Chapter 592: Black Forest Recruitment

The effect of rye two pot heads is gratifying, after Ma Lin summoned his civil and military ministers, he directly went to the rye two pot heads of about 40 degrees.

The civil servants were very uninterested in this spirit, and did not seem to like it very much. The coarse officers, however, were very fond of the liquor. According to the elder Coarse Karn, "the soldiers must love this strong spirit." Moreover, this liquor does not taste rushed......

Although the civil servants did not like to drink, Marin was anxious to know the effect, so he tried his best to persuade him to drink. As a traverser who is accustomed to drinking 56 degrees in later generations, Marin is still very accustomed to this spirit. Moreover, he was a chicken thief, and in the bottle of wine he drank, he added some boiled water to dilute the degree to about 20 degrees.

In this way, Marin used a weakened version of the 20-degree rye two-pot head to frequently toast his subordinates. In the face of the boss's toast, no matter how unhappy the civil officials were, they had to do it. And the generals were not unhappy, and Karn was even happier with such a foolish thing.

Then, after a few rounds, the civil officials took the lead in the streets, lying down one after another, and a few went drunk. However, the drunken civil official was very unlucky, and was knocked unconscious by Uncle Karn's sharp hand knife......

The generals continued to drink, but they were no better than the civilian officials. Then, one by one, they also lay down. There were also drunken and insane, who were still knocked unconscious by the violent Karn's knife in the back of the neck......

In the end, only the cheating Marin and Karn were still standing. But at this time, Marin was actually a little drunk. Seeing that Karn's animal still didn't care, Marin gave up on his own......

The test results were encouraging, and Marin concluded that the average person can be put down by rye two pot heads......

The next day, Marin also made an enhanced version of the second pot head - the second pot head with honey......

After that, he brought his brothers over for a drink. Then, the generals liked it very much. Rye two pots with honey, that is the legendary heavenly honey (legend, in the Valhalla of the Norse god Odin, those ancient Germanic warriors fought during the day and drank honey at night...... Then, this group of fools didn't use Marin to persuade them to drink, and they drank them one after another. Only Kahn, the god of wine, and Schwartz, who had better self-control, did not fall. Karn was not drunk, and Schwartz was because Marin did not force him to drink, and he kept himself from drinking too much......

With this experiment, Marin finally made up his mind - rye two pots with honey and drink the natives......

However, the price of honey is very high, and Marin plans to replace honey with sucrose in the future. It's just that, at this stage, what makes Marin cry and laugh is that in the European market, the current prices of honey and cane sugar are about the same. Even, the price of cane sugar is even higher. Probably, it's because honey can be produced locally, while cane sugar can only be produced in southern Europe......

Marin tried it and added brown sugar to the second pot of rye, and it seemed to work well. Anyway, for Europeans in this era, not to mention that sucrose is not good for health, the aristocracy rarely eats sugar. When you encounter something sweet, everyone likes it. As for the indigenous people, this is even more so......

Marin's plan was to have his soldiers bring wine for the natives to drink. However, his men drank low-alcohol liquor mixed with water, and the natives drank genuine spirits. Just like he cheated against his generals, he was not easy to get drunk, but he was easy to get drunk. When you're drunk, it's up to them......

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Of course, this is all Huairou's means. If Huairou's means fail, there is also a need to fight. Therefore, Marin still needs strong military strength.

But the problem is that on the plains, the tens of thousands of troops under Marin are invincible. But when you get it in the jungle, the number of troops is useless. Without people who are familiar with the jungle, there are many people who can only be hit by the enemy's cold arrows and traps.

However, the area that Marin will conquer next, whether it is the island of Cuba, the east coast of North America, and the island of Taiwan, the future foothold of the Ming Dynasty, is a densely jungled place. To conquer these areas, an elite army must be trained to adapt to jungle warfare.

Otherwise, they would have to learn from the British method of colonizing North America - slowly advancing into the interior of the jungle by cutting down trees. But this method was very passive, and in the early days, when the British colonized the east coast of North America, they could only cut down trees and then build castles. Then, the turtle cowered in the castle, waiting for the Indians in the jungle to attack...... Very passive......

If there is an army that is proficient in jungle warfare, then they can successfully clean up the powerful Indian tribes such as the Iroquois Alliance and march inland early.

In fact, in the 17th century, the British colonization was limited to establishing a foothold near the estuary on the east coast, and could not go deeper. It was not until the number of immigrants reached millions, and the number of militias formed by the immigrants was gradually defeated.

However, this also brought a very serious problem - the habit of Americans to hold guns began at that time. In the end, it was the militias that were accustomed to fighting the Indians that overthrew the British colonists. Even the rapid reloading of muskets wrapped in greased rags and deerskin was invented by the militia of the North American colonies.

The strength of the local armed forces in the colonies eventually led to the emergence of rebel forces. Therefore, Marin's plan is to limit the colony's own force as much as possible in the future. Even local hunters were only allowed to possess lagging arquebuses, or bows and arrows, and were never allowed to possess advanced weapons such as flintlock pistols and clockwork muskets, in order to maintain the official superiority over civilian equipment and avoid the independence of the colonies.

Moreover, with the Jungle Combat Unit, the colonial army can take the initiative to sweep away the Indians who are hiding in the jungle. In that way, there would be no need for the colonies to form militias to defend themselves. In this way, the colonized people did not have a reason to carry a large number of guns.

At the moment, Marin only had 300 musketeers from Black Forest hunters and 300 sword and shield soldiers from Black Forest dwellers selected from the army.

Such an armed force, because of its superior equipment, is certainly capable of defeating a clan. However, there are so many tribes on the east coast of North America, do you expect these 600 people to sweep them all?

Not to mention the east coast of North America, even those Taíno tribes in the jungles of Cuba Island, these 600 people have no time to clean up. After all, they can't divide their forces. Otherwise, there will not be enough strength to crush the opponent. With this team, it is difficult to sweep away the entire indigenous tribes of the island of Cuba in a short period of time.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, Marin decided to ask Kohler to send people to the Black Forest to recruit those prime-age hunters to serve as soldiers, and let them deal with the natives hiding in the jungle - the Taíno people of Cuba, the Indians of the east coast of North America, and the mountain people of the island of Taiwan......

At present, the Black Forest is not the Black Forest of later generations. Later, due to the explosion of the German population, many forests have actually been reclaimed into farmland. The last remains, mainly in the mountainous Black Forest. But even so, in the 21st century, the total area of the Black Forest has reached about 6,000 square kilometers.

And now, because the population of Germany is only a few million, it is not as exaggerated as the 80 million in later generations. Many plains are also part of the Black Forest. So, the current Black Forest is estimated to cover an area of more than 10,000 square kilometers. In the jungle, a large number of mountain people escaped the oppression and exploitation of the aristocracy. They mainly live by hunting, but they do not dare to enter the town to sell their game, so life is more difficult.

Marin's condition is that if a young man with rich experience in jungle hunting joins the army as he wishes, his daily salary is as high as 5 pfennig, which is 2.5 times that of ordinary people......

As long as he can recruit a few thousand hunters from the Black Forest, Marin can assemble several (or even dozen) colonial armies and go deep into the jungle to destroy the indigenous population.

Among them, those who are not afraid of heat are sent to the islands of Cuba and Taiwan. And those who are afraid of heat can also stay in the temperate regions of the east coast of North America and deal with the Indians there......

These jungle hunters in the Black Forest have a wealth of experience in forest survival and hunting. By them, the Indians who lived in the jungle would have a hard time resisting. After all, whether it is tactics or equipment, those natives are at an absolute disadvantage, and with the drag of the old, weak, sick and disabled, it is difficult not to fail......

Even, Marin plans to let those experienced old hunters bring some soldiers from the plains as apprentices, and teach them the skills of jungle survival and hunting, so that more soldiers can have the experience of fighting the Indians in the jungle. Only when there are more such people, Marin can conquer the dense primeval jungle on the east coast of North America as quickly as possible and seize more fertile and rich land......