Chapter 473： Customize a large number of shackles

After signing the agreement with the Swiss and swearing in public, this represents a very large-scale battle in which 88,000 soldiers participated, which ended.

However, because of the fierce short-handed fighting in such a small place in the Bossa coalition camp. Therefore, the casualties this time are still relatively large.

According to post-war statistics, the Swiss lost 2,000 soldiers in this war, mainly the old weak and recruits who were lost in the rear when they were attacked by Woolf Esbrand; and Brandenburg and Saxony The army lost a total of 3,000 people, mainly because Brandenburg ’s army lost the most. Because the Saxon army was disrupted by the strong people, there was no chance of fighting head-on with the East Frisian army, and natural losses were less. However, this is nothing. Because, even though the Saxon army suffered less damage, all but 500 of the escaped knights and Frederick III himself were captured. In the end, these people will be exchanged for ransom.

Sometimes, those nobles would rather die in battle, and would not like to see them captured. Because the aristocrats are not doing well in their finances, paying the ransom will destroy the finances. The people who died are different. There is no pension in this era. If you die, you die. You can give up to honor, but the honor is not worth the money. Even if the nobles die in battle, at most let their heir succeed, and then give his heir some official compensation. The worst thing is that the noblemen were captured. As a protagonist, redemption is necessary. Otherwise, if you refuse to redeem your men, no one will fight with you next time.

In addition, when the Saxon army resisted the impact of the 30,000 civilians of Brandenburg and Saxony, they were cruel and killed two thousand civilians directly, which made Marin heartbroken.

You know, according to this situation, it is not bad that the Electorate of Saxony and the Electorate of Brandenburg can redeem the captured soldiers. As for the two or thirty thousand people, it is estimated that they have no money to redeem. By then, these people will be blackened by Marin and become subjects of East Friesland. These people are not soldiers. They are all serfs anyway. Who is it to be a serf? As it happens, Marin now needs a lot of labor to expand its territory.

Most of the captured soldiers will be redeemed, and there is no possibility of being absorbed and digested by Marin. Therefore, in Marin's eyes, the people are more precious. Therefore, for the loss of more than two thousand people, Marin is still very sad.

These are the losses on the enemy's side, and Marin's losses are not small. Because they forcibly entered the enemy's large camp and engaged in fierce melee combat with the enemy. Therefore, after this war, more than 2,500 people were injured by Marin's men.

Fortunately, because Marin's men were wearing armor. The main force wears plate armor, and ordinary soldiers also wear "mahjong mats". Because the wood chip armor resisted a lot of fatal injuries, although Marin's men were wounded, there were not many direct deaths. Only 400 people were killed. The remaining 2,100 people were all wounded. Under the treatment of alcohol, gauze and gold sores prepared by Malinte, it is estimated that more than half of the wounded will be saved.

For the wounded of the Bossa Allied Forces, Marin secretly made a difference-those injured knights who were valuable (for ransom), Marin ordered a good medical treatment. Those ordinary infantry, except for officers who can change some money, ordinary enemy infantry, gave up directly.

As for the Swiss mercenaries, Marine Lin ignored the more than a thousand wounded. After all, he did not demand a ransom from the Swiss. Since it's worthless, save a P ... Anyway, the Swiss can't get better with themselves. How many more soldiers died in the opponent, he was happy ...

On the contrary, those injured civilians, Marin has given very good medical conditions. After all, Marin also hopes to bring these civilian husbands to be serfs under his own ...

Because there were too many people, it took three days to organize the entire camp and captives. Moreover, after the victory, Marin rescued the 15,000 people sent by the Principality of Schleswig, imprisoned in the northern part of the coalition camp of Bosa. By the way, the ten thousand people who were captured in Hamburg were also dismissed home.

After being busy for several days, Marin straightened out various affairs and completed various statistics.

Then, the first thing Marin had to do was to customize a lot of shackles ...

Why customize a lot of shackles? Because, among these prisoners of war, there are too many ruthless people. If nothing else, just say that the 18,000 Swiss prisoners of war, most of them are veteran mercenaries, are all villains who do n’t blink. Such people, although Marin needs their help to dig the canal, but also to prevent them from rioting to escape.

Therefore, it is necessary to put heavy shackles on them. Otherwise, Marin is not at ease. Similarly, the knight captives from Saxony and Brandenburg also had to wear them shackles to prevent them from rioting and escaping. After all, no matter which knight is a strong presence in martial arts from an early age. If there are no restrictions, they are rushed to the canal-digging site and the possibility of escape is extremely high.

Putting them on heavy shackles not only makes them run fast, but also can't escape on horseback. It is very easy to be caught up by Marin's cavalry while walking on foot with shackles.

Moreover, wearing these fetters with shackles will allow them to recognize the reality and dare not resist and run away. In this way, Marin can also send fewer soldiers to supervise their labor.

For those infantry captives, Marin decided to customize the iron shackles only to the officers and elites. Those old, weak and sick, only intend to wear wooden shackles.

As for how to distinguish between elite and weak in infantry, that is too simple. As long as they are captured by the throne, they can be distinguished by seeing whether they are in the front row or the back row. At this time, the habit on the battlefield in Europe was to veterans and elites in the front row, and most of them were weak and recruits in the back row.

For the remaining people, Marin did not intend to shackle them. As long as a few light cavalry are sent to watch, even if there are only a few hundred cavalry, it is enough to deter the 28,000 people. Because, the strong men from serfs did not have the courage to resist ...

Finally, after statistics ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Marin found that 25,000 pairs of iron shackles were actually needed. This figure shocked Marin.

You know, this era is not the era of large-scale machine production. Every pair of iron shackles needs to be carefully crafted by a blacksmith who is proficient in making locks. Generally speaking, to build a pair of shackles requires a blacksmith to manually build for several hours. In one day, a skilled blacksmith couldn't make several iron shackles ...

So, this is a big order. Even if the order is placed, it will take a long time to receive the goods. After all, it takes a long time for blacksmiths to make so many shackles.

Obviously, there are not so many blacksmiths under Marin. With the army, there are only dozens of blacksmiths. Moreover, most of them are not proficient in making locks.

In desperation, Marin had to borrow the techniques of some leather bag companies in the previous life-outsourcing ...

Marin's men are short of blacksmiths, but there are two large commercial cities of Lübeck and Hamburg nearby, as well as some other cities. In short, every city, even every small town, should have a blacksmith who is proficient in building locks.

When the time comes, the merchants of Lübeck and Hamburg, who have a wider reach, will help themselves to contact the blacksmiths everywhere, and they should soon be able to put together 25,000 pairs of iron shackles.

Because there were too many fierce men in the prisoners of war, Marin did not dare to neglect it. Every day, he arranged a large number of soldiers to take turns to prevent someone from escaping.

In order to better control these prisoners of war, Marin isolated those strong and weak from the old and weak, and directed tens of thousands of civilians to build a huge earth fence, driving the most dangerous 25,000 prisoners of war into the fence. Then, send troops every day to keep a close watch on the surrounding walls to prevent dangerous elements from escaping.

Only when the custom-made 25,000 pairs of iron shackles arrive, can you easily control the dangerous elements, Marin will safely divide the soldiers and **** these prisoners back to the country to participate in the excavation of the canal ...