Chapter 242： Tinplate

After getting the extremely powerful figures of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Marin did not go to the capital of Bishop of Münster to continue bribing the bishop of Münster, but directly led the team back to the country.

Marin felt that at this time, it was better not to let the Bishop of Munster know the news. If they have bad ideas, get the news in advance, it is easy to give them time to prepare.

Anyway, your army is ready. At that time, the Holy See ordered to rush into the Bishop of Münster with his army.

Unlike Archbishop Cologne and those bishops, this decision of the Holy See is equivalent to depriving Bishop Munster of the secular rule and directly moving his interests. The Archbishop of Cologne and the other bishops had no direct losses. Therefore, the Archbishop of Cologne and several bishops are easily persuaded, and the Bishop of Munster, as a party whose interests have been damaged, is not so easy to say.

Even if he couldn't resist clearly, Bishop Münster has been in charge of the Diocese of Münster for many years and secretly tripped Marin, which is a breeze.

Therefore, Marin intends to make a surprise. When the Holy See ordered it, he directly led the army into Münster. Wait for the soldiers to leave the city, and then negotiate. In short, there is no time for the other party to respond.

In addition, because he did not consider the matter of the Bishop of Osnabruck before, Marin did not send his hand to the Bishop of Osnabruck to collect intelligence. At this time, it is time to send people to the Bishop of Osnabruck to collect intelligence, so as to avoid problems when the army passes by because of insufficient information.

The Bishop of Osnabrück is only a weak bishopric, and it can only exist safely because of the prestige of the Holy See and the Archbishop of Cologne. This country has a small territory and weak power. If it had n’t been strong, it would have been destroyed.

Therefore, the Bishop of Osnabruck and the Bishop of Münster are different. Bishop Munster is a powerful faction. After all, in Germany, there are not many countries with a land area of ​​more than 10,000 square kilometers, just a few. Therefore, the Bishop of Münster is more difficult.

As for the Bishop of Osnabrück, as long as he dispatched 10,000 troops to siege, plus it has been abandoned by the backers, surrender is only a matter of time.

What's more, Marin heard that the army of the Bishop of Osnabrück has only seven or eight hundred people, and the fighting power is average. The Bishop of Münster has a standing army of 5,000, which is a powerful country.

After all, to support 5,000 mercenaries, the salary alone, it is nearly 90,000 gold coins a year, not all countries have so much money to support so many mercenaries. This shows that the financial situation of the Bishop of Munster is quite good.

Of course, the strength of Bishop Munster is not in Marin's eyes. If it were not for the electorate of Saxony and the electorate of Brandenburg, the 5,000 soldiers of the Bishop of Münster alone, in Marin's eyes, it was a P. Have you seen it? Duke of Saxony's elite tens of thousands have been defeated by Marin? Five thousand people, what is it?

After returning to East Friesland, Marin asked Schwartz to step up training for recruits. Because of the urgent time, this batch of recruits, especially the last 5000 recruits, may not be able to train for 3 months as originally planned. Possibly, the training will start in more than a month. Therefore, Schwartz's training task is very heavy.

Fortunately, with the assistance of the 200 young officers who came out of the crash course, these recruits were able to form a certain combat power as soon as possible. After all, the power of role models is endless. There are 200 theoretically experienced military officers who can guide you. I do n’t know how high the combat effectiveness is, but it is definitely faster to complete the training requirements than without them.

In order to allow recruits to form combat power as quickly as possible, these 200 officers with solid theoretical foundations are not enough. To this end, Marin recruited 1,200 veterans from the veterans, and replaced 1,200 veterans from the recruits. The new recruits, taken by the veterans, naturally get started quickly. For recruits, on average, every ten people have a veteran as the squad leader. Under the leadership of these veterans, recruits can also get familiar with the business more quickly. At the same time, under the leadership of these veteran squadrons, they can adapt quickly when encountering combat. After all, there are veterans who teach by example, and new recruits adapt faster.

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Before the expedition, Marin had been thinking about a problem-that is, the issue of domestic security ...

After Marin came up with the artillery bombardment + gunpowder barrel blasting strategy, the Oak Gate faced the artillery and became a decoration. George's capture of Leeuwarden told Marin that cities in his own country could also be captured by the enemy with the same tricks.

Although, the city of Aurich has replaced four large iron gates, and he no longer has to worry about being damaged by enemy shelling. However, there is no other city yet. Especially the Principality of Schleswig may face Danish revenge at any time, which is the most dangerous.

You know, the Danes ate Malin ’s losses, but apparently also learned Malin ’s tricks. If the city gate of the Principality of Schleswig or the oak city gate is easily broken by the Danes with the same tricks.

Originally, Marin planned to wait for the zinc in the Tala lead-zinc mine to smelt zinc to make a thick tinplate and cover the city gate, so there was no need to worry about enemy shelling. After all, the shells of this era are all iron balls, and the power of the exciting medicine is not great. As long as the city gate is covered with iron, the enemy will be difficult to break through.

Just like Eastern China, the city gate was covered with copper skin and painted with red paint, so it did not fear the bombardment of ancient smoothbore guns. However, in Europe, it is unrealistic to cover the city gates with copper skins. Because the price is too high.

Europe is not the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the exchange ratio of silver to copper was as high as 1 to 130. The price of copper was very cheap. Naturally, it was possible to use copper skin and copper nails to cover the city gate. But what about the European era? The silver-copper exchange ratio is 1 to 15, and it is absolutely the talent of the local tyrants to use copper skin to go to such a large gate.

However, it is useless to be covered with a general iron sheet. After a few rains, it immediately rusted. The rusty iron skin, once the shells were smashed, it was broken, and it didn't work at all.

However, the Tala lead-zinc mine, which has just been acquired, has not been explored, and it is simply too late to make tinplate to the gates of the areas of Mondrisfries, Oldenburg and Schleswig.

And the replacement of the gates of these three areas with big iron gates is too expensive, and even Marin can't afford it.

An iron city gate weighs at least seven or eight tons, and a city requires several. There are several cities in a country ... In short, the iron consumption is too amazing ...

At present, blast furnace ironmaking is not popular in Europe. Ironmaking is simply replaced by ordinary charcoal furnaces. The output is low and the quality is poor, but the price is high.

Therefore, it is very unreliable to popularize iron gates in cities in three countries ...

Thinking about it, Marin suddenly remembered the tinplate commonly used on later tin cans. That is, the tinplate is soaked in a tin bath and hot-plated, and the rust-proof tinplate is simply obtained.

The anti-rust ability of tinplate is very good, the only disadvantage is that the tin layer on the iron skin cannot be destroyed. Otherwise, the damaged tin-plated point will become the diffusion point of the iron rust.

The galvanized tinplate perfectly avoids this shortcoming. Because, even if the galvanized layer is damaged a little, as long as the range is not large, it is not a big deal, but can continue to be used. Therefore, Marin thought of using zinc. Moreover, the Tala lead-zinc mine in Ireland has large zinc reserves, and stands at 10% of the ore content. The reserves are very large. If it is extracted, the cost will be very low. At least, much lower than tin.

But now, Marin has no time to wait for zinc to be produced in the Tala lead-zinc mine. Because, war will break out at any time. Therefore, after thinking over and over again, Marin decided to use the 15 tons of tin that was originally intended to be used for counterfeit coins for all tinplate manufacturing.

Before the zinc in the Tala lead-zinc mine, the tinplate was used to cover the city gate for a while. When zinc is out, replace it with tinplate.

As for the situation where the tinplate tinplate layer is damaged, it is easy to cause problems ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Marin also quickly thought of a solution ...

Pin the tinplate to the city gate, nothing more than the tinned layer will appear on the nail holes. Therefore, Marin decided to nail the iron sheet out of the nail hole before tin plating. Then, put it into the tin bath for hot plating. In this way, when the tinplate is nailed to the gate, as long as the nail is nailed in the nail hole, as much as possible, there will be no damage to the tin plating layer.

As long as the tin coating is not damaged, tinplate can be used for a long time. Even if the enemy is armed with artillery to attack, the gate covered by tinplate can be held for a long time.

In fact, this time, Malin made tinplates urgently and divided them into cities in the control area, which is to withstand this wave. Once Marin succeeded in controlling the Bishop of Münster and the Bishop of Osnabrück, 20,000 troops vacated, and it did not matter whether the tinplate covered the gate. Who dares to infringe their own territory, just go back directly ...

However, during Marin's intent to conquer and control the Bishop of Münster and the Bishop of Osnabrück, during this time, Marin could not freely manage other places. Therefore, it is still necessary to send some tinplate to nail the city gates of domestic cities so that they can withstand the attack of the enemy for a period of time ...