careers, but only if the people they want to trust can hold it. So, with Marin's future uncertain, young people have chosen to wait and see.
After all, the Duke of Saxony is famous and Saxony is even more thunderous in Germany. And Marin, just a young man who just fled. The two sides confronted each other, and most of them must have stood by the Duke of Saxony. At this time, if anyone dares to open the market, everyone must agree to win the Duke of Saxony.
What a pity, in your opinion, no fool can open such a disk. Because this is the simple truth ...
Only Marin himself, and his subordinates, marveled at the miracles Marin created. They even had the fighting power of the East Frisian Army, much more than other armies of this era. Therefore, Marin's generals are very confident. In particular, Marin told them that the army would be expanded by 5,000.
At the same time, the emperor was more confident in Marin. Confidence comes from Marin's sly mind. This time Marin gave the emperor an idea to make the emperor effortless. Before the Swiss responded, he controlled the huge Graubünden area and was very happy. If it were to fight directly, the emperor would have no confidence to occupy Graubünden with the intervention of the Swiss.
Of course, whether the emperor or the knights under Marin, their ideas are still more conservative. They all thought that Marin was perfectly fine to hold East Frisian. But it is unlikely that the Saxon army will be defeated head-on.
No wonder, after Marin's Spanish formation was trained, he has not really exerted his power. The only time they fought against the Frisian Army was that the fire ropes were extinguished by the rain, making the Phalanx rifle powerless.
Therefore, even the most optimistic East Frisian general does not feel that the Spanish side can directly defeat the Saxon army, or win more by less.
Only Marin, who has a clear history, knows how amazing the Spanish square's defense is.
Unlike the later film Mercenary Legend, which describes the Spanish matrix, the real Spanish matrix must have dug trenches before the battle. On this basis, Marin exerted a great deal, strengthening one ditch to two ditches, and also used the English army to deal with the French wooden knights' diagonal stakes. Under the three insurances, if the cavalry can defeat the Spanish side, they will be ghosts. Two ditches and a row of oblique wooden stakes can definitely make the cavalry rushing over.
萨 The most powerful part of the Saxony army is that it is financially strong and equipped with thousands of plate armour. Thousands of plate knights rushed up, it was definitely a torrent of steel.
But warhorses are animals, not cold steel machines like tanks. When the war horse falls into the pit, the horse will also fall over, and it will also be injured if it is pricked with a sharp wooden stake. Therefore, no matter how many war horses, in front of two trenches and a row of oblique wooden spikes, they are very weak. Not to mention, besides that, Marin also has a musket to line up for shooting, professionally attacking knights wearing plate armor. Even if the opponent's plate knight chooses to dismount, and wants to climb the pit to cross the line of defense, he must ask the Musketeers whether to agree or not.
However, because of various reasons, everyone has not seen the scene of the Spanish Faction's brutal knights. Therefore, with the exception of Marin, everyone is not optimistic about the front of the Spanish Faction.
Even insiders think so, not to mention those homeless knights who haven't come yet?
Therefore, Marin once sent a man to recruit stray knights everywhere, but they were all turned down. Although everyone is not optimistic about Marin, no one knows whether Marin will make a comeback after this defeat. Therefore, although the wandering knights rejected Marin's solicitation ~ EbookFREE.me ~, they did not say anything. There are only a few people who think Marin is bound to die, and he refuses to give up when he refuses.
This makes Marin very distressed. 5000 recruits, can't help but arrange for literate officers? Temporary promotion of the subordinates as company captains, but not very reliable.
In the end, Marin thought about it for a long time and decided to let the existing officers put a little more burden on everyone ...
Specifically, let the men and women under the command of each officer double up. For example, Schwartz originally commanded a square array, but Marin suddenly asked him to command two square arrays. In combat, the veterans are placed directly in front, and the recruits are placed in the back as reserve teams. At the same time, recruits mostly undertake the task of digging trenches. To this end, Marin ordered the blacksmiths under his administration to create a lot of engineering spades.
Similarly, Frentzberg and others also commanded two people in the Phalanx. Moreover, those company captains also commanded the men and women of the two companies.
Although, doubling the number of people in command is a test for them. But these young people actually have an uplifting heart. Being able to command more people on the battlefield is definitely a great affirmation of him personally.
So, although it will be very tiring in the future, these young people are very excited, even if they have to put in more effort, they don't care.
Moreover, Marin also said that if the Saxons can be successfully defeated this time, the reward will be great. There can be promotion of title, and there can also be increase of fiefdom ...
刺激 In order to stimulate this group of men, Marin promised that this time he would give up 10,000 Ugram land to reward all outstanding officers and soldiers. Moreover, these lands are considered as closed land, and they can be exempted from tax in the future. Therefore, although the men and men under Marin were understaffed, their morale was quite high.