Chapter 386: Saqqara
The experience of Saqqara, which is also legendary in East Friesland. He didn't follow Marin before his career, like Schwartz, Kahn, and Sauer, but joined later.
In the beginning, Saqqara was just a young gangster in East Frisian Aurich. Of course, he also has another identity - the descendant of one of the Brock family's court guards.
It's just that by the time of Saqqara's generation, the family had completely declined from the knight family under the blow of the Syksner family, who originally controlled the Eastern Friesian Lamber.
Even, since childhood, Saqqara did not receive a cultural education and did not practice martial arts. Because, shortly after his birth, his father was killed by the Syxner family officials stationed in Aurich.
Saqqara grew up living with his mother in the slums of the city of Orich. In order to survive, Saqqara also learned to steal and fight from an early age. Gradually, Saqqara became the child king of the slums.
However, Saqqara's ability to become the king of children is not because he can fight like Karn, but because he has a more flexible mind. Since he was a child, he has learned the truth of "fighting in a group". Therefore, during the period of chaos, despite his youth, Saqqara led a group of younger brothers from the slums, relying on obscene tactics such as group beating tactics and stuffy stick tactics, but he opened up a little situation and became one of the "leading figures" on the street of Aurich.
However, after Marin captured Aurich and made it his capital, Saqqara and his gang of thugs suffered.
After all, Aurich is a small city, and under the sweep of Marin's tens of thousands of troops, Saqqara and his younger brothers were all arrested and planned to "reform through labor".
Seeing that he was about to be sentenced, Saqqara suddenly remembered the family origin that his mother had said, as if he was a court guard of the Bullock family. And Marin claims to be the heir of the Bullock family, so he shouldn't be embarrassed, right?
Saqqara then told the warden that he was a descendant of the palace guards of the Bullock family, asked for forgiveness, and offered to join Marin's army in the service of Marin.
After investigating, the new warden discovered that Saqqara was really from a small family of court guards of the Brock family.
It just so happened that Marin had just captured East Friesland and set the capital in Aurich, and it was necessary to win over the remnants of the original Bullock family. As a remnant of the Brock family, Saqqara naturally hitched a ride and was taken out of prison and joined Marin's army by luck.
In fact, when Marin was recruiting, he came strictly according to the requirements. Marin, for example, was reluctant to accept city thugs as soldiers. And Saqqara was just a gangster before, and he was still a gangster leader.
It stands to reason that Saqqara is not eligible to join the East Frisian army. However, Saqqara's grandfather, Camian. Schuster was not only the palace guard of the Bullock family, but also died on the steps of the Bullock family's palace in the rebellion, and was a martyr.
With such a "red sprout" background, and Marin just needed to win over the remnants of the Brock family, he specially recruited Saqqara into the army, and was fortunate to be incorporated into Marin's guard.
Originally, Marin put Saqqara. Schustert recruited into the pro-guard guard, but with the intention of "buying horse bones with a thousand dollars", he did it for those old and young people of the Bullock family.
Unexpectedly, Saqqara is really a self-motivated guy. Previously, because of the low level of education of his cronies, Marin often taught his cronies such as Kohler, Karn, Sauer, Tara, and Garand the culture in his spare time in battle, and taught them some military knowledge.
At this time, Saqqara would seek to change shifts with his colleagues, acting as a guard by Marin's side. At the same time, he also secretly learned cultural and military knowledge.
After Marin found out that Saqqara was stealing cultural knowledge, instead of punishing him, he agreed to allow Saqqara to study as an official auditor.
Why? Because Marin found that the group of big-headed soldiers under him were very uninterested in reading......
Karn, in particular, had a headache when he read a book, and taught him to read, so he could doze off and drool in front of him. Karn's younger brother, Kohler, on the other hand, was the most serious and fruitful of his cronies. Marin both suspected that Karn and Kohler, one of whom must have picked it up. Otherwise, the difference is too big.
In addition, Sauer's results are also good, second only to Kohler. Tara and Garland, on the other hand, have average talent, but they are better at being obedient and working hard, and their progress is gratifying.
As an auditor, Saqqara, to Marin's surprise, this talent seems to be good, compared with Sauer, it is even more powerful than Garland and Tara.
Moreover, Saqqara is also one of the few Frisians under Marin's command. After all, most of Marin's army consisted of fierce mountain men recruited from the Württemberg Mountains and obedient farmers recruited from the Alsace region. For the native Frisians of the East Friesian Lamberlands, Marin was trained more as sailors, and very few were recruited into the army.
In addition, when East Friesland was first conquered, there was a militia of about seven or eight thousand Frisians in the East Frisian Lamb. But for this group of people, Marin did not trust them very much at first, and did not manage and train them as regular troops, but as reserve troops. The militia of the whole of East Friesland, the supreme commander, was the old Hoffmann. Adler was also the second general of the militia and is still stationed in Oldenburg.
Although at first, Marin did not trust the natives of East Friesian Lamber, fearing that there would be remnants of the Syxner family. But as the years passed, Marin gradually let go of his guard against the locals. After all, Bishop Taylor helps to brainwash the fools every day, and everyone's minds have almost changed.
So, Marin was in the army, trying to recruit a few thousand Frisians, and scattered them into various units, but they were not formed.
And this time to send troops to Newcastle, Marin was actually in a hurry. After all, he didn't expect Newcastle's coal supply to go wrong.
So, this army, consisting of 2,000 pure Frisians, was actually improvised and cobbled. That is, the Frisian soldiers who had been scattered and integrated into the various units were reorganized into a whole.
But the question also arises - who will lead this army?
Obviously, since I was stationed in England and had to deal with English people, it was better to have an officer who knew Frisian language, which was close to English.
The problem was that most of Marin's officers were purely Germans, and very few knew Frisian. Marin himself understands, but he can't go to Newcastle, right? Moreover, he has a special status, and if he goes to Newcastle, he will definitely provoke the displeasure of Henry VII.
As for Adler and Simon, they also speak Frisian, but neither is suitable for sending to Newcastle. Not to mention whether the old Hoffmans agree or not, just because of their sensitive status, it is not suitable to go there. After all, Marin's request is to keep his identity secret, send his own brother over, and keep it secret?
After thinking about it, Marin finally remembered that his guard seemed to have a squad leader Saqqara who loved to learn. So, Marin had the mentality of giving it a try, and appointed Saqqara as the leader of the army, giving Saqqara, a supernumerary student who had studied with him for a long time, a chance. If you catch it, you will be able to soar soon...... [.]