Chapter 1992: 10,000 Hungarian Hussars

What a bold idea? Marin intends to select 10,000 out of tens of thousands of prisoners of war in Hungary and form an army to deal with the upcoming war.

Marin became more and more dissatisfied with the situation in England, because Edward is now making small moves and is doing his best to clear Marin's influence to achieve the purpose of not being subject to Marin.

To be honest, Edward's approach is undoubtedly quite correct from his own point of view. But from Marin's point of view-what scene are you robbing of a "supporting character" who would have been rescued by me? Isn't it honest to be a supporting role? Must grab the protagonist's part! This is forcing the protagonist to let you take the lunch soon ...

Not only did Edward do this, the nobles of the native England were also dissatisfied with the presence of a foreign prince in his hand. The key point is that Marin's two 10,000 legions are still stationed in England. Although Edward and the English ministers transferred half of them to Scotland and Ireland, there are still 10,000 people in England.

You know, this is not a conscription, but a standing army with strong combat power! How much is the standing army in England? Before, there were only a few thousand people in the standing army across England. However, after Marin let the two legions come over, in order to prepare for the rebellion of these two legions, Edward had to recruit two 10,000 legionaries as heirs, in order to protect himself. However, because the remnants of the Tudor dynasty were still many, it did require so many troops to ensure safety.

But now, with the murder of Tudor's last princess Margaret and the so-called "Little Henry Prince", plus Edward Qing's domestic rebellion for several years, England has basically stabilized. Then, it was time for peace when "the swords and guns entered Kuma and put Nanshan".

Edward wanted to dissolve most of the army, but he saw that Marin ’s 20,000 army was still there, and showed no signs of dissolution or withdrawal. Therefore, he did not dare to easily dissolve the 20,000 troops under his command.

But, 20,000 standing troops! Even based on the daily salary of 3 pence per person, the annual expenditure would be more than 90,000 pounds. But the problem is that the annual income of the royal family in England is only a few hundred thousand pounds. With so much military expenditure, the burden is really too heavy.

Therefore, in recent years, Edward's finances have basically been in serious deficit every year! Fortunately, the great nobles of the Tudor dynasty were killed, and a lot of money was searched to maintain the cost of these years.

But Edward knew that if he continued this way, it would take less than two or three years, and all the money he had obtained by checking the property of the big nobles would have been spent. Moreover, in order to maintain the army's expenses, he needed to borrow usury from the bankers.

Because of this, Edward could not wait to start, wanting to eliminate most of Marin's garrison in England. In this way, he can also dissolve most of the standing army, and only keep seven or eight thousand standing army. In this way, he can save more than half of military expenditures, so that the English court reached a balance of payments.

Edward is not a local tyrant like Marin, and maintaining tens of thousands of troops is not difficult. According to the financial level of England, maintaining a standing army of seven or eight thousand is the normal tolerance. No matter how many, it is beyond the standard.

Therefore, Edward intends to reduce Marin's garrison in England to less than 5,000 in two or three years. Of course, the forms in Ireland and Scotland are unstable, and Marin will be required to help keep the guard free for a few years.

This is not a secret, but the consensus of England's opposition. Marin knew that, so he also planned to let Edward lead the lunch box within a year or two. Then, he controlled England himself.

However, once he annexed England, the war with France was inevitable. After all, the French will never allow a powerful army like England and the North Sea to unite.

In order to prepare for war, Marin deliberately cooperated with the emperor in acting, and publicly expanded the army, intending to form the Seventh Army. The princes seemed to have been tricked into it, tacitly approving his recruitment of mountain people in southern Germany.

But Marin knew that this was not enough ...

Even if we recruit another 10,000 corps, there are 5 50,000 corps in the North Sea country, plus a cossack cavalry corps that is very well-prepared only in wartime.

The 55,000 troops are watching a lot, and they can face more enemies ...

As long as Marin annexed England, Mo said that Congress was angry, and other German states would be jealous and mad, and it is likely to join forces with France to deal with Marin.

Therefore, the war at that time was basically a battle of life and death in the Beihai Kingdom. If you lose, the North Sea country will be lost.

In this case, the more the army, the better, and the stronger the better.

Earlier, Marin had planned to recruit a 10,000 army from those tens of thousands of German immigrants in the North American colony. Once a war broke out in the local area, the army of 10,000 people was mobilized to return to the country to participate in the war.

But this is not enough!

The 65,000 army can only beat the French army alone, but it cannot stop the attacks of the German princes behind it. Therefore, Marin intends to prepare at least 75,000 or even 80,000 troops. In this way, we can guarantee undefeated!

In other words, Marin also wanted to expand an army of 10,000 people!

But where do people come from?

Before, Marin also considered the fifty or sixty thousand Hungarian prisoners of war. After all, that is a strong man with combat experience. As long as it is well selected, 10,000 elites can still be selected.

However, Marin did not believe in Hungarians. After all, the notion that "non-my people must have different hearts" is deeply ingrained. Moreover, those Hungarian prisoners of war, but all of them are rebels, belong to the "convict" gangsters, even more reassuring.

Therefore, those Hungarians, Marin had intended to let them be farmers, to develop the American colonies.

But the plan could not keep up with the changes. Since the plan to take hundreds of thousands of people from Haiti Island to farm in North America, Marin suddenly discovered that it seems that the North American colonial labor force is not lacking ...

In addition to this report from Haiti, Marin suddenly realized that it seems that the more than 60,000 Hungarian prisoners of war are also available ...

However, considering the issue of loyalty, Marin still asked Kohler to send him to investigate the situation of the more than 63,000 Hungarian prisoners remaining in the Goslar mine. Mainly, the recognition of Germany ...

This question is actually very easy to check. Kohler sent people to the church in the Goslar mine to find the people in the local church. After understanding the progress of learning German, he felt the situation ...

The reason is simple-anyone who learns German has a high sense of identity with Beihai. Those prisoners of war who refuse to learn German are often **** and refuse to cooperate.

Fortunately, most prisoners of war know how to be flexible. A few days later, the data came back to show that only more than 10,000 prisoners of war belonged to diehards, insisting on not learning German well, nor willing to integrate into German society. The remaining more than 40,000 people, just ordinary people who follow the mainstream, are still willing to learn German and integrate into the Beihai society. After all, Marin clearly stipulated before that-learn German to improve the treatment.

Then, Marin picked up the roster and began to look at the situation of the more than 40,000 prisoners of war who were willing to integrate into the North Sea ...

So Marin discovered that most of the Hungarian prisoners of war who seemed willing to integrate into the North Sea society were young people. The more than 10,000 prisoners of war who refused to integrate seem to be mostly middle-aged, and even some elderly ...

Marin immediately understood ...

After all, young people are more receptive to new things and ideas. The older ones prefer to maintain their original habits and ideas, and it is difficult to change them.

But Marin recruits, just like young people. Because they have better physical strength and explosiveness, and they can serve longer. What makes Marin most happy is that of the more than 40,000 young Hungarian prisoners of war who learned German, more than 20,000 were actually cavalrymen!

Hungarian cavalry! That was a very famous arm during the Naval Wars and a representative of the European Light Cavalry! Even the Polish wing cavalry developed from the Hungarian hussar's fighting style. Specifically, it means that the hussars put on the chest plate armor and put on the iron helmet.

These Magyar cavalry from Hungary, most of them grew up on horseback, superb riding. Moreover, they are also good at using sabers and spears, which is very similar to the fighting method of Polish wing cavalry. After all, the Polish wing cavalry also learned from them.

In general, the Hungarian hussars charged with spears during the first round of charge. However, when charging with a spear, it is difficult to withdraw the spear after it pierces the enemy. After all, there is no easy attachment on the spear.

Therefore, after the first round of charging, many Hungarian hussars had to discard their spears after stabbing the enemy. Otherwise, their arms can't eat enough, and they may even fracture.

Then, if the group charge continues, the Hungarian hussar will pull out the European straight sword and continue to charge. And if it is a melee, they will pull out the machete in the waist and cut each other with the enemy ...

That is to say, whether it is a Hungarian hussar or a Polish wing cavalry, it usually carries three weapons at this time-the spear of the first round of the charge, the knight's straight sword and the scimitar. Depending on the situation, they will use different weapons.

This has extremely high requirements for the cavalry itself, because they need to use three different weapons proficiently, and they are skilled on horseback.

Therefore, it is difficult to pick people from the peasants and train them into hussars. Later, in the 19th century, in order to avoid the defects of the peasants' ability to fight on horseback, they simply developed a wall-type charge that did not rely on their personal abilities.

However, when it comes to maneuverability and use ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ it is clear that the maneuverable hussars are much stronger than the farmer cavalry who can only wall charge.

These Hungarian cavalry can not only charge during battles, they can also be used to attack enemy supply lines, and they can also penetrate the enemy's territory for destruction. Or, used as scouts and messengers.

Moreover, the Hungarians (that is, the Magyars) were originally the people on horseback, but they have gradually turned to farming in the past few hundred years. The characteristics of their people and nomads are still retained for most. Therefore, among the more than 60,000 prisoners of war, there are more than 20,000 light cavalrymen alone, a very high proportion. Most of them, young people, are willing to accept Marin's solicitation. After all, nobody dislikes good treatment ...

After thinking over and over again, Marin decided to select the strongest 10,000 from the more than 20,000 Hungarian hussars and form a new cavalry regiment.

Once fighting with the French, these 10,000 Hungarian hussars will have a huge effect. Not to mention anything else, but the destruction of the supply line can overwhelm the French army. In addition, if the locals continue to work hard to clear the fields, the French can be killed only by the supply problem.

Moreover, Hungarian hussars already have a strong assault ability. If they find flaws in the enemy, these people will use spears to launch merciless assaults and slaughter against the enemy ...