Chapter 33: The Iron Curtain Across Europe
In April, Egil looked happy as he looked at the financial statements produced by the system -- a little more than 380,000 in total. Compared with the previous income of 2560,000 yuan per month, it has increased by more than half. Sure enough, this kind of thing should be done by professionals—and of course, a wise and great emperor is the most important thing. Egil thinks like this about feeling good about himself. Although in reality, his role is not very large, at least not as big as he thinks.
With sufficient revenues, Egil began to reform the military in a big way. First of all, the problem of the hussars, which Egil most hoped to solve, was finally solved. In such a chaotic situation in Eastern Europe, there were quite a few small steppe tribes who wanted to enter the relatively stable regions of Livonia and Prussia. As a result, Egil divided enough pasture for these small tribes who took refuge. and made a request to hire some of their people as soldiers. At first, the nomads of the small tribes were reluctant. It was thought that Egil would forcibly recruit them like the Poles. As a result, Egil is very rare with these guys. Weapons are allocated directly according to the specifications of the regular army, and military salaries are paid. It was an eye-opener for this group of guys who are more earthy than turtles.
With such a model, more steppe tribes were brought into the hands of Egil. For these tribes, Egil adopted a very lenient management policy, requiring only a portion of the animal pelts to be paid annually as a tribute, after being given large tracts of pasture for grazing free of charge. Such a negligible amount made all the tribes overjoyed. The only thing they had to do was hand over a third of the tribesmen to Egil as soldiers. These nomads, collectively known as hussars, were to serve in Egil's army for two years, barring any incident. At the same time, they taught the knights and tomahawkers how to harness their horses. After retiring from the army, another third of the Buraku will serve.
With this rotation, after six years, all of these tribesmen will be able to serve under Egil once. Psychologically, it will naturally move greatly towards Egil, as well as the Norman kingdom. At that time, it will be much easier to slowly and little by little strengthen the control of these tribes and completely integrate them into the social system of the kingdom......
Egil is playing such wishful thinking. I just don't know if I can succeed. However, it may be possible. After all, Egil was very rare for these light cavalry warriors. Egil's own prestige and charisma are also ......
These tribesmen were quickly dispersed after being incorporated into Egil's army, and were not divided according to tribes, but were divided into twenty squadrons, each of which consisted of a hundred hussars (of course, many were lacking, and there were not enough men, an average of more than eighty people), and a centurion was appointed, and the centurion was selected by each team itself. Naturally, the nomads would not move the Greek-style politics of boiling and using speeches to incite voters, let alone the American-style election campaign, which would smear their opponents with false rumors, so to speak, they would use knives.
On April 11, 2002, twenty nomadic warriors with blue noses and swollen faces came to Egil with smiling faces, and during this time, Egil moved into the barracks in order to train the tribesmen well. But then again, he doesn't have much to live in if he doesn't live in the barracks. The large royal palace in Gothenburg will take several months to be built. Egil couldn't wait to come here with his army. Gothenburg's original barracks and fortresses were simply not good enough to live in, and those places felt dirty and messy. It's been a long time since Egil has slept with rats and cockroaches. Naturally, they had to live in tents.
After that, it's time to train the hussars to fight - before that, the system sounds again, and two new classes can be recruited.
Eastern European Hussars: Extremely elite light cavalry recruited from various nomadic tribes of the Eastern European steppes. Armed with a powerful compound bow, a sophisticated saber, a kite-shaped shield, and leather soft armor. Fueled by honor and money, this elite group of lightly armed cavalry was able to perform a series of tasks from reconnaissance and harassment to hand-to-hand combat.
Eastern European Hussars: Race (complex), Armament: Compound bow, 10 light arrows in a single pot, 5 cone-headed arrows. Leather-studded soft armor, swords, shields. Ride excellent horses from Poland, Hungary and Rus'.
The number is 100, the morale is high, the level of training is low, and the discipline is low.
It seems that this hussar is the two thousand light cavalry that Egil now has. Although these guys have good combat effectiveness, their discipline and training are very low. It is easy to charge on the battlefield without permission, and this group of hussars is not as protective as the heavy cavalry of the iron can, so they die quickly. Therefore, if there is a real war and heavy losses, Egil will also feel heartache.
Thus, this is the improved type: the improved Eastern European hussars: the elite modern cavalry, the most active group in European history from the Middle Ages until the cavalry completely withdrew from history. Skeleton hussars, Polish hussars, or Russian Cossack cavalry were included. It is the ultimate evolution of cavalry, the ultimate fantasy class.
In terms of caste, both attack and defense are much stronger than the Eastern European hussars. The most important thing is that the degree of training is extremely high, and the discipline is high. It made Egil's heart beat faster and his mind was in a trance.
It was only at the end that Egil found himself happy in vain.
The introduction to this class is quite nice. It just can't be recruited.
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"Fuck daddy, bastard!!!" Egil grumbled again. The two types of equipment needed to improve the Eastern European hussars were completely unattainable at the current level of technology in the kingdom - one was the legendary light cuirass - which only protected the front of the body, a large steel plate, and the back was hollow and tethered with a belt, somewhat similar to a pit daddy product that Egir knew in his childhood.
And Egil's current armor forging level is still some distance from the early plate armor, let alone this kind of pit daddy plate armor.
In addition, this cavalry also needs to improve the handcuff, which is a legendary musket in the middle and late stages. Your sister's Egil can't even see the dregs of gunpowder now. Where are you going to find a handcuff for Ya Ting?!
Therefore, this elite one, equipped with a light cavalry rifle, has a stronger charging ability, and can even be said to be an improved hussar that can be said to be a quasi-heavy cavalry, and Egil cannot be recruited.
"Forget it. "Egil was a big-hearted man, who never wanted to be ambitious, let alone train the hussars to the death because he was depressed, and finally forcibly raised the hussars' training and discipline to a higher level. Only then the hussars are no longer called hussars. It was renamed the Professional Hussars. As a result, Egil recruited a small number of professional hussars to replenish the number of squadrons. The other hussars didn't suspect anything, but thought they were new tribesmen from other tribes. And the tribe of "beep beep beep" as they call has never heard of it, and it is not impossible, after all, the whole of Eastern Europe is so big......
In this way, two thousand professional hussars were added to Egil's command, and these elite light cavalry, which could shoot and charge in close combat, made up for the lack of mobility of Egil's army.
Immediately after the Livonian garrison was recruited, in addition to the usual 3,500 professional Viking warriors and 1,500 crossbowmen, Egil recruited 500 professional hussars to fill the lack of mobility in the garrison - similarly, the garrison in Scandinavia was supplemented by 500 professional hussars each.
That's not enough, though. In Egil's plan, this would have a total of 5,500 men, and at least two more garrisons would need to be added to meet the defense needs of the Norman kingdom. One of them, for the English garrison. Focus on defending the Scottish Territory in the north and suppressing the separatist forces in England. The other was the Normandy garrison, which was dedicated to the French crowd of dead people.
In late April, the Navy, which transported the conscripted troops, returned. At the same time, as May drew nearer, and seeing that the system's projected income had reached 400,000 gold coins, and Egil was ready to build a network of urban roads in Prussia and Livonia, a not-so-good--nay, very bad news, it should say, came.
None of the countries responded to Egil's call to sit down and talk about it - the Kingdom of Hungary, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Republic of Novgorod, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and the Eastern Roman Empire tore up Egil's letters as if they were all in one place, and then sent their respective troops to attack Poland. It's like a bunch of man-eating sharks that smell blood and go berserk......
Even Saxony, who was fighting to the death with the alliance of the southern princes, was not to be outdone, and Otto I gritted his teeth desperately, and drew seven or eight thousand miscellaneous troops from the front line to invade Poland, obviously to get a piece of the pie.
These rulers were not even in the mood to reply to Egil, and simply took his words as air. Completely ignore him, the big-tailed braised carp.
“...... These, bastards. "Although there is already a certain amount of psychological preparation. But Egil still didn't expect that his neighbors would do such a thing as if he were a clown. He was so angry that he almost vomited blood. Egil's inexplicable pride exploded at once, and he drew his command knife and slashed at his desk, vowing to cut down all the "damn bastards......
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