The Rise of the European Emperor

Ordinarily, the Earl of Kyiv is a poor frontier territory, and it is okay to send out 1,000 cavalry. However, the aristocratic members of Lithuania's Great Sem bullied Simon as a newcomer and had no foundation in Lithuania, so they asked the Earl of Kyiv to lead 2,000 cavalry.

Morton, the subordinate of Simon who made the supervisory country, urgently sent someone to ask Marin with a carrier pigeon, and Marin had already figured out a countermeasure-let Morton hire Cossack cavalry.

Cossack cavalry are wandering horse bandits on the grassland, but because there are many horse bandits and few "fat sheep" on the grassland, the Cossacks have a poor life and the appearance fee is relatively low.

For example, the daily salary of a wandering knight as a mercenary is about 1 shilling and 8 pfennigs, which is 20 pfennigs a day. As for the Cossack light cavalry, the daily salary is only five or six pfennigs, which is only twice that of the German infantry.

However, the Cossacks were poorly disciplined and disobedient. In particular, it is easy to harm civilians under the employer's rule. Therefore, generally few people are willing to hire Cossacks with serious problems, even if they are cheap.

But the Earl of Kyiv is different. There are 1,500 cavalry under Simon's command here. Although Simon took away the most elite 100 plate armor guards when he returned to Beihai, he still left behind 400 plate armor guards and 1000 Cossack cavalry.

It should be pointed out that the plate armor guards and plate armor knights of the Counties of Kyiv are different. Like the Polish hussars, they had no armor on their horses, and they only wore half armor. Moreover, most of them don't use hollow lances, but use ordinary spears.

In this way, the 400 plate armor guards are almost like Polish wing cavalry. And those 1,000 Cossacks are different from ordinary Cossacks. Under the deliberate arrangement of the officers sent by Marin, the recruited Cossacks, the original leaders, were either completely loyal or eliminated. The remaining Cossacks are ordinary Cossacks who follow the crowd.

The officers Marin sent to help, such as Morton, were professional cavalry officers. Under his training, the 1000 Cossacks also began to observe discipline. If they were pulled out to fight, these 1,000 disciplined Cossacks would be much stronger than before. According to Napoleon's evaluation of Mamluk, 1,000 disciplined Cossacks will definitely defeat 1,500 undisciplined Cossacks.

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

Leading the army this time will be Hagsky, a nobleman recruited by Simon in Lithuania. Hagerski is tall and strong, with excellent martial arts skills, and even can fight with 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 high martial arts skills and professional ability. But once you drink, don't stop until you get drunk. Moreover, after getting drunk, he loves to play drunk.

When drinking madly,

Like Zhang Fei, whipping a soldier is considered gentle. This guy doesn't use a whip to beat people, but directly draws his sword to chop people...

Therefore, when this guy served others, he caused a lot of trouble and committed a lot of things. Otherwise, in his normal state when he was not drinking, he would not have to worry about being recruited.

It took a lot of effort for Simon to recruit him back then. There are mainly two ways to restrict him, one is to give him strong alcohol. Originally, Hagerski drank low-alcohol alcohol and drank a lot at a time, so he was not easy to get drunk. Even if drunk, the degree is also mild.

And Simon gave him a 53-degree Erguotou without water. After getting drunk, this guy basically fell under the table, unable to drink and go crazy. In addition, Simon specially equipped him with ten large shield soldiers. Once this guy drinks, 10 large shield soldiers will be ready to fight. Once drunk, it’s okay if he falls asleep lying down, but if he’s playing drunk, 10 large shields like door panels will surround him, and he won’t be given a chance to slash with a knife...

Relying on these two tricks, Hagerski did not cause any major disaster in Kyiv. 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 he was recruited, so he couldn't be fired. Cavaliers are very face-saving, and they often talk about "glory is my life". If there is no crime and dismissal, it is not good to say that the other party will turn his face...

Now, with this opportunity to lead troops to death... ahem... for reinforcements, it's just right to send this guy...

As a result, Morton promoted Hagerski to the acting head 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 were tall and strong men selected by Morton from outside Cossacks. Putting half armor on them, they were considered plate armor knights. Of course, the original 400 plate armor guards also dispatched 100 people. After all, everyone has to save face. It would be too embarrassing for Da Sem if all the plate armor heavy cavalry were pretended to be by externally hired Cossacks. And 100 serious plate armored cavalry are paired with 300 fake Cossack "plate armored cavalry". .

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Because of the early preparations, the 2,000 cavalry from Kyiv quickly gathered and went north for reinforcements. Along the way, the 50 Cossack officers marched while restraining the hired Cossack cavalry and taught them how to form a simple charge.

In terms of personal martial arts, these Cossacks are not bad. If it's a one-on-one fight, it's no different from those regular cavalry, and even more aggressive. However, if they fight in formation...the bigger the scale, the more these "wild" Cossacks will collapse...

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Just when Lithuania and Poland were frantically fighting to gather reinforcements for Smolensk, Lithuania's neighbor, the former enemy of the Teutonic Knights, also began to quietly gather troops and start preparing for war...

Of course, the Teutonic army was not targeting Lithuania, but the Livonian Knights in the north. At this time, the Livonian Knights, although nominally under the control of the Teutonic Knights, since the Teutonic Knights were beaten by Poland and Lithuania, the nobles and churches in the Livonian Knights , Colluding with Lithuania, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Knights' weakening strength, gained the upper hand in the parliament of the Livonian Knights, and in many fields, pushed out the members of the Knights.

Therefore, this time the Teutonic State dispatched troops, not only received the support of the Teutonic State, but also received the secret support of the Livonian Knights within the Livonian Knights.

At that time, as long as the Lithuanian army marches to the eastern front, the Teutonic Knights will take action, send large troops into the Livonia region, occupy Riga and other important cities, and complete complete control of the Livonia region.

It's just that the Lithuanian and Polish armies are still gathering and have not yet marched to the eastern front. Therefore, the build-up of the Teutonic army is still being done quietly, for fear that it will be too obvious and stimulate Lithuania and Poland. It would be bad if the two countries left Smolensk alone and attacked the Teutonic state first. Therefore, the current assembly of the Teutonic army is carried out in secret, for fear of stimulating Lithuania and Poland...