Adler was glad to take 500 Cossacks from Marin in exchange for a few thousand immigrants. After all, that's 500 elite Cossack cavalry!

What's more, instead of 500 Cossacks, 500 households, the total population is also about two thousand people. And ordinary people, even if they have 5,000 households, may not be able to find 500 elite cavalry!

So, Marin wanted to exchange 500 Cossacks for several thousand of his inhabitants, and Adler was willing to do so. After he subdued the 500 Cossacks according to Marin's instructions, he would have 500 elite Cossack cavalry. Counting 50 knights and 150 cavalry, the number of cavalry in his hands will reach 700 people. Moreover, the combat effectiveness is very strong.

The thought that he would lead 700 elite cavalry galloping across the territory of the island of Ireland made Adler's blood boil.

In addition, Marin said that all Cossack cavalry and knightly squire cavalry would be provided with low-cost Eastern European Mongolian horses. This type of horse rarely needs to be fed concentrate, and only after strenuous exercise does it need to be fed some concentrate. Usually, you can eat a little grass casually, and it is very resistant to rough feeding.

Unlike the European war horses ridden by the knights, they usually have to be fed concentrate, and the cost of raising is very high. If the 700 war horses were all traditional European war horses and were fed with concentrate every day, it was estimated that it would be difficult for the average earl to afford 700 cavalry.

And if you switch to a war horse that is resistant to rough feeding, it is easy to explode cavalry. The nomads in northern China are obviously poor, but every time they invade the south, they often have more than 100,000 cavalry. On that scale, Europeans would probably be scared to death when they saw it. In the second Mongolian expedition to the west, 150,000 cavalry were dispatched to sweep across Europe. If it weren't for the fact that Ogedai happened to die, and everyone would have to return to China to compete for the throne, it is estimated that the Mongol cavalry would have ploughed Europe well.

The way Europeans raised horses determined that it was difficult to expand the scale of European cavalry. After all, European war horses have to eat food every day, and European food is so expensive, there are ghosts who can appear too large-scale cavalry. Therefore, in the face of the massive cavalry of the nomadic Turks, the Europeans could only resist on the defensive and did not dare to fight head-on.

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The reason why Marin introduced Eastern European Mongolian horses that were resistant to rough breeding was to form a large-scale cavalry force. Only when the cost is low, it will be possible for the cavalry to expand. And when the cavalry is on scale, the combat effectiveness will be stronger.

In addition, Marin intended to reform the heavy cavalry. This is because the Eastern European Mongolian horse, although taller and stronger than the original Mongolian horse, is only a medium-sized horse, and is not suitable for heavy cavalry mounts.

Of course, the heavy cavalry here refers to the plate cavalry of Europe. After all, the weight is there, and no heavy horse can do it.

But there is one kind of heavy cavalry that does not need heavy horses, and that is the Mongol heavy cavalry......

In order to improve the mobility of the heavy cavalry, Genghis Khan equipped most of the Mongolian heavy cavalry with leather armor, and the war horses were also wrapped in leather armor. In this way, the weight is greatly reduced. Of course, there were also heavy cavalry wearing captured Song Dynasty armor and Jin State armor.

Although, this kind of weakened heavy cavalry is indeed difficult to fight with European knights in plate armor. However, there are many Mongolian heavy cavalry. You touched dozens of knights? I touched thousands of weakened versions of the leather-armored heavy cavalry to see who was more powerful...... Moreover, the Mongols will shoot horses and let you fall off your horse......

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In fact, Marin was also seeking heavy cavalry reform. For example, he planned to use rhinoceros leather armor to equip new heavy cavalry, and even use rhinoceros leather to make horse armor. As a result, the mobility of the heavy cavalry was greatly enhanced. Although there will be damage on the battlefield, because it is mainly civilian cavalry, not noble cavalry, it is not a big deal to die a few.

However, for Adler's cavalry, Marin did not take too much care. In fact, for Adler, Marin sent him to the island of Ireland to play a live-action game of riding and slashing. And Adler, a muscular militant, seems to like the game too. After all, riding and slashing were Adler's dreams since childhood.

Actually, Marin would love to play the game himself. After all, opportunities come true. The natives of the island of Ireland are very weak, and there is no danger in playing riding and slashing. But Beihai is such a big country that he can't give up, so he has to let Adler play by himself.

Not only Marin wanted to play riding and chopping, but even old Hoffman, an old man, showed a strong interest in going to the island of Ireland to play riding and chopping. After all, he, an old knight, had hardly fought in his life. In his life, the fiercest battle was probably the battle to save Lady Mary, who was in distress at that time. Therefore, the old man became interested and wanted to put on his armor and go to the island of Ireland with Adler to fight the natives......

Marin is full of black lines - Nima, a good old lady of the North Sea Country is inappropriate, and she actually wants to go to Ireland to cut people in person, it's just too out of tune...... Moreover, the old man is in his fifties, and he still goes to ride and chop, isn't this a joke?

Not only Marlin was against it, but Lady Mary was also vehemently against the old man's whimsical idea. In the end, old Hoffman can only continue to be his old lady of the North Sea Kingdom.

In order to amuse the old man, Marin learned from Liu Bang and specially rebuilt a new Hoffmann manor in the east of the city of Aurich, imitating the Hoffmann manor in his hometown of Bochum, also named Hoffmann Manor. Moreover, he brought all the Zhuang Zhuangding from his hometown to the new Hoffman Manor, and let them pay the old Hoffman to play. (Note: Liu Bang imitated his hometown Fengyi near Chang'an, built a new town, and invited all the old people from his hometown to play with Mrs. Liu, which is the source of Xinfeng County in the Han Dynasty)

Sure enough, Marin's arrangement won the favor of the elderly Hoffman. So, he consulted with Madame Mary and moved to the New Hoffmann Manor. But Madame Mary disagreed, after all, Adler's child Muti was still young and it was better to stay in the city. In this way, it is more convenient to find two miracle doctors, Mozhigen and Battle, when you are sick. The old man was helpless, so he could only say that he had nothing to do and went to the new Hoffman manor outside the city to play.

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In fact, like Mrs. Liu, the elder Hoffman is not very suitable for the current life. Mrs. Liu is a commoner in the market, and she is used to drinking and bragging with a group of small people who kill pigs and sell alcohol. After arriving in Chang'an, he was not suitable for the identity of the emperor, and he couldn't talk to those ministers and nobles. It wasn't until Liu Bang built Xinfeng Town for him that he was happy.

The same goes for old Hoffman, who is a vulgar lower knight with little culture. Let him deal with those nobles, although he can barely do it a little, but it is very uncomfortable. If it weren't for Madame Mary's guidance, he would have collapsed long ago.

Now, Marin has given him the pruning of the new Hoffman estate, which has satisfied his ideas and needs. But the old man put forward another condition:

"Look, are you bringing my old friends over too?"

Ma Lin immediately reacted - old Hoffman is not the same as Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Liu is a civilian, so she naturally gets along with a commoner and can be friends. But old Hoffman was originally a knight, and the dealers of Hoffman's manor were actually his subordinates, and they were not worthy of being friends with him. So, old Hoffman was thinking about his knightly friends who had been in Mark Burrow's country. According to their age, most of these people are in their fifties and sixties, and their days are short......

"However, they are also nobles, so they can come over easily?" Marin was a little distressed. The dealer asked them to move easily, and those old knights, no matter how they were nobles, how could they easily relocate?

"What's this? If you build a few manors for them near the new Hoffman Manor, they will promise to come! ”

"Damn, just to play with you, I'm going to send a few manors out?" Marin was speechless.

But he still made a compromise - Marin ordered the construction of several knights' estates next to the new Hoffmann manor and gave them to several old friends of the old Hoffman. The condition is that those old knights will come to live and often come to accompany old Hoffman to brag about ......

However, the manories given to the old knights were all shrunk. For example, each small estate has only 100 acres of arable land. However, this was given away for nothing, and they did not take back their old manor, so Marin was still quite sure that those people would come......

However, the construction of the new Hoffmann estate and several other small estates took time. The elder Hoffman said that the old man first went to the port of Emden to watch the upcoming knight jousting conference...... ()

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