total war rise of empire

Chapter 85 The Real Strong Enemy

At the pier of the main city of Pylos, hundreds of ships lined up and waited to dock. Teams of soldiers and knights in different clothes disembarked from the docked ships on boards.

These soldiers and knights belonged to the nobles and lords of various places, and even the king's guard.

In order to avoid a centralized system that threatens itself among human lords, the Church of the Radiant Lord vigorously promotes a universal aristocratic enfeoffment system in the human world.

As the saying goes, the vassals of my vassals are not my vassals!
On the other hand, my master's master is not my master, and it wouldn't break the law to kill him, let alone obey the orders of the master's master!

It has to be said that for those middle and small nobles, this set of measures definitely has more advantages than disadvantages!
Therefore, the vassals of this set of vassals are not my vassals, and they have been popular in the human world for hundreds of years!

As a result, after the king entrusted dukes, marquises, and earls, the dukes entrusted viscounts, barons, and lords who did not need to obey the king!

Although these viscounts, barons, and lords have small territories and few troops, they are backed by the Church of the Glorious Lord, and they don't obey the king's order at all!

In fact, many counties and marquises are not entrusted by the king, because from a legal point of view, dukes can also entrust earldoms and marquises. , Hou, Bo, Zi, Male, and Xun are six aristocratic ranks. As long as they are one level higher, they can be entrusted to the lower ranks. Of course, the size of the entrusted territory must match the title. It is allowed to have the kind of land that is the size of a baron's territory, seal out an earl!
Of course, if the baron has grown up to a certain extent in the subsequent annexation campaign, he can submit a request for promotion to the noble title to the higher-level nobles and the church. Noble promotion does not need the permission of the superior noble, but must be The approval of the high priest of the local church will do!

The promotion of a noble title is very important. It is not just a false name. It involves not only the honor of the nobles, but also the restrictions on the salutes of the lower nobles to the superior nobles and other restrictions. These details are very important to the real heroes. Forbearance, but if the size of the noble territory cannot match the title, it will cause legal disapproval, which will give surrounding nobles, even superior nobles and even the king sufficient reasons for war!
At that time, it will depend on the real strength whether to lead the troops to directly attack and annex, or to jointly oppress and cut off the title!

As long as the lord is not strong enough to beat all the surrounding nobles and even the king and grand duke, he must obediently abide by the legitimacy of the noble title legal principles!
But having said that, if there is really a lord who can beat all the nobles around him invincibly, the church will not allow him to continue to maintain the strong centripetal force in the territory!

At that time, the lord may only have two options. One is to entrust the territory directly under him and cut it up to reassure the church and surrounding noble neighbors.
If this lord unfortunately defeats the crusade of the Church Judgment Army, he can only hope for good luck and die happily...

In the 500 years of the Dark Calendar, there have been some talented lords and nobles who single-handedly overthrew the Church's Judgment Army crusade, and brought out the coalition forces of surrounding noble neighbors!

It's a pity that the final fate of this kind of talented lord was either to die in the hands of the fearsome Assassin Alliance, or to be pressed to the ground by the Holy Knights and tortured to "Xiang"!
In this way, the distorted and insane theorem that my vassal's vassal is not my vassal has been passed down for 500 years!
A large number of fragmented aristocratic lords, the assembled troops naturally have different numbers. This time, the Crusade ordered by the Pope to conquest the Greek Peninsula only came from two big kingdoms, one is the Frankish Kingdom and the other is the Roman Kingdom. .

However, the crusaders formed by these two kingdoms have separated hundreds of troops, and they are so unique that they do not belong to each other!
Well, it can’t be said that there is no mutual affiliation at all. In the Crusades, the nobles can avoid each other, or they can meet each other according to their titles and follow the etiquette. What should they do when they fight? What the church single-handedly facilitated, naturally there is a unified commander, the person elected by the church-the high priest Alibach!

Regardless of the fact that in the Church of the Lord of Glory, the high priest is only equivalent to the position of a local magistrate, and there are a group of red-clothed archbishops and presiding judges on top of his head, but for those noble lords, the high priest of the church The priest is definitely qualified to lead them in war!

After all, it is impossible for a king who can compete with the high priest in terms of status to come with the crusaders!
The highest among the Crusaders is the Duke. Although there are several troops in the duchy in the Crusaders, there is only one Duke who belongs to the "Roman Conquest", which is the Duke of Sicily on the Roman Peninsula, whose territory is across the sea from the Greek Peninsula. Boss!

The Duke of Sicily had obviously received a lot of private promises from the church before he came to the front line in person. After taking over the Greek peninsula, the Duke of Sicily's entrusted land may increase a lot!
The church did not intend to eradicate Agamemnon, but it did not want to keep the Greek peninsula free from the influence of the church, even if it was barren!

In the past, the half-orcs in the Balkans often went south to plunder the Greek peninsula, and the cost of defending here was too high, so the church did not take action. Now there is a person on the Greek peninsula who makes the Pope of Glory feel uncomfortable. The United also got vague news The queen of the night elves destroyed the orc legion in the Balkan region, and planned to eliminate Lei Zihao, an uncertain factor, together!

There must be sweetness for the army to go out, and the Greek peninsula is the sweetness promised by the church to the noble lords of the human world!
It has to be said that Agamemnon is also quite tragic. Let alone the Crusaders, even if they win in the end, a large number of human-dominated world forces will flood into the Greek peninsula!
This wave of disembarkation at the pier of Pylos is mainly soldiers and knights from the aristocratic territories of the Roman Kingdom, such as Benifando Sword and Shield Soldiers, Spoleto Sword and Shield Soldiers, Florence Sword and Shield Soldiers, and Pavia Sword and Shield Soldiers ...

Why are all sword and shield soldiers?

The reason is simple. Sword and shield soldiers are suitable for melee combat and defense against arrows, and the cost is not too high. In the noble civil war in the human world where knight melee is the main means, sword and shield soldiers are like panacea!

Of course, the sword and shield soldiers here refer to the aristocratic regular army, and the largest number are actually temporary conscripts with only spears!
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