Chapter 79： Elbe River Teacher

After deceiving John V to sign the unequal treaty, Marin was in a good mood. Moreover, news of Farrell's surrender soon spread.

Only Jever is not very smooth, Adler has no good way to Jever Castle. Because he has neither heavy artillery nor demolition teams.

Helpless, Adler had to leave 500 soldiers to continue the siege. Then, with 1,500 soldiers, he went directly to Oldenburg to take over the site.

The reason why is this is Marin's previous arrangement. In the plan, after Marin defeated Oldenburg, he would continue to take the army eastward and join Schwartz in the Principality of Holstein. Then, the army went north together and gradually pulled out the cities and fortresses that had not yet been conquered. Because the heavy artillery is in Marin's army.

The 2000 militias led by Adler, although they were militias, had been training longer and more elite than the newly recruited recruits by Marin. It's just that these people usually have to cultivate land. Only when the staff is tight, Marin will choose to recruit them. In normal battles, Marin still chose to use out-of-production mercenaries. In this way, it will not affect agricultural production.

However, because Saxony sent more than ten thousand people, leading to Marin, there was actually no shortage of farmland serfs. In addition, Marin has 20,000 or 30,000 cows in his hand, which is extremely rich in animal power. Therefore, even if these 7,000 militiamen do not participate in the spring cultivation, they will not delay the agricultural time. Only during the autumn harvest, because it is impossible to use animal power and can only be harvested by human power, must these militiamen participate. Otherwise, when the autumn harvest encounters heavy rain, it will be over.

In fact, these 7,000 militiamen were recruited and organized when the Sykesner family ruled East Friesland. After Marin occupied the East Frisian Lambert State, in order to control this huge army, he specifically killed all the nobles who originally ruled these militias, making them headless. Then, Marin promoted his own people and the followers of the original Brock family (Marlin's grandfather's family) as the commander of this militia team. Even the old Hoffman directly became the supreme leader of these 7,000 militiamen. In this way, the officers of this militia became their own. In addition, Marin has been good to the people in recent years, especially the bread tube, which is much stronger than the time under the rule of the Syxner family. Therefore, in the past few years, the people of East Frisian Lambert have basically been at home. These militiamen are also from the civilians, and naturally they are basically at heart.

Although it has been said that after several years of intermittent training, this militia army is much more powerful than the new recruits. However, Marin considered that the security of the East Friesland homeland is also very important. Therefore, Marin's choice is to use a regular army to defend the country. Once a large-scale national battle is fought, when the regular army needs to leave the border, these militia will be called up and used for national defense. In this way, Marin can also safely take the army with him, without worrying that the old nest will be taken over.

This time is no exception. When Marin led the army to go on expedition, the domestic defense work was naturally handed over to these 7,000 militiamen.

Moreover, after taking the Oldenburg, Marin also needs to leave enough troops stationed. Otherwise, the little nobles in this place would initiate a rebellion and let Marin's efforts go in vain.

Therefore, Marin chose to let the brave Adler, lead 1,500 elite militiamen, stationed in Oldenburg to monitor the local nobles and prevent their rebellion. At the same time, Adler is fully responsible for the supervision of the members of the Oldenburg family.

When Adler arrived in Oldenburg with 1500 militia elite, Marin immediately handed over the defense work of Oldenburg to Adler.

However, before leaving, in order to prevent the rebellion of the rural nobles of the Oldenburg country, Marin posted a notice to appease the people, saying that he would swear that he would never kill any local people when the local nobles could not resist A nobleman.

This is mainly because when Marin occupied East Frisian Lambert, it almost killed the local nobles. Marin feared that the little nobles of the Old Kingdom of Oldenburg feared that they would die like the little nobles of the East Friesland, and they revolted.

Marin is now in a hurry to beat Denmark, naturally there is no time to ignore these little nobles in the old country of Oldenburg. But they were worried that they would cause Adler trouble. So, Marin posted a notice, expressing his attitude that he would not kill people indiscriminately this time.

In fact, the reason why Marin did this was to take into account the issue of later rule. It ’s enough to do things in East Friesland. If you do too much, your reputation will stink. Moreover, if each country is occupied and the local nobles are killed, no matter which country is attacked next time, they will be confronted with the nobles of the other side. Because if you do n’t resist, you will die, and if you resist, you will die. In this case, Marin will encounter great difficulties.

Therefore, Marin decided that he would no longer raise the butcher's knife in an attempt to capture any country in the future. He decided to learn Prussia ’s unification of Germany—just to deprive the local aristocracy of the rule, but retain their name.

And Oldenburg is the first "model" area that Marin intends to develop. Only when the local aristocrats who do not resist will be treated kindly. When Marin hits other countries in the future, the aristocrats in those places will surrender. Otherwise, they will succumb to the end, causing great trouble to Marin.

Of course, Marin is not good. After the dust settled, Marin planned to deprive the nobles of Oldenburg from the management of their arable land. However, Marin will pay them enough rent based on the current output of these nobles' cultivated land ...

For example, the rye field in the Old Kingdom of Oldenburg has a yield of less than 150 pounds per mu. The nobles' harvest from the manor is about less than 100 pounds per acre. At that time, Marin could pay them a fixed income of 100 pounds of rye per mu. However, the control of these estates is in the hands of Marin, then it will be different. With the help of fertilizer blocks, the local mu rye production can reach four or five hundred pounds per mu. The additional production is Marin's own.

In this way, the interests of the native nobility in Oldenburg were not damaged. And Marin, because of its advanced production technology, can gain more after acquiring the management rights of those lands. It can be said that this is a win-win situation.

As for the local nobles, Marin plans to build a new city in the future, similar to the casino in Las Vegas. Build various entertainment facilities and places in the city, specially for those nobles to have fun. In the future, these nobles would sit, eat, drink and play in the casino every day. And their original land ~ www.novelhall.com ~ will send a fixed income every year, renting 100 pounds of rye per acre is enough for them to be smart ... and these oldenburg nobles, after being corroded, It will slowly degenerate and even become waste. By then, they will not be able to pose any threat to Marin ...

After solving the defense problems of Oldenburg, Marin led the army and continued eastward. The army first collected ships, built a pontoon on the Weser River, and entered the Archbishop of Bremen (not the same family as the Hanseatic city Bremen).

Although very unhappy, the Archbishop of Bremen's military force against Marin's more than 10,000 troops could only watch them pass by. Fortunately, Marin's army has strict discipline and is not guilty of the people along the way. Even the 3000 mercenaries hired by Hamburg, under the supervision of Marin's army, did not dare to rob the people along the way, but let the Archbishop of Bremen breathe a sigh of relief.

When more than 10,000 troops arrived on the west bank of the Elbe River, Hamburg on the other side of the river learned of the news and sent hundreds of merchant ships to build a huge pontoon of 3 kilometers long on the broad surface of the lower river of Elbe to make Marin The army quickly crossed the broad surface of the lower Elbe and quickly reached Gluckstadt, the capital of the Principality of Holstein, also on the east bank of the Elbe.

In this way, the 10,000 troops brought by Marin from the homeland and 3,000 mercenaries in Hamburg, and another 10,000 troops led by Schwartz and another 2,000 mercenaries in Hamburg, succeeded in Gluckstadt on the Elbe Teacher. At this time, the total number of this coalition army reached 25,000. If the 5,000 people joining Lübeck to Kiel, the total number of coalition forces will reach as much as 30,000 ... In this era, a large army of this size is enough to compete with any country in Europe. Of course, except for the Ottoman Turkey, which usually sends hundreds of thousands of troops ...