Chapter 716： Prisoner of war is about to be released

After returning to Aurich, Marin and his family had some affection and went to the blacksmith shop to build fake plate armor the next day ...

With old Huffman's amazed gaze, Marin directed the blacksmiths to roll the thin iron sheet into the zinc bath a few times. Then, each piece of tinplate was freshly baked.

Then, it is "building" plate armor. But Marin's "building" method is a bit strange-he did not build it with a hammer, but cut it with scissors ...

Marin directly found large scissors and began to cut the tinplate. After cutting, let the craftsmen bind the cut tinplate with nails. For the breastplate part, an extra layer of tinplate is used to make it look more like plate armor.

In this way, after a few hours of work, Marin brought a few craftsmen to come up with a set of shiny "plate armor" ...

The old Hoffman who came to watch was stunned-Nima plate armor still has such a practice? People beat them, do you use tailoring? What about cloth? Moreover, the most nonsense is that this set of plate armor is really like that ...

Malint called a few black shirt knights to let them try it on. As a result, the knights in black shirts have stated that the full set of "plate armor" and their breastplates and helmets are about the same weight. However, the sale looks much better ...

"That's good, all you need is to sell pictures!" Marin nodded, and found more craftsmen to let them cut out 2000 sets of "plate armor" as soon as possible to catch up with Anne's wedding ...

As for the horse armor, Marin did not let the production. Because, Marin actually intended to instill the concept of "wing cavalry" into Siegmont I, and his cavalrymen had no horses. This is also a bit more unified.

In addition, in order to maintain the uniformity of the cavalry armor, Marin also let the one thousand cavalry take the plate armor and galvanized it. In this way, everyone is shining brightly, and there is no longer much difference. As for outsiders wondering why it shines? Marin ordered everyone to speak uniformly-the surface of the plate armor was tinned ...

Tinplate is not a secret, and it is not Marin's original. In fact, artisans in the Bohemian region knew how to make tinplate as early as the 14th century to prevent rust. Many plate armor of the Bohemian kingdom are indeed tinned to better prevent rust. It's just that this tin plated plate armor is often expensive and belongs to a fine product.

Marin also felt that the three shining guys were indeed too sarcastic, so he ordered the cavalrymen to wear black cross vests on white, covering the upper body breastplate, and covering the lower body with skirt fabrics. , So as not to pull too much ...

You know, people in this era are so stupid. If you see so many cavalry under Marin's armor wearing silver-white armor, they might be made of silver. If you are brave, you might come to the barracks and steal "silver armor" ......

The other is the formation of cavalry ...

Marin asked the black knights to pretend to be plate armor knights, so naturally they couldn't let them reveal. Therefore, Marin planned to mix the cavalry and the black knights. Thousands of cavalry are mainly arranged in the front and the outer periphery, and the cavalry wearing the iron plate fake plate armor is mainly in the inner circle ... In this way, it is much more difficult for outsiders to recognize it ...

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When Marin was busy cutting false plate armor and fooling the Polish nobility, the autumn harvest of East Friesland also quietly opened the curtain ...

Because of the large amount of potash fertilizer, the rye in East Friesland matured half a month earlier than other areas. Therefore, in mid-September, the autumn harvest of rye in East Friesland began. The other regions of the Grand Duchy of the North Sea, only the provinces of Oldenburg and Schleswig, and North Münster, because they were already under the control of Marin, also used potash fertilizers, so the autumn harvest and East Friesland More synchronous. As for the newly added territories of Bremen, West Friesland and Jutland, the fertilizer farm was not built during spring tillage, so no potash fertilizer was used, and the autumn harvest had to wait until October.

However, at this time, the electorate of Saxony and the electorate of Brandenburg, including Switzerland, sent envoys to ask Marin to return the tens of thousands of prisoners of war ... Because, these three areas also have to harvest in autumn Lack of young labor ...

Moreover, the canal in the south of Münster has also been dug almost, and it is estimated that it can be completed after the autumn harvest. Therefore, the three forces discussed with Marin-can they let people go back earlier? After all, these three countries also need labor for their autumn harvest ...

Of course, only the electorate of Saxony and the electorate of Brandenburg are needed. As for Switzerland, it was purely for the mercenaries to go back and help fight Emperor Maximilian I. After all, there are 80,000 captured mercenaries in Switzerland, all of whom are the main force. Today, the total strength of the Swiss army against the emperor's soldiers and horses is about 10,000. In the face of Maximilian I's 20,000 troops (the emperor increased his troops), some can't resist.

If the 80,000 captured Swiss mercenaries were returned to the country, the situation would be very different immediately. By then, the Swiss military strength will increase from about 10,000 to 80,000, which will form a huge strength and combat advantage for the Austrian army. Even though the Marin phalanx used by Emperor Maximilian I, which is currently reused by Frensberg, is more powerful, it is comparable to the Swiss mercenary. If the Swiss had these 80,000 veterans returning, they would definitely be able to repel the Austrian army and even recover many areas. Unlike now, Swiss mercenaries have been compressed to hold only a few provinces in the west near France.

However, Marin was not happy to see the Swiss defeat the emperor. The victory of the Swiss equals the victory of France. If the emperor is defeated by the Swiss, it means that the demon is stronger. Nowadays, the Swiss have not parted ways with France because of the chaos of Marin. The two are ally relations. Switzerland is strong and France is strong. For this reason, Marin is to suppress Switzerland no matter what.

What's more, Marin has always been afraid of the future Calvinism Protestantism in Switzerland-that is a violent sect that professionally rebels and kills the king ~ www.novelhall.com ~ For this reason, Marin intends to let Emperor Maximilian I defeat Switzerland People and rule Switzerland. With the Habsburg family's devotion to Catholicism, there can never be another Calvinism in Switzerland.

In addition, even if the Habsburgs ruled Switzerland, they would not be able to settle down. Because the Swiss people are fierce, they will definitely not stop the riot uprising and rebel against the rule of the Habsburg family. In addition, France is on the side. Under their enthusiasm, Switzerland will definitely continue to uprising and consume a lot of the energy of the Habsburg family ... In short, eating Switzerland is not necessarily a good thing. Unless, Maximilian I has the courage to slaughter all 600,000 Swiss mountain people ... but really want to do that, no matter who it is, it will be considered demonic by all Europeans ...

Now that he was planning to suppress Switzerland, Marin immediately sent a quick whip to Austria to inform Maximilian I-I am about to release the Swiss mercenary prisoners of war.

When the Swiss prisoners of war are released, they will certainly not be allowed to carry weapons. As long as Austria sends a large number of cavalry to ambush, it will surely win the 80,000 unarmed Swiss prisoners of war.

Anyway, Marin released the people at that time, and it was considered fulfilling his promise. As for the Swiss who were ambushed by the Austrians after leaving the Grand Duchy of the North Sea, it would not matter to him ...