After Maximilian I was ready, he also informed Marin early. In early May, when Maximilian I sent troops from Innsbruck, Marin also led 300 cavalry south to prepare to "rescue the horse".

Of course, on the surface, Marin did not go to "rescue the car", but instead went to the emperor to respond to the emperor's call and "marcheted into Rome" with the emperor.

If he really wanted to accompany the emperor to fight, Marin sent a phalanx of infantry formations, which would be worthy of the emperor. Because he was just an earl from Xiaobo Kingdom, and he had to be on guard against neighboring countries, he naturally could not send out the main force.

However, the infantry phalanx was too slow to travel, and Marin knew that this time it was not for a war. Therefore, he simply brought 300 cavalry south. The 300 cavalry, in terms of function, was no smaller than an infantry phalanx.

Moreover, 200 of these 300 cavalrymen are the newly formed "Black-shirt Knights" by Marin. The reason why Marin brought them with him this time was to train troops by the way.

Because the Black Shirt Knight has just been formed and lacks training. It’s not that these people have no combat qualities. After all, these people are also selected from the army, and most of them were musketeers in the past. However, when they are running and firing, they still have to maintain their formation and run into semi-rotation, which does require more practice.

So, along the way, Marin supervised the Blackshirt Knights to practice shooting and running half-swivels. However, because the number of clockwork firers provided by Da Vinci was really limited, the second batch only had 30 of them. Therefore, the Blackshirt Knights now have only 50 carbines in total, which is only enough to equip 10 people.

This is also impossible. It takes a lot of time to build a steel clockwork. Therefore, it is already good to be able to make 50 clockwork ignition carbines with several great craftsmen.

There is no way to expand production. Leonardo da Vinci once proposed to hire more craftsmen who are good at building clockwork to participate in the manufacturing of clockwork and fire fire guns. But Marin did not agree at first, because the craftsmen hired could easily reveal the secrets.

Just the master Italian watchmakers hired by Marin made Marin very worried. He sent spies to follow him every day, afraid that they would leak the secrets. If he hired more craftsmen, it would be too late to keep an eye on others.

If you want to be safe, it is better to use craftsmen from serfs. They are serfs, they are not allowed to leave casually, and they are easier to control. Unlike those original craftsmen, they are all middle-class people in the city and even have the right to vote, and they are all difficult-to-serve masters.

However, it takes too long to train some talented serfs to become great craftsmen who are good at building clockwork.

In the end, Marin chose a compromise plan - to go to cities such as Nuremberg and Milan and hire some craftsmen who are good at making clockwork.

However, these craftsmen were only responsible for building steel clockwork according to the requirements given by Leonardo da Vinci. They did not participate in other parts of the clockwork fire. After these craftsmen built the clockwork, Leonardo da Vinci took a group of trainee craftsmen to assemble the clockwork, steel columns, flint, trigger and insurance systems, as well as barrels and wooden brackets, with rivets and screws.

In fact, in the entire clockwork, other parts are easy to build, and ordinary craftsmen can do it. Only steel clockwork is more difficult to build.

Leonardo da Vinci once discussed with Marin, and Marin also proposed the concepts of "modularity" and "standardization". As long as the components of the clockwork firer are subcontracted to craftsmen who are good at manufacturing a certain component, they can not only improve quality, but also be more efficient. Of course, strict process standards must be formulated. For this reason, Leonardo da Vinci led people to make a batch of vernier calipers, intending to use them for everyone. Especially for the barrel, Marin requires that the caliber must be unified.

When the craftsmen hired to build stainless steel clockwork are in place, as long as they get enough steel clockwork, as many clockwork can be assembled as many clockwork firearms.

However, that is the future. For now, the black-shirted knights under Marin could only use the Mushket musket first.

However, the Mushket musket was too bulky and was not suitable for shooting immediately. So Marin had to train them first in the way of the later "dragoons".

The so-called "dragoons" are not the cavalry riding dragons in the novel, but just a group of musketeers riding horses. In order to strengthen their mobility, these musketeers ride horses on their way. However, after arriving at the battlefield, they arranged horses to be taken care of by people, and the musketeers were dismounted one after another, and there was no difference between the fighting style of infantry musketeers.

However, during the journey, Marin arranged some black-shirt knights every day to use the only 50 carbines every day to practice shooting while the horses were running. In order to let everyone feel the riding and shooting of the musket, Marin simply asked the black-shirt knights to carry a carbine each to practice the musket version of riding and shooting. 200 black-shirt knights, 50 people in groups, change every day, and take turns to practice and feel the riding and shooting of the musket. Others practiced the dragoon tactics from time to time to confirm the tactics that Marin learned from the Internet in his previous life, so that it would be convenient to really form a dragoon in the future.

Because Marin planned to replace the horses with the Polish cows he bought. Therefore, in winter, thousands of horses might be freed up. In addition to some who were pulled to breed mules with donkeys, Marin really planned to choose some horses and form the "Dragon Cavalry".

Anyway, the Dragoons' horses have no requirements at all, they only require that they can carry people to travel. When they arrive on the battlefield, the Dragoons will dismount directly to fight, and the horses will be left behind.

Therefore, Marin had the conditions to train musketeers into dracos. As expected, while rushing, Marin asked the black-shirt knights to practice musketeer cavalry tactics, and also allowed the black-shirt knights who were not assigned carbines to practice dracos tactics, providing example references for Marin to form dracos to discover and solve problems.

As for the 200 Blackshirt Knights, there are 100 scouts led by Saul. This unit is not a front-line combat force, but it is very important. Of course, in terms of horse fighting skills, they are much better than the group of musketeers selected by Malin. Because they formed a relatively early stage, they were Marin's accompanying guards very early. In addition to learning half-baked reconnaissance skills with Saul, they also have to learn to use the knight's light sword to fight and charge on horseback.

This time, Marin brought them with them to feel the mountains and terrain of Switzerland and train their vision and reconnaissance ability. After all, it may be possible that one day Marin will bring a large army to Switzerland to help the emperor fight. Marin had a strong feeling-one day, he would lead the army to compete with the Swiss mercenaries...

Not only that, taking 100 scouts with him can also greatly improve the safety. Because, there are also people who set secret wards at night, and there are a large number of them. During the day, there are reconnaissance cavalry guards in front, back and left and right of the main team of Marin, and each of them brings several Chinese double-sounding firecrackers "designed and manufactured" by Marin. As long as the enemy situation is discovered, a double-sounding cannon will explode into the sky, it will produce a very good warning effect. In addition, these scouts have certain fighting abilities and are used to protect them along the way, which is the most appropriate.

In addition to these 300 cavalrymen, Malin also brought two Mongolian genius doctors, Morigen and Bater, as well as a lot of alcohol, gauze and the golden sore medicine that the two Mongolian doctors had configured on their own.

Although I knew that the emperor was cheating, I had to do a full set of shows so that I would appear more professional. Therefore, Malin brought all the medicines that should be brought.
Chapter completed!