King of German Mercenaries

Marin's troubles didn't last long, and the troublemaker Simon helped him solve the problem...

"Brother Malin, what are you thinking? You frown..."

"I'm thinking about soldiers and horses..." Marin said casually.

"Aren't you the boss of mercenaries? Go and hire more people to help you fight!" Simon said innocently. In Simon's eyes, as long as you spend money, someone will come to help fight the war. He had tried the feeling of a local tyrant holding a gold coin in his hand. With the gold coin in his hand, the merchants in the town immediately nodded to him.

"Hiring people... Yes, I almost forgot, I am also a mercenary general. If there are no soldiers, I will hire myself... But where can I hire them?" Marin was troubled again.

It is not difficult to hire soldiers. The economy in Germany is generally not good, and some of them are poor ghosts who want to be soldiers. However, soldiers with rich combat experience are difficult to hire...

Simon heard Marin's self-talk, and interjected inadvertently:

"I heard that Swiss mercenaries are invincible in the world. Brother Malin, why don't you hire some Swiss mercenaries to help you fight?"

"Hire Swiss?" Marin was stunned for a moment...

In Marin's subconscious, the Swiss mercenaries have always been regarded as enemies. The reason why Marin engaged in the Spanish phalanx was also to fight against the flourishing Swiss mercenaries and gain illustrious military exploits.

However, Marin seems to have forgotten that until now, Marin's troops have not collided with Swiss mercenaries, nor have they killed a Swiss mercenary...

In other words, the relationship between Marin and the Swiss is completely a passerby relationship...

As for the feud between Marin and King Charles VIII of France, what does it have to do with the Swiss? Anyway, Marin pits are authentic French knights, not Swiss.

Moreover, the Swiss are not French, so they don't feel ashamed of the King of France. Speaking of which, because the last time Charles VIII left the Swiss mercenaries to escape privately, the Swiss were very angry. For Marin's plot against Charles VIII, many Swiss mercenaries are even a little dark.

...

Marin suddenly realized, Da Che realized - I haven't had a grudge against the Swiss yet, so I have automatically marked the Swiss as hostile relationship, which is too 2...

In fact, the Swiss are not completely without personal grudges with Marin. For example, the Swiss and the Habsburgs are deadly enemies.

At the beginning, when the Luxembourg dynasty ruled the Shinra, it desperately suppressed the rivals to the throne, the Habsburg family. In order to suppress the rival Habsburg family, the last emperor of the Luxembourg family, "Old Rogue" Sigismund, generously, took the Habsburg family's "ancestral land" in Switzerland - the canton of Aargau, As well as other Swiss fiefs that originally belonged to the Habsburg family, they were all sold for money to local lords and parliaments in Switzerland.

Since then, the "old hooligan" Sigismund has repeatedly deliberately instigated the contradiction between the Swiss and the Habsburg family, making the Habsburg family and the Swiss become enemies.

Marin, as a famous young thug under Maximilian I, naturally made the Swiss unhappy...

Sure enough, when Marin rushed to Switzerland with 70 of his men and 10,000 gold coins borrowed from Hoffman Manor, he was greeted coldly.

However, the Swiss are mercenaries who fight for money after all, and will not really have business without doing it. Because the French King Charles VIII was burdened with huge debts and his vitality was severely damaged by the defeat, he could not continue to pay commissions for the war in the short term. So the Swiss will be unemployed for a long time.

Although Marin was a minion of the Habsburgs, the Swiss eventually decided to accept Marin's employment. However, in view of the unfriendly status of the two sides, and Marin's eagerness to hire a capable army, the Swiss started to raise the price and doubled the commission price...

You know, the price of Swiss mercenaries is already high. The current salary of a common mercenary is 3 pfennig per day,

The Swiss mercenary's salary is 6 pfennig per day. Now, they're offering double the salary, which is actually asking Marin to pay 12 pfennig a day. . . .

12 What is the concept of Finney? That's a shilling! You know, during the American Revolutionary War, the price paid by the British to the Hessian mercenaries was only 1 shilling per day. That was the end of the 18th century, 200 years later, it was the end of the 18th century after the "price revolution" of skyrocketing prices...

Today, Europe is still very short of gold and silver, and the currency value is still very high. The Swiss ask for 1 shilling a day, which is like a lion's mouth...

But in order to quickly obtain capable mercenaries, Marin had to endure this sigh and agreed to the outrageous price of 1 shilling per day from the Swiss.

In fact, the German mercenaries at this time are much cheaper. Generally, there are a lot of people who are willing to do 3 penny a day and 2 penny a day. However, the German mercenaries are just emerging, and there are no mercenary groups that have been battle-hardened. A group of German mercenaries was recruited and trained for several months before fighting. But what Marin lacks most now is time. As a last resort, he can only hire experienced Swiss mercenaries at a high price in order to solve the problem as quickly as possible.

After that, Marin selected 3,000 Swiss veteran mercenaries with good equipment and strong combat power at this price, and signed employment contracts.

The contract stipulated that Marin employed the 3,000 Swiss mercenaries for two months, with a total contract price of 36,000 gold coins. Among them, Marin paid a deposit of 8,000 gold coins in advance, and was responsible for the food expenses of the 3,000 army...

In this way, 3,000 Swiss veterans who are good at fighting, followed Marin, and quickly drove to the Netherlands, striving to quickly support Texel Island...

Because Marin's salary is high enough, there are still many Swiss veterans willing to play for Marin. And these veterans, after many battles, their wallets are naturally full. Therefore, their equipment is also better. For example, of the 3,000 Swiss mercenaries, 1,000 were equipped with helmets and breastplates. To help them transport their helmets and breastplates, Marin had to hire several wagons...

At the same time, this group of Swiss mercenaries did not all use spears. There are also many mercenaries who use halberds similar to hooked scythes (used to hook horses' legs) in order to deal with cavalry. In addition, many people also carry a "can opener" against plate armored soldiers - a hammer...

Marin is also very happy to see that this group of Swiss veterans has such a complete set of tools. Although his own Spanish phalanx can also deal with plate soldiers, but it is very dependent on muskets. Once the weather is cloudy and rainy, the musket will fail, and it will be difficult for the spearmen to hurt the enemy who wears plate armor.

In cold weapon combat, the Swiss halberds and mace are very good tools for hitting plate armored soldiers. Frisian's heavy armored knights and heavy armored swordsmen, the Swiss are very good at dealing with them. It's just that these Swiss guys are too dark-hearted, and they even asked for four times the super high salary of ordinary mercenaries, which made Marin's heart bleed...

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