total war rise of empire

Chapter 86 The Landing Crusaders
In addition to the cheap cannon fodder for temporary levies, all kinds of sword and shield soldiers and even the poor long sword soldiers who can't even afford shields, there are only a small number of archers!

In the Crusades, although every lord has to send people or money, except for those lords who can really get a lot of benefits, most noble lords just send some troops to deal with the Church of the Lord of Glory. 'the rules……

This is also the reason why temporary conscripts and sword and shield soldiers account for the majority of the crusaders!
The number of real formal knights and trainee knights in the Crusades did not exceed a hundred. Those soldiers of the King's Guard who were used to fill up the numbers were also a group of unwelcome and unlucky people. They were thrown to the Greek Peninsula by their kings to serve as crusaders organized by the church. Advanced cannon fodder...

It can be said that in every crusade organized by the church, the least worrying thing is the countless cannon fodder soldiers!
However, facing a small Greek peninsula, the church didn't care about the messy composition of the Crusaders. Even though they were filled with a large number of cannon fodder soldiers, the number was still very scary!

The number of troops sent by the first batch of lords and nobles from the Roman Kingdom to the Greek Peninsula alone reached nearly 3!

Moreover, there are still some elites among them, such as the Sicilian crossbowmen who accompanied the Duke of Sicily on the expedition!
There are also almost all the archers in the Duchy of Sicily and even the knights who are loyal to the Duke of Sicily!
There is even a great knight who is a brother and brother to the Duke of Sicily!
The Duchy of Sicily is very large, but Sicily is not only the territory directly under the Duke of Sicily, the duchy only occupies about one-third of the territory. It is not bad to be able to attract the sincere loyalty of two great knights , one of them followed the Duke of Sicily to fight on the Greek Peninsula, and the other protected the eldest son of the Duke of Sicily in his lair!

The Crusaders of the Roman Kingdom were only the first wave, and there were successive armies of the Lords of the Frankish Kingdom.

Provencals, Sepimanians, Alemanni, St. Galles, Bavarians, Burgundians, Aquitaines, Gasconians, Nusterians, etc. There are more or less troops involved in this crusade!
Except for Bavaria, which legally belongs to the canonization of the Kingdom of Germany, all other races belong to the Kingdom of Franks!

Each race can be divided into nearly ten noble territories with different titles...

It can be said that the kingdom in the human world is really just a title. The high-ranking king, except for his own direct territory, has to discuss everything with the nobles below. Of course, it is obtained by the Lord of Glory Church After acquiescing, we will discuss...

After the king has discussed with the big nobles, these big nobles have to discuss with the small nobles, trying to reach an agreement, at least so that the opponents will not make trouble!

It is conceivable that under this system, the king's order to be conveyed to the whole country basically only exists in fantasy...

The distribution of lords and nobles in the human main world is very interesting. The closer to the central rich area, the more nobles are entrusted and the power is more dispersed. The number of human nobles close to the border of alien races is actually rare, and some kingdoms can even achieve rudimentary government orders!

For example, the Kingdom of Atia and the Teutonic Knights.

The Pope of the Lord of Radiance is also an old monster who has lived for hundreds of years through secret techniques. He naturally understands the 'art' of ruling. Dispersing power can naturally make the church's power deeply rooted in the local area, but this world is not only dominated by human beings. The glory of the Knight Legion was broken by the Orc Empire more than 500 years ago. Therefore, in order to maintain the authority of the human world, the Pope had to compromise with the human noble lords in some aspects!

The human aristocrats with relatively concentrated rights in the alien border area are the crystallization of the church's compromise!

However, although the Church has weak control over forces such as the Kingdom of Atia and the Teutonic Knights, the Church is not worried that these powerful local forces on the border will break away from the Church's control, because they cannot afford the Crusades and the Church. Two-faced attack from different races!
Even if the king of the Kingdom of Atia or a powerful Teutonic knight leader insists on going his own way, the people below will not follow them to death!

Once the church has made up its mind, the seemingly powerful Teutonic Knights and Atia Kingdom and other border forces will fall apart in a few days, and their own people will fight their own people first!
After the noble troops landed in the Roman Kingdom area, the ships transporting the Franks quickly picked up!

From the crusades, it is not difficult to see how powerful and financially powerful the Church of the Lord of Glory is in the human world!

The church is not just relying on prestige to launch the Crusades, but also has a lot of gold coins to support the armies of the lords and nobles everywhere to eat and drink!
It is true that the nobles who responded to the call for crusade would provide help, but this was not a war between the nobles and their neighbors, and they could just walk home after a few days' journey!
The farthest aristocratic territory even has to travel more than a month in advance!
This is also the reason why the army can walk on the wide and smooth official road when the road is smooth!
Without the acquiescence of the church, this kind of official road that traverses countless noble territories would make a giant businessman break his bones just to collect checkpoint tolls!
In the human world, there is also the Church of the Lord of Glory supported by the Atonement Scroll and faith taxation, which has the financial resources and prestige to organize a large-scale crusade!

This time the crusade against the Greek peninsula, although the Church's Judgment Army did not join, they organized and recruited as many as [-] aristocratic crusaders!
Even though there are a large number of temporary conscripts and farmers, the soldiers and noble mercenaries who can really fight account for more than [-]%!
Whether it is a regular soldier of the nobility or a mercenary of the nobility, they can basically have a set of iron armor, and the worst one can also have a set of exquisite leather armor!

There is an essential difference from the backward Pylos people!

This is also the reason why Agamemnon couldn't muster any courage when facing the high priest Aribach!

If you say that you can't beat Lei Zihao Agamemnon, then, facing the Crusaders, Agamemnon is easily blown to ashes...

Especially in the past few weeks, Agamemnon watched with his own eyes the scene of tens of hundreds of ships entering the pier of Pylos, which deeply shocked Agamemnon's heart. All the armies put together are not as large as the crusaders randomly organized by the church...

As the crusaders land one after another, a huge disaster is about to befall Lei Zihao!

　The rewards accumulated in the recent period will be added when they are released on the [-]st.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)