The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin loves to see France and Spain fight to the death. However, he is a little busy right now. Not busy intervening in the war between Spain and France, but busy with Simon's affairs.

The purchase fee of 250,000 gold coins has already been paid, and the Great Sem (Parliament) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania has issued a letter of appointment and seal to Simon. Now, it is waiting for Simon to take his own troops to Kiev to take over the local territory.

For this reason, the entire Hoffman family is busy. Marin has sent an engineering team to Kiev to repair the original castle and the city walls of Kiev. When the repairs were completed, Simon just went to receive it. At the same time, she married Princess Anna of the Lamarck family there.

In addition to repairing the castle and city walls, Marin also needs to help Simon raise an army as a security guarantee for the Kiev area.

Because Kiev faces the Ukrainian steppe directly, cavalry is a must. It just so happened that when fighting with the princes of the Eight Kingdoms, Marin was not satisfied with Alsace, the commander of the Cossack Cavalry Legion, so Marin took the opportunity to give Alsace to Simon as the cavalry general of the Ukrainian counties. And Jurgen, the former deputy head of the Cossack Cavalry Legion and the head of the first regiment, who was more outstanding, just took the opportunity to take the position.

Simon didn't know this, and thought that Marin really took care of him—you see, he gave me the commander of the Cossack cavalry regiment...

Only Alsace himself knows what's going on - he didn't perform well in the previous war, he was assigned...

On the day when Alsace was given to Simon, Marin suddenly summoned Alsace, who was about to give it away, and gave him a shining cavalry command knife...

"噗——" Alsace pulled out the precious sword, and was immediately blinded by the cold light.

The knife of course shines because it's made of nickel steel. Nickel steel is similar to stainless steel, both are silvery white, naturally shiny. Moreover, this command knife made of nickel steel has been carburized on the surface. Its characteristics are almost the same as the Harvey armor of the ironclad battleship era at the end of the 19th century. The Harvey armor is to carburize the surface of nickel steel to improve its strength. Harvey armor was the best armor of its time before Krupp armor came out...

The sword made by this craft is naturally an extraordinary product. Alsace, as the head of the Cossack Cavalry Legion, is naturally also eligible for one.

"Grand Duke, what's the name of this precious sword?" Alsace was overjoyed after trying the strength and sharpness. Then, he suddenly asked Marin what the name of the knife was...

"Name?" Marin was stunned for a moment, this is just a knife, and you want a name?

He doesn't know

The command knife using Harvey's armor technology is undoubtedly a treasured knife in the eyes of people of this era. Since it is a precious sword, it must have a name...

Marin looked at Alsace, thought for a while, and said:

"How about calling it 'Frostmourne'?"

After finishing speaking, Marin accidentally remembered the "first filial son of Azeroth", the man who killed his father with the real "Frostmourne"...

"Frostmourne?" Arthas was taken aback. However, seeing Bai Liang's blade, it is indeed whiter than snow... As for sadness? Well, the sword is a murder weapon, and killing must bring sorrow...

In this way, Arthas made up the meaning of the name "Frostmourne" by himself...

After leaving the palace, Alsace bragged to everyone that he got a precious sword called "Frostmourne". The cold light beats the snow, bringing death and sorrow...

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After having a commander, it is natural to summon the relevant soldiers. Otherwise, a commander alone is useless.

At the beginning, Marin planned to continue recruiting from Ukrainian Cossacks, for example, sending people to the Ukrainian prairie to seduce those Cossacks with spirits to serve as soldiers for Simon...

However, Marin felt that those Cossacks were not very reliable. If you are strong, those Cossacks will naturally obey you and listen to you. However, if you rely too much on them and let them see your weakness, those Cossacks will easily betray you and bite you.

This is the characteristic of the grassland people - if you can't beat you, you will lower your eyebrows, and if you can beat you, they will bully you and plunder you...

For example, the Xiongnu in the Wei and Jin dynasties, during the Han and Wei dynasties, the Central Plains were powerful, and the Huns moved south to the Central Plains, with low eyebrows and ears, and were very honest. But after the "Eight Kings Rebellion" of the Western Jin Dynasty broke the Western Jin Dynasty, the Xiongnu, who had been low-browed and sympathetic, suddenly rebelled, and even seized the Central Plains to establish political power, and killed the North until blood flowed into rivers...

Therefore, those Ukrainian Cossacks can be hired in Simon's army, but the Ukrainian Cossacks must not be used as the cornerstone. Otherwise, it is easy to be backlashed.

Among them, it is estimated that the lessons of the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt are the most profound. Mamluk means "slave". It was originally a Turkic slave soldier hired by the Egyptian Ayyubid Dynasty from Central Asia. But because the Ayub dynasty relied too much on Turkic slave soldiers, the Mamluks later took control of the Ayub dynasty and replaced the Ayub dynasty with the Mamluk dynasty...

Marin didn't want the country established by Simon to be controlled by a group of Ukrainian Cossacks, so the cornerstone of Simon's founding must not be the Ukrainian Cossacks.

Originally, Marin wanted to give Simon a group of German mercenaries. However, the main body of the Beihai Army is infantry, which has no advantage on the Ukrainian steppe. And the number of German Cossacks was too small, and Marin refused to give it. Otherwise, if these trained German Cossacks are given to Simon, his Cossack Legion will be Ukrainized. At that time, it will be hard to say whether to listen to the greeting...

However, he doesn't have enough cavalry for Simon...

"Could it be... like Adler did, hold a tournament and recruit a group of German wandering knights?"

Marin thought for a while, as if time was a little tight. After all, Simon's wedding is approaching...

Moreover, those German wandering knights may not be willing to go to the distant Eastern European prairie. To go to Ukraine, but also through Germany, through Poland...

"Hey - Poland..."

Marin suddenly remembered - the place Simon was going to was the territory of Poland and Lithuania, why did Mao want German wandering knights? Polish wandering knights also say a lot...

It just so happened that Sigismund I was recently forming some kind of hussars in Poland. How about letting Siegmont I help Simon form a cavalry unit?

The number of this wing cavalry unit does not need to be too large, as long as there are a few cavalry regiments. There is no need to control the entire Ukraine, just to ensure the safety of Kiev.

This is what Marin refers to as "core" and "subject". As long as the core and main body are reliable, other people don't really care. With these cores, and using these cores to serve as officers at all levels, Simon will be more comfortable in controlling Ukraine.

Although it is said that it takes a lot of fiefdom to recruit those Polish knights. However, what Ukraine lacks most is fertile land, and it is the most fertile black land... Therefore, it is no problem for Simon to form several Polish hussars...