Chapter 385: Corps of england

In Newcastle, England, the 2000 Morgan Frisian Guards led by Sacrament has successfully established a foothold and started to organize a large number of personnel to resume the development of local coal mines.

At this time, Newcastle City was already extremely depressed. Anyone who has a way has long fled Newcastle City. It's just that the people who escaped are very sad-they all left on foot.

Because, at the beginning, the Scots not only robbed the food, but also killed the livestock, including the horse-drawn carts of the rich in Newcastle. Of course, the wealth of the rich family has also been robbed.

However, the rich are ultimately rich, and their social circle is much broader than the poor. Many rich people have their own industries in London. There are also many people who have relatives and friends in the south. Moreover, when the Scots were robbed, they were not so careful. Some wealthy people still had some gold and silver jewelry, which were hidden in secret places and were not found. Therefore, those wealthy people can also live a relaxed life as long as they bring gold, silver and jewelry to areas with grain in the south. However, if you want to pull out Newcastle, you can only rely on walking. Those men are okay, as for women, children and the elderly, it is difficult. Therefore, even in rich families, many people died halfway through the desert, especially the old, weak women and children. Because they have no food, halfway through the food-free areas, money has no effect. Only those rich people who have successfully arrived in grain-stricken areas in the south can get alive.

The wealthy people in the city ran away, so the remaining urban residents were mainly handicraftsmen. In order to obtain food, some local women in Newcastle were forced to find soldiers under Saqqara and seek a physical transaction to obtain food.

In Newcastle, coins are now not universal. The only common thing is food. Now, as long as a piece of dark bread, you can sleep to the most beautiful girl in the local area ...

However, Saqqara is from the authentic East Frisian army and is very important to discipline. Moreover, in the Eastern Frisian military discipline, there are harsh military laws that "do not stigmatize women." Therefore, Saqqara strictly prohibits soldiers from doing such transactions with those women, so as to avoid military discipline from being corrupted.

Of course, if the soldier is free to fall in love with an unmarried girl, Saqqara will not interfere. In addition, soldiers and women who have a legal "body selling license", Sakara also allows soldiers to deal with them. But the premise is that this woman will prove no disease.

Due to the strict implementation of the military discipline in East Friesland, many women from local families who intend to "go to sea" have lost access to food. So they thought of a way to find a former clerk in the city who had not escaped (in fact, this buddy did not escape because of inconvenience in legs and feet) and elected him as the temporary mayor. Then, the interim mayor, Eduro, issued a "Body Selling License" to 1500 women in one day. In this way, Newcastle suddenly added 1,500 legal women.

Strangely, the husbands of these women actually defaulted ...

Why? At this time, if there is no food, the whole family will starve to death. Obtaining food from the "Morgan Chamber of Commerce Guard" is almost the only means of survival. So, in the face of life, what is some honor and disgrace?

So, in the next time, some special tents appeared near the military camp in Saqqara, which was used exclusively for certain transactions. The price of each transaction is two pieces of black bread, and then, as the temporary mayor of the license, Eduro will charge a small corner of a piece of black bread as "tax". Although there are few, a small corner of many slices of bread add up to more than one bread.

In this way, the food of the temporary mayor Eduro's house is not worrying at all ...

And those women who do business can also bring life-saving food to their families ...

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Sakala did not say anything after knowing the situation. However, he expressed unlimited contempt for the men whose default wives were engaged in special occupations, and prohibited the army from recruiting such men who were seedless.

In fact, in order to survive, many English farmers came to Newcastle to seek food as soldiers. Soon after, Sakala recruited 10,000 horses in accordance with Marin's request. Among them, there are 5000 farmers familiar with archery.

In fact, the 5,000 English farmers who were proficient in archery were not selected as official longbowmen.

In England, the Longbowmen are a special class between the cavalier class and the civilian class. They have some political privileges and will be given more land than ordinary people by the state.

Moreover, the most important thing is that the English Longbowmen were selected from ordinary people. Therefore, becoming a longbowman is the only way for ordinary people to be promoted to the "great" class. Since Edward III ordered archery for all people, many farmers have practiced archery in their leisure time in agriculture, in order to be selected into the official Longbow Army and obtain certain privileges and land.

Of course, the selection of longbowmen is very high. It requires the longbowmen to be more than 1.75 meters long (because the longbow itself is 1.5 meters long, people who are too short can not control it), and it also requires enough strength to fill the bowstring and shoot 12 long arrows in one breath. Every time it is full of bows. At the same time, there are certain requirements on the quasi-head.

It is precisely because of these high demands that, despite the fact that England ’s three million population and almost all people archery, the longbowmen who were really selected into the king ’s army are often only about 10,000.

Of course, this does not mean that only 10,000 people have met the requirements. Rather, the Royal Family of England cannot afford much longbowmen ’s military expenses. Therefore, the number of longbowmen recruited generally does not exceed 10,000. Otherwise, it will not be enough financially.

Therefore, among the 5,000 farmers who are good at archery selected by Saqqara, there are a thousand of them who meet the requirements of longbowmen selection. Another 4,000 people are either not tall enough or some other reason. Of course, the level is not bad, otherwise Sakara will not choose them.

As for the other 5,000 English farmers, they are more honest and honest, but still fairly strong. Moreover, their main feature is-relatively obedient ...

Such people can easily be trained as elite soldiers, as Marin said. Of course, when selecting, Sakala and his officers will carefully observe when they are fighting ...

What to observe? Observe whether these people are brave when they compete, and are they afraid of being injured ...

Why is that? It's very simple. It's a desperate place on the battlefield ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ It takes a lot of courage. If you are too timid when you are fighting, you can easily escape on the battlefield. Those who are not afraid of being injured when selecting contests are more likely to fight desperately on the battlefield than to run away like a coward.

Therefore, the people selected by Saqqara, especially the 5,000 people who are going to be trained as spearmen, are strong, honest, and brave farmers.

Their task is to use a spear to resist the enemy's attack and cover another 5,000 archers to shoot the enemy. When the enemy is sufficiently hit by the archer, the 5000 spearmen also have the task of charging forward and completely solving the enemy.

Therefore, in the 10,000-strong English Army, those 5,000 strong, honest, and brave farmers are the real main force. As for the other 5,000 archers with good archery ability, it can only be regarded as fire support, and the requirements are not so high.

After recruiting these 10,000 troops, the highly ambitious Saqqara launched rigorous military training for these 10,000 people and used the Spanish phalanx to train these people.

Of course, the original Musketeer was replaced by Sakara as an archer. As for where the bow and arrow come from? Newcastle's interim mayor Eduro said something-he opened the arsenal in Newcastle City and found 3,000 spare longbows. Although not enough, it can be used. As for the shortage of 2,000 bows, Saqqara has already sought out specialized talents to speed up the construction.

Because there was no time to train the bow slowly like the traditional method of making long bows in England, Sakhara directly let the craftsmen use the roasted bow body to shape the ordinary bow to make the ordinary bow. Although this affects performance, many people in the bow and arrow hands are originally unable to meet the selection criteria of the English long archers. Using the next-level bow is just right ...