Chapter 74： Big shield

The training of recruits is particularly tight because there is too little time. There are still more than two months to be promoted, and Marin can only plan to let these 5,000 recruits learn while playing. Fortunately, the main Danish army is stuck in Sweden, and Oldenburg is also a scumbag. It can allow these recruits to follow the veterans while practicing.

Military training is mainly divided into two major items. The first one is naturally square matrix training, which is a good show from Marin's start. Because it is so good, the famous "Spanish phalanx" is now called the "Marin phalanx". To this end, Marin was proud for a long time.

The second item is siege training and street combat training, which is mainly combined with the needs of this combat practice. After all, in this attack on Denmark, there are more than a dozen cities that need to be overcome. Therefore, the necessary siege and street combat training is also needed.

However, for the recruits, the above two are released first, which looks like a training queue and distinguishes the left and right ...

Then, the sad recruits wore only one pair of straw shoes, and the other feet wore socks ...

Is now in good condition. When Marin first set up a mercenary team for training, he recruited a bunch of poor ghosts. Everyone had no socks. The winter is also barefoot training. In order to protect against cold, Marin had to lay thick hay on the ground.

Now, during the military training, Marin's recruits are equipped with woolen socks, which are relatively cold-proof. In addition, the ground is also covered with hay, although it is also in winter, I am not afraid of freezing my feet.

For a week, under the supervision of the whip, the group of recruits finally learned to distinguish the right and left, and began to gradually learn to execute commands reflexively.

Then, Schwartz, a general who is good at training, began to take a group of veterans and train new recruits to walk in a queue ...

However, although the daily training queue, in the afternoon and evening, there will still be a period of time to train musket shooting and spear assassination. Sometimes, two or three days apart, you have to train a large army to siege.

Originally, these items did not exist during the recruit training period. However, because this group of recruits will soon be on the battlefield. Therefore, they can only intersperse some technical and tactical training in the middle of their queue training.

During the siege, everyone did not train any climbing heads, because of that kind of tactics, the casualties were too much. Marin directly let everyone train the tactics of infantry swarming in after the explosion of the city gate or a section of the city wall.

After all, Marin now has plenty of gunpowder in hand. Not only did he return 300 tons of saltpetre from India, and deployed 400 tons of gunpowder, he also sent large quantities of gunpowder while he went to buy lead in southern Europe.

Moreover, in many domestic fertilizer processing plants, manure ponds have begun to scrape nitrate and boil nitrate. Therefore, there is a lot of gunpowder in the army, and there are enough shells and explosives to explode the city gates or walls.

Even, Marin specially set up a blasting team headed by Donnie Curry, specially trained against the oak door as a barrier, and ran to the city gate to place and bury oak barrels filled with gunpowder to destroy the city gate.

Blasters are all strong and strong, with a large oak door and a gunpowder barrel on their back. In order to enhance the resistance of the oak door, Schwartz also let them give the exterior of the oak door they used to block the attack, nailed the iron skin, and enhanced its resistance to attack.

Inspired by it, Schwartz found Marin and wanted to build a new arm ...

"What? You said you want to build a large shield soldier? Isn't that a backward army?" Marin was dumbfounded. The Great Shield Soldier, that's something unique to pure cold weapon troops. Do modernized troops need it?

"Yes, Master, the defensive strength of the large shield soldiers is very good. Recently, when I was training for siege, when the troops burst into the blasted gates or walls, they always suffered a lot. Because, The space is too small, if the infantry rushes in and lacks protection, it is easy to be injured by the enemy. "Schwartz said seriously.

"So, do you want the large shield soldiers to rush forward and resist the enemy's swords and guns?" Marin quickly understood Schwartz's meaning.

"Yes, that's what it means! Master, do you remember? When you last played Jever Castle, Donnie Curry rushed into the city with a large oak door, although the oak door was broken , But I'm fine. "

Marin thought, really, when the last time he entered the gate of Jever Castle, under the stubborn resistance of the enemy, within a short period of time, the East Frisian army suffered 20 or 30 casualties. Although, the forwards under Marin are wearing chest armor and helmets with masks. However, the legs, feet and arms, including the waist, lack protection. Therefore, although not many people died, many people were chopped.

It was the second thing, Donnie Curry, rushing forward carrying a door, without any harm, but the door was cut by the enemy ...

Thinking so, the Great Shield Soldier is really necessary. However, the shield is too small to use. Small round shields like ancient Rome and ancient Greece are useless. At least, you have to get a riot shield like a wicket. In this regard, Schwartz also strongly agreed.

In this way, the weapons of these large shield soldiers were fixed-the oak shield of the size of the small door, nailed with a layer of iron skin, professional anti-sword cut.

In addition, the shield soldier's attack weapon is the sailor's machete. In fact, according to the plan, it is difficult for these so-called large shield soldiers to hold the shield in the left and the knife in the right when they hit the gap of the blasted city gate or the wall. Because the shield is too large, it is best to hold both hands. At that time, the machete was hanging around the waist. The big shield soldier, holding the shield with both hands, slammed into the defender in the city, using the impact of the shield to knock the opponent into a dizzy turn. Even if you want to attack, you may not be able to cut through the door and test = that layer of iron sheet ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Then, relying on the impact force, the group of shield soldiers rushed in first, occupying an empty area, and put the people behind. If they could no longer move forward, they stood on the ground with their left hands propped up, while their right hands pulled out the scimitars around their waists to resist. At the same time, wait for the support of the comrades in the back. For example, during the last attack on Jever Castle, the method of two soldiers invented at the scene of Marin carrying a musketeer to shoot forward from a height was specially trained. This tactic is very tedious, as long as the large shield soldiers in the front can withstand it, the musketeer can shoot forward from the air and clean up the brave enemies.

Of course, the premise of using this tactic is that the enemy is not equipped with a musket. Otherwise, only a large shield of oak covered with iron skin can block the sword, but it cannot block the musket.

If the enemy has a musket, the tactics will change. After the big shield soldiers collided in, the pikemen would then rush in, desperately stab forward until they were entangled with the opposing musketeer, so that the musketeer could not shoot leisurely.

But no matter what tactics are used, the big shield soldiers holding the big shield to take the lead and rush in, this is unchanged.

However, there are not many places used by the large shield soldiers, that is, they can be used during siege, and field battles are not needed at all. Therefore, Marin and Schwartz agreed to train only 200 large shield soldiers, mainly used to cover the road during siege.

Because during the advance, you need to hold a large shield to hit and smash the enemy. Therefore, the requirements of the large shield soldiers are that they must be strong enough to smash the iron door covered with iron as a weapon, and squeeze the space from the enemy army, and let the friendly army enter the city.

Therefore, Schwartz selected 200 Hercules, formed a large shield soldier, and spent all day training how to use his hands to hold the iron shield to smash people and crowd out ... Out of scimitar and people desperately ...