King of German Mercenaries

After everyone put on straw sandals, Marin finally planned to start formal training.

For training, Marin spent several days writing a training outline. In his previous life, Marin had never been a soldier, and his only military-related experience was the half-month military training when he first entered university.

Of course, as a history and military lover, Marin often visits forums to discuss the origins of the modern military - the modern European military. After consulting a lot of information and having many debates with netizens, Marin's European military history level has also risen sharply.

If nothing else, the Spanish phalanx must be known. Others, such as the Maurice phalanx, the Gustave line, and Napoleon's artillery tactics, are all slightly understood.

If possible, Marin would like to use Napoleon's tactics. But that is unrealistic, you must know that European artillery is still in the age of bronze guns. The cost of equipping a small bronze cannon is very high. Because, at the moment, the price ratio of silver and copper in Europe is about 1 to 15, and the price of copper is too high. A military leader like Marin can't afford a small copper cannon, let alone hundreds of cannons lined up like Napoleon.

Moreover, not to mention Napoleon's artillery tactics, even Gustav's line array, he has no conditions to engage in. Because the Gustav Line used a lot of musketeers, and they were flintlock musketeers.

Right now, the flintlock gun has not been invented yet, and even the arquebus has only been invented for decades, and it is still a rare thing. It's really hard to get a few rows of musketeers together.

Moreover, in Europe in the 15th century, iron smelting technology was very poor, and it was difficult to make a light and powerful musket. Because if the steel technology is not good enough, if the barrel is too thin, it is easy to explode.

Even in the 16th century, when the Spanish phalanx began to rise, the Spaniards used muskets weighing 20 pounds. In addition to the great power of the Mushkert musket, its bulky barrel is not easy to blow up, which is also an important reason.

As far as the German region is concerned, although some hunters began to use arquebuses to hunt, in order to prevent the chambers from being exploded, they did not dare to load too much gunpowder, resulting in average power.

In other words, Marin can't find a few qualified arquebuses now, and it is also a dream to build a musket line array. Therefore, Marin thought for a while, since there are no conditions, let's train the spear square first, and fight against the Swiss...

The spear phalanx requires a lot of discipline and courage. Courage-wise, Marin isn't worried. The people he recruited were a bunch of second-hand people who dared to exchange their lives for money. It's just that he's a little worried about discipline.

So, he started to train these 80 idiots using the queue training during the military training in the university. Saying they are stupid is just an adjective that Marin despised before. But only after the actual queue training began, Marin felt that calling them stupid is to praise them. To say they are idiots is a true and reasonable adjective...

"Everything is there, look to the left!" Marin shouted.

But what happened next made Marin mad, and a "look to the left" caused chaos. Some look left, some look right. Then, the people in the team began to "look at each other affectionately". There are people who are not confident, see that the direction of the person next to them is opposite, and immediately change their direction. But sadly, many people started to look in the right direction, but they turned their heads and looked to the right under the misguidedness of the people around them...

Even more tragic is the steering training, which is also a mess when Marin yells "Turn left". Some people turned left, some people turned right, and the scene was noisy. Some people saw that they turned in the opposite direction from the person on the side, so they turned back 180 degrees, which is very funny...

"Damn Nima, you idiots, don't tell the difference?" Marin was angry, but everyone looked at him blankly...

Marin was also defeated, and few of his classmates got it wrong before with such a simple password as turn left and turn right. Why did you come here to this group of fools, in such a state?

But Marin didn't think about it himself.

His former classmates were all college students with high IQs. Not to mention college students, even junior high school students and high school students are all literate people who have received compulsory education. In physical education classes, elementary schools have begun to teach simple queues.

But what about the idiots in the Middle Ages? They are basically illiterate, and no one can teach them to distinguish between left and right. They were born lowly and could only work like slaves. And the nobles regarded them as animals that walked on two feet and didn't even look at them.

Therefore, this group of hillbillies with undeveloped brains, who can tell the difference between left and right, is definitely talented...

After training for three days in a row, there are still many people who can't tell the difference. Even though Marin used corporal punishment with a military stick and whip, it still didn't have much effect.

Marin was so anxious that he wanted to vomit blood. Seeing that the time for the emperor's second recruitment was not far away, if he hadn't trained well, he would have no chance at all...

Finally, one day, when Marin was blowing the birch whistle, he saw a bastard who was in a hurry to gather. He was probably in such a hurry that he didn't even have time to put on his right shoe, so he came to gather.

"Wear a shoe..." Marin began to ponder, as if he had seen this situation somewhere...

"By the way, didn't the British 'Red Shirts' use a shoe to help recruits distinguish between left and right!" Marin was excited. In the past, he seemed to have heard people mention on the forum that in the 19th century, the quality of British soldiers was also very poor. When they were just training, many recruits couldn't tell the difference between left and right. In order to make the recruits distinguish between left and right, someone later came up with a way to let the recruits take off their right shoes and only let their left shoes wear. In this way, when training, turn left and call "shoes", and turn right and call "feet". So, the recruits quickly distinguish between left and right. After that, slowly replace the passwords for "shoes" and "feet" with left and right.

In fact, British literacy rates were low until the early 19th century. Basically, those recruits who were recruited by force were illiterate. Those who can read and write well, as long as they behave well, most of them can become officers and non-commissioned officers. Uneducated people tend to be a little sluggish in listening to passwords, making it difficult to tell right from left. In other words, the British recruits in the first half of the 19th century were similar in quality to the novice mercenaries in the Middle Ages.

Sure enough, after asking everyone to take off one shoe, the situation immediately improved a lot. After all, you can still tell if you are wearing shoes or not, as long as you are not dementia.

But there is also a problem with this, that is, it is a little cold in winter, and it is very uncomfortable to bare feet.

To this end, Marin took everyone to a sheltered valley and spread a lot of hay on the ground to prevent everyone from freezing their feet. Also, everyone's right foot isn't considered barefoot, and Marin requires them to wear double socks. Not only that, but left and right training is generally done during the day when the temperature is higher. Other times, train with your shoes on. For example, when it is cold in the morning and evening, everyone trains to run to exercise physical fitness.

In this way, within a few days, these idiots finally cleared all the left and right sides. After distinguishing left and right, Marin tried to use "left" and "right" instead of "shoes" and "feet" passwords, and officially began to train simple queues such as walking in unison, turning left, and turning right.

After that, Marin took time out every day to let Schwartz, who is a good spearman, train everyone how to use the spear. Originally, Schwartz wanted to teach everyone a lot of spear fighting skills and simple tactics. However, Marin only asks everyone to practice three simple movements of "pick", "pick" and "stab".

"Master, why is this?" Schwartz wondered.

"In the army, please call me the head of the regiment." Marin looked serious.

"Okay, Commander, why is this?"

"Schwartz, do these guys understand the tactical explanations you said?"

"This..." Schwartz thought for a while, then shook his head.

"So, with their brains, they can't remember so many tricks. We might as well teach them the three most basic routines. Moreover, fighting depends on battle formation, not personal martial arts." Marin has read many posts and articles. of. He knows that for those low-level soldiers who are not very intelligent, they will not be too complicated. After all, they are not soldiers who have generally received 9 years of compulsory education in later generations. Therefore, teaching them the most basic and simple and practical movements is the best choice.

In order to cultivate the brave thoughts of the soldiers, Marin brainwashed the soldiers every day. Every day, during training, Marin would shout:

"Meeting on a narrow road—"

"—The brave one wins! The brave one wins!" The soldiers shouted in unison in a conditioned reflex, and whoever didn't shout was a whip.

In this way, in his daily training, Marin took the phrase "the brave who meet in a narrow path wins", which Liu Shuai liked to say, as the slogan and purpose of the "Hoffman Mercenary Corps". Of course, a slogan translated into German.

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