Chapter 274: Dissatisfied

公 The Duke of Saxony's momentum continues, while Marin is training the army while instilling the soldiers with the "We Will Win" New Year.
I lied a thousand times and became the truth. Of course, Marin was very confident in fighting the Saxons. Therefore, it is not a lie to the New Year in which soldiers are repeatedly instilled "we will win". When Marin sent officers every day to emphasize "we must win" dozens of times, most soldiers believed that they would be able to defeat the Saxons. Even the officer in charge of propaganda emphasized this every day and believed himself.
Umarin's army has a total of eight squares, four of which are veterans. Marin customized three-quarters of breastplates and iron helmets with movable masks for the soldiers in the first three rows of the Veterans. In this way, when the front row and the enemy "damage each other", a sufficiently high survival rate can also be guaranteed.
As for the soldiers behind, Marin did not customize the armor. One is cost, and the other is not necessary. After all, the rear row fighters are much less likely to be hit than the front row. In addition, the first three rows of breastplates and helmets are actually designed to reassure soldiers. Sometimes, wearing armor may not guarantee that you will not die. However, with and without armor, self-confidence is completely different. And a confident army is not easy to collapse. On the contrary, an army without self-confidence is easy to collapse.
Speaking of them, Marin's fighters, only the First Front on the island of Texel and the Frisian army have face to face. The psychological qualities of these people are of course the best. The other veterans have only played street fighting, and only a small number of warriors can calmly face the enemy because they have this experience.
In addition, Marin is bound to play less and play more. Therefore, the army's confidence is even more important. The first three rows have armor, and naturally have more confidence in resisting the Saxon offense. With confidence, the battle will be much better.
After a long period of training, the combat effectiveness of Marin's army has been greatly improved, and it can be compared with the Saxons.
Alas, there are still problems. Because Marin's army is basically infantry and has poor mobility. If the Saxons get on the horse and run away, Marin can't chase them. Only the 800 black shirt knights can chase them, but they can't wipe out the thousands of knights on the other side, because it is too late to kill ...
Alas, the core of Saxony is the thousands of plate knights. Because these knights are educated elites and the core of the Saxony army. Like those infantry soldiers, if they were recruited casually, there were thousands of them. They can be replenished if they die. It is not a pity that they die too much.
Marin's purpose is to hurt the Duke of Saxony once and make it difficult for him to recover. Therefore, the mass destruction of Saxons' plate knights is the focus. As for the infantry stuff, it doesn't make much sense to kill as much. Even if the Duke of Saxony escapes, he can recruit a lot next time.
I was also very irritating. Marin himself spent nine cattle and two tigers, but he only recruited more than twenty knights, and all of them were treasures, and they were used by elite officers. The Duke of Saxony, however, was able to collect thousands of them, almost catching up with the appeal of the French king. In the Marin army, wandering knights are trained as cores. In the Saxon army, many wandering knights serve as heavy cavalry to initiate charge ...
Thinking of it, Marin was in tears--you have so many plate knights, you can send me hundreds of officers to be officers, but they are charged as cannon fodder ...
This is the gap in the bottom line. In any case, the Duke of Saxony is a big nobleman who wants to be an old brand in Germany. The appeal of such a nobleman is much stronger than that of a nobleman like Marin. Every year, a large number of young homeless knights rushed to Saxony and asked to be accepted, even if they were a heavy cavalry ...
马 And Marin won East Frisian at the end of last year, and there were no stray knights. One of the largest acquisitions of the Wandering Knights was "borrowed" from Duke Clifford.
Originally, there were nomadic knights planning to join Marin. However, after Albrecht, the Duke of Saxony, showed his hostility, there were no knights to join Marin immediately, but to wait and see the situation first.
So, Marin had the heart to slay the Duke of Saxony-why do you have so many knights to work for you, it is rare that the wandering knight wants to run to me, your old thing is bad for me ...
Moreover, Marin could not determine where the Saxon army invaded and where Marin's army met.
If the Saxony army is allowed to enter and exit freely, it will certainly cause great damage to the territory. Because the army of this era is no different from a robber.
However, Marin was unable to control the marching route of the Saxon army and restrain the other party's behavior. Therefore, after much deliberation, Marin felt that there was only one way to control the course of action of the Saxony army, and that was-the war ...
The medieval aristocracy was very polite. If the other party fights, if you do not fight, you will be laughed at. Of course, this is mainly when the other party is not stronger than you. If a very strong person challenges a weak person, the other party should not fight, but nobody says anything. However, if a strong person is challenged openly by a weak person, he will be laughed at if he does not fight.
Like Marin, if a "weak" aristocrat refuses the challenge of the Duke of Saxony, no one will say anything. However, in turn, if Marin challenged the Duke of Saxony, if the Duke of Saxony did not fight, he would be laughed at. This is absolutely unbearable in the Middle Ages.
As a result, Marin decided to proactively provoke Saxon tools, make an appointment with the opponent, and control the march of the Saxon army ...
After careful study of the map, Marin believes that fighting in Lyle County is very beneficial. Although fighting here, the Saxon army will inevitably pass through many villages in Lyle County, leading to looting. However, there are many benefits under Lyle County.
Because the Ames River is west of Lyle County, the river is wide and it is also convenient for Marin to transport supplies. In addition, not far south of Lyle County is the Leda River. Although the river is not large, it is not small. Marin's choice was in the middle of the two rivers.
He chose this terrain because he was afraid that the Saxon army would escape. The Saxon army must cross the river first if it wants a decisive battle with Marin. Most of them came from the southeast to the land of the Principality of Saxony. To reach Lyle, they had to cross the Leda River.
However, crossing the river is easy for infantry and not easy for cavalry. Because the war horse is heavy, it is very inconvenient and laborious to cross the river. If the Saxony army is defeated, in the wilderness ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Marin will certainly not be able to catch up with their cavalry main force. However, if they crossed the river to fight Marin, it would be different. Because the cavalry who crossed the river wanted to cross the river and go back, time was not enough. Marin's men, even if they were mainly infantry, were organically motivated. While the other cavalry lined up to cross the river to escape, there was time to catch up, leaving a large part of the cavalry.
After thinking about it, Marin wrote a letter to the Duke of Saxony who was still walking for rumors and momentum. The content of the letter is simple, the main meaning is-
"Old thing, don't you make a rumor. I don't want to come to war! In early December, I'll wait for you outside Lyle County. See you ..."
That's it, this challenge book was delivered to the Duke of Saxony, and was deliberately spread by Marin ...
This kind of content is absolutely super embarrassing for Albrecht, Duke of Saxony. Because, the one who provokes him is a nameless person in the aristocratic world, and tells him "not convinced to come to war", just to look down on him ...
However, after seeing the letter, the old and sly Duke of Saxony was so angry that he became happy ...
Because, he saw Marin in his letter saying that duel outside Lyle ...
Prior to his death, the Duke of Saxony had been worried that Marin would shrink to defend in the city. In this case, the Saxony army would have to spend a lot of energy to attack, which is very troublesome and the losses will be great. However, Marin, the "impulsive young man", actually wanted to abandon the advantages of the city wall and decided to go out to the city to fight the battle, which was just what he wanted. Therefore, the Duke of Saxony quickly agreed to the appointment, for fear that Marin would regret it ...
Since then, Marin's provocations against the Duke of Saxony quickly spread throughout Germany and spread throughout Europe. And Marin's "not admitting to war" later became a mantra that many knights like to pretend to ...