King of Mercenaries

Chapter 347: A crash course for teenage officers

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After making a decision, Marin quickly wrote two secret letters, which were sent to Königsberg and Stockholm, respectively, and handed over to Philip Grandmaster and former Swedish regent Sten Steure respectively.

Then, Marin thought for a while and wrote another letter, which was also sent to Konigsberg and handed over to Jule, his uncle who served as Philip's chief clerk in the Teutonic state, explained the situation to him, and asked him to be the superficial secretary. The boss of the "Whitewater Company".

After the couriers under his command rushed to Königsberg and Stockholm without hesitation, Grand Commander Philip, old Sten Sturley and Uncle Yule all received secret letters.

Although the three had different reactions, they all agreed with Marin's opinion in the end. Among them, Grand Leader Philip began to hesitate. After all, it is indeed not a trivial matter for outsiders to place 10,000 troops on their own land.

However, Marin told him in the letter that the reason why the army was placed in the Teutonic country was because the surrounding forces put too much pressure on Marin. And Marin will make big moves in two years, so he has to train tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Moreover, for the quality of the training of the new army, Marin sent out Schwartz, the number one general who followed him from beginning to end, which shows how much he attaches importance to it.

You know, Schwartz is not comparable to other East Frisian generals. Before Marin made his fortune, Schwartz followed him around, and his qualifications were extremely old. Of course, this is not the most important. Most importantly, Marin told Chief Philip that the training of the East Frisian Army was basically done by Schwartz himself. And Marin himself is only responsible for giving guidance and directing military training, all of which are fully managed by Schwartz. It can be said that the East Frisian army was trained by Schwartz under the guidance of Marin.

As for the fighting power of the East Frisian army, the whole of Europe knows that it is stronger than the Saxon army, with 10,000 soldiers overtaking the Saxon army of more than 20,000. Although there are elements of Marin's strategy in it, it is an indisputable fact that the East Frisian army has strict discipline and strong combat effectiveness.

The condition given by Marin was to allow the new army newly formed by the head of Philip to train with Marin's new army, all under the guidance of Schwartz.

In this way, the 5,000 new army formed by the Teutonic commander Philip will completely learn the original "Marin phalanx" and East Frisian training methods.

Not only that, Marin also gave a timetable. Marin said that by 1503 at the latest, these 10,000 troops will leave the Teutonic State to perform their own tasks, which can be regarded as a promise to Grand Commander Philip.

In fact, the reason why this timetable was set was prepared by Marin for Archbishop Rovere. 1503 was the time in the original history that Alexander VI was poisoned and died. But in fact, because of the appearance of Marin in this life, Archbishop Rovere got the "Cantrella" early. Marin estimated that Alexander VI would be poisoned much earlier.

After receiving the guarantee from Marin, the head of Philip finally made up his mind and allowed Marin to place the new army in the Teutonic country and train with the new army under Philip.

Although the area of the Teutonic State has been greatly reduced under the joint attack of Poland and Lithuania, it still has an area of about 36,000 square kilometers.

Before, Philip followed Marin's suggestion to enclose land in the Teutonic country. However, the Teutonic state is a commercial state, and the knights are more keen on doing business. Therefore, the 300,000 population of the Teutonic Kingdom is mainly concentrated in the four major Hanseatic cities such as Konigsberg. In other areas, the population is relatively sparse. Especially the eastern inland areas are sparsely populated. Previously, the 5,000 new troops led by Commander Philip had been hiding in sparsely populated places in the eastern inland for training. Marin's new army can also come with the new army of the Teutonic Kingdom.

As for Uncle Yule, he naturally agreed to Marin's request without hesitation. As for the old Sten Sturley, after receiving Marin's secret letter, he was taken aback. Because, he is indeed secretly preparing anti-Denmark matters, but that is a confidential matter, how did Marin know

However, after thinking about it again and again, old Sten Sturley decided to accept Marin's kindness. As the former ruling power of Sweden, the old Sten Sturley is very aware of the filth among the major forces in major European regions.

First of all, the Hanseatic League and the Kalmar League are hostile relations. As the leading force in the Baltic business circle of the Hanseatic League, the Teutonic State has an anti-Danish position without doubt. Therefore, the old Sten Sturley was also very relieved to send people to the Teutonic country for training.

Moreover, old Sten Sturley also knew the filth between Marin and the Earl of Oldenburg. The old Sten Sturley didn't believe that Marin didn't want to solve the Jever problem.

Obviously, this letter shows Marin's determination to solve the Jever problem. So, after thinking about it again and again, old Sten Sturley chose to believe in Marin.

Then, the old Steen Sturley sent a group of capable men to the Teutonic country to learn new military command methods. And the leader of the team is a young nobleman named Eric Johansson Vasa... If Marin knew the surname of the leader, he would definitely exclaim. Because, the surname of the future Swedish royal family is Vasa. The famous Gustav II belonged to the Vasa Dynasty. In fact, this man was the father of Gustav I, the founding monarch of the Vasa dynasty...

After negotiating the relevant matters, Marin began to worry about the officers. An army of 10,000 has at least 40 companies and requires 40 company leaders. Generally speaking, even the captain needs a wandering knight. Because the level of civilian education and tactical literacy is not enough.

Although Marin has started to run schools on a large scale in East Frisia, the current education stage is only at the elementary school level. God knows it will be a few years until the day when officers are trained. What Marin lacks most at present is time. So, although raising those children is the safest way, time really waits for no one...

For this reason, Marin decided to conduct a crash course for young officers...

The so-called crash course for young officers means that Marin intends to select smart and brave young people between the ages of 15 and 20, concentrate on education, and strive to quickly train them to become officers.

Although, they are not like those children who start learning from primary school culture, which may lead to a weak foundation. But Marin can't control that much, because he is very short of time.

For this reason, Marin intends to implement a simplified version of military education and cultural education for these young people...

The so-called simplified version is to omit the knowledge that young reserve officers do not need in the cultural class, and only teach them military-related knowledge, even vocabulary.

To this end, Malinte took the time to compile the infantry training outline, sharing 800 different words, mainly including "stand at attention", "rest", "turn left", "turn right", "forward", " "Fire", "fire"... and other words for training and combat orders issued by officers.

And Marin intends to only give them the 800 commonly used words of the army when educating the teenagers in the crash course. As for other words, they will not be taught together for the time being. If you are interested, you can naturally learn by yourself, and if you are not interested, you will fail.

What Marin wanted was just a group of officers who were familiar with combat instructions. Perhaps, they are average. However, because they have training methods and tactics that transcend the times, they can also make up for their shortcomings. When those children who have received military education from childhood come up, Marin can completely replace this half-finished young officer...

Right now, the education Marin is promoting in East Frisia actually only includes children under the age of 15, and there is no corresponding education plan for teenagers over the age of 15. Because, in Marin's view, these teenagers who have reached the age of 16 will soon be able to work as labor and waste them in school. Also, starting education at 16 is too late to learn much. Because, time does not allow. When they are adults, even Marin wants to keep them in school, and their parents are not happy yet.

But now, in order to quickly obtain a group of suitable grassroots officers, Marin also had to use a group of smart and brave young people. Because Marin really couldn't wait.

You must know that Marin is implementing a mercenary system, and grassroots officers are very important. If the recruited wandering knights are used as commanders, after Marin sends the army out to help the employer fight, maybe those officers who were born wandering knights will be bought. Because those wandering knights were not East Frisians in the first place, and they had no sense of belonging to the Earl of East Frisia. Even if you betray Marin, there will be no burden.

It is different for Marin to choose to educate those children from the country. These children all come from families in the County of East Frisia, and their families are all in the County of East Frisia. If they dare to betray, the family members will suffer. Moreover, Europe in this era also has the idea of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism. As an East Frisian, it is inevitable that he will be more inclined to his own monarch. Even those wandering knights, under the same circumstances, would pay more attention to their own monarch.

However, even if Marin wants to "crash", it will take time to train young officers. Marin thought over and over again, and felt that it would take at least a year. Before that, Marin planned to temporarily borrow the wandering knights of the Teutonic country as grassroots officers when training the army in the Teutonic country.

In this way, the wandering knights under the command of Grand Commander Philip of the Teutonic Kingdom can also learn authentic advanced command methods, and Marin also has enough time to train young officers.

To this end, Marin selected 200 smart and brave teenagers from the national economy to participate in this crash course for young officers. Their task is to firmly memorize the 800 words that appear in the infantry training syllabus within one year. And when military orders are issued in the future, unfamiliar words beyond the range of 800 words will not be used. In this way, it is also convenient to unify the command in the future.

And because the one year given by Marin is too short, Marin selected 200 teenagers aged 16 to 20. However, not all of these 200 people will become officers in the end. During this period, Marin will strictly implement the elimination system until one year later, the best 40 people will be selected to serve as the grassroots officers of the 10,000 army. The remaining 160 people will be eliminated, but they can serve as team leaders who don't need much culture...

This new army, and this group of young officers, were actually prepared by Marin for his father-in-law, Archbishop Rovere. In the future, they will bring 10,000 mercenaries to escort Archbishop Rovere back to Rome, and help the Holy See attack Florence in the future. Although, they may not meet the requirements in Marin's mind. However, these 10,000 people were sent to Italy to fight. The combat effectiveness of the Italian army is generally weaker than that of the German army. Therefore, even if their tactical literacy is not enough, with the advantages of trap command method and guns, it is still enough to bully the Italians...