King Of German Mercenaries

The next morning, after Marin got up and washed, he got a piece of black bread without mud and licked it. He simply filled his stomach and went out shopping.

Last night, Marin thought about the middle of the night and strengthened his determination to rely on the Emperor Maximilian I. Because, although Maximilian I was a poor man, he was an emperor, but he was able to give himself a high status.

As a transmigrator, and someone who also watched so many novel like this situation, there are a lot of ways to make money in his mind. But in this age when the nobility was rampant, there was no status, and no amount of wealth could be kept.

Therefore, Marin needs to use the emperor to obtain a high enough social status to block others' shackles of their wealth. And how to get social status (that is, the title)? Very simple, battle!

As a graduate of the history department, Marin has read Western history and knows that in the "Thirty Years War" in the 17th century, there were two talented strategists who had become low-minded but became the great aristocrats with warfare - Wallenstein and Tilly.

These two big man, all born in the ordinary declining small aristocratic family, are not big aristocratic children. However, by commanding the mercenary to make great contributions to the battle of the great aristocracy, the two layers of the aristocratic world, one is ennobled Duke (Warrenstein), the other is ennobled Earl (Tilly).

Marlin may not have the same talent as Wallenstein, but there is no problem with relying on a set of "Spanish squares" to fight the world's Tilly. At least, he knows how to play the Spanish square. The original creator of the Spanish square, General Córdoba, will have to wait until 1503 to find out the prototype of the "Spanish square" of more than a century. And this tactic, Marin is very clear.

Even Marin knows the Morris phalanx of the Netherlands, which is more powerful than the Spanish squad, and the Gustav line, which is close to the modern battlefield.

As for the dwarf artillery tactics, let alone talk about it. The tactics after the mid-19th century were useless. Because, there are no such advanced weapons. After all, Marin is a liberal arts student. Although science is also good, it is not professional. Therefore, he can get a maximum of guns or something. I want to get a gun after the gun, and the bottom fire technology can't solve it. This technology requires a professional from chemistry to solve...

Of course, the above is purely Marin's thoughts. In order to display his "talent", he must first be mixed into the mercenary recruited by Maximilian I. Otherwise, everything is not possible.

To be mixed into the German mercenary formed by Maximilian I, first arrived in Vienna, the home of the Habsburg family.

Since the resumption of Austria from the Hungarian kingdom in 1490, Maximilian I moved his office from the Principality of Burgundy to Vienna. Although the emperor often went to Innsbruck in western Austria, many important things were still handled in Vienna. The big event of recruiting troops must also be done in Vienna.

Now, to go to the army, you must go to Vienna. However, from Bonn to Vienna, it is more than 800 kilometers away.

Marin is now focused on this, and he also carries a huge knight lance. Although Carl is a good horse, but the weight is so big, you can only walk more than 160 km a day, stop and go, or you can't afford it.

In fact, the average plate knight, when the expedition, will bring 5 attendants to help themselves with armor and knight lances. Before the war, he was also responsible for putting the plate on the knight and putting the knight on the horse. Also Marin he has no plate armor, otherwise,

'I can't put it myself".

Marin calculated that he had to go to Vienna at least for ten days. And the less than 1,000 Finney left in his hand is not enough. Because, he lives, eats and drinks, about 15 Finney a day (usually about 5 Finney is a meal, it's not bad to eat). And the damn war horse Carl, eat more than him, eat 10 Finney's feed a day.

The horses are very delicate. If you let the horses eat the grass and don't make up the body for the feed, you may not be able to wear the heavy armor. Because, the horse's feed, mainly oatmeal (Europe, there is no soybean in this era, soybeans are still in East Asia and India, it will be introduced to Europe in the 18th century). These things are relatively expensive in medieval Europe, where agriculture is backward...

Marin was not a person who took a ticket and then sat on the mountain of gold. In order to arrive in Vienna smoothly, Marin decided to try hunting along the way to improve his life.

After all, the former Marin, often with a homemade English longbow during the holiday, went hunting in the back of his hometown and had a good archery.

After making up his mind, Marin began to pay attention to the shops selling bows and arrows when he was shopping in the city of Bonn...

After visiting a few streets, Marin quickly found a weapons store selling bows and arrows. Looking at the dazzling bows and arrows in the weapons store, Marin frowned.

why? Because there is no English long bow that Marin is most familiar with. Marlin later produced a long bow of England himself and used it to hunt many times in his hometown. Therefore, for the bow and arrow, Marin only touched one type, and only mastered one kind - the English longbow. Although Marin made the English longbow, it was not the use of yew, but the Chinese common willow, but Marin used to the English longbow.

The biggest difference between the English longbow and other bows and arrows is that the bows of other bows and arrows are f.o.r.c.i.b.l.y bent and fixed, and they are heated and fired to maintain their fixed shape. In this way, although it is more efficient to manufacture, it will damage the tension of the bow and reduce the range. If you want a higher range, you can only use a harder bow with a larger pull.

The bow of the English longbow is bent by the "bow". The wooden strip used to make the bow will be fixed to a bracket, and then the ends of the strip will be caught by the rope. Then, the archer will pull the rope and hang it at a point not far away, causing the strip to begin to bend slightly. After a period of time, the strip adapts to this curvature and then increases the curvature... so iterates until the strip fits the curvature required to make the longbow.

In fact, the secret of the production of the English longbow, for a long time, is a unique secret of the United Kingdom. Because the English longbow soldiers are the British elite. It was not until around 1596, when Elizabeth I was in the late reign, that the British officially gave up the longbow soldiers, and the secrets of the British relics were popularized. But at that time, Europe was already the world of firearms.

However, the longbow soldiers were eliminated, not that the longbow soldiers were not able to kill, but because the longbow soldiers were too expensive to train. An excellent longbow soldier may have to train for more than ten years and must train for a minimum of a few years.

For example, Marin's predecessor used the English longbow, and it took him seven or eight years to become more proficient in archery hunting. At the beginning, Marlin archery was not reliable than the national football goal. After all, he didn't have the guidance of a famous teacher. He relied on online tricks to practice archery. Even making the English Longbow is a post that I saw on the Internet around 2006, and then made it according to the steps on the post.

Longbowmen need so much time to train, can a firearmsman? It only takes one or two weeks to train. Above the battlefield, no matter how long you train, whether it is a bow or a gun, it is a death or injury.

The cost of the British training longbow soldiers is very high. Even the longbowmen became the privileged class of Britain after the Cavaliers. Every dead longbow soldier is a huge loss for the UK.

The firemen are different. Just a serf who is stupid and honest, and after a week or two of training, can use the guns to fight. Even if it is dead, it is convenient to supplement. If the musketeer (not the one like in the Three Musketeer, but the one using musket) died, they could take another batch of strong men to train for a week or two. However, if the longbowmen are killed, they may not be able to show another batch for many years.

Moreover, the biggest difference between the longbowmen and the muskets is that the muskets can deal with enemies wearing plate armor. The Longbows, however, can do little damage to the plate armor. For a variety of reasons, the British finally gave up the longbowmen who had made them proud and turned to the use of firearms.

However, the musket shines, in fact, after the emergence of the Spanish phalanx in 1503. It is now 1494, the firearms have not taken the lead. Even the arquebus gun appeared only around 1450.

This year, unlike later, technology can be promoted so fast. The arquebus has appeared for more than 40 years, and no one has yet noticed the excellent combat effectiveness of the arquebus. Similarly, in the late 16th century, there was guns in France, but it was not until the mid-17th century that the guns became popular.

It is no wonder that it is necessary to know that in the Middle Ages or in the world of the church, all scientific knowledge is actually suppressed by the church, and the speed of science and technology is very slow. Moreover, new scientific knowledge also needs to prove itself.

For example, the arquebus was used by Gonzalo de Córdoba in the battle of Charinola, relying on a spear and a musket to defeat the French army. In the same way, the flintlocks were also taken seriously by the European countries after they shined in the "Thirty Years War."

In Europe today, the arquebus is still a rare thing. Even cities like Bonn sell fewer muskets. Instead of selling bows and arrows, there are several shops.

Moreover, the current steel technology in Europe is not enough, and the guns produced are always bad. For example, King John II of Scotland died in 1460 because of artillery bombing accident. In the 16th century, after the further development of European steel technology, the bombing accident will be greatly reduced.

Because there was no familiar English longbow, Marin had to retreat to the next level, bought a recurve bow with a pull of about 60 pounds, and bought 30 arrows.

In fact, whether it is the later Marin or the current Marlin, it is a strong bow that can pull 100 pounds of pull. Needless to say, Marin in later generations is a strong rural youth, and there is no shortage of farm work, so the strength is great.

Marin of this world, although only 16 years old, but also received the martial arts training of the knight from a young age, the strength is not small, it is possible to use a 100-pound strong bow.

However, Marin knows that a strong bow like the English longbow is good for a.d.u.l.ts. If you have such a strong bow in your youth, it is easy to cause deformation of the posterior spine. For example, later generations have verified that some medieval English long-bow archers have been deformed because they have been trained to strengthen the bow.

Marin's current body is still a growing 16-year-old boy. He didn't want to have a long bow because of the use of a strong bow. Therefore, he chose a 60-pound ordinary recurve bow as his hunting weapon.

However, the original Marin's memory did not have the use of bows and arrows, and later Marin was only familiar with the English longbow. Therefore, it took Marin several days to become familiar with the use of the recurve bow.

After testing, the effective range of this recurve bow is within 100 meters. However, the distance that can be aimed is only about 50 meters. It may not be enough to kill the enemy, but it is enough for hunting.

Familiar with the use of the recurve bow, Marin left Bonn, hurrying in the direction of Vienna, and began to use the recurve bow to hunt...

But what made Marin so depressed was that he hadn't hit the prey for a long time...

Why is this? Very simple, Marin is so embarrassed, because he want to learn Mongolian cavalry style tactic, come and shoot.

Speaking of it, Marin's shooting, put it into modern point of view, is very good. Can shoot prey in the forest, the arrow method is also OK.

But that is on the ground...

Moreover, Marin is used to hunt, is generally with a bow and arrow, quietly went into the forest, seeing unprepared prey, the sneak attack succeeded. This is basically equivalent to shooting a fixed target. For high-speed moving prey, Marlin's hit rate is actually not high.

And riding while shooting the arrow immediately... Hey, he's all tears when it's said...

Sitting on the car in the immediate and future generations is a completely different concept. The car has shock absorbers and the road is flat. And riding, but it's bumping up and down...

Therefore, Marin, who wants to play and shoot, is aiming at the prey, but the horse is on the next bump, and the arrow is immediately hitting the tree...

Moreover, he rode a horse, and the sound of the horseshoe inevitably alerted the prey, causing the small animals to flee in advance. Marin is only a target for shooting fixed targets. For small animals moving at high speeds, there are some tricks.

For seven days in a row, Marin failed to hit a prey by riding a shot. Fortunately, he sold some red deer before he saved, otherwise he must starve to death. Similarly, it is because of a little savings that he dares to play like this.

"It's not easy to ride a shot!" Marlin looked sad.

Think about it too, the Huns and the Mongols, who started riding the sheep on the slingshot when they were five years old. When you grow up, it is basically equivalent to practicing riding for more than ten years. Even so, the "old driver" who has been practicing for more than ten years does not dare to say that riding on a high-speed running horse can stably shoot the prey in running, let alone this newbie?

Therefore, although the riding is handsome, it relies on many years of hard work and some talents to master. For Marin's half-baked, Mongolian style shooting is basically like gambling probability, the prey that he shot, he is the unlucky one that hits the trees...