Of course, not every seaside fishing village is suitable for a large army to land. The precondition for the landing of the army by wading in the water is that there must be a large area of shallows in the landing area, which can be waded in. If it is all deep water, there are no coastal shoals, and it is impossible to wade into the water.

However, it is easy to judge whether there are shoals or not, just send a few spies with good water to investigate. The big boat approached, and then let the spy row the dinghy close to the sea, look for the shallows, and wade through the water to test it himself. Only after confirming it can the final decision be made. Otherwise, if you hastily choose a place that is not suitable for beach-grabbing landing, you will drown many soldiers. After all, not all soldiers have a good water nature.

For example, most of the elite of Marin's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd armies came from the southern German mountains. Mountain people are good at climbing mountains and mountains, but most of them are landlubbers. On the contrary, Saqqara's Fourth Legion, most of them were English, and there were more water-based ones.

It just so happened that it was the end of June and the beginning of July, and the weather was getting hot. Marin thought about it for a moment and decided to take all the 15,000 mountain infantry that were going to be brought to Italy to the coast of East Friesland to train for wading landings and swimming......

Landlubbers are not always landlubbers, and if you learn to swim, you may not be able to learn them. In particular, these soldiers are still young and have a relatively strong ability to learn.

Marin sent 3,000 Frisian sailors to teach the landlubber infantry how to swim in turn. The method of teaching is very simple and rude - tie a rope around the waist of those landlubbers and drop them in the water...... Once you've drunk enough water, you can teach a few basic movements and swimming skills, and then drop it into the water......

Of course, this process takes place on the Ames River. After all, drinking seawater is very uncomfortable. Even if you let those landlubbers drink water, you have to drink fresh water......

There is a great terror between life and death, and after many terrible experiences of drinking water, most of the landlubbers who are struggling learn to swim. There are only a small number of second-class goods who have no useful talent at all, and every time they are thrown down, they are pulled up by drinking water, and they are completely out of line......

But Marin didn't care, anyway, he wasn't the coach of the swimming team, and every fighter didn't need to learn to swim. It was a surprise that most of the fighters were able to learn to swim. After all, these infantrymen are just ordinary infantry, not special forces, and generally do not use such a cold skill as swimming. All scouts must learn to swim. Because, it is normal for scouts to cross the river to reconnoitre. Can't swim, can you be called a scout? Ma Lin remembers that when he was a child in his previous life, he watched a movie "Crossing the River Reconnaissance", and the scout of the other family also swam across the Yangtze River......

Seeing that the soldiers were well trained in swimming, Marin sent a fleet and began to secretly transport the 15,000 infantry to Italy. The fishing villages on the side of the Papal States have been vacated, just waiting for the army to settle in.

Calculating the time, it is estimated that this batch of troops will be transported to Italy in September. Then, adding the time to wait for the rhinoceros leather armor, it is estimated that it will not be able to do it until October. 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 strong this time. Because, the people have to participate in the autumn harvest.

However, without Auxiliaries, it will be very difficult to resupply. Marin thought about it for a while, and from among the Frisian fishermen, 7,000 sailors were drawn to accompany him as auxiliaries.

Of course, these auxiliaries did not participate in the rush over the mountains and mountains. Because, they are not good at climbing mountains and mountains. However, they will be stationed in the small fishing village where they landed and will be responsible for supplies. When necessary, they will also leave the fishing village and advance inland from the main road to meet the main force of troops and horses.

These sailors, though not soldiers, were trained in shipboard combat and were able to fight broadside combat. So, they are not farmers without combat effectiveness. If you go out to fight, you may not lose to those Italian mercenaries who are cowardly. However, they had only practiced the pirate's one-handed knife technique, not the spear fighting technique. Therefore, it is impossible to expect them to form a phalanx of spears. However, Marin plans to provide some broken wood escapes and let them make a cameo appearance as sword and shield soldiers, which also has good combat effectiveness.

However, the sailor's tactics are different from those of the army, which needs to be strict in command, not to move casually, and to act in unison with his comrades. The sailors, on the other hand, usually mainly practice jumping boats and slashing people while dangling on the deck of the ship, and do not pay attention to uniformity and unified action.

So, Marin never thought of those sailors as regular soldiers. However, at sea, the regular army could not beat them. Because, on a rocking ship, it is easy to stand unsteady with a spear in both hands. And those sailors, with a single knife, are more flexible. They can hold the boat gang or other place with their left hand, and cut the enemy with a knife in their right hand. Even, some powerful sailors can pull the cable with their left hand and fly from the sky, and their right hand can also take care of cutting people......

But in any case, these sailors, who are good at cutting people on rocking ships, have relatively average combat effectiveness on land. can also wrestle with the cowardly Italian mercenaries, and when you meet other mercenaries, you will inevitably be defeated. Therefore, this time, Marin also asked them to fight and assist, and transport supplies. Only after the 15,000 main forces encountered difficulties would these people take the risk of attacking. Unless there were special circumstances, they would have stayed in the small fishing village where they landed and were ready to meet the army.

In addition, the autumn harvest has nothing to do with these fishermen-turned-sailors. Even if they went to Italy, it would not affect the autumn harvest in the North Sea Country. If it is replaced by ordinary people, it will affect the autumn harvest.

But the 15,000 soldiers themselves had an impact on the autumn harvest. Because, during the autumn harvest, in order to rush the harvest and avoid possible rainfall, Marin will allocate half of his troops to help the autumn harvest every year. And this year, Marin has divided half of his forces to Italy, and the autumn harvest may be undermanned...... Marin thought about it and decided to borrow more than 10,000 people from the fishermen to help with the autumn harvest at that time. Of course, the fishermen helped with the autumn harvest, and Marin was paid.

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However, news soon came from Rome that Maximilian I had promised to send 20,000 troops south to Italy to help the Holy See build momentum. However, the other side put forward a requirement, that is, the time of sending troops must be after the end of the autumn harvest, that is, in October. And the Austrian army is estimated to be in November when it reaches the vicinity of Siena......

It's November, but it's late autumn and early winter......

This change caught Marin a little off guard. Why? Because if the attack is launched in November, the weather will be a huge problem. Because, at that time, the weather will get colder. If you wade into the water, you may get sick. In addition, it is also very cold when you go over the mountains and camp at night in the early winter season. If the soldiers were frozen, there would be no need to fight......

However, Marlin couldn't help it. Because, he could not influence the decisions of Maximilian I either. Therefore, he can only passively accept. Then, it's time to find a way to avoid those troubles.

In fact, the main trouble is that when wading through the water and landing and staying overnight over the mountains, the soldiers must not catch a large number of colds. Because, in Europe, a cold can kill people.

Speaking of colds, Marin suddenly remembered brown sugar ginger water. This is a miracle cure for colds. Moreover, Marin also has ginger and brown sugar in his hands, and he is qualified to make ginger syrup.

But the problem is that the army has no conditions to cook ginger syrup on the way over the mountains and mountains......

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It just so happened that on the island of Grenada, a batch of ginger, brown sugar, and dried bananas were shipped back at this time......

Marin was immediately inspired – dried ginger? No, it seems that there are fried food stores in later generations that sell sugar ginger slices......

"That's right, sugar ginger slices!" Marin's eyes lit up. Sugar ginger slices combine ginger and granulated sugar into one, which is the dried version of ginger syrup. Eating sugar ginger slices also has the effect of ginger syrup. Eating sugar ginger slices can ward off the cold and sweat, which is exactly what Marin, who is afraid of soldiers frozen, needs. As long as you eat a few slices of sugar ginger every night, you can protect yourself from the cold to a great extent.

Of course, Marlin wouldn't really expect to eat this to get rid of colds. While preparing to make sugar ginger chips for the army, Marin also ordered the purchase of woolen blankets. When the time comes, let the soldiers eat sugar and ginger slices, wrap them in wool blankets at night, and then everyone gets together to keep warm, basically there will be no big problem. It's really not good, you can also rob the houses of local Italians along the way to spend the night. Anyway, Marin didn't want to make a name for himself in Italy. For him, his own warriors are the most important thing.

After figuring this out, Marin began to order the purchase of 15,000 woolen blankets. At the same time, the order began to be made for sugar ginger slices.

The production of sugar ginger slices is very simple, that is, after slicing fresh ginger, add black sugar and knead. Then, take it out and expose it to the sun......

Finally, the prepared sugar ginger slices are sealed with an oiled paper bag at high temperature. Then, it was loaded and shipped to Italy. Of course, it is not available to the soldiers now. When the wading landing and rush in November begins, it will be distributed to the soldiers. Moreover, the amount will be strictly regulated to prevent the soldiers from eating all at once. After all, the taste of sugar ginger slices is indeed not bad......

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