The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin wants money, money, people, and a strong army. Naturally, there is no shortage of practical things. However, as a new noble from humble backgrounds, what Marin lacks is the righteous name.

Although the Habsburg family showed a desire to virtually unify Germany because of Maximilian I's death when he was young, he was rejected by most of the German princes. However, after all, he is the Holy Roman Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and has the righteous name.

Marin wanted to expand and was easily beaten by the German princes. Therefore, he needs a teacher to be famous. And this name, the Habsburg family can give. The Habsburg family is famous but not strong enough. After several years of development, Marin must have strong strength. One has the strength, the other has the fame, and it is hard to not cooperate.

Therefore, Marin is starting the layout early now, in order to occupy the moral commanding heights in the future, wielding the stick of sanctions, and annexing those vassal states he covets. The profits are distributed to the Kingdom of Hungary and the Kingdom of Bohemia. Now it is to the Jagiellon family, and it may be the Habsburg family in the future.

Moreover, Marin also intends to intervene in the marriage of little Charlie when he grows up, not to let him marry the Portuguese princess, but to let him marry the Bohemian princess Anne. In this way, once Lajos II is killed by the Ottoman Turks, the Habsburgs can justifiably annex the kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia. Then, the Habsburg family will become the MT of all Europe, facing the monster of Ottoman Turkey.

Historically, it was Charlie's younger brother Ferdinand who married Anne of Bohemia. However, this led to the split of the Habsburg family. A joint family that was obviously very powerful was just torn apart. Charles V married a Portuguese princess, and there was no benefit. It was his younger brother Ferdinand, who was elected as the new emperor of Shinra because he married Anne of Bohemia and had two powerful kingdoms, the Kingdom of Hungary and the Kingdom of Bohemia.

Marin had already interfered with the good news of Charles V's union of Spain and Shinra. For this reason, he planned to compensate the young Charles and help him obtain the two kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia. Even, when Turkey tried to split the Hungarian Kingdom (historically, after the death of Lajos II, Turkey supported the Hungarian nobles who were close to Turkey and controlled most of the territory of the originally vast Hungarian Kingdom, and finally fell into the hands of the Habsburg family) , only a small part of Hungary), Marin planned to send troops to help, let the Habsburg family get the complete kingdom of Hungary...

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Just as Marin was thinking about his future plans, King Sigismund I touched him...

"Why?" Marin asked angrily after being interrupted.

"This... It's like this. I saw the army you brought before, so many knights, why did you only bring tens of thousands of people? You have so many knights, and each knight does not need three or five attendants to accompany you. ? But the knight's entourage,

There are tens of thousands, so why do you only bring about 10,000 people with you? "

Sigismund I also understood the military, but he also knew that as the hottest military player in Europe, Marin must have his reasons for doing so. It happened that the two sides had already married, and Sigismund I simply asked Marin the reason directly, so as to learn.

In fact, Marin came to teach Sigismund I to form the Polish Wing Cavalry this time, and naturally he would not hide it. Moreover, Marin also has his own small nine-nine in his heart - once the Polish winged cavalry has formed a scale and tradition, with the relationship between the two, he can borrow the winged cavalry from Poland. Or, simply hire Polish wandering knights to join your own Lancer army.

This point, the French emperor Napoleon tried, and the effect is very good. The Polish Lancers hired by the French Empire have quite good combat effectiveness and are very suitable for impacting infantry phalanxes and attacking the opponent's artillery positions.

Therefore, Marin also wanted to recruit several Polish Lancer regiments to serve him, so as to make up for the lack of mobility of his army.

Polish wing cavalry should have impact and impact, speed and speed, and belong to the human-type tank force of this era. They are very good at fighting the enemy's melee cavalry, and they are not at a disadvantage against knights. Even, because the lance is more slender, it can hit the opponent earlier than the plate knight when hedging.

However, as far as this period is concerned, the Polish winged cavalry has not yet been formed, and the knights from the Polish knight family also use the popular European full-body plate knights and hollow oak lances. The characteristic of this kind of knight is that the legs are short, and the horse has no strength to rush for a while because the load is too high. Moreover, the knight master in full armor needs four or five attendants to serve him, and the logistics cost is too high...

If you want to get a lot of Polish wing cavalry, first of all you have to let the Polish knights get used to the tactics of the wing cavalry. Otherwise, recruiting them and changing their combat habits will take several years, which is not cost-effective. Like Marin's thousand lancers, it took Marin two or three years to transform these German knights from old-fashioned plate knights into more modern lancers.

Marin's plan was to take this opportunity to help Sigismund I form a troop of Lancers. To this end, Marin is willing to provide a group of officers to help him train Lancers. Even willing to provide a batch of spring lances for them to use. With the spring lance, the lancer's charge will be unbridled and multiplied. Unlike the original Polish winged cavalry, they had to reduce their speed and charge for fear of the lance's rebounding force. But in this way, the impact force is greatly reduced. And using the spring lance, fast charge without worrying about breaking the arm, you can let the lancer let go of the charge. The faster the cavalry charges, the harder the attack on the enemy, and the better the effect.

Moreover, because the pikemen were very popular in this era. If you use a light cavalry with a saber to charge an infantry phalanx with a spear, you will definitely be stabbed into a kebab by the opponent. Only lancers who also use spears have the ability to go head-to-head with spearmen.

In addition, facing the eastern machete cavalry, the lancers also took advantage. Because there is no horse armor to drag, and no plate armor pants, the mobility of the lancers is not weaker than that of the hussars. The Lancers' lances were longer, and they took advantage of the fact that they fought against the Eastern Scimitar cavalry. Even if the eastern cavalry shoots arrows, as long as they do not hit the horse, they will naturally have their breastplate armor to resist damage.

So, with Lancers, Marin doesn't need melee-type saber cavalry. This kind of melee saber cavalry is only suitable for impacting the musketeer front, facing the spear formation, must be counseled...

As long as a large number of lancers were in service, Marin decided to convert all hussars into scout cavalry. As for the task of cavalry warfare, it is all handed over to the lancers and black-shirt knights. The lancers are responsible for rushing into the formation, while the black-shirted knights are responsible for killing the opposing plate knights with muskets... Although the lancers can also fight against the plate knights, it will cause a lot of casualties after all, because the plate knights are martial arts Are very strong. Unlike black knights, who can use muskets to kill plate knights...

But first, Marin had to teach Sigismund I to train a troop of lancers. So Marin smiled at Sigismund I and said:

"Go back first, and go to the school grounds outside the city tomorrow morning. I'll let you open your eyes and see what new-style cavalry is!"

In fact, Marin wanted to take Sigismund I to visit right now. But considering that the other party just got married today, and he has to do something with his sister Annie, he doesn't force it.

However, when he thought that his precious little sister's good cabbage was about to be humiliated by the "pig" in front of him, Malin suddenly became angry. So, Marin squinted at Sigismund I, snorted, and walked away alone...