Chapter 2073: Deploy 5,000 Bank Security Guards
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At the beginning, after Marin helped the Papal State capture Siena, he combined the looted funds of the Siena Bank with the equity and ledgers of the original bank in the city, and Giovanni Di Lorenzo de' Medici, That is, the cooperation of the future Pope Leo X in reopening the Bank of Siena. Among them, Marin accounted for 90% of the share capital and was the bank's largest shareholder and absolute controller.
Later, with the help of the Pope's father-in-law, the new Bank of Siena obtained the minting rights granted by the Holy See and helped the Holy See mint exquisite "Holy Spirit Gold Coins". This kind of gold coin is pressed by a screw-type coin press machine. Not only is the pattern exquisite and clear, and the material is sufficient, but it also has lace, so that cunning businessmen can't grind the gold coin to get ink and gold powder.
In this way, the credit of the Bank of Siena in Italy was established. The bank's lacy Holy Spirit gold coin soon became popular, as famous as the Venetian ducat. However, in terms of the total amount, it has not yet been issued to be comparable to Ducat gold coins.
In order to protect the interests of the Bank of Siena, or in other words, to arm debt collection and avoid repayment, Marin set up a bank security force of tens of thousands of people. Among them, many people are Germans, and they are mountain people in southern Germany. Of course, there are also some Swiss.
Right now, except for the French-speaking area in the west and the Italian-speaking area in the south, most of the Swiss are German-speaking areas. Therefore, most of the Swiss mountain people are currently considered to be the mountain people in southern Germany. Of course, the only people Marin can hire are the mountain people in eastern Switzerland. These areas are not very resistant to the Habsburg family, and naturally they are not very resistant to Marin.
Moreover, Marin went to Germany to recruit soldiers in the name of "Bank of Siena, Italy", which made many German princes unclear, so he did not impose restrictions. Now, Marin is here to reap the fruits—he wants to bring the elite back to Beihai!
Yes, relying on the name of the Bank of Italy, Marin recruited enough mountain mercenaries in the mountains of southern Germany without resistance. Then, trained into an elite army.
Today, Marin urgently needs a large number of soldiers, so he naturally thought of these people. This mercenary army formed in the name of "Bank Security Force" has exactly the same weapons and training methods as the Beihai Army. However, the clothes are different.
Because the officers inside were also drawn by Marin from the Beihai Army. Taking them away is a breeze these days. Moreover, Marin did not transfer away at once, but planned to transfer half of them first, that is, 5,000 people. Then, send people to the mountains in southern Germany to re-recruit manpower.
In fact, as a bank's security force, 10,000 people is too much. 5,000 people are enough to carry out armed demands on many nobles. But Marin's intention was to use this security force as a cover to continue recruiting troops in the mountains of southern Germany.
Today, the army has existed for several years. After many times of escorting gold coins and asking for salary with arms, everyone got used to the existence of this team. But they didn't know that Marin had successively transferred manpower from it many times, with a total of three or four thousand people. But not many people are drawn each time, so it is very hidden.
However, this time there is a big battle to be fought. And because this bank security force has been running on the mountains of the Apennine Peninsula in Italy all year round, it has good feet and is the first choice for a very good expeditionary force. Marin plans to deploy 5,000 infantry this time to cooperate with the army expedition.
These people are not just soldiers for a long time. In the past few years, they have run around on the mountain roads in Italy and done a lot of work. Among other things, the bandits on the Apennine Peninsula were almost wiped out by them. Today, in the mountains on the Apennine Peninsula, there is no way for bandits to survive. This group of security guards, when they heard that there were bandits, immediately went over to "evil and eat black", and they were very active. Because, according to Marin's instructions, after black eats black, they can share half of the spoils. Not to mention, they also dispatched on a large scale and beat up several nobles who wanted to renege on their debts.
Therefore, these people may not have experience in fighting,
The experience of small battles is simply too rich. It's not that they are stronger than the local infantry, but that Marin feels that the safety of the local area is also very important. Therefore, if you can draw fewer elites from the local area, you should try to draw as few elites as possible to guard the local area. However, he doesn't want to fail in the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and he also needs elites. Therefore, this elite security force has become a good choice for Marin.
They are all from the mountain people in southern Germany. Among other things, their feet must be very good, suitable for expeditions. Then, I have a lot of experience in small-scale battles, I have seen blood, and I will not be timid after going into battle, all of which are very good qualities.
Such soldiers and horses are mixed with some veterans who have seen big scenes in the country, and their combat effectiveness is absolutely leveraged. After all, it is easy for those trained in the same system to unify their pace. In addition, they are all masters who have seen the world, so their combat effectiveness will not be bad.
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After all, it is a bank that he absolutely controls. It didn't take long for Marin to enter Siena, and he quickly unified his thinking. Except for a few local Italian employees who are not willing to deploy too many troops, most of them are willing to obey Marin's arrangement. In particular, those officers from Beihai State are very obedient. However, Italian employees are mainly in charge of finance, and cannot control the army. Therefore, Marin's order to withdraw troops passed without hindrance.
Afterwards, these drawn veterans will leave Siena in batches, travel by sea, and secretly arrive at the Jutland peninsula on the mainland of the North Sea State, where they will complete assembly training. Then, when the war broke out, they would board the ship there and head to the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
However, the 5,000 security forces transferred away had only fought against bandits and poor nobles who reneged on their debts, and had never seen any big scenes. Therefore, on the Jutland Peninsula, Marin intends to let the nearby Third Army and the militia act as the Blue Army and cause them some trouble. At the same time, let them adapt to large corps operations. To avoid the feeling of incompatibility and fear after seeing the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in time.
You know, there are tens of thousands of people, boundless. What's more, it is the hundreds of thousands of people in the Grand Duchy of Moscow. If you don't adapt to the big scene in advance, and suddenly see an enemy army of a scale beyond your imagination, it is easy to go wrong psychologically.
Fortunately, Marin intends to adapt them in advance. For this reason, Marin decided to transfer 50,000 farmers from various manors on the Jutland Peninsula. During the slack period, after simple training, they cooperated with the soldiers of the Third Army and pretended to be the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. With the formation of a hundred thousand general situation, let the soldiers adapt to the big situation first.
At that time, not only the five thousand security guards will have to adapt, but also the young dragoons and young black-shirted knights under Marin's command will also have to feel it. After all, these young soldiers are far less experienced than those five thousand bank security guards, and they need more practice and adaptation.