Although I have decided to use a glass greenhouse to cultivate oriental medicinal materials, there is no hurry to do so. Because the temperature is quite high at the moment, there is no need to use a greenhouse at all.

Moreover, Marin's conditions were insufficient. Because, although he brought back 50 glass craftsmen from Venice last time, he lacked an important raw material for making glass - soda.

Soda is a very important raw material for making glass, because if soda is not added, the melting temperature will be as high as 1700 to 2000 degrees. If soda is added, it will drop to around 1000 degrees, and the wood stove can also be used.

At present, the Venetians burn glass with wood stoves. In fact, there is no way to do this. Although the temperature of burning glass with coal stoves is higher. However, there is no coal mine in Italy...

In the UK, there are many coal mines, but the glass industry is underdeveloped, and the benefits of burning glass with coal have not been discovered. It will take until the 17th century that the British will find it better to burn glass with coal.

In Marin, there is no shortage of coal, and quartz sand can be bought. It is soda, which is very lacking. Soda is generally produced in the desert areas of West Asia and North Africa. Because soda is sodium carbonate, which is easy to soluble in water. The European climate is humid and naturally lacks natural soda. Only the saline-alkali lakes in the desert are abundant in this thing. The Phoenicians who discovered glass for the first time were people living in Lebanon on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. They were close to the desert area, and it was not difficult to get natural soda...

Now, because of the hegemony of the Mediterranean, it is not difficult for the Venetians to buy natural soda in the Middle East. As for other parts of Europe, if you want to make glass, you can only rely on alchemists to extract soda ash from wood ash. Not only is it small in quantity, but it is also very expensive, which also leads to high cost of glass manufacturing and cannot increase in scale.

The Venetians later declined, and in addition to being robbed by two teeth because of their business and blockade by Ottoman Türkiye, it was also an important reason.

Ottoman Turkey will occupy Egypt in 20 years, and Egypt is currently an important source of Venetian natural soda. Once the Turks blocked it, the Venetian business was difficult to do. Later, it was finally found a glass mirror to save the decline of business, and the technology was stolen by the French. Therefore, after the technical support was no longer available, maritime trade was robbed, and the natural soda production was occupied by the Turks, Venetian business inevitably declined.

As a later college student, Malin also studied chemistry in middle school and knew the "Hou's joint alkali production method" - however, this was useless, because in Hou's alkali production method, Malin could not obtain a large amount of ammonia, one of the most important raw materials. The synthesis of ammonia is a thing of the 20th century technology that requires top-level industrial equipment to be able to be produced.

Lu Blanfamarin also knows that using Lu Blanfa, there is a lot of investment in using it, and it also requires specialized chemical talents...

In fact, you are not afraid of investing in Damalin. The most important thing is the lack of chemical talents who control the reaction. Therefore, this can only be temporarily stranded.

Of course, it’s not that Marin doesn’t make glass anymore. Instead, we have to wait for this matter. After a while, Marin will send someone to Venice to buy cheap natural soda produced in the Middle East. It will buy a lot of it at a time, which is enough for a year or two...

However, that matter is not in a hurry. What Marin is most anxious about at the moment is the issue of training...

The 2,500 soldiers were all trained before. However, Marin recruited another 2,500 people in the past few months, and had enough 5,000 people. Moreover, Marin suddenly wanted to cheat on the 1,000 Friesian prisoners of war he had captured before and would not return it for the time being.

Anyway, the nine Friesian nobles who fled to the Duchy of Gedes were now extremely poor and had no money to support these 1,000 people. So Marin planned to bring them as cannon fodder soldiers and join the team attacking East Friesland.

In this way, Marin was able to gather 6,000 troops, and even if he was heading against East Friesland, there would be no big problem. In particular, among the 1,000 Friesland prisoners, there were 200 heavily armored swordsmen, who were very good at charging and street fighting, and were suitable for leading the battle.

Of course, there are many problems. The main problem is that 2,500 recruits and 1,000 Friesian prisoners of war are lacking in training.

Although Friesian prisoners of war were all veterans, they were all veterans of the feudal army of the old era and had very bad military discipline. While Marin's army was a new era with strict military discipline.

Marin was confident in training the 2,500 recruits recruited from the German countryside into a new army. However, Marin was somewhat confident in training the 1,000 Friesian prisoners of war.

Because those people are veterans and have their own set of ideas and concepts of war. When Marin trains them, they may not be able to listen.

So, after thinking about it, Marin decided to use strict military law to discipline and restrain the 1,000 Friesian prisoners of war. Anyway, under the pressure of 2,500 Texel veterans, the group of people had to consider it if they wanted to resist.

So, under the arrangement of Marin, the smartest group of people from the original 2,500 veterans were selected to train the 2,500 recruits and 1,000 Friesian prisoners of war.

Among them, the veterans who train Friesian prisoners of war are all people with strong auras. Because when facing a group of veterans, they lack aura and are easily passive.

Moreover, Malin also set up the Military Law Department for the first time, directly placed the sticks of the Military Law Department on the side of the training ground, ready to beat military sticks at any time...

The establishment of the Military Law Department made the already obedient new recruits even more honest, and there was basically no thorn to make trouble. The 1,000 Friesian veterans had thorns to resist, but they were quickly stripped of their pants and beaten with military sticks... Even if the veterans wanted to make trouble, they had to look at the 2,000 Texel veterans standing beside them...

Malin arranged a total of 500 veterans to help with training, and the other 2,000 people stood by the side in full arms, watching coldly. In fact, these people came to guard against the group of Friesian veterans who were in trouble.

Seeing the murderous 2,000 veterans who only train wooden sticks in their hands, they could only swallow their anger. Even if they wanted to resist, they had to see if they could beat the 2,000 killing gods next to them...

The training methods of 2500 recruits and 1000 Friesian prisoners of war are different. Because, Marin planned to form two Spanish phalanxes and needed to use a lot of muskets. The 1000 Friesian prisoners of war are trained according to the requirements of the Cold Weapons. Because they are also cannon fodder soldiers responsible for charging.

Marin could predict that the battle in Emden, the capital of East Friesland, must have been a very cruel street battle. The 1,000 heavy armored swordsmen in East Friesland, were not vegetarians.

If the enemy's heavy armored swordsman accidentally rushes into the crowd of musketeers, it will definitely be bad. Faced with the fierce heavy armored swordsman, musketeers who do not have much melee ability will definitely suffer great losses and may even lose their positions.

The role of the 1,000 Friesian prisoners is to let them resist the heavy armored swordsmen in East Friesland. Then, the musketeers under Marin could hide behind and leisurely fire the cold guns. Even if the heavy armored swordsmen wear chest armor, what if? In front of the Mushket musket, the knights in the armor all over the armor must kneel...

Of course, there is another very complex project that made Marin scratch his head very much. That is the issue of coordinated and unified command of the four large arrays.

Before, Marin only commanded one square array, which was naturally simple. If it was replaced with two square arrays, the command was not complicated. Two square arrays, one left and one right.

But if it is replaced by 4 square arrays, it will be a little troublesome. Because the arrangement of troops in the four square arrays has become a big problem...

For example, in the battlefield of this era, the battle formations are generally divided into three wings on the left, center and right. If there are three phalanxes, it is natural to arrange them. However, if there is an extra phalanx, Marin doesn't know where to put it to the other phalanx. Because he has never commanded the large corps to fight...

After thinking about it, Marin suddenly thought of the legendary "reserve team". Since modern wars, people seem to have become accustomed to using reserve teams on the battlefield.

The role of the reserve team is very large. For example, if the left wing of this side is defeated by the enemy, if the rescue is not promptly done, the enemy may tear apart, causing chaos in the formation and causing a full-scale defeat.

However, both the right wing or the main force in the middle are not suitable for rescue. Because as long as the middle wing or the right wing sends people to rescue, their own defense will be greatly reduced and may be captured by the enemy.

Therefore, the best rescue team is actually the reserve team. The reserve team has no mission, so when you see that there is no way to do it, just replenish it. Moreover, if the enemy has a wing that cannot be held back, the reserve team can also pull it out to increase the output and defeat the part that the enemy cannot stand.

Thinking of this, Marin finally established the arrangement of four Spanish phalanxes - the oldest phalanx, commanded by himself and stood in the middle; the second veteran phalanx, commanded by Schwarz, responsible for the left wing; then, among the two newly recruited phalanxes, a better phalanx was selected, and Frenzberg was commanded by the right wing; and Marin had not yet decided who to lead the last phalanx. However, it was a reserve team, ready to support.
Chapter completed!