Marin began to think quickly about the gains and losses, and after careful consideration. Marin believed that it would be difficult for the soldiers in Germany to adapt to the icy climate of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

However, the Eastern European Cossacks recruited by Marin, who were also from Eastern Europe, were accustomed to the harsh winters there. Even, the Mongolian horses of Eastern Europe imported by Marin from the Crimean Khanate are also very adapted to the harsh winter.

In this way, Marin decided - to start recruiting Eastern European Cossacks in large numbers, and then train them into an army. Once the training is complete, look for an opportunity to cooperate with the Lithuanian army and fight the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and defeat it......

It should be pointed out that Marin wants to be defeated, not eliminated. Because, he also did not want Lithuania to annex the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

Therefore, Marin only needed to send troops to defeat the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and force the other side to defend the city. Then, the army he sent could go to the countryside of the Grand Duchy of Moscow to rob children......

As for the storming of the fortified cities of the Grand Duchy of Moscow by the armies of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania? That's what a fool would do......

In this way, Marin used war to achieve his goal of plundering the population. At the same time, it did not make a death blow to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, so that the Grand Duchy of Moscow still retained the vitality and capital to compete with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and did not let the Grand Duchy of Lithuania dominate in Eastern Europe.

For this reason, Marin's decision was to recruit only Ukrainian Cossacks and gather enough 10,000 cavalry mercenaries. Then, they were trained and formed and fought with the Lithuanian army.

This cavalry, at first, will not appear, but hides in the rear. When the Lithuanian and Grand Duchy of Moscow's armies fought, they suddenly rushed out from the rear and stormed the flank of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, defeating them......

Then, deliberately leaving hands behind, the troops of the Grand Duchy of Moscow were allowed to withdraw. When it came time for the siege, he directly flashed people on the grounds that "cavalry is not suitable for siege", and went to the countryside to catch children......

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Here, it is necessary to mention the current situation in Eastern Europe. Originally, during the reign of Vasily III, the Grand Duke of Moscow, a full-scale invasion and attack on Lithuania was launched. Around 1508 he annexed the Kursk region (which also originally belonged to Lithuania) to the northeast of Ukraine, and in 1510 he annexed the Pskov Noble Republic. Then, in 1512, he sent an army to Smolensk, and after two years of siege, he finally captured the important trading town of Ksmolensk. At this point, Novgorod (conquered by Vasily III's father, Ivan III), Pskov and Smolensk, the three major trading cities of the Rus', all fell into the hands of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which greatly increased its financial resources.

It should be pointed out that the famous time when Zygmunt I spent 15,000 gold coins to buy the Crimean Khanate to attack Moscow occurred in the year when Vasily III sent troops to besiege Smolensk. Vasily III was in a dilemma, but when he learned that the cavalry of the Crimean Khanate could not capture the city of Moscow, he decisively ordered the army to continue the siege of Smolensk, which took two years to overcome. From this, it can be seen that Vasily III was a decisive and ruthless man.

The fall of Novgorod, Pushkov and Smolensk, the three major trading centers of Eastern Europe, also caused the German merchants of the Hanseatic League to completely withdraw from the Rus' region.

Of course, this is a historical thing. In this time and space, because of Marin's intervention, Lithuania bought the Crimean Khanate early, and was not pressed to the ground by the Grand Duchy of Moscow as it was in the original history. As a result, the Kursk region is still under the control of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In addition, the Pskov and Smolensk republics were also not annexed by the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Only Novgorod, which was annexed by Vasily III's father, Ivan III, in the last century, is already in Moscow's pocket.

However, the alliance of Lithuania and Crimea against the Grand Duchy of Moscow looks problematic. Strictly speaking, the Crimean Khanate was not a hardcore ally of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, but a temporary briuged thug fighting for interests.

Therefore, the armies of the two countries did not work closely together against the Muscovites. Therefore, Vasily III was given a respite. If it is a head-to-head head, the strength of the Grand Duchy of Moscow is still stronger than that of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. After all, the population of the Grand Duchy of Moscow is tens of millions, and the ability to fight against the army is too strong. Moreover, the barbaric official of the Grand Duchy of Moscow did not treat the ordinary soldiers who were forcibly conscripted as human beings at all, but only as cannon fodder, not afraid of casualties.

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania, on the other hand, was an aristocratic parliamentary state, and the army was cobbled together by various nobles. Although it is called a unified country, the nobles have their own small calculations and refuse to fight their own armed forces. Therefore, if the fight started, the Lithuanian army would not be able to get out, but Maozi dared to drive and sacrifice ordinary soldiers as cattle. In addition, Maozi's territory is more bitter and cold, and the people are more savage and fierce. Therefore, one-on-one Lithuania was no match for the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

Moreover, Vasily III found that when the Moscow army attacked Kursk, a southern region close to Ukraine, the Crimean Khanate reacted quickly and mobilized cavalry across the Ukrainian steppes to support Lithuania. However, when the Moscow army attacked Lithuania on the northern border, the cavalry of the Crimean Khanate could not arrive in time. Because, the Grand Duchy of Moscow set up several lines of defense in the southern frontier region and arranged many fortresses, so that the cavalry of the Crimean Khanate could not smoothly go north to reinforce them.

In addition, the Crimean Khanate is not of the same mind as Lithuania, and it is happy to see Lithuania and Moscow lose strength together. It would be better if both families were wiped out, and then the Crimean Khanate would come out and clean them up together......

Vasily III clearly understood that as long as the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were on equal footing, the Crimean Khanate would not send troops. The Crimean Khanate would not intervene unless Moscow had defeated Lithuania in a state of defeat.

So, Vasily III used a simple and barbaric method against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania - the Duzi......

The so-called exchange is to take out part of the troops and part of the opponent's troops to die together. As long as your own losses are not much more than the other party's, it is not a loss.

Moreover, the Grand Duchy of Moscow had a large population, and the domestic aristocracy was not as strong as that of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. As long as the ordinary wool like cattle is used to consume each other with the noble private soldiers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the first one who can't hold it will definitely be Lithuania.

In this way, for several years, the Grand Duchy of Moscow always mobilized large armies to fight the Lithuanian army in the northern border areas. However, Moscow's army seems to be huge every time, but it just does not penetrate the Lithuanian hinterland, and only fights for attrition in the border areas.

Over the past few years, the two countries have lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses each. The great nobles of the eastern frontier of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were very frustrated, so they asked the Lithuanian nobles in the central and western regions to support them. However, the other nobles were only willing to support supplies and weapons and armor, and were not willing to support soldiers and horses.

And the Grand Duchy of Moscow, on its part, although it seems that the losses are great. But in fact, most of the losses were captured by the strong men. You must know that when he confronted the army of Aheima Khan of the Golden Horde on the Ugra River, Vasily III's father, Ivan III, dispatched an army of 200,000. This amount, the custody can scare the states of Western Europe to death,

Although most of these 200,000 troops are made up, the number and momentum alone can intimidate a bunch of opponents. It is also Lithuania struggling to support and confront it. Without the barrier of Poland and Lithuania and allowing the Grand Duchy of Moscow to enter the German regions, the devil knows how many small states would have been destroyed by the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

You must know that the three aristocratic republics of Novgorod, Pskov and Smolensk, which were destroyed by the Grand Duchy of Moscow, each of them were powerful forces capable of dispatching an army of 10,000 or 20,000. In Germany, it is definitely a strong party. However, before the tactics of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which had a large army of more than 100,000 or 200,000 people, the three major commercial republics all hated it.

Therefore, in the conflict between the two countries for several years, it looks like Moscow and Lithuania have lost about the same. But for the Grand Duchy of Moscow, it was nothing more than a loss of tens of thousands of "gray livestock", which was not worth mentioning. The feudal lords on Lithuania's eastern border were mostly crippled and dragged down. However, the lords of central and western Lithuania refused to fully support the eastern lords out of selfishness.

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When Marin sent people to Eastern Europe to collect a lot of information, after analysis, Marin was shocked to find that the Grand Duchy of Moscow seemed to be ready for war. And their target this time is the wealthy Pskov aristocratic republic......

Even, in order to deal with the Pskov aristocratic republic bordering Moscow, Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights, Vasily III secretly bribed the Teutonic Knights and asked them not to help Pskov at that time. And the Teutonic state really agreed, because, at present, Pskov is on the side of Lithuania. And Lithuania happened to be the sworn enemy of the Teutonic Knights. Although under Marin's mediation, the Teutonic state and Poland and Lithuania were at peace for many years. However, the feud between the two sides is deep. This time we can see Lithuania suffer, and the Teutonic countries are also very happy. Moreover, the Teutonic states also had their own small calculations - they planned to take the opportunity to swallow up the already independent Livonian Knights...... In exchange for the neutrality of the Teutonic states, Vasily III expressed his support for the annexation of the Livonian Knights by the Teutonic states in exchange for the Teutonic states' support for the annexation of the Pskov Republic by the Grand Duchy of Moscow. If both sides achieve their goal, then both have made a profit. This is because the Livonian Order and the Pskov Republic are both very wealthy commercial states......

In addition, Vasily III secretly bribed the Crimean Khanate, demanding that it stand by and watch "the next conflict between the two sides in the northern regions."

The money sent by Vasily III was not enough to make the Crimean Khanate turn against Lithuania, but it was no problem for the Crimean Khanate to remain neutral......

Don't ask Marin how he knows these secrets, Marin's uncle Hule is now the civil chief of the Teutonic State, a close confidant of Grand Master Philip, and it is normal for Marin to know these secrets, and it is normal for Marin to know. As for the intelligence of the secret contacts between the Crimean Khanate and the Grand Duchy of Moscow...... When the Crimeans saw the money, they could easily find out about these secrets by throwing a bag of gold coins to a Crimean official who knew about it......

"It's getting interesting...... Marlin touched his chin and smiled.

At present, Eastern Europe is really in turmoil. The Grand Duchy of Moscow was calculating Lithuania and intended to annex the wealthy Pskov Republic. The Teutonic state also intends to re-annex the already independent state of the Livonian Knights.

As for Marin, he also plans to intervene sideways, planning to play the yellow finch, and come to a "praying mantis catching cicada and yellow finch behind". He planned to let Moscow fight Lithuania first. Lithuania is definitely not the opponent of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and when Lithuania is disabled, Marin will send troops to help his brother-in-law as the "uncle of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania", and then beat the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which is besieging Pskov, to the point that he can't take care of himself. When the time comes, the two crippled countries can only continue to peck at each other. Marin, on the other hand, happily sent someone to the Grand Duchy of Moscow to catch the child......