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Chapter 35: Expanding Arms and Preparing for War

After this, Egil breathed a little relieved and calculated that before he established a government system, his monthly income was more than 200,000 yuan. Now he has established a government system, and his monthly income is nearly 400,000 yuan, but he has to subtract the reform expenses of paying 80,000 gold coins for five consecutive months. In this way, he can still earn more than 300,000 yuan. He still makes money inside and outside... And after unifying the weights and measures and words, the national integration speed of the Norman Kingdom will accelerate. The Vikings, Saxons, Scandinavian Vikings, and the Prussians and French people under the Duke of Normandy, these nations will be re-integrated into a new nation, that is, the Normans.

Of course, this requires a process, an extremely slow process, decades, hundreds or even thousands of years. And it may not be possible to succeed. Most of the time Egil was defeated and died, and the empire fell apart, and everyone should do whatever they should do.

Therefore, people must not die, absolutely not die. It is absolutely understandable that Egil is so afraid of death. In fact, he can stand on the battlefield and give orders very calmly and quickly, and not be scared by those strange-shaped corpses, which is already beyond the vast majority of people. What's more.

He has been winning.

That's enough.

The handling of internal affairs came to an end again. In May, after more than a month of rest and replenishment, the army under Egir once again expanded to a spectacular level.

The feudal mobilization order for military reforms and the mobilization order for militia reserves in various places began to be implemented. Egil formally enthroned a large number of nobles, including forty-six earls, one hundred and fifty-seven viscounts, and after measuring their territory, they gave the number of military service they should bear. Egil could use the king's orders and formal documents stamped with heraldic patterns to dispatch more than 30,000 nobles under his rule.

The reserve mobilization system in various places is implemented in the territory directly under Egil's own jurisdiction: five cities in Britain, including Normandy Castle under the Duke of Normandy, six cities in Scandinavia - including the Denmark City of Zeland, and the Visby City of Gotland, Prussia, and Livornia. With these sixteen cities or castles as the center, nearly eight million people under Egil's rule were included in the reserve mobilization system. During the slack season, the local security officers will organize simple military training, and the war will respond to the call and become a recruitment of troops to join the war.

However, one thing I want to explain here is that Egil's mobilization order does not include the two territories controlled by the Celtics, the Welsh territories centered on Kanafon, and the Irish territories centered on Dublin. Another system is implemented here, and the Celtics' loyalty in these places is Artoria, and their impression of Egil is still: respectful, Her Majesty's marriage partner. That's it. Egil believes that if he dies, or Artoria dies, then the Celtic region will inevitably rebel! Unless Artoria has children with him, this seems unlikely...

On this day, Egil slipped a little while working in the Royal Court of Representatives, and then pulled Aurora to ask if there were any drugs for infertility in the system. As a result, Aurora replied, "Yes." Before Egil was happy, Aurora said again: "But your wife is not the disease - she was chopped off her lower abdomen when she led the army to fight. This medicine can cure it."

So Egil was worried about gains and losses for several days.

In addition, there are also regions, Iceland centered on Kreyjavik, which is still nominally the fiefdom of Aurora. In addition, the distance is too far and the population is not large, so I escaped by chance and did not need to undertake military service.

Under the systematic calculation, the entire Norman Kingdom had a population of more than 7 million, of which 1.2 million were the middle-aged men, although not many, but not small. However, there were more than 100,000 of them in the hands of the nobles of the kingdom, and there were less than two million people who could really mobilize.

These two million people are not mobilized just by simply mobilizing. The mobilization is divided into three steps, initial mobilization, that is, mobilizing troops without affecting farming and economic development as much as possible. The most capable of mobilizing are middle-aged soldiers not exceeding forty years old. However, the total amount will not exceed 150,000.

Large-scale mobilization: It is usually only used when fighting a decisive battle with powerful enemies. With barely taking into account farming, as many soldiers under the age of fifty and over 16 who are suitable for enlistment should be mobilized as much as possible. In this way, the troops that can be mobilized are about 300,000.

All mobilization: The country is destroyed and the seed is close to you - all Norman's compatriots stood up and spoke!

It means literally. It can mobilize an army of about 500,000.

After completing the reserve system, Egil was much more confident. The English garrison and Norman garrison were all recruited, so the nobles in France should be slightly restrained. The Duke of Brittany, Arran IV, was a little better. After all, he was also a great duke who did not like birds, and seemed to think Egil could be an ally, so the western territory of the Duke of Normandy was quite stable.

——But on the south side, the Ile-de-France region directly under the French King Philip II, and the bold Charles of Burgundy on the east side, were a little too much. They sent people to the Duke of Normandy to make trouble, secretly move boundary markers or seize water sources, steal animals, etc., and even rumors in the French court that Egil was not a French nobleman, and should not occupy French territory. If he wanted to occupy French territory, he would bow to Philip II - I'll go to your sister! You can't even fiddle with your own nobles, so you want to attack me?! After all, labor and capital are overlords, with Norman crowns on their heads. The king works, bow to you?! Go as far as possible.

This is Egil's response. When Philip II wrote to ask Egil "whether he could make some contribution to your king" a few months ago, Egil replied directly. Although it didn't say it clearly, the words meant this: Don't mess with me.

The tension between the Norman Kingdom and the Kingdom of France is conceivable.

However, Egil didn't care. Now Egil is not the little lord with a few hundred men under his command. His territory is bigger and he has more horsemen. There are a total of five garrison legions, plus the main legions, and a total of 75,000 troops. Although it is a bit exaggerated to sweep across the continent, it is not easy to bully France, which is full of princes.

In terms of the army, Egil firmly implemented the political system of the Song Dynasty's strong and weak branches, and the central imperial guards expanded again. The army, which originally had a little more than 30,000, has now expanded to more than 50,000:

Heavy cavalry:

Knight Guard, one hundred and fifty, unchanged

Norman Royal Knights, reorganized, expanded, recruited, recovered and increased to 800

After another improvement, it was renamed Norman Heavy Cavalry, formerly known as the Improved Tomahawk Cavalry: After the second improvement, these heavy cavalry gave up the traditional tomahawks and used sabers and maces as melee weapons. The sabers were against light troops and maces against heavy troops, with clear division of labor. At the same time, their war horses also added chain armor to further enhance their defense. These Norman Heavy Cavalry are professional troops, and although their combat power is much weaker than that of the Royal Knights, they win in large numbers and spend less. This time, Egil increased the number of Norman Heavy Cavalry to two thousand in one breath.

Battlefield Cult: Five hundred people, unchanged.

Calculate this way, Egil has a total of 3,450 heavy cavalrymen.

Light cavalry: So far there are only one professional hussars, but Egil doesn't think he needs more. There are 2,400 professional hussars.

There were 5,850 cavalrymen under Egil.

Infantry, backbone of the army, professional Viking warrior, 24,000.

Viking raids, seven thousand.

The guards of the Dwarf's Secret Room, four thousand.

In total, Egil has 35,000 infantry soldiers.

Ranged troops: crossbowmen, three thousand, longbowmen, five thousand, Sherwood sharpshooter, five hundred, and a total of eight thousand and five hundred long-range troops.

In total, Egil's army - professional army! Instead of temporary recruitment, there are a total of 49,000 nearly 50,000 troops! Such a force is enough to make Egil become one of the European powers, and a complete reserve system, an excellent central government, and a good financial situation... These conditions are accumulated, but they are enough to support Egil to support a powerful army that is not inferior to any continental power. And this is the biggest reliance for Egil to be able to be proud and glimpse the hegemony of the continent, and the supreme king.

Of course, although it is very gratifying to maintain an extremely powerful army, what makes Egil even more proud is that he has a powerful navy unique in northern Europe. A total of 7,000 elite Viking pirates operated 150 standard modified loach crossbow warships, and fifty just made equipped with three rows of crossbows and tower ship structures, and 500 medium-sized transport ships that were enough to transport more than 20,000 troops at a time. If necessary, more than 800 large merchant ships can be temporarily recruited.

Such a terrifyingly powerful fleet can roam the Baltic Sea in the North Sea. It is a well-deserved maritime power power. Today, Great Britain in Europe is about to die, and Spain and Portugal are still shadowless. The Dutch sea coachman could not even achieve independence. There are only four countries that can compete with the Norman Navy: two of Venice and Renaya have established a country through trade. The navy is strong, but the army is a flaw, and its scope of activity is on the front line of the Mediterranean, so there is no need to worry about it. There are two, one is the traditional European power, East Rome, the Greek fire warships, and giant galloping warships, and the other, in a broad sense, is not considered a country, but an alliance.
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