Chapter 2148： Teutonic State has also moved

Ordinarily, as a poor frontier territory, the Earl of Kiev can be counted as 1,000 cavalry. However, the noble parliamentarians of Great Sum of Lithuania bullied that Simon was a newcomer and had no foundation in Lithuania, so they asked the Earl of Kiev to lead 2,000 cavalry.

Simon Morton, under the supervision of the country, urgently sent someone to ask Marin with carrier pigeons. Marin had already figured out a countermeasure-let Morton hire Cossack cavalry.

The Cossack cavalry is the wandering horse bandit on the grassland, but because there are many horse bandits on the grassland and there are few "fat sheep", the Cossacks are not moisturized, and the appearance fee is relatively low.

For example, wandering knights, the daily salary of a mercenary is about 1 shilling 8 pfennigs, which is 20 pfennigs a day. The Cossack light cavalry, with a daily salary of only five or six pfennigs, is only twice that of the German infantry.

However, the Cossacks had poor discipline and did not obey discipline. In particular, it is easy to harm civilians under employers. Therefore, generally few people are willing to hire Cossacks with big problems, even if they are cheap.

But the Earl of Kiev is different. There are already 1,500 cavalry under Simon's here. Although Simon returned to the North Sea and took away the most elite 100 plate guards, he still left 400 plate guards and 1,000 Cossack cavalry.

It needs to be pointed out that the plate guards of the Earl of Kiev are different from the plate knights. Like the Polish wing cavalry, their horses are unarmored and they only wear half-length armor. Moreover, most of them do not use hollow lances, but use ordinary spears.

In this way, the 400-plate armor guards look almost like Polish Winged Cavalry. And the 1,000 Cossacks are different from ordinary Cossacks. Under the deliberate arrangement of the officers sent by Marin, the recruited Cossack, the original leader, was either completely loyal or eliminated. The remaining Cossacks are ordinary Cossacks following the trend.

The officers Marin sent to help, such as Morton, were professional cavalry officers. Under his training, the 1,000 Cossacks began to become disciplined. If they were pulled out to fight, the 1,000 disciplined Cossacks would be much better than before. To use Napoleon's evaluation of Mamluk, 1,000 disciplined Cossacks can definitely defeat 1,500 undisciplined Cossacks.

However, this time, Marin knew he was going to give the head away. Therefore, Morton, the senior general sent by Marin to help Simon, would not go out.

This time the army will be led by Simon Hagski, a noble son recruited in Lithuania. Hagsky is tall and strong, with great martial arts, and can even play against Simon. However, this guy has a fatal flaw-he loves to drink and make trouble.

Before drinking, this guy was a very normal knight, with great martial arts and strong business ability. But once you drink, you can't stop without getting drunk. Moreover, after being drunk, he loves to drink too much.

When drunk crazy, like Zhang Fei, whipping soldiers is considered gentle. This servant doesn't need to beat people with whips, but directly drew knives and slashed people...

Therefore, this guy caused a lot of misfortunes and committed a lot of things when he served others. Otherwise, given his normal state when he is not drinking, there is no need to worry about no one to solicit.

Simon had also spent a lot of effort in recruiting him. There are mainly two methods to restrict him, one is to drink strong alcohol for him. Originally, Hagsky drank low-alcohol, a lot at a time, and was not easy to get drunk. Even if you are drunk, the degree is mild.

And Simon gave him a 53-degree Erguotou that was not mixed with water. After he was drunk, he basically fell under the table, unable to bear the drunkenness. In addition, Simon specially equipped him with ten shield soldiers. Once this guy drinks, 10 big shield soldiers will stand in battle. Once he is drunk, if he falls asleep on the ground, it is good to say, if he is drunk crazy, a large shield like 10 door panels will double over him, not giving him a chance to hack with a knife...

Relying on these two tricks, Hagsky didn't cause any disaster in Kiev. However, he is an unstable factor after all. If one day gets drunk and gets out of control, it's hard to say.

Simon actually felt a little regretful, but everyone was hired, so he can't fire them. The knight is very face-conscious, and often talks about "Glory is my life". If you don’t commit a crime, you’ll be dismissed if you don’t say that the other party will turn your face, and it’s not nice to say it...

Now, with this opportunity to lead soldiers to death...cough...reinforcement, sending this product is just right...

So Morton promoted Hagsky to the acting commander of the cavalry corps and asked him to take 50 Cossack cavalry officers and 2,000 Cossack cavalry hired from outside to participate in the battle.

Even the heavy cavalry as the main force was a tall and strong man Morton selected from the Cossacks hired from outside, and put them on half-body armor, even as a knight in plate armor. Of course, the original 400 plate armor guards also dispatched 100 people. After all, everyone has to live a good life. If the plate armor and heavy knights were all pretended by the externally hired Cossacks, it would be too shameful for Big Tham. And 100 authentic plate armored heavy riders are paired with 300 fake Cossack "plate armored heavy riders", 100 real plate armored heavy riders are listed in the front, and the fake 300 are placed in the back, which is difficult for ordinary people to see. .

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Because of the preparation, the 2,000 cavalrymen from Kiev quickly gathered to go north for reinforcements. Along the way, the 50 Cossacks officers, while marching, restrained the Cossack cavalry hired from outside, and taught them to simply form and charge.

In terms of personal martial arts, these Cossacks are not bad. If it is singled out, it is no different from those regular cavalry, and even more aggressive. However, if it is to fight in battle...the larger the scale, the more these "wild" Cossacks will collapse...

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Just when Lithuania and Poland were all flying up and down in order to gather the army to reinforce Smolensk, Lithuania’s neighbors, the former mortal enemy of the Teutonic Knights, also began to gather their troops quietly and began to prepare for war...

Of course, UU reading www. uukanshu.com The army of the Teutonic State is not directed against Lithuania, but against the Livonia Knights in the north. At this time, the Livonia Knights State, although nominally controlled by the Teutonic Knights, since the Teutonic Knights were beaten by Poland and Lithuania to live their lives, the nobles and churches within the Livonia Knights , Colluding with Lithuania, taking advantage of the opportunity of the knights' strength to be greatly reduced, gaining the upper hand in the council of the Livonia knights nation, and squeezing out the knights in many areas.

Therefore, this time the Teutonic State sent troops not only supported by the Teutonic State, but also by the Livonian Knights in the Livonian Knights.

At that time, as long as the Lithuanian army goes to the eastern front, the Teutonic Knights will take action, send a large army into the Livonia area, occupy important cities such as Riga, and complete the complete control of the Livonia area.

However, the Lithuanian and Polish armies are still being assembled and have not yet made their way to the eastern front. Therefore, the assembly of the Teutonic army is still quiet at present, I am afraid that it will be too obvious and stimulate Lithuania and Poland. If the two countries left Smolensk first and attacked the Teutonic state first, it would be bad. Therefore, the current assembly of the Teutonic army is carried out in secret, just for fear of stimulating Lithuania and Poland...