The Rise of the European Emperor

If later generations knew that Marin was so extravagant, he would have been drowned by the saliva of the sprayers if he took a giant log several tens of meters long for a raft. You know, a ton of logs is worth thousands of dollars. A giant log with a length of tens of meters like this is worth tens of thousands.

Marin didn't care much, though. why? Because the most in short supply this year is wood. In particular, in the still-unexplored Americas. When reclaiming wasteland, many precious woods were burned directly as firewood. Only in the era when the forests were severely damaged in the future, the wood will be valuable.

As a lonely traveler, Marin's heart is actually very tired. He has a lot of ideas, but unfortunately he has poor hands-on ability. In this era, the only person who can understand his advanced ideas is probably the old pervert Da Vinci. However, since Da Vinci married Lisa, a lot of energy has been distributed to women. So, Marin suddenly felt that maybe it would be good for scientists to be single. Otherwise, it is difficult to concentrate on scientific research.

In fact, Marin now regrets transferring Leonardo to the Americas to experiment with steam engines. why? After Ada left, Marin suddenly found that he couldn't seem to find anyone who could discuss science...

Although many skilled artisans were poached from all over Italy and Germany, artisans were only artisans, not scientists. These fine craftsmen, Marin directs them to do this and that, no problem. However, it is more difficult for them to think for themselves. Strictly speaking, in this era, only a great god like Da Vinci can be regarded as a scientist.

So, this time to America, Marin decided to bring Da Vinci back...

As a result, this old guy can understand what he means and can be regarded as a bosom friend. Second, Marin plans to let him bring some apprentices and train some future scientists. After all, Leonardo da Vinci is 55 years old, and God knows when he will burp. While this old thing is still alive, it is serious to let him help train a few scientific research talents.

As for training scientists yourself? Marin never thought...why? Because Marin is a liberal arts student...

The biggest feature of liberal arts students is that they are invincible, able to "point the country and inspire words". But I have to do my own research... sorry, that's not what I am good at...

Therefore, even if Marin knew a little about everything, he couldn't do scientific research. Moreover, they can't teach science talents. What's more, he is busy leading troops to fight and colonize the world. Let a great god like Da Vinci lead the apprentice, which is not only convenient, but also more professional.

If Da Vinci can help him cultivate a group of science and engineering talents with strong hands-on ability, then he will make a lot of money. Moreover, in the machinery manufacturing industry, the most important thing is to work together, not just mess around alone.

Before, I thought about it badly, and actually wanted Da Vinci to go to America alone to tinker with steam engines. Even if Da Vinci is a genius,

Crafting an excellent steam engine, so what? This guy is 55 years old. If he accidentally burps, then the research on the Beihai Kingdom's steam engine will be interrupted. Therefore, the cultivation of talents is more important than the research and development of machinery now...

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While Marin was thinking about his life on the Atlantic Ocean, at the barracks shooting range outside Gelden, the capital of the Duchy of Geddes, Charles II, Duke of Geddes, was watching the three-stage musketeers of the Duchy of Geddes with great interest.

Since Marin used the musket line formed by Mushket muskets to win many battles, the application of muskets on the battlefield has attracted the attention of European countries.

Of course, Marin, because he likes to use sneak attack tactics, did not show the real advantages of muskets. What really attracted the attention of all countries was that the Spaniards relied on the phalanx of musketeers to defeat the charge of the French knights.

Because, in Italy, Gonzalo used a head-to-head confrontation to defeat the world-famous French knights.

Since the hegemony of Western France in Italy ended with Spain's victory, many countries have actually begun to think about using musketeers as an important branch of the army.

However, national conditions vary from country to country. The countries that attach the most importance to musketeers are actually some countries with weak cavalry. Because, their opponent cavalry is stronger than them. Therefore, they needed a way to restrain the opponent's knights before they thought of forming a musketeer unit. If it is a country with strong cavalry, it may not be willing to form it if it is not inferior to others.

For example, the principality of Gedes is a typical principality dominated by infantry. why? For the Duchy of Geddes was once destroyed by the Burgundian Duchy of Charles the Bold. In that battle to destroy the country, most of the knights of the old knight family in the Guedes duchy were killed. Even if they survived, many of them took refuge in the Principality of Burgundy.

Therefore, in 1492, after the Principality of Geddes was restored from the chaos, it no longer had a large-scale knight team. After all, the old knight family died, and those who defected to other countries defected to other countries. In desperation, the Principality of Gede Company had to rely on infantry. The strongest infantry in Europe is Switzerland, and it is Switzerland, the Swiss mercenary who killed the daring Charlie. Therefore, the idea of ​​building an army given to the army of Geddes by Charles II, Duke of Geddes, was to imitate the Swiss phalanx.

It's just that Marin's battle in Lübeck broke the myth of the invincibility of Swiss mercenaries and made Charles II realize that he was not invincible by choosing the path of building a Swiss army.

So, after that, Charles II began to pay attention to the problem of the Musketeers. He found that the arquebus was very powerful, and it could not only strike plate knights, but also deal with spear square formations. Marin added a musketeer line array to the pike phalanx, which made up for the lack of long-range attack power of the Swiss pike phalanx...

In the end, Charles II, Duke of Geddes decided to add a group of musketeers to the Swiss spear phalanx of the Geddes army to increase the attack power. As for the tactics, it is natural to learn Marin...

However, Marin is very strict about the technology, and has Kohler's spies monitoring all outsiders. As a result, the spygate sent by the Principality of Ged to East Frisland to steal the tactics of the Marin army found nothing...

In desperation, Charles II had to choose another way - to steal from Spain...

The Spaniards defeated France and became famous in Europe. And General Gonzalo has also become a famous European general. The policy used by General Gonzalo was said to have been taught by Marin himself. Therefore, learning tactics from the Spaniards is equivalent to learning Marin's tactics.

General Gonzalo Charles II cannot be bought. After all, he is not short of money, and he has now become a popular man in the Spanish court. However, for General Gonzalo's subordinates, that's not necessarily the case...

Charles II sent people to secretly contact General Gonzalo's subordinates stationed in Italy, and spent a lot of money in bribes. Finally, they spent 800 gold coins to get a full set of musketeer training and use methods from a poor phalanx commander under General Gonzalo...

Then, Charles II also set up a 2,000-strong musketeer unit in the army of the Principality of Geddes, and trained day and night according to the method stolen from Spain... Even the muskets used were the earliest ones used by imitation Marin. The Spanish Musquette muskets...

Finally, before launching the attack on the concentration camp where the "Swiss mercenaries" were being held in the Principality of Brabant, the training of the musketeers was basically completed.

"Bang-bang-bang-bang..."

Seeing the skillful movements of the musketeers of Geddes' army and the uniform progress made Charles II very satisfied. It is conceivable that such an army will burst into a powerful fighting force when facing the army of the Habsburg family in the Netherlands...

"Hmph, Netherlands, it's mine!" Standing on the high platform, looking at the Netherlands in the northwest, Charles II's eyes were full of longing...