The Rise of the European Emperor

Adler was very happy with Marin's offer to exchange 500 Cossacks with him for thousands of immigrants. After all, that was 500 elite Cossack cavalry!

What's more, this is not 500 Cossacks, but 500 households, with a total population of about 2,000. And ordinary people, even if there are 5,000 households, may not be able to find 500 elite cavalry!

Therefore, Marin wanted to exchange 500 Cossacks for his thousands of residents, and Adler was absolutely willing. After he subdued the 500 Cossacks according to Marin's instructions, he would have 500 elite Cossack cavalry. Counting 50 knights and 150 cavalry, the number of cavalry in his hands will reach 700. Moreover, the fighting power is very strong.

Thinking that he would lead 700 elite cavalry on the battlefield in Ireland, Adler felt his blood boil.

Moreover, Marin also stated that all Cossack cavalry and knight squire cavalry will be provided with low-cost Eastern European Mongolian horses. This horse rarely needs to be fed with concentrate, and only needs to be fed after strenuous exercise. Usually, just eat some grass, it is very resistant to rough feeding.

Unlike the European war horses that the knights ride, they usually have to be fed with concentrate, and the cost of raising them is very high. If the 700 war horses were all traditional European war horses and were fed with concentrate every day, it was estimated that it would be difficult for an ordinary earl to support 700 cavalry.

And if you switch to a war horse that is resistant to rough feeding, it will be easier to blast the cavalry. The nomads in northern China are obviously poor, but every time they invade the south, they often have hundreds of thousands of cavalry. At that scale, Europeans would be scared to death when they saw it. In Mongolia's second westward expedition, 150,000 cavalrymen were dispatched and swept across Europe. If it wasn't for Okuotai's death, everyone would have to return to China to compete for the khan throne. It is estimated that the Mongolian cavalry would have ploughed Europe well.

The way Europeans raised horses made it difficult to expand the scale of the European cavalry. After all, European war horses need to eat food every day, and European food is so expensive, if there are too large-scale cavalry, there will be ghosts. Therefore, in the face of the large-scale cavalry of the nomadic Turkey, the Europeans could only defend and resist, and did not dare to go into the field.

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The reason why Marin introduced the Eastern European Mongolian horses that were resistant to rough feeding was to form a large-scale cavalry unit. Only when the cost is low can the cavalry be able to expand in size. The larger the cavalry, the stronger the combat effectiveness.

In addition, Marin also intends to reform the heavy cavalry. This is because, although Eastern European Mongolian horses are taller and stronger than the original Mongolian horses, they are only medium-sized horses and are not suitable for heavy cavalry mounts at all.

Of course, the heavy cavalry mentioned here refers to the European plate cavalry. After all, the weight is there and no heavy horse can do it.

But there is a kind of heavy cavalry that does not need heavy horses, and that is the Mongolian heavy cavalry...

In order to improve the mobility of heavy cavalry, Genghis Khan,

Most of the Mongolian heavy cavalry were equipped with leather armor, and the horses were also wrapped in leather armor. In this way, the weight is greatly reduced. Of course, there are also heavy cavalry wearing captured Song Dynasty armor and Jin Kingdom armor.

Although it is said that this weakened heavy cavalry is indeed difficult to compete with European knights in plate armor. However, there are many Mongolian heavy cavalry. Do you touch dozens of knights? I touch thousands of weakened leather armored cavalry to see who is more powerful... Moreover, the Mongols will shoot horses and let you fall from the horse...

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In fact, Marin is also seeking heavy cavalry reform. For example, he plans to use rhino leather armor to equip new heavy cavalry, and even use rhino leather to make horse armor. In this way, the mobility of the heavy cavalry is greatly enhanced. Although there will be damage on the battlefield, because it is mainly civilian cavalry, not noble cavalry, it is not a big deal to die a few.

However, Marin did not take much care of Adler's cavalry. In fact, for Adler, Marin sent him to the island of Ireland to play a live-action ride-and-slash game. And Adler, a muscle-brained militant, seems to like the game too. After all, Mount and Blade was Adler's childhood dream.

In fact, Marin would love to play the game himself. After all, the opportunity is rare. The natives on the island of Ireland are very weak, and it is not dangerous to play riding and cutting. But it was difficult for him to give up a country as big as Beihai, so he had to let Adler play by himself.

Not only did Marin want to play cavalry and chopping, but even an old man of his age, Hoffman, showed a strong interest in going to the island of Ireland to play cavalry and chopping. After all, he was an old knight who had hardly fought a battle in his life. In his life, the most intense fight was probably the one that single-handedly rescued Mrs. Mary, who was in distress at the time. So, the old man became interested and wanted to put on his armour and mount a horse, and go to Ireland with Adler to play with the natives...

Marin's head is full of black lines - Nima, the good old lady of Beihai Kingdom is inappropriate, and it is too embarrassing to go to Ireland to cut people... Moreover, the old man is in his fifties, and he still rides Chop, isn't this a joke?

Not only was Marlin opposed, but Mrs. Mary was also strongly opposed to the old man's whimsical idea. In the end, old Hoffman could only continue to be his old lady of the North Sea.

In order to make the old man happy, Marin learned from Liu Bang, and built a new Hoffmann Manor, also named Hoffmann Manor, in the east of Aurich City, imitating the Hoffmann Manor in his hometown of Bochum. Moreover, Zhuang Ding, a farmer from his hometown, was brought to the New Hoffman Manor, so that they could pay for the old Hoffman to play. (Note: Liu Bang imitated his hometown of Fengyi near Chang'an, built a new town, and invited all the old people from his hometown to play with Mrs. Liu. This is the source of Xinfeng County in the Han Dynasty)

Sure enough, Marin's arrangement won the favor of the old Hoffman. So he negotiated with Mrs. Mary and moved to the New Hoffman Manor. But Mrs. Mary disagreed. After all, Adler's child, Muti, was still young, and it was best to stay in the city. In this way, it is also more convenient to find two genius doctors, Mo Zhigen and Bartle, when you are sick. The old man was helpless and could only say that he had nothing to do and went to the New Hoffman Manor outside the city to play.

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In fact, like Mrs. Liu, the old Hoffman is not very suitable for the current life. Mrs. Liu is a commoner in the market, and is used to drinking and bragging with a group of commoners who kill pigs and sell wine. After arriving in Chang'an, he was not used to the status of the Taishanghuang, and he couldn't talk to those ministers and nobles. It was not until Liu Bang built Xinfeng Town for him that he was happy.

Same with old Hoffman, a vulgar low-class knight with little culture. Let him deal with those nobles, although it is reluctant, but it is very uncomfortable. If it weren't for Mrs. Mary's help and guidance, he would have collapsed long ago.

Today, Marin prunes the new Hoffman estate for him, and it satisfies his thoughts and needs. But the old man put forward another condition:

"Look, did you get those old friends of mine too?"

Malin immediately reacted—Old Hoffman and Mrs. Liu were different. Mrs. Liu was a commoner, so she naturally got along with commoners and could be friends. But old Hoffman was originally a knight, and the owners of Hoffman Manor were actually his subordinates, not worthy of being friends with him. So, old Hoffman was thinking of his knight friends in the country of Mark. According to their age, most of these people are in their 50s or 60s, and there are not many days...

"However, they are also nobles, so can they come here easily?" Marin was a little distressed. The villagers asked them to move easily. Those old knights, no matter how they were nobles, how could they easily move here?

"What's this? If you are near the new Hoffman Manor, build a few manors for them and send them to them, and they promise to come!"

"Damn, just to play with you, I'm going to send a few manors out?" Marin was speechless.

But he still made a compromise-Marin ordered that several knight manors be built next to the new Hoffman manor and given to some old friends of the old Hoffman. The condition is that those old knights want to come and live, and they often come to accompany old Hoffman to brag...

However, the manor given to those old knights has shrunk. For example, each small estate has only 100 acres of arable land. However, this is a free gift, and they will not take back their original old manor, so Marin is still very sure that those people will come...

Building the new Hoffman estate and several other smaller estates will take time, though. Old Hoffman said-the old man first went to Emden Harbor to watch the upcoming knight competition...