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Chapter 1557 Hungarian peasant uprising

After giving the Duke of Ulrich, Marin sent someone to the glass greenhouse cultivation center to ask for enough crotons, ground them into powder, then put them into bags, and sent them to the Principality of Württemberg.

But shortly after he sent the croton flour, a shocking news suddenly came from the south - a large-scale peasant uprising broke out in Hungary...

The cause of this peasant uprising was very nonsense. Originally, the Hungarian Catholic Church planned to organize a crusade under the instruction of the Holy See. Of course, it was not to attack West Asia, but to launch an attack on Turkey on the Balkans and strive to expand the Catholic controlled area southward.

In this era, Turkey had not defeated Persia, nor had it annexed Egypt, and it was not too powerful. The country established by the Magyars, since it converted to Catholicism, has become the pioneer of Europe's struggle against Turkey.

Moreover, what is surprising is that the Kingdom of Hungary actually with its own strength, withstood Turkey's pace of expansion into Europe. It can even fight against Ottoman Turkey back and forth. Especially during the Magash I period, the famous Hungarian black army defeated Ottoman Turkey and did not dare to covet the Central European region.

However, since the death of Magash I, Vladislas II has won the throne of Hungary. But Vladislas II mainly stayed in Bohemia and basically did not go to Hungary. Therefore, the power of the Hungarian Kingdom fell into the hands of the nobles.

Then, in order to save money, these short-sighted nobles directly disbanded the famous Black Army that could defeat Türkiye and the Habsburg families (the Black Army once conquered Vienna).

Then, the combat effectiveness of the Hungarian Kingdom declined greatly and gradually fell into a disadvantage in the conflict with Turkey. Especially after the warlike Turkish Sultan Selim I came to power, he strengthened his military and continued to harass the Hungarian region.

It seems that he felt the pressure from Turkey. The Holy See asked the Hungarian Church to organize a crusade to launch a counterattack against Turkey. The reward is to obtain occupied land and even obtain aristocratic status.

But what the Holy See unexpected was that although this crusade was welcomed by all classes of Hungary, it was boycotted by the nobles.

Of course, the Hungarian nobles were not fools and did not dare to stand up publicly to sing opposite the Holy See. However, when the crusade leader Duolao George organized a crusade of 40,000 people in the city of Pest, the Hungarian nobles sent troops to capture the serfs who participated in the uprising army because of their own territory, and torture them.

The reason for this was because the nobles believed that those serfs went to join the Crusades, who would farm for them?

The mountainous areas in southern Germany are different from those in the southern German region. Because of the vast Hungarian plains, the agricultural conditions here are very thick. The climate here is warmer than that in Germany, the plains are wide and there is no shortage of water. It is an excellent agricultural area. There is no shortage of land in the local area, only farmers who farm.

In addition, the Kingdom of Hungary was very large at this time, with about 200,000 square kilometers, which was far from comparable to the little Hungary of 93,000 square kilometers in later generations. Because the Kingdom of Hungary at this time not only included the later Republic of Hungary, but also the Croatia region and the vast Transylvania region. Transylvania alone had more than 100,000 square kilometers, accounting for half of the Kingdom of Hungary.

However, when the Habsburg family took over Hungary, Ottoman Türkiye instigated the independence of Transylvania, which made the Habsburg family only gained half of the territory of the original Hungarian Kingdom.

Although the Kingdom of Hungary has a population of millions, it has a vast Hungarian plain, and the nobles are not enough to farm. Therefore, although they do not want to turn against the Holy See, they will never allow their own serfs to join the crusades. Moreover, according to the propaganda of the crusades, those serfs who participated in the crusades can directly get rid of their serfs. How can this be done for those Hungarian nobles? You must know that it is not a few people, but tens of thousands...

Therefore, the nobles did not care about the church's face and directly sent people to arrest their own "escape slaves" and publicly whipped and tortured.

However, these Hungarian nobles miscalculated. They were not facing ordinary organizations, but a group of fanatical crusaders. All those who could join this crusaders were fanatical and brave young people.

Seeing that the brothers who fought for the Eastern Expedition were humiliated, these fanatical crusaders were angry...

So, some angry crusaders began to attack the noble private army that pursued serfs, and completely turned aside the Hungarian nobles. The crusad leader Duolao George was also angry that the Hungarian nobles pulled the crusades.

Under the persuasion of the crusaders, Duolao George simply led the 40,000 Crusaders, dominated by Hungarian peasants, to launch a great uprising against the Hungarian nobles.

They captured a group of nobles who came to pursue the peasants and conducted a public trial or even executed outside the city of Pace. Then, the two sides completely broke up.

However, these 40,000 rebels did not conquer the city of Pest. Because Duolao and George also knew that the 40,000 rebels were mainly peasants and were not suitable for attacking the solid city of Pest (Pest is part of the later Hungarian capital Budapest. Later Budapest was composed of two cities, Buda and Pest. Two cities were on the Danube and the other on the other side, which was a bit similar to the three towns of Wuhan across the river).

Because the army was too large and the supply was difficult, in order to solve the supply problem, Duolao. George divided the rebel army into five routes and sent two routes to the northern mountainous areas to mobilize local people to participate in the uprising. By the way, he robbed the local noble manor in the northern area to obtain enough snacks.

The third route was commanded by Anbrush Saleresh, a citizen of the city of Pest (the proportion of citizens in the rebel army was also very high), and stayed in Lacosh near Pest to monitor the Hungarian nobles in Pest.

As for the remaining two armies, Durao George personally led the march towards Szeged, an important city in southern Hungary...

When Marin received information from Hungary, the total number of Hungarian peasant uprising troops had exceeded 80,000...

However, there were also variables. Shortly after Marin received the information, the civic class in the civic army that had stayed near Pest City to monitor the movements of the Hungarian nobles in Pest City. Under the bribery of the nobles, they actually defected to the Hungarian nobles under the leadership of Ambrus Salerish. Then, Ambrus Salerish, the two-five-child, also led the civic class and the noble army to jointly attack Rakosh and eliminate the remaining peasant army. At this point, the third peasant army completely failed and was wiped out.

Then, the Hungarian nobles sent people to Bohemia to ask for help from their monarch Vladislas II. At the same time, they also asked for help from John Zapollo, the powerful governor of Transylvania in the eastern region. The situation began to develop in a direction that was unfavorable to the peasant uprising army...

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After obtaining this information, Marin was immediately excited. Because this peasant uprising army would definitely fail. After the peasant army would definitely have a large number of prisoners of war. These prisoners of war were all the labor force needed by Marin!
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