Two hussar legions, 10,000 elite light cavalry!

But Randy still felt that it was not enough, in fact, in a land like Eastern Europe, no matter how many cavalry there were, it would not be enough, even if the number was expanded tenfold, the two hussar legions were just the beginning, and in the following time, Randy had already made up his mind to continue to expand and add new cavalry under his command.

Randy attaches so much importance to the light cavalry, and spares no effort in the construction of the heavy cavalry, even more than

The Norman army has always had a tradition of using elite heavy cavalry, and with the recent wars, various countries that fought with the Norman Empire, including the Eastern Roman Empire, have recognized the Norman Empire's heavy cavalry combat effectiveness and heavy cavalry tactics as very lethal, although various countries have not said it explicitly, but they are secretly imitating the military system of the Norman Empire, and even the Eastern Roman Empire is no exception.

However, such an imitation is somewhat difficult!

No matter how hard you try, no matter how much you strengthen the discipline of the cavalry, in such an era, it is very difficult to train a wave charge like the Norman cavalry, which can maintain a parallel line when charging, like an iron wall, and have just the right time at all times. There are even a few times when they collide with the ones behind them, causing a large number of non-combat casualties.

Such an excellent tradition naturally has to continue to be passed on, as the most basic in the empire, but also the largest number, the strongest combat effectiveness of the Norman heavy cavalry sequence, Randy set the military regulations, intend to let all the heavy cavalry replace with plate chain composite armor, the captain level uses early plate armor, and expand the number of heavy cavalry to three thousand, grant the title of secondary knight, all treatment and status are completely equivalent to knights, but there is no fief.

Norman Knight

Ethnicity: Mixed

Equipment: Norman III War Horse, Plate Chain Composite Armor, Some Equipment Early Plate Armor, Heavy Cavalry Spear, Mace, Hand Half Sword, Compound Iris Shield and Half Phoenix Crest Covercoat, Knight Medal, Riding Medal, Spear Medal,

Physique: Robust

Morale: High

Training: High

Discipline: High

Class introduction: The Norman Empire is an emerging cavalry power, Norman knights as the most basic heavy cavalry, the combat effectiveness of these knights, even comparable to the royal knights of other countries, group combat ability is still surpassed, knights equipped with a variety of weapons can calmly deal with any enemy in the face of the enemy, there are quite a lot of tactics to choose from, both can launch a devastating charge, crush any idiot with an abnormal mind, can also swing a mace for hand-to-hand combat, if necessary, you can also dismount to fight, using a sword and shield or two-handed swordsmanship to fight.

The Royal Knights were expanded in this military reform, and the territories that were the Knights' fields were reclaimed from the original territories, and there were many wastelands and swamps in this era, and as long as you put care and patience into them, you can open up new fields.

Norman Royal Knights

Ethnicity: Mixed

Equipment: Norman III, Early Plate Armor, Heavy Mounted Spear, Metallurgically Improved Tomahawk, Composite Iris Shield, Half-Phoenix Heraldic Cover, Half-Phoenix Heraldic Cloak, Royal Knight's Medal, Riding Medal, Spearmanship Medal,

Physique: Excellent

Morale: Extremely high

Training: Extremely high

Discipline: Medium

Class introduction: As an advanced form of Norman knights, it is Randy's most valued class, and it was founded when the Norman Empire was only a small kingdom in Scandinavia, although it was not as many Norman knights as the number was, but the single combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of the Norman knights, coupled with the consistent knightly style, loyalty and religious fanaticism, the pride of the royal knights, this group of brainwashed warriors of Catholic Norse doctrine tampered with by chivalry, fought very crazy, even if it was a tough enemy, They will also be intimidated by their fanatical stance.

Four thousand hoplites, plus three hundred Praetorian Knights, one hundred and fifty Guards Knights, five hundred warriors of the Field Order, and nearly five thousand hoplites formed the extremely powerful heavy cavalry sequence of the Norman Empire.

Speaking of the Warriors of the Field Order, in this reform, Randy expanded the number of this special army to 1,500 men, of which 500 were mounted troops, acting alongside the hoplites. The remaining 1,000 were on foot, operating alongside the hoplites. Light cavalry troops, considering that they all believe in the belief of pagan gods, Randy did not place priests in these armies, although Randy did not say it explicitly in terms of faith, but Randy is still very cheerful, after all, his faith is negative.

As for projecting troops...... Randy felt that there was little room for improvement for the longbowmen under his command, although he could also equip the longbowmen with heavy armor and better melee weapons, but it didn't make much sense, a battle, if it developed to the point where the longbowmen gave up the bow and arrow melee combat, it would basically reach the point of no return.

So the longbowmen were only expanded to six thousand, and nothing else.

The crossbow unit is different, the pulley crossbow has finally been created in the long wait, its excellent lethality and reliability are worthy of recognition, in addition to the steel crossbow machine, gear crossbow machine and other inventions are also about to succeed, when the time comes, the lethality of the crossbowman will be further improved, and even Randy feels that having such a powerful crossbow force, even if you don't use an early musket, is not a big deal.

Improved the Giant Shield Crossbowmen unit to 4,000 men.

Improved Giant Shield Crossbowmen

Ethnicity: Mixed

Equipment: Pulley Crossbow, Long Sword, Light Chain Mail, Giant Door Shield, Half-Phoenix Cover,

Physique: Robust

Morale: Medium

Training: Moderate

Discipline: High

Class introduction: These soldiers armed with medieval weapons of mass destruction are the most lethal soldiers on the entire medieval battlefield, the crossbow machine in their hands can pierce heavy chain mail, can pierce heavy scale armor, can pierce plate chain composite armor, and even plate armor that was not hardened in the early days can also be shot through, they are well-equipped and well-trained, as long as they pay a little attention, don't let the scum of the Papal States catch the handle, they are the best soldiers.

In this way, Randy has: 55,000 infantry, 15,000 cavalry, 10,000 projectile troops, 6,300 Praetorian Guards, 200 knight guards,

It adds up to a total of 86,500 troops, rounded up to 100,000 troops.

With the addition of local garrisons, the number is even more than 100,000!

Randy even thinks that if he singles out an Eastern Roman Empire, the outcome is also fifty-five.

Strong self-confidence, strong pleasure, made this war mad emperor feel fluttering.

But there is a small problem here, that is, Randy's military reform article is still just an empty piece of paper, and it takes money to turn it into reality!

When Randy handed the report to Enides, the system guide said something that nearly caused Randy to have a nervous breakdown.

"That's a total of 20 million gold coins!"

"Twenty million gold coins? Why don't you grab it? Randy slapped the table and shouted.

20 million gold coins! That's a full 20 million gold coins!

The Norman Empire is now flourishing, agricultural taxes, commercial taxes, manual taxes, various taxes, and Randy's internal income, a total of 540,000 gold coins a month, which is still the net income after deducting all the officials' salaries, military salaries, and miscellaneous expenses, 540,000 a month, more than 6 million a year, if you want to save enough 20 million gold coins, Randy will have to wait until at least three years later.

"Damn! It's really annoying, if I have 20 million gold coins, I will hire a million beauties, every day, what else is there to compete for dominance in the world? ”

After two months of intense work, the most noble emperor of the Norman Empire finally went crazy, and the closer to summer, the more often His Majesty the Emperor went crazy, at first almost once every three days, then once every two days, and now it has developed into twice every three days, and it is getting closer and closer to once a day.

Of course! Randy is the Emperor! And it is an emperor with huge power, dark heart, and brutal personality, simply put, a tyrant, this tyrant will naturally not let himself be wronged at all, usually at this time, His Majesty will click, wrench the quill, and stick the half-human-high vase next to him to the ground.

After that, the king's day's work was over! As for when the emperor will go back to work, don't ask this kind of question, whoever asks who dies, for the rest of the day, he will go to his lover to vent well, or go to the darkest dungeon in the corner of the palace, watch the prisoners there be tortured for fun, and sometimes he will have a few practice matches with his guard knights, of course, it must be His Majesty to win, if you don't want to lose, it doesn't matter, His Majesty the Emperor is very tolerant of the army, and will never hold grudges, as long as you go to clean the toilet for a week, it's no problem.

However, this situation did not last long, and the final result was that His Majesty the Emperor finally bowed to reality and the financial budget figures, and decided to temporarily reduce his military reform regulations, temporarily reducing the 80,000 regular army to 60,000, and these 60,000 troops were not all completely equipped with new equipment as written in the regulations, but a mixture of old and new, with a deadline of half a year, first replace half of the army's equipment, as for the remaining half, let's talk about it then!

The consequence of this is that although the reform regulations are not written, the army has become accustomed to the new army, to refer to those armed with new weapons or newly recruited troops, the new army is also proud to join the new army, and those who still maintain the old equipment are called the old army, although these armies are very good compared to neighboring countries, but the morale of these old armies has declined to varying degrees, which Randy never expected.

Of course, these things are a month later, and now His Majesty the Emperor is still extremely unhappy, extremely irritable, and extremely angry, if it is an ordinary day, it is nothing, just follow the previous ways to appease himself, but today is the time when Randy has chosen to approach the Holy Roman Empire and call the altar messenger.

The time of the meeting was two o'clock in the afternoon, so in the morning, Randy handled state affairs according to the usual practice, that is, to find a way to get money, and the final result everyone also saw that whether it was the main gate or the side gate, the money that could not be made was not made by Randy, but in any case, there was no such big figure as 20 million gold coins, even if the Baltic Sea coastal road was not built in half of it, and it was not possible to embezzle money to expand armaments.

It was in this frustrated mood that Emperor Randy received the delegation from the south.

In this case, it is conceivable that His Majesty the Emperor will naturally not be angry.

"Hesse, Brandenburg, and all of North Germany were incorporated into the Norman Empire, and the Holy Roman Empire was reduced to a kingdom, and war reparations of five million gold coins were paid."

The envoy from Austria, finally swallowed the words of whether you have a bad brain, while seeing what is called a great country in Gothenburg for a few days, in fact, he is not idle, although the officials of the Norman Empire are more decent, and state secrets will not tell him, but the information that His Majesty the Emperor has been in a bad mood in recent days is known to everyone.

Randy's tyrant attribute is well-known in Europe, and the envoy is not sure that the other party will chop himself up in anger? So it's better to be careful, of course, Randy is so harsh, rude, and even brain-dead conditions, he naturally doesn't dare to agree, even if he agrees, Duke Albert of Austria, the quasi-emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, will not agree, maybe after tearing his hands apart, he will send troops to fight to the death with the Norman Empire!

But the Norman Emperor probably wouldn't have done that, right?

It's just that recently, the Norman Empire has been expanding its army, and the new sergeant regulations are already terrifying just in the public version, and I really can't imagine how terrifying the opposing army's army will become after it is formed.

"It seems that after going back, we should focus on reporting to Your Majesty, the army of the Empire is really poor compared to the Normans, and it may be time to reform."

Not only the Austrians, but also the envoys from Bavaria, Hesse, and even Brandenburg, and the most uncomfortable thing for Randy was that Henry, the son of Frederick and the self-proclaimed Duke of Swabia, who was blessed by the Pope, also sent envoys.

Randy felt very unhappy, so he always looked unconsciously at the messenger sent by Henry, this guy was under ten times more pressure than the others, motionless, without saying a word, and did not dare to wipe the sweat from his head.

Seeing that the envoys of the Holy Roman Empire were like mutes, the papal envoy bishop snorted lightly, thinking of a bunch of rubbish in his heart, and stepped forward to speak.

Randy looked down at the papal envoys under his throne and said in a slightly contemptuous and slightly disapproving tone, "Cardinal Hilde, how are you doing?" Why wasn't he the one who came this time? ”

"Cardinal Hild has another kind of person, and I think my identity is enough!" The bishop sulked like this, he has been standing there for a long time, this time Randy is in the main hall of the palace to receive the mission, originally in the entire main hall in addition to the center of the north facing south Randy throne, there are also a large number of well-made seats on both sides for the use of civil and military generals.

But today Randy was in a bad mood and had a bad impression of the mission, so he removed all the seats before the meeting, which would make a few envoys stand in place for a long time, the group of knight lords of the Holy Roman Empire were okay, they were all killed on the battlefield, and it was no big deal to stand for a while, it was the bishop of the Holy See who had been pampered, and this would be heard by Randy, and the bishop was obviously dissatisfied.

(End of chapter)