Cossacks are born warriors, it is normal for the Cossack hetmanate to recruit Cossacks on a large scale, and it is not uncommon for the tsar to hire Cossacks to fight, after all, the ancestors of many Cossacks were fugitive slaves of Muscovy......

But now even the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom has massively hired Cossacks to fight for themselves!

This is not to say that the number of Cossacks in the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom was scarce in history, on the contrary, the number of Cossacks in the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom was the largest!

However, the Cossacks are rebels in the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and the Cossack Emirate in the game scene became independent from the rebellion in the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania!

Even if Wang Ziming's historical knowledge is very general, he also knows that the Cossacks are not a specific nation, but a large group of poor civilians and fugitive slaves from different nationalities, in order to escape the oppression and exploitation of the lords, flee to the land that has not been divided by the lords, and live for freedom.

Of course, there are many meanings of freedom here, such as free farming, and free robbery......

The vast majority of the lands in which the Cossacks lived were located on the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom, and with the expansion of the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom, the Cossacks were naturally conquered, and then all kinds of oppression by the Polish nobility followed......

Advocating freedom, and the Cossack rebellion with guns in every house naturally became very normal!

A group of Cossacks who yearn for freedom are working for their enemies who oppress them, and Wang Ziming feels strange no matter how he looks at it......

Sure enough, human nature is the most complex thing, and even among the Cossacks who admired freedom and violence, there was a bunch of lackeys scum who sold their lords for glory!

You know, these Cossacks are not civilians and serfs without resistance, they are all skilled soldiers honed in years of fighting, even if they have not undergone systematic militarized training, their combat effectiveness is not worse than that of the standing army soldiers, if it is a heads-up, the Cossack warriors will have an advantage!

Such a group of Cossack fighters who were clearly capable of resisting the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania now chose to work for the Poles who oppressed them and aimed their weapons at their former Cossack friends!

Over time, subsequent infantry units of the Polish army also appeared in the field of view.

Under the gaze of Wang Ziming's consciousness, the Polish army all came out of the dark area of the other dimension.

Then Wang Ziming saw a group of infantry with the names of Polish Germanic pikemen and Polish Germanic musketeers coming out......

Seeing this, Wang Ziming understood the 'order of appearance' of the Polish army, which basically came out from high to low according to the level of the troops.

The first Polish hussars to appear were the highest rank 4 in the Polish class, followed by the Polish armored Cossack cavalry 3.

And then there was this group of Tier 3 Polish Germanic pikemen and Polish Germanic musketeers......

The 3rd infantry of the Polish army turned out to be Germanic!

Wang Ziming didn't care when he played the game, but now that he moved to a different space and saw the Polish soldiers with living Germanic faces, Wang Ziming had a deep understanding of the rumors that the main infantry of the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom in history was mercenaries......

This Polish infantry composed of the 3rd order Germanic peoples was more than 500 people, and it was obviously the main force of the battle in the Polish army, which was only about 1,000 in total!

Behind the 3rd tier Polish Germanic mercenaries were the 2nd tier Polish Volunteers, numbering about 200 people.

As the name suggests, the Volunteer Cavalry is a civilian cavalry combat unit recruited from the civilian population, and of course, it is the best among the civilian population, and can be counted as a cheap cannon fodder mercenary.

From the perspective of Wang Ziming, the weapons and equipment of these Polish troops can be seen at a glance.

The armament of the Polish Volunteers was arguably the most rudimentary, with only a backward arquebus-inspired handcuff and a sabre of average quality, and they wore civilian cloth clothes.

Judging from the clothing, it is very in line with the word 'righteous and brave', very down-to-earth, and no different from the armed cavalry militia......

After all, the Polish Volunteers were self-supplied with their own weapons and equipment, and their mercenary wages obviously could not afford better weapons and equipment.

In fact, the weapons and equipment of the 3rd tier Polish Germanic musketeers and pikemen are also self-prepared, but they are high-ranking professional mercenaries, and they are the main infantry force of the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom's foreign conquests, and the assessment of the 3rd tier of troops is enough to prove that their reliability on the battlefield is far greater than that of the cannon fodder infantry recruited in Poland.

Who told the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom not to pay attention to the formation and training of infantry of the standing army?

Therefore, these Polish Germanic infantry, who could get higher salaries, were musketeers who used all reed wheel guns, not castrated versions of improvised spring wheel guns!

Each Germanic infantryman wore a pair of gloves and looked very professional......

The secondary weapon of the musketeers was a Germanic-style bayonet sword, which many Germanic people preferred to fight with.

The main weapon of the Polish Germanic pikemen is naturally a super long spear unique to this era, and the secondary weapon is a Germanic broadsword, which is covered with a light cuirass, and it is impossible to think about bulletproof, but it can still be done to defend against ordinary sword slashing.

This type of cuirass was considered the standard for the pikemen of the regular army of this era.

The Polish armored Cossack cavalry was a combination of charge + cavalry archery.

Equipped with a lance, a saber, a shield, a Tatar compound bow, and barbed arrows, you can do it from a mounted harassment to a spear charge!

They are also covered with a layer of iron armor, and it is clear that the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania treats them quite well!

Of course, it is not surprising that he was able to skillfully use the cavalry spear, saber and cavalry at the same time, and was himself an elite fighter among the Cossacks.

There is also a clear difference in combat effectiveness among the Cossacks, and these Polish armored Cossack cavalry are definitely the best among the Cossacks!

The best equipped were naturally the Polish hussars, who themselves were the direct beneficiaries of the Polish-Lithuanian system of government, since all the Polish hussars were made up of sons of Polish nobility and Polish knights!

These men who don't have to work and rely on rent to meet their living needs have been trained as warriors since they were children, and after more than ten years of military training and combat skills, they have naturally become the best fighters in the world!

The full-body hussar plate armor and the hussar plate armor helmet tightly wrapped the Polish hussars, and the elongated cavalry spear in their hands stood out, and each Polish hussar had a handcuff hanging from his waist, but they preferred to fight with a cavalry spear and a saber!