As long as he can win this decisive battle, Marin's future road to the European emperor will be a smooth road, and there will be no obstacles. Contrarily......

Therefore, no matter how much Marin values and overestimates his opponent, it is not an exaggeration. Only if you pay attention to it, you are more likely to defeat your opponent. And if you don't pay attention to it or are arrogant, you may lose your life.

Marin is a greedy person who is afraid of death, not only likes to hide high manganese steel breastplate armor in silk robes, but also likes to make all preparations to avoid GG.

After the construction of border fortifications began, the only thing that worries Marin now is probably the lack of troops. It is said that now Marin has 6 legions in his hands, plus 10,000 sailors, it is estimated that he can make up 60,000 or 70,000 troops.

However, two legions were trapped in England and could not be used at all. Therefore, the only people that Marin can really use to fight on his own soil at the moment are 40,000 troops and more than 10,000 sailors.

But the Sixth Army needs to protect the silver capital of Goslar and cannot give up easily. Therefore, the men and horses that Marin can really use are currently only 30,000 regular troops and 10,000 sailors.

Of course, Marin was also able to gather together the 20,000 or 30,000 strong men who had been fighting with the army all year round in East Friesland Province and train them so that they could have a certain combat effectiveness.

But a strong man is a strong man, although he has strength, he is not necessarily suitable for fighting as a soldier. Just like Marin selects soldiers, qualified soldiers are not judged by whether you are strong and powerful, but by whether you have courage.

Only those who have courage dare to move forward bravely on the battlefield and fight the enemy. Even if you don't have enough strength, even if you can't beat it, you dare to show your sword and fight the enemy.

And those who do not have courage, even if they are full of muscles, are afraid to fight the enemy. When you see an enemy coming, you can easily be so frightened that you throw away your weapons and run.

So, for a soldier, the body can be exercised, and the level of shooting can be fed with bullets. However, courage is born and cannot be practiced.

Just like Uncle Marin in his previous life, when he was sent to South Vietnam as a volunteer, the commander who picked people at that time gave a task - the third watch was alone in the middle of the night, without a flashlight, to carry the female corpse in a hut on one hill to another mountain......

At that time, although anti-superstition was promoted, people were still very afraid of ghosts. But anyone who can carry the female corpse alone in the middle of the night is bold. Then, Uncle Marin was selected and went to South Vietnam as an artilleryman, specializing in fighting the old American with anti-aircraft artillery......

During this experience, Marin often listened to his uncle blow at the wine table in his previous life. So, the ears are calloused. After crossing, this is also used as a criterion to select warriors, so as not to choose a strong breed.

And because this era emphasizes cold weapon fighting, Ma Lin simply selects those who are not afraid of injury and indomitable in the competition, which can be regarded as an improved version of "carrying a female corpse in the middle of the night".

In fact, Marin didn't know that this kind of courage selection method was generally used to select elite or dead soldiers, not ordinary soldiers.

Therefore, after so many years, Marin has selected tens of thousands of mercenaries. In fact, ordinary mobilized soldiers do not value any courage at all when they are selected, as long as they are physically strong.

Even, it doesn't matter if you're obedient or not. Anyway, when you are in the army, you will be beaten if you are disobedient. As for deserters or something, if they are executed, they will be ......

Like those conscripts who were strong men, including the compulsory soldiers of later generations, how many were really enthusiastic and brave? In the end, these people still have to be forced to grow up with harsh military law.

And the most cruel means of elimination is probably actual combat training. Many anti-war units were often formed in a hurry. Recruits or something, they are young men recruited from villages plagued by devils, and they have no foundation.

Of course, this is also a means of provoking troops - to exploit their hatred of devils!

Sometimes, hatred can make a coward burst into courage. As long as there are a few more battles, ordinary people can become brave. No, I should say that I have become numb...... Only the few people who can't support the wall with real mud will be hopeless......

But, seriously, in the era of hot weapons, fighting a war is a bit of a matter of luck. Lying in the trenches, the devil knows if the enemy's shells will happen to land next to you and explode......

Sometimes, in the blink of an eye, your head is gone......

In other words, in the heat weapons war, many soldiers received boxed lunches before they had time to express their bravery or fear.

In the era of cold weapons, they are all face-to-face, not lucky. Therefore, the requirements for courage are even higher. Because, fighting the enemy in person, and being killed by a stray bullet with bad luck, requires a different amount of courage.

Of course, the most courageous test is not actually a cold weapon battle, but a queue to be shot......

It's a real test of courage, because you can't even find cover to hide from ammunition, so you can just stand there stupidly and wait for the enemy to release your gun. It's a bit of a turn-based game, but brutal. Therefore, the harsh military law of the modern army is needed. Otherwise, the average soldier really can't stand it.

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In other words, the reason why the Beihai army is strong is that in addition to Marin's use of advanced battle formation tactics, the high-demand method of selecting soldiers is also an important guarantee.

This method of selecting volunteers or dead soldiers made the regular army of the Beihai State have a high will to fight, and the army is not easy to collapse.

But it is precisely because of this high demand that the number of people he recruits is also limited. It is also a shame that Marin recruited troops in Germany, and in another place, he may not be able to recruit tens of thousands of people.

You know, the German region has a martial tradition, and the people have always been fierce. In addition, Ma Lin is picking people among the more fierce mountain people, so it is naturally easy to recruit suitable soldiers. If it were to be changed to another region, he would not be able to recruit tens of thousands of horses......

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However, the biggest problem now is that many vassal states in the south have forbidden Marin to recruit troops in the mountains of southern Germany at will.

This made Marin very uncomfortable, because many good soldiers were in small mountain villages in the southern mountains......

Those fierce and even somewhat barbaric mountain people are not lacking in brave men. It's a pity that their lord doesn't allow Marin to pick people......

"I lack brave warriors, how can I break it?" Marin asked the sky speechlessly.

Marin had already decided that once the alliance of the princes and the French attacked him together, and when he was victorious, the first requirement was not to let the princes cede the land and pay reparations, but to let them allow them to go to the vassal states in southern Germany to select the fierce mountain people as soldiers.

But how did you get so many brave and fearless fighters before that?

"Brave...... The words "savage ......" flashed through Marin's mind. Suddenly, a thought popped into my head......

"Why don't I learn the skin of a wild boar and catch the wild people to be a death squad?"

Although he did not agree with the barbaric dynasty of "I Daqing", Ma Lin had to admit that after the establishment of the Later Jin, the "dead army" tactics of capturing savages in the white mountains and black waters in the northeast to act as a death squad charge were really strong.

Those raw Jurchens who were caught from the deep mountains and old forests were real barbarians who were savage and ignorant. As long as you get it, you can fool around it, and then wash your brain, and then ...... Well, put on cotton armor and ride a donkey, and you can act as a death squad cavalry......

"Perhaps, I can also catch some fierce savages from the North American jungles and serve as death squads?"