Chapter 1085: Fancy selection
"Okay, I formed a Scottish Highland Infantry Corps!" Marin nodded and agreed to Edward's request. But immediately, Marin started pouring water ...
"Your Majesty, you can set up a 10,000-scale Scottish Infantry Corps for the stability of Scotland. However, this funding is a bit tight. You know, how much is the cost of feeding 10,000 troops ..."
Edward's heart suddenly tightened-yeah, want me to pay military expenses? There are no doors ...
However, he could not refuse Marlin bluntly. So, after thinking about it, Edward suddenly smiled:
"Ask for military expenses? No problem. Well, I will give you military expenses, but the officers of this regiment have the power of appointment and removal ..."
"I'm still trying to figure it out together!" Marin quickly interrupted Edward's words. Nima, the officer has the power to appoint and dismiss you, then I haven't become an army for you? How am I still busy?
Edward smiled and said in his heart-I knew that ...
After working with Marin for a long time, Edward discovered that Marin loves money more. In addition, he especially loves military power. Regarding administrative rights, it is not so focused. Therefore, military power is Marin's bottom line. Speaking of which, Marin refused to give in. As for other things, I don't care much.
If Marin knew his thoughts, he would definitely tell him that the old man knew the truth of "the regime in the barrel of a gun" as a child. As for administrative rights? Without the protection of the gun, you can be taken away at any time ...
Moreover, Marin's plan is too large, wanting the whole of England. Therefore, before the real hands-on, Marin will converge all sharp edges. Nothing but military power. In this way, even if you do it in the future, no one doubts yourself.
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Of course, Marin pushed this thunder for Edward, and it's impossible for him to have no advantage at all. Edward can't give money or anything. However, everything that does not require money is still affordable for Edward. For example, land ...
"Well, as a compensation, I will re-entitle you as Earl of the Highlands of Scotland, and the highlands of the north, all belong to you. You see, this condition is favorable? Is the Scottish Highlands so big ..."
The Scottish highlands are indeed very large, covering an area of more than 25,000 square kilometers. But after listening to Marin, instead of being happy, he almost spit out old blood ...
Why? The Scottish Highlands are indeed huge. However, he knows by looking at the name, that is the highland! Not plain or hilly! In later generations, the Kingdom of Scotland covers an area of 77,000 square kilometers, and more than 25,000 in Highland County, accounting for almost one third.
But this is useless. The population of Scotland in the later generations is 5.3 million, but the population of Highland County is only 230,000, accounting for only 1/23 of the total population of Scotland ...
Moreover, most of the 230,000 people are also distributed around several cities with narrow valleys and plains, such as Inverness. As for the vast high ground, there is actually no population.
Right now, the population of the entire Kingdom of Scotland is only about 500,000. As for the Highland County, it is said that there are only 20,000 or 30,000 people in such a large area, and most of them are herdsmen of sheep. If you want to grow food, it's so north, and it's a highland, you can't grow it. Even if it is planted in some river valleys, it cannot be scaled. Moreover, the climate change here is very complicated, rainy and low temperature. Generally crops want to grow, it seems that the light and accumulated temperature are not enough ... Therefore, most of the highlanders in Scotland can only raise animals and be herdsmen. It ’s a mountaineer and a herdsman. It ’s strange to be tough ...
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In fact, the most authentic Scottish highland infantry does not refer to the people of most of the mountainous areas of Scotland, but to the army of highlanders in the highland county of northern Scotland.
These residents living in the northernmost mountains of the British Island live in such a harsh environment. In the process of confrontation with nature, they have developed strong physical qualities and brutal and savage personalities. Therefore, after the unification of England and Scotland, the King of England liked to recruit soldiers in Highland County. This is like the later post-Golden regime. In order to obtain enough death squads, the wild boar skin sent people into the old forests of the mountains in the northeast to capture the barbarous "birth of truth" of Ru Mao and drink blood. . Anyway, the people in the bitter cold are off-road quite fierce. Just like Maozi in later generations, living in the bitter cold is much more savage than the Huaxia people in the south. Similarly, the northeastern people in the bitter cold are much more stubborn than the southerners. Boys often fight from small to large. Of course, this refers to the former poverty era. Later, China became wealthy, and the people of Northeast China were not so aggressive. Moreover, fighting to destroy people would cost a lot of money, which is not cost-effective ...
In the Highlands of Scotland, Marin is actually very complicated. On the one hand, he was happy to get the whole place of high-quality soldiers. On the other hand, the ability to send troops also means that the people here are tough and difficult to manage.
Moreover, there are few people here. With a population of 20,000 to 30,000, a maximum of two or three thousand soldiers and horses can be sent out. This person is not enough ...
So, the end result is-Marin had to gather people from other parts of Scotland to form a less authentic "Highland Infantry Legion" ...
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After discussing with Edward, Marin took people to the prisoner of war camp to select soldiers and horses.
After arriving at the Scottish prisoner of war camp, Marin asked the roster to get rid of all Scottish noble officers. Because these people are not easy to manage and have many ideas. Since it is not easy to manage, it is better not one. In addition, people with many ideas are not suitable for soldiers. The best source of soldiers is to not use your brain. When the sir ordered it, he shouted at the dude on the guy ...
Therefore, as soon as Marin came, he cleaned up those Scottish officers who were difficult to manage and had too many ideas.
Then, the second step is to clean up the veteran oil child ...
Many veterans and oilers may mistakenly think that they are veterans of a hundred battles and are elite in the army. In fact, it's not that much ...
If it is a traditional feudal army, these veterans are really important. After all, the recruits need them to bring. In the modern army where discipline can be emphasized, veteran oil seed is optional. Even these veterans who are good at escaping for survival may be a scourge in the military.
In fact, the Ming Dynasty had a great chance to establish a modern army. Qi Jiguang ’s Qi family army is a typical modern army, emphasizing discipline, and not advocating courage. It is a pity that the party struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty ruined the last Qi family army-they were dragged to the northeast and killed, without any support. In the end, they perished under the siege of the post-Golden Army and received no support.
Marin's method of cleaning up veteran oil seeds is unique-take off your clothes and look at your back ...
What do you see? Look at the wound ...
Once, Marlin read an interesting novel in his last life. Explain that in the morning, there was a general who showed off his scars and bragged about his bravery. Then, the protagonist immediately revealed his essence, proving that he was just a coward who was used to running away ...
How did you expose it? The protagonist suggested that if the warrior fought valiantly to face the enemy head-on, the wound should be on the chest or side. As a result, this man's back is wounded, but his chest is very smooth ... Obviously, these wounds ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ all fell during escape ... Therefore, this man is not a brave general, but a coward who escaped ... …
Therefore, Marin is also used here. He let those veterans of the army take off their tops for injuries-if there are many more wounds on the back than the chest, the old slippery head who is good at escape, don't want to.
In addition, veterans who have no injuries to their chests and backs, don't want to ...
Why? How can there be a wounded veteran without injuries? No injuries on his body proved that he had been hiding behind him without any effort, and even ran away early ... Even if he was a war veteran, there were always minor injuries. No injuries at all, proving that he did not participate in the war ...
What, you said that he is not easy to get injured when wearing plate armor? Sorry, the plate-wearing masters were kicked off by Marin from the beginning ... The rest are soldiers from ordinary Scottish mountain people who ca n’t wear plate armor ... Drive away decisively ...
These two types of veterans must be cleared out of the army. Otherwise, the recruits will be damaged by them.
But this selection method has greatly reduced the number of tens of thousands of Scottish troops who meet the requirements. Of the tens of thousands of people, Marin finally selected only 6,000 people, just the number of Roman legions ...
