After recruiting all the attendants, Marin began to train them. After all, he was going to fight on the battlefield. His attendants can't understand everything.
Marin paid for it himself, and bought a leather armor and a spear for each of the six attendants. In addition, Marin also asked the blacksmith to create an iron helmet for everyone. Its style is naturally imitated the famous German M35 helmet. Of course, this is not a steel helmet, but an iron helmet made of pig iron, and its quality is incomparable with a real steel helmet. But in this day and age, it is enough.
The old Hoffman was not stingy, knowing that his son was going to the battlefield. Moreover, now that the family is well off, coupled with Marin's oriental farming techniques, the family has a surplus of livestock. So, he simply took out 5 horses and equipped them to Marin's attendants.
Therefore, each of the five servants who were more capable of fighting was assigned a draft horse. As for the thin Kohler, he was still driving a four-wheeled ox cart pulled by the big black bull "Li Chen". As for the calf Dallas, he was thrown in the Hoffman Manor, and when he grows up, he will also join the farming army...
The next thing is to train the five attendants in riding skills. In fact, the five attendants, except Kahn who has ridden a bull for a long time, have a bit of riding skills. The remaining four, including Schwartz, have basically never ridden a horse.
In the following days, Marin trained 5 people to ride horses every morning, and in the afternoon, he trained them to use spears on horses and fight on foot.
In riding training, Kahn stands out. In combat training, it was Schwartz who crushed the others. Even when fighting on foot, Marin was not Schwartz's opponent. The main reason is that although Marin's fighting skills are no worse than Schwartz's, but his physical fitness is too far behind Schwartz. The 16-year-old Marin is about 1.73 meters tall, with a thin body and average strength. The 20-year-old Schwartz is 1.83 meters tall and muscular. Therefore, two people with similar levels of martial arts, Schwartz crushed Marin with his body...
Only when he was on horseback, Marin could rely on his superb riding skills to abuse Schwartz so much that he couldn't find the north. But it's also because Schwartz can't ride well. When Schwartz's riding skills come up, Marin will be suppressed again.
So, the helpless Marin began to drink pork rib soup every day, trying to grow taller and stronger...
As for the idiot Kahn, Marin discovered during training that he didn't use his spear well. But Kahn, who is strong enough to hit people with a stick, is very talented...
So, Marin simply asked the craftsman to build a mace, and let Kahn, this idiot, swing it hard...
Then, in the foot battle, Kahn, who found the feeling, started to hit sparks with the mace (without spikes) and Schwartz. Unlike before, Kahn was always easily "overturned" by Schwartz during the spear competition...
And in the riding battle, Kahn, who wields a mace on horseback, seems to be more powerful. Even Marin, who was the strongest among them, did not dare to easily confront Kahn, who was wielding a mace.
However, at the beginning, Kahn only knew how to swing a mace to hit people, but he didn't know how to dodge or block the lance. Therefore, Kahn was always knocked off his horse by the lance. But then Marin, who had a big brain hole, began to teach Kahn how to use the mace to deflect the opponent's lance, and then quickly swung the mace backhand to hit the knight himself...
(This trick can only be used to deal with plate armor knights, because knights generally charge with a thick lance with one hand, and can easily be smashed in the direction of a mace wielding with both hands. Moreover, a knight wearing a full set of plate armor, The waist is not flexible, and it is impossible to dodge flexibly.)
The result of this is that Marin himself was tricked by himself - Kahn used this method to knock Marin off the horse in the subsequent horse training battle...
Fortunately, the ground where they practiced was covered with thick grass. And Marin and Kahn also fought against each other wearing breastplates. Therefore, being smashed off the horse will not take too much damage. But falling from such a high horseback is also very painful. Moreover, even though he was wearing a breastplate, Marin was hit in the chest by a mace and still suffered some damage. Of course, only minor injuries. Because, when the two were fighting, Ma Su didn't mention it, but just jogged to hedge. Otherwise, in the high-speed hedging horse battle, the side that is knocked off the horse will basically be knocked into the air, and it is easy to be maimed or even killed...
In addition to training the martial arts and riding skills of the five attendants, Marin also began to train their queue. In particular, familiarize them with their orders. The most basic is queue training, such as turning left and turning right.
But even the most basic left and right turns made Marin a little crazy. Among the five people, probably only Schwartz, who has read the book, is smarter. The other four people are all simple-minded fools with well-developed limbs.
Whenever Marin gave the command to "turn left" or "turn right", the scene suddenly became chaotic. Only Schwartz, for these two instructions completed better. As for the other four elm heads, it took a month of training and a lot of batons before they basically mastered it...
Then, there is the question of the queue moving forward and backward. Get those 5 guys lined up and marching in unison, generally no problem. After all, he also trained for a month. However, as long as a charge is launched, someone will rush ahead and someone will fall behind...
In the end, Marin gave up the idea of charging in formation. He also felt that this kind of request was too difficult for these inflexible guys. No wonder the infantry phalanx requires all soldiers to advance slowly according to the rhythm. The reason is that as long as you rush up, the formation will basically disperse. Generally speaking, only when chasing a fleeing enemy will you be asked to let go of the charge.
After figuring it out, Marin didn't ask them to charge in formation, but only asked them to advance and retreat neatly in formation at a normal walking speed. In this way, 5 people barely qualified.
So, in mid-October, Marin estimated that Maximilian I would also start collecting war taxes in his own territory. I rushed to Vienna by myself, and the first batch of taxes should also be in place. At that time, I may have the opportunity to enter the emperor's army. After all, to fight against the 60,000 French army, the emperor had to prepare more troops. And the 16,000 troops currently in command of the emperor himself have to maintain the security of the homeland. Among other things, the Habsburg family is currently in a state of hostility with the Kingdom of Hungary.
A few years ago, King Matthias I of Hungary invaded most of the territory of Austria, the home of the Habsburg family, and occupied Vienna, the home of the Habsburg family. Had it not been for the sudden death of Matthias I, Maximilian I would have had no chance to retake Austria. And now the Jagiellonian Dynasty in Hungary controls the Kingdom of Hungary and the Kingdom of Bohemia, and is very powerful. Therefore, the previously recruited army must guard against the Hungarians. To participate in the Italian War, a new batch of troops must be recruited to participate in the war.
In order to join the emperor's army as soon as possible and strive to become a "senator", Marin decided to take five attendants who had achieved a little training and Kohler's ox cart on the road to Vienna.
At this time, the coal mine at home finally started to make a profit, which was much earlier than Marin expected. But it's not surprising, because Marin has long helped to solve the biggest problem in the coal mine-sales problem. Now, as long as the Hoffman family transports the excavated coal to the dock, the cargo ship of the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce (the chamber of commerce where Wright is located) will come to load it. Moreover, the people in the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce are very proud, and the payment for the goods is settled on the spot. After selling several shipments of coal, the Hoffman family immediately had funds.
After Marin decided to officially set off, the old Hoffman gave Marin more than 300 marks in funds, making the money in Marin's hands reach 800 marks. Moreover, under the guidance of the old Hoffman, Marin deposited 600 marks of his own money into the bank of the Hanseatic Business League. Relying on the reputation of the Hanseatic Business League, Marin can use the certificate of deposit to withdraw money in any large-scale city in the Holy Roman Empire. As for himself, he left 200 marks in cash and handed it over to Kohler who drove the ox cart for safekeeping. At the same time, Marin's armor and horse armor, as well as 5 lances (when the lance is charged by the knight, if the opponent is wearing hard armor, it is easy to break, so prepare a spare) and put them on the bullock cart .
As for Marin himself, he usually wears an M35 iron helmet, two-thirds of the breastplate, and a saber, and rides forward. As for the other five combat attendants, each of them actually wears a two-thirds breastplate (all made by the own blacksmith of Hoffman Manor, the quality is average), but they are usually placed on the bullock cart and will not be worn until the battle. put on.
At the same time, riding to Vienna is actually a kind of exercise for the five attendants' riding skills. Usually, these five men wear steel helmets, leather armor, and hold spears (except for Kahn, who holds a mace), somewhat similar to later Polish Lancers who poked German tanks with spears.
In order to exercise the courage of the five followers and himself, Marin also took them to the forest to attack wild boars. How scary are wild boars in the forest? Ordinary hunters dare not easily provoke wild boars. Because it is difficult for bows and arrows to hurt wild boars. As for muskets, the muskets of this era are not powerful enough, and it is difficult to kill wild boars with one shot. Only the powerful guns of later generations can kill wild boars with one shot. Therefore, in this era, hunting wild boars is a very dangerous thing.
However, Marin is not alone, he has 5 thugs to follow. Moreover, Kahn and Schwartz are both fierce brothers.
It was the first time to hunt wild boars. There was an accident. The horse that Saul was riding was frightened by wild boars, causing Saul to be thrown to the ground by the horse and injured a little.
After that, Marin simply asked Kohler to take care of the horses. He took five thugs and went to kill wild boars on foot...
Kahn and Schwartz are indeed fierce fighters, and Marin has no choice but to bow down in terms of foot combat. Especially Kahn, who slammed with a mace. There was a wild boar that had just rushed up and had its head cracked by Kahn's mace before it could hurt anyone...
Schwartz is also extraordinary. He often uses Kahn to yell to attract the wild boar's attention. And he attacked and stabbed the wild boar to death from the side.
As for Marin, he stood obscenely behind the people and directed everyone:
"Quick! Surround it, Saul, Tara, Garland, hold your spears flat, just resist... Kahn, make your voice louder, howl... Schwartz, prepare to sneak attack, yes, stab it ass..."
Then, a certain wild boar who was aggrieved was stabbed on the chrysanthemum by Schwartz, howled miserably, blood flowed, and died of pain...
Along the way, Marin took 5 thugs and killed more than a dozen wild boars. Not only did they exercise their courage and cooperation, but they also sold a lot of money for the wild boars they hunted. At least, the food expenses for everyone along the way were settled. You know, with the addition of 3 big men and 5 horses, the cost has increased a lot...