Chapter 917 - Reverse Operation of Picking Cossacks
Once the plan is in place, it takes people to implement it. These implementers, naturally, were Cossack cavalrymen. Of course, it will never be a purely Eastern European Cossack.
After all, the Eastern European native Cossacks were a bunch of scum, uncontrolled. Therefore, Marin believes that it is necessary to be dominated by Germans in order to effectively control.
Of course, for those scum Cossacks, Marin had a weapon against them - spirits......
Like the first Cossacks, the new 2,000 Cossack strongmen immediately lost all their temperance under the spicy onslaught of whisky (rye two-pot head).
For several days in a row, Marin let this group of Cossacks drink two pots and eat braised pork every day. Such a corrupt life quickly corrupted this group of thieves. Although they were captives, they did not have the slightest consciousness of being prisoners. As long as Marin gave the spirits to drink and the meat to eat, they were willing to die for Marin.
At the same time, in the past few days, Marin took the opportunity to send people to the Cossack villages on Jutland and called the heads of 10 German Cossack villages.
According to Marin's vision, each Cossack village was actually a collection of Cossack cavalry hundreds. These Cossacks were civilians in peacetime, sent troops in wartime, and the village chief was a centurion in wartime.
In order to build his own Cossack village, Marin specially selected 1,000 German youths who were proficient in horsemanship, divided into 10 Cossack villages, and grazed cattle and practiced horse warfare on Jutland.
It's just that the cavalry trained in these 10 Cossack villages does not look like Cossacks at all, but like ordinary German light cavalry. Therefore, Marin made up his mind to bring in real Cossacks, so as to bring excitement to these dull German lads.
However, compared to those real Cossacks, these silent and obedient German Cossacks were the ones Marin really trusted.
Therefore, even if the Cossacks were sent to the Americas, Marin would never let the real Cossacks wander on the Pampas. Otherwise, those Cossacks would have gotten out of control and stood on their own.
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This time to send troops to the Pampas, Marin intends to dispatch 1000 troops. Of these, 500 were infantry. These infantrymen were mainly responsible for the security of the population in the agricultural and residential areas near Buenos Aires. The other 500 were Cossack cavalry. Their mission was to sweep away the indigenous Indians near Buenos Aires. In front of the sabers of the cavalry, no native could run.
For the composition of the 500 Cossack cavalry, Marin was originally intended to be half of the German Cossacks and half of the original Cossacks. But, considering that it was a killing conquest, those genuine Cossacks might have been easier to do. As a result, Marin revised the ratio of personnel - of 500 Cossack cavalry, only 100 were German Cossacks, and the remaining 400 were genuine Cossacks.
Of course, the commander of this cavalry team must have been the German Cossacks. Otherwise, Marlin is not easy to control.
Therefore, Marin called the leaders of the 10 Cossack villages over, in fact, they were selected. After the investigation, Marin selected a Cossack village chief named Mackensen as the commander of these 500 cavalry. In fact, Marin chose this man named Mackensen as his leader because his surname was the same as that of Markensen, the German cavalry marshal during World War I. He is a commoner descendant from a knightly family, so he has a surname. His full name is John. Mackensen. Marin felt that this name was very "cavalry marshal", so he chose him as the main general. And the lieutenant was another Cossack village chief, named Agamand. The two will each take 50 of their men and their families to move to the Pampas.
Upon arrival in the Pampas, 500 Cossack cavalry would split into two parts, led by two each, to sweep the indigenous tribes around Buenos Aires. And the 50 men they each brought with them will become the backbone of their entire Cossack team.
In order to make it easier for them to control the cavalry ranks, Marin spent several days selecting suitable genuine Cossack subordinates for them.
Of course, Marin picked not the bravest Cossacks, but the most obedient Cossacks. After all, the fighting power of the indigenous South American Indians was too poor, and Marin did not need the Cossacks to be brave, but needed them to remain under his control.
Therefore, for the rest of the year, Marin continued to feast the Cossacks every day, and then allowed the Cossack youth to communicate with each other.
As a result, those Cossack youths automatically divided into a dozen social circles, and there were also invisible leaders. In every social circle, there will be several leading figures. These people seem to be born leaders......
However, none of these natural leaders were in Marin's consideration. Because, in the Cossack cavalry of Marin, the leader could only be Germans......
Therefore, these dozens of Cossacks, who were born leaders, were all blacklisted by Marin. In the future, these people will also be under intensive surveillance, and there will be no chance of leading troops alone. It was those ordinary Cossacks who had no opinion and would only follow the crowd became the target of Marin's selection.
In just a few days, Marin sent his spies to carefully observe the Cossacks, and selected 400 Cossacks who were less assertive and incorporated them into the ranks of Mackensen and Agamande.
Of course, the first thing they do when they join the team is to learn German, and then they go through the queue training and learn a lot of rules. Fortunately, those thorns were secretly eliminated, and Mackensen and Agamande's cohort training went smoothly, and no one blew up the thorns. After all, these people are not thorns in themselves.
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Marin was very proud of such a result. This method of selecting soldiers is actually a kind of reverse operation. In general, if you want to select talent, you should choose those who are born to lead, such as the leaders of those dozen circles.
But the problem is that they are aliens and are not trusted by Marin. Therefore, Marin came to a reverse operation, eliminating all the aliens with the temperament of leaders, leaving only those who followed the crowd. In this way, it is not easy for foreign officers to lead troops to rebel.
In view of the success of the experiment, Marin decided to use this method every time he recruited Cossacks in the future, secretly eliminating the Cossack leaders, leaving only the Cossacks who had no opinion, and integrating them into the cavalry ranks of German officers. In this way, it was possible to ensure that the Cossack cavalry was always at the disposal of Marin.
This method, of course, was only suitable for the Cossack cavalry who conquered the Americas. Because, the emperor of the Americas is far away, and Marin is not in control, so he naturally needs the most obedient. Moreover, the Native Americans were too low in combat and did not need too strong Cossacks. As for the Beihai country, it is the normal selection mode. After all, the control of the native Marin is still very strong. In the native, the Cossacks were only a minority, and they could not make waves. Therefore, the native Cossack cavalry, Marin was not afraid to let those Cossacks with strong ability and leadership temperament come to the fore......