Fortunately, several major legions of Beihai Kingdom have been renewed in the past few years. A large number of young southern mountaineering people were recruited to replace the veterans in their forties in their old legions. After training in recent years, the original southern mountaineering guys have also become veterans.

Of course, there is no war to fight in the past two years. These young infantrymen, like the five thousand young Dragoons and the black-shirted knights, lack practical experience. Fortunately, they have been trained for longer and have a better foundation. As long as they are cautious, they can train with a few small battles first, see the blood, and then go to the big battle.

The configuration of infantrymen is much simpler, such as winter clothes. The reason why cavalry equipped with down jackets with higher cost is to reduce the load on the war horses in the future, so as not to struggle with the war horses.

Infantry is not as delicate as cavalry and war horses, and is more durable. Therefore, their clothes that are cold-proof in winter are much lower-grade - just straw raincoats...

The straw coat is a straw coat, made of thatch. It can not only prevent cold, but also prevent rain and snow. The only disadvantage is that it is a bit heavy. But that doesn't matter, because Marin equipped the infantry with many light wheelbarrows. When marching, the infantry marched with wheelbarrows. On the wheelbarrow, there are not only weapons and equipment, but also a small amount of food distributed, as well as straw coats and armor.

When an enemy attack was encountered during the march, these wheelbarrows would be pushed to the front and side of the formation to block the enemy's charge. Then, the soldiers would quickly pick up spears from the car and put on armor...

The thatched straw raincoat is often the cheapest simple armor. Of course, in dry weather, the strawcoat is generally not worn to avoid being ignited by the enemy with rockets. In rainy and wet weather, these strawcoats are armor with good protection. Especially after being damp, they seem to be able to withstand feather arrows and lead bullets to a certain extent. Of course, the feather arrows and lead bullets here refer to the feather arrows and lead bullets that have lost most of the kinetic energy from afar, not the feather arrows and lead bullets that are close to shooting.

In addition, infantry generally wore straw sandals they woven. Moreover, each person also distributed leggings to facilitate long-distance marching. This is historical experience. At that time, Hong Jun walked 25,000 miles with straw sandals and leggings.

The endurance and resilience of these mountain infantrymen is no worse than that of the Hong Army. After all, they are used to traveling long distances. Moreover, the difficulty of traveling long distances in central and eastern Europe is much lower than that of the Hong Army at the time.

Moreover, they can actually save most of the distances. This is because the thousands of ships ordered by Marin can not only be used to transport immigrants, but also to transport troops.

At that time, the cavalry could only take land by land because they carried three horses. Infantry, all the way to the east coast of the Baltic Sea, can actually arrive by boat. Only after docking will they need to get off the boat and walk.

It is not too easy to transport 20,000 infantry soldiers in thousands of ships. It can not only transport soldiers, but also spare time to transport enough food, trolleys, artillery and ammunition.

As for the civilians who followed the army, Malin did not plan to lead him this time because he planned to force the siege on the spot...

Anyway, they were planning to take the Moscows back to their country, so they simply waited for the army to force the local tyrants to accompany the army to transport food, food, and even artillery to the army. As for any of them to resist? Just kill them if they resist. The rest must be honest and obedient suitable immigrants...

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According to the information sent back by the Grand Duchy of Moscow, this war may start in the Smolensk region. Because the goal of Grand Duchy of Moscow Vasily III was to surround Smolensk after weapons and armor were in place. Then, while sieging the city, defeating reinforcements from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In the end, Smolensk was forced to surrender. At the same time, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania agreed to ced the Smolensk region.

In history, Ivan III personally led a large army to siege Smolensk. It took two years to force Smolensk to surrender. During the siege, Lithuania organized a counterattack, but was defeated. There was no way, the number of Russian troops was too large. Even though 40,000 Moscow troops were defeated in the Battle of Orsha, Moscow's huge manpower reserves quickly led them to quickly pull up their troops, resist Lithuania's counterattack, and defended the fruit of Smolensk, the victory.

From the Moscow commissioned the Teutonic Kingdom to order 50,000 sets of weapons and armor this time, it can be seen that the army that the Grand Duchy of Moscow this time touched was at least 100,000. Lithuania could send 30,000 to 40,000 people to the sky. In the Battle of Orsha, the 40,000 Moscow army that was defeated was actually only part of the Russian army's strength. The less than 30,000 troops sent by Poland and Lithuania were the main force that the two countries could produce. This is the gap in human resources between the two countries. Because the two countries' systems are different, Lithuania and Poland must obtain the consent of the nobles, and the nobles will definitely not go out to support the royal war. The Eastern-like system of the Grand Duchy of Moscow can recruit as many people as possible.

The Grand Principal of Moscow has such a large population, and Marin does not need to bring any civilians to send troops this time. Because the local area can recruit many civilians.

But for security reasons, Marin still planned to bring a group of his own husbands. The main reason is that these his own husbands are more reliable. It is more reassuring to let them keep ammunition and food. The Duchy of Moscow who forced them to transport supplies on the spot can be made, but it is not reassuring to let them keep supplies.

Fortunately, Marin's original route of entry was to enter Lake Ladoga from the Neva River, then head south along the Volhof River, arrive in Tver, and then land. Therefore, most of the supplies do not need to go too far on land.

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In addition to plundering the population, Marin also had a very important goal, which was no less important than hundreds of thousands of people.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! What is the goal? It is to force Vasily III to give up the claim of the Byzantine throne!

Although Maximilian I had already bought the Byzantine throne from the last Byzantine emperor Andres Pariologus at the suggestion of Marin, the problem is that Andres Pariologus had sold the Byzantine crown to Charles VIII before. Now, the French are also clamoring to say that they are the orthodox successor of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Fortunately, under the mediation of the Holy See, whoever of the two countries could conquer Constantinople and be crowned at Sophia Cathedral will be the legal Byzantine emperor from then on.

However, because Andres Pariologus's clan sister married Ivan III, the Grand Duke of Moscow, and gave birth to Vasily III. Then a new problem arose - Vasily III believed that it was unreasonable for his uncle Andres Pariologus to sell the throne privately. The throne of the Eastern Roman Empire should be inherited according to bloodline, rather than sold to outsiders.

Therefore, Vasily III and his mother Princess Sophia have always claimed that the so-called throne bought by Maximilian I and Charles VIII was illegal, and that he was the orthodox heir to the Eastern Roman Empire.

Maximilian I was actually not particularly concerned about the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire. Because he obviously did not have the strength to enter Constantinople.

But Marin has! Therefore, Marin plans to use this dispatch to capture Vasily III, forcing him to publicly announce the abandonment of the battle for the Byzantine throne, and publicly support the throne obtained by Maximilian I, which is legal...

As for why he supported Maximilian I to win the throne...

It's very simple - Marin plans to exchange the throne for Maximilian I or his heirs at a high price in exchange for the throne. For example, after the emperor passed away in 1519, his heirs would be unable to compete for the position of the emperor, and his money, political and even force support. At that time, Marin could completely bring the throne over and let himself live the addiction to being an emperor... As the European Emperor, he played games in his previous life, and he especially wanted to be an European Emperor, although he has always been a non-chief...
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