The so-called Ruthenians are the general term for Ukrainians and Belarusians in this era. In this era, the total number of Ukrainians and Belarusians was about 3.8 million. The Ukrainians were nearly 2 million.
Because Ukraine belongs to the southern border area of ​​the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Lithuania has poor rule over the local area. Many Ukrainians ran to the southern grasslands and did not obey the rule of the Lithuanians.
You should know that although the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is named after Lithuania, in fact, there are only 500,000 Lithuanians in China, which belongs to a minority. It is only through powerful force that they rule the Ukrainians and Belarusians. It is also because of the insufficient population of the ruling nation that Lithuanian has seriously insufficient control over the Ukrainian region. Later, when the Grand Duchy of Lithuania merged with Poland, it simply gave the uncontrollable Ukrainian region to the Kingdom of Poland. After all, there are many Poles, and it is easier to control Ukraine.
Therefore, in this era, there were still many Ruthenian barbarians who yearned for freedom. If Simon was willing, he could send troops to the prairie to capture the barbarians and act as suicide squads.
These Ruthenian barbarians living on the prairie are not only tall, brave and fierce, but also many of them can ride horses. If they are caught as suicide squads, they can not only be suicide squads, but also cavalry squads, which are more authentic than Nurhaci's cavalry squads! Because, the wild boar skin cavalry squads, many savages caught from the forest cannot ride horses and can only be tied to the horse's back to charge.
And those Slavic barbarians who lived on the prairie of Eastern Europe often knew how to ride horses. As long as they were tamed by the Qing Dynasty's eagle-boosting methods, they would be barbaric and suicide cavalry with excellent combat effectiveness!
In fact, Marin did not need to cook eagles to tame those Ruthenian barbarians. As long as he was willing to give Erguotou, these Slavs, who were born to love drinking, would be willing to serve him...
Marin patted Kahn on the shoulder and praised:
"Very good, I didn't expect you to use your brain as well. As a reward, I'll add a chicken leg to you at noon today!"
Kahn said disdainfully:
"Boss, are you too stingy? Moreover, you underestimate my appetite. So, add a leg of lamb for me!"
Marin was stunned for a moment and said:
"What a bucket..."
Afterwards, Marin ignored Kahn's bucket and asked Kohler to send someone to inform Jurgen, the commander of the Cossack Cavalry Legion stationed on the Lüneburg prairie, and asked him to send two thousand Cossack cavalry to stand by and prepare to send to the Ukrainian area to be responsible for capturing the Roussian barbarians.
In fact, Marin could recruit those Ruthian barbarians. Because as long as he took out Erguotou, the other party would kneel.
But the problem is that Marin needs to observe. Because he did not know which Ruthenian was brave and barbaric. Therefore, he planned to send two thousand Cossacks to the Eastern European prairie to attack those Ruthenian villages that were not under the jurisdiction of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
When besieging the Ruthian villages, Marin planned to ask his subordinates to bring more large nets and rope covers that can be thrown, specifically for capturing the Ruthian barbarians alive.
Moreover, during the capture process, Marin asked them to observe carefully, select the barbarians who had the most fierce resistance and join the suicide squad.
Those who can ride horses will be assigned to the cavalry suicide squad. Those who can’t ride horses will be assigned to the infantry suicide squad...
At this time, the Ruthenians were estimated to be more than 3.8 million people, and the total number should exceed 4 million. Because many Ukrainians were unwilling to accept the rule of the Lithuanians, wandering on the prairie of Eastern Europe, becoming Cossacks, and even wandering barbarians.
Marin's main goal is to capture the lonely and wandering Ruthenian barbarians. Then, according to their barbarity, they are organized into suicide squads to fight.
Unlike the savage suicide squads used purely to block bullets in the Later Jin army, Marin did not completely treat them as cannon fodder, but regarded them as brave barbarian vanguards.
At that time, Marin will equip them with armor with enough protection to let them take the lead in charging forward to the enemy.
As for what armor to use, Marin originally wanted to use plate armor. However, plate armor was too heavy, which was not conducive to fighting and charging, and it was difficult to bend down and dodge.
Therefore, Marin did not plan to equip them with plate armor. Although the rhino leather armor, although the effect is very strong, can equip a group of cannon fodder with rhino leather armor... It's too wasteful...
After thinking about it, Malin finally planned to learn the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty and wear cotton armor for the suicide squad!
The protective effect of cotton armor on cold weapons is not good, but the protective effect of muskets is very good in various types of armor. Because cotton already has the effect of hysteresis bullets. In addition, the lining is iron, which has a good protective effect of muskets.
Seeing that muskets have been promoted in European countries, cavalry charges in the future and will definitely encounter enemy volleyball guns. Therefore, cotton armor with good protection against muskets has become a very good choice.
Moreover, cotton armor has good protection against arrows. It is the most suitable for charge.
As long as the iron pads inside are sufficient, their protective power will be very strong. What's more, Marin plans to line the cotton armor with not ordinary iron plates, but high-strength high-carbon steel plates. Without increasing weight, it can greatly enhance the protective ability of the cotton armor and protect the safety of the suicide squad as much as possible.
In addition, to be honest, the Eight Banners Armor is probably the only one that can be seen in the Qing Dynasty clothing, and it is still quite handsome. Of course, the Eight Banners Armor of the Qing Dynasty was learned from the Ming Dynasty. And their own clothing and hairstyles were too ugly.
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Marin planned to send 2,000 Cossacks to capture tens of thousands of barbarians on the Ukrainian prairie and fill them with the army. Then, he sent people to the Ming Dynasty to learn how to build cotton armor, and equip each of them with enough protective cotton armor to take the lead in charging forward to the enemy's formation...
As for the style of cotton armor, of course it is the Ming army style, which is close to the style of the later Qing Dynasty Eight Banners Armor. However, the color is not the color of the Eight Banners Armor, but pure black will be chosen...
Black is the representative color of the German region. Moreover, most parts of the German region are not hot and cold in winter. The black cotton armor on the ship is not only handsome, but also very oppressive.
When an army of tens of thousands of Ukrainian barbarians launches a charge, it will bring great psychological pressure to the enemy...
What's more, they were wearing black cotton armor and charged forward, just like the Legion of Death from Hell...
Chapter completed!