rise of empire total war

Chapter 224 Military Reform
In the blink of an eye, it has entered late autumn, the crops in the cultivated land have been harvested, and the cold air has arrived as expected, causing the temperature on the Vardasia Peninsula to drop.

Facing the lowering temperature, people began to wear warm clothes, and so did the humans in Ippolito Palace.Wearing a warm animal fur robe, Richard crawled on the table and wrote quickly. The quill pen he held tightly in his hand quickly wrote strings of German letters on the paper, using all the thoughts in his mind Express it in words.

This is Richard's new idea. After a series of decrees were promulgated, he finally extended his hand to the army again.As mentioned above, after years of wars, most of the land in the kingdom is unowned wasteland. Therefore, he plans to transform the Martian soldiers in the general into a historical medieval army, so that those knight lords can truly become knights with fiefs My lord, let those hoplites and archers and crossbowmen be honorable yeomen, and pay taxes to their great king with their own hands.

Of course, since heavy soldiers, archers, and crossbowmen are required to marry local farmers, the first thing to bear the brunt of this military reform is the more than 2000 heavy knights in the legion. Among these heavy knights, chain armor The knights were directly eliminated and included in the ranks of the yeoman, and the Teutonic knights also made other arrangements. Therefore, only nearly 900 imperial knights can become noble knight masters—oh, I almost forgot that there are more than 600 people on foot Imperial knight.

Regarding the walking imperial knights, Richard is actually somewhat contradictory. He doesn't know how to stereotype these walking knights. He said that they are ordinary infantry, and they are elite knights who can be transformed into heavy cavalry at any time. He said that they are cavalry Well, they are not equipped with horses, so they can only fight on foot.

After thinking about it, Richard still decided to position them as knights and let them have fiefs like his colleagues who rode war horses. After owning fiefs, whether to buy war horses and transform them into cavalry is their choice. something happened.

It is worth mentioning that those imperial knights riding war horses are not without knights, but their servants appear in another way, that is, cavalry sergeants in the army, just like the introduction of cavalry sergeants in the game: Mounted sergeants included knightly servants, wealthy commoners, or lower nobles, none of whom had the means to purchase the expensive equipment used by knights.

Therefore, while giving the imperial knights fiefs, the cavalry sergeants in the army will also be assigned to go to the fiefs with their knight masters.

After deciding on the way of the imperial knights, Richard then set about arranging his chain armored cavalry and crossbow cavalry. Since the horses they rode were more expensive than infantry, Richard included them in the yeoman's army. Ranks, but given more land and more preferential policies.

After writing this, Richard put down his pen, and he suddenly thought of a very important issue. According to the medieval tradition that my vassals are not my vassals, if he arranges the knights' fiefs on the lands of those earls, Doesn't that mean he won't be able to mobilize those knights in the future?Because those knights were already vassals of the count in a sense.

If the earl is a person from the system he personally enshrined, then everything is fine, but there are two earls in the kingdom who surrendered to him because of the situation. He can't guarantee that these two earls are 100% loyal to him. The loyalty of Earl Frederick of the Premi Territory is relatively reliable, but it is not good for the Osrita Territory. You must know that the former Earl of the Territory died under Richard’s shelling, even now No body was recovered.

Looking at it this way, it hurts a bit.

After thinking about it, Richard suddenly came up with an idea, so he picked up the quill pen again and continued to write. If he greatly reduces the number of knights who need to entrust fiefs, then there will be no need to allocate them to the earl's fief However, there is only one way to reduce the number of fief knights, and that is to re-establish the imperial guards. Compared with obtaining fiefs, being able to enter the imperial guards to protect the king is what many knights yearn for.

The size of the new Janissary will remain within 800, including 180 imperial knights and 620 foot imperial knights. The command of this new guard was originally intended to be handed over to Magnus, but Richard thought about it and gave up this plan. With Magnus' military talent, he should not continue to serve as the commander of the Praetorian Guards who basically did not fight, but should become Richard's lieutenant general and follow Richard together. Conquest - After this, Richard also had reason to canonize him as a new earl because of his military exploits, just like Condela before him.

After writing this, Richard put down his pen again and thought about the future of the Teutonic Knights. From his personal perspective, he wanted to merge these more than 1000 Teutonic Knights into an order.This actually has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the Knights will develop on their own, and their scale will become larger and larger, and Richard will not need to pay. However, the disadvantages are also obvious. After Richard's soul returns to heaven, After losing the loyalty constraints of the system, it is still unknown whether the leader of the Knights will not be constrained by Richard's heir because of his strength.

This is not an unreasonable imagination. In history, the Teutonic Knights rebelled against their master because they were out of control, and fought against the Poles who asked them to enter Eastern Europe to fight against heretics.

However, this worry was quickly dispelled by Richard. He believed that with the foundation he had laid down in his life, his heirs would be enough to wipe out any rebellious forces.

Therefore, Richard decided to come down with a plan to form the Knights. He planned to use an ownerless castle in the territory of Ulif as the first stronghold of the Knights, so that they could rely on this stronghold for development, and the first stronghold of the Knights As the head of the Grand Regiment, Richard naturally took over without hesitation.

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After finishing writing, Richard put away the paper and would not take it out until the next court meeting.He turned his head and glanced at the sky outside the window, and before he knew it, it was afternoon, the sun gradually turned to the west, and the mild sunlight shone on the earth.

Richard stretched himself, then got up and walked towards the door. Before he could leave the door, the guards standing on both sides of the door pushed the door open first. Richard nodded at them and walked out. At this moment, one of the guards asked, "Your Majesty, where are you going next?"

"Where are you going?" Richard hesitated, but said, "Go to the garden, she should be there."

Speaking of which, it has been a long time since Richard had a good conversation with Levonne. During these days, he has been busy dealing with government affairs, either writing new instructions, or leaving the palace to go to the barracks to learn about the soldiers The reaction to the marriage, and Levoni, are getting together less and leaving more.

He knew that after he got married to Stephanie, he might see less of Levonie.

After all, Stephanie is unlikely to accept Richard's affair.

(End of this chapter)