King of German Mercenaries

Zmailman hurried back when he heard that the eldest and second sons were going to follow a knight as attendants. Seeing that Marin was so young, he couldn't help but murmured in his heart.

However, medieval Europe was strictly hierarchical, and he did not dare to raise objections. Moreover, he was also a little happy that someone was willing to take over the eldest son of his big stomach king. I just hope that the young knight in front of him will not be eaten up by his eldest son. In that case, the eldest son will be fired again.

After the two sides negotiated, Marin naturally planned to let Kahn hold the cumbersome plate armor, lance and horse armor (although it was made of wood).

However, although Kahn is very strong, he has been under a lot of pressure when he has been carrying something heavier than a few kilograms. Right now, Marin doesn't have the money to buy workhorses for Kahn and Kohler, and the cost of raising horses is also high. So, after thinking about it, Marin decided to ask Zmailman, who is skilled in woodworking, to help him build a unicycle...

Why choose a unicycle? It's not just because wheelbarrows can pull goods. When it comes to hauling, two-wheeled carts pack more. However, the two-wheeled cart has a disadvantage - it is not very capable of walking on difficult terrain.

The unicycle can ignore the terrain, and the mountain road is still fun. Because the unicycle has only one wheel, it has a strong ability to overcome complex terrain.

There are many mountain roads from southern Germany to Vienna, Austria. Therefore, all-terrain unicycles are more suitable than two-wheeled carts.

Marin and Zmailman returned to the city, went to the carpenter's shop where Zmailman worked, and began to build a wheelbarrow.

Although, there are also wheelbarrows in Europe. However, European unicycles have front wheels, which causes people to push up and need to bear a lot of lifting force. Therefore, European wheelbarrows have smaller loads.

And what Marin guided Zmailman to build was a Chinese-style unicycle. Chinese unicycle with wheels in the middle. In this way, the load on the car, the pressure is mainly on the wheels. The person who pushes the cart is more labor-saving. A European-style unicycle can only carry the weight of two or three people. The Chinese-style unicycle can carry the weight of six people, and the efficiency is much higher than that of the European-style unicycle, and it is more labor-saving.

After the Chinese unicycle was built, Marin put the armor, lance and horse armor on the unicycle. The weight of 70 to 80 kilograms did not feel anything to Kahn who was pushing the cart.

Kahn himself is strong and good at running long distances (also trained, the poor in the Middle Ages could not afford to ride a carriage and went everywhere by foot). So, he pushed the wheelbarrow very easily. Even, sometimes his younger brother Kohler was tired from walking, and Kahn let Kohler sit on a wheelbarrow to rest for a while. He, on the other hand, continued to push the cart and followed Marin on the horse.

Marin is also much more relaxed. After throwing off the dozens of pounds of armor and weapons, his whole person is much more relaxed. Feeling the same ease as him, there is also the war horse Karl. If it wasn't for Marin's control of the speed, Karl, who was much more relaxed, would want to gallop.

Kahn is indeed very eatable, eating at least 6 pounds of food a day (mostly plain brown bread, normal bread without dirt or wood chips) and some vegetables, and sometimes meat, about 10 pfennig per day on average . Marin didn't have much money now, so he had to take Kahn and Kohler to live in a low-end hotel. If the room was bigger, Marin had Kahn and Kohler lay the floor. If it is smaller, let Kahn and Kohler live in one room, and he lives alone in one room.

And because he was dissatisfied with the dirty quilts in the hotel in this era, Marin bought a new set of goose down quilts (there is no cotton at this time in Europe, naturally there is no quilt), packed it in a rain-proof pigskin bag, and put it in Kahn on the wheelbarrow. Every time he stayed at the hotel, Marin threw the original dirty quilt from the hotel to Kahn and Kohler. On the other hand, he covered his own clean quilt. After all, Kahn and Kohler are pure medieval people, and there is nothing uncomfortable about it. The only thing they don't get used to is that Marin forced them to take a bath...

Then,

These two goods were also trained by Marin to be refreshing, no lice on their bodies, and their clothes were clean. This makes the two goods very uncomfortable. After all, they are used to being dirty since childhood.

In view of the fact that there are two more mouths to eat by Marin's side, and one is a rice bucket, Marin decided to restart the hunting plan...

Marin's plan is actually very simple. There is a long distance from the town to the depths of the Black Forest. If you don't ride there, it will be very tiring and you will not have enough time. If it gets dark and stays in the forest, it is easy to be eaten by wolves.

To this end, Marin kept Kahn at the hotel, watching over his armor and lance. And he himself, carrying a bow and arrow, rode with Kohler to the depths of the Black Forest.

Kohler was still a 15-year-old, and a little skinny. Its weight is estimated to be only seventy to eighty pounds. He and Marin shared a ride. In fact, it was not very different from Marin who was fully armored and armed with weapons. For a certain period of time, the war horse Karl could fully bear it.

If he rides with that savage bull of Karn, it is estimated that Carl will be unbearable...

In the depths of the Black Forest, Marin dismounted, and asked Kohler to lead the horse to wait for him outside, while he himself, holding a bow and arrow, tiptoed close to the deer in the forest...

Relying on the cover of tall weeds in the forest, Marin managed to get close to a herd of red deer. Then, at a distance of 30 meters, Marin opened a bow and shot a sturdy male red deer to death. But while shooting the other red deer fleeing, Marin fired all the cannonballs...

Of course, Marin was not discouraged. He was lucky enough to be able to hunt down a big red deer. After that, Marin shot two more hares.

At noon, Marin tied the deer and hare carcasses and put them on horseback. He himself and Kohler walked back with their horses.

Back at the inn, Marin asked the cook to roast the two plump hares. As a result, Kahn ate a whole large roasted hare by himself, while Marin and Kohler split a smaller one.

Early the next morning, Marin asked Kahn to push the carcass of the red deer on a wheelbarrow, enter the nearest city, and sell the red deer.

The red deer was smaller than Marin's last capture. Moreover, because of the arrow, the deerskin suffered a little damage. So, Marlin only sold 800 pfennigs. However, this also makes Marin very happy.

Seeing Marin making money so easily made Kahn's heart itch. The next day, at Kahn's request, the hotel owner of Mariinto kept his armor and lance, and he took Kahn and Kohler to the Black Forest again. Of course, because the horses were unloaded, they had limited distances into the forest. But luckily, they did meet prey.

Kahn felt that it should be easy to shoot wild deer with a bow and arrow, so Marin silently handed the bow and arrow to Kahn and let him try...

Sure enough, Kahn has no talent for archery at all, and is basically playing the handjob, and it's outrageous. After shooting 30 arrows, all the arrows were shot, and not a single deer hair was hit...

Kohler also tried it, and although the target was much better than Kahn, he couldn't hit it...

After all, archery is not something that can be done overnight. Especially when shooting wild deer tens of meters away, it really needs to be level. The average person may shoot a target 10 meters away, and he will be able to hit the target after practicing a few times. But shooting prey 30 to 40 meters away cannot be practiced in a short period of time. And those wild animals with high alertness can't let you get close to them within ten meters. So, not an old driver, it's hard to hunt with a bow and arrow. It's easier to aim with a crossbow. However, crossbows were banned in many parts of Europe in the Middle Ages. If you want to buy a crossbow, no one dares to sell it. Although the ban on crossbows in the 15th century was not as thorough as before, it was difficult for ordinary people to obtain crossbows. Because the nobles are also afraid of civilians stabbing themselves with crossbows, most of them support the ban on crossbows. Crossbows are only allowed in the military. A commoner who owns a crossbow may be accused of having a motive to assassinate a noble...

After the two failed in their attempts, they had to admire Marin's superb shooting skills and sighed at the strength of the knights...

In fact, Marlin's ability to shoot arrows has nothing to do with being a knight or not. That was because he was bored in his previous life and spent several years practicing in the back mountain of his hometown. Ordinary European knights, who wastes time practicing archery? Only a wretched country like the United Kingdom, knowing that the knights can't compete with France, has specially developed the longbowmen.

Generally speaking, on the European continent, only those old hunters are proficient in archery. With the advent of the arquebus, many hunters who kept up with the times also switched to the arquebus and gave up the bow and arrow that was very difficult to train.

After Kahn and Kohler gave up their attempts at archery, Marin returned to hunter status. Kohler was smart. He suggested that after Marin's sneak attack, let Kahn, a silly big man who is good at running, go out and appear from a specific direction, drive the deer away, and drive the deer in the direction of Marin's ambush. In this way, Marin can also get a second shot. Unlike before, after shooting the first deer, the rest of the deer ran away.

Marin took this advice and had Kahn pre-ambush in the other direction of the herd. When Marin shot the first arrow, Kahn suddenly ran out, rushed to the deer, and drove the deer in the direction of Marin's ambush...

The first cooperation was not successful because Kahn drove the deer in the wrong direction. After cooperating a few times, Kahn gradually mastered the way to drive the deer herd. Even when the deer herd deviates from the predetermined direction, Kahn also used the method of throwing stones to forcibly correct the direction of the deer fleeing.

Marin found that Kahn couldn't shoot arrows, but he was good at throwing rocks. Then, after the first hit, the deer ran away towards the location where Marin was ambush...

Facing the herd of deer rushing towards him, Marin shot an arrow and took another one. Then the deer froze for a moment and found that the front turned out to be a trap. Then, they turned around and ran away.

However, it takes time to stop forcibly while fleeing and then change direction. Deer are deer after all, not humans, and their brains respond more slowly. When changing direction, the deer group was obviously stunned for a moment. But after being so stunned, Marin caught the opportunity and shot a deer...

At the last count, with the cooperation of the three of them, they hunted and killed three deer for most of the day...

Sure enough, the team is still relatively strong. How do you say that sentence... There are so many people, so much power! Marin sighed with emotion.

Back then, when I was hunting, I was always worried that my horse would be stolen. Now, when hunting, Kohler is responsible for watching horses, and Kahn cooperates with driving the prey, which greatly enhances the efficiency.

The next day, Marin pulled the three deer into the city again and sold them for 1,900 pfennigs, which was a lot of money. At least, it's no problem to feed Kahn and Little Kohler.

After that, considering that Kohler's body was not strong, it was too much for him to walk for a long time. So Marin spent 1,000 pfennigs, bought a half-sized calf, saddled it, and let Kohler ride the road.

Unlike cows and horses, horses are more delicate and need to be fed regularly. And cows usually only need to graze on grass. Only when cultivating the land, the physical energy consumption is too large, and it is necessary to add meals.

It can be said that the cost of raising cattle is much lower than raising horses. This is also one of the important reasons why ancient Chinese farmers raised cattle and cultivated land instead of horses.

Marlin buys cows for Kohler to ride for a big reason, too, because of the cost of feeding. His own warhorse cost ten pfennig a day. If you buy another horse, the capital consumption will be relatively large. Therefore, buying cattle is the best choice.

The calf bought for Kohler seems to have a good temper, and he still refuses to accept discipline at first. But Marin first got the calf drunk with strong liquor, and then put a brass ring on the ox's nose, and the calf immediately became honest.

In the days that followed, Marin usually left his equipment in the hotel, and then rode with Kahn and Kohler to go hunting in the depths of the Black Forest. The specific distribution is - Marin and Kohler ride horses, Kahn rides bulls. After arriving in the field, Kohler looked after the horses and cattle, while Kahn went hunting with Marin...

In this way, this three-person golden combination slaughtered the Quartet in the black forest, hunted and killed a lot of prey, and sold a lot of money. By the time they reached the Danube River in the eastern part of the Black Forest, Marin had already earned more than 100 marks by selling their prey, and most of them were exchanged for gold coins.

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