The Rise of the European Emperor

After giving Duke Ulrich an idea, Marin sent people to the glass greenhouse cultivation center to get enough crotons, ground them into powder, then bagged them and sent them to the Principality of Württemberg.

But not long after he sent the croton powder out, a shocking news came from the south—a large-scale peasant uprising broke out in Hungary...

And the cause of this peasant uprising is very nonsense-it turned out that the Hungarian Catholic Church planned to organize a crusade under the instruction of the Holy See. Of course, it is not for the purpose of going to West Asia, but it is planning to launch an attack on Turkey on the Balkan Peninsula and strive to expand the Catholic-controlled area to the south.

In this era, Turkey has not yet defeated Persia, nor has it annexed Egypt, so it is not too powerful. And the Kingdom of Hungary, a country founded by the Magyars, has become the vanguard of Europe against Turkey since it converted to Catholicism.

Moreover, what is surprising is that the Kingdom of Hungary actually withstood Turkey's expansion into Europe by virtue of its own strength. Even, they can fight back and forth with Ottoman Turkey. Especially during the period of Matthias I, the famous Hungarian black army beat Ottoman Turkey so that they did not dare to covet Central Europe.

However, since the death of Matthias I, Vladislas II has taken the Hungarian throne. But Vladislas II mainly stayed in Bohemia and rarely went to Hungary. Therefore, the power of the Kingdom of Hungary fell into the hands of the aristocracy.

Then, in order to save money, this group of short-sighted nobles directly disbanded the famous Black Army (the Black Army once conquered Vienna) that could beat Turkey and the Habsburg family.

Then, the fighting power of the Kingdom of Hungary dropped sharply, and it gradually fell into a disadvantage in the conflict with Turkey. Especially after the warlike Turkish Sultan Selim I came to power, he strengthened his military and kept harassing the Hungarian region.

Seemingly feeling the pressure from Turkey, the Holy See asked the Hungarian Church to organize a crusade and launch a counterattack against Turkey. The reward is to obtain the occupied land, and even obtain the status of nobility.

But what the Holy See did not expect was that although the Crusade was welcomed by all walks of life in Hungary, it was resisted by the nobles.

Of course, the Hungarian aristocrats are not fools, and dare not publicly stand up and sing against the Holy See. However, when the leader of the Crusaders, Dorao George, organized a crusade of up to 40,000 people in Pest, the Hungarian nobles joined the rebel army because there were serfs in their own territory, and sent troops to capture the serfs who joined the rebel army. I went back to beat and tortured.

The reason for this was that the nobles believed that those serfs had gone to join the Crusades, so who would farm the land for them?

Hungary is different from the mountains in southern Germany, because of the vast Hungarian plains, the agricultural conditions here are very favorable. The climate here is warmer than that of Germany, the plains are widespread, and there is no shortage of water sources. It is an excellent agricultural area. There is no shortage of land in the area, only farmers who are farming.

In addition, the Kingdom of Hungary at this time was very large, covering about 200,000 square kilometers, which was far from comparable to the small Hungary of 930,000 square kilometers in later generations. Because, the Kingdom of Hungary at this time included not only the later Republic of Hungary, but also the Croatian region and the vast Transylvania region. The Transylvania area alone covers more than 100,000 square kilometers, accounting for half of the Kingdom of Hungary.

However, when the Habsburg family took over Hungary, Ottoman Turkey instigated the independence of the Transylvania region, so that the Habsburg family only got the later Hungary and Croatia, which was less than half of the original Hungarian kingdom.

Although the Kingdom of Hungary has a population of several million, it has the vast Hungarian Great Plains, and the nobles simply don't have enough manpower to farm the land. Therefore, even though they did not want to turn against the Holy See, they would never allow their serfs to go to any crusade. Moreover, according to the propaganda of the Crusades, those serfs who participated in the Crusades can directly get rid of their status as serfs. For those Hungarian nobles,

How can this be? You know, it's not just a few people, but tens of thousands of people...

Therefore, the nobles ignored the face of the church and directly sent people to arrest their own "runaway slaves", and publicly whipped and tortured them.

However, these Hungarian nobles miscalculated. What they faced was not an ordinary organization, but a group of fanatical crusaders. Those who can participate in this crusade are all fanatical and brave young people.

Seeing the humiliation of the brothers who marched together, these fanatical crusaders were angry...

As a result, some angry crusaders began to attack the private army of the nobles who were chasing and killing the serfs, and they completely turned their faces against the Hungarian nobles. And the leader of the Crusaders, Dorao George, was also angry at the Hungarian nobles holding back the Crusaders.

Under the persuasion of the Crusaders, Dorao George simply led the 40,000 crusaders, mainly Hungarian peasants, to launch a big uprising against the Hungarian nobles.

They captured a group of nobles who came to hunt down the peasants, and held a public trial outside the city of Pest, and even executed them. Then, the two sides were completely torn apart.

However, the 40,000 rebels did not capture the city of Pest. Because, Dorao George also knew that the 40,000 insurgents were mainly peasants, and they were not suitable for attacking the strong city of Pest (the city of Pest is a part of Budapest, the capital of Hungary in later generations, and Budapest in later generations is composed of Buda and Pest. One city is on this side of the Danube River, and the other is on the other side, which is somewhat similar to the three towns of Wuhan across the river).

Due to the large number of troops and the difficulty in supply, in order to solve the supply problem, Dorao George divided the rebel army into five groups, and sent two groups to the northern mountainous area to mobilize the local people to participate in the uprising. By the way, ransack local aristocratic manors in the northern regions to get enough snacks.

The third route was commanded by Ambrus Sareresch, a citizen of Pest (the proportion of citizens in the rebel army was also very high), and stayed in Lakosh near Pest to monitor the Hungarian nobles in Pest. .

As for the remaining two armies, George Dorao himself led them to march towards Szeged, an important city in southern Hungary...

When Marin received the intelligence from Hungary, the total number of Hungarian peasant rebels had exceeded 80,000...

However, there are also variables. That is, shortly after Marin received the information, the citizens of the citizen army who had stayed near the city of Pest to monitor the movements of the Hungarian nobles in Pest, under the bribes of the nobles, actually went to Ambrussaly Under the leadership of Resch, he defected to the Hungarian nobles. Then, Ambush Saleresh, a young boy, brought the burghers and aristocratic army together to attack Lakosh and wiped out the remaining peasant army. At this point, the Third Route Peasant Army was completely defeated and wiped out.

The Hungarian nobles then sent to Bohemia to ask for help from their sovereign, Vladislas II. At the same time, they also asked for help from John Zapollo, the powerful governor of Transylvania in the east. The situation began to develop in a direction unfavorable to the peasant uprising army...

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After getting this information, Marin was suddenly excited. Because this peasant uprising is bound to fail. After the failure of the peasant army, there must be a large number of prisoners of war. These prisoners of war are all the labor that Marin needs!

So Marin took Kohler, Sauer and others, escorted by thousands of cavalry, and went south again, intending to negotiate with the Hungarian nobles and try to buy some prisoners of war. That is an 80,000 peasant uprising army. Even if they are defeated, there must be tens of thousands of prisoners of war!