On the training ground, looking at a group of soldiers wearing wooden "motorcycle helmets" and wearing double-layer "mahjong mats" in a fierce group fight, Marin couldn't help but laugh.

Fortunately, Europeans in this era did not know the stalk of "mahjong mats", and even did not know what mahjong was. Otherwise, they'll laugh too.

Because of the black paint, there is no need to wear a black smock on the outside of the mahjong mat. The wooden stick head stained with lime powder can be poked directly on the mahjong mat, and the score can be counted.

According to the custom of the "group beating training method", a company of 250 people beat each other up. However, Marin felt that this was too monotonous. So, he also added a group of 10 people to fight each other, and a group of three to fight each other.

In particular, the three-person assault group is particularly valued by Marin. Because, whether it is the special forces of later generations or Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck array, the three-person team is a standard combination.

Moreover, the cooperation of a team of three can also allow the soldiers to gain a local advantage at a certain point. When the soldiers are accustomed to cooperating with their comrades around them, they can burst out with an effect far beyond ordinary battle formations.

As a result, the two modes of group beating in a three-person group and a brigade of 250 people have become the most classic tactics in the Marlin Army.

After summing up a complete set of training methods, Marin ordered that this training method be compiled into a training syllabus and sent to the 10,000 troops of the Duchy of Schleswig and the garrison battalions in the Münster region, and that this training method be spread throughout the army.

In fact, until the Russian-Turkish War in the 60s of the 19th century, the duel between the European armies was still dominated by bayonets. As for why? Because the loading speed of the front-loading gun was too slow, the musket did not fire quickly. If the melee between the two armies begins, the musketeers' ability to shoot will be useless at all.

At that time, everyone was close to each other, and the most direct way was to fight bayonets, not shoot. Because, in a melee situation, you can't have tens of seconds to reload the ammunition after the bullet inside the barrel is shot. If you don't want to be stabbed to death by the enemy while reloading, you might as well raise your bayonet and fight with the enemy......

Therefore, in the era of front-loading guns, there was a famous tactic from the British lobster soldiers - that is, holding the enemy's platoon guns, after reaching a distance of twenty or thirty meters from the enemy, they carried out a salvo to knock the musketeers in the front row of the enemy down. Then, taking advantage of the enemy's confusion to fill the position, launch a charge and decide the victory with a bayonet.

At that time, the hit rate of the smoothbore gun was too touching. If you aim at a distance of 100 meters, you can theoretically aim and shoot, but if you can really hit half of it, you can be considered a sharpshooter. Only at a distance of twenty or thirty meters, raising the gun to aim, can the hit rate be high in the actual sense.

It is normal to shoot a platoon of guns at such a close distance, knocking the fighters in the front row of the enemy to the ground. At this time, the enemy will definitely be flustered and demoralized when he sees that the soldiers in the front row have been shot and fall to the ground.

At this time, the lobster soldiers took the opportunity to charge again, but the distance of twenty or thirty meters was not long enough. If you're busy reloading your ammo for a three-stage hit, you're looking for abuse. Before you could reload your ammunition, the bayonet was stuck in you......

Therefore, some time before the outbreak of the war, this tactic wants to be a bull, and it is easy to win. However, the emergence of the emperor made the emergence of even more bullish "artillery doctrine". Under the bombardment of platoon artillery, the bayonet tactic became death. After all, platoon artillery, especially those that use shotguns, is too lethal for line infantry.

Marin has been hesitating whether to take out the big killer weapon of the shotgun. However, I have not dared to. Why? I'm afraid that the French will learn to ......

France is already an artillery power, and the number of artillery equipment is very large. And shotgun is too low-tech and easy to learn. Therefore, if Marin dares to take out the shotgun in advance, it will definitely make France fly.

In the face of the rain of shotguns from the French army, which pulled out hundreds of artillery pieces at every turn, any infantry line formation had to be beaten into dogs. Therefore, Marin preferred not to take out the weapon of shotgun, but only used the Spanish phalanx in order to maintain the tactical advantage of the army.

If there were shotguns, the casualties would be a little greater. When the time comes, the army of 10,000 or 20,000 will not be enough for the dead and wounded. Moreover, Marin himself is also a person who goes to the battlefield, and if the other party makes a shotgun, he may be sent to the sky by a stray bullet......

Therefore, Marin feels that the use of Spanish phalanxes, the use of modern training methods, and the emergence of a very powerful melee training method such as the "group beating training method", Marin feels that as long as the training is in place, when it comes to fighting stabs, his "mahjong army" may not be worse than the veterans of Swiss mercenaries......

When the time comes, Marin will lead a mahjong army wearing a double-layer "mahjong mat" to sweep through the German countries and stab all the enemies in front of him...... Don't feel too cool...... It's just that ...... the title "Mahjong Army" seems a bit indecent......

While supervising the training of the fighters of the "Mahjong Legion" in the use of "spears" for mutual stabbing training, a sudden report came from his subordinates - Prince Sigismunt, the brother of the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King Alexander of Poland......

(Prince Zygmunt, also known as the aforementioned Prince Sigmund.) Of course, this is a difference in translation. ）

It turned out that Prince Zygmunt was 38 years old. With the return of the wife of the elder brother Grand Duke Alexander to Moscow, and the fact that Grand Duke Alexander did not divorce and marry a new wife, it is quite possible that Prince Zygmunt will be chosen as the new king of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania.

Therefore, Prince Zygmunt felt that he should come out and travel for a while and increase his knowledge. At the same time, he also plans to pick his wife by the way......

Don't be surprised, Prince Zygmunt doesn't know why, he has never been married, he is 38 years old, and he doesn't have a wife. The problem is that ordinary people don't have a wife because they are poor, he is a prince, and he may inherit the position of King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania in the future, it is impossible not to find a wife...... So, the only possibility is that he is too picky. Or, for a while, you haven't met the right princess......

After all, the idea of being a good person in this era is very serious, and the princess basically does not have the situation of getting married, and the prince will not marry Cinderella. Unless, the prince wants to give up the inheritance......

Historically, there have been princes who lost their inheritance rights because they went to a commoner girl. The most famous is that King Edward VIII had to abdicate in order to marry the commoner and divorced Mrs. Simpson. In addition, Queen Victoria's cousin, Prince George, the 7th Duke of Cambridge, fell in love with a commoner girl named Sara and married her, and as a result, the descendants lost the inheritance of the Duke of Cambridge.

Prince Zygmunt was a prince who could become the king of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his marriage was even more cautious. In order to inherit the throne and continue to be kings for his descendants, he had to marry a noble woman. At the very least, it has to be a princess of a country.

And there are more than 300 vassal states in Germany, large and small, and there are many princesses. Therefore, Prince Sigismunt came to Germany for a "visit", not only to increase his knowledge, but also to inspect his wife by the way......

In addition, because Marin and Prince Sigismund were also friends and allies, Prince Siegmund first went to East Friesland to see Marin......

And Marin suddenly remembered one thing - Prince Zygmunt seems to be the younger brother of the princes of Poland and Lithuania, although he did not become the crown prince according to the law, but after the death of Archduke Alexander, this guy did not run away as a king. Moreover, Marin had read history and knew that Archduke Alexander would hang up in these two years. So, this is a standard crown prince......

It just so happened that Marin was seeking to get the Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, to break her engagement with Henry VIII. When the time comes, Spain will re-select Princess Catherine's husband, and it will be possible to recommend Prince Zygmunt to Ferdinand II.

Although Prince Sigismunt is a little older, he is 38 years old, but Princess Catherine is not a big girl, she has been added once, and her husband has died. Like, these two are a good match......

Moreover, Catherine of Aragon married Prince Zygmunt, so Marin did not have to worry about the marriage alliance between Spain and Denmark......