The army of Nijmegen is still divided into three major arms: cavalry, infantry, and bow!

In addition, there is an engineering unit composed of craftsmen and servants, which has become a permanent independent army under my vigorous expansion, and its main job is to ensure that in wartime it can provide support to the attacking troops as quickly as possible, whether it is to open a road in the mountains, to build bridges in the face of water, or to build siege equipment, the task must be completed quickly and well.

The cavalry unit has been repeatedly reorganized since the beginning of its establishment, and the current number is only 200, just to bear the cost of buying war horses, Leonardo almost slashed people with a knife, not to mention the maintenance of the entire set of heavy cavalry equipment and daily wear and tear, it is impossible to achieve the dream of 100,000 iron cavalry in the movie, only to improve the quality of individual soldiers and the overall combat ability, defeat quantity with quality, and eliminate disadvantages with elite.

The archer army is divided into two classes: heavy archers and light archers, ordinary hunters can become excellent warriors after simple training, and there are no too high requirements in equipment, and the leather in the territory can be done by each person with a pair of cowhide armor, so they have the largest number, a total of five hundred, divided into five hundred teams, each team has a hundred people who receive allowances.

Heavy archers are very scary just to hear the name, the chain mail wrapped outside the leather armor of the whole body, so that they can be engaged in close combat when the battle situation is tense, as long as they do not meet the opponent's knights, they can basically resist the enemy infantry alone, and the quality of the soldiers also requires excellence, all of them are Kohler's carefully selected archers, so that he will shoot fly legs will never hurt the wings of the ruthless character, the number is not much, only a hundred people, but the combat effectiveness is eye-catching.

As the largest number of infantry, it also includes two parts: heavy and light.

The light infantry is dominated by Ravenna pikemen, equipped with leather armor, 100 people form ten phalanxes, each formation has a flag officer, responsible for directing the soldiers to advance and retreat, compared to the light infantry that can basically do all the people, the hoplite is not the same as the average soldier in this era in terms of equipment and quality, the whole body chain mail plus the plate armor of the vital parts, so that they are as invulnerable as the gods, the standard helmet wraps the head and neck, revealing only two murderous eyes, Weakness can hardly be found in the body, imagine when the enemy faces a group of iron warriors with maces and maces on the battlefield, what superfluous thoughts can there be in his mind except for the despair of his heart?

There are two hundred elite people in this army, all of them are as tall and mighty as iron towers, just standing there is enough to scare the coward's legs and stomachs, not to mention that everyone has passed the bull devil-style training, and the ability to resist blows is amazing!

Cavalry, hoplite archers and hoplites, as standing troops, have been completely out of production, eat and live in the castle's barracks **** drills, pay monthly salaries, and only rest on the tenth day to go back to reunite with their families, forming an elite force on standby at all times, which is very different from the peasant soldiers temporarily recruited by ordinary nobles, and it is also a descendant that I rely on.

"It seems that the daily physical training can be replaced by digging a ditch in the canal, which can save a lot of money."

I watched the soldiers practice martial arts from a distance, and silently thought in my heart: "Leonardo must like these coolies who don't need money......"

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I've never been able to understand why the traversers have to become rulers of the world, or martial arts masters who turn their hands into clouds and rain, and dominate several planes?

Maybe it's the experience before the crossing, so that they have accumulated too many grievances and unwillingness in their hearts, and they can't find a way to vent in the real world, so they can only hope that after the crossing, they can rely on the knowledge accumulation of hundreds or even thousands of years ahead of the times, change the fate of their previous lives, and turn the beautiful things that were once out of reach into toys for them to play with at will, such as beauties, historical celebrities, such as martial arts masters and social elites, in short, what I didn't have in the past, I must get it in this life!

Think about it in his previous life, he was an ordinary ordinary person, without a prominent family background, without a solid economic foundation, and from childhood to adulthood, he did not have any extraordinary intelligence, like most of his peers, he went to school and worked step by step, longing for an ordinary but lasting love, but he was repeatedly stabbed all over his body by the sharp reality, and in the end he was still a person struggling to make ends meet.

Compared with other traversers, I am neither a cultivator who has opened up the second vein of Ren Du, nor a well-trained special forces, nor the kind of human flesh encyclopedia that is full of wealth, and can rise to the top with just two ideas, and has a lot of money, but fortunately I still maintain my innate good luck, I have not experienced any setbacks, and I can always turn danger into a desperate moment and slowly obtain today's stable life.

At this moment, I was standing alone on the small balcony at the top of the castle tower, overlooking my vast territory, everything as far as the eye could see, was the personal property of the Duke of Nijmegen, and there were countless ordinary people in the city under my feet, just like my previous self, ordinary people were busy working for life, or carrying spears, and training in the sun to kill enemies, all of them had the same purpose, that is, to serve the lord, but all of them had different purposes, some for life, some for changing fate.

"What more could you ask for?"

I picked up the wine glass on the balcony, took a shallow sip, and slowly felt the aroma of the wine spreading from the tip of my tongue to my throat, and then rushed straight to my brain, and asked in my heart: "With a tall castle, loyal subordinates, and a comfortable life that you can eat whatever you want, the most important thing is that there are beautiful women in your arms every night, and you can complete the dream of how much toilet paper you wasted in the era of hanging silk, which cannot be reached, what more can you ask for?" ”

Thinking of this, I happily hooked the corners of my mouth, and suddenly felt that my crossing was actually God giving me a chance to be reborn, if I didn't grasp it well, wouldn't I be sorry for the favor of the goddess of fate?

"Now that you've reached this position, how many people are waiting to see your jokes, waiting to trample you under your feet, Randy ......"

I muttered the name of my life, unfamiliar with a tangled and untidy approach: "You can't let me down, and you can't let down all those who have put their fate in your hands......"

Now Nijmegen is already the sixth power after the five principalities, anyone talking about German politics can not bypass the behemoth, its territory from the vast north coast, all the way to the middle of the Rhine, control Flanders in the west, Swabia in the east, the new Duchy of Hanover in the north as a neighbor, the southern border and Lorraine dogs border, people with lofty ideals yearning for a new life and looking forward to changing their destiny from all corners of the world, a new center of power is rising!

Speaking of strength, almost all the trade in the north of the German Empire passed through Nijmegen, where the low commercial tax, the extensive transportation network, the stable social environment, and the preferential policy for commerce all attracted businessmen of all sizes, driving their own carriages, to this free and lively land to find opportunities to make a fortune, like a little white rabbit who voluntarily jumped into the mouth of the big bad wolf, and finally left his wealth here.

As long as the Duke of Nijmegen wanted to, he could tighten the invisible economic shackles around the necks of the German countries little by little, and then slowly starve potential competitors to death.

Militarily, although there are not many knights in the principality, unlike the standing army system of other lords' temporary conscription military system, Nijmegen has an elite army that always maintains high morale and strong combat effectiveness, and the heavy cavalry and hoplites built with huge sums of money are the rock of the army on the battlefield.

Politically, the current old duke of Bavaria is his brother-in-law, and he loves his wife very much, and he will never stand on the opposite side of Nijmegen, not to mention that after a hundred years, the youngest son he left behind will have to rely on the care of his maternal uncle, grow up and continue the national ancestry, and the Duke of Swabia, who is declining in the country, must be like the old duke who died in battle, unswervingly hug Nijmegen's thighs, and fight to the end with Emperor Henry's restless brothers who secretly supported him.

The new principality of Hanover is my ally, and for the first time, the two new forces stand on a higher stage, facing all the old nobles who despise them, only by holding together will they stand firm, and if they join together, they will win and fight will lose both.

His Majesty Sylvester II of the Vatican is a close friend of the previous emperor, and his political ideas and spiritual demands are obviously incompatible with the current emperor, and he is even more obsessed with Emperor Henry's desire to support the enthronement of Bishop Gailius, and the protection provided by Nijmegen is the only force he can rely on now, not to mention the Normans entrenched in the English Channel, who are also good friends of the Duke of Nijmegen.

"The so-called high place is not cold, trembling like walking on thin ice, is that the feeling now?"

A gust of wind blew my hair around, and I wrapped my clothes tightly around my shoulders, feeling the cold that penetrated my bones on a hot summer day.

"I don't know how many of those traversers like myself will enjoy this kind of worrying life, calculating people's lives every moment, anyway, I don't like ......" sighed helplessly, knowing that it was useless to complain, and I didn't want to ruin the good mood of climbing the pole, I took my wine glass and turned back to the room.

While I was bored fiddling with the wooden knight on the map, Rollo knocked on the door and walked softly to his side, placed a parchment scroll on the table with the Emperor's double-headed eagle lacquer seal, and said, "This is an urgent letter just delivered by the herald, a new edict from His Majesty the Emperor." ”

(End of chapter)