Chapter 305: Supporting Troops

To be honest, watching Karn train with these 250 muscle sticks, Marin felt very spicy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Why? Karn had taught them a stick that lacked beauty, and instead swung it up and down, left and right. If you want to give this stick a name, "Mad Devil Stick Method" is definitely the right name.

Of course, using a mace to hit the mad devil stick method is still very lethal. 250 muscle sticks, dressed in invulnerable plate armor and armed with maces full of nails, rushed over and swung up and down as if they were crazy. Moreover, whoever the mace touches, some flesh will be torn off of the body, and it will hurt you to death...... Such 250 invulnerable but amazingly destructive neuropaths rushed towards you, asking you if you were afraid?

If there were a musket team, they could naturally use a platoon of guns to bring down these 250 madmen. But where did the Indians have muskets? Their weapons were just a few - earthen bows and arrows, javelins, stone axes, throwing axes, wooden clubs...... Well, and stone throwing......

Moreover, these weapons are all stone tools, not metal. Any weapon like this would have no effect on the full set of plate armor worn by these 250 muscle clubs. At most, it hits the joints and it hurts them.

But in the face of their mace, which was full of nails, the unarmoured Indians were unlucky. was scraped by this mace, and there were immediately several blood holes on the body, or a few deep blood marks, and the pain was incomparable. Even, it can make you lose your combat effectiveness in pain. If the strength under these muscle sticks is stronger, they will directly smash the nails on the mace deep into the flesh, and directly take away half a life. And if you hit the head, you will be knocked out in one move......

Therefore, the lethality of the "wolf tooth commando" using mace is extremely amazing. Moreover, it can also have a terrifying effect on the other party.

Of course, if you don't want to kill them all, you can also let these 250 perverts replace them with ordinary wooden sticks, which can also beat the opponent to the ground, but not a few people will die. With a mace, it is a bloody war, and with a wooden stick, it is a law enforcement that suppresses trouble.

Generally speaking, what kind of weapon to use depends on what kind of tribe the opponent is. If you are a moderate tribe and can conquer it, try to beat it with a stick, rather than a mace. If it is a radical tribe that cannot be conquered, it can only be killed with a mace.

The reason why Marin acquiesced to Karn's teaching them the nondescript "Mad Devil Stick Method" was because these 250 muscle sticks were all civilians who had not learned martial arts. Their biggest advantage is that they have a lot of strength and are perverted enough. At this time, it is too late for them to learn martial arts from scratch. So, Karn came up with a way to do it - just teach them the mad wand......

The Mad Devil Stick method is simple to use, and it is a range attack, on the battlefield, 250 invulnerable maniacs armed with maces, rush into the enemy line, and the destructive power brought is terrifying. Not to mention the Indians, the armies of civilized countries that do not have muskets should also be afraid when they encounter such a group of madmen.

When Karn first followed Marin as an acolyte, he didn't know martial arts at all. However, relying on this set of "crazy magic stick method" that does not use brains and has no rules, as well as his terrifying strength, when fighting on foot, Marin and Schwartz were both bloodied. Even the humanoid monster Adler was beaten by Karn's "Mad Devil Stick Method" when he fought on foot......

Later, because of the good martial arts guys such as Schwartz and Adler who taught Karn martial arts, Karn became more and more perverted. Now, 10 years later, Karn is not only invincible in foot combat, but now he is also invincible in horse combat.

Back then, Karn picked up the stick and smashed it with great speed and power. Now, after ten years of martial arts, Karn's mace is still fast and powerful, but the direction of the attack is the key point of the opponent. In the art of war, it is "to attack the enemy and to save". An opponent that used to take a long time to defeat can now be smashed with a few sticks......

However, martial arts are not so easy to connect. Karn had been Marin's squire for ten years, and had practiced for ten years, to have that level. And the 250 muscle sticks in front of me are obviously zero-based. Moreover, Karn knew that Marin needed them to quickly build up their fighting power. Therefore, the "mad devil stick method" that is chaotic and purely instinctive, but has great destructive power, has become the first choice.

Perhaps, a plate armor infantry uses the Mad Magic Stick method, and has a weakness on his body, which can be easily exploited by others. However, 250 muscle sticks, wielding maces together, and using the "Mad Demon Stick Method" of range attacks, rushed over, and even Lu Bu had to flee for his life. At the very least, Karn felt that he could not take on these 250 "neuropaths" alone......

Because the mace was so lethal, Karn ended up keeping the group 1.5 meters apart from each other. Because, the dancing mace of these goods fills up all those gaps.

When 250 muscle sticks are waving maces together and charging, the "wolf tooth wind" that blows is basically a meat grinder, and whoever touches it is tragic......

Suddenly, Marin wanted to form a mace commando team on his own soil. If the opponent does not have muskets and artillery, this gang of crazy commandos can completely catch the opponent by surprise, even if it is the Swiss phalanx, it can also rush......

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However, Marin also knows that these perverts also have weaknesses. That is, if you run out of energy, you can only lie there and wait to be captured.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Marin gave these muscle sticks and matched them with corresponding troops as echoes and covers.

As for what kind of troops? Marin thought twice and chose the musketeers and the sword and shield soldiers......

Needless to say, the musketeer is the guarantee of long-range striking power, the main output force. The sword and shield soldiers are mainly the covering troops of the musketeers and the wolf's fang commandos.

After all, if the Wolf Tooth Commando is running out of strength, the Sword and Shield Soldiers can go up and protect and bring back the Wolf Tooth Commando Warrior who has no strength. Similarly, musketeers were vulnerable to the blows of opposing archers. Musketeers can also be on the side of the musketeers to keep them safe.

Moreover, the sword and shield soldiers are not only able to play support. If it is a close encounter, the sword and shield soldiers can also kill the enemy and charge. If the opponent wants to attack from a distance with the archers, the sword and shield soldiers can cover the musketeers to shoot at them.

Generally speaking, ordinary sword and shield soldiers hold a round shield the size of the lid of a stir-fry cauldron. If it is an iron shield, the average infantry will definitely not be able to hold it. So, it can only be a wooden shield.

However, a wooden shield alone could not stop the slashing of heavy battle axes and the smashing of heavy hammers. Therefore, the outside of the wooden shield needs to be covered with a layer of iron to strengthen the shield's defense.

As for the armor...... As an auxiliary class, sword and shield soldiers must not wear heavy armor. Otherwise, the physical strength will not be able to keep up. However, as a defensive unit, it cannot be without armor......

Therefore, the sword and shield soldiers must be equipped with a kind of armor that is light and highly protective. The first thing that Ma Lin thought of was rattan armor, after all, in his previous life, Ma Lin had seen too much "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and knew that rattan armor was a very good armor in the era of cold weapons.

However, Marin did not have the technology to make rattan nails, nor did he specialize in the tung oil used to make rattan nails. So, Marin had no choice but to give up. Then Marin thought about paper armor again, but for the same reason - there was no relevant technology......

Then there is the cotton armor, but not to mention that Marin does not have so much cotton in his hands now, and there is no relevant technology, and the weight of the real cotton armor alone makes the infantry unbearable...... Because, the real cotton armor with iron sheet lining has a total weight of 40 catties. The Manchu Eight Banners cotton armor, that is, the charging death squad, wore so heavy. The infantry wore such heavy armor that they could not run at all.

Therefore, in the TV series, only those Eight Banner masters will wear cotton armor. Because they were on horseback, and the infantry, wearing cloth clothes with the word "brave", so they got on the ......

Then, Marin thought of the wicker armor again. In his last life, Ma Lin saw a post on the Internet saying that during the Warring States period of the Japanese village chief, some princes were too poor and had no money to equip the soldiers with metal weapons and armor, so they simply let the low-level soldiers wear wicker armor and hold bamboo guns, so they went to participate in the brawl between the village chiefs...... The reason why the katana is so sharp is said to be used to cut wicker armor......

Thinking of the wicker armor, Marin recalled the wicker basket he had used in his previous life, and it seemed to be really strong......

However, neither Europe nor the Americas seem to have willow trees. It seems that the willow trees in Europe and the United States were all introduced from China later. Even bamboo......

So, what wicker armor also excludes......

Eventually, Marlin finally came up with a suitable piece of armor - wooden armor......

Of course, not plate armor made of wood, but pierced armor made of wood chips. Speaking of this armor, Ma Lin unconsciously remembered the bamboo cushion on the office chair in his previous life. It seems that the protection is quite good when you put on the bamboo cushion directly......

What Marin wanted to do was to tie it together with pieces of wood to make a piercing armor. Moreover, this technique is readily available. Because, the horse armor of the knight's war horse has a piercing armor at the hem. As long as you find a craftsman who is good at making horse armor, you can easily make armor from wood chips.

However, if only wood chips are used, the protection is very poor. So, Marlin planned to nail small iron sheets to the outside of those wood chips. Even if it is not too thick, it can play a great role in blocking the wood chip armor from being damaged by the enemy.

In addition, the cuirass of the sword and shield soldier is made of a single piece of wood, and the outside is covered with iron sheets. Moreover, it was three-quarter cuirass. Such a cuirass does not affect the twisting of the soldier's waist.

Below the three-quarters breastplate, the hem of the skirt was made of iron-covered wood chips. And the helmet, although it is also a wooden helmet covered with iron sheets, but Marin still thinks that the iron skin is thicker. Otherwise, it is easy to die if you are shot in the head by the Indians' earthen bows and arrows......

After thinking about it, Marin ordered the artisan workshop on the high reservoir side of Lyle County to select craftsmen who could make horse armor, and use wood chips and iron sheets to make the armor of sword and shield soldiers.

Soon, the sample was made, and Marlin ordered it to be weighed, because it was mainly wood chips, and the weight was not large, only 19 pounds. Not too heavy for those sturdy soldiers.

As for the number of musketeers and shield men, Marin decided to set it at 250 musketeers and 500 sword and shield men. Counting the 250 muscle stick plate infantry, that's exactly 1,000 people. And this is the armed force that Marin used to conquer the island of Newfoundland......