Chapter 1268: Recruitment

In fact, if Marin knew Frenzberg's layout, he would have guessed this result. Why? Because there are too many coalition princes!

If you ambush thousands of enemy troops, you may be able to wipe out them. You can ambush 60,000 enemy troops on a narrow mountain road ... unless you close the door and beat the dog, you will definitely not be able to wipe it out. Because there are too many people. Even 60,000 pigs have to be killed for several days, not to mention 60,000 soldiers.

Moreover, the mountain road is narrow, and you want to chase down, there is not enough wide road to chase. Frederick III sacrificed thirty or forty thousand people, suddenly blocked the mountain road, and Frenzberg tried to chase nowhere ...

However, the coalition of princes gave up the 40,000 people, and also let Frenzberg be full. This is not to say that these people are useful, but that these people have brought a lot of food, weight and robbed gold and silver treasures.

Frederick III took the coalition forces to escape, and naturally had no time to take away the grain load and treasures, after all, the small life mattered. Therefore, on the main road to Basel, there are abandoned grain carts and carriages and carts with wheels and gold and silver treasures.

So, after deterring the remaining 30,000-thousand-thousand coalition soldiers, Frenzberg will naturally be able to enjoy the food weight and gold and silver treasures discarded on the road.

Frenzberg happily arranged to take over the food load and the gold and silver treasures, especially the military food, which was originally provided to 60,000 troops and 40,000 people, so there are countless. With this batch of military food, the Frensberg Army can eat it until next year. As for other weights and gold and silver treasures, it is not so important.

Marin once emphasized that during the war, food is king! Without food, the army would collapse and the people would starve to death. Therefore, in times of war, food is always more important than gold and silver treasures.

In fact, in the chaotic world, the reason for the sharp decline in the population is not because the people were directly killed by the chaotic soldiers, but because the people's food was robbed by the army. Then, a large number of people starved to death. The few who actually died under the butcher's knife. Of course, although the chaotic soldiers did not directly kill people, the people were starved to death because of the chaotic soldiers grabbing food. Therefore, it is no problem to count the blood debt on them.

Remembering Marin ’s teachings that year, Franzberg directly let his men **** the prosperity brought by the coalition of princes and transported the grain trucks into the town of Kostal. Then, waiting to transfer Lucerne. After the grain was shipped, the gold and silver treasures and other loads began to be shipped.

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At this time, Carl, the adjutant responsible for counting prisoners of war and casualties, came over with a bitter face. Seeing Frenzberg, Carl said depressed:

"Sir, this time our casualties are not small, close to three thousand!"

"Three thousand? Not much." Frenzberg was a little strange. Three thousand changed tens of thousands of each other, and he made a profit.

Carl shook his head and continued:

"That being said, but our casualties this time, two thousand people are elite and concentrated on the stormtroopers ..."

"This ..." Frenzberg also reacted. He took the three thousand stormtroopers to charge the enemy's most elite cavalry, and there were indeed many casualties. If the guards were desperate to guard, he might also hang up. After all, the knights on the opposite side are all masters of martial arts from an early age. Against such a strong opponent, casualties are hard to avoid. However, he did not expect to lose two-thirds of the Chargers Warriors. You know, the stormtroopers are the most elite warriors under his command. The loss is more than half, and it really makes him very painful.

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Just when Frenzberg felt sad, Carl continued:

"This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is-our army now has only 12,000 regular troops. The coalition princes escaped about 25,000 troops, and now they have no problem escaping their lives, but they can wait for them to relax and run Go to meet the French, our 12,000 people ca n’t stop it! "

Frenzberg was horrified-even if the coalition forces of the princes were poor, the 25,000 troops combined with the 20,000 elite French troops and the Swiss mountain people were elite ... I now have only 12,000 regular troops, plus more than 4,000 militia ... what……

I was only concerned about the joy of victory. Until now, Frenzberg was shocked to find that the crisis has not been lifted ...

"What should I do? What should I do?" Frenzberg paced back and forth anxiously ...

And what Carl said next made Tenzberger nervous:

"Leader of the Legion, I think Frederick III, who withdrew to Basel at this time, must have been relieved. I would also guess that our army was sent here to ambush them. Although the morale collapsed, the coalition of princes could not fight back for a short time. We. However, his subordinates worry that he will send envoys to French camps west of Lucerne to tell the French the fact that our army is not in Lucerne. At that time, the French will definitely not give up the great opportunity to capture Lucerne. "

"Then I immediately ordered 10,000 people to rush back to the city of Lucerne to help defend. As for the rest, I will stay in Kostal to take care of the seized goods and captives!" Said Frensberg.

"It's wrong, regimental commander, but we have captured 65,000 captives! Only 2,000 soldiers are left, it can't be controlled!"

"65,000 captives? So many? The valor of the princely coalition is less than 40,000 ... Isn't it ..." Frenzberg was a little surprised.

"Yes, most of the 30,000 people in the former coalition of princes surrendered. The infantry behind us have also been caught up by us. There are actually only about 7,000 coalition soldiers killed and wounded. And most of them are It was because the chaos was trampled to death, and a lot of them were stoned to death. There are not many people who actually died in battle ... "When it comes to this, Karl's expression is a little weird.

In fact, the ancient army was just like that, the defeat was like a downfall. Once you fail, regardless of whether you have more or less people, as long as you lose, the soldiers will run blind. Then, there are more deaths and injuries caused by trampling than the actual fighting. This is especially the case when a large number of troops are defeated.

"That means, we now have 25,000 soldiers captive?"

"No, it's precisely 27,000 war captives!" Karl corrected.

Frensberg was stunned for a moment, then suddenly asked:

"What kind of arms are these prisoners of war?"

Karl thought for a while and said:

"All are infantry, there are about 18,000 mercenaries, and 9,000 conscripts with low combat strength."

"18,000 mercenaries?" Frenzberg's eyes lit up suddenly. Because, he remembered a story that Marin once told ...

It was a story of 30,000 poor ghosts crossing the Yellow River to fight the invading army ...

It is said that when the 30,000 poor ghost warriors crossed the Yellow River, they were worn out, their weapons were poor, and their ammunition was insufficient. However, by attracting heroes from all sides, this army is growing like a snowball, and after a few years, it has reached more than one million people. Then, some capital began to fight for the world ...

In the story Marin tells, this originally poor army, every time it defeats the enemy, especially a troop called the "puppet army", mobilizes some puppet soldiers to join itself. If you do n’t want to join, put it back, and then capture the next time, so that it can continue to send equipment ...

In addition to this, this army also absorbs various guerrillas and even bandits. As long as the goals are the same, the foundation is not too dark, basically the comers will not refuse. So, within a few years, they have added millions of troops ...

Of course, when they absorb troops that are not very innocent, they are very particular. That is-break up the reorganization, and never let the original black soldiers maintain the original organizational system. Moreover, for the bandits and descending soldiers, the bandit leader and the generals in the descending soldiers must be cleaned first before accepting those hellos. Of course, we also plan to rearrange ...

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Thinking of this, Frenzberg's heart was hot-can I learn this trick and annex those mercenaries?

Those conscripts, Franzberg obviously looked down on, that is a group of farmers with weapons, the "cannon fodder" Marin once said.

Unlike those mercenaries, most of them are battle-hardened veterans and have certain combat qualities. Moreover, they only fight for money, and have no intention of surrendering to a certain prince.

Of course, compared to the fighters of the Habsburg "Swiss Legion" trained by Frensberg, these German mercenaries are not enough. On the frontal battlefield, Frensberg can guarantee that the soldiers under his command can completely abuse them.

However, Franzberg does not need an elite army that is directly facing the enemy, but a group of soldiers who help defend the city.

And these mercenaries with certain combat experience are the best defenders ... cannon fodder ...

Not to mention that these mercenaries are not as elite as his men, nor can they beat the French soldiers. However, if they were taken to the city of Lucerne, there was no problem. After all, relying on the city walls, these mercenaries with slightly less combat effectiveness can also play a very good effect ...

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Of course, as Marin said before, www.wuxiaspot.com ~ these mercenaries who are not loyal enough can't keep them in the original system. Because, with the leader, these people will have their own small nine and nine, become difficult to control.

So, Frenzberg decided to study the **** army in the Marin story-do n’t hire mercenary generals, disorganize those mercenary soldiers ...

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After thinking about it, Franzberg instructed the adjutant Karl Dao:

"Let's take a look at the surrendered mercenaries, I want to include them!"

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"Recruit those descending soldiers? They are unreliable. For the money, they can do everything ..." Admiral Carl worried.

"What's the matter? Didn't we seize a lot of cars, gold and silver this time? Give them! I want soldiers and horses. As long as more than 10,000 troops are added, I will have full confidence that I can defend the current defense line and no longer let it The French go one step further. Even if the remaining princely coalition forces and the French are together, they can stop it! "

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