King of German Mercenaries

Marin was devastated to prepare for being robbed by enemies or allies. You must know that his team of 1,100 people, with thousands of horses and thousands of sets of armor, absolutely blinded people and dogs.

This is not even the ransom of 4,000 French knights. Kohler calculated the account and felt that the 4,000 prisoners could be exchanged for at least 2 million Ducat gold coins.

A knight is not cheaper than a horse, and a war horse is easy to train, and it will pay off in three to five years. To cultivate a knight, it takes more than ten years of effort and a huge investment.

Therefore, a knight's ransom should be at least 500 gold coins. 4000 knights, at least 2 million gold coins, this is still not counting the "premium" of those nobles...

"I'll drop a darling, 2 million gold coins!" There was only money left in Marin's eyes!

"However, young master, if you take all these captives back, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely not give you that much money. Because the Emperor himself is very poor!" Kohler said.

"What?" Malin was angry. However, he was right when he thought about it, the emperor couldn't have given him that much money. Because, he was originally fighting for the emperor, and the spoils of war should be handed over to the emperor.

However, if he wanted to exchange the title, he had to take a large number of prisoners. Especially, those noble captives. After thinking for a long time, Marin decided to compromise. Because what he needs most is the title.

As for the horse armor, Marin decided to keep some of it in private so that he could exchange it for money.

However, this wealth is too huge, and he is not confident to protect it. So he decided to expand his army...

"Expanding the army?" Schwartz didn't quite understand.

"It's only temporary, I can't afford to support too many troops. I want to recruit some troops, in fact, it is to scare others, so as not to be robbed by others...

Now Schwartz understands, it turned out to be bluffing...

How much will it expand?

"3,000 people... Schwartz, you take people to the Italian villages to catch the people and make an agreement with them. Let them come back when you get to Venice. In addition, by the way, "borrow" some food from the manor owners..."

The so-called "borrowing food" actually means grabbing food. Marin originally had only 1,100 people to solve the problem of rations. But now that there are 4,000 more prisoners and 1,000 Italians strong, there is not enough food.

Fortunately, in the valley before, before leaving, some mercenaries from butchers slaughtered the smashed and injured horses into flesh and took them on the road. Otherwise, there will never be enough food.

However, these horse meat are easy to spoil in summer. In desperation, Marin sent troops to loot several towns near Piacenza and grabbed a lot of salt to marinate the horse meat.

Ten days later, Marin's team has expanded to more than 8,000 people, which is extremely spectacular. Schwartz did grab 3,000 Italians to make up the numbers. However, that night, the people rioted, and 1,000 people ran away. As a result, Marin had only 3,000 Italian people to give him a face, including the previous 1,000 people.

Marin stopped for a few days in a remote area in the Principality of Milan. By the way, I simply trained the 3000 Italian people. At least, let them learn to distinguish between left and right, and march in formation. Moreover, Marin also made a simple black cross white vest for them. Uninformed people looked at it and thought that these 3,000 people were also soldiers. At least, they seem to line up neatly...

As for the weapons of this group of people, Marin directly gave them to wooden sticks with sharpened wooden gun tips, which were painted with stolen paint. They looked like metal gun tips, but they were actually wooden...

Then, Marin swaggered with 4,000 "army", escorted 4,000 French prisoners, and walked all the way to the Imperial Legion station in Venice...

At the same time, the Italian coalition was still chasing the remaining 3,000 Swiss mercenaries. Unfortunately, the Italians were afraid of being beaten by the Swiss, so they only dared to hang the Swiss from a distance and did not dare to attack. and,

They also didn't know where the 8,000 French knights went.

Last night, they also heard some noises of fighting here, but they didn't dare to send troops in the middle of the night. Because they have never had the experience of fighting in the middle of the night. Not to mention them, even the 3,000 Swiss mercenaries did not dare to send troops in the middle of the night. Only Marin's subordinates, after training, dare to fight at night.

The Swiss retreated along the Roman Avenue by the river, not the mountain road. When they retreated, the embankment that Marin had dug earlier was almost running, and a lot of water soaked into the fields.

Swiss mountain people are very wild, not afraid of wading. They simply took off their shoes and waded barefoot across the flooded road. The Italian coalition was not as hard-working as the Swiss. The Duke of Mandoba went first to collect peasants and blocked the embankment. When the water receded the next day, the coalition forces passed through this area. Then, continue hanging behind the Swiss...

After Marin entered Venice with the army, he originally planned to do business with the Italians. At first, he planned to send someone to contact the Italian coalition. After all, if he brought people into the Shinra Empire army station, the right to dispose of those prisoners would not belong to him.

However, he was afraid that the Italians would be black and black. Therefore, instead of sending people to find the coalition forces, he directly sent people to Venice to find the republican government of Venice and negotiate with them...

"What? You said that an officer of the Holy Roman Empire captured 1,000 French knights?" The Governor of Venice was stunned. Then, he urgently summoned the bigwigs of the Republic of Venice for consultations...

"What does this person mean? Why did you tell us this news?" Someone was puzzled.

"Why don't you ask me? You want to exchange money with us..." A certain business aristocrat revealed Marin's motives.

"Change money?"

"Yes, the ransom for a knight is at least 500 ducats. This guy is doing business with us..."

"Then why didn't he ask the French himself?"

"Stupid, Tony, he's just a middle-level officer of Shinra, and he seems to be a legion commander (Marin's bragging). The prisoners in his hands must be handed over to Emperor Shinra. What is Maximilian I? People? That's a poor ghost emperor. The captives are in his hands, what about the ransom and that officer?" said the Venetian congressman with a venomous tongue.

"Hahaha..." Everyone laughed. They remembered that the Holy Roman Emperor seemed to be really a poor ghost...

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