The training of the recruits was particularly tight because they were too little time. They were about to start in more than two months, so Marin could only plan to let the 5,000 recruits learn while fighting. Fortunately, the main Danish army was trapped in Sweden, and Oldenburg's country was also fighting against the five scumbags. However, these recruits could be allowed to follow the veterans to fight and practice while fighting.
Military training is mainly divided into two major items. The first item is naturally square formation training, which is Marin's specialty when he started his career. Because he is too good at it, the famous "Spanish Grand Plain Array" is now called "Malin Square Array". For this reason, Marin was proud for a long time.
The second item is siege training and street combat training, which is mainly practiced in combination with the combat needs of this time. After all, there are more than a dozen cities that need to be conquered in this attack on Denmark. Therefore, necessary siege and street combat training are also required.
However, for new recruits, the above two items are put first, which makes them appear to be a training queue, distinguishing the left and right...
Then, the tragic recruits were wearing only one straw sandals and the other foot was wearing socks...
The conditions are now better. When Marin first formed a mercenary team for training, he recruited a bunch of poor people. No one had socks, and in the middle of winter, he also trained barefootly. In order to prevent the cold, Marin had to lay thick hay on the ground.
Now, during the military training, all the new recruits in Malin were equipped with cloth socks, which were relatively cold-proof. In addition, the ground was also covered with hay, and although it was winter, they were not afraid of getting their feet frozen.
In a week, under the supervision of the whip, the recruits finally learned to distinguish left and right, and began to gradually learn to execute orders in a conditioned manner.
Then, Schwartz, a general who is good at training troops, began to train the recruits to walk in a row with a group of veterans...
However, although the queue is trained every day, it will still take some time to train musket shooting and spear stabbing in the afternoon and evening. Sometimes, two or three days later, the army will be trained to attack the city.
Originally, these events were not available during the training period of the recruits. However, because these recruits were about to go to the battlefield soon, they could only intersperse some technical and tactical training in the middle of their queue training.
When siegeing the city, people didn't train any crawling city heads because of the kind of tactics that killed and injured too much. Marin directly asked everyone to train the tactics of infantry flocking in after exploding the city gate or a section of the city wall.
After all, Marin now has sufficient gunpowder. Not only did he transport 300 tons of saltpeter back from India and 400 tons of gunpowder were installed, he also sent people to buy a large amount of gunpowder while going to southern Europe to buy lead blocks.
Moreover, many domestic fertilizer processing sites and feces ponds have also begun to scrape the slurry soil and boil the soil and slurry. Therefore, there is a lot of gunpowder in the army, with enough shells and explosives to explode the city gates or city walls.
Even Marin specially set up a blasting group led by Doni Cry, who specially trained to use the oak door as a barrier to placing and burying oak barrels filled with gunpowder to blow up the city gate.
The blasters were all strong and strong, with a large oak door on their backs and a powder barrel on their backs, and they were still walking steadily. In order to enhance the resistance of the oak door, Schwartz also asked someone to nail the appearance of the oak door that they used to block the attack, which was nailed to enhance their ability to resist attack.
Inspired by it, Schwartz found Marin and wanted to build a new army...
"What? You said you want to build a big shield soldier? Isn't that a backward military branch?" Malin was a little stunned. Big shield soldier, that's something that only purely cold weapons troops have. Do modern troops need it?
"Yes, young master, the defense of the big shield soldiers is very good. Recently, when I was training to siege, the troops always suffered great losses when they broke into the explosive gate or wall. Because the space is too small and if the infantry rushes in without protection, they will easily be harmed by the enemy." Schwartz said seriously.
"So, do you want the big shield soldiers to rush forward and resist the enemy's swords and guns?" Marin quickly understood what Schwartz meant.
"Yes, that's what it means! Master, do you still remember? When I hit Yevre Castle last time, Doni Cry rushed into the city with a large oak door. Although the oak door was broken, I had nothing to do."
When Marin thought, it was true that when he attacked the gate of Yevre Castle last time, under the tenacious attack of the enemy, twenty or thirty casualties occurred in the East Friesian army in a short time. Although the vanguards under Marin were all wearing chest armor and a helmet with masks. However, their legs, feet, arms, and waist were lacking in protection. Therefore, although not many people died, many people were injured.
However, Doni Cry, a second-hand man, rushed forward with a door, without any harm, but the door was broken by the enemy...
Thinking about this, it is really necessary to have a big shield soldier. However, the shield is not useful even if it is small. A small round shield like ancient Rome and ancient Greece is useless. At least, you have to take a riot shield like a small door. Schwartz also deeply agrees.
In this way, the weapons of these large shield soldiers were settled - oak shields the size of small doors, with a layer of iron nailed outside, and professional sword-proofing.
In addition, the attack weapon of the large shield soldiers is the sailor scimitar. In fact, according to the plan, it is difficult for these so-called large shield soldiers to hold the shield in the explosion of the city gate or the gap in the city wall to hold the shield in the left hand and the knife in the right hand. Because the shield is too big, it is best to hold it with both hands. At that time, the scimitar was hung around the waist. The large shield soldiers held the shield in both hands and crashed into the defenders in the city, using the impact force of the shield to make the opponent dizzy. Even if they want to attack, they may not be able to cut the door and test the iron sheet.
Then, relying on the impact force, the group of large shield soldiers first rushed in, occupying an open space, and putting the people behind them in. If they could no longer move forward, they would stand their shields on the ground, support them with their left hand, and pull out the scimitar at the waist with their right hand to resist. At the same time, when they waited for the support of their comrades behind them, for example, when Marin attacked the castle of Jeffer last time, the method of two soldiers carrying a musketeer forward from a high place was trained. This tactic is very vulgar. As long as the large shield soldiers in front can withstand, the musketeer can shoot forward from the air and clear out those brave enemies.
Of course, the premise for using this tactic is that the enemy is not equipped with muskets. Otherwise, a large oak shield with only one layer of iron can block the sword, but cannot block the muskets.
If the enemy has muskets, the tactics will change. After the large shield soldiers crash into the muskets, the spearmen will rush in and stab forward desperately until they are entangled with the opponent's muskets, so that their muskets cannot shoot leisurely.
But no matter what tactics are used, the big shield soldier took the lead in rushing in, but this remains unchanged.
However, the large shield soldiers are not used for many places, which means they can be used during siege. Field wars are not needed at all. Therefore, Marin and Schwarz agreed to train only 200 large shield soldiers, mainly for opening roads and covering during siege.
Because when advancing, you need to hold a large shield to hit and hit the enemy. Therefore, the requirement of the large shield soldiers is to be strong and be able to use the iron-covered oak door as a weapon to smash people, squeeze out space from the enemy and let friendly forces into the city.
Chapter completed!