King of Mercenaries - Chapter 28: Remnant

The discipline required by Marin is very strict and basically reaches the level of the modern army. But this also made many mercenaries dissatisfied, but Marin told them that if they didn’t work hard, they might not be able to pass the emperor’s selection. If you can’t pass the election of the emperor, you can’t get a salary, and you can’t go to Italy to make a fortune. Thinking of the beautiful prospects of robbery in the rich Italy, these people have endured. They have heard of the legends of some half-truths of mercenary predecessors. For example, a mercenary, when a city in Italy captured a certain city, rushed into the home of a wealthy Italian merchant, grabbed a lot of property, and took all the riches. It is all gold coin. Marin also played the general imagination of rumors, slamming them and making up a lot of legends in the mercenary world. Legend has it that a certain team has captured the mercenary group in a big Italian city. Everyone has become a rich man, taking a big beauty and embarking on the peak of life.

These fake news, the newcomers who have never seen the world heard it and now want blood. In fact, they are not judged by the true and false of the news. After all, this year is the Middle Ages, and the information is extremely occluded. What Marin said was true and false, they could not prove it. Therefore, they were all stunned by Marin, and then they were forced to accept Marin’s ill-treatment.

It took only 20 days for the battle formation and steering training. After that, Marin’s “devil” plan to wake them in the middle of the night and engage in “emergency gatherings”. A whistle in the middle of the night, representing the enemy’s night attack. All personnel must wear clothes in 5 minutes, take good weapons, and gather in front of the barracks. Moreover, no one can be exempted in this process, except for the officer who blew the whistle. Otherwise, the military law will serve. The reason for this is because the soldiers are trained to deal with enemy night attacks. In the middle of the night, the military camp is the most weak. It is very terrible, in many cases, there will be small-scale military launches of night raids, which will lead to serious chaos and even collapse of the army.

The truth is actually very simple – in the middle of the night, everyone can’t see the situation in the distance. Once they are attacked, everyone doesn’t know how many enemies there are, and they don’t even know who the enemy is and in which direction. Once you are flustered, fear will spread. Once the fear spreads, it may cause the collapse of the army. Then, no matter how many enemy troops there are, the soldiers will simply flee and even trample on each other. Therefore, Marin asked that even if it was attacked by the night, it is absolutely forbidden to make a loud voice. Everyone is silent, it is easy to calm down. Moreover, everyone did not say anything, and it was easy for the officers to voice the command. Once the battle formation is formed, the army will stabilize and counterattack. However, this makes the mercenaries really unable to stand it. Often, they slept soundly, and then the whistle suddenly blow. They heard the whistle, had to get up from the warm bed and quickly dressed, and then picked up the weapon to join the barracks. If it is slow, it is a fight.

As mercenaries who are not afraid of death, they are full of grievances, but every time Marin finishes the disobedient guy, he immediately tells them about the richness of Italy and the prospect of good robbery. Then, everyone falls into greed and forgets their dissatisfaction.

In this regard, Schwartz, determined to become an officer, is admirable. Secretly, Schwartz began to learn and imitate everything Marin do. He found that although Marin was not tall and strong, even martial arts was not as good as himself. But for the intelligence – Schwartz is not as good as Marin

In the case of the night, Marin also made adjustments. According to the practice of medieval Europeans, the so-called night is to arrange several sentinels to stand at the entrance of the big camp, usually four hours and one round. Such a mechanism, Marin knows deeply that it is full of loopholes. Do not say anything else, many of the war films that I have seen in previous lives, there will be a few people with particularly good skills, sneaking at the night squad going to sleep, to kill the sentinel with a dagger. Then the entire military camp was destroyed.

In modern times, in addition to the bright whistle at the door, there are usually several hidden whistlees in the vicinity of the camp gate. The reason why the whistle was set up was that the whistle was use by people when it is too late to wake everyone. To this end, Marin selected several soldiers, ambushing in the tent near the camp gate, in the case of no lights, only to leave the gap to observe, it is also a four-hour change.

In this regard, the soldiers naturally complained, and Schwartz, with reverence, tried to memorize these means with small books. If there are no diaries and ballpoint pens right now, maybe Schwartz will write down all this on the spot. After all, what you use now is a quill pen. You have to put it in the ink bottle to suck a few words.

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When the formation was trained until everyone could keep the formation moving forward, Marin finally began to train the specific battle formation.

Originally, the formation chosen by Marin was the Spanish phalanx – this is the most suitable condition at the moment. However, the number of people in his hand is too small to completely form a square.

Marlin thought to go, decided to put these 100 people, still in accordance with the Spanish phalanx, but not the complete square matrix, but only train the front two or three rows to form an array.

20 archers, Marin did not divide them into rows. Because the archer has no filling time, if it is not aimed at killing, but only “barrage strike”, the archer can quickly shoot a single arrow in one breath. Of course, most people will have a period of disengagement afterwards. But at rest, you can continue.

Because the bow and arrow fired fast, Marin put 20 archers first in the middle of the first row. The spacing between the archers is about 30 cm. Unlike a rifle shooter, you can’t rely too close. Because the fire rope of the rifle shooter is tied to the arm. If they are too close to each other, their own fire ropes may be burned to the side of the gunpowder bag, which is easy to cause a big safety accident. Therefore, the interval between the soldiers of the Spanish phalanx is generally 1 meter. The archers are not in that danger and can stand closer to each other. As long as you don’t squeeze each other, keep a certain gap.

After testing, it was found that the power of 20 archers shooting together was very good. Of course, because of the limited number of people, it is impossible to form the effect of “arrows like rain.” However, the opponents who deal with hundreds of opponents can definitely cause no small damage. However, after grouping confrontation, Marin also found a problem – if the enemy rushed to the front, the archers were quite fragile, basically only the massacre by the other spear.

To this end, Marin left to think, and then thought of a way – he arranged two rows of spearmen in front of the archers. When fighting, the two rows of spearmen in front of the archers sit to avoid obscuring the archers’ line of sight.

When the archer completed the shooting and fired 30 arrows , the commander give an order and the spearman in front of the archer stand up again, growing a spear wall and blocking the enemy’s possible assault.

In this way, the enemy’s idea of ​​using the spearmen to kill the archers in close proximity will be lost. Moreover, the archer who hides behind the spearman, if the strength is restored, can also take a few steps back, facing forward 45 degrees, using bows and arrows to shoot, from the top against the enemy’s spear array. After Marlin’s research, Marin arranged 80 spears in two rows of 40 people each, behind in the middle 20 people. The archer is responsible for shooting the arrows before the enemy rushes up, but if the opposing army is too fast, it is too close to the battle. The officer will promptly order the archers to stop shooting, and the 40 spearmen in front of the archers will stand up under the command, the first row of spearmen will raise the spears, and the second row of spears will Put the spear on the shoulders of the first row and defend against the enemy’s attack.

Then, the archer step back a few steps, estimated the position of the enemy army, and put arrows at the front, attacking the enemy army and causing damage. The longer the front row of lances, the more the archers can bring more damage. If it is a long time, the enemy will definitely be overwhelmed by casualties, or it will be defeated or collapsed. Of course, the premise is that the front row of spearmen must withstand the impact of the enemy, not torn open the gap.

To this end, Marin hired a blacksmith in the town to create 40 engineering squads shovel for him to dig trenches in front of the battlefield to block the impact of the enemy, especially the cavalry. In order to block the possible attack of the enemy cavalry, Marin’s trenches excavated in front of the array, generally divided into two, the two trenches are only 2 meters apart. If the enemy crosses the first trench, it will appear in the 2 meter wide zone. In this area, it is within the attack range of the front row of spearmen. Whether it is an enemy war horse or an infantryman, just crossing the first trench, it is definitely not stable. At this time, the front spearman stabbed the spear, and the opponent could not resist. Moreover, in order to guard against the enemy’s shelling, the soil excavated by the trenches will be piled up into a rectangular mound behind the two trenches. Once the enemy first used the shelling, everyone squatted on the ground, hiding behind the mound and guarding against shelling. The artillery of this year was all played with solid bullets, and most of the infantry guns were used for flat shooting. As long as you lie in the mound, you will basically not be hit by shells.

Moreover, on the mound in front of the battle, Marin also learned from the English and inserted a picket to block the enemy’s impact. Even if there is no time to dig trenches, Marin’s front line will quickly insert the pickets to block the impact of the enemy, especially the impact of enemy cavalry.

Of course, this is just a remnant. Because there are not enough people, Marin can only arrange two rows of spearmen. In fact, such a thickness is insufficient. Because, in the real cruel battle, the first two rows of spearmen are easily break, and need more rows of spearmen to supplement.

But the problem is that Marin is currently in no hands. Therefore, he can only get the remnant, and when the sample is taken, look at the officer in charge of recruiting. Moreover, the main thing is his absolute control over the team, as well as the team’s strict discipline and efficient execution of command. In general, it’s just a matter of getting a look at it. It’s not necessarily awesome on the battlefield. It’s a great way to show off.