The battle brought the Teutonic Knights to a devastating blow, the Grand Master was killed in battle, and the Knights were plunged into civil strife from top to bottom.

The vast number of peasants were dissatisfied with the extortion of the knightly nobles and rose up in revolt, and the power struggle within the knights intensified, and even the local nobles in the cities demanded rights because they had to pay high taxes.

At this point, Baihua's narrative is at this point, and it is impossible for her to foresee what has not yet happened.

Xu Hao was very glad that he had played all kinds of games, read all kinds of books, and surfed the Internet at will, even if he didn't know the details of history, he could still know more or less about the Warring States period of the Wa Kingdom and the causes and consequences of the Meiji Restoration, and he also knew that the Teutonic Knights basically gave up military power and became a purely religious organization.

The famous novel "Crusader Knights" is about this period of history.

Hyawka also mentions a man named Hus, who said that last year the Holy See excommunicated him and was found guilty by the German Council of Konstanz.

Hus, a Czech, believed in the supremacy of the Bible, rather than the rules and regulations laid down by the pope and other clergy, and emphasized that the sovereignty of the church belongs to the old son of Jesus Christ.

For nearly 30 years, the Holy See was in a state of great schism, and the Roman Council of Cardinals elected two popes, one was Gregory XII in Rome and the other was John XXIII in Avignon.

Xu Hao had vaguely heard Hus's name, and seemed to be a historical celebrity, but he couldn't remember what happened to this person, let alone that Hus was publicly burned to death a few years later, which detonated a long and far-reaching peasant war in European history.

In order to extinguish the peasant uprising led by the Hussites. In order to continue the conquest of the Eastern world by the Teutonic Knights, and in order to support the local feudal nobles, a total of five crusades were organized throughout Europe.

This led to the birth of a new army of modern nationalism in the Czech Republic, which fought against specially trained German knights.

Žishka, the commander-in-chief appointed by Tabor, the leader of the uprising, formulated the ordinance, which was a model for the later military regulations of various countries, and the edict compiled by Xu Hao did not get out of this box, although it was valid for the layman.

The doctrine made ordinary soldiers understand the belief of what they were fighting for, and also strengthened discipline and combat standards, which made the morale of the whole army high and produced a sense of national pride. And consciously perform the duties of a soldier, which is what Xu Hao dreamed of, and the modern army has a combat effectiveness that the feudal army cannot match.

It was now the winter of 1412, the tenth year of Hongxi, and just eleven years later, arquebuses appeared in Tabor's army, and later specialized artillery appeared, and arquebuses did not play a big role, and could not replace swords and crossbows for the time being. But artillery is different, divided into field artillery and siege artillery. Field artillery had short-barreled howitzers that fired stone projectiles and long-barreled howitzers fixed on wooden gun mounts that fired stone and iron projectiles.

For example, in the Battle of Domážice in 1431, the Czechs gathered 5,000 infantry and cavalry. There are about 3,000 combat vehicles and more than 600 artillery pieces, and the proportion of their artillery is already very impressive.

The Czech army marched in the avant-garde, main force and rearguard, and on the way, in order to ensure the advance of the army. Road repair teams and bridge building teams were assigned.

These are the same as the new army of the Ming Dynasty now, especially the formation of the Liaodong Army.

The Czech rebels had a high degree of organization and discipline that modern armies have, and were able to do so in any season. Fight at any time. In terms of offensive tactics, modern armies are often able to resolutely implement the will of the commander-in-chief and will not waver lightly, which is different from those feudal armies that rob on a large scale after winning battles and have loose discipline.

In 1420, four hundred Hussites repelled two thousand knightly guards of the king. In the same year, at Vitkov Mountain, the troops led by Jeska gave a head-on blow to the First Crusader expeditionary force led by Emperor Sigismund I.

In 1422, near Kutná, the Second Crusader expeditionary force suffered a decisive defeat.

In 1426, near Usty, Tabor's 25,000 men defeated the Crusader Knights' force of 70,000, the main force of the entire Crusader army.

In 1427, near Takhov, both the fourth and fifth crusade expeditions were repulsed.

It can be said that the huge impact of the Hussite war was far-reaching, deeply inspired the German military with frequent defeats, provided reference and enlightenment for various military ideas that emerged in the future, and also shook the whole of Europe.

Later, the Hussites split into moderates and radicals, and the moderates, who were more stable in economic and political affairs, began to collude privately with the Catholics, and the National Revolutionary Army, composed of peasants and destitute people in the countryside, became a thorn in their side.

Eventually, the aristocracy and burghers openly betrayed the army, and in 1434 they were three times as powerful as the Tabors, and in 1434 the Czech Republic was reduced to a small third-rate state, which was annexed several times by the Great Powers.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with Xu Hao, but it has something to do with China and the whole world, whether it is good or bad, who can deny the influence of Europe on the whole world?

In addition to the wars of the Czech Republic, Poland and other countries against Germany, the Hundred Years War between Britain and France continued, and there was a ten-year truce, and Joan of Arc, who was able to boost morale and achieve the final victory, was born.

These wars all illustrate the fact that the dominance of cavalry on the battlefield no longer exists, and the idea that infantry can defeat cavalry spreads everywhere, and the importance of infantry continues to increase, and cavalry eventually disappears.

When the great enemy of the cavalry in the north no longer becomes China's henchman, Xu Hao knows that he still can't breathe a sigh of relief, because the new big trouble will soon be replaced by Russia and other Western powers.

Xu Hao shook his head, what are you doing with this idle mind? Thinking too much.

I picked up a newspaper casually, on which was Zhu Gaochi's message to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, in the past, because he was worried about the inconvenience of the people in the foreign affairs, he occasionally sent eunuchs to inquire, but he had never been appointed. In addition, there are three divisions of the capital department, the political envoy department, the three divisions of the judicial department and the imperial history. Recently, it has been learned that eunuchs have interfered in many affairs of the government, so the Metropolitan Procuratorate can transfer the text to the Chinese and foreign countries: from now on, it is strictly forbidden for eunuchs to interfere in the affairs of the government.

Xu Hao didn't have any idea about this, all dynasties and dynasties knew the danger that eunuchs could bring, but they didn't stop it, and the Ming Dynasty would not be an exception.

I also saw that because Song Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was in the water control, he strongly recommended Lin Fang, the director of the Ministry of Industry, and was directly promoted to the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry. He was also very happy.

Lin Fang was a person in the Hongwu period, who was an official in the Criminal Department, and later became the prefect of Ji'an, and was demoted to an ordinary official because of his affairs. This time, the retinue of Song Li governed the river and invented a method of strengthening the river embankment, weaving wood into large bundles, filling them with tiles, and then driving piles to fix them, and then using wood to cross the piles. It is built on the embankment, so that it can play a long-term role in reinforcing the embankment.

This method has been used by later embankment builders. Lin Fang is a person who serves his mother with filial piety, and he and Song Li are both rare Qing officials and capable ministers. A rare pillar of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, there is a township official Bai Ying was promoted to the county order, the year before last, the Central Plains sent a big flood, Song Li recruited 170,000 migrant workers, due to the lack of water sources in the Huitong River. In-depth inspection of the water system and topography along the river, in Baijiadian Village, northeast of Wenshang, I met Bai Ying, a small official.

Bai Ying is stubborn and upright. Extremely disgusted with the powerful, thinking that most of the official eunuchs and meat eaters were stupid, seeing that this Lord Song was so badly clothed and well-dressed, he went to the countryside to ask for advice, and his attitude was pious, so he told Song Li the idea of water control and navigation that he had accumulated for many years.

Bai Ying proposed good strategies such as "borrowing water to sail, digging mountain springs, and repairing water tanks". Song Li was overjoyed when he heard this, so he invited Bai Ying to participate in it, and adopted his proposal, so that the Huitong River had sufficient water sources, which greatly improved the canal's shipping capacity.

Xu Hao was very interested in this, and hurriedly rummaged through the relevant documents, only to learn that there were three projects to divert Wen water, the first step was to build the Daicun Dam, the second step was to excavate the Xiaowen River, and the third step was to build the Nanwang hub.

First of all, the terrain of Daijia Village is sandwiched between mountains on both sides, the dam foundation is stable, it is close to Nanwang, and the straight-line distance is only 38 kilometers, which is the best commanding height of the water transportation of the Fenwen River. When the Daicun Dam was first built, it was an earthen dam, as long as five miles and thirteen steps, to curb the full flow of Wenshui, and later added steel and iron bones, and poured cement concrete, but unfortunately did not invent electricity, Xu Hao secretly said that it was a pity.

A tributary was opened on the south bank of the Dawen River in the upper reaches of the Daicun Dam, named Xiaowen River, which is 90 kilometers long, running through Wenshang County to Nanwang into the canal, as a diversion canal. At the same time, at the mouth of the north bank of the Dawen River upstream of the Daicun Dam, build a rolling dam (sand bar), when the water volume of the Dawen River is small, the Wen water can be blocked from leaking, so as not to affect the amount of Jiyun water, and when the flood is large, it plays the role of overflow, and the sand dam is broken and discharged into the Daqing River, so as to ensure the safety of the Daicun Dam, the Xiaowen River and the canal.

Now, after the careful design of Song Li and other officials, the whole project will last nine years, so that the rivers and rivers are connected, the canals are connected, the lakes and lakes are interdependent, and the rivers are connected, and the rivers are interdependent, so that the Grand Canal will truly become the main artery of north-south transportation, and will play an immeasurable important role in promoting the development and exchange of the economy and other aspects of the north and the south.

Historically, due to the lack of appropriation, lack of technology and other reasons, the built earth dam is not perfect, it is destroyed by water every year, and it must be repaired every year, otherwise it is impossible to divert water to Nanwang, and the annual repair cost is getting bigger and bigger.

Now, because of the abundance of money and the bold construction of new technologies by many young officials, it has been boldly adopted by Song Li, and 150 years in advance, it has been reinforced with cement and stone dams, and a group of officials have been left to conduct research and research, and to ask for improvements at any time, and to start new water conservancy projects, to ensure that after thousands of years, they can still play the role of flood control and sediment control.

Think Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, started in the Warring States Wuyue, dug in the Sui Dynasty and flourished in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the history of local navigation has been more than 2,400 years, the Yuan Dynasty through Shandong navigation also has a history of more than 700 years, is one of the many world-famous projects in ancient China, the reason why China is known as the four ancient civilizations, especially the only civilization that has not disappeared, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is undoubtedly the great project that can best prove the outstanding wisdom of the Han nation and the ability of people to win the sky.

This north from Beijing, south to Hangzhou, a total length of 1,794 kilometers, flowing through Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other six provinces and cities, communicating the Haihe River, the Yellow River, the Huai River, the Yangtze River and the Qiantang River five major water systems, is the world's earliest, largest, the longest process of an artificial canal, gave birth to the unique canal culture of the Han nation, can be called a unique miracle! (To be continued......)