Early the next morning, after Marin got up and washed, he got a piece of black bread without soil and gnawed on it. He simply filled his stomach and went shopping.
Last night, Marin thought about it in the middle of the night, and strengthened his determination to seek refuge with Emperor Maximilian I of Shenluo. Because, although Maximilian I was a poor ghost, as an emperor, he could give himself a high enough status.
As a time traveler, and after reading so many time travel novels, I have a lot of ways to make money in my mind. But in this era of aristocratic dominance, no status, no amount of wealth can keep it.
Therefore, Marin needs to rely on the emperor to obtain a high enough social status to prevent others from coveting his wealth. And how to obtain social status (that is, title)? It's very simple, a feat!
As a graduate of the history department, Marin has read Western history and knows that in the "Thirty Years' War" that took place in the 17th century, there were two genius military strategists from humble backgrounds who became great aristocrats by virtue of their military exploits—Wallenstein and Teddy. profit.
These two big brothers were all from ordinary families of declining nobles, not the children of big nobles. However, relying on the great achievements of commanding mercenaries to fight for the great nobles, one of the two low-level nobility in the aristocratic world became a duke (Wallenstein) and the other became an earl (Tilley).
Marin may not have the talent of Wallenstein, but it is still no problem to compete with Tilly, who only relies on a "Spanish phalanx" to win the world. At least, he knows how to play the Spanish square. However, General Cordoba, the original author of the Spanish phalanx, had to wait until 1503 to figure out the prototype of the "Spanish phalanx" that spanned more than a century. And this tactic, Marin is very clear.
Even, Marin also knows the Dutch Morris phalanx, which is more powerful than the Spanish phalanx, and the Gustav line, which is close to the modern battle formation.
As for the artillery tactics of taking the dwarf, let alone. As for the tactics after the mid-19th century, it is useless to think about them. Because, there are no such advanced weapons. After all, Marin is a liberal arts student. Although he is good at science, he is not a major. So, at most he got a flintlock or something. If he wants to get a rear-loading gun, he can't solve the technique of priming. This technique requires a professional in chemistry to solve...
Of course, the above is purely Marin's YY. If you want to display your "talent", you must first get into the mercenaries recruited by Maximilian I. Otherwise, nothing is possible.
To get into the German mercenaries formed by Maximilian I, one must first arrive at Vienna, the home of the Habsburg family.
Since recovering Austria from the Kingdom of Hungary in 1490, Maximilian I moved his office from the Principality of Burgundy back to Vienna. Although the emperor often stayed in Innsbruck in western Austria, many important matters were still handled in Vienna. Such a major event as recruiting soldiers must also be done in Vienna.
Now, to join the army, one must go to Vienna. However, from Bonn to Vienna, it is about 800 kilometers away, which is more than 1,600 miles.
Marin is now wearing heavy armor and carrying a huge knight gun. Although Karl is a good war horse, with such a heavy load, he can only walk more than a hundred miles a day at most, stop and go, otherwise he will not be able to bear it.
In fact, the average plate armor knight will bring 5 attendants when he goes out to fight, to help him carry the armor and knight gun. Before the battle, he was also responsible for putting on plate armor for the knight and helping the knight onto the horse. Fortunately, Marin happened to not have plate armor pants, otherwise, he would not be able to do it by himself. Because the plate armor trousers are all metal after all, they are bulky and inconvenient, which greatly hinders the knight from getting on the horse.
Marin calculated that it would take at least ten days before he arrived in Vienna. And he has less than 1,000 Finneys left in his hand, which is not enough at all. Because he needs about 15 pfennigs a day for staying in the hotel and eating and drinking by himself (usually about 5 pfennigs are for meals, and the food is not bad). And the damn war horse Karl eats more than him, eating 10 pfennigs of feed a day.
War horses are very delicate. If the war horses are allowed to eat grass for a month without feeding their bodies, the war horses may not be able to carry a knight in heavy armor. Because the feed for war horses is mainly oats (there is no soybeans in Europe at this time, and soybeans are still in East Asia and India, and they were not introduced to Europe until the 18th century at the earliest), and they also need to beat a few eggs from time to time. These things are relatively expensive in medieval Europe, where agriculture was backward...
Marin is not a person who earns a ticket and then sits and eats. In order to reach Vienna smoothly, Marin decided to try hunting along the way to improve his life.
After all, Marin in his previous life often took a homemade English longbow to hunt in the back mountains of his hometown during vacations, and he had good archery skills.
After making up his mind, Marin began to pay attention to the shops selling bows and arrows when he was shopping in Bonn...
After shopping a few streets, Marin quickly found a weapon shop that sold bows and arrows. Looking at the dazzling array of bows and arrows in the weapon shop, Marin frowned a little.
why? Because there is no English longbow that Marin is most familiar with in the store. Later generations of Marin made an English longbow by themselves, and used it to hunt many times in the back mountains of their hometown. Therefore, for bows and arrows, Marin has only been exposed to one kind, and he is only proficient in one kind-the English longbow. Although Marin did not use yew to make the English longbow, but a very common Chinese willow, but Marin was used to the English longbow.
The biggest difference between the English longbow and other bows and arrows is that the bow body of other bows and arrows is forcibly bent and fixed, and then heated by fire to force it to fix its shape. Although this method is more efficient to make, it will damage the tension of the bow body and reduce the shooting range. If you want to get a higher range, you can only use a harder bow with a higher draw force.
The bow body of the English longbow is bent by "bow taming". The wooden sticks used to make the bow are fixed to a bracket, and then the ends of the wooden sticks are tied with ropes. Then, the bow trainer will pull the rope, hanging from a node not far away, causing the wooden bar to begin to bend slightly. After a period of time, the wooden strip adapts to the curvature, and then increases the curvature...and so on, until the wooden strip adapts to the curvature required for making a longbow.
In fact, the secrets of making the English longbow were, for a long time, uniquely British. Because the English longbowmen are the trump card of the British. It wasn't until around 1596, at the end of Elizabeth I's reign, that the British officially gave up the longbowman, that the secret of British bow training became popular. But at that time, Europe was already dominated by muskets.
However, the longbowmen were eliminated not because the longbowmen were not capable of killing, but because the training cost of the longbowmen was too high. An excellent longbowman may have to be trained for more than ten years, at least a few years.
For example, Marin was proficient in using the English longbow in his previous life, and it took seven or eight years to gradually become proficient in archery and hunting. At the beginning, Marin's archery was less reliable than that of the national football team. After all, he didn't have a famous teacher to guide him, and he practiced archery by relying on online moves. Even making the English longbow was a post I saw on the Internet around 2006, and then I made it according to the steps on the post.
Longbowmen need so much time to train, but what about Musketeers? Just a week or two of training is all it takes. On the battlefield, no matter how long you have trained, no matter whether you are shot by a bow or arrow, or shot by a gun, you will still be killed or injured.
The cost of training longbowmen for the British is very high. Even, the longbowmen became the privileged class in Britain second only to the knight class. And every death of a longbowman is a huge loss to Britain.
Musketeers are different. Any honest serf can use muskets to fight after being captured and trained for a week or two. Even if it is dead, it is convenient to replenish. The musketeers were all dead, and at worst, another group of strong men would be captured for training for a week or two. But if the longbow soldiers are destroyed in an organized way, they may not be able to recover for many years.
Moreover, the biggest difference between longbowmen and musketeers is that musketeers can deal with enemies wearing plate armor. But the longbowmen were a little helpless against the plate armor. For various reasons, the British finally gave up the longbowmen that they were so proud of and switched to musketeers.
However, the muskets shined brilliantly after the appearance of the Spanish phalanx in 1503. It's 1494, and the musketeers haven't appeared yet. Even the arquebus did not appear until around 1450.
These days, it's not like later, technology can be promoted so fast. Matchlock guns have been around for more than 40 years, and few people have noticed the excellent combat effectiveness of matchlock guns. Similarly, the flintlock gun appeared in France at the end of the 16th century, but it was not until the middle of the 17th century that the flintlock gun slowly became popular.
It’s no wonder, you know, the Middle Ages was still dominated by the church, and all scientific knowledge was actually suppressed by the church, and the speed of technology transmission was very slow. Moreover, new technical knowledge also needs to prove itself.
For example, the arquebus gun gained fame and was promoted in Europe after Gonzalo de Cordoba defeated the French army with a phalanx formed of spears and muskets in the Battle of Chalinola. Similarly, the flintlock was not valued by European countries until it shined in the "Thirty Years War".
In Europe today, matchlock guns are still rare. Even in a city like Bonn, there are few muskets for sale. There are several shops that sell bows and arrows.
Moreover, Europe's current steel technology is not up to standard, and the guns produced are always bombed. For example, King John II of Scotland died in 1460 because of a cannon explosion. In the 16th century, after the further development of European steel technology, the accidents of gun explosions will be greatly reduced.
Because he didn't have the English longbow he was familiar with, Marin had no choice but to buy a recurve bow with a pulling force of about 60 pounds and 30 arrows.
In fact, no matter whether it is the Marin of later generations or the little Marin of today, they can draw a strong bow with a pulling force of 100 pounds. Needless to say, Marin of later generations is a strong rural youth who has done a lot of farm work, so he has great strength.
In this life, Marin, although he was only 16 years old, had received martial arts training from knights since he was a child, and his strength was not small. He could draw a 100-pound bow.
However, Marin knew that a strong bow like the English longbow was fine for adults. If such a strong bow was drawn too much in adolescence, it is easy to cause bending and deformation of the posterior spine. For example, it has been verified in later generations that some medieval English longbowmen had deformed their spines because they were trained to draw strong bows since childhood.
Marin's current body is still a growing 16-year-old boy. He didn't want his spine to grow crooked because of using too many strong bows. Therefore, he chose an ordinary recurve bow with a 60-pound pull as his hunting weapon.
However, the original Marin did not remember how to use bows and arrows, and the later Marin was only familiar with the English longbow. Therefore, it took Marin several days to get familiar with the use of the recurve bow.
After testing, the effective range of this recurve bow is within 100 meters. However, the distance that can be aimed at is only about 50 meters. It may not be powerful enough to kill enemies, but it is enough for hunting.
After getting familiar with the use of the recurve bow, Marin left Bonn and started hunting with the recurve bow while heading towards Vienna...
But what made Marin extremely depressed was that for a long time, he hadn't caught his prey...
Why is this? It's very simple, Marin wants to learn Mongolian cavalry, and he wants to ride and shoot. Then, it's cups...
Speaking of which, Marin's shooting skills are very good in modern times. To be able to shoot prey in the jungle, archery is also considered acceptable.
But, that's on the ground...
Moreover, Marin used to hunt, usually with a bow and arrow, quietly touched the jungle, and after seeing the unsuspecting prey, he succeeded in sneak attack. This is basically equivalent to shooting a fixed target. For high-speed moving prey, Marin's hit rate is actually not high.
And riding on a horse and shooting arrows... Hey, it's full of tears if I talk too much...
Riding on a horse is a completely different concept from sitting in a car in later generations. The car has shock absorbers and the road is very flat. And riding a horse is bumpy up and down...
So, Marin, who wanted to play riding and archery, obviously aimed at the prey, but the horse bumped up and down, and the arrow immediately hit the handjob...
Moreover, he was riding a horse, and the sound of the horse's hooves inevitably alarmed the prey, causing the small animals to run around in advance. However, Marin is better at shooting fixed targets, but he is a little helpless against small animals that move at high speed.
For seven consecutive days, Marin failed to hit a prey by riding and shooting. Fortunately, he had some savings from selling red deer before, otherwise, he would definitely starve to death. Similarly, it is precisely because he has a little savings that he dares to play like this.
"Riding and archery is really not easy!" Marin looked worried.
Think about it, the Huns and Mongols started riding sheep and playing with slingshots at the age of five. When I grow up, it is basically equivalent to practicing riding and shooting for more than ten years. Even so, a "veteran driver" who has practiced for more than ten years would not dare to say that riding on the back of a high-speed horse can steadily shoot a running prey, let alone a novice like him
Therefore, although riding and archery is handsome, it takes years of hard training and some talent to master it. For a half-baked guy like Marin, riding and shooting is basically a bet on probability, and the prey he shoots are all unlucky ones who deserve to be hit...