The Rise of the European Emperor

After confirming the value of this new type of plow truck, Marin rewarded Prad with 1,000 gold coins. Then, together with Prade, improved the plow truck.

Of course, there is no need to change other places. Marin just changed the wheels of the plow truck to wheels with caged ball bearings. In this way, when the plow truck moves forward again, the resistance is even smaller. After testing, this plow truck can plow 33 mu of land every day under the condition of 12 horsepower. The reason why it is only raised so much is because the plow truck originally drives a lot of horsepower, ignoring a lot of resistance. If it is a single horse, the increase may be larger. But the curved shaft plow used by a single horse does not use wheels at all...

Later, Marin tried to use multiple oxen to drive this kind of plow truck to cultivate the land. However, the results of the experiment were not good. As a result, using the same 12 oxen to pull the plow truck can only cultivate 15 mu of land every day, which is about the same efficiency as a walking tractor.

But Marin can clearly see that this is not because the strength of the ox is not as strong as the horse, but purely because the ox pulls the plow and walks slowly, and the speed cannot be increased. Therefore, even though 12 ox heads were pulling the plow cart, although the strength was enough and even overflowed, the speed of the old scalper was just like that, and it couldn't get up anyhow.

However, after Prade reduced the number of oxen to 6, he found that the oxen still had no problem pulling the plow cart, and they still plowed 15 mu of land a day, which shows that the strength of oxen is indeed greater than that of horses.

However, from the perspective of efficiency, it is more cost-effective to use the draft horse type with Eastern European Mongolian horses to cultivate land. Because, like cattle in Eastern Europe, Mongolian horses usually eat grass, which is more cost-effective.

However, in subtropical and tropical paddy fields where rice is grown, horses are not enough. Many horses are very unsuitable for paddy fields. At this time, it is better to plow cattle.

However, not all cattle are suitable for paddy fields. The most suitable for paddy field farming is the buffalo. Or, zebu in India or something.

Fortunately, the people in Beihai basically use wheat grains as their staple food, and they don't have much demand for rice. Therefore, the zebu adapted to the tropical climate in the North Sea colony is enough for now.

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As a result, Marin started a large-scale plan to introduce horses from the Eastern European prairie. Through understanding, Marin found that the largest number of livestock on the Eastern European prairie is sheep. And the second most is not a cow, but a horse!

Because, nomadic people prefer to eat mutton when they eat meat. And drink milk, but used to drink mare's milk, not cow's milk.

Therefore, on the Eastern European prairie, there are far more horses than cattle. Even, they raise cattle to trade with farming peoples, or some nobles like to eat beef.

Just like the current Crimean Khanate, cattle raising was originally a small industry. But since they got Marin's order, they started to raise cattle on a large scale.

But when it comes to the number of livestock, they have much more horses than cattle. Mongolian horses are hardy to cold and rough feeding, even mixed breeds from Eastern Europe.

Moreover, although the price the Crimean Khanate sold to Marin was 20 gold coins for a war horse, which was 2.5 times that of a cow. However, war horses stand out from the crowd of ordinary horses. In Crimea, there are far more rough horses than war horses. And the price of a poor horse is about the same as that of a cow, and it is not expensive at all.

Therefore, Marin decided to introduce a large number of nanny mares from the Crimean Khanate. Then, they will be bred with the draft horse stallions in Western Europe to breed a new type of draft horse that usually eats grass and is also suitable for pulling carts. Even if the size is small, it is cost-effective considering the cost of feeding.

Besides, Marin didn't have to spend too much real money to buy horses in Crimea. As long as he produces a large amount of spirits, he can exchange enough Eastern European Mongolian horses from the Crimean Khanate, which is more convenient than buying cattle.

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In Kecskemet in the central part of the Kingdom of Hungary, after several days of preparations, Dorao George’s conscripted peasants finally piled up all four gates of Kecskemet with dirt and stones. People in the city cannot leave the city. In addition, many trenches were dug outside the city. Even if the defenders in the city break through the gate, they will be blocked by the trench if they want to rush out.

At this time, Dorao George could finally face the Hungarian army from the north with peace of mind. Then, he received a letter from the official army:

"Our army will fight your army 4 leagues (about 19.3 kilometers) north of Kecskemét at 9:00 am on July 22. Please prepare for the battle."

"In addition, if your Excellency can surrender to His Majesty the King before the start of the battle, the entire army will be spared death, and at most they will be exiled. Once the battle starts and the battle is defeated, those who surrender in time on the battlefield will also be spared death. But some senior commanders may not be able to Pardon, so, Your Excellency, it is best to lead your troops to surrender before the battle, and we will guarantee the safety of everyone in your army!"

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This gauntlet has two main functions, one is to make an appointment for the place and time of the war. The other is to tell the insurgents that they can avoid death if they surrender, even if they surrender before the battle, most people will also avoid death...

The reason why I told the other party this was because I was afraid that the other party would fight to the death. As a result, there were not many prisoners of war left after the war. In that case, where are they going to take prisoners? You know, these captives are very valuable...

In fact, this letter of gauntlet has another purpose, which is to cover up the real trump card of the army...

What is the official army's trump card? Of course it was to drug the horses of the rebel cavalry! If the horses of the enemy cavalry have diarrhea, what's the point? The reason why the start of the war was set at 9 am, not earlier, was to allow the rebels time to feed their horses in the morning. Otherwise, if the war horses of the rebel army don't eat the feed with added ingredients, how can they be recruited?

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Sure enough, early in the morning on July 22, the soldiers of the rebel army got up to make breakfast. At the same time, the person in charge of logistics, under the command of the quartermaster Benayoun, distributed the cavalry's horse feed for the day-feed with croton powder added.

Seeing that the cavalry began to feed the horses with added feed, the chubby Benayoun wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and then quietly walked towards the south gate of the camp. Over there, there are a few horses he prepared, the horses that did not eat the feed...

When the rebel army began to take turns heading to the agreed battlefield from the north gate of the camp, Benayoun had already taken a few confidants along with the spy Zahavi who sneaked in, and rode away from the south gate while taking advantage of the chaos...

At around 8 o'clock in the morning, the war horses of the rebel army who ate the feed added with croton powder suddenly began to have diarrhea, which frightened the leader of the rebel army, Dorao George.

Dorao George's horses and the horses of hundreds of personal guards under him were not recruited, because their horses were managed and fed by one of Dorao George's cronies, and the feed supply for most of the war horses was not the same. It's a pity that their number of war horses is too small, only more than two hundred.

And more than half of the more than 40,000 war horses of the 30,000 hussars were recruited. Only a small number of war horses were lucky not to be recruited because they did not add enough croton powder.

However, this didn't work. Because, the war horses that survived the disaster only add up to 7,000...

This is not the worst, the worst thing is - because most of the horses are loose, which seriously affects the morale of the rebel army. Before the fight started, the morale of the rebel army fell to the bottom...

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But the official army responsible for the suppression would not give the rebel army a chance. Just when the rebel army was in chaos because of the collapse of the war horses and lost their combat effectiveness, the official army's 5,000 Polish hussars and 5,000 Cossack cavalry launched on time at 9 o'clock. charged...

Facing the tens of thousands of cavalry rushing towards them overwhelmingly, the peasant uprising army, which had lost most of the cavalry and was demoralized, collapsed at the first touch.

At the same time, tens of thousands of cavalrymen of the army who were charging on the battlefield suddenly shouted neatly in unproficient Hungarian:

"Surrender without killing!"

"Surrender without killing!"

"Surrender without killing!"

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