Marin required very strict discipline, basically reaching the level of modern army. But this also made many mercenaries dissatisfied. However, Marin told them that if they did not work hard, they might not be able to pass the emperor's selection. If they could not pass the emperor's selection, they would not be able to receive salary, and they would not be able to make a fortune in Italy.

Thinking of the bright prospects of robbery in the rich Italian, these people endured it. They had heard of some legends of half-true and half-false mercenary predecessors, such as a mercenary who rushed into the house of a wealthy Italian businessman when a city-state in Italy captured a city, robbed a lot of money and had gold coins in his pockets.

Marin also used the imagination of an online writer to fool them hard and fabricated many legends in the mercenary world. According to legend, a mercenary group that captured a large Italian city, everyone became rich, took the great beauty, and reached the peak of life...

These fake news made these novice mercenaries who had never seen the world excitedly. In fact, they had no way to judge whether the news was true or false. After all, these days, the information was extremely closed. They could not verify the truth or falsehood that Marin said. Therefore, they were all fooled by Marin, and then they worked hard to receive training like Marin's abuse...

It took 20 days to train the battle and turn training alone. After that, Marin, the "demon", began to toss them in the middle of the night, and something was going to be an "emergency gathering". A whistle sounded in the middle of the night to represent the enemy's attack on the night. All personnel must put on their clothes, get their weapons, and gather in front of the barracks within 5 minutes. Moreover, no one is allowed to make noise during this process, except for the officers who shouted commands. Otherwise, military law will serve.

The reason for doing this is to train soldiers to deal with the enemy's night attacks. In the middle of the night, the military camp is most taboo to make noises. If you don't do it properly, the camp may roar.

The camp roar is very terrifying. In many cases, small-scale troops launch night attacks, resulting in serious chaos and even collapse of the attacked army.

The reason is actually very simple - in the middle of the night, everyone can't see the situation in the distance. Once attacked, everyone doesn't know how many enemies there are, or even who the enemy is or in which direction. Once they are panic, fear will spread. Once fear spreads, it may cause morale collapse. Then, the soldiers will flee in all directions, or even trample on each other, regardless of how many enemies there are.

Therefore, Marin demanded that even if it was attacked at night, loud noises would be prohibited, and noise would be prohibited to avoid the spread of fear. It would be easy for everyone to calm down. Moreover, if everyone does not speak, it would be easy for the officers to speak out and command. Once the battle formation is formed, the morale of the army will stabilize and can also be counterattacked.

However, this made the mercenaries unable to stand this. Often, they slept soundly, and then suddenly remembered the whistle. When they heard the whistle, they had to get up from the warm bed and wear it quickly, and then took up their weapons to go to the barracks to join in. If it was slow, they would be beaten.

As mercenaries who are not afraid of death, they are full of resentment, but every time Marin beats the disobedient guy, he immediately tells them about the prosperity of Italy and the beautiful prospects of robbery... Then, everyone falls into YY and forgets their dissatisfaction...

Schwartz, who was determined to become an officer, was extremely impressed. Secretly, Schwartz began to learn and imitate everything about Marin. He found that although Marin was not as tall and strong as himself, he was not even as good as his martial arts. But Schwartz felt ashamed of himself...

Marin also made adjustments to the situation when he was on duty. According to the convention of medieval Europeans, the so-called nighttime is to arrange several sentries at the gate of the camp, which are usually rotated every 4 hours.

Marin knew this mechanism very well, and it was full of loopholes. Not to mention anything else, many war movies I had watched in previous lives would have a few very good people who would doze off while the sentry was on the night and use a dagger to kill the sentry. Then, the entire military camp was tragic...

In modern times, in addition to the open whistles at the door, there are usually several hidden secret whistles near the camp gate. The reason for setting up secret whistles is that they are afraid that the open whistles will be touched and there is no time to warn.

For this purpose, Marin selected several soldiers and lie in a tent near the camp gate. Without lighting the lights, he only left a gap to observe outside, and the shift was also changed every 4 hours.

The soldiers naturally complained very much about this, and Schwartz, with a respectful mind, tried hard to write down these methods in a small notebook. If it weren't for not having a diary and a ballpoint pen, Schwartz might have written down all this on the spot. After all, what he is using now is a quill, and he has to put it into an ink bottle to suck it before he can write a few words.

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When everyone's queue was trained so that everyone could keep their formation and move forward quickly, Marin finally began to train the specific battle formation.

Originally, the formation chosen by Marin was the Spanish square formation - this is the most suitable condition at the moment. However, the number of people in his hands was too small to form the square formation at all.

After thinking about it, Marinsi decided to take these 100 people to the Spanish square formation, but not to create a complete square formation, but only train the two or three rows of line formations at the front of the square formation...

Marin did not divide them into rows of 20 archers. Because the archers did not have much loading time. If they were not aiming at the point and killing, but just "barrassing", the archers could quickly shoot out all of a gun (30) in one breath. Of course, most people would lose their strength for a period of time afterwards. But after a break, they could continue.

Because the archers are fast, Marin puts 20 archers in the middle of the first row first. The distance between the archers is about 30 cm. Unlike the archers, they cannot be too close. Because the archers' fuses are tied to their arms. If they are too close to each other, their fuses may burn to the side of the gunpowder bag with their backs, which may easily cause major safety accidents. Therefore, the spacial quadratic space between horizontal soldiers is generally 1 meter. The archers do not have that kind of danger and can stand closer to each other. As long as they do not squeeze into each other, they can keep a certain gap.

After experiments, it was found that the power of 20 archers shooting together was very good. Of course, because the number of people was limited, it was impossible to form the effect of "arrows like rain". However, using it to deal with hundreds of opponents can definitely cause considerable damage.

However, after group confrontation, Marin also discovered a problem - if the enemy rushed to the front, the archers were quite fragile and were basically slaughtered by the opponent's spearmen.

For this reason, Marin thought about it and later thought of a solution - he lined up two rows of spearmen in front of the archers. When fighting, the two rows of spearmen in front of the archers sat underground first to avoid blocking the archers' vision.

When the archer completed the shooting and shot out all the 30 arrows in the quiver, the commander gave the command, the spearman in front of the archer stood up and formed a spear formation to block the possible assault of the enemy.

In this way, the enemy's idea of ​​using spearmen to slaughter archers close to each other will fail. Moreover, if the archers hiding behind the spearmen recover, they can take a few steps back, face 45 degrees in the forward direction, and use bows and arrows to shoot, and attack the enemy's spear formation from above.

After Marin's research, Marin lined up 80 spearmen in two rows, each with 40 people. Behind the 20 people in the middle are archers in a row.

The archers are responsible for shooting arrows in the quiver before the enemy rushes up, but if the opponent's army charges too fast and is too close to the original formation, the officer will promptly order the archers to stop shooting archers, and the two rows of spearmen with 40 people in front of the archers will stand up at the command. The first row of spearmen raises the spears, and the second row of spearmen will put the spears on the shoulders of the first row of people to defend against the enemy's attack.

Then, the archers took a few steps back, estimated the position of the enemy's military formation, and shot arrows into the air in front to attack the enemy's military formation, causing damage. The longer the front spearmen are headed, the more they will cause more damage. If it takes a long time, the enemy will definitely retreat or collapse due to excessive casualties. Of course, the premise is that the front spearmen must withstand the enemy's impact and not be torn apart.

To this end, Marin hired a blacksmith from the town to build 40 engineer shovels for him, specifically used to dig trenches in front of the battle formation to block the enemy's impact, especially the cavalry's impact.

In order to block the possible attack by the enemy cavalry, the trenches dug by Marin in front of the formation are generally divided into two trenches, with the two trenches being only 2 meters apart. If the enemy crosses the first trenches, they will appear on a 2-meter-wide area. In this area, it is within the attack range of the front row spearmen. Whether it is the enemy's war horses or infantry, they must have a foothold after crossing the first trenches. At this time, the front row spearmen stabbed the spears, which would definitely make the opponent unable to resist.

Moreover, in order to prevent enemy shelling, digging out the soil from the trenches will pile into a rectangular pile of soil behind the two trenches.

Once the enemy uses artillery to attack first, everyone will lie on the ground, hide behind the pile of soil, and beware of artillery. These days, artillery fires are all solid bullets, and infantry cannons are mostly used for flat shooting. As long as they lie on the pile of soil, they will basically not be hit by artillery shells.

Moreover, on the mound in front of the formation, Marin also learned from the English and was filled with pickets to block the enemy's impact. Even if there was no time to dig a trench, Marin would quickly insert pickets to block the enemy's impact, especially the enemy's cavalry.

Of course, this is just a remnant formation. Because there are not enough people, Marin can only line up two rows of spearmen. In fact, this thickness is insufficient. Because in a truly cruel battle, the first two rows of spearmen are easily consumed and more rows of spearmen are needed to supplement it.
Chapter completed!