Chapter 1587 The situation in Hungary
People are different, and similarly, the rebels and the rebels are different. The "Poor Conrad" peasant uprising army in Württemberg lacks professional officers, and even if there are many people, it is difficult to form strong combat effectiveness. Therefore, when facing the official army, it is about to collapse.
The Hungarian peasant uprising army was completely different because the Hungarian peasant uprising army had a group of professional officers. At the beginning, in order to form the crusades, the Holy See invited a group of middle and lower-level officers from the Hungarian Kingdom, such as Duolao and George, as leaders of the crusades. Although these officers did not have any famous generals, they also had relatively professional military qualities. Perhaps, they lacked the experience of commanding thousands of troops, but their basic skills were still relatively solid.
After capturing Szeged, an important city in southern Hungary, he used it as a base to strengthen his strength and serve as a capital to confront the Kingdom of Hungary.
Why did Duolao George choose Szeged in the south as the base camp to fight against the Kingdom of Hungary? In addition to the rich wealth and various supplies of this important town, there are many herders nearby, which is also an important reason why he came here.
The Kingdom of Hungary is somewhat similar to the Ukraine region. Its southern region, like southern Ukraine, is threatened by a powerful pagan regime. Southern Ukraine is threatened by the Crimean Khanate, while southern Hungary is threatened by the more powerful Ottoman Turkey.
Of course, although the enemy is stronger, Hungary's counterattack ability is much stronger than Ukraine. The main reason is that Ukraine is a remote area of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is unwilling to invest too much to confront the Crimean Khanate.
The Hungarian Kingdom is different. They cannot give in, and giving in means that their hometown falls. Therefore, although the enemy is stronger, the Hungarian Kingdom protects its territory much better than Ukraine.
But no matter what, because the southern region is threatened by the powerful Ottoman Turkey, the local Hungarians cannot farm with peace of mind, so they have to maintain the tradition of the Magyars - nomadism. Once they encounter a large-scale invasion by the Turks, the herders in southern Hungary will rush to escape with their animals...
Therefore, the Hungarian Plain, the areas close to the border in the south, are mainly herders. Only in the safer northern regions are the main agricultural areas. If it weren't for the great threat from Ottoman Turkey, perhaps the huge Hungarian Plain would become the top granary in Europe.
The reason why Duolao George brought his army to the south was that he had a large base of herders in the southern region. Among these herders, he could recruit many Hussars...
This is true. After he brought 20,000 people from two groups of men and horse tribes to the southern plains, he quickly formed a powerful army of more than 50,000 people by half-deception and half-strength pulling. The light cavalry formed by herders alone had as many as 30,000 people.
However, Duolao George also encountered a very embarrassing problem - there were too many people and insufficient military rations...
The southern Hungary area near Szeged, due to the threat of Ottoman Turkey, did not reclaim a large amount of grain fields. Therefore, the local grain production is insufficient. If you maintain a large-scale cavalry, it requires a lot of food, and eating grass is not enough.
Due to the lack of food, George had to stop recruiting cavalry after recruiting 30,000 cavalry. If the food was sufficient, he might have recruited tens of thousands of cavalry.
In order to prevent food and grass from being insufficient, Duolao George had to start leading his army north. However, at this time, the official troops prepared by Vladislas II to suppress the uprising were also in place...
When Dorao George's army began to head north to the grain-producing area in northern Hungary, Vladislas II had ordered the coalition of the Kingdom of Hungary from Pest to station in the main transportation route that George's army needed to go north - the important town of Kechkemet, located between the Danube and the Tisa River.
This is the main transportation route for George's army to go north. Although the Hungarian plain is vast, it is also the most important transit station to go north from Szeged to Pest. Moreover, the seven thousand noble coalition forces were stationed in Kechkemet, and George's army did not dare to go around and head north easily...
Why? Because if Durao George's army went north regardless of the land, and then encountered the interception of Marin's army, the Polish wing cavalry, and the main official army composed of the Bohemian army, then the seven thousand noble coalition forces of Kechkemet would likely launch an attack from behind, causing the peasant uprising army to be attacked from both sides.
Therefore, for safety reasons, Duolao George had to stop and send a large army to besiege Kemet. Anyway, there are only 7,000 people in Kage Kemet City, Duolao George's main force has more than 50,000 people.
Moreover, capturing the Hungarian nobles in the city was very conducive to negotiations between the rebel army and the Hungarian court...
Therefore, whether for the safety of the back or for the nobles in the seven thousand noble coalition, Durao George hoped to conquer Ketch and capture the noble prisoners in the city.
In fact, as a low-ranking officer of the Hungarian Kingdom who was born in a noble family, although he had the advantage of understanding military affairs, he also had a big disadvantage - like Song Jiang, Duolao. George really hoped to be recruited...
Of course, Duo Rao. George did not want to be a court official like Song Jiang, but hoped to rely on his tens of thousands of troops to get a duke of the Hungarian Kingdom and create a large area of fiefdom. Even if he had thought about where the fief was - he had Szeged...
In order to achieve this goal, if he could capture the hundreds of nobles from the seven thousand noble coalition forces in the city, he would not be far from success.
Even Duolao George had an ambition in his heart, that is, if he could gain the support of the Hungarian nobles like Magash I, he might not be able to covet the Hungarian throne...
At the beginning, Magas I had no royal blood. However, because he was supported by the Hungarian nobles, Magas I was elected as the king of Hungary at the age of 14. Then, he formed the famous "Black Army" and spread across Central Europe, beating Vladislas II and Maximilian I's father Frederick III to live without taking care of himself, and even snatched a large area of territory and even took Vienna. If Magas I had not married the wrong wife and failed to give birth to a legal son, God knows what the situation in Europe is now.
As a noble child of the Hungarian Kingdom, Magash I was the idol in Dorao George's heart. According to Magash I's experience, Dorao George understood that if he wanted to become the second in Magash I, he had to first catch the Hungarian nobles who guarded the city of Kechkemet. Then, he forced them to support themselves and become kings. No matter how bad they were, they had to admit that they were Duke Seged...
But he didn't know that the more than 100 nobles of the Hungarian Kingdom in Kechkemet were actually the bait that Vladislas II deliberately left to him.
Chapter completed!