Chapter 90: Chaotic War (1)
The Swiss living in the mountains, with little arable land, little minerals, and no access to the sea, had a difficult life in the Middle Ages, reminiscent of places such as Guizhou and northern Shaanxi where arable land was scarce. www.biquge.info Of course, it was hundreds of years after World War II made a fortune.
However, the ideas of different ethnic groups to get rid of poverty are not very different, and there is so much rainfall in Switzerland, so they did not think about building terraces, engaging in farming and other trades, and finally engaged in the Water Margin route.
First, he practiced marksmanship hard, pulled the flag and rebelled, and beat up the aristocratic lords who came to collect rent, and then, on the one hand, he recruited the poor brothers around him to join the gang and expand his territory -- but there were poor mountain people around him, and it was not much fun to expand his territory -- on the other hand, he engaged in mercenary outsourcing business, and he made a name for himself.
To make the Swiss make such a big name, the work in hand is naturally not simple. The pikes were difficult and rigorously trained, and the Swiss were the most organized in Europe, so they were able to dominate with cheap equipment for more than a century.
The formation of the phalanx is very distinctive: it is generally a phalanx of 300 people, and the main body of the phalanx is a huge gun array of 16 people in both vertical and horizontal directions, and some musketeers, halberders, drummers, flag-bearers, etc. are arranged around, and the thousand mercenaries of Perez are just three phalanxes.
Because of the large number of people hired this time, the other party also generously brought cannons - of course, they were also captured. Although Perez said: "We are the ones who sell guns, and you hundred-year-old cannons can't use them at all!" But the other party finally brought two antique cannons.
After negotiating the remuneration with these stubborn and arrogant uncles, Perez took this group of old soldiers and ran to North Africa under the pretext of being stupid.
After a long journey and a month at sea, they finally arrived near Agadir.
It's just that I never expected that Perez had only been out for a few months, and Marrakech and Agadir had completely changed the sky, and the 'Doug White Company' had now become a powder keg, fighting with the surrounding areas, and there were already wars within a radius of hundreds of miles......
Back a few months ago, when the 'human trafficker' Perez had just set off for Spain.
The 10,000-year-old rebel Li Dewan, because he hugged the thigh of the traverser, his life was much better, and the small clan was thriving and doing very well.
His men, who were 'as loyal as dogs', took possession of the Tafilal Oasis, bringing the population of the tribe to 25,000. So he followed the old rules and called himself the 'Tafilal Clan'. Although most people knew how he had replaced the 'former Tafilal' with the magpie's nest, the patriarch and his sons had seen Allah go, and they couldn't do anything about him.
Those idiots in the city still want to come to collect taxes, but the diligent Li Dewan has already touched the door of the local law: "Our Tafilal clan is canonized by the great king 'Kish', and we don't need to pay taxes, we only need to serve in the military when needed!"
(Kish is equivalent to a vassal in Europe, only obliged to perform military service, but exempt from taxes)
These days, Li Dewan, who has learned Berber and Arabic, has improved his control over his subordinates a little more. He felt that the possibility of being shot by his subordinates was getting lower and lower, so let's popularize hot weapons with stronger lethality, otherwise in the future, when encountering the musket team, his cold weapons would suffer great casualties.
Moreover, the nearby 'castle tower' is the most undisciplined and unrestrained arms dealer within a radius of several hundred miles. We've been working together for so long, and we've helped you train more than a thousand soldiers, so you can get a wholesale price, right?
But after clicking on his family, Li Dewan hesitated: he has now expanded his army to 5,000 people, even if it is the floor price, he can't afford it if there are too many people......
The old team of 2,000 people is now all cavalry, and it costs a lot of money just to match the war horses!
And several battles have proven that in this world it is not reliable to use a spear alone.
Li Dewan: What about the good arms of the army?
After experimenting, it was better for the cavalry to be equipped with a scimitar, some flintlock pistols, and some light armor.
There were 1,000 'ronin' scavenging around, plus 2,000 middle-aged men recruited in the Tafilal Oasis, which made up another 3,000 infantry. They had all sorts of weapons before, and there were even slings......
Li Dewan removed those soft bows, clubs, and the like, which was a joke at all! Finally, in addition to the swords of decent materials, there were only some shields and leather armor left to be of some use.
He also has his own experience with class combinations:
If you only consider the infantry, the spearmen attack low and defend high are suitable for being the main cannon fodder in positional warfare, and can also defend against cavalry.
Armored axes or hammers with high damage can be used as the main body of firepower.
But the good soldiers have been pulled into the cavalry, and the remaining crooked melons and cracked dates are too scumbag to do their physical strength, so they can only consider the musketeers who are more troublesome to train and have expensive equipment!
So now the infantry needs to be replaced with flintlock pistols and spearmen!
The above are the goals of army building in the future, although the kobold have given a lot of arms as a payment, but Li Dewan is expanding the army too fast, and there is never a time to be satisfied. And after using it for a long time, only the 'Xiaoquan brand' arms with the dog head as the LOGO can enter Li Dewan's eyes. The rags piled up in the warehouse of the 'Tafilal Clan' are all rubbish compared to the dog's head, so it is better to return to the furnace and refine it again.
There are more bits and pieces of textiles, hardware, knives and other things that I want to buy, and the design of 'Koizumi brand' products, after all, comes from later generations, and by the way, this is not counting cannons, and 'Koizumi' armor has begun to appear recently......
"There are so many things I want to buy, a paid online game of all evils!"
Li Dewan doesn't know too much about the urine nature of online games: "Today I went bankrupt and bought a full set of purples, and tomorrow they will dare to sell a full set ......of oranges in the mall!
Fortunately, the kobold have done all the bad things, although they are now squatting in the Tehenaut Oasis and pretending to be illegal businessmen, but their nature as human traffickers cannot be changed! Now, they have begun to collect people with all kinds of materials, gold and silver.
Li Dewan thought about it and felt that this was an opportunity: "I won't forget the things that these people kidnapped mountain people in the mountains in the first place. Perhaps, this is their way of growing their population?"
When it comes to human trafficking, the traversers are actually very cautious. At the time of the acquisition, the purpose of the purchase has always been 'voluntary immigration' and 'the whole family first', except for the hard-pressed children who were sold by their parents, the kind of people who kidnapped the tickets refused to accept them -- didn't this encourage the job of human traffickers? Therefore, although they have always been open to accepting people, the amount is only a fraction of what they have robbed.
But Li Dewan doesn't care about this, he is a 'awakened person', those 'stupid humans' and 'plaything-like NPCs', all of them don't pay attention to them.
So, as soon as he had kung fu, he took the cavalry team and went to the mountains to sweep ......