Chapter 1557： Hungarian peasant uprising

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

But shortly after he sent the croton meal, a shocking news came from the south-a large-scale peasant uprising broke out in Hungary ...

The cause of this peasant uprising is very nonsensical-originally, the Hungarian Catholic Church, with the instruction of the Holy See, planned to organize a crusade. Of course, not to hit Western Asia, but to plan an attack on Turkey on the Balkan Peninsula, and strive to expand the Catholic control area to the south.

At this time, Turkey has not defeated Persia, nor has it annexed Egypt. It is not too powerful. The Kingdom of Hungary, a country established by the Magyar people, has become a European vanguard against Turkey since it converted to Catholicism.

Moreover, it is surprising that the Kingdom of Hungary actually with its own strength has withstood the pace of Turkey's expansion into Europe. Even, it can play back and forth with Ottoman Turkey. Especially during the period of Magath I, the famous Hungarian Black Army beat Ottoman Turkey and did not dare to covet Central Europe.

However, since the death of Margash I, Vladislas II took the throne of Hungary. But Vladislas II mainly stayed in Bohemia and usually did not go to Hungary. Therefore, the great power of the Kingdom of Hungary fell into the hands of the nobility.

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

Then, the fighting power of the Kingdom of Hungary fell sharply, and gradually fell into a disadvantage in the conflict with Turkey. Especially after the militant Turkish Sultan Ilim took office, he strengthened the military and could not harass the Hungarian region.

Seemingly feeling the pressure from Turkey, the Holy See asked the Hungarian church to organize a crusade to launch a counterattack against Turkey. And for remuneration, you can get occupied land, and even get noble status.

But to the surprise of the Holy See, this crusade, although welcomed by all classes in Hungary, was met with resistance from the nobles.

Of course, the Hungarian nobles are not fools, they dare not stand up publicly and sing the opposite of the Holy See. However, when the crusader George Rao organized a crusad of up to 40,000 people in Pest City, the Hungarian nobles participated in the uprising because of the serfdom in their territory. Go back to torture.

The reason for this is because those nobles thought that the serfs had joined the Crusades, who would give them land?

Hungary is different from the southern mountains of Germany, because of the vast Hungarian plains, the agricultural conditions here are very favorable. The climate here is warmer than Germany, the plains are widespread, and there is no shortage of water. 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 was very large at this time, probably about 200,000 square kilometers, which is far from comparable to the small Hungary of 930,000 square kilometers. This is because the Kingdom of Hungary at this time includes not only the later Hungarian Republic, but also the Croatian region and the large Transylvania region. In Transylvania alone, there are more than 100,000 square kilometers, accounting for half of the Kingdom of Hungary.

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

Although the Kingdom of Hungary has a population of several million people, the vast Hungarian plains are vast, and nobles simply do not have enough manpower to grow land. So, although they did not want to turn their heads with the Holy See, they never allowed their own serfs to join the Crusaders. Moreover, according to the propaganda of the Crusaders, those serfs who participated in the Crusades can directly get rid of the serf status. For those Hungarian nobles, how can this be done? You know, it was not a few people, but tens of thousands ...

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

However, these Hungarian nobles are miscalculated. They are not facing ordinary organizations, but a group of avid crusaders. Those who can participate in this crusade are all enthusiastic and brave young people.

Seeing that the brothers of the Eastern Expedition were humiliated, these fanatical Crusaders were angry ...

As a result, some angry Crusaders began to attack the private armies of the nobles who chased the serfs, and they completely turned their backs on the Hungarian nobles. The leader of the Crusaders, George Rao, was also angry that the Hungarian nobles were pulling the crusade.

With the persuasion of the crusaders, George Rao led the 40,000 crusaders, who were mainly Hungarian farmers, to launch a uprising against the Hungarian nobles.

They captured a group of nobles who came to hunt down the peasants, and conducted a public trial and even execution outside the city of Pest. Then, both sides tore their faces completely.

However, these 40,000 rebels did not conquer Pest City. Because Rao George also knows that these 40,000 rebels are mainly farmers, and they are not suitable for attacking the solid city of Pest (Pest City is part of the later Hungary ’s capital Budapest, which is composed of Buda and Pest. One of the cities is on the Danube side, and the other is on the opposite bank, which is somewhat similar to the three Wuhan towns across the river).

Because of the large number of troops and difficulty in supplying, in order to solve the supply problem, Dorao George divided the uprising army into five roads, and the two roads were sent to the northern mountains ~ www.novelhall.com ~ to mobilize local people to participate in the uprising. By the way, the local noble manor was looted in the northern area to get enough snacks.

On the third route, a citizen of Pez City, Ambros Saleresch, who commanded a high proportion of the citizens of the uprising army, stayed in Lakos near Pez City to monitor the Hungarian nobles in Pez City. .

As for the remaining two armies, George Rao personally led to the important city of Szeged in southern Hungary ...

When Marin received information from Hungary, the total number of Hungarian peasant uprisings exceeded 80,000 ...

However, there are also variables. That is, shortly after Marin received the information, the civic class in the civic army that originally stayed near Pez City to monitor the movement of the Hungarian nobles in Pez City was actually bought by the nobles in Ambros Sale. Resch led a surrender to the Hungarian nobility. Then, Ambrush Saleresch, the 25th and 5th Aberdeen, took the civilian class and the noble army to jointly attack Lakos and wipe out the remaining peasant army. At this point, the third peasant army failed completely and disappeared.

Then, the Hungarian nobles sent people to Bohemia to appeal to their monarch Vladislas II. At the same time, they also sought help from the powerful Transylvania Governor John Zabo in the eastern region. The situation began to develop in a direction that was not conducive to the peasant uprising ...

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After receiving the information, Malin was excited. Because this peasant uprising must 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!

Therefore, Marin took Kohler and Sauer and others, escorted by thousands of cavalry, and went south again, intending to negotiate with the Hungarian nobles and strive to buy a little prisoners of war. That was 80,000 peasant rebels. Even if they were defeated, they had to have tens of thousands of prisoners of war!