The training of recruits is particularly tight because there is so little time. The Pen, Fun, and Pavilion www.biquge.info are still more than two months away, and Marin can only plan to let these 5,000 recruits learn while fighting. Fortunately, the main Danish army was trapped in Sweden, and the Oldenburg country was also a scumbag. It is possible to let these recruits follow the veterans while fighting and training.

The army training is mainly divided into two major items, the first is naturally phalanx training, which is Marin's forte. Because he is so good at it, the famous "Spanish Phalanx" is now called "Marin Phalanx". For this, Marin was proud for a long time.

The second is siege training and street fighting training, which are mainly practiced in combination with the operational needs of this time. After all, there are more than a dozen large and small cities that need to be conquered in this attack on Denmark. Therefore, the necessary siege and street fighting training is also needed.

However, for recruits, the above two items are put first, and it appears that the training queue is clear, and the left and right are distinguished......

Then, the sad recruits wore only one straw sandal and the other sock......

It's also that the conditions are good now, when Marin first formed a mercenary team for training, he recruited a bunch of poor ghosts, everyone had no socks, and the winter was barefoot training. In order to protect himself from the cold, Marin had to spread a thick layer of hay on the ground.

Now, during military training, Marin's recruits are equipped with woolen socks, which are more cold-proof. In addition, the ground is also covered with hay, and although it is winter, I am not afraid of freezing my feet.

Over the course of a week, under the supervision of the whip, the recruits finally learned to distinguish between left and right, and began to gradually learn to reflexively carry out orders.

Then, Schwartz, a general who is good at training, began to take a group of veterans and train the recruits to walk in a queue......

However, although the daily training queue, in the afternoon and evening, there is still a period of time to practice musket shooting and spear assassination. Sometimes, every two or three days, a large army has to be trained to attack the city.

Originally, these items were not available during the recruit training period. However, because this gang of recruits will soon be on the battlefield. Therefore, they can only intersperse some technical and tactical training in the middle of their queue training.

During the siege of the city, everyone did not train to climb the city, because of that kind of tactics, the casualties were too great. Marin directly asked everyone to train the tactics of swarming the infantry after blowing up the city gate or a section of the city wall.

After all, Marin now had plenty of gunpowder in his hands, not only did he bring back 300 tons of saltpeter from India and prepare 400 tons of gunpowder, but he also sent people to buy gunpowder in large quantities while going to southern Europe to buy lead.

Moreover, many fertilizer processing plants in China have also begun to scrape nitrate and boil soil in manure ponds. Therefore, there was a lot of gunpowder in the army, and there were enough shells and explosives to blow open the gates or walls.

Even, Marin also set up a special set of Dhoni. The demolition team led by Ciri specially trained to run under the city gate to plant and bury oak barrels full of gunpowder under the oak gate to blow up the city gate.

The Demomen were all strong, with a large oak door on their backs and powder kegs on their backs, and they were still flying like a fly. In order to enhance the resistance of the oak door, Schwartz also had the appearance of the oak door that they used to block attacks nailed to enhance its resistance to attack.

Inspired by this, Schwartz approached Marin to create a new class......

"What? You said you want to build a large shield soldier? Isn't that a backward class? Marin was a little stunned. Big shield soldiers, that's a thing that only exists in the pure cold weapon troops, do you need it for the modern troops?

"Yes, young master, the defense of the Great Shield Soldier is very good. Recently, when I was training for sieges, my troops always suffered heavy losses when they broke through the blasted gates or walls. Because the space is too small, if the infantry rushes in without protection, it is easy to be damaged by the enemy. Schwartz said seriously.

"So, you want the big shield soldiers to rush ahead and fend off the enemy's swords and guns?" Marin quickly understood what Schwartz meant.

"Yes, that's what it means! Master, do you remember? The last time I hit Jävre Castle, Doni. Cri rushed into the city with a large oak door, and although the oak door was broken, he was fine. ”

Marin thought about it, it was true, the last time he stormed the gate of Jävre Castle, under the stubborn resistance of the enemy, in a short period of time, the East Frisian army suffered twenty or thirty casualties. Although, Marin's forwards all wore chest armor and helmets with masks. However, the legs, feet, and arms, including the waist, were not protected. So, although there are not many people who die, many people who are cut are many.

It's Doni. Ciri, the second goods, rushed forward with a gate on his shoulder, and he didn't suffer any damage, but the door was cut down by the enemy......

Thinking about it this way, the Great Shield Soldier is really necessary. However, the shield is not useful if it is small. Small round shields, like those of ancient Rome and Greece, are useless. At the very least, you have to get a riot shield like a small door. Schwartz agrees.

In this way, the weapons of these large shield soldiers were settled—oak shields the size of small doors, nailed to the outside with a layer of iron sheet, and professionally protected against sword slashing.

In addition, the attack weapon of the Great Shield is the Sailor's Scimitar. In fact, according to the plan, it was difficult for these so-called big shield soldiers to hold their shields in their left hands and their swords in their right hands when they hit the gaps in the city gates or walls that had been blown open. Because, the shield is too big, it is better to hold it with both hands. At that time, the scimitar was hung from the waist. The big shield soldiers, holding shields in both hands, slammed into the defenders of the city, using the impact of the shield to knock the opponent into a daze. Even if you want to attack, you may not be able to cut through the door on the test = that layer of iron.

Then, relying on the force of the impact, this group of large shield soldiers broke through first, occupied a clearing, and let the people behind them in. If they could no longer go forward, they stood their shields on the ground, supported them with their left hands, and with their right hands, they drew their scimitars from their waists and resisted. At the same time, wait for the support of the comrades in the back. For example, the method invented by two soldiers on the spot during the last attack on Jävre Castle with a musketeer carrying a musketeer forward from a height was intensively trained. This tactic is obscene, as long as the large shield men in front of them can withstand it, the musketeers can shoot forward from the air and clear the brave enemies.

Of course, the premise of this tactic is that the enemy is not equipped with muskets. Otherwise, the oak shield, covered with only a layer of iron, can hold off the sword, but not the musket.

If the enemy has muskets, the tactics will change. When the Great Shieldman crashes in, the Pikemen will rush in and stab forward as hard as they can until they become entangled with the opposing Musketeer, preventing the Musketeer from shooting leisurely.

But no matter what tactics are used, the big shield soldier takes the lead in rushing in with a big shield, and this is the same.

However, there are not many places where the big shield soldiers are used, that is, they can be used during sieges, and they are not needed at all in field battles. Therefore, Marin and Schwartz agreed to train only 200 large shieldmen, mainly to open the way for cover during the siege.

Because when rushing, it is necessary to ram and smash the enemy with a large shield. Therefore, the requirement of the big shield soldier is to have great strength, to be able to use the iron-covered oak door as a weapon to smash people, forcibly squeeze space from the enemy army, and let friendly troops enter the city.

Therefore, Schwartz selected 200 strong men, formed a large shield soldier, and trained how to smash and squeeze people with both hands with both hands holding the iron shield...... Of course, if the big shield is broken by the other party, they will also pull out the scimitar and fight desperately......