In the Middle Ages, people drew cards to be promoted to nobility. - Chapter 723

c720 The Urgency of the Code

Lothar got the meditation method from the Knights, but it was not much different from what Jeanna taught him. Many parts were even more obscure and difficult to understand, not as easy to understand as what Jeanna taught him.

After all, the Holy Church Knights, where Jeanna was, was the first knight order in Europe at that time. It rose on the corpses of the Knights Templar that were wiped out by the King of France. It is understandable that the meditation method is a step further.

So the key to the soldiers under his command not being able to learn the Holy Light must not be the meditation method.

After leaving the Knights’ camp, Lothar went straight to the Flemish Pikemen camp and the Swiss Halberdmen camp on the outskirts of the city to inspect.

Both were equipped with breastplates, elbow pads, knee pads, pot-lid helmets, and short swords and daggers used in close combat.

The most distinctive weapon used by the Swiss Halberdmen was a halberd that combined an axe and a gun, so it was also called an axe gun.

There is a hook on the back of the axe. The axe face is used for chopping, the spear head is used for stabbing, and the back of the axe is used to pull the knights off their mounts. It is quite versatile.

The Flemish pikemen use a super-long spear that is four to six meters long. There is nothing to say about this. The forest of spears is enough to daunt any knight.

Among them, the reputation of the Swiss mercenaries is needless to mention. They are composed of brave Swiss mountain people. They are rare elite infantry who can perform duties other than “carrying the line” on the battlefield.

Lothar played the good nephew of Charles VII, the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, who was the first stepping stone to establish the reputation of the Swiss halberdiers.

In the Battle of Nancy, he watched this group of pikemen charge with an invincible momentum, and was eventually split open by a halberd, becoming the “head splitter” that people talked about with relish.

Poor Charles the Bold, who had hoped to carve out a kingdom of Lotharingia of his own between France and Germany, was interrupted by a group of Swiss peasants.

This also triggered the famous “Burgundy Succession Crisis” in history. In the end, Prince Maximilian of Austria won the beauty. It was also with the endless wealth of the rich Burgundy territory that the Habsburg family finally secured the throne of the Holy Roman Empire.

Later, during the siege of Rome, the “Pope’s Guard” composed of Swiss mercenaries escorted His Majesty the Pope out of the siege at the cost of 80% loss, and since then, the great reputation of Swiss mercenaries has been completely established.

In comparison, the Flemish pikemen are much less famous, but they have also had a good record, which happened to be combined with the Swiss halberdmen to play a similar tactic to the Swiss pike phalanx.

There are also examples in history of Swiss halberdmen breaking away from the pike phalanx to fight alone, and the results are even more dismal.

The only thing that made Lothar feel sorry was that their number was still too small.

As a line-carrying force, even if the number was more than twice that of the cavalry, and with the bonus of large-scale conscription, there could be 700 people, and the two added up to only 1,400 people.

Compared with the cavalry, the biggest advantage of infantry was that they were cheap and numerous.

In the battles at that time, Flemish spearmen and Swiss halberd soldiers often numbered in the thousands or even tens of thousands. In the end, both were just a kind of “urban militia” and “mercenaries”.

They were not the Varangian Guards, which were equipped with multiple layers of heavy armor and could make violent charges on the battlefield and could be called land heavy cavalry. After limiting the number of these two armies, the importance of these two camps was greatly reduced.

However, after watching the drills of the two infantry columns, Lothar came up with an idea, that is, to form a phalanx of 6,000 spearmen with these 1,400 people as the core, as the backbone of the future battlefield.

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After returning to the Governor’s Mansion, before he had time to sit down and drink two sips of Adil’s treasured hot tea from the East, Lothar heard a guard coming to report: “Your Majesty, Sir Dosores is here to visit you again.”

“Again?”

Lothar was a little annoyed. This Sir Dosores was really annoying. Although he had made many contributions on the battlefield and swore allegiance to Lothar.

But he always thought about whether he could use the back door here to get a more fertile fiefdom.

For this reason, he proposed several times to increase the amount of vassal tax, in exchange for a rich fiefdom like Damietta City at the cost of paying more wealth to Lothar.

Loyalty cannot change a person’s greedy nature. If he really agrees to this person’s request, Lothar can indeed get more benefits, but he will not tighten his belt for this reason, but will only intensify the exploitation of the local area.

“No, no, let him take the gifts he brought and go to the church to confess!”

Lothar waved his hand in annoyance, and said, “Did you take the money from that guy?”

The Winged Hussar who reported nodded awkwardly and took off the purse tied behind his waist: “Sorry, Your Majesty.”

“Get out, go to the church with Dosores to confess!”

Lothar pointed at the door and cursed. If Dosores really did what he wanted, what difference would there be between his feudal system and the Saracens’ tax farming system?

By then, the local area would be filled with resentment and chaos, so it would be better to let the Saracens continue to rule this land.

That’s why Lothar hoped that Lavinia could help him perfect a written law as soon as possible, and regulate the behavior of his subordinates through the code, just like the Imperial Order Cavalry Company that did a good job in the Transjordan territory.

The winged cavalryman who reported the incident nodded and left in a hurry, but was stopped by Lothar again: “Take the purse away, remember what I said, there is no free wealth in the world, you now think that Dosores just wants to see me, it is a normal request, but greed will corrode your heart sooner or later!”

Lothar was relieved after driving this man away.

He decided to spend most of his time on formulating the code recently. In addition, he also planned to issue a code of conduct for lords. Here, there is no saying that the vassal of the vassal is not my vassal.

In the evening, an exciting news came.

A knight of the Knights Templar successfully displayed the holy light. Although it was only a ray, it was the real holy light!

Lothar hurried to the monastery and saw that Jeanne had been waiting there for a long time.

“I’ve analyzed it. It should be that they got a ‘seed’ of Holy Light when they changed their jobs. Let’s call it that. With this thing as the basis, meditation can gradually cultivate Holy Light.”

Losa couldn’t help but feel disappointed when he heard this: “In other words, it is still impossible to promote Holy Light comprehensively?”

Jeanna said unhappily: “What are you thinking? Even in the Holy Knights, Holy Light is not something that anyone can use. It takes a long ascetic life, constantly honing the will, and meditating.

Even if the members of your Knights have a ray of Holy Light Seed, I don’t think they can master the power of Holy Light.”

“So I suggest that these three Knights can’t recruit people casually, otherwise they will just take up empty places.”

Losa nodded and said, “Of course I know this.”

Even if there are not 1,200 extraordinary knights who can use Holy Light, only half of this number, Lothar thinks it is a great thing. What’s more, even if they can’t use Holy Light, it doesn’t mean that their combat effectiveness is not strong.

“Speaking of which, meditation may not be useful to others, but their methods of training the body and honing martial arts are still worth spreading.”

When he thought of this, Losa felt his scalp tingling – he still lacked talents in internal affairs, and there were too many things he wanted to do and had to do.

It was impossible for Kurs alone to sort out all the things even if he had three heads and six arms.