In the days that followed, Marin, who was defeated, was depressed and worried all day long. And the few attendants didn't know how to comfort him. For example, Kahn, when comforting Marin, is basically equivalent to adding salt to Marin's wound:
"Master, it's okay, isn't it just that you are short and weak? Eat more food, you will grow stronger and grow taller..."
Hearing this, Marin really wanted to strangle this bastard to death, really which pot is not open and which pot to lift...
But when he turned around, Marin had to drink milk and pork rib soup for every meal...
Moreover, now that he has lost the election, Marin feels that there is no need to stay in Vienna. After all, consumption in Vienna is high. Especially after thousands of knights and their attendants poured into the city of Vienna, many merchants sat on the ground and raised prices, which caused the price of food to soar. Marin is not alone, he has 6 men and 7 animals with him, and consumes a lot of food.
So, Marin took 6 of his men, rode a horse and drove, and after paying the rent, he left the lively city of Vienna.
After leaving Vienna, in a small town west of the city, Marin saw a recruitment point where the emperor recruited pike infantry. Out of the instinctive habits of Chinese people who love to watch the excitement, Marin also stayed in the town, and with a few men, he watched the infantry recruitment scene forcefully...
The mercenaries of the Holy Roman Empire are actually a new type of arms established by Maximilian I after the Battle of Nancy, imitating the Swiss mercenaries. Therefore, the spearman has become the most important part of the infantry.
The Swiss Union also belongs to the de jure territory of the Holy Roman Empire. However, since Switzerland began to produce mercenaries, the Swiss began to rely on force and no longer obeyed the orders of the Habsburg royal family. Moreover, it also invaded the traditional territory of the Habsburg family in Switzerland.
In the Battle of Nancy, Maximilian I's father-in-law Charles the Bold died tragically at the hands of Swiss mercenaries. Since then, Maximilian I also began to imitate Swiss mercenaries, and began to recruit a large number of civilians who were willing to serve as soldiers in the country to form a spearman army.
Because the Germans have always been accustomed to using knights and are not familiar with spear infantry. Therefore, the 15,000 spearmen and 1,500 knights under Maximilian I, although the coach is Earl Hohenzollern (belonging to the Swabian line of the Hohenzollern family, not the Franconia line of Brandenburg) Philip Trey II (Eitel Friedrich II, Count of Hohenzollern), but many instructors in the infantry are from Switzerland.
After all, Switzerland is also the territory of the Holy Roman Empire anyway. Although many local lords and parliaments are against the empire, there are still many mercenaries willing to work for the emperor. Because the emperor can grant them the status of aristocrats common in Europe. Therefore, Maximilian I recruited some mercenary officers from Switzerland, trained new German mercenaries, and used the Swiss spear array that the Swiss learned from the Macedonian phalanx.
The Swiss spear formation is basically learned from the Macedonian phalanx, but unlike the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry of the Swiss spear formation is not equipped with a small defensive shield in the left hand like the Macedonian phalanx infantry, but holds spears in both hands.
When selecting mercenaries, one of the officers in charge of recruiting was a Swiss. Generally, whether to admit or not, the Swiss "expert" must nod in approval.
According to the requirements of the Swiss, qualified mercenaries must first be strong, which is the basic requirement for fighters. The second is to "travel lightly".
What is "traveling lightly"? In fact, it means not to delay the family. For example, many mercenaries and quasi-mercenaries who came to Vienna to enlist, many of them even brought their family members with them. With such a burden, can we still fight? Can you still march
Some newlyweds do not want to be separated, so the man brings a woman to apply. This is considered good, and some even brought their elderly parents along...
Can you still march with the old man? Therefore, the Swiss military officer's treatment of this is-no one with family members, no matter how good you are. Otherwise, it would be impossible to march with the family members. This is also an early feature. After the proliferation of mercenaries in the 16th century, it seems to have become a custom to bring family members to march...
Because there are many applicants, the Swiss military officer also requires the applicants to fight with long sticks. Whoever stabs the opponent with the head of the stick first will win. The winner will be admitted, and the loser will be eliminated. Because of time constraints, the officer in charge of the recruitment didn't even give them a chance to revive the challenge, and the ones who were eliminated in the first round would just leave. After all, for the empire, the choice of infantry is huge, so there is no need to be so particular.
The infantry has to select 5,000 people, and each person has to undergo a condition review (such as whether they have family members, etc.), plus various registrations, and then they have to be grouped and competed, so the duration is quite long. And Marin had seen enough excitement.
One day, Kahn suddenly said:
"Master, why don't we enlist as pikemen?"
"Get out!" Marin said angrily. He is a knight (although he has no official title, he is only an apprentice), if he becomes an infantryman, he will probably be laughed at to death.
Moreover, the pikeman is a standard cannon fodder. As a time traveler, can he be cannon fodder? It's an embarrassment to those who travel through the world, and it may be ashamed to throw it on Mars...
Not to mention the cannon fodder arms such as pike infantry, even the irregular cavalry among the cavalry (such as scout cavalry, messengers, patrol cavalry, etc.), Marin is not willing to do it. Of course, there are also reasons why Marin is not good at those. After all, irregular cavalry mainly used sabers, and Marin was not proficient in saber skills, only proficient in cavalry.
"How about, young master, you recruit a team of spearmen yourself, and become an officer yourself? I see that the young master trained five of them before, which is very organized. Besides, didn't you say, young master, that the emperor will continue to recruit soldiers in the future?" ?” Kohler interjected at this moment.
"Recruiting troops by yourself?" Marin froze for a moment. Before, because of the strong knight plot, he only wanted to be a majestic knight, and at the same time he was unwilling to be a pikeman of the cannon fodder, so he didn't think about that.
In fact, he also thought about forming a mercenary group by himself. However, the cost of forming a mercenary group is astronomical, even for an infantry mercenary group. So, he didn't think about it for the time being.
"That's right, young master, you still have a few hundred marks in your hand. You can temporarily recruit hundreds of people and train them temporarily. When the training is fruitful, it is estimated that the emperor will conduct a second round of recruitment. At that time, you will bring Hundreds of well-trained infantry go, how can I be an officer. At that time, master, you have to appoint me as a quartermaster!" Kohler said flatteringly.
"Hundreds of people... okay?" Marin hesitated. Originally, he planned to recruit thousands of people to form a large mercenary group when he had money. At the very least, it is necessary to form a few large squares or something. However, he only has 750 marks in his hand now, and he can't afford too many soldiers.
But think about it carefully, according to what Kohler said, first recruit hundreds of mercenaries, train them, and raise them for a period of time. I didn't keep them for a long time, as long as I kept them until the second round of the emperor's recruitment. It is estimated that the emperor will have a second batch of money early next year. At that time, his soldiers and horses will be almost trained. Bring hundreds of well-trained soldiers to go, no matter what, you have to be a company commander or something...
"Ahahahaha..." Marin in YY couldn't help laughing wildly, making several attendants baffled...