Chapter 77: Preparation for the Spanish Pentagon

林 Marin was naturally happy to have recruited cattle like Frentzberg. Because letting the "father of German mercenaries" become his own thug is also a matter of pride. With Flenzberg's presence, Marin intends to start experimenting with the real Spanish side.
For the infantry square that was previously trained, Marin felt very flawed. The biggest problem is that they are helpless to the plate armor. For example, in the ambush in Fornovo, Marin reluctantly found that most of the thousands of French plate knights who died in the battle were either stoned or killed by spears. The total number of those killed by spears and those killed by bows and arrows was less than 50 in total.
In other words, the previous infantry square was only suitable for combating Swiss mercenaries wearing fancy commoners. It is actually very weak to deal with French knights who like to wear plate armor. Of course, if the French knights attacked the Phalanx on horses, they would say otherwise. I'm dying of a knight who is wrapped in a tin can, still dying of a horse?
You must know that Ma Jia and human plate are different. Relatively speaking, the coverage area of ​​horse armor is much worse than that of plate armor. It is only approved on the horseback and the horse's head. There is no armor on the horse's legs. Because horses are about to run, if they are covered in armor, they can't run.
Moreover, horse armors are basically armored, mainly to facilitate running. Plate armor restricts people's freedom of movement too much. When you put it on, people act a bit like robots. If the horse wears plate armor, it will not run.
The spears are lethal to the horse's armor and can be worn through. Even if you do n’t wear a horse armor, you can lower your position, and specialize in horse legs or belly without armor.
So, the heavy armored knight rushing the horse to attack this square is very disadvantageous ...
However, it can't be said that the Cavaliers can't take the spear array. If the knight abandoned the war horse and walked, and attacked the pure spear array, it was very powerful. Because, if the two sides fight each other, your ordinary mercenary is not wearing armor, and I am wearing plate armor. You're afraid of crickets, it's finished in a moment, and I'm wearing a plate armor, I'm not afraid of you crickets, let's face each other, the effect is useless?
The archers in Marin's original array were also weak against the knights wearing plate armor. The bow and arrow shot on the armor made of iron plate, it was difficult to penetrate, leaving at most a deep impression. Even if you hit the joints, you can only hurt the enemy, not fatal at all ...
After thinking about it, the best way to deal with the walking knights wearing plate armor is to use muskets ...
Of course, not with that small musket, but with the big ...
The reason why the early Spanish Phalanx was so powerful was because of the large use of the Spanish Muschktor muskets. This is a heavy musket that weighs about 10 kilograms and is twice as heavy as a war musket. Correspondingly, he has a larger caliber and heavier pellets, weighing 50 grams, which is one or two.
One or two heavy lead bullets were fired by muskets and hit the knights wearing plate armor severely at a subsonic speed of several hundred meters per second. In addition to strong kinetic energy, there were also powerful shock waves. With such a powerful blow, the Cavaliers had to be wounded and even killed. Hitting the horse was okay. If it is, entering the body, a heavy lead bullet or two, the wound caused ... plus the roll effect of the lead bullet ... haha ​​... you can arrange the funeral directly, there is no way to save ...
Moreover, in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, because iron smelting technology was not enough, heavy guns such as the Muskite musket in Spain can fully guarantee that the barrel is not easy to blow. If it is made lighter and thinner, like a Ming musket, it weighs only five pounds, and before killing the enemy, it will kill itself first ...
The Spanish Phalanx is precisely because of the large number of Muskite muskets, which make the Phalanx not only good at melee, but also very powerful long-range attack, especially good at playing plate knights, whether you are riding or walking. Therefore, the Spaniards relied on this square array for more than a century in Europe, and also pushed the plate knights out of the arena of history. Later, the Count Tilly also relied on the Spanish Phalanx, from a small person, to become the Count, until he met the second elder grandfather ...
Throughout the 16th century, the Spanish matrix was the best in Europe-until the last few years, a Morris came out, and the Morris matrix improved from the Spanish matrix ...
All in all, the Spanish matrix, for the current European army, is a very strong presence. You can hang French knights, you can abuse Swiss spearmen ...
In fact, Marin wanted to form a Spanish square before the Italian war broke out. However, at that time he hurriedly did not have the right musket, nor did he have enough money to buy the rifle and the ammunition consumed by the rifle. Therefore, he can only use archers instead.
But the Italian war told him that the enemy will not arrange the right opponent for you as you wish. Archers have no effect on plate knights, only on unarmored infantry. But the enemy will not send you unarmored infantry to shoot and shoot, maybe you will send a plate armour knight who can't move. Therefore, having a musket is the better choice.
Moreover, musketeers are easy to train. After a week or two of training, they can be put on the battlefield. An archer has to practice for more than ten years ...
Of course, Marin himself does not look down on the Spanish side. He himself, more like Gu Erye's line array. However, fighting for the emperor, Marin was unwilling to take out the most powerful battle formation. Even if the Spanish side is taken out, it is enough to hang French knights and Swiss spearmen. And Flenzberg is the commander of the Spanish square in Marin's eyes. When the emperor needed it, let the goods take the Spanish square and die with the enemy. With Frentzberger's talent and the advanced nature of the Spanish matrix, sweeping Western Europe should be nothing. The next opponents of Maximilian I were actually the Swiss (Swabian War), the French (Italian War), and the Hungarians. The Spanish square is absolutely sufficient.
As for the formation of the Phalanx command, grass-roots officers, Marin intends to select from 400 men, whether it is company captain or small captain.
The families of these people have been taken to Texel ~ EbookFREE.me ~ must be responsible to themselves. Well, the new army to be built must still be in its own hands. While Frentzberg, Marin tried it out, and seemed to be a pure military attache. His ability to fight politics seemed ordinary, and it should be difficult to escape from his control. After all, Marin recruited Flenzberger to let him work for the emperor on his own behalf, and couldn't find a natural instinct. Marin didn't care about anything else, only his usefulness in the eyes of Maximilian I. If Frentzberg abducted the army and went directly to the emperor, his own importance would decline. And he himself is at odds with those old nobles. If you lose the emperor's support, you will not be able to do it.
With the addition of Frentzberg, Marin intends to officially start preparing for the Spanish side. The shortage of personnel, Marin is not worried. Because of the success of the Italian war, many Germans were young and willing to become mercenaries.
In addition, it seems that the real Spanish square, in order to improve the survivability of the soldiers, the soldiers in the front row are equipped with half-length Maximilian armor and Spanish-style helmets.
In this regard, Marin decided to equip his soldiers with half-length armor and helmets to improve the survivability of the soldiers. In order to equip the armor, Marin planned to send someone to the southern region of Germany to recruit a group of artisans who were good at building armor, and made armor and helmets for the soldiers.
Finally, the Spanish Phalanx needs a classic weapon-the Muskite musket. This thing is currently only available in Spain, but has not yet been put into actual combat. Marin decided to send someone to Spain to recruit a group of Spanish artisans who are good at building Muschktor muskets to build muskets for themselves, to supply the military needs ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Welcome the book readers to read the latest The fastest and hottest serial works are at ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Please read for mobile users.