Chapter 977： Variations and sugar **** slices

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Of course, not every seaside fishing village is suitable for landing by the army. The prerequisite for a large army wading to land is that there must be a large shoal in the landing area that can be wading. If they are all deep-water areas and there are no coastal shoals, it is impossible to wade and land.

However, it is easy to judge whether there is a shoal, as long as you send a few spies with good water to investigate. The big ship approached, and then let the spy paddle a small boat close to the beach, looking for the shoal, and personally wading to test. Only after the confirmation is made can the final decision be made. Otherwise, if you rashly choose a location that is not suitable for beach landing, it will drown many soldiers. After all, not all soldiers are very water-based.

For example, the elite of Marin ’s 1st, 2nd and 3rd legions are mostly from the southern German mountains. Mountain people, good at crossing mountains and ridges, but most of them are dry ducks. It's the Fourth Army of Saqqara. Most of them are from England.

As it happened, it was the end of June and the beginning of July, and the weather became hot. After thinking for a while, Marin decided to take the 15,000 mountain infantrymen who were ready to be taken to Italy, all to the coast of East Friesland, training for wading landings, and swimming

Dry ducks are not always dry ducks, if you learn to swim, you may not learn. In particular, these soldiers are still young and have strong learning abilities.

Marin transferred 3,000 Frisian sailors and took turns teaching the dry duck infantry to swim. The teaching method is very simple and rough, tie the rope around the waist of those dry ducks, and then drop the water ... After drinking enough water to pull up, teach a few basic movements and swimming skills, and then drop the water ...

Of course, this process is carried out on the Ames. After all, drinking sea water is very uncomfortable. Even if the dry ducks were to drink water, they had to drink fresh water ...

There is a great horror between life and death. After many terrible experiences of drinking plenty of water, most of the dry ducks who struggled learned to swim. There are only a few of them that do n’t have any useful talents. Every time they are thrown away, they are full of water and pulled up.

But Marin didn't care. Anyway, he was not the coach of the swimming team and didn't need every soldier to learn to swim. Most fighters can learn to swim, it is already a surprise. After all, these infantry are just ordinary infantry, not special forces, and generally do not use such a rare skill as swimming. The difference is that all scouts must learn to swim. Because it is normal for scouts to cross the river for reconnaissance. Can't swim, can it be called a scout? Marin remembered that when he was a child in his last life, he watched a movie Crossing River Scouting. The scouts of other people also swam across the Yangtze River ...

Seeing that the soldiers were swimming well, Marin sent a fleet and began to transport the 15,000 infantry to Italy secretly. The fishing village on the other side of the Papal State has been vacated, waiting for the army to settle in.

Calculating the time, the shipment of these troops to Italy is estimated to be September. Then, plus the time to wait for the rhinoceros armor, it is estimated to wait until October to start. At that time, it was the autumn harvest season. The autumn harvest must be inseparable from people, so Marin decided not to bring the people strong this time. Because the people of Zhuang must participate in the autumn harvest.

However, if you don't bring auxiliary staff, the supply will be very difficult. Marin thought about it, and from the Frisian fishermen, 7,000 sailors were recruited to accompany him as an auxiliary soldier.

Of course, these auxiliary soldiers did not participate in the raid over the mountains. Because they are not good at crossing mountains and mountains. However, they will be stationed in the small fishing village that landed and will be responsible for supply. When necessary, they will also leave the fishing village and advance from the road to the inland to meet the main soldiers.

These sailors, although not soldiers, have also been trained in combat on board and are able to fight side-by-side. Therefore, they are not farmers without combat power. If you pull out to fight, you may not lose to those mercenary Italian mercenaries. However, they have only practiced the one-handed sword technique of the pirates and have not practiced the spear combat technique. Therefore, it is impossible to expect them to form a spear phalanx. However, Marin intends to provide some broken wood escape, let them come to visit the sword shield soldiers, but also have good combat effectiveness.

But sailor tactics are different from those of the Army. The Army needs to be strict and not to move casually. It needs to act in unison with its comrades. The sailors usually practice jettison gangs and chopping people on the ship's deck. They do not pay attention to uniform and unified actions.

Therefore, Marin never regarded the sailors as regular soldiers. However, at sea, the regular army can not beat them. Because, on a shaking ship, the two-handed spear can easily stand unstable. Those sailors are more flexible with single pole. They can hold the boat gang or other places with their left hands, and hack the enemy with their right hands. Even some powerful sailors can pull the cable with their left hand and fly from the sky, and the right hand also takes care of cutting people ...

But in any case, these sailors, who are good at chopping people on shaking ships, reach the land, and the combat effectiveness is relatively ordinary. You can also break the wrist with the Italian mercenaries and meet other mercenaries. Therefore, this time Marin is to let them play auxiliary, transportation and supply. Only after the 15,000 main force encounters difficulties, these talents will take risks. If there are no special circumstances, they still stay in the small fishing village to make preparations to meet the army.

The other thing is that the autumn harvest has nothing to do with the sailors from these fishermen. Even if they go to Italy, it will not affect the autumn harvest of the North Sea country. If it is replaced by ordinary people, it will affect the autumn harvest.

But the 15,000 soldiers themselves had an impact on the autumn harvest. Because, during the autumn harvest, in order to grab the harvest and avoid possible rain, Marin will allocate half of the troops every year to help the autumn harvest. And this year, Marin divided half of his troops to Italy, and the autumn harvest may be short of manpower ... Marin thought about it and decided to second more than 10,000 people from the fishermen to help autumn harvest. Of course, the fishermen helped the autumn harvest, and Marin paid the wages.

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However, Rome soon came the news that Maximilian I promised to send 20,000 troops south to Italy to help the Holy See build momentum. However, the other party made a request that the troop dispatch time must be after the end of the autumn harvest, which is October. The Austrian army approached Siena, it is estimated that November ...

In November, but late autumn and early winter ...

This change caught Marin by surprise. Why? Because if the attack is launched in November, the weather factor will become a huge problem. Because at that time the weather will become colder. If it is a wading landing, there may be soldiers sick. Also, during the early winter season, it will be very cold when camping at night. If the soldiers are frozen, there is no need to fight ...

However, Marin has no choice. Because, he can't influence the decision of Maximilian I. Therefore, he can only passively accept. Then, it was a way to avoid those troubles.

In fact, the main trouble is that soldiers cannot catch a large area cold while wading in land and staying overnight in mountains and over mountains. Because, in Europe, a cold can be deadly.

Speaking of a cold, Marin suddenly remembered brown sugar and **** water. This is a magic medicine for colds. Moreover, Marin also has **** and brown sugar ~ www.novelhall.com ~ is conditional to make **** syrup.

But the problem is that the army had no conditions to cook **** syrup on the way across the mountains ...

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Exactly, on Grenada, a batch of ginger, brown sugar and dried bananas were shipped back ...

Marlin suddenly received a revelation and dried ginger? No, it seems that there are sugar **** slices sold in roasted meat stores in later generations ...

"Yeah, sugar **** slices!" Malin suddenly lit up. Sugar **** slices combine **** and granulated sugar into one, which is a dry version of **** syrup. Eating sugar **** slices also has the effect of **** syrup. Eating sugar **** slices can drive off the cold and sweat, which is exactly what Marin needs to be afraid of the soldiers freezing. As long as you eat a few sugar **** slices every night, you can largely prevent the cold.

Of course, Marin would not really expect to stop the cold by eating this. While preparing to make sugar **** chips for the army, Marin also ordered the acquisition of wool blankets. When the time comes, let the soldiers eat the sugar **** slices, wrap the wool blanket at night, and then everyone gathers together to keep warm. It's really not possible. You can also grab local Italians' houses along the way to spend the night. Anyway, Marin didn't want to build a reputation in Italy. For him, his own fighter is the most important.

Having figured this out, Marin began ordering the acquisition of 15,000 wool blankets. At the same time, began to order the production of sugar **** slices.

The production of sugar **** slices is very simple, just slice the fresh **** and knead with black granulated sugar. Then, take it out and expose it ...

Finally, the prepared sugar **** slices are sealed in a paper bag at high temperature. Then, ship to Italy. Of course, it is not currently available to soldiers. When the wading landings and raids begin in November, they will be distributed to the soldiers. Moreover, the amount will be strictly regulated to prevent the soldiers from eating it all at once. After all, the taste of sugar **** slices is indeed not bad ...

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