Chapter 33: The Iron Curtain across Europe
In April, Egil looked very happy when he looked at the financial statements produced by the system - a total of 380,000 is a little more than half of the previous monthly income of 250,000 or 60,000 yuan. Sure enough, the matter of governing the country should be manipulated by professionals - of course, a wise and great emperor is the most important thing. Egil feels good about himself. Although in fact, his role is not very big, at least not as great as he imagined.
After sufficient fiscal revenue, Egir began to continue to reform the military. First of all, the problem of light cavalry that Egir most wanted to solve was finally solved. In such a chaotic situation in Eastern Europe, many small grassland tribes wanted to enter the relatively stable Livornian and Prussian areas. So Egir divided enough grasslands for these small tribes that took the initiative to surrender. He also made a request to hire some of their tribes as soldiers. At the beginning, the nomads of the small tribes were reluctant. They thought Egir would force them to be recruited like the Poles. As a result, Egir was very interested in these guys. They directly configured weapons according to the specifications of the regular army and paid military pay. This group of guys who were more rustic than the rustic bulls were eye-opening.
With such a typical example, more grassland tribes were included in the control of Egil. For these tribes, Egil adopted an extremely relaxed management policy. After giving large areas of grasslands for grazing for them for free, they only required a portion of the livestock fur to be handed over as tributes every year. This insignificant number made all tribes overjoyed. The only thing they had to do was to hand over one-third of the tribes to be soldiers for Egil. These people were unified as nomads of Hussars, and if nothing unexpected happened, they would serve in Egil's army for two years. At the same time, they taught their horse-controlling skills to the knights and tomahawks. Later, they retired and replaced with another one-third of the tribes to serve.
With such rotation, all these tribes will be able to serve under Egil once in six years. They will naturally approach Egil and the Norman Kingdom psychologically. At that time, it will be much easier to slowly strengthen the control of these tribes bit by bit and completely integrate these tribes into the kingdom's social system...
Egil made such a wishful thinking. I just don’t know if it can succeed. However, it may be very likely. After all, Egil is very interested in these light cavalry warriors. Egil’s prestige and personal charm are enough...
After being included in Egil's army, these tribes were quickly dispersed. They were not divided according to tribes, but were scattered into twenty squadrons, with one hundred cavalry in each brigade (of course, many of them were short of corpses, with an average of more than 80 people), with one centurion, and the candidates for centurion were selected by each team. The nomads naturally would not move Greek-style democratic politics, and use speeches to incite voters; they would not not use American-style campaigns to discredit opponents with fake rumors, so they would use knives.
On April 11, 2002, twenty nomad warriors with bruised noses and swollen faces came to Egil to report with a smile. During this period, in order to train these tribes, Egil moved into the military camp again. But then again, if he didn't live in the military camp, he would have no place to live. The large palace in Gothenburg would take several months to build. Egil couldn't wait to bring the army here. The original military camp and fortress in Gothenburg were not enough, and those places felt dirty and messy. Egil hadn't sleep with rats and cockroaches for a long time. As a result, he could only live in a tent.
Then, these Hussars were trained to fight - before that, the system heard another prompt, and two new troops could be recruited.
Eastern European Hussars: Conscripted from various nomadic tribes in the Eastern European prairie, extremely elite light cavalry. They are equipped with powerful composite bows, excellent sabers, zither shields and soft armor inlaid. Under the stimulation of honor and money, this group of excellent light cavalry can perfectly perform a series of tasks ranging from reconnaissance, harassment to charge and hand-to-hand combat.
Eastern European hussars: race (complex), equipment: compound bow, single pot, ten light arrows, five conical arrows, leather-inlaid soft armor, saber, shield. Riding excellent war horses from Poland, Hungary and Ross.
Number of 100, high morale, low training level and low discipline.
It seems that this Hussar is the two thousand light cavalry that Egil now has. Although these guys have good combat effectiveness, their discipline and training are very low. They are easy to charge without authorization on the battlefield, and the protection ability of these Hussars is not as good as that of the heavy cavalry of iron cans, so they die very quickly. Therefore, if they really suffer heavy losses in battle, Egil will also feel heartbroken.
Therefore, this is an improved type: the improved Eastern European Hussar: the most elite modern cavalry, the most active group in European history from the Middle Ages until the cavalry completely withdraws from history. Whether it is the skeleton Hussar, the Polish winged cavalry, or the Tsarist Russian Cossack cavalry, it is included. It is the ultimate evolutionary form of the cavalry and the ultimate dream army.
In terms of attributes, both attack and defense are much stronger than Eastern European Hussars. The most important thing is that the superb attributes such as extremely high training level and high discipline have made Egil's heartbeat faster and his mind is in a daze.
But seeing the end, Egil found himself in vain.
The introduction to this army is quite nice. It just can't be recruited.
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"Damn it, bastard!!!!" Egil complained again. The two equipment needed to improve the Eastern European Hussars were completely unable to achieve the current technological level of the Kingdom - one is the legendary light breastplate - which only protects the front of the body, and the back is a hollow that is tied with a belt, which is a bit similar to a scammer product Egil knew in his childhood.
Egil's current armor forging level is still a distance away from the early plate armor, not to mention this kind of daddy plate armor.
In addition, this cavalry also needs to be improved, which is a legendary musket in the middle and late stages. Your sister Egil can't even see the gunpowder residue now. Where can I find a pistol for Yateng?!
Therefore, this elite model is equipped with light cavalry and has stronger charge ability, and can even be said to be an improved Hussar with a quasi-heavy cavalry, and Egil cannot recruit.
"That's all." Egil is a broad-minded person. He never is too ambitious, and he will not train the Hussars to death because of his depression. In the end, he forced the training and discipline of the Hussars to a higher level. However, in this way, the Hussars are no longer called Hussars. He changed his name to the Professional Hussars. So Egil recruited a group of professional Hussars and supplemented the number of people in each squadron. The other Hussars had no doubts, but regarded them as tribesmen of other tribes who had come to surrender. The "bessars" tribe they had never heard of, and it was not impossible. After all, the whole of Eastern Europe is so big...
That's it. Egil's command added two thousand professional Hussars. These elite light cavalry who could shoot melee and rush in from afar filled the lack of power in Egil's army.
Immediately afterwards, the Livornian garrison recruited. In addition to the usual 3,500 professional Viking warriors and 1,500 crossbowmen, Egil recruited 500 professional Hussars to fill the lack of power of the garrison troops. Similarly, the garrison troops stationed in Scandinavia and the Ivan troops stationed in Prussia also added 500 professional Hussars.
However, this is not enough. In Egil's plan, there are 5,500 people in total, and at least two more garrison troops with strong combat effectiveness, to meet the defensive needs of the Norman Kingdom. One of them is the English garrison army, which focuses on defending the northern Scottish troops and suppressing the separatist forces in England. The other is the Normandy garrison army, which specializes in defending the French group of deadly urging.
In late April, the navy that transported the recruiting troops returned. At the same time, May was getting closer and closer. Seeing the system's expected revenue reached 400,000 gold coins, Egil was full of confidence and was preparing to establish a network of urban roads in Prussia and Livornia, a not-so-good news came - no, it should be said that a very bad news came.
No country responded to Egir's call and sat down and had a good talk - the Kingdom of Hungary, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Novgorod Republic, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and the Eastern Roman Empire seemed to tear Egir's letter apart, and then sent troops to attack Poland separately. It was like a group of man-eating sharks who smelled blood and went crazy...
Even Saxony, who was fighting to death with the Southern Princes Alliance, was not willing to be outdone. Otto I gritted his teeth and drew seven or eight thousand miscellaneous troops from the front line and attacked Poland. It was obvious that he wanted to get a share of the pie.
These rulers even felt in devoting the mood to reply to Egil, and directly treated his words as air and completely ignored him, the big-tailed braised carp.
Chapter completed!