France and Spain fought to the death, and Marin was happy to see it. He's a little busy right now, though. It was not busy intervening in the war between Spain and France, but busy with Simon's affairs.

The purchase cost of 250,000 gold coins has been paid, and the Grand Sem (Parliament) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania has issued Simon with a letter of appointment and a letter of appointment from the earl. Now, it's up to Simon to go to Kyiv with his men and take over the local territories.

For this, the entire Hoffman family was busy. Marin has sent an engineering team to Kyiv to repair the original castle and the city walls. When the repairs were completed, Simon just went over to receive them. At the same time, Princess Anna of the Lamarck family was married there.

In addition to repairing the castle and walls, Marin also needed to help Simon raise an army to provide security for the Kyiv region.

Because Kiev is facing the Ukrainian steppes, cavalry is a must. It just so happened that when he was fighting with the princes of the Eight Kingdoms before, Marin was not very satisfied with Arthas, the commander of the Cossack cavalry corps, so Marin took the opportunity to give Alsace to Simon as the cavalry general of the Ukrainian Earl. And Jurgen, the former more outstanding deputy commander of the Cossack cavalry corps and commander of the 1st regiment, took the opportunity to take the position.

Simon didn't know this, and thought that Marin really took good care of him - you see, he gave me the commander of the Cossack cavalry regiment......

Only Arthas himself knows what is going on - he did not do well in the previous war, he was assigned......

On the day when Arthas was given to Simon, Marin suddenly summoned Arthas, who was about to give him away, and gave him a glittering cavalry command knife......

"W-" Arthas pulled out the sword, blinded by the cold light.

Of course, the knife lit up, because it was made of nickel steel. Nickel steel is similar to stainless steel, both are silvery-white, and naturally shiny. Moreover, this command knife made of nickel steel has a carburized surface edge. Its characteristics are almost the same as the Harvey armor of the ironclad battleship era at the end of the 19th century. Harvey armor, on the other hand, is to carburize the surface of nickel steel to improve its strength. Before the advent of Krupp armor, Harvey armor was the best armor of its time......

The swords made by this process are naturally extraordinary. Arthas, as the commander of the Cossack cavalry corps, was naturally also eligible for one.

"Grand Duke, what is the name of this treasure sword?" After testing the strength and sharpness, Arthas was overjoyed. Then, he suddenly asked Marin what the name of the knife was......

"Name?" Marin was stunned, this is just a knife, and a name?

He didn't know that the command knife that used Harvey's armor technology was undoubtedly a treasure knife in the eyes of people in this era. Since it's a treasure sword, it naturally has to be famous......

Marin looked at Arthas, thought for a moment, and said:

"Or would it be called 'Frost Sorrow'?"

After saying that, the Marin ghost made the god almost think of the "First Filial Son of Azeroth", the man who killed his father with the real "Frost Sorrow......

"Frost Sorrow?" Arthas was stunned. However, seeing the white blade, it is indeed whiter than snow...... As for grief? Well, the sword is a murder weapon, and killing must bring sorrow......

In this way, Arthas made up the meaning of the name "Frost Sorrow" on his own......

After leaving the palace, Arthas boasted that he had received a sword called "Frost Sorrow", which brought death and sorrow with cold light and snow......

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Once you have a commander, it's natural to call in the relevant soldiers. Otherwise, it's useless to have just one commander.

Marin initially planned to continue recruiting from the Ukrainian Cossacks, for example, by sending people to the Ukrainian steppes to seduce those Cossack men with spirits to serve as soldiers for Simon......

But, in Marin's opinion, the Cossacks were not very reliable. If you are strong, those Cossacks will naturally obey you and listen to you. However, if you rely too much on them and let them see your weakness, the Cossacks will easily betray you and bite you.

This is the characteristic of the steppe peoples - if you can't beat you, you will lower your eyebrows and ears, and if you can beat you, you will bully you and plunder you......

For example, the Xiongnu in the Wei and Jin dynasties, in the Han and Wei dynasties, the Central Plains were strong, and the Huns moved south into the Central Plains. But after the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" of the Western Jin Dynasty smashed the Western Jin Dynasty, the Xiongnu, who had been low-eyed and pleasing to the ear, suddenly rebelled, seized the Central Plains to establish political power, and killed the north like a river of blood......

So, Simon's army can hire those Ukrainian Cossacks, but it must not be based on Ukrainian Cossacks. Otherwise, it is easy to be regurgitated.

Among them, it is estimated that the lessons of the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt are the most profound. The Mamluks, which means "slaves", were originally Turkic slave soldiers hired by the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt from Central Asia. However, because the Ayyubids relied too much on Turkic slave soldiers, the Mamluks later took control of the Ayyubids and replaced the Ayyubids with the Mamluks......

Marin didn't want Simon's country to be controlled by a group of Ukrainian Cossacks, so the cornerstone of Simon's founding could not be the Ukrainian Cossacks.

Originally, Marin wanted to give Simon a group of German mercenaries. However, the main body of the army of the North Sea State is infantry, and it has no advantage in the Ukrainian steppes. And the number of German Cossacks was too small for Marin to refuse. Otherwise, give these trained German Cossacks to Simon, and his Cossack corps will be Ukrainianized. When the time comes, it's hard to say whether you listen to the greeting or not......

However, he didn't have enough cavalry for Simon......

"Could it be...... Want to be like Adler, hold a jousting tournament and recruit a group of German wandering knights? ”

Marin thought about it, as if time was a little tight. After all, Simon's wedding date is near......

Moreover, those German wandering knights may not be willing to go to the distant steppes of Eastern Europe. To go to Ukraine, but also through Germany, through Poland......

"Huh, Polish ......"

Marin suddenly remembered - Simon is going to Poland and Lithuania's territory, for Mao to German wandering knights? Polish wandering knights also say a lot......

It just so happened that recently Zygismunt I was forming what hussar units were forming on the territory of Poland. Why don't you let Zygmunt I help Simon form a hussar army?

The number of this hussar unit is not too large, as long as there are a few cavalry regiments. It is not necessary to control the whole of Ukraine, it is enough to guarantee the security of Kyiv.

This is what Marin calls the "core" and "subject". As long as the core and the main body are reliable, others don't really matter. With these cores, and then using them to serve as officers at all levels, Simon will be more comfortable in controlling the Ukrainian region.

Although, it took a lot of fiefdom to recruit the children of Polish knights. However, the most important thing that Ukraine lacks is fertile land, and it is the most fertile black soil...... Therefore, Simon had no problem forming several regiments of Polish hussars......