Chapter 490: Anti-Malaysian Conference

Professional knights have a strong fighting ability. After all, they started to practice martial arts from an early age, and they practiced for more than ten years. In the face of conscription, it is no problem to fight ten.

The problem is that it has now transitioned from the cold weapon era to the hot weapon era. In the face of the musket, the knight grieved. And, most importantly, the cost of professional knights is too high.

In the mercenary sequence, the daily salary of an infantry is 3 Finney. A wandering knight from the knight family has a daily salary of up to 2 shillings, which is equivalent to 24 Finneys, which is 8 times the infantry. This is the lowest level of wandering knights. Those knights with titles and senior officers have higher salaries.

Moreover, if a professional knight died in battle, the loss would be too great. After more than ten years of hard training and the accumulation of a lot of resources, it was difficult to measure the loss with money.

Therefore, Marin has always been reluctant to form large-scale plate armoured troops. In addition to cost issues, there are some losses that cannot be afforded. You know, these professional knights come from the noble family, and have generally read books. Not to mention how clever, but at least literate, it is more suitable for being a grassroots officer. Rather than let those professional knights charge as cannon fodder, it would be better to arrange an officer to serve as an infantry.

As for the cavalry, Marin had already thought about it-he planned to recruit civilians as the main cavalry ...

Europe and East Asia are different. In East Asia, apart from the northern grasslands, several countries in East Asia are mainly farming, and mainly cattle farming. Although the cost is low, the problem is-it is difficult to find a rider.

Unlike in ancient Europe, horse farming is popular, and many farmers in Europe know how to raise horses and ride horses. Therefore, it is much easier to find a farmer who can ride a horse in Europe than in China.

As long as they can ride horses, then bravely point and obey the command, Marin can let them put on breastplates, control the reins with his left hand, and hold a spring lance with his right hand, in a dense wall formation to attack the enemy formation.

Unlike the traditional "Kirin Arm" that knights possessed by the knights, the spring lances do not have high requirements on the right arm of the cavalry, as long as they can grasp it tightly. As for the recoil, there is a spring to remove most of the recoil. Therefore, ordinary strong civilians can also hold the new spring rifle. Unlike traditional bulky lances, professional knights who have practiced the "Kirin Arm" cannot control it.

Moreover, the cavalry of civilian origin, there is no courage to dare to demand such a high salary. Although the salary will definitely be higher than that of the infantry, it is definitely not higher than that of the professional knight.

In this way, Marin has the conditions to form large-scale cavalry. The main force of tens of thousands of people came out of the cavalry. Who can block Europe? Uh ... it's not right, it seems that in the 16th century Poland, it was possible to gather 10,000 or 20,000 wing cavalry ... This also made Poland, which had wing cavalry, slammed by the Grand Duchy of Moscow from the 15th century to later slammed into Russia For a hundred years, until the birth of Peter I in Russia ...

The reason why the Poles can explode so many wing cavalry is because Poland is a country with many feudal aristocrats and a knighthood. Therefore, there are many knight children to form a huge wing cavalry.

Marin's country obviously doesn't have so many knight families, nor does it need so many knights to seal the territory. The chest armoured cavalry composed of farmers who can ride horses, although their personal combat ability is far less than the wing cavalry, but because of the spring cavalry suitable for high-speed assault and the wall-type charge more suitable for decisive battle, it may not be able to hedge with the Polish wing cavalry.

Moreover, having a spring cavalry that can be used repeatedly, these farmer cavalry do not need to be familiar with the use of sabers like the Polish cavalry. Because the Polish Lancer has no spring as a buffer and the lance often takes off, it is necessary to master the use of saber. The farmer's breastplate lancer under Marin, because the spring lance is not easy to take off, it does not necessarily need to be proficient in the use of saber ...

What's more, this kind of chest armoured cavalry composed of farmers who can ride horses, even if they died in battle, Marin didn't feel very distressed. It's a big deal, and then go to recruit a batch of chants. Unlike the wing cavalry, it was all from the Polish noble family, the kind of martial arts since childhood. The last batch of deaths was absolutely distressing, and it was a broken bone, and it was difficult to add in time.

Sometimes, cost issues can determine the future. Are the English Longbowmen worse than Musketeers? Obviously not. But the training cost of longbowmen is not cheaper than knights. The Musketeers, just grab a batch from the farmer and train them, then they can be sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder-this is how the crossbow was replaced by the musket ... The training costs of the two sides are completely incomparable ...

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While Marin was racking his brains to plan the future cavalry, a large group of German nobles, in Worms, southwest of Germany, also held a empire conference against Marin under the guidance of Frederick III.

This is an informal imperial meeting, because the meeting lacks the remnants of nobles such as Austria and the pro-Austrian Swabian Union, as well as pro-Marin forces such as Marin's East Friesland and the Principality of Cliff. Of course, there is also a lack of the Brandenburg electorate captured by the boss.

Frederick III is worthy of being a cunning old politician. In his speech at the interim meeting, he desperately put Marin and Maximilian I together, trying to prove that Marin was Maximilian I's **** running dog, horse. Lin ’s power is equal to that of Maximilian I ...

In order to resonate with the princes, Frederick III also listed the current miserable situation of the French nobility-empty status, but no power, everything views King Louis XII's mood and complexion ...

Sure enough, the German princes who were inspired by Frederick III had a heart. In order to prevent them from becoming as famous as the French nobility in the future, they began to hate Marin like Maximilian I, who hated to try to unify Germany. A good interim empire meeting was opened as the "Anti-Marathon Conference" ... Frederick III even suggested-sending troops to fight against Marin ...

Of course, not all of the German princes who were called up listened to Frederick III. At least, Archbishop Hermann IV of Cologne was not fooled by Frederick III.

This is because Hermann IV, from the incident that the former Bishop of Münster was ceded to Marin, deeply felt His Majesty's preference for Marin.

Perhaps, the secular nobles like Frederick III can not pay so much attention to the influence of the pope. But as a religious figure, Hermann IV had to consider the reaction of the Holy See. Therefore, he refused to support the formation of coalition forces against Marin ...

Herman IV ’s position represented the attitude of the bishops in northwestern Germany. Soon, the bishops in the Northwest region rejected the proposal to join forces with Marin.

The bishops of the Archbishop of Cologne rejected the proposal to use Marin's army ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ The religious princes who calmed down remembered it-it seems that Marin has a close relationship with the European Catholic priest and the prince ... …

If you support the formation of Marin by beating Germany, you might offend the Pope ...

The pope may not have many ways to take those secular princes, but some take religious princes. A single punishment can kill religious princes. Without the identity of a Christian, the secular princes are like great nobles with noble blood. As a religious prince, you may instantly fall from heaven to **** ...

As a result, even Archbishop Jacobs of Mainz and Archbishop Trier (both called Jacob, but not the same person), gave up the proposal to support the group to beat Malin ...

Under the influence of the Pope's ancestors, Marin unknowingly escaped the fate of being beaten by all German princes ...

There are a large number of religious princes, and after they all opposed the use of troops against Marin, this matter will naturally disappear.

However, everyone also knows that Marin cannot be allowed to expand. Otherwise, the alliance of the princes against the emperor may be broken by Marin.

So, although it will not form a group to beat Marin. However, it is still necessary to exert pressure on Marin. In addition, as the important members of the opposition to the reunification of Germany, the electorate of Saxony and the electorate of Brandenburg must also be preserved.

Then, on how to exert political pressure on Marin, forcing Marin to abandon the occupation of Saxony and Brandenburg, these princes held repeated consultations ...

And all of this, Marin in Denmark did not know ... He did not know, because of the relationship between the pope and father-in-law, those religious princes gave up the terrible plan to use Marin collectively ...