Of course, not every seaside fishing village is suitable for large army landing. The prerequisite for large army landing is that there must be large areas of shallows in the landing area that can be wading. If they are all deep water areas and there are no coastal shallows, they cannot be wading in the water.
However, it is easy to judge whether there are shallows. Just send a few spies with good water properties to check it out. The big ship approaches, and then let the spy row a small boat near the beach, find the shallows, and wade in person to test it. Only after confirming it can the final decision be made. Otherwise, if you have hastily chosen a place that is not suitable for landing on the beach, many soldiers will be drowned. After all, not all soldiers have good water properties.
For example, the elites of Marin's first, second and third legions were mostly from the southern German mountainous areas. The mountain people were good at crossing mountains and ridges, but most of them were water ducks. However, the Fourth Legion of Saccarat was mostly English, and they were more water-related.
It happened to be the end of June and the beginning of July, and the weather became hot. Marin thought about it and decided to take the 15,000 mountain infantry soldiers who were preparing to take to Italy to the coast of East Friesland to train to wading and land, and to swim...
Land ducks are not always land ducks, and if you learn to swim, you may not be able to learn it. Especially these soldiers are still young and have strong learning abilities.
Marin drew 3,000 Friesian sailors and took turns to teach the landlaughter infantry to learn swimming. The teaching method was very simple and rough - tie a rope to the waist of the landlaughter, then throw it into the water... After drinking the water, I pulled it up, and then taught a few basic movements and swimming skills, and then threw it into the water...
Of course, this process took place on the Ames River. After all, drinking sea water is very uncomfortable. Even if the land ducks drink water, they have to drink fresh water...
There is a great horror between life and death. After experiencing many terrible experiences of drinking full water, most of the land ducks who struggled learned to swim. Only a few of the second-hand men who had no talent at all were thrown away and were pulled up every time they drank full water and were completely helpless...
But Marin didn't care. Anyway, he was not the coach of the swimming team, so he didn't need every soldier to learn to swim. It was already a surprise that most soldiers could learn to swim. After all, these infantry were just ordinary infantry, not special forces, and they generally did not use such a remote skill as swimming. Unlike this, all scouts must learn to swim. Because it is normal for scouts to cross the river to reconnaise. Can they be called scouts? Marin remembers that when he was a child in his previous life, he watched a movie "The Scouts Crossing the River" and the scouts also swam across the Yangtze River...
Seeing that the soldiers were doing well in swimming, Marin sent a fleet to start secretly transporting the 15,000 infantry to Italy. The fishing village on the Papal Kingdom had been vacated, just waiting for the army to settle in.
Calculate the time, it is probably September to transport this group of troops to Italy. Then, with the time to wait for rhinoceros leather armor, it is estimated that it will take until October to start. At that time, it was the autumn harvest season. The autumn harvest must be inseparable from people, so Marin decided not to bring the people to the strong this time. Because the strong people have to participate in the autumn harvest.
But if you don’t bring auxiliary personnel, it will be very difficult to replenish supplies. Marin thought about it and drew 7,000 sailors from the Friesian fishermen to accompany him as auxiliary soldiers.
Of course, these auxiliary soldiers did not participate in the raids of crossing mountains and ridges. Because they were not good at crossing mountains and ridges. However, they would station in the small fishing village where they landed and be responsible for supply. When necessary, they would leave the fishing village and advance from the main road to the inland to meet the main force.
Although these sailors are not soldiers, they have also undergone combat training on board and can fight on the ship. Therefore, they are not farmers without combat effectiveness. If they are pulled out to fight, they may not lose to those cowardly Italian mercenaries. However, they have only practiced the one-handed sword technique of pirates and have not practiced spear combat skills. Therefore, it is impossible to expect them to form a spear formation. However, Marin plans to provide some broken wood escapes to make them guest appearances as a sword and shield soldiers, which also has good combat effectiveness.
However, sailors' tactics are different from those of the army. The army needs to be strict and cannot move at will, and they need to act in a unified manner with their comrades. The sailors usually practice jumping ships and swaying on the deck of the ship while chopping people, and do not pay attention to uniformity and unified actions.
Therefore, Marin never regarded those sailors as regular troops. However, at sea, regular troops could not defeat them. Because on shaking ships, it is easy to stand firm with spears in both hands. Those sailors are more flexible with single swords. They can hold the boat gang or other places with their left hand and use a knife in their right hand to cut the enemy. Even some powerful sailors can pull the cables in their left hand, sway and fly over from the sky, and take care of chopping people with their right hand...
But no matter what, these sailors who are good at chopping people on shaking ships have a relatively average combat effectiveness on land. They can compete with cowardly Italian mercenaries and encounter other mercenaries, and they will not escape defeat. Therefore, this time Marin asked them to fight for auxiliary and transport supplies. Only after the 15,000 main force encountered difficulties will these people take the risk of attacking. Without special circumstances, they would stay in the small fishing village where they landed and prepare to pick up the army.
In addition, the autumn harvest and other things have nothing to do with these sailors from fishermen. Even if they go to Italy, it will not affect the autumn harvest of Beihai. If it is replaced by ordinary people, it will affect the autumn harvest.
But the 15,000 soldiers themselves have an impact on the autumn harvest. Because, during the autumn harvest, in order to rush the harvest to avoid possible rainfall, Malin will distribute half of its troops to help with the autumn harvest every year. This year, Malin has distributed half of its troops to Italy, and the autumn harvest may be insufficient... Malin thought about it and decided to second more than 10,000 people from the fishermen to help with the autumn harvest. Of course, when the fishermen help with the autumn harvest, Malin paid wages.
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However, Rome soon heard news that Maximilian I promised to send 20,000 troops south to Italy to help the Holy See create momentum. However, the other party made a request, that the time for the troops must be after the autumn harvest, that is, in October. The Austrian army drove to the vicinity of Siena, which is estimated to be November...
November, but late autumn and early winter...
This change caught Marin off guard. Why? Because if an attack was launched in November, the weather would become a huge trouble. Because the weather would become colder at that time. If you wade in the water, soldiers might get sick. Also, it would be very cold when you cross mountains and ridges in early winter and camp at night. If the soldiers were frozen, there would be no need to fight...
However, Marin had no choice. Because he could not control Maximilian I's decision. So he could only passively accept it. Then, he just wanted to find a way to avoid those troubles.
In fact, the most important trouble is that soldiers cannot catch a large cold when wading in water and climbing mountains and ridges. Because in Europe, colds may die.
Speaking of colds, Marin suddenly remembered brown sugar ginger water. This is a magical medicine for treating colds. Moreover, Marin also has ginger and black sugar in her hands, which is suitable for making ginger sugar water.
But the problem is that the army was on the way to cross mountains and ridges, and there was no condition to cook ginger candy water...
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Just so happened that on Grenada, a batch of ginger, black sugar, and dried bananas were shipped back...
Marlin was immediately inspired - dried ginger? No, it seems that there were people selling sugar ginger slices in roasted goods stores in later generations...
"Yes, sugar ginger slices!" Marin's eyes lit up. Sliced ​​ginger slices combine ginger and sugar into one, which is the dry version of ginger candy water. Eating sugar ginger slices also has the effect of ginger candy water. Eating sugar ginger slices can drive away cold and sweat, which is exactly what Marin needs for fear of soldiers' freezing. As long as you eat a few sugar ginger slices every night, you can be very careful of the cold.
Of course, Marin would not really expect to eat this to prevent colds. While preparing to make sugar ginger slices for the army, Marin also ordered the purchase of wool blankets. At that time, the soldiers would eat sugar ginger slices, wrap them in wool blankets at night, and then get together to keep warm. There would be basically no big problem. If it really doesn't work, you can also snatch the local Italian houses to spend the night along the way. Anyway, Marin doesn't want to gain a good reputation in Italy. For him, his own warrior is the most important thing.
After figuring out these, Marin began to order the acquisition of 15,000 wool blankets. At the same time, he began to order the production of sugar ginger slices.
The sugar ginger slices are very simple to make. They slice the fresh ginger, add black sugar and rub it. Then, take it out and expose it to the sun...
Chapter completed!