The next morning, after Malin got up and washed up, he made a piece of dark bread without soil and ate it. After simply filling his stomach, he went out shopping.

Last night, Marin thought about it in the middle of the night and became more determined to surrender to Emperor Shenluo Maximilian I. Because, although Maximilian I was a poor man, as the emperor, he could give himself a high position.

As a time traveler, I have read so many time travel novels and have a lot of ways to make money in my mind. But in this era when aristocrats were domineering, I had no status and no amount of wealth could be kept.

Therefore, Marin needs to use the emperor to obtain a high enough social status to stop others from coveting his own wealth. And how to obtain social status (that is, titles)? It’s very simple, military achievements!

As a graduate of the history department, Marin studied Western history and knew that in the "Thirty Years' War" that occurred in the 17th century, there were two talented military strategists who were from humble origins but became great nobles with their military achievements - Wallenstein and Tilley.

These two big men were all from ordinary family of decline and small nobles, and were not children of big nobles. However, by virtue of the great contributions made by commanding mercenaries to fight for the great nobles, the two lower-level nobles, one became a duke (Wallenstein) and the other became an earl (Tile).

Marin may not have the talent of Wallenstein, but there is no problem with Tilly, who only relies on a set of "Spanish Grand Formation" to conquer the world. At least, he knows how to play the Spanish Grand Formation. General Cordoba, the original creator of the Spanish Grand Formation, will have to wait until 1503 to find out the prototype of the "Spanish Grand Formation" that has lasted for more than a century. However, Marin is extremely clear about this tactic.

Even Marin knew the Dutch Morris phalanx, which was more powerful than the Spanish phalanx, and the Gustav phalanx, which was close to the modern battle formation.

As for the artillery tactics of the dwarf, there is no need to talk about it. The tactics after the mid-19th century were useless if they thought about it. Because there were no such advanced weapons. After all, Marin was a liberal arts student. Although he was good at science, he was not a professional. Therefore, he could only get a flintlock gun or something. If he wanted to install a gun afterward, he could not solve the technology of bottom fire. This technology requires professionals in chemistry to solve it...

Of course, the above is purely Marin's YY. If you want to display your "talent", you must first get involved in the mercenaries recruited by Maximilian I. Otherwise, nothing will be possible.

To get into the German mercenaries formed by Maximilian I, we must first arrive at Vienna, the old nest of the Habsburg family.

Since regaining Austria from the Kingdom of Hungary in 1490, Maximilian I moved his office from the Principality of Burgundy back to Vienna. Although the emperor often went to Innsbruck, western Austria for a short stay, many major matters were handled in Vienna. Major matters such as recruiting soldiers must also be done in Vienna.

Now, to join the army, you must go to Vienna. However, from Bonn to Vienna, it is about 800 kilometers away, which is more than 1,600 miles.

Marin is now wearing heavy armor and carrying a huge knight gun. Although Carl is a good war horse, he has such a heavy load and can only walk more than a hundred miles a day, stopping and stopping, otherwise he will not be able to bear it.

In fact, when the general plate armor knights go to war, they will bring five servants to help them get their armor and knight guns. Before the war, they are also responsible for putting plate armor on the knights and supporting the knights on the war horses. Fortunately, Marin doesn’t have plate armor pants, otherwise he would not be able to get on the horse. Because plate armor pants are all metal after all, bulky and inconvenient, which hinders the knights from getting on the horses.

Marin calculated that it would take at least ten days to go to Vienna. The remaining less than 1,000 Finneys in his hand were not enough. Because he had to stay in a hotel and eat and drink by himself, he would have to spend about 15 Finneys a day (usually about 5 Finneys is a meal fee, and he ate pretty good). And the damn Marcar ate more than him, and he had to eat 10 Finneys a day.

War horses are very delicate. If the war horses were allowed to eat grass for a month and did not provide feed to replenish their bodies, the war horses might not be able to carry the heavy armored knights. Because the feed of war horses was mainly oats (there were no soybeans in Europe in this era, soybeans were still in East Asia and India, and they were not introduced to Europe in the 18th century at the earliest), and they would have to beat a few eggs from time to time. These things were relatively expensive in medieval Europe where agriculture was backward...

Marin is not a person who makes a fortune and then sits in vain. In order to successfully arrive in Vienna, Marin decided to try hunting along the way to improve his life.

After all, Marin, in his previous life, often took his homemade English longbow to hunt in the back mountain of his hometown during holidays, and had a good archery technique.

After making up his mind, Marin began to pay attention to the shops selling bows and arrows while shopping in Bonn...

After walking for a few streets, Malin quickly found a weapon store for sale in the bows and arrows. Looking at the dazzling array of bows and arrows in the weapon store, Malin frowned a little.

Why? Because there is no English longbow that Marin is most familiar with in the store. Marin later made an English longbow himself and used it to hunt many times in the back mountain of his hometown. Therefore, Marin had only come into contact with one bow and arrow, and was only proficient in one - English longbow. Although Marin did not use yew trees to make English longbows, but used very ordinary Chinese willow trees, Marin was used to using English longbows.

The biggest difference between an English longbow and other bows is that the bow bodies of other bows are forcibly bent and fixed, and then heated with fire to force them to fix the shape. Although this method is more efficient in making, it will damage the tension of the bow body and reduce the range. If you want to obtain a higher range, you can only use a hard bow with greater tension.

The bow body of the English longbow is bent by "teaching the bow". The wooden strips used to make the bow will be fixed on a bracket, and then the two ends of the wooden strip will be tied to a rope. Then, the bow trainer will pull the rope and hang it on a node not far away, so that the wooden strips will begin to bend slightly. After a while, the wooden strips will adapt to this bending degree and increase the bending degree... Repeat this way until the wooden strips adapt to the bending degree required for making the longbow.

In fact, the secrets of making English longbows were unique to Britain for a long time. Because English longbow soldiers were the trump card of the British. It was not until around 1596, in the late reign of Elizabeth I, that the secrets of British taming bows became popular. But at that time, Europe was already the world of muskets.

However, the elimination of the longbow soldiers is not because the longbow soldiers are not capable of killing, but because the training cost of longbow soldiers is too high. An excellent longbow soldiers may need to be trained for more than ten years, and at least several years of training is required.

For example, it took Marin a proficient English longbow in his previous life, and it took him seven or eight years to gradually become proficient in archery hunting. At the beginning, Marin's archery was not reliable than the national football team's shooting. After all, he did not have the guidance of a famous teacher, and he practiced archery with the help of online advice. Even making English longbows was a post I saw online around 2006, and then it was made according to the steps on the post.

Longbow soldiers need so much time to train, but what about musketeers? It only takes one or two weeks to train. On the battlefield, no matter how long you train, no matter if you get a bow or arrow or a gun, you will be killed or injured.

The cost of training longbowmen in the British was very high. Even the longbowmen became the privileged class in Britain after the knight class. Every death of a longbowmen was a huge loss for Britain.

Musketeers are different. Any honest serf who can be arrested for one or two weeks to train for one or two weeks, and can use musketeers to fight. Even if they die, it is convenient to replenish them. If all musketeers die, at least they can catch a group of strong men for one or two weeks. However, if the longbow soldiers are destroyed in an established manner, they may not be able to recover for many years.

Moreover, the biggest difference between longbowmen and musketeers is that musketeers can deal with enemies wearing plate armor. However, longbowmen are helpless against plate armor. For various reasons, the British finally gave up the longbowmen who once made them very proud and instead used musketeers.

However, the muskets shone brightly, in fact, after the Spanish square formation appeared in 1503. It is now in 1494, and the musket soldiers have not yet emerged. Even the muskets appeared around 1450.

In the past, technology was not as fast as it was later. The combs were introduced for more than 40 years, and no one has noticed the excellent combat effectiveness of the combs. Similarly, flintlocks appeared in France at the end of the 16th century, but it was not until the mid-17th century that flintlocks gradually became popular.

It is no wonder that we should know that in the Middle Ages, it was the world of the church. All scientific knowledge was actually suppressed by the church, and the spread of science and technology was very slow. Moreover, new scientific knowledge also needed to prove itself.

For example, the Matchback was only gained fame and promoted in Europe after Gonzalo de Cordoba defeated the French army with a square formation composed of spears and muskets in the Battle of Carinola. Similarly, the flintlock was also valued by European countries after shining in the "Thirty Years' War".

In Europe today, coercion guns are still rare things. Even in cities like Bonn, there are few people selling muskets. However, there are several shops selling bows and arrows.

Moreover, Europe's current steel technology is not up to standard, and the guns and cannons produced are always blowing the chamber. For example, King John II of Scotland died in 1460 because of the cannons. It was not until the 16th century that after the further development of European steel technology, guns and cannons would be greatly reduced.

Because he did not have the English longbow he was familiar with, Marin had to settle for the second best, bought a recurve bow with a pulling force of about 60 pounds, and bought 30 arrows.

In fact, whether it is Marin of later generations or the little Marin of today, they can pull a strong bow with a pulling force of 100 pounds. Needless to say, Marin of later generations is a strong rural youth who has done a lot of farm work, so he is very strong.

Although Marin in this life is only 16 years old, she has received martial arts training from a knight since she was a child. She is not very strong and can pull a 100-pound strong bow.

However, Marin knew that strong bows like the English longbow would be fine for adults. If you pull such strong bows in your youth, it would be easy to cause the back of the spine to bend and deform. For example, later generations have proven that some medieval English longbowmen trained to draw strong bows since childhood, resulting in spine deformation.

Marin's body is still a 16-year-old growing boy. He doesn't want his spine to become crooked because he uses too much strong bow. Therefore, he chose a 60-pound ordinary recurve bow as his hunting weapon.

However, Marin's original memory did not have the method of using bows and arrows, while Marin later generations were only familiar with the English longbow. Therefore, it took Marin several days to become familiar with the use of recurve bows.

After testing, the effective range of this recurve bow is within 100 meters. However, the distance that can be aimed at is only about 50 meters. The power used to kill enemies may not be enough, but it is enough for hunting.

After getting familiar with the use of recurve bows, Marin left Bonn and rushed towards Vienna while using recurve bows to hunt...

But what made Marin extremely depressed was that for a long time, he had not caught his prey...

Why is this? It's very simple. This guy, Malin, wants to learn from Mongolian cavalry, do some riding and shooting. Then, he's got it...

Speaking of which, Marin's shooting technique is very good in modern times. It is also possible to shoot prey in the jungle, and archery skills are also acceptable.

But, that's on the ground...

Moreover, when Marin used to hunt, he usually used to take a bow and arrow to quietly touch the jungle. After seeing unprepared prey, he successfully attacked. This is basically equivalent to shooting a fixed target. For prey that is moving at high speed, Marin's hit rate is actually not high.

And riding on the horse to shoot arrows... Alas, it's all about tears if you say too much...

Riding on a horse is completely different from sitting on a car in later generations. The car has shock absorbers and the road is also flat. When riding a horse, it is bumpy from time to time...

So, Malin, who wanted to play riding and shooting, clearly aimed at his prey, but the horses bumped up and down, and the arrow immediately hit the ashes...

Moreover, when he was riding a horse, the sound of horse hooves could not help but alarm the prey, causing the animals to run around in advance. However, Malin was more powerful than shooting fixed targets, but he was helpless against the animals moving at high speed.

For seven consecutive days, Marin failed to hit a prey by riding and shooting. Fortunately, he had some savings in selling red deer before, otherwise he would have starved to death. Similarly, it was precisely because of some savings that he dared to play like this.

"Ride and shoot are indeed not easy!" Ma Lin looked worried.

Think about it, the Huns and Mongols started riding sheep and playing slingshots at the age of five. When they grew up, it basically means practicing riding and shooting for more than ten years. Even so, the "old driver" who has been practicing for more than ten years dare not say that they can steadily shoot their running prey on the back of a high-speed running horse, let alone a novice?
Chapter completed!