Watching the knights compete again and again like the scene of a car accident, Marin was terrified. You must know that these people who participated in the competition were all children of the nobility. Shouldn't you be the son of a powerful person in later generations? Why bother participating in a game like knightly jousting?

In the next life, even ordinary people will not easily do too dangerous things. And those who do particularly dangerous jobs often need money so much that they have to die. No one will be desperate.

But now, there are more than 1,000 noble children on the field who are fighting to the death for dozens of places. Marin shook his head and made a decision in his heart - he would never allow his son Caesar to play any knightly competition with others in the future. As long as you have this idea, break your leg first...... It's better to break a leg than to die......

Moreover, the knights are about to retire from the stage of history. With the spread of muskets, the knight class will become extremely awkward. The French were too attached to the chivalric tradition to be abused into dogs by the later German black-shirted knights with muskets. It was only after decades of failed struggles for supremacy that the French slowly abandoned their chivalric traditions. But now, France is still a predominantly knightly country. Whoever wants to depose the knights in France will probably be beaten to death in no time.

Not to mention France, even Germany is now a knightly country. In this country, the officers are basically knights or knights.

Only in such a strange way as the Beihai State will there be the phenomenon of civilians serving as officers. Because of this, the army of the North Sea State was ostracized and slandered by various countries. Because the knights and officers of various countries believed that the North Sea Army's use of civilians as officers was a violation of tradition. And an army led by civilians is not worthy of being called an army. Therefore, after an early period of bad luck, Marin had to promote a large group of civilian officers to knighthood. Otherwise, the army of the North Sea State is even more dazzling.

As for this knight tournament, Marin actually regretted it, seeing that one by one the knights fell off their horses and were injured, Marin was actually embarrassed in his heart. After all, it was they who had nothing to do to make up this knight tournament that caused them to get hurt.

In fact, Marin did it well enough. In the early years, the knight jousting was called cruel, and the knight jousting in the early years was not a hollow riding gun, and the head of the spear was also metal. Often after a knightly tournament, dozens of knights are killed. As for falling off the horse and getting injured, that's a common thing.

Later, the Holy See saw that the casualties of knightly jousting were too great, and once forbade knightly jousting. However, this thing can't help it. Why? Because the knights' desire to compete is very strong.

In the absence of war, jousting tournaments were the only chance for the knights to show their bravery, or pretend. If you don't let the knights compete, don't you prevent people from pretending to compete? Therefore, even the ban of the Holy See cannot stop the knights' dream of pretending......

Moreover, knight competition is an important means for knights to pick up girls. Whenever a knight wins a joust, there is always an ignorant little girl who goes crazy about it. Even, some poor knights who have won knightly competitions will win the favor of noblewomen, and they will gain both people and money.

Of course, in addition to pretending to be a contest and gaining love, a knight who wins a contest also has a great chance of gaining the appreciation of the great nobles, getting a good military position, and even obtaining titles and fiefs.

Therefore, although the knight tournament is very dangerous, for those knights who have no way, participating in the knight tournament and winning the tournament is the only way for them to change their lives. If anyone stops them from counterattacking, it will definitely be their mortal enemy......

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Looking at the hot-blooded knights on the martial arts arena who were high-spirited even if they were injured, Marin shook his head and continued to watch the play.

And unlike Ma Lin, all the nobles around him, whether they were the nobles of various countries who were invited to watch the ceremony, or the nobles of their own country, all watched the competition with relish. The elder Hoffman, in particular, applauded loudly as he watched.

Although he is already an old arm and leg, he can no longer wear it in person. However, it did not prevent him from watching the young knights compete and at the same time reminiscing about his youthful years. At the beginning, the elder Hoffman was also a famous martial arts knight in the country of Mackbo, and he also participated in three martial arts competitions and achieved good results.

I saw old Hoffman sitting in his seat, eating fried peanuts in oil with relish, while happily watching the wandering knights on the field fight to death. And Adler, together with old Hoffman, twisted peanuts and threw them in his mouth, while following his father loudly cheering for the knights who were competing on the field.

Seeing this, Marin shook his head in disappointment - is Adler really up to the duty of an earl? This performance is clearly the appearance of a powerful and brainless striker, where is the demeanor of strategizing in the rear?

However, it is precisely because Adler does not like to use his brain very much that Marin is very comfortable with him. If Adler had been scheming like Albert, Marin probably wouldn't have been able to sleep well.

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A few days passed, and when the knockout round was over, Marin found that more than 300 people had been injured. In other words, in the normal martial arts competition, not counting those who were eliminated in the first round, more than a quarter of the more than 1,200 people who participated in the official competition were injured, and the casualty rate reached as much as 25%...... Fortunately, no one died......

"Didn't I spread a thick layer of grass on the ground, and I wasn't allowed to prick my head and my horses? How can there be so many injuries? Marin was a little puzzled.

But Marin didn't want to think about it, he released 50 places for the knights of the mining this time!

Wandering knights and mining knights, although they are both called knights, the difference is heaven and earth. The knight of the mining has a mining estate, which is equivalent to a landlord and belongs to the propertied people. Moreover, it belongs to the aristocracy, even the lowest nobles.

And what about the Wandering Knights? Although he was also born in a knight family, he did not have a title, so he could only be regarded as a commoner. Without land, they wandered around like high-ranking beggars.

Therefore, to be able to become a knight of the mining is definitely a step to the sky, from a beggar to a landlord. Moreover, he is still a landlord with a noble title.

With such a big thrill, and it's 50 places, can it not make people crazy? Therefore, even though Marin has made many restrictions, these knights still use all their strength to eat, just to fight for the future. If you can change your fate, what is it if you get hurt?

Not to mention those knights who lost the competition, even if the knights who won the competition, there were many injuries.

For example, when the first and second places were competing for the championship, the second place was injured after falling off the horse. Moreover, the injury was not light, it was a broken leg.

If it were somewhere else, the second place would have been miserable. Because a broken leg may make him disabled, if he does not recover, he may lose the opportunity, and the latter will make up for it and eliminate him. After all, people with disabilities can't go to war for a feudal lord.

But he was lucky, because there were orthopedic saints like Morrigan and Battle in the North Sea. Moreover, Marin also "invented" the plaster bandage commonly used in later generations. After treatment, the leg of the knight who won the second place in the competition was still able to recover.

Except for the unlucky second place, the other 300 injured people, this time the problem is not too big. A serious injury such as a broken leg and arm may be considered useless by other European doctors in this era. However, there is a professional Mongolian orthopedic surgeon in Beihai, plus the plaster bandage made by Marin, and the certainty of recovery is very large.

When Marin was in high school in his last life, he broke his left arm while riding a motorcycle. Then, I have applied a plaster bandage and am familiar with this process. So, in this life, he made a simple plaster bandage. Coupled with the two professional orthopedic masters of Morrigan and Battle, as long as it is not a comminuted fracture, it can basically recover. In this competition, because the players are wearing strong plate armor, most of the injuries are caused by collisions and wrestling, and there are basically no crushing bone injuries, and the chances of recovery of the injured are still quite large.

After the tournament, Marin announced that all injured people could recuperate in Emden until they were healed. During the period of recuperation, all medical expenses and food and drink were borne by Beihai State.

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When Marin finished the announcement, many people present were stunned. In particular, the wounded wandering knights were mentally prepared to return home. Because, in the old jousting conferences, the practice was like this - the winner accepted the cheers and rewards, and the loser walked away in disgrace......

Even, some losers have become invalids because they have been left with lifelong disabilities. Not to mention whether there is a future or not, whether or not you can survive is a question.

Therefore, the more than 300 wounded wandering knights were grateful to Marin. After all, no one has ever cared whether a loser lives or dies. They stayed in Emden to recuperate and continue to eat a delicious boxed lunch. Even, in order to speed up their healing, Marin ordered more fish soup, pig blood soup and bone broth to be stewed to speed up the healing of their injuries.

Later, after the more than 300 wounded wandering knights recovered, they basically asked to stay and serve in the Beihai National Army, even if they became infantry squad leaders. The soldiers died for their confidants, and when they were desperate, Marin reached out to them. Therefore, these people were willing to stay as ordinary infantry captains, hoping to repay Marin for their kindness. And Marin also admired the loyalty of these people very much, kept them all, and formed the Sixth Legion with these more than 300 wandering knights as the team. Of course, that's all for later......

Adler, on the other hand, led the 60 wandering knights who had won the contest to County Wicklow, Ireland, and happily went to take over the territory.

Why 60 people? According to Marin, the extra 10 are all substitutes. If the first 50 people were killed in battle with the Irish natives, or if they performed too poorly (e.g. running away or something), they could be substituted to replace the dead or those who were not doing well.

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In addition, Marin also hired 25 men from the bottom 40 of the top 100 in the tournament to go to Rome and serve as the commander of Marin's 7,000 soldiers and horses in Rome, mainly as some phalanx commanders and company commanders. The officers they replaced, Marin intended to be transferred back to the homeland as an important team to form a new legion......

As for the others, Marin dispersed after hitting a big banquet. After all, the tournament has ended, and it's time for the song to end......