Chapter 727: Helping Poland Form Hussars (Part I)

Marin wants money, money, people, and the army has strong combat effectiveness, so naturally there is no shortage of those practical things. However, as a newcomer from a humble background, what Ma Lin lacks is righteousness.

Although the Habsburgs were rejected by most of the German princes because of the death of Maximilian I in his youth, which showed a desire for de facto unification of Germany. However, after all, he was the Holy Roman Emperor and had the title of righteousness.

Marin wanted to expand, and was easily beaten by the German princes. Therefore, he needs to be famous. And this name, the Habsburgs can give. The Habsburgs were famous but not powerful, and Marin certainly had a lot of strength after a few years of development. One has strength, the other has fame, and it is intolerable if you don't cooperate.

Therefore, Marin now began to lay out early, in order to be able to occupy the moral high ground in the future, wield the stick of sanctions, and annex those vassal states that he coveted. The profits were divided between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Kingdom of Bohemia, now to the Jagiellonian family, and possibly the Habsburgs in the future.

Moreover, Marin also plans to intervene in little Charlie's marriage when he grows up, not to let him marry the Portuguese princess, but to let him marry the bohemian princess Anne. In this way, once Rajos II was killed by the Ottoman Turks, the Habsburgs would be able to rightfully annex the Kingdom of Hungary and the Kingdom of Bohemia. Then the Habsburgs would become the MT of all of Europe, facing the monster of Ottoman Turkey.

Historically, it was Charlie's younger brother Ferdinand who married Anne of Bohemia. However, this led to the division of the Habsburgs. A united family that was obviously very powerful was simply broken up. Charles V married a Portuguese princess, and nothing good. However, his younger brother Ferdinand, because he married Anne of Bohemia, sat on the two powerful kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia, and was elected as the new emperor of the HRE.

Marin had already mixed up Charles V's good deeds in uniting Spain and the HRE, and for this reason, he planned to compensate little Charles and help him gain the two kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia. Even, when Turkey tried to divide the Kingdom of Hungary (historically, after the death of Rajos II, Turkey supported the Hungarian nobles close to Turkey and controlled most of the territory of the originally vast Kingdom of Hungary, and finally fell into the hands of the Habsburgs, only a small part of Hungary), Marin planned to send troops to help, so that the Habsburgs could get a complete Hungarian kingdom......

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Just as Marin was contemplating his future plans, Zygmunt I touched him......

"What?" Marin was interrupted and asked angrily.

"This ...... That is true. I saw the army you brought before, so many knights, why did you only bring tens of thousands of people? You have so many knights, don't you have three or five squires for each knight? But there are tens of thousands of knights, why do you only bring about 10,000 people? ”

Zygmunt I also knew about military affairs, but he also knew that as the hottest military master in Europe at the moment, Marin must have a reason for doing so. It just so happened that the two parties had already married, and Zygmunt I simply asked Marin directly about the reason, so that he could learn from it.

In fact, Marin came to teach Zygmunt I to form the Polish hussars this time, so naturally he would not hide his secrets. Moreover, Marin himself has his own little ninety-nine in his heart - once the Polish hussars form a scale and tradition, with the relationship between the two families, he can borrow some hussars from Poland. Or, simply hire Polish wandering knights into their own army of lancers.

This was tried by the French Emperor Napoleon, and the effect was very good. The Polish lancers, hired by the French Empire, were quite good in combat and were well suited for storming infantry phalanxes, as well as striking at opposing artillery positions.

Therefore, Marin also wanted to recruit a few Polish lancer regiments to serve him in order to make up for the lack of mobility of his army.

The Polish hussars had to have an impact and a speed, and they belonged to the human-shaped tank forces of this era. They are very good at striking enemy melee cavalry and are not inferior to knights. Even, because the cavalry spear is more slender, it will hit the opponent first than the plate knight when hedging.

However, at this time, the Polish hussars had not yet been formed, and the knights of the Polish knightly families also used the hollow oak cavalry spears that were popular in Europe with full-body plate armor. The characteristic of this kind of knight is that the legs are short, and the war horse has no strength because the weight is too high, and it will be weak for a while. Moreover, the knight lord in full body armor needs four or five attendants to serve him, and the logistics cost is too high......

If you want to get a batch of Polish hussars, you first have to get the Polish knights to get used to the tactics of the hussars. Otherwise, recruiting them and changing their combat habits will take several years, which is not cost-effective. Just like Marin's thousand lancers, it took Marin two or three years to transform these German knights from old-fashioned plate knights to more modern lancers.

Marin's plan was to take this opportunity to help Zygmunt I form a team of lancers. To this end, Marin was willing to provide a group of officers to help him train the lancers. Even, willing to provide a batch of spring riding guns for them to use. With the spring-loaded lance, the lancer's charge will be unbridled and multiply. Unlike the original Polish hussars, they had to reduce their speed and charge for fear of the rifle being too strong. But in this way, the impact is greatly reduced. And with the use of spring-loaded cavalry guns, a quick charge without worrying about breaking an arm can make the lancers let go of the charge. And the faster the cavalry charges, the harder and more effective it will be on the enemy.

Moreover, because pikemen were very popular in this era. If you charge an infantry phalanx with a spear with a light cavalry using a saber, you will definitely be stabbed into a kebab by the opponent. Only lancers who also wield spears have the ability to go head-to-head with spearmen.

In addition, in the face of the scimitar cavalry in the east, the lancers also took advantage. Because there was no horse armor to drag down, and there were no plate armor pants, the lancers were not weaker in mobility than the hussars. The lancers, on the other hand, had longer cavalry spears and took advantage of them when fighting against the Eastern Scimitar cavalry. Even if the Eastern cavalry shoots arrows, as long as they don't shoot at the horses, they shoot at the lancers, and naturally have cuirass to resist the damage.

So, with lancers, Marin doesn't need melee-type sabre cavalry. This kind of melee type of saber cavalry is only suitable for storming the line of musketeers, and in the face of the spear formation, it must be cowardly......

As long as there were a large number of lancers in service, Marin decided to convert all the hussars into scout cavalry. As for the tasks of cavalry, all the tasks were left to the lancers and black-shirted knights. The lancers are responsible for charging into battle, while the black-shirted knights are responsible for torturing the opposing plate knights with muskets...... Although the lancers can also fight against the Plate Knights, they will cause a lot of casualties after all, because the Plate Knights are very strong in martial arts. Unlike the Knight in the Black Shirt, he can finish off the Knight in Plate Armor with a musket......

But first, Marin was to teach Zygmunt I to train a team of lancers. So, Marin smiled at Zygmunt I and said:

"You go back first, go to the school field outside the city early tomorrow morning, and I'll let you open your eyes and see what a new cavalry is!"

In fact, Marin would have liked to take Zygmunt I to visit right now. But considering that the other party just got married today, and he still has to talk to his sister Anne, he doesn't force it.

However, thinking that his baby sister's good cabbage was about to be arched by the "pig" in front of him, Ma Lin suddenly became angry. So, Marin squinted at Zygmunt I, snorted, and walked away alone......