King of German Mercenaries

As time goes into the end of the fall, Marin's expected musketeers and armorers are also recruited from Spain and southern Germany, respectively.

In order to recruit these craftsmen, Marin had a lot of trouble. Because Marin is extremely short of talent. Moreover, none of his men knew Spanish.

To this end, helplessly, Marin could only seek help from Jewish merchants who traveled throughout Europe. But tragically, Jewish businessmen have been mixed well in other countries, but they are tragedy in Spain. Because, as early as 1492, Spain (including the Kingdom of Aragon and Castilla) under the auspices of two husband and wife kings, persecuted the Jews. Except for a small number of Jews in Spain who converted to Catholicism, most of the Jews were deported, and their property was also confiscated and robbed.

Therefore, even the most powerful Jewish merchants could not go to Spain in Spain to help Marin hire a craftsman who manufactured the Musktor musket. Fortunately, a Jewish businessman came up with a solution-he came forward and asked a familiar Italian businessman to go to Spain and hire a musketeer.

In this way, after paying double commissions, Marin struggled to obtain 20 Spanish artisans who were good at making Muskite muskets.

The recruitment of armor craftsmen is much smoother, because armor craftsmen are basically from the southern part of Germany. Marin casually hired a number of articulate businessmen, and let them hire 30 armor craftsmen from areas such as Augsburg and Nuremberg.

In fact, Marin did not lack armor. In his hand, there were 1,000 sets of plate armor seized from France. However, the body plate is too bulky, only suitable for heavy armor knight equipment.

However, what Marin wanted to do was the Spanish Phalanx, mainly infantry. Therefore, even if the breastplate of the whole body is removed and worn, it is a bit bulky. In addition, bulky and light. Mainly, the waist of the body armor was restricted by the plate armor itself, and it was inconvenient to turn around and move.

Marin recruited these armor craftsmen to build steel helmets and breastplates. In addition, a chain mail belt must be created.

As an infantry, the breastplate worn is naturally a three-quarter breastplate of the two iron plates. However, this breastplate is not defensive to the waist. It would be miserable if the enemy's spearman poked at his waist. Therefore, Marin thought about it, or equipped the soldier with a chain belt that does not affect the activity, which has a certain degree of protection and does not affect the activity.

After the craftsmen arrived, Marin hurriedly imported a large number of iron ingots and chains from the United Kingdom (used to make chain mail belts), and created three sets of Muskite muskets and infantry-steel helmets and three quarters Breastplate and chain mail belt. Of course, the construction of spears and engineering spades did not fall.

After a long period of overtime, by the end of November, the craftsmen had created 200 Musktor muskets and a large three-piece infantry set.

With the equipment, the recruitment of Phalanx infantry was immediately put on the agenda ...

Marin remembered that the earliest German mercenaries seemed to be from Alsace, Wurttemberg, Baden and Tyrol, Austria. The farmers of Alsace and the mountain people of Wurttemberg were the main force of the early German mercenaries (Landsknechts).

Alsace is located on the border between Shenra and France, where the land is fertile. However, there are more people and less land. Therefore, there is a lot of surplus labor here. For example, the extra serfs driven out by the manor ...

As for the Württemberg area, it goes without saying that most of the whole area is mountainous, with many mountain people, and it is also savage. This is somewhat similar to the Swiss region. Swiss mercenaries are also basically composed of Swiss mountain people.

Mountain people living in the mountains, because they often take mountain roads, have good physical fitness. Coupled with the mountains to eat mountains, often go hunting in the mountains or something, maybe they have to fight some fierce beasts. Moreover, because the mountains are barren, they often need to endure hunger and starvation, so their willpower is good. Therefore, their ability to survive and fight is often better than that of farmers in the plains. For example, the brave Danyang soldiers of the Three Kingdoms period came from Danyang County, a mountainous area (now Xuancheng, Anhui, not the modern Danyang that sells glasses).

Kahn and Kohler are from the edge of the Black Forest in the Principality of Wurttemberg.

Marin considered that the Tyrol region of Austria is the reserved place of the Habsburgs, and people here are often more loyal to the Habsburgs. Therefore, Marin first ruled out recruiting in Tyrol.

So, Marin's choice is only Alsace and Baden-Wurttemberg. After much deliberation, Marin decided to recruit half in each of the two regions.

Among them, Kohler was naturally recruited in the Baden-Wurttemberg area. Kahn accompanied a group of soldiers to protect Kohler and was responsible for bringing recruits back to Texel.

It was Schwartz who went to Alsace to recruit troops. He will be in charge of recruiting bankrupt farmers and serfs in Alsace. The peasants in Alsace may not be as personal as the brave Wurttembergers, but they are better at obedience and discipline.

However, these serf-born soldiers were obedient, but lacked courage. Therefore, Marin needs ordinary brave Wurttemberg mountain people to drive these Alsatian farmers. The courage of the mountain people will stimulate Alsatian farmers to become more brave. And the discipline of Alsace farmers will infect those mountain people who are too free. It can be said that the two can affect each other. What Marin has to do is to mix the two, let them influence each other, and control them in a good direction.

As for the "Father of German Mercenaries", Franz Berg, Marin did not arrange for him to participate in recruiting. In Germany, recruiting is an important ability. If a person can recruit a large number of mercenaries in a short period of time, then that person will be noticed. Because this is an era when mercenaries are all the rage. Whoever has more mercenaries has more status.

Obviously, Schwartz and Kahn brothers are Marin's close friends. Cultivation of recruiting capabilities ~ www.readwn.com ~ naturally give them priority. And Fronzberg was a thug that Marin intended to give to the emperor, not Marin's confidant. Therefore, recruiting ability, an important ability in the era of mercenaries, Marin currently does not want to cultivate.

Moreover, because Marin had dug a lot of Frisian corners and recruited many Frisian fishermen, Marin was also worried that the Frisian aristocratic Republic would come to him for trouble. Therefore, Marin also needed Frenzberger, with 300 men left behind, stationed in Denburg, in case of a possible attack by the Frisian aristocracy.

At the same time, Marin promised to Frentzberg that the leader of the first square in Texel will be Frentzberg. This made the young Frenzberg excited and grateful to Marin. As for the "trivial matter" that did not allow him to recruit soldiers, Franz Berg immediately let go.

Before the Schwartz and Kahn brothers set out to recruit troops, Marlint urged-Never recruit unemployed nomads in those cities. This is because many of the unemployed nomads in these cities are of mixed origins. It's okay to let them fight the downwind battle. If they encounter a tough battle, they can easily take the lead to escape.

And the serfs and mountain people, although they have little knowledge, are relatively simple and obedient. They have a simple heart, and there are no small people from the city in their hearts. These people, as long as they are trained and flickered, are definitely a powerful military force ...