Chapter 3 Expanding Arms and Preparing for War
In this way, Joan of Arc was disheartened. He put on his nun's robe again and firmly implemented asceticism. Although he still retained the title of Naples Prince, this was just to give Egil a little face. The Norman Empire lacked a marshal who could fight and Egil lost a curved bed companion. Of course, these were nothing big. Although there was a marshal, the war still had to continue, just as if there was a marshal, and the tyrant still wanted to hush the world.
In February 2009, in the barracks outside Krakow, where the capital of the Norman Empire was located, a hundred thousand troops were conducting military training. The soldiers ran with weights, lifted weights to exercise their physique, fought with bare hands, and used cork weapons to fight each other to enhance single combat effectiveness. Or they were in the ten-person team, the hundred-person team, and even the thousand-person team to conduct confrontation training. There were extra meals on the night of victory. Those who lost would eat the moldy black bread left last year.
Around Krakow, to be precise, several garrison troops in the Eastern Norman Military Region also received the emperor's orders to reorganize the army and prepare for war. Eastern European border garrison Ivan, New Scandinavian garrison general Anderson, Western Polish garrison general Hans, and North Saxony civilian general Sura. There were five legions in total, and more than 30,000 regular troops also entered the state of combat readiness. At the same time, the two cavalry corps of Qiten and Joseph were also ordered to prepare. When the weather cleared up, Egil sent them into Moscow. The garrison Mongols could launch an attack at any time.
In various regions of Eastern Europe, soldiers were recruited and reserves were organized according to villages, towns and cities. The heads of tribes on the grassland, elders and chiefs also received letters from Egil, asking them to prepare and prepare for war.
In Scandinavia, in Germany, in France, in England, and in various provinces of the Norman Empire. Before spring plowing, the Norman Empire's reserve troops gathered for the last time. Training began under the leadership of their elected leaders, either retired veterans due to disability, or local noble knights. This time the Norman Empire trained all the reserve troops she had.
Nowadays, such a huge empire in the Norman Empire has a population of nearly 30 million. There are more than one million reserve troops that can be mobilized. If Egil is angry, he can also issue a general mobilization order to mobilize all men over the age of twelve, under the age of sixty, and women aged 20 to forty. In this way, Egil can dispatch tens of millions of troops... "Of course it is just a possibility. And if it really reaches that point, no one in the Norman Empire will obey Egil's orders anymore.
And those vassals, Egil, also wrote letters to them, asking them to prepare to mobilize a certain number of troops to fight.
"The Central Army has 100,000 local troops. The Centaur Legion is 5,000, and the two garrison troops in Flanders and Southern Italy are still unmoved. However, the garrison troops and quasi-hussar Legion that have retreated from Jerusalem are unable to be used. Therefore, the total regular troops under my command are 140,000. From Scandinavia, 150,000 to 200,000 and a half professional troops can be mobilized. From Eastern Europe, 300,000 to 400,000 recruits can be mobilized. There are also Eastern Europe, Livornia, Finland and other regions,
These tribes can mobilize 150,000 to 200,000 nomadic cavalry. England can mobilize 100,000 to 150,000 troops.
Flanders was in war and the German territory was small. Each mobilized 50,000 troops... "Egil's plan was like this. He gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, and could mobilize an army of 950,000 to 1.2 million. These troops have undergone certain regular training and are equipped with excellent weapons and armor compared to the same era. Of course, if these troops are used to fight against the Mongolian cavalry in a field, they will have little chance of victory. But if you defend...
"It should be no problem. It should..., Egil thought about this cake and then contacted Aurora.
"How much money does the treasury still have now? How much can it be withdrawn?" Egil asked.
"The fiscal revenue in recent times is about 9 million Norman Kings and five right. Infrastructure, maintenance, payment of government officials' salaries, salary of imperial soldiers, and squandering you, a bastard. It costs almost 5 million Norman Kings. Just in case, part of the money will be left. So the money that can be withdrawn is about 3 million." He is worthy of being the real and nameless prime minister of the Norman Empire. He quickly answered Egil's question.
"In this way, I have accumulated about 200,000 points in the battles in the south and north in recent times. I use these points and exchange them for a Hussar Legion!" "A Hussar, along with his mount and all
A set of equipment requires thirty points. A legion of five thousand Hussars wants 150,000 points." "It's still affordable." Egil was relieved when he heard this.
Yes, if you use points, it will cause inflation. For every 100-person team recruitment, the price will rise a little. For fifty hundred teams, it will be thirty-one when recruiting the second one, and when recruiting fifty places, it will be 79 when recruiting fifty places. This requires 272,500 points.
Do you want to cheat your father to death?!" Egil shouted in anger.
"No, no, you are my brother." Aurora's answer was very calm. There was a hint of tricking in the calmness. If he was an ordinary fool, he would be fascinated by seeing Aurora like this.
"Don't be so serious about such things, bastard!" But Egil didn't feel that way at all, but became even more angry.
"There is nothing to do about this. I have told you that using a coupon rabbit to exchange it will cause inflation." Aurora said to Egil easily. It seemed that all these things had nothing to do with her.
After hearing what Aurora said, Egil thought again. Indeed, a few years ago, or more than ten years ago? Aurora did say this. However, because the things he changed were generally all the best items. There were not many things to change troops in large quantities. So he had never encountered such a situation. He really didn't expect that the first time he used this method, he realized the power of inflation. This was even more powerful than the inflation caused by Jewish capitalists after the World War, when the Jewish capitalists harmed Germany, it was so incredible. It was so black. It was so dark.
"Then, if there are not enough more than 70,000 points, I will exchange Normankin as a rabbit for the rabbit." Egil said.
"Well, a little coupon requires ten gold coins to be exchanged. I have to pay for it."
"Are you cheating?" Egil was so angry that he cursed: "I remember that I could only exchange a little coupon for a little bit of gold!"
"So it's inflation. And according to the setting of this world, you are my brother."
"If I really are your brother, I will definitely fuck you tonight!" After Egil said this, he interrupted the call with Aurora. He originally thought that he would use the timeliness of the point-of-charge exchange to get a Hussar unit. But now it seems that it is not possible. Then he can only train in the usual way.
Although the military city of Oslo can give newly trained soldiers a great bonus. Usually, Egil only trains infantry and crossbowmen there, because the soldiers used there are Vikings who specialize in infantry. Training light cavalry will recruit grassland nomads, Hungarians, and Poles in Eastern Europe.
In this way, the training army will receive more bonuses than those obtained by Oslo’s military buildings. The training location is Krakow. Krakow also has bonuses for buildings such as the Imperial Guards, Capital Military Academy, etc. In addition, famous generals like Egil are in charge. Therefore, the bonuses obtained are no less than those obtained than Oslo.
Therefore, a standard Hussar Legion requires 500,000 gold coins. Although it only costs 200,000 at the beginning, Egel has continuously reformed the training methods of Hussars, improved their equipment, improved their social territories and increased their salary. While the morale and combat effectiveness of Hussars have been continuously improved, the price has also increased a lot. It has become a real noble army.
In addition to the standard Hussar Legion of 5,000 people, Egel is also preparing to recruit another twenty regiments, that is, a new army of 20,000 people. These new army regiments, mainly phalanx infantry, have a great advantage in the battle with cavalry, especially light cavalry. The musketeers and crossbowmen they have also had the ability to fight back when facing cavalry and archers. They happen to be the nemesis of Mongolian cavalry. The 20,000 new army only requires 400,000 gold coins. This makes it six or seven times cheaper than the sky-high hussar. As expected, cavalry is not something that can't afford to use with a lot of money.
In this way, after adding 25,000 troops, Egil was still not satisfied. Because he was the defense party. Moreover, coupled with the improvement of the crossbow's ability in recent times, Egil made a decision to add 4,000 crossbowmen and the previous longbowmen, which increased the number of heavy crossbowmen and longbowmen to 10,000 and 5,000 respectively. The hud fee was 100,000 gold coins. Not a lot. And half of the remaining money was thrown into the Moscow defense line like a black hole, and seemed to be forever dissatisfied. The other half was used by Egil to speed up the other half.
Research and cast more and better artillery. Fortunately, in the war that followed, I would give the Mongols a "surprise"
Chapter completed!