Chapter 2033： Petersburg

In fact, in addition to Ukrainian farmers, they can be transported to the North Sea country by water, and even the serfs of the future Grand Duchy of Moscow can also be transported to the North Sea country Jutland by water.

Specifically, along the Novgorod region to the west, into the Daugava River basin that flows from Riga into the Baltic Sea, from Riga to the sea, take a boat to Jutland.

But when it comes to the problem, once the Grand Duchy of Moscow and Lithuania go to war, the Teutonics will also take the opportunity to annex Livonia again. As the capital of the Livonia Knights, Riga is naturally raging. Passing by, it is inevitable to encounter dangers and challenges.

Marin is not afraid of fighting, but he is afraid that as time goes by, immigrants will starve to death because they cannot get food in time. Therefore, this route is not good.

After thinking about it again and again, Marin wanted to come to the map and selected the southern bank of the Neva River estuary currently under the Novgorod region as an exit for immigrants. And this place, in later generations, is called St. Petersburg.

The place of St. Petersburg is at the estuary of the Neva River, and the Neva River inland connects to the huge Lake Ladoga, and Lake Ladoga connects to the Volkhov River, which leads directly to Novgorod.

If it is not the freezing period in winter, the ships of the North Sea countries can enter Lake Ladoga through the Neva River, then enter the Volkhov River, and go straight to Novgorod. You can even go upstream and continue southward. In this way, grain transportation is more convenient.

The population walks along this waterway, without worrying about food, and can go smoothly to the St. Petersburg side of the sea, and then board the ship.

However, St. Petersburg did not start to build a city until 1703. After all, Peter the Great was born in 1672. Right now, this is an ordinary estuary, there is no important port.

Mainly, it is too close to Sweden and belongs to the border area. Later Tsarist Russia, after moving its capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg, for the safety of the capital, it annexed Finland, which originally belonged to the Kingdom of Sweden. Therefore, the current St. Petersburg area is basically a place close to the border area and is of little value.

The Grand Duchy of Moscow is currently working on annexing its neighbors. It has not yet discovered the strategic significance of this place. Naturally, there is no idea of ​​building a port. Russia is truly civilized. In fact, it will not begin to change until Peter I travels through the countries of Western Europe and begins to pay attention to the ocean. The current Grand Duchy of Moscow is a land-based arrogant turtle, relying solely on numbers and people to fight fiercely.

It's just because it is too poor. Although the Grand Duchy of Moscow has a large population, there are too few weapons and armors that can be used to arm soldiers. Therefore, in general wars, only tens of thousands of horses can be dispatched. Once it exceeds 100,000, there is a serious shortage of weapons and armor. Just as in 1480, when Ivan III led an army of 200,000 to confront the Ugra River, why did Ivan III have so many people who were afraid of the 50,000 people of Ahei Ma Khan? In addition to the large number of cavalry in the Golden Horde, most of the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow lacks weapons, which is also an important reason. At least tens of thousands of conscripted Moscow militiamen were not holding serious weapons, but farm tools such as pitchforks and hoes. Moreover, quite a few of them are not even iron, but simple wooden pitchforks and wooden pickaxes.

At that time, the Moscow army actually had only 10,000 or 20,000 combatants. The thirty or forty thousand soldiers and horses put together by the lords of other places can be considered as a little combat power, although it is also a miscellaneous army. The others are all courageous farmers...

Can they fight with pitchforks and wooden hoes? It can hurt people at best. Of course, if the opponent has no armor, he also has a little damage ability.

However, if they are equipped with real weapons and armor, and then trained, it is also very scary. Think about it, even if each person gave a spear and stabbed each person, the lethality was very impressive. As for the armor, there is no shortage of fur on the earth of Eastern Europe, and it is a simple inferior leather armor by simply sewing it.

Just like this time the Teutonics helped them purchase weapons and armors, and helped the Moscow citizens to order the most iron-saving spearheads. When they were transported back, they would be spears. As for the armor, the Teutonics actually only helped to order the armors used by the officers and the main forces, and most of the chain armors were relatively iron-saving. As for the conscripts formed by Minzhuang? Inferior armor made of fur! If you don't bring it, you can pull it down. If you die, you think it's unfortunate...

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But then again, the quality of the soldiers of the Grand Duchy of Moscow is not good, and Lithuania is also not good. Parallel imports versus parallel imports, naturally whoever has more people is more powerful...Unfortunately, the Grand Duchy of Moscow has a lot of people. The confrontation between people and the Golden Horde can mobilize 200,000 horses, and so many people can naturally be mobilized to fight Lithuania. As long as there are enough weapons, Lithuania will be slammed.

Moreover, Vasily III was not a mediocre person. According to the information obtained by the intelligence personnel, on the one hand, Vasily III was preparing to attack the Smolensk region. On the other hand, he recruited a large number of farmers to build a defense line in the southern region to block the Crimean Khanate that might send troops.

He didn't have the money to build a wall to block the Crimean cavalry, but he asked the Moscow serfs to dig ditches in the area south of Ryazan...

Of course, he did not dig an irrigation ditch, but diverted water into the ditch to prevent the Crimean cavalry from going northward smoothly. Vasily III had heard that Marin used three trenches to block the feats of the Saxon knights. Therefore, he also made a lot of tunnels and ditches in the southern border area, and even set up a lot of horse pits, just to stop or delay. Tatar cavalry.

He wanted to learn from Marin who sprinkled tribulus in front of the battle, but that stuff was made of iron and was too expensive for him to use...

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Kohler's staff estimated that the Grand Duchy of Moscow can currently collect up to 100,000 sets of weapon armor (the militiamen have no armor). Although half of them are worn out, the weapon armor is the weapon armor. If the Teutonic State can help buy another 50,000 sets, the Grand Duchy of Moscow will be able to guarantee that the 100,000 armies will be fully equipped. Then, there are 50,000 people who can have inferior weapons. In this way, 150,000 troops can be armed. Here are another 50,000 farmers who bring their own forks and hoes... It's like playing in Lithuania...

But then again, Marin is really not ashamed of such a miscellaneous army. He knows well that as long as it can defeat the most powerful people in the front, the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow will be easily defeated Therefore, he expects the Muscovites to launch a war as soon as possible, defeat Lithuania, and defeat them by himself...

In order to facilitate the transportation of the captured population, it is necessary to obtain a stable population export port in the Grand Duchy of Moscow. For example, St. Petersburg...

Of course, there is no St. Petersburg right now, but Marin can build one...

After defeating the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Marin planned to let the Grand Duchy of Moscow cede St. Petersburg, the only narrow entrance to the sea, to himself. Then, I built a city here for the export of Maozi serfs... Well, the labor export port...

As for the name of the port town, Marin thought it out, and called it Petersburg...

As for why it is called Petersburg? Not to commemorate Peter the Great, who was born harmless, but because Marin’s cousin was named Peter...

Peter's cousin is the son of Uncle Yule, about the same age as Simon. Now, Marin has arranged for him to become a baron lord of the North Sea country. But because he had no credit, he was just a third-class baron.

But if he can force the Grand Duchy of Moscow to cede the mouth of the Neva River to himself, he can arrange for Peter's cousin to build a port fortress here in the later Saint Petersburg, called Petersburg, but there is no holy word. After all, cousin Peter can't afford...

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