In theory, as a poor frontier territory, it is enough to produce 1,000 cavalry. However, the nobles of Lithuania's Greatsom bullied Simon as a newcomer and had no foundation in Lithuania, so they asked the Earl of Kiev to recruit 2,000 cavalry.
Simon set out that the subordinate of the governor, Morton, sent someone to ask Marin for instructions with a carrier pigeon. Marin had already thought of a countermeasure - asking Morton to hire Cossack cavalry.
The Cossack cavalry are wandering horse bandits on the grassland, but because there are many horse bandits on the grassland and few "fat sheep", the Cossacks are not comfortable and the appearance fee is relatively low.
For example, the daily salary of a wandering knight is about 1 shilling 8 Finney, which means a daily salary of 20 Finney. The daily salary of the Cossack Light Cavalry is only 5 or 6 Finney, which is only twice that of the German infantry.
However, Cossacks have poor discipline and are not subject to discipline. In particular, it is easy to harm civilians under the rule of employers. Therefore, no one is willing to hire Cossacks with great problems, even if they are cheap.
But the Count of Kiev is different. There are already 1,500 cavalry under Simon. Although Simon returned to the North Sea Kingdom, he took away the most elite 100 plate armor guards, he still left 400 plate armor guards and 1,000 Cossack cavalry.
It should be pointed out that the escorts of the Kiev Count's Count's plaque guards are different from those of the plaque knights. Like the Polish winged cavalry, they have no armor and only wear half-body armor. Moreover, they mostly do not use hollow spears, but use ordinary spears.
In this way, these 400 plate-armored guards were almost the same as those of the Polish winged cavalry. The 1,000 Cossacks were different from ordinary Cossacks. Under the intentional arrangement of the officers sent by Marin, the recruited Cossacks, the original leader, were either completely loyal to them or were eliminated. The remaining Cossacks were ordinary Cossacks who followed the crowd.
The officers sent by Marin to help, such as Morton, were professional cavalry officers. Under his training, the 1,000 Cossacks also began to abide by discipline. If they were pulled out to fight, these 1,000 disciplined Cossacks would be much better than before. In the words of Napoleon's evaluation of Mamuruch, 1,000 disciplined Cossacks would definitely defeat 1,500 undisciplined Cossacks.
However, this time, Marin knew that he was going to give away the heads. Therefore, Morton, a senior general sent by Marin to help Simon, would not make any move.
The one who led the army this time will be the noble son Hagsky, who was recruited by Simon in Lithuania. Hagsky is tall and strong, with great martial arts skills, and even can fight against Simon without a chance to win or lose. However, this guy has a fatal flaw - he likes to drink and cause trouble.
Before drinking, this guy was a very normal knight, with high martial arts skills and strong business skills. But once he drank, he would not stop until he got drunk. Moreover, after he got drunk, he liked to be crazy about drinking.
When he was drunk and crazy, whipping soldiers was considered gentle like Zhang Fei. This guy didn't use a whip to hit people, but just drew his sword to chop people...
Therefore, when this guy served others, he caused a lot of trouble and made a lot of trouble. Otherwise, with his normal state when he didn't drink, he would not have to worry about no one recruiting him.
Simon spent a lot of effort to recruit him. He mainly used two methods to restrict him. One was to give him strong alcohol. Originally, Hagsky drank a lot of low-alcohol alcohol at a time, so it was not easy to get drunk. Even if he was drunk, the degree was light.
Simon gave him 53-degree Erguotou, which was not mixed with water. After getting drunk, this guy basically lie down on the table and was unable to get mad. In addition, Simon specially equipped him with ten large shield soldiers. Once this guy drank, the 10 large shield soldiers would be on guard. Once he was drunk, it would be fine if he was sleeping. If he was drunk, the 10-sided big shields would come over, and he would not be able to cut his sword around...
With these two moves, Hagsky did not cause any major disaster in Kiev. However, he was an unstable factor after all. If he got drunk one day, it would be hard to say.
Simon actually felt a little regretful, but he had been recruited and could not fire him. The Knights are very concerned about face and often talk about "glory is my life". If he didn't commit a crime, he would turn against him without saying that the other party would turn against him, and it wouldn't be nice to say it...
Now, with this opportunity to lead the troops to die... Cough cough... Reinforcement, it's just right to send this guy...
So Morton promoted Hagsky to the acting cavalry commander, and asked him to take 50 Cossack cavalry officers and 2,000 Cossack cavalry hired from outside to participate in the battle.
Even the heavy cavalry, as the main force, was tall and strong people selected by Morton from the external Cossacks. They put half-armor armor on them, even if they were plate armor knights. Of course, 400 plate armor guards had dispatched 100 people. After all, everyone had to live up to their face. If the plate armor heavy cavalry was all posed by the external Cossacks, it would be too unpretentious to Bigsham. And 100 serious plate armor heavy cavalry paired with 300 posing Cossacks "plate armor heavy cavalry", 100 real plate armor heavy cavalry were listed in the front, and 300 people pretending to be placed behind, which is difficult for ordinary people to see.
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Because of the preparations, 2,000 cavalrymen in Kiev quickly gathered to go north to reinforce. Along the way, the 50 Cossack officers marched while restraining the external Cossack cavalry and teaching them to simply form a formation and charge.
In terms of personal martial arts, these Cossacks are not bad. If they fight alone, they are no different from those regular cavalry, and they are even more fierce. However, if they form a formation and fight... the larger the scale, the more these "wild" Cossacks will be defeated...
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Just as Lithuania and Poland were in chaos in order to gather the army to reinforce Smolensk, Lithuanian neighbors, formerly mortal enemy Teutonic Knights, also began to gather troops quietly and prepare for war...
Of course, the army of the Teutonic Kingdom was not aimed at Lithuania, but at the north of the Livonian Knights. Although the Livonian Knights were nominally controlled by the Teutonic Knights, since the Teutonic Knights were beaten up by Poland and Lithuania and could not take care of themselves, the nobles and churches within the Livonian Knights colluded with Lithuania and took advantage of the opportunity of the Knights' strength to gain the upper hand in the parliament of the Livonian Knights' State, and in many fields, they squeezed out the Knights' people.
Therefore, this time the Teutonic Kingdom sent troops not only to be supported by the Teutonic country, but also to be secretly supported by the Livonian Knights in the Livonian Knights.
At that time, as long as the Lithuanian army heads to the eastern front, the Teutonic Knights will take action, send large troops into the Livonian region, occupy important cities such as Riga, and complete complete control of the Livonian region.
Chapter completed!