The soldiers complained a lot about Marin's sudden increase in the training subjects for landing on the beach, and there were many discussions in private. However, Marin doesn't care what these big soldiers think.
However, he couldn't completely ignore the 28 trainee knights from Earl Mark who joined the team not long ago. You must know that these 28 people were all trained as company captains, and they are also considered officers, and they still have a certain status.
When some officers came to ask Marin why this landing subject was added, Marin had to give some explanation. After all, they are not completely restricted. At the beginning, when they were recruited, they were allowed to write letters and contact their families.
However, if you tell them the truth, maybe this group of young stunned youths will write the secret of Marin's attack on East Frisia in his home letter and reveal it. Uncle Mark is not too far from East Frisia, so it is easy to reveal secrets.
However, Marin also had to give an explanation. To practice beach landing, there must always be a goal. However, tell them that he is going to attack West Frisia controlled by the Duke of Saxony, and they will not believe it. After all, the Saxon nobles are too powerful. And it's even more impossible to hit the Netherlands, that's the emperor's territory... After a few guesses, they can definitely guess that they are attacking the Earl of East Frisia.
So, Marin decided to make up a lie and deceive them temporarily. Even if they found out that they had been cheated in the end, it didn't matter. At most, Marin explained that it was for the sake of confidentiality.
So, Marin thought about it, and thought of a plausible excuse:
"Everyone, do you know? There is an island of Ireland to the west of the British Isles. The land is fertile and full of cattle and sheep. I plan to send troops to occupy a territory on the island of Ireland. As for where to occupy... Well, the important port department in southern Ireland Ke..." Marin said nonsense casually.
"However, my lord. I heard that the king of England claimed the sovereignty of Ireland very early on, and even proclaimed himself the Duke of Ireland..." said a knowledgeable apprentice knight.
"Well, boy, you are really knowledgeable, what's your name?"
"My lord, my subordinate's name is Bookman."
"Well, Mr. Bookman, what I want to tell you is that although the King of England has long claimed sovereignty over the island of Ireland, the English have only opened up some colonies in the Dublin area on the eastern coast of the island of Ireland up to now. .The greater part of the island of Ireland, is not under the control of the English..."
"Oh I got it… "
"What do you mean, my lord?"
"Since the English only occupy a small area along the eastern coast of the island, we can occupy the land in the south. If we don't meet the English, we don't have to conflict..."
"My lord is wise!"
"Well, you work hard. When Cork County is conquered and I have more land, I can seal up some land for the better ones among you..." Marin said flickeringly.
However, these young people didn't know, they thought what Marin said was true, so they were all excited and very motivated to train...
In order to further fool these young people, Marin specially sent a warship in front of these young people to investigate the port of Cork in the south of Ireland to see the enemy's situation...
These 18-year-old young people with little social experience were "limped" by Marin. On the other hand, Schwartz and Frundsberg almost burst out laughing after returning:
"My lord, is it really okay for you to deceive these children like this?" Frundsberg was a little worried, whether these young men would become angry after knowing the truth.
"What are you afraid of? At that time, give more rewards and coax a few more words. These boys will be settled soon?"
"But, master, what is your intention in doing this?" Schwartz asked.
"Hey, this is also my negligence. When I recruited them, I promised to allow them to communicate with their families without thinking. I am afraid that they will tell our secrets in the letters home and let East Frisian Be prepared..."
"Oh, that's how it is... My lord, are you not afraid that the two of us will accidentally reveal the secret?" Frundsberg asked.
"The two of you are different. Both of you have experienced many things. Although you are only a few years older than these little guys, you have much richer social experience. And these little guys are only 18 years old and have no experience in society at all. You don’t have to be careful when you do things. Therefore, it is very likely that the secrets will be accidentally leaked. Just watch, the next batch of letters they send home, someone will definitely tell the family about this... "
Sure enough, a few days later, Schwartz and Frundsberg secretly opened the home letters written by the group of knights at the time of sending home letters every half a month, and found a few stunned people. Qing took this as a show off, and told her family in a letter...
"My lord, you are so far-sighted!" Frundsberg said in admiration.
"Fart far-sighted, but many people have had 2 in their teens..." Thinking of his middle school career in his previous life, Marin also had 2 in the past. At the beginning, Marin revealed the secret of his crush on a certain class of flowers to his buddies. Unexpectedly, after two days, everyone in the class knew about it. From then on, Marin no longer believed in the secrecy ability of middle school students.
In the same way, these wandering knights who have just been kicked out of their homes have not experienced many things, so they are still like those naive middle school students, who don't know how to protect themselves and don't know how to keep secrets. Disclosing secrets to them is tantamount to telling the enemy.
Unlike Schwartz and Frundsberg, both are people who have been through a lot. Schwartz once worked as a coolie for several years in order to support his family, and was despised and ridiculed. What kind of ugliness has he never seen
And Frundsberg joined the army with his father at the age of 18, and also experienced mutual strife and factional struggle among officers. Therefore, these two people are no longer 18 years old and naive, so they don't talk nonsense.
However, the 28 young wandering knights that Marin had just borrowed had no experience in society at all, and they were not guarded against others, so they could easily reveal secrets, causing "I only tell him the secret, who knows, one pass ten, ten pass a hundred... Everyone knows..." the situation.
However, it is precisely this group of young people who are a bit 2 that Marin wants to value. Because, such a child is so foolish...
If you are a determined person, you may not be easily influenced by Marin. But this group of ignorant teenagers are relatively easy to fool.
As long as Marin works harder in the past few months, he will brainwash them more. At that time, this group of people may not be willing to go to the country of the Teutonic Knights. Then, they will become loyal thugs under Marin... and loyal thugs at the elite level...