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Volume Three: Stormy France Chapter 101: The Origin of Swiss Soldiers

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    In this troubled land of Switzerland, there was not much time for peace. Not many years after the former Swiss Grand Duke liberated the Swiss city-states, he was beaten by the Western Qin people.

    It can be said that the local people are braver than the civilians of any country. There is no way to do this. Natural selection and survival of the fittest are the laws of nature that apply everywhere.  Years of war have made many young Swiss men more or less familiar with some fighting skills, either for self-defense or to work as mercenaries when times are bad.  Even those who cannot wield swords and swords, since they began to have to turn to the mountains to survive on prey instead of relying solely on crops in the farmland, going up to the mountains to hunt must be more physically demanding than farming.

    But even so, it cannot be said that the newly recruited militiamen in Switzerland are superior to the militiamen of other countries. After all, to measure the combat effectiveness of an army, it is certainly not possible to compare the combat effectiveness and discipline of individual soldiers alone. Iron-clad discipline is nothing compared to  All are important.

    And this is precisely what the new army lacks most, and it cannot be obtained through training or training in a short period of time.

    This group of Swiss militiamen, more or less in number, totaled five thousand people. They consumed a lot of the food, grass and ordnance stored by the Western Qin people. The lieutenant made a rough calculation. Now the Western Qin people  The Qin side has less than 15,000 troops, and the remaining food and grass is enough for at least twenty days, and at most one month. In other words, in less than a month, if the erection cannot be  If the Gendians are defeated, no one else will be needed to defeat the Western Qin army.  Your own side's logistical supply can defeat you.

    Twenty days is enough for what?  In this era when it takes ten days and a half to travel for any distance, about twenty days is probably only enough time for the Western Qin and Burgundians to organize and launch a battle.

    Even if the Burgundians are stupid, they don't know that the Western Qin side's logistics are weak, so they are also anxious to launch a decisive battle; even if the Burgundians are stupid, they will still give the Swiss coalition a fighting chance when they have a big advantage, Bai Zhou  There is no certainty that the outcome will be decided in one battle.

    In a single battle, even if it is at the battle level - on the coalition side, the Western Qin has 15,000 men, the Germans have 20,000, Wolfgang has 5,000, a total of 40,000; the Burgundy side has 70,000  Yu Ren¡ª¡ªBai Zhou is not naive enough to think that his side can defeat his opponent.

    Moreover, it is impossible for the Burgundians not to know the logistics situation of the Western Qin people. After all, Alberto, the former Marquis, still has some appeal in Switzerland. He mobilized some Swiss people to serve as spies for the Burgundians. Bai Zhou  Not surprising at all.  Of course, they won't know too much detail, because logistics has always been an important indicator of a country's national combat effectiveness and is a military secret. The middle and high-level commanders in Western Qin who know their own situation will definitely not tell Burgundy this news.  people.

    However, from the recent actions of the Burgundian spies on the Western Qin side, such as the purchase of grain and grass from the Swiss people, it is not difficult to infer that the Western Qin is actually short of grain and grass. Although they do not know to what extent the shortage is, Bai Zhou  It is clear that if he were the Duke of Burgundy, after learning such news, his action would definitely be to hold his troops back while observing and detecting the true situation of Western Qin, and he would definitely not attack rashly.

    At the same time, Western Qin wanted to defeat its opponent's army of more than 70,000 with 40,000 soldiers, but the combat effectiveness of the army was not much higher than that of the Burgundians. This would require more "cooperation" from Duke John to complete this reversal.  ?  It's not like Bai Zhou has never seen who Duke John of Burgundy is. It's hard to imagine that the old man can make stupid mistakes that ordinary people can't make.

    Now Bai Zhou has to consider whether to start using some unconventional methods. For example, when Western Qin purchases the grain of local Swiss people, it is a voluntary transaction, and the money is paid. If this battle with the Burgundians is fought,  As time went by, Bai Zhou did not rule out the use of forced food expropriation, and even directly asked all the people of the Western Qin Dynasty to put down the prototype of the newly established city and become nomads again, living together with the Burgundians on the Swiss border.  Fight a fight.

    These are all solutions when there is no other way. The side effects are more serious than the last, but the current situation is indeed urgent. Although these side effects are serious, they are not to the point where Xi Qin cannot accept it.  To put it another way, if this can't withstand the Burgundians' attack, then talking about any side effects is nonsense.

    Bai Zhou asked himself that he was a kind guy, but sometimes, insisting on being kind meant insisting on hurting himself. He felt that he was not great enough to cut his flesh to feed the eagles.

    ¡°About a quarter of an hour¡¯s walk, Bai Zhou and the other three or four secret guards arrived at the noisy militia camp.  Here, facing most of the Swiss people who have just changed their identities, expecting them to know something will undoubtedly only add to their own heart.  Fortunately, Bai Zhou did not place any hope on him.This is an iron army that dares to fight and will win, and is not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice. To put it bluntly, it just wants them to wave the flag and shout from the rear, and fight a smooth battle by the way.  Let them dare to fight against the wind?  Bai Zhou has been thinking about this issue, but at present, he still has no clue in this regard.

    After Wei Fu learned that Bai Zhou had arrived, he immediately left the camp and greeted him at the door.  Looking at the ragtag group of men under his command, Weifu could not help but feel a little helpless. After all, he was a man who had led troops all year round and he knew what a coward was.  Everyone knows that this task of recruiting soldiers is difficult, but originally the captain was confident that he could not only recruit a sufficient number, but also start training these new recruits during the recruitment period, so that they at least know what military regulations are and what they are doing.  Rewards and punishments for whatever you do.

    But in fact, it is not the least difficult to do it. It is very difficult for two different cultures to understand each other's meaning, not to mention the "minority" commanding the "majority". In fact, if it is not  Considering that the salary is much higher than the usual military salary, many civilians will not even look at this army established and recruited by "foreigners".

    "If we really talk about it, Weifu also did something smart this time.  Originally, due to food restrictions, he could only recruit 5,000 more people, which was far less than the previous idea of ????Xi Qin. Therefore, Weifu simply increased the price of military pay significantly and tried to recruit 5,000 people with the best physical fitness.  Swiss civilians can transform into real elites after just a few battles.

    As for the military pay, which is much higher than usual, for Baizhou and Western Qin, as long as they can defeat the Burgundians, Western Qin will no longer worry about money in a short time, and if they lose to Burgundy  The army, the money and so on are even less meaningful, unless Bai Zhou is determined to pay attention now, take up the family fortune of Western Qin, run to other countries, and prepare to be a wealthy man safely for the rest of his life.

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