Chapter 1564： Sailor Competition

It can be said that after dispatching 15,000 troops to the south, the North Sea State fell into a state of empty emptiness. Counting the 5,000 people left by the First Legion, and the 5,000 police officers transferred to Aurich, Aurich only had 10,000 warriors at this time. As for the recruits composed of 20,000 soldiers and civilians, they can only help defend the city at most, and must not be used for field operations.

Therefore, at present, the entire Beihai state is a bit illusory. Fortunately, after defeating the eight princes, Marin concentrated the former captured princes, as well as most of the nobles of the eight countries, in the Bremen region. And Steindorff ’s Third Army, half of its forces are stationed in the province of Bremen, in order to guard against the forced evangelism of the eight countries and nobles.

With the preparations of the Third Army, I was not worried about what moths were caused by the captured princes and nobles. What's more, for safety's sake, Marin simply asked Steindorff to bring the other half of the Third Army to the Bremen province and temporarily moved to Bremen to ensure that these captured princes and nobles could not escape and make trouble.

Marin's work is very beautiful. If these nobles are allowed to stay in their hometowns, they will certainly take advantage of the opportunity to see chaos if they see that the military strength of the Beihai Kingdom is empty. In the face of the chaos of the ground snakes in their hometown, Marin wants to suppress it, and the price will be great. Therefore, every time he defeated a country, he moved the main nobles of those countries to the province of Bremen. In this way, although the province of Bremen was scourge, other provinces were not in danger of chaos.

As for the 8 princely regions that were conquered last year, Marin's control over the local area is still relatively weak. However, this summer, there are probably a large number of veterans to retire. The total number is estimated to be as high as 2000 people. Marin intends to disperse the officers of these veterans to the territory of the eight vassals and let them serve as sergeants. Then, the manpower was drawn from the local people to form more police units. If there are 500 veterans serving as sergeants, each training 25 people is equivalent to adding 12.5 million police units to the North Sea State. With the presence of these policemen, and the fact that the original nobility was basically immigrated to Bremen, Marin's control of the eight princely states could be almost completed. Right now, Marin is enough to ensure that there is no rebellion in those places.

Fortunately, Marin is most fearful of the vicious French, and the main force is now all in Italy. It is impossible to threaten the North Sea country. As for those German princes, they can free their hands against themselves. It's just that they didn't die right now, and they had no reason to do it. Moreover, he dispatched 15,000 troops to go south, but he helped the Bohemian king Vladislas II, one of the seven German electors, to suppress the peasant uprising. At this time, who organized the Centaurs and Marin to get through was hitting Vladislas II in the face. In any case, Vladislas II was the No. 1 prince among the secular princes of the Shinra Empire (only because he did not love to manage, he was taken away by Frederick III, the elector of Saxony).

Compared with Marin, the nobles clearly hated the rebellious farmers more. In their view, the dispute with Marin was nothing but a hostility with different political views. For the rebellious farmers, the nobles' attitude is the same-they must be killed!

Therefore, when Marin sent troops to help other nobles suppress the peasant uprising, no one else could find an excuse to target Marin. Even if someone ignores it, it is difficult to get all the German princes together. As long as there are not many princes coming, Marin will not be afraid even if there are only two legions to guard the homeland, plus 20,000 recruits. The only worry is that the area outside East Friesland was destroyed by enemy forces. After all, this force can only protect the core areas first. As for remote areas, we can only give up for the time being ...

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However, Marin is not the only force. For example, he still has tens of thousands of sailors available ...

There are now more than 10,000 sailors under Marin's command. At the end of May and early June, maritime trade is not a peak season. Therefore, Marin simply called 5000 sailors in Emden, the largest seaport, and held a sailor contest ...

What is a sailor contest? It is very different from the competition of land infantry. Competing on land, either riding or walking. Sailor contests are completely different. Riding combat is impossible, and step fighting is also very different from that on land.

Because the sailors competed with the enemy on the swaying ship. However, the contest at Emden Port is obviously not a contest on the boat. Otherwise, the audience cannot see.

So, Marin thought of a way-he made people make huge planks, then drilled holes at both ends of the planks, chained them with iron chains, and hung them in the air. Then it became something like a swing.

However, this board is very long and wide, a bit like the deck of a boat. And after people push the swing, it is very similar to the scene of the boat shaking on the sea.

At this time, Marin asked the sailors on both sides of the contest to jump on the wide board, pull out the sailor's scimitar, and compete with each other, it is easy to simulate the battle on the ship.

Of course, the sailor's machete used in the competition must not be edged, and the blade should be wrapped with a cloth to prevent the player from hurting the opponent.

At the same time, both sides of the competition will also wear wood chip armor and a steel mask helmet to avoid accidental injuries in the competition ...

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Marin personally took the bodyguard to the square outside Emden to watch the 5,000 sailors' contest, and set a high bonus.

In addition, when the sailors jumped on the left and right broad boards to compete, Marin sent a violinist to play the theme song of the previous life "Pirates of the Caribbean"-"He is a pirate". Of course, Marin had named the song "He Is a Knight" before. However, such passionate music is extremely appropriate for highlighting sailor competitions. In fact, this piece was originally called "He Is a Pirate", which was used to show the sailors to compare the knife method on the left and right wooden boards ...

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"I announce the sailor contest, now!" Marin announced with a loudspeaker loudly, the contestants participated in the boat with wood chip armor, a wire mask helmet, and an uncut sailor scimitar wrapped in a cloth , Jumped on the wide board that was shaking left and right ...

After the referee looked at it, he announced aloud:

"Simulate the smooth sea conditions!"

Subsequently, the wide plank was shaken left and right with minimal amplitude under artificial manipulation. The two sailors in the competition, holding the sailor's scimitar wrapped in cloth, slipped forward and fought against their opponents. At the same time, the passionate "He Is a Pirate" violin sounded on the side ...

In the cheering of the audience, the two played around on the board until one was stabbed in the chest ...

Subsequently, after the referee announced the victory and defeat, he also announced:

"Now, simulate a moderate storm!"

The width of the wide plank left and right has increased, and it has also increased the difficulty of the two sailors competing. But both sides are veteran sailors. In the end, one of the sailors suddenly kicked in the fight, kicking the opponent off the board ...

Of course, the board is very close to the ground, and you wo n’t get injured if you drop the board. However, according to the rules, dropping a wooden board is equivalent to falling into the sea in a naval battle, which is equivalent to losing ...

In the end, the two sailors fought on a wide wooden board with very large left and right swings in the simulated wind and waves. This time, one of them didn't stand up, and he fell off and directly lost the sentence ...

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Then, the competitors of the other groups played in turn, and they gave the audience a wonderful simulation of fighting on board ~ www.novelhall.com ~ to let the audience see the blood. In particular, there is an exciting "He is a pirate" song on the side as a voice.

Because of this wonderful sailor contest, many East Frisian local teenagers even germinated the ideal of being a sailor. For a time, the number of students enrolled in the seafarers' school increased a lot ...

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At the same time, this sailor contest also made the foreign spies who came to watch the battle aware of one thing-even if the Second Army left the mainland, Marin could still draw thousands of skilled sailors from the sailors to guard the local .

These sailors may not be able to fight regular infantry in the field. However, in the battle of defending the city, these sailors who are good at fighting in a small space are more suitable for repelling the enemies on the wall ...

And this is the original intention of Marin to hold this sailor contest-let people know that he can still dispatch thousands of sailors to help defend the city ...

As a result, some princes, who were originally like taking advantage of the fire, dispelled some bad ideas. They understood that if they could not take the opportunity to quickly break through the city of Aurich, and remove Marin, and wait for Marin's army outside the country to react and return to the country, they will die ...