Chapter 239： Prepare for battle

In March, the ships selling grain to Southern Europe and the United Kingdom returned, and brought back a lot of coins, which made Marin suddenly become a local tyrant.

Before, in order to facilitate trade, Marin gave all the cash to Amerigo to India to buy goods. It even borrowed 100,000 gold coins from Hamburg for emergency use.

But with the return of the grain seller, Marin suddenly had cash flow and a large amount of high-value goods worth more than 2 million Ducat coins. In total, a high price of 2.8 million Ducat gold coins was sold for 100 million pounds of rye this time. Because the coins are not enough, many food merchants have to exchange the equivalent goods.

With this money, Marin immediately sent people to Rome, Cologne and other places, and began to spend a lot of money, bribing various high-level officials to obtain maximum support.

In addition, Marin continued to sprinkle money, and in the inland mountains of Germany, he continued to recruit 5,000 mountain people as mercenaries. Thus, in addition to the 8,000 veterans and 7,000 new recruits, the East Frisian Lambertian army has reached 20,000. Of course, the militia army stationed in Oldenburg led by Adler was not counted.

Under Marin's urging, Schwartz, the first person to train in East Friesland, regained his horsepower and devoted himself to the training of recruits. Moreover, there are many veterans in East Friesland who adapt to Schwartz's training methods. Arbitrarily arrange some outstanding veterans to enter the recruits as low-level officers, and they will soon be able to grasp military training.

Moreover, by coincidence, the "Crash Course for Junior Officers" (see "Chapter 347 of the King of German Mercenaries"), which Marin started two years ago, has basically taken shape. 200 intelligent young people 16 years old to 20 years old two years ago have basically been trained, and they are all grown-ups.

Marin took advantage of the army's new construction, and it happened that the 200 quick young army officers were all placed in the new army, and became the officers and main backbone of the new army.

These 200 teenagers, although they were quick-acting, were also military officers who were trained by Marin. These people have certain literacy skills, at least they can understand military orders. Moreover, the military literacy is solid, and military training has been adhered to for two years. Coupled with Marin and Schwartz and others, when they were fine, they also taught them the experience of leading troops. Now, out of these 200 people, the basic level of officers who can be qualified is basically 100%. There are also many capable of middle-level officers.

There is the military officer Miaozi, and the 12,000 recruits are able to form an army faster than the 5,000 new troops recruited by Marin and brought to the Danish battlefield. This is because most of their grassroots officers are high-quality and quick-growing young officers, rather than the "tall ones out of the short ones" selected from the ignorant mountain people.

Because of the Danish problem, Marin offended the two powerful princes of the Electors of Saxony and Brandenburg. Coupled with the defeat of Denmark and the Principality of Saxony, it is impossible to forget the hatred, so Marin has many potential enemies.

You know, since Marin withdrew, the Danish King Hans started the reconstruction work in the country. However, because of the destruction of the Danish spring farming last year, Denmark will not be able to slow down for a while. However, it seems that the electorate of Saxony and the electorate of Brandenburg are supporting the reconstruction of Denmark. It is foreseeable that the rebuilt Denmark will not see the principalities of Schleswig and Holstein continue to be seized. of.

More dangerous than Denmark is the Principality of Saxony. Duke George had defeated the West Frisian Resistance and took control of Leeuwarden. Now, George, Duke of Saxony, has freed his hand.

Of course, George must not dare to confront Marin head-on. However, Marin is now preparing to lead troops south and win the Bishop of Munster. If the number of troops is not enough, or the original 8,000 people, once the main force leaves East Friesland and goes south to take over the Bishop of Münster, it will be difficult to resist George ’s surprise attack behind the force of West Friesland.

Therefore, for local security, Malinte expanded the local army from 8,000 to 20,000. At that time, when sending troops to control the Bishop of Münster, there will be no local unmanned guards.

Moreover, the 10,000-strong army of George, Duke of Saxony, has been subordinated in Groningen, and did not withdraw, so Marin was very worried. Fighting alone, Marin couldn't look down on George's soldiers. However, if they were afraid, Electors of Saxony and Brandenburg would organize a coalition to attack from the East. When he leads the main expedition, George's 10,000 soldiers will stab himself in the back.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Marin thought it would be better to find something for George to avoid threatening himself by his army.

So, Marin thought of Fyskefrijheid, the former Governor of West Friesland and Baron Zütel of Leeuwarden, who had fleeing to the Principality of Geddes, and the tenacious West Friesian coach Sivag ...

Of course, Marin did not want to support the two still-lived Siberian nobles. These two goods are not successful enough, and Sivag has no ability. But Siwag was their subordinate, and he didn't have much voice, and it didn't play much role.

Therefore, the most practical situation is to support the occupation of West Friesland by Charles II, Duke of Geddes. As long as Charles II sent troops, it was possible to defeat George. Moreover, once Charles II sent troops, George's 10,000 army could not free his hands to deal with East Friesland. As a result, Marin's army can control the Bishop of Münster in peace of mind. What's more, the West Frisian Resistance Army has 3,000 troops left.

Thinking of this, Marin immediately wrote a secret letter supporting Charles II to send troops to recapture Leeuwarden. As for the siege method, it is the same as the method used by Duke George-it is still bombardment + gunpowder barrel blasting.

As for why this is so, the intelligence officers under Marin found that George's army did not replace Leeuwarden with a large iron gate after capturing Leeuwarden, but continued to use Oak City Gate. How can Marin let go of such a loophole?

So ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Marin intends to provide Charles II with 20 heavy artillery and several large iron doors. After the army of Charles II captured Leeuwarden, he replaced him. In this way, George could no longer use Marin's method of breaking the city.

As long as Leeuwarden was recaptured, Charles II's army could rely on Leeuwarden and continue to confront the army of the Principality of Saxony. Even, a counterattack or something. After all, the regular army of the Duchy of Geddes is not comparable to the temporary army of the West Frisian Resistance Army.

Historically, the army of the Principality of Geddes was defeated by the army of the Principality of Saxony. Charles II, also far from George, Duke of Pisaxen, was more cunning and capable.

Of course, the cunning Duke of Geddes Charles II will certainly ask for his troops to help. Marin decided to promise to come down first, in order to trick the Principality of Geddes into sending troops.

Anyway, as long as the Holy See declares that the Bishop of Muenster belongs to himself, he will definitely send troops to the Bishop of Muenster. At that time, I used this as an excuse to explain to Charles II that his inability to send troops was "force majeure" ... Then, I could watch with peace the duchy of Geddes and the duchy of Saxony. The enemy can also be one less ...