The Rise of the European Emperor

After signing the agreement with the Swiss and swearing in public, it came to an end on behalf of this gigantic battle involving 88,000 soldiers.

However, because the fierce hand-to-hand combat took place in such a small place in the Bosa coalition camp. Therefore, the casualties this time are still relatively large.

According to post-war statistics, the Swiss lost 2,000 soldiers in this war, mainly the old, weak and recruits from the rear when they were attacked by Woolf Esbrand; while Brandenburg and Saxony The army, on the other hand, lost a total of 3,000 people, and it was mainly Brandenburg's army that lost the most. Because the Saxon army was smashed by those strong people, they didn't have the chance to fight head-on with the East Frisian army, and naturally suffered fewer losses. But, that's okay. For, even though the Saxon army suffered few losses, all but the five hundred knights who escaped and Frederick III himself were captured. In the end, these people are all going to be exchanged for ransom.

Sometimes those nobles would rather their men die than see them captured. Because the finances of the nobles are not very good, and paying the ransom will bring down the finances. The subordinates who died are different. There is no such thing as a pension in this era. If you die, you will die. At most, honor is given, but honor is worthless, and it is just a word of mouth. Even if the nobles die in battle, let their heirs succeed at most, and then give their heirs some official compensation. The worst thing is that his nobles are captured. As the lord, it is necessary to redeem the subordinates. Otherwise, if you refuse to redeem your subordinates, no one will follow you to fight next time.

In addition, when the Saxon army resisted the onslaught of 30,000 civilians from Brandenburg and Saxony, they were ruthless and killed 2,000 civilians directly, which made Marin heartache.

You know, according to this situation, the Electoral State of Saxony and the Electoral State of Brandenburg can redeem all the captured soldiers. As for the 20,000 to 30,000 strong people, it is estimated that they have no money to redeem. At that time, these people will be blackened by Marin and become subjects of East Friesland. These people are not soldiers. They are all serfs anyway. Who should be serfs? Coincidentally, Marin is now expanding its territory and needs a lot of labor.

And most of the captured soldiers will be redeemed, and there is no possibility of being absorbed and digested by Marin. Therefore, in Marin's eyes, the talent of the people is more precious. Therefore, for the loss of more than 2,000 people, Marin is still very sad.

These are losses on the enemy's side, and on Marin's side, the losses are not small. Because of forcibly entering the enemy camp, there was a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the enemy. Therefore, after the war, more than 2,500 people under Marin were injured.

Fortunately, because Marin's men are wearing armor. The main force wears plate armor, and ordinary soldiers also wear "mahjong mats". Because the wood chip armor resisted many fatal wounds, although there were many wounded under Marin's men, not many died directly, only less than 400 people. The remaining 2,100 people were all wounded. Under the treatment of alcohol, gauze and gold sore medicine specially prepared by Malin, it is estimated that most of the wounded can be rescued.

For the wounded of the Bossa coalition, Marin secretly made a distinction - those injured knights who were valuable (in exchange for ransom), Marin ordered a good medical treatment. And those ordinary infantry, except for officers who can exchange some money, ordinary enemy infantry, just gave up.

As for the Swiss mercenaries, Malin ignored the more than 1,000 wounded. After all, he is no longer demanding a ransom for the Swiss. Since it's worthless, then save P... Anyway, the Swiss can't have a good relationship with him. He is only happy when the other party has killed a few more soldiers...

On the contrary, for those injured people, Marin has given them good medical conditions. After all, Marin also expects to pull these civilians under his command as serfs...

Because there were too many people, it took three days to sort out the entire camp and captives. Moreover, after the victory, Marin also rescued the 15,000 people sent by the Principality of Schleswig, who had been imprisoned in the northern part of the Bosa coalition camp. By the way, the 10,000 people who were captured in Hamburg were also sent home.

It took several days for Marin to straighten out various affairs and complete various statistics.

Then, the first thing Marin has to do is to customize a large number of shackles...

Why do you need to customize a lot of fetters? Because, among these prisoners of war, there are too many ruthless people. If nothing else, let's say that the 18,000 Swiss prisoners of war, most of them are veteran mercenaries, are villains who kill without blinking an eye. Such people, although Marin needs their help to dig the canal, but also to prevent them from rioting and fleeing.

Therefore, it is necessary to put heavy shackles on them. Otherwise, Marin is not at ease. Likewise, it was necessary for the captives of the knights from Saxony and Brandenburg to be shackled to prevent them from rioting and escaping. After all, no matter which knight is, it is a powerful existence who has practiced martial arts since childhood. If nothing is restricted, they will be sent to the canal digging site hastily, and the possibility of escaping is extremely high.

Putting heavy fetters on them not only made them unable to run fast, but also made it impossible for them to escape on horseback. And fleeing on foot with shackles, it is very easy to be overtaken by Marin's cavalry.

Moreover, after putting shackles on these dangerous elements, it can also make them recognize the reality and dare not resist and escape casually. In this way, Marin can also send fewer soldiers to supervise their labor.

For those infantry captives, Marin decided to customize steel shackles only for the officers and elites. Those old, weak and sick, only intend to wear wooden fetters.

As for how to distinguish between the elite and the weak in the infantry, that is too simple. As long as the prisoners are enthroned, they can be distinguished by looking at whether they are in the front row or the back row. In this era, the habit on the European battlefield is to line up veterans and elites in the front, and most of the old and weak and recruits in the back.

The rest of the people were strong, and Marin didn't plan to put them in chains. Just send a few light cavalry to watch, even if there are only a few hundred cavalry, it is enough to deter the 28,000 people. Because those strong people who came from serfs have no courage to resist...

Finally, after statistics, Marin found that 25,000 iron shackles were needed. Marlin was stunned by this number.

You know, this era is not the era of large-scale machine production. Every pair of iron shackles needs to be carefully crafted by a blacksmith who is proficient in making locks. Generally speaking, it takes a blacksmith several hours to make a pair of shackles by hand. In one day, even a skilled blacksmith can't make a few iron shackles...

So, it's a big order. Even if the order is placed, it will take a long time to receive the goods. After all, it takes a long time for other blacksmiths to make so many shackles.

Obviously, Marin doesn't have that many blacksmiths. With the army, only a few dozen blacksmiths. Moreover, most of them are not proficient in lock making.

In desperation, Marin had to borrow the methods of some leather bag companies in his previous life - outsourcing...

Marin's men were short of blacksmiths, but there were two large commercial cities, Lübeck and Hamburg, as well as other cities nearby. In short, every city, even every town, should have blacksmiths who are proficient in making locks.

At that time, if the merchants in Lübeck and Hamburg, who have a wide range of connections, directly contact the blacksmiths in various places, they should be able to collect 25,000 iron shackles soon.

Because there were too many fierce people among the prisoners of war, Marin did not dare to be negligent, and arranged a large number of soldiers to take turns on duty every day to prevent anyone from escaping.

In order to better control these prisoners of war, after separating the strong from the old and the weak, Marin directed tens of thousands of civilians to build a huge earthen fence, and drove the most dangerous 25,000 prisoners of war into the fence. Then, every day, soldiers are sent to guard the surrounding walls closely to prevent dangerous elements from escaping.

Only when the custom-made 25,000 iron shackles have arrived, and those dangerous elements can be easily controlled, Marin will be relieved to divide the troops to escort these prisoners of war back to China and participate in the excavation of the canal...