Chapter 1292: 10,000 Italian mercenaries
Marin's courage is not so great. After all, he is the one who died once, and he is even more desperate. Moreover, the rich have more lives than the poor. Why do the poor mountains and evil waters produce elites and people? Because they have nothing, they can only die. But wealthy people, everything, there is no need to desperately.
The same is true of Marin. When he first traversed, he had nothing. Naturally, he only had to work hard to win wealth. To this end, he designed an ambush of 8,000 knights in France, and there were only more than 1,000 recruits. If the French calm down, they can kill him. But after he succeeded, especially after becoming a prince, there was no need to be too risky. Only when I went to Daming, because I was obsessed with my heart, did I risk it.
Therefore, Marin used the "reconstruction" of the Second Legion as an excuse to return half of the real Second Legion, but he was actually afraid of death. After all, an army is indeed not very safe against more than 40,000 enemy forces. With the 5,000 veterans of the Second Legion, let alone defeat the enemy, at least it can support until the reinforcements arrive.
Moreover, the "reconstruction" of the Second Army also has a role-that is, to make the princes of the Eight Kingdoms more convinced that the original Second Army and Third Army did indeed rebel. Otherwise, the North Sea State does not need to "rebuild" the Second Army.
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Sure enough, as expected by Marin, the eight princes were all very happy when they heard the news of Beihai's "rebuilding" the Second Army ...
"It seems that the opponent's skills are poor. This reconstructed second legion is said to be basically the people who originally transported grain. What fighting power can we have? We will win this war!" Brunswick-Wolfen Henry, Duke of Bittel, rejoiced.
"However, I heard that out of the newly recruited 10,000 people, not all are men, there are a thousand people. It is said that they were former straw hat swordsmen, but they were the elite of East Friesland. It is said that this army The army that defeated the Old Kingdom of Oldenburg in 1483 forced the Earl of Gerdold VI of Oldenburg to abdicate and give way to his son Adolf. "Henry Duke of Brunswick-Duke of Lüneburg.
At this time, Count Gaelden (formerly Duke of Geddes Charlie) Charlie interjected:
"Master Henry, I have heard about this. However, it was not because the straw hat swordsman was too strong, but because East Friesland had united the army of the Bishop of Münster at that time, and defeated the old country of Oldenburg. . "
"Moreover, those straw hat swordsmen were the elite of the Syxner family. After Marin seized East Frisian Lambert, they did not trust them and left them idle. That is to say, those straw hat swordsmen had not been at least 10 years old. I have fought a war. I used to be strong, and now I am at least 30 or 40 years old. I have already started to go downhill. "
"What ’s more, even if they are still at their peak, our Galden warriors are not afraid of them. If this battle is the second legion that dares to go out of the city for a decisive battle, our army of the State of Gelden is willing to take the lead in attacking this second legion and confront them directly Straw Hat Swordsman! "Charlie, Earl of Galden, swore.
In fact, he also played tricks-the real elite of the Beihai Kingdom is the First Army, and the first army is just right. And against the newly established Second Legion, even against the 1,000 straw hat swordsmen, Earl Charlie is worthwhile. This is because the army of Geldenberg was learned from Swiss mercenaries and had a strong combat effectiveness. Although it can't keep up with the serious Swiss mercenaries, it is stronger than the average German mercenaries. It is okay to confront the 1,000 straw hat swordsmen head-on.
As long as his 3,000 Veds veterans can defeat those 1,000 straw hat swordsmen, then the recruits of the Second Army of the North Sea Kingdom are no longer opponents ...
Sure enough, the princes agreed to see Charlie, Earl of Gelden, take the initiative to fight. And the 3000 elite veterans of Geldenbo also took the opportunity to avoid the strong enemy of the First Army ...
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Just as the eight princes discussed how to deal with it, on the sea, a fleet of people transported many people, and they had already crossed the English Channel and were close to the mainland of the North Sea ...
Where does this fleet come from? Who is transported on board?
It turned out that this fleet was the transport fleet of Beihai. It was the mercenaries who came back from Italy that were shipped on board ...
Italian mercenaries? That ’s right, the legendary Italian mercenary with the same fighting power! Moreover, the number is as large as 10,000!
This 10,000 Italian mercenaries was requested by Malinte. Of course, not to ask them to help defeat the Eight-Power Allied Forces, but to perform as a group show to prove that Beihai is really "poor".
If there are enough soldiers and horses, why should the North Sea country go to Italy to hire Italian mercenaries that are less combative than German mercenaries?
The 10,000 Italian mercenaries hired by the Beihai Kingdom justify the dilemma that the Beihai State has no soldiers available-but where there is a chance, which German princes are willing to hire Italian mercenaries with ordinary combat effectiveness?
Therefore, the role of these 10,000 Italian mercenaries is to set off the desperation and helplessness of the North Sea ...
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Marin annexed eight hostile princes and never worried about war issues. The only thing that worried him was legal matters.
Therefore, Marin must not allow the princes to see the fact that the Beihai State set the princes on the eight princes. Otherwise, even if Marin annexed the eight princely states, the princes of the Imperial princely courts could deny the legitimacy of his annexation of the eight princely states on the grounds that he "deliberately framed his opponent".
To this end, Marin spared no effort to play a big game of chess and used various methods to express the current misery of the North Sea. The more miserable the earlier performance, the less visible the other princes are.
Therefore, the 10,000 Italian mercenaries are clearly the "group performances" that Marin has cost a lot from Italy. Their main role is to show the helplessness and despair of Beihai. Even, people mistakenly think that this is the final "bottom card" of Beihai ...
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Moreover, since it is used to "show weakness". Then ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ These 10,000 Italian mercenaries will naturally not choose any elite, but specially selected the cheapest mercenary groups in Italy ...
This Italian mercenary is made up of 11 larger Italian mercenaries. And the biggest feature of these 11 Italian mercenaries is-cheap ...
In Italy, mercenaries are divided into three, six, and nine. The most expensive Italian mercenary, the commission per person per day is 5 Finney. Its combat effectiveness is also comparable to the upper middle German mercenaries.
The cheapest mercenaries are those with low combat effectiveness. For these people, the daily commission is only 2.5 Finneys, which is cheaper than the daily 3 Finney of the German mercenaries. As for combat effectiveness ... it is slightly stronger than the militia ...
This kind of cheap Italian mercenary, their biggest role is actually to help defend the city. After all, when defending a city, you don't need how strong the soldiers are, as long as the combat strength is above the average.
Moreover, while Marin hires this group of Italian mercenaries with low combat effectiveness, it will deliberately leak the details of this group of Italian mercenaries to the princes of the Eight Kingdoms so that they can be more confident and arrogant ...
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