Marin's troubles didn't last long, and the troublemaker Simon helped him solve the problem...

"Brother Marin, what are you thinking? He is frowning..."

"I'm thinking about the soldiers..." Marin said casually.

"Aren't you a big mercenary leader? Go and hire more people to help you fight!" Simon said naively. In Simon's eyes, as long as he spends money, someone will come to help fight. He has tried the feeling of a rich man holding gold coins. He held gold coins in his hand, and the merchants in the town immediately nodded and bowed to him.

"Hold someone... Yes, I almost forgot that I am also a mercenary general. If I don't have soldiers, I will hire myself... But where can I hire me?" Marin was distressed again.

It is not difficult to hire soldiers. The economy in Germany is generally poor, and some are poor people who want to join the army. However, it is difficult to hire soldiers with rich combat experience...

Simon heard Marin's self-talk and interrupted unintentionally:

"I heard that Swiss mercenaries are invincible in the world. Brother Marin, why don't you hire some Swiss mercenaries to help you fight?"

"Hir Swiss?" Marin was stunned for a moment...

In Marin's subconscious, Swiss mercenaries have always been regarded as enemies. The reason why Marin set up the Spanish phalanx was to attack the Swiss mercenaries at its peak and gain great military achievements.

However, Marin seemed to have forgotten that so far, Marin's troops have not collided head-on with Swiss mercenaries, nor have they killed a Swiss mercenary...

In other words, the relationship between Marin and the Swiss is completely a passerby...

As for the hatred between Marin and the French King Charles VIII, what does it have to do with the Swiss? Anyway, Marin trapped the authentic French knights, not the Swiss.

Moreover, the Swiss were not French, so they didn't feel embarrassed about the French King. Speaking of which, because Charles VIII secretly left the Swiss mercenaries to escape last time, it made the Swiss angry. Many Swiss mercenaries even felt a little secretly happy about Marin's plot against Charles VIII.

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Marin suddenly realized and realized that he had great enlightenment - I had not yet made enemies with the Swiss, and he had automatically marked the Swiss as hostile relationship. It was so 2...

In fact, the Swiss did not have any personal grudges with Marin. For example, the Swiss and the Habsburg family were mortal enemies.

At the time of the Luxembourg Dynasty ruled Shenluo, it tried hard to suppress the Habsburg family, the competitor of the throne. In order to suppress the competitor of the throne, the last emperor of the Luxembourg family, Sigsmond, the last emperor of the Luxembourg family, gave others his generous gifts to the local lords and parliament of the Habsburg family, the "ancestor" of the Habsburg family in Switzerland, and other Swiss fiefs that originally belonged to the Habsburg family, to all of them for money to the local lords and parliament of Switzerland.

Since then, the "old gangster" Sigismund deliberately instigated the conflict between the Swiss and the Habsburg family, making the Habsburg family and the Swiss enemies.

As a famous young thug under Maximilian I, Marin naturally made the Swiss unhappy...

Sure enough, when Marin rushed to Switzerland with 70 subordinates, 10,000 gold coins borrowed from Hoffman Manor, excitedly, he was treated coldly.

However, the Swiss were mercenaries fighting for money and would not really not do business. Because King Charles VIII was burdened with huge debts and the great damage caused by the defeat in the war, they could not continue to pay commissions for war in the short term. Therefore, the Swiss would be in a state of no employment for a long time.

Although Marin was a minion of the Habsburg family, the Swiss finally decided to accept Marin's employment. However, given the unfriendly identity of both sides and Marin's rush to hire a military force that could be fought, the Swiss then set a price on the ground and doubled the commission price...

You should know that the price of Swiss mercenaries is already high. The current salary of ordinary mercenaries is 3 Finneys per day, while the salary of Swiss mercenaries is 6 Finneys per day. Now, they offer double salary, which is actually to ask Marin to pay 12 Finneys per day.

What is 12 Finney? That's a shilling! You know, during the North American War of Independence, the price paid by the British to German Hesse mercenaries was only 1 shilling per day. That was the end of the 18th century, 200 years later, after the "price revolution" of soaring prices...

Nowadays, Europe still lacks gold and silver, and its currency value is still very high. The Swiss ask for 1 shilling every day, which is like a lion opening his mouth...

But in order to quickly obtain the warable mercenaries, Marin had to bear this tone and agreed to the outrageous Swiss quotation of 1 shilling per day.

In fact, German mercenaries were much cheaper at this time. Generally, there were a lot of people willing to do 3 Finneys every day and 2 Finneys every day. However, German mercenaries had just emerged and there was not a mercenary group that had been through battle for a long time. Recruiting a group of German mercenaries, it would take several months to train to fight. But now Marin lacks the most time. He had to hire Swiss mercenaries who had been through battle for a high price to solve the problem as soon as possible.

Afterwards, Marin selected 3,000 well-equipped Swiss veteran mercenaries with strong combat effectiveness at this price and signed an employment contract.

The contract stipulates that Marin hired these 3,000 Swiss mercenaries for two months, with a total contract price of 36,000 gold coins. Among them, Marin paid a deposit of 8,000 gold coins in advance and was responsible for the food expenses of the 3,000 army...

In this way, 3,000 warlike Swiss veterans followed Marin and quickly drove to the Netherlands to strive for quick support to Texel Island...

Because Marin's salary is high enough, there are still many Swiss veterans who are willing to serve Marin. These veterans will naturally have wallets when they fight too much. Therefore, their equipment is also better. For example, 1,000 of these 3,000 Swiss mercenaries were equipped with helmets and breastplate. In order to help them transport the helmets and breastplate, Marin had to hire several carriages...

At the same time, not all of these Swiss mercenaries use spears. There are also many mercenaries who use long halberds similar to hooks and sickles (used to hook horse legs) to deal with cavalry. In addition, many people also carry "can openers" against plate-armored soldiers - mace hammers...

Marin was also very happy to see that this group of Swiss veterans had such complete tools. Although his Spanish phalanx could also deal with plate armor soldiers, he relied heavily on muskets. Once the muskets failed, it would be difficult for the spearmen to harm the enemy wearing plate armor.
Chapter completed!