King of Mercenaries

Chapter 48: Make a fortune!

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After discovering that Charles VIII had escaped, Marin began to be annoyed, but soon, he realized that the French's self-confidence had collapsed...

The king took the lead in escaping. Do the rest have the confidence to continue fighting

So, Marin began to direct his French-speaking men to shout:

"The knights of France, your king, have led the ignominious flight. Do you still need to fight for such cowards? Don't die needlessly..."

"We promise to give preferential treatment to the prisoners. As long as you surrender, we will not kill anyone. The nobles will also receive preferential treatment..."

Marin quickly used the psychological warfare strategy of the later generations of the People's Liberation Army...

"In addition, we will arrange for the treatment of the injured knight brother. But don't delay the treatment time, people will die and be disabled..."

Hearing this, Earl Fryer, who led the remnant French knights to resist, changed his expression. Because, he was also worried that he would become disabled...

When a timid Baron comes to suggest surrender, Fryer quickly goes downhill and agrees to surrender...

But there are also some stubborn people who are unwilling to surrender. Unable to get away on horseback, they simply dismounted and crawled over the fallen stones. Then, these people threw away their armor and weapons, and ran away with bare hands...

"My... my lord... the French have surrendered..."

Marin was still commanding and shouting, but the French sent envoys to express their willingness to surrender...

"Is this surrender?" Marin was a little stunned, but then overjoyed.

"Quickly, go and accept their surrender. Notify Schwartz on the opposite side and make him ready to accept the surrender."

"Besides, you tell the French to put aside their weapons and horses, and stand to the left, and promise them preferential treatment of their prisoners!"

The French took a quick snapshot, and Marin hurriedly directed people down the mountain, surrounded the remaining 4,000 French, and prevented them from seeing the fact that there were only a thousand people on their side. In addition, Marin also sent people to tie up these martial arts knights. These people are all knights who are skilled in martial arts. If they resist, it will be very difficult to deal with them. Therefore, it is the best choice to tie it up first.

Then, Schwartz led his company and quickly gathered all the horses in the valley.

The horses in the valley suffered heavy losses due to the blows of stones and bows. Just for the war horses, 2,000 horses were killed and injured. The naked draft horse suffered even worse losses, with as many as 4,000 casualties.

There's no way around that, no matter how big the horse is, even stones, bows and arrows can be blinded to the horse...

After counting, Marin was pleasantly surprised to find that there were still 2,000 intact war horses and 3,600 draft horses in the valley...

"Ahahahaha, I posted it!" Marin laughed up to the sky.

You know, a war horse is worth at least 100 ducats. 2,000 war horses are equivalent to 200,000 ducats. A gold coin contains about 3.5 grams of gold, and 200,000 gold coins have almost 700,000 grams. According to the lowest price of 200 yuan per gram in later generations, it is worth at least more than 100 million soft girl coins... How can this make the dick knight Marin not very excited

In addition, those draft horses are also good horses in ordinary horses, which are only a little worse than war horses. The minimum is worth 20 gold coins a horse. 3,600 draft horses can also be worth more than 70,000 gold coins...

All in all, Marin has made a fortune, and it has made a fortune!

He hasn't finished the fun here, and Schwartz also reported back:

"What? 6,000 sets of plate armor were seized?" Marin almost fainted from joy.

You know, in this era, a set of ordinary knight plate armor costs 50 florin gold coins, which is equivalent to 50 ducats. And those wealthy nobles get plate armor, which is better made and more expensive, at least 100 ducats or more.

There are 6,000 sets of French plate armor, at least 500 of which are high-end armor worn by wealthy nobles, which are very valuable. In short, Marlin sent...

At this time, the French soldiers had already been stripped of their plate armor and turned into civilians with bare hands. At this time, they can't afford to turn over the waves...

Just in time, the sky is also bright. In summer, it dawns early, and the sky begins to light before 5 o'clock. When Count Flor saw that the "German army" who captured them was only two or three thousand people (he also regarded the group of Italian farmers as German mercenaries), he felt a little ashamed.

Marin treated these captives well, especially noble captives. Because, he learned, there was a custom in the Middle Ages to redeem captured nobles. Generally speaking, for a count, or a wealthy French count, the ransom should be at least 50,000 gold coins.

Therefore, Marin treated Earl Floor so caringly. Earl Flor's left leg was injured, and Marin personally ordered his men to bandage Flor with boiled and dried gauze.

Then, those viscounts and barons who were captured with Flor also received courtesy. It's not that Marin respects them, but that they are all gold coins!

But when it was just dawn, Marin suddenly thought of something, and told Kohler:

"Quickly, hide these horses and armor, and hide them in the valley where we hid before!"

Kohler was a little puzzled, and Marin explained:

"Those Italian grandchildren will most likely send people here to take a look after dawn. Seeing our so many trophies, don't you want to snatch them secretly?"

Kohler immediately understood, and then, with 100 of his most reliable men, he commanded Italian farmers to transport 2,000 horses and plate armor to a secret location.

On the way, Kohler also picked up 2,000 sets of plate armor and horse armor that Charles VIII took off when he escaped...

Marin was worried, and before the Italians noticed the situation here, he quickly sent someone to call Kohler back. He simply led people to escort the prisoners, and the whole army went straight north.

You know, he only has 1,100 people, and he got such a large amount of wealth at once. If the more than 10,000 Italians know about it, they will definitely be blacked out.

Therefore, in order to avoid being robbed by his allies, he directly went north with his entire army. As for the more than 1,000 Italian farmers, he was also forcibly recruited to help him transport the spoils. At the same time, weapons were also issued to let them pretend to be mercenaries.

After all, a force of 2,000 is considered a "big army" in Italy. Except for the tens of thousands of allied forces, there are basically few in Italy with thousands of people who dare to attack such a "huge" team like him. At least, there was no Marin's northward withdrawal route...