Chapter 75： Our army and allies

While Marin was preparing, Lübeck and Hamburg were not idle. Marin's 10,000-strong army in the Teutonic Kingdom had already transported 9,000 people to a hidden manor outside the city of Lübeck. As for the 1,000 cavalry, they did not arrive temporarily, but waited until the last few days.

Because there are many horses in the cavalry. As long as the infantry hides its weapons, it can disguise itself as a migrant worker. The cavalry is difficult to disguise, only because their horses are too tall.

Therefore, the 1,000 cavalrymen had to wait for the last batch to be transported to avoid prematurely attracting the attention of the Danes. After all, whether it is Lübeck or Hamburg, they are on the edge of the Principality of Holstein, and they all belonged to the Principality of Holstein before.

In particular, Hamburg is actually closer to Glückstadt, the capital of the Principality of Holstein. Gluckstadt is also at the mouth of the Elbe River, closer to the estuary than Hamburg. However, Marin's army cannot be deployed in Hamburg. Just because there are so many people here, it's too close to Gluckstadt. Not to mention anything else, but to transport the army to Hamburg, you must take the Elbe route, passing Gluckstadt, it is easy to attract the attention of the other party. Therefore, it is better to stay in the territory of Lübeck.

Because transporting the army from Teutonic to Lübeck, it is only necessary to walk through the Baltic Sea, without passing through the Øresund strait controlled by the Danes or passing the Elbe Gluckstadt.

As for the distance of 60 kilometers between Hamburg and Lübeck, the army can only rely on long-distance raids. There are no shortcuts. Fortunately, Lübeck promised to rent 4,000 horses from the neighboring area, so that the most elite 4,000 people of the East Road Army could quickly reach Gluckstadt and capture it before the local army in the Principality of Holstein responded. This city.

In addition, Hamburg City also secretly recruited 5000 mercenaries. However, in order to prevent Holstein from being aware, 3,000 mercenaries were specially sent to East Friesland to bring Marin together. The remaining 2,000 mercenaries were arranged in a country manor outside the city of Hamburg for secret drills.

When Marin learned that Hamburg was going to send 3000 mercenaries to East Friesland, his head was full of black lines-what's wrong, this was a hot potato that I lost ...

The mercenaries hired by Hamburg are not novices, but veterans. Although, these veteran mercenaries have a certain combat effectiveness. However, these veteran mercenaries also have a common problem-easy to harm the people ...

It can be said that many ordinary mercenaries of this era are villains. It ’s just their habit to burn and rob.

In order to guard against the troubles of these 3000 mercenaries, Marin sent 2,000 veterans. Since their entry, they have been accompanied and monitored closely ...

Sure enough, after this group of guys entered the rich East Friesland, they began to be dishonest. Seeing that the black bread people eat in the farm is softer and better than the black bread they often eat, these **** want to grab it. This is a trivial matter. The key is that some mercenaries see the big girl and his wife in the manor, and they want to bully ...

The East Frisian veterans who watched them were unhappy-in East Friesland, it was a serious offence to molest women. Seeing that there were mercenaries who actually wanted to drag their eldest girl into the woods, the soldiers immediately rushed up and beat the arrogant guy into a pig's head. It would be normal to kill them if they were not afraid of being friendly.

This time, the horse honeycomb was poked, so a huge group rack opened ...

Maybe knowing that the other party is an ally. Everyone threw away his two-handed sword and spear, rolled up his sleeves and started an empty-handed fight ...

When I first started contacting, I rushed to the front with a few young East Frisian veterans, and when I was working with a few experienced veteran Yuzi mercenaries, I suffered a loss. After all, those veteran Yuzi can live to this day, and their personal martial arts are very good.

But while playing, these burger mercenaries were unconsciously surrounded by East Frisian veterans ...

At the commander's direction, the East Frisian veterans were very good at a group of three, a group of 10, interspersed from the side, dividing the Hamburg mercenaries into several small pieces, each of which was in the East Frisian veteran Surrounded by ...

The result was that 3000 burger mercenaries were divided and surrounded by 2000 East Frisian veterans ...

Slaps, more and more burger mercenaries have bruised noses. When these veterans who had lost their combat effectiveness were let go, they were shocked to find that they were actually surrounded ... But, the Hamburg mercenaries who had not been defeated had not yet realized this.

The officer Weizmann, who was sent by Hamburg to lead this group of mercenaries, was still watching the lively side, but when he saw that 3000 Hamburg mercenaries were hurt by 2000 people in East Friesland, he finally couldn't sit still. So he quickly found the knight of Gratsk, the commander of East Frisian who was also watching the bustling side, and asked to stop.

Then, Gratsk blew the assembled birch whistle, and the East Frisian veterans quickly withdrew from the battle group, forming a neat line, leaving the ground full of burgundy mercenaries. Although East Frisian veterans also have a lot of bad swollen noses, but most people are still relatively intact.

"Even fighting is so professional, it really is a strong army!" Hamburg officer Weizmann said with emotion.

As for the mercenaries hired by the hamburgers, after a cruel meal, they were honest, and no longer dared to do anything. Of course, Marin did not treat them badly. The clay-free “Kohler bread” (a soft brown bread mixed with grass bran and wild vegetables) was enough, but these guys were very happy to eat.

Marin did not intend to teach them these new things, just let them train according to the previous training methods. Malin went to see it and found that these guys inserted a lot of wooden posts and grassmen in the barracks. Then, holding the spears and two-handed swords one by one, holding the momentum against the stake and the grassman. After holding back to a certain level, he shouted, lanced the spear at the grassman, or cut the two-handed sword at the stake ...

All in all, this group of guys are constantly practicing their fighting skills. However, the queue is not trained. For their commanders, as long as they maintain a loose formation and do not run apart, they are qualified ... As for the rest, it depends on their personal martial arts ...

Marin watched their training and shook his head. However, he was not interested in pointing these guys. Because, he knew that these people were just a group of villains who saw money. Teach them, and do no good for themselves. Perhaps one day, these guys were hired by Marin's rival. If they use what they have learned from themselves to deal with themselves, they will lose a lot ...

Marin ’s mercenaries are different from them. When Marin recruited mercenaries, he never wanted those old mercenaries, but only recruited ordinary rural youth. The general requirement is that the character is honest, strong, and courageous. The most important thing is obedient. As for the veterans and the young men in the city, Marin strictly prohibited recruitment. Even if he recruits those wandering knights, Marin only picks young, simple wandering knights who are away from home. The middle-aged wandering knights of the old fritters, Marin is also grateful.

Coupled with Marin's strict military discipline and long-term education, as well as the professional brainwashing disciples educated by Assistant Bishop Taylor in the past year, they preached and brainwashed them every day, resulting in the veterans of Marin not only admiring Marin, but also discipline And high quality.

Moreover, Marin promised that after they have served for 10 years, they will acquire their own land in East Friesland, and settle down here ~ www.novelhall.com ~ to obtain local household registration and become a self-cultivator with land property rights.

Of course, if these people ran with someone else halfway and were hired by someone else, then they would not be eligible ...

But generally speaking, the veterans of Marin, under the brainwashing education of Taylor's disciples, and the long-term strict discipline, they have become accustomed to life as a soldier under Marin. Moreover, Marin treated them well, never hungry them, never owed their salary, and provided them with softer "Kohler bread" for them to eat. Every holiday, there is an extra meal. For example, salted fish, pork or something. Therefore, there are basically no people who want to leave here.

Two different troops are stationed in the territory of Lyle County. The two camps are close together. When the mercenaries on the side of Hamburg got up in the morning and shouted at the grassman and the stake, the veterans of East Friesland had already carried their backpacks and ran 5 kilometers per day.

In the East Frisian Army, in addition to rain and snow, the soldiers must run 5 kilometers each morning and evening to exercise physical fitness. So, now the East Frisian veteran, marching 40 kilometers a day, is light. If you march in a hurry, you can reach 60 kilometers per day. Of course, after an urgent march, the whole army must eat braised pork to make up, otherwise the next day will not be enough.

Of course, this is a veteran. As for the 5,000 recruits, Marin had little hope for them. They have not yet adapted to the physical exercise of 5 kilometers each morning and evening. It's not been a year and a half, and you can't run that far in a day. So, after the war began, Marin planned to let the 5,000 recruits march with the 3,000 mercenaries in Hamburg in East Friesland. On the one hand, it is considered that they are inadequate, on the other hand, it also incidentally monitors the 3000 veteran oilseeds in Hamburg, so that they will not have moths on the road ...