Chapter 113: The Landing Crusaders

In addition to cheap temporary conscripts, cannon fodder, all kinds of sword and shield soldiers, and even poor long sword soldiers who can't even be equipped with shields, there are only a few archers!

Although each lord of the crusade had to contribute men or money, with the exception of those who did get the most of the benefits, most of the noble lords simply sent some troops to deal with the principle of the Church of the Lord of Light's 'participation'......

That's why the Crusaders have the majority of the crusaders' levies!

There were no more than a hundred regular knights and probationary knights in the crusaders, and the soldiers of the King's Guard, who were used to fill the numbers, were also unlucky people who were thrown by their own king to the Greek peninsula to serve as high-ranking cannon fodder for the crusaders organized by the Church......

It can be said that every crusade organized by the church, the most worrying thing is the countless cannon fodder soldiers!

However, in the face of a small Greek peninsula, the Church did not care about the mess of the Crusaders, even if it was filled with a large number of indiscriminate cannon fodder soldiers, but the number was still very scary!

The first batch of lords and nobles in the Roman Kingdom alone sent troops to the Greek Peninsula reached nearly 30,000 troops!

Moreover, there are still some elite among them, such as the Sicilian cross archers who accompanied the Duke of Sicily on the expedition!

There are also almost all the archers of the Duke of Sicily and even the knights loyal to the Duke of Sicily!

There was even a great knight among them who called him a brother and sister to the Duke of Sicily!

The Dukedom of Sicily is very large, but Sicily is not only the direct territory of the Duke of Sicily, the Dukedom only occupies about one-third of the territory, and it is not bad to be able to attract the sincere allegiance of two great knights, one of them followed the Duke of Sicily to conquer the Greek Peninsula, and the other protected the eldest son of the Duke of Sicily to sit in the lair!

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The Provençals, the Sepitimanians, the Aremanes, the Saint-Galles, the Bavarians, the Burgundians, the Aquitaine, the Gasconians, the Neustrians and many more or less troops participated in this crusade!

Except for Bavaria, which de jure belonged to the Kingdom of Germany, all other races belonged to the Kingdom of the Franks!

Each race can divide nearly ten noble realms with different titles......

It can be said that the kingdom in the human world is really just a title, and the high king, except for his own direct territory, must discuss everything with the great nobles below, of course, after obtaining the tacit consent of the Church of the Lord of Radiance......

After the king has consulted with the big nobles, the big nobles have to consult with the small nobles, trying to reach a grudge agreement, at least so that the opponents will not cause trouble!

It is conceivable that under this system, the king's orders were basically only in fantasy when they were meant to be conveyed to the whole country......

The distribution of lords and nobles in the human main world is very interesting, the closer to the central rich areas, the more feudal the nobles are, the more decentralized their rights are, and the number of human nobles close to the borders of the alien races is scarce, and even some kingdoms can achieve rudimentary decrees!

For example, the Kingdom of Attia and the Teutonic Knights.

The Pope of the Lord of Radiance is also an old monster who has lived for hundreds of years through secret arts, and naturally understands the 'art' of domination, and the decentralization of power can naturally make the power of the church deeply rooted in the place, but this world is not only dominated by humans, the glory of the knight legion was broken by the Orc Empire more than 500 years ago, so in order to maintain the authority of the human main world, the Pope had to make compromises with the human noble lords in some aspects!

The human aristocracy with relatively concentrated power in the alien border area is the crystallization of the church's compromise!

However, although the Church has a weak control over forces such as the Kingdom of Attia and the Teutonic Knights, the Church is not worried about these powerful frontier local forces getting rid of the control of the Church, because they cannot afford to be flanked by the Crusaders and the aliens!

Even if the king of the Kingdom of Attia or the great knight of the Teutonic Knights insisted on going his own way, the people below would not follow them to death!

Once the Church has made up its mind, the seemingly powerful border powers such as the Teutonic Knights and the Kingdom of Attiyah will fall apart in a matter of days, and their own people will fight with their own people first!

After the landing of the aristocratic army in the area of the Roman kingdom, the ships transporting the Franks were quickly picked up!

From the crusades, it is not difficult to see how powerful and financially powerful the Church of the Lord of Light is in the human world!

The Church is not just a crusade launched by prestige alone, but also a large amount of gold to support the armies of lords and nobles everywhere to eat, drink, and Lazar!

It is true that the nobles who responded to the call of the crusade would help, but this is not a war between the nobles and their neighbors, and they can go home after a few days' walk!

The farthest aristocratic territory even has to travel more than a month in advance!

This is still the reason why the road is smooth and the army can walk on the wide and smooth official road!

Without the acquiescence of the church, this kind of official road that crosses the territory of many nobles, and wants to pass just collecting checkpoint tolls, it can make a giant businessman break his bones!

In the human world, there is also the Church of the Glorious Lord, supported by the Book of Atonement and the Faith Tax, which has the financial resources and prestige to organize a large-scale crusade!

In this crusader expedition against the Greek Peninsula, although the Inquisitors of the Church did not join, they organized and attracted as many as 100,000 noble crusaders!

Even if it is filled with a large number of temporary conscripts and farmers, the soldiers and noble mercenaries who can really fight account for more than two!

Whether it is a noble regular army soldier or a noble mercenary, they can basically have a set of iron armor, and the worst can also have a set of exquisite leather armor!

There is an essential difference with the backward Pylos!

This is also the reason why Agamemnon did not have the slightest courage in the face of the high priest of Alibach!

If you want to say that Agamemnon can't be beaten in the face of Lei Zihao, then, in the face of the Crusaders, Agamemnon is a rhythm that is easily blown into ashes......

Especially in the past few weeks, Agamemnon watched dozens or hundreds of ships enter the pier of Pylos, and Agamemnon's heart was deeply shocked, all the armies he had seen when he was so big were not as large as the crusaders organized by this church at will......

As the Crusaders landed one after another, a huge disaster was about to befall Lei Zihao!