Chapter 272： Tricks of the Duke of Saxony

Although it was necessary to leave a large number of soldiers and let them go home to participate in the autumn harvest, they could not immediately attack East Frisian, but Albrecht, Duke of Saxony, still planned to do something to build momentum for the attack on East Frisian. More importantly, find an excuse for doing it.

As a result, the Duke of Saxony sent a large number of manpower in his territory, the Saxony electorate, other noble territories of the Saxony family, and the vassals of the Saxony family, and began to publicize Marin's "capture of power by force. "The Lord" argument.

At the same time, the Duke of Saxony secretly sent people to search for the remaining forces of the Sexner family. However, Marin had done too hard at first, and shot out directly, destroying the Sexner family and killed a large number of followers of the Sexner family. This makes it difficult for the Duke of Saxony to find a spokesperson ...

The so-called spokesperson is an important figure of the overthrown former dynasty, preferably the family ancestry of the former monarch. Such a character may not have much ability. But as long as he was there, he could give the Duke of Saxony an excuse to "help" him.

After all, the Duke of Saxony is also an old nobleman, and he must be disciplined ...

Like this, after searching for a few months, finally, let Saxony find a suitable spokesperson ...

人 This person is called Kanu, and he can be regarded as a member of the Sequner family. However, Kanu's father Jess was only the illegitimate son of Ulrich I, Earl of East Frisian, and did not have any inheritance rights. However, the successor of Ulrich I, Jen's elder brother Enno I, still gave Jess a lot of legal procedures to join the Sexner family, enabling him to use the Sexner family. The surname belongs to the side branch. Of course, because they are side branches, they are not eligible to inherit the count's position. Therefore, Jace was only placed in the small town of Norden, the "land of Longxing" of the Sexner family, and was a small official responsible for collecting "taxation" of salted fish by fishermen. After Jess died, Kanu inherited this small official duty to collect the salt fish for the count.

When Marin's army swept over Oriich and Lyle, on the way to Norden on the north coast, Kanu received news from a trader. As a result, he packed his belongings overnight and fled from Norden, without having time to notify the members of the Sexner family in the city.

Because, as a small official collecting salted fish, Kanu lived outside the city of Norden. It was already night when he received the news from the expert traders. And the city of Norden was closed, and he was too lazy to notify the people in the city, but he took his property and used his official identity to persuade a fisherman. He was sent out to the sea by a fishing boat and went to England opposite the sea ...

In this way, Kanu became the only surviving male of the Sexner family using the Sexner surname ...

Later, when Kanu heard that the Duke of Saxony was looking for members of the Sexner family, Kanu had just spent all his money in England and was very poor. So, he found a trading house set up by a Hansa merchant from the Saxony department in London, stated his identity, and took out an identity document.

The Saxon businessman was so happy that he quickly sent Kanu to Groningen ...

Then, Albrecht, Duke of Saxony, began to use Kanu as his trump card, and began to promote Kanu's "orthodox" ...

In fact, Kanu is only the son of an illegitimate child, not at all in the Sequner family's succession ranking. The descendants of the Sexner family women who marry abroad are more qualified than Kanu to have inheritance.

But the Duke of Saxony doesn't care about those. He was just trying to take over the territory of East Frisian Land, and he didn't really want to help the Sexner family.

As a result, when Kanu was bragged by the Duke of Saxony as the heir of the Sexner family, he was forced to secretly sign an unpublished instrument. In the document, Kanu first asked the Duke of Saxony to help restore the country, and then, under the instrument, Half of it means that Kanu is willing to sell East Frisian Land to the Duke of Saxony for the price of 10,000 gold coins ...

Kanu was so poor that he could not eat any more, so he naturally left it to the Duke of Saxony. Moreover, after the completion of the event, there are 10,000 gold coins, which is enough for him to be chic. Moreover, from a legal point of view, he is not qualified to be an earl, and he never thought of such a thing. I was looking for the Duke of Saxony this time because it was too much to eat. So he signed the instrument very quickly, and agreed to cooperate with the Duke of Saxony in the early stage ...

After receiving the news, Marin checked the old information and found that Kanu was only the son of an illegitimate child of the Seksner family. So Marin sent news and showed evidence that Kanu was just an illegitimate child. At that time, the males who inherited the sequence in the Sequner family were all killed by him.

However, the Duke of Saxony was so determined to seek East Friesland that he accused Marin of falsifying the evidence, and Kanu was a full member of the Sequner family.

Anyway, we don't know much about the small country of East Frisian. Moreover, Kanu did come up with proof of family membership. That proof was that Jen's elder brother Enno I took care of him and formally absorbed him like a family branch. However, the document did not specifically state that Jace was an illegitimate child, but gave An as a collateral child.

Therefore, the Duke of Saxony insisted that Kanu's father Jess was not the illegitimate son of Ulrich I, but the son of a cousin of Ulrich I, who belonged to the inheritance sequence. And the proof that Marin brought out that Jace was an illegitimate child, the Duke of Saxony insisted that it was forged by Marin ... At the same time, the Saxon nobles unanimously voiced, all of them determined that Marin's certificate was forged ...

Uh ...

Later, Marin was too lazy to justify it. Anyway, no matter what he says, the Duke of Saxony and his allies will not admit that they are so heart-warming ...

As a result, Marin simply began to integrate the army and actively prepared ...

During his time in Spain, the newly recruited 5,000 soldiers have been very good under the training of officers. At least, the discipline is very strict.

Moreover, this time on the battlefield, the top 5,000 veterans are ahead, and the 5,000 recruits are just for the reserve team. Therefore, there is no such thing as a recruit being attacked and causing a crash. This kind of thing can happen only when recruits are at the top.

What surprised Marin is that the 800 black shirt knights trained by Steindorf, the musket riding level is also very good. At least, it works well when shooting dense formations. Of course, the price paid is that the black shirt knights consume a lot of gunpowder and lead bullets.

Fortunately, Columbus brought back 30 tons of saltpeter, and Marin ordered 40 tons of gunpowder after buying enough sulfur and charcoal. So much gunpowder is absolutely enough.

Even at the same time as the autumn harvest, Marin let the musketeers train hard. In order to make the musketeers adapt to the tension on the battlefield and avoid the strange thing that the US musketeers "plugged more than 20 lead bullets into the barrel but no gunpowder" during the Civil War, Marin found a team of soldiers Throw mud **** at the musketeer team from the side, disturbing the musketeers' shooting ...

The Mud Regiment will not really hurt these musketeers, but it can simulate the attack and interference scenes of musketeers on the battlefield to a certain extent. A qualified musketeer is not to say that you are usually good at training ~ www.novelhall.com ~ and also to make sure that when you are on the battlefield, you will not make mistakes because of tension and enemy interference. Among them, the most fatal mistake is to forget to load gunpowder and insert the lead bullet into the barrel of the gun ... If such a thing happens, it is very troublesome to handle. Because after the lead bullet is pressed to the bottom, it is difficult to remove it. Without taking it out, you can't continue shooting. Because the lead bomb will block the fire hole, and then pour the gunpowder into it, it cannot be ignited by the fire hole ...

So, Marin asked some soldiers to interfere with the musketeers by throwing mud balls, just to test whether they would make mistakes when facing troubles and threats.

Sure enough, many musketeers made mistakes while busy. Some musketeers, because they were nervous, really forgot to load gunpowder and pressed the lead bullet into the barrel ...

Fortunately, this is just adaptation training. After many exercises, this situation is much better. However, after each training, many musketeers were smashed with mud and swollen by the mud. Although the mud ball is not fatal, it hurts when it is hit on the face ...

At the beginning, the musketeers were hit by the mud group and exclaimed. By then, they had ignored the mud attack. Even if I was hit, I continued the process of reloading myself, and I didn't make a lot of mistakes ...

In addition, the newly formed artillery unit, after having enough gunpowder, also started a lot of firing training. Fifty front-mounted bronze three-pound guns have been cast. The speed of the iron mold casting method is not covered, and the manufacture of bronze guns is called a rapid, but it does not affect the quality.

In order for the Army artillery to quickly form a combat force, Marin deployed 50 experienced artillery from the Navy and the Texel Island turret, each of which is responsible for a gun, and is responsible for commanding the recruits to reload and clean the cannon. With these old artillery, these novice artillery can also form combat effectiveness as soon as possible ...