Chapter 798： This is stable

The military action of the Principality of Geddes was obviously supported by France. In order to ensure the success of the operation, Charles II, Duke of Geddes, wrote to King Louis XII, asking him to support the action of the Principality of Geddes.

In principle, Louis XII supported the Principality of Geddes to rob the 17,000 Swiss mercenary prisoners of war. If the Principality of Gedes really recaptured those Swiss prisoners of war, then the anti-Habsburg family camp's military strength will be greatly enhanced Promotion.

It's just that France has just suffered a huge loss on the expedition to England and was badly hurt. Therefore, Louis XII was not willing to confront the Habsburg family head-on. Therefore, Louis XII's decision is to strengthen military assistance to several cantons in western Switzerland and help those cantons repel the Habsburg family's offensive.

In this way, the Habsburg family can focus on Switzerland before the action of the Principality of Geddes, and ignore the defense of the Netherlands, giving the Principality of Geddes an opportunity to send troops. .

To this end, French King Louis XII sent 10,000 French soldiers, put on the Swiss's bizarre cut clothing, entered several cantons in western Switzerland, and fought with the Swiss Resistance Army, and also against the Habsburg family site Weak points, launched several counterattacks ...

This move really attracted the attention of the Habsburg family. According to the reconnaissance of spies in the Netherlands in the Principality of Geddes, it was learned that the Netherlands area to which the Habsburg family belonged sent about three or four thousand people to the south. , Seems to support the Swiss battlefield ...

Of course, this information is not wrong. Because the Habsburg family did transfer three or four thousand soldiers from the Netherlands to support the Swiss battlefield. After all, the French supported the 10,000-strong Swiss army, which increased the pressure of the Habsburg family on the Swiss battlefield. It is also normal to draw troops from the Netherlands to increase reinforcements.

As for the actual 17,000 Swiss mercenary prisoners of war, Maximilian I was secretly escorted to the Zeeland, near the administrative center of Ghent near the Austrian Netherlands, to reclaim the wasteland. Zeeland is a group of islands at the mouth of the Rhine, where there are abundant water resources and swamps. Maximilian I sent the 17,000 Swiss mercenary prisoners of war there. In addition to security reasons, he also escorted those prisoners to build windmills and pump the water in the swamp to obtain fertile farmland. The idea of ​​pumping water with a windmill is already in the Netherlands. But the Habsburg family really paid attention to it because of the large-scale promotion of windmill pumping in East Friesland, and the acquisition of tens of thousands of Yugram land, which stimulated the Habsburg family. Today, there are exactly 17,000 free workers, and the Habsburg family also intends to learn Marlin, use a windmill to drain water on a large scale, and obtain fertile arable land from the swamp ...

According to Marin, the swamps are fertile grain fields after draining water. This is valid because most swamps are rich in peat. Moreover, due to fish and shrimp activities, fish and shrimp carcasses are also rich in phosphorus. Therefore, such land is cultivated as fertile arable land. Don't reclaim tens of thousands of Ugram land like Marin, even if thousands of Ugram land is cultivated, the Habsburg family makes a lot of money. After all, without Marin's exclusive fertilizer technology, the natural fertile area of ​​the marshland, which was reclaimed, is a fertile field, not a barren land. The grain prices in Europe are so high now, even if the old grain output is calculated, the net income of 10,000 eugrams of cultivated land every year is more than 100,000 gold coins. This is definitely good news for the financially difficult Habsburg family.

Under the leadership of Marin's former subordinate, Frenzberg, the Austrian army of the Habsburg family is in a state of flux in Switzerland. Today, the Austrian army already occupies most of Switzerland's Graubünden, St. Gallen, Zurich, Aargau, Schwyz, Uri, Walden and Lucerne regions. Today, Frenzberg is leading the army to siege Berne. If the canton of Berne is won, the Swiss resistance is basically over.

Generally speaking, the Swiss Union has two main leaders-Canton of Zurich and Canton of Bern. Among them, Zurich was originally the strongest state. However, most of the mercenaries in Zurich were sent to Lübeck and then captured by Marin. It was easy to usher in release, but was suddenly captured by the Habsburg family army of Maximilian I ...

Therefore, the original strongest canton of Zurich was won by Franzberg under the circumstance of the local army empty. Then, the present Canton of Bern became the leader of the Swiss Union.

In fact, Berne lost a lot of troops in the previous war, and now it is no longer able to confront the Habsburgs.

However, Berne is not far from France. Moreover, the western part of the Berne region is a French-speaking region, which is politically biased towards France. As a result, the Canton of Bern also received the support of the French.

After hearing the intelligence of the Habsburg family's overall attack on Switzerland, French King Louis XII immediately dispatched 5,000 French troops, put on the Swiss cutouts, and joined the Berne defense.

However, in the face of the Spanish phalanx held by Frensberg, the remaining mixed army of Swiss mercenaries and the French army was invincible and had to retreat to the big city.

Nowadays, the German-speaking region of Bern can basically fall into the hands of the Habsburg army in Frensberg. Only the city of Berne has not fallen, and the French-speaking area west of Berne has not yet fallen into the hands of the Habsburgs.

However, the Habsburg family army has little interest in the rural areas of Bern. Why? Because Berne is a mountainous state, it is mainly located in the Bernese Oberland. The terrain here is rugged and not very suitable for agriculture. Before the rise of industry, Berne was a tasteless region. Although Berne is an important city for the production of Swiss watches in the later generations, there is currently no watch industry in the Bern area.

The reason why the Bern area later became a watch center was because after Calvin's reform in Switzerland, it was forbidden to wear expensive gold and silver jewelry and jewelry. But people are used to wearing ornaments, not wearing anything. Exactly, the watch industry began to rise in the late 16th century, and pocket watches appeared. So, the Swiss began to produce clocks, and it was popular to wear pocket watches on their bodies as accessories for B ... In this way, it does not violate the religious regulations of Calvinism, and it can also hold B ... Therefore, many early Swiss pocket watches were made of gold ... … After all, it ’s not gold that is not enough to hold B ... In the end, Switzerland has naturally become a country rich in watches because the watches have been made for a long time ...

The reason why Swiss gold watches became famous all over the world was that Swiss people paid great attention to the practicality of watches and the effect of wearing B at the beginning ... Swiss gold watches have become synonymous with both practical and wearing B and have been well received. Welcome from people in B ...

Of course, that's Berne in later generations. The present Berne is a poor mountainous state, and agriculture is not good. The largest source of economic resources in the state is the commission earned by the mountain people as mercenaries ...

So ~ www.novelhall.com ~ For the Habsburg family, the most valuable state of Bern is Bern City. After all, many mercenary officers in the canton of Bern are buying property in the city. Occupying the city of Berne is tantamount to obtaining more than half of the property in Berne ...

However, the French were obviously not happy to see Berne fall into the hands of the Habsburg family. Therefore, before this, Louis XII had been supporting the Canton of Bern and several other Swiss cantons, allowing them to resist the pace of the Habsburg family expansion. If the fall of Berne, I am afraid that the remaining few states will not be able to withstand it. By then, the Habsburg family will occupy the entire Switzerland and directly border with France. This is something that the Kingdom of France would never want to see. Therefore, this time, Louis XII directly sent 10,000 troops to support the Swiss resistance. Although it was not enough to defeat the Habsburg family's army, it was barely possible to keep the current results.

Of course, the French's actions could not conceal the Habsburg family, but they could not conceal the Beihai Kingdom, which had eyelines in the French royal palace. When Kohler sent the intelligence of Paris to Schwartz in the Principality of Cliff, Schwartz was very happy. Because, he knew that the French sent 10,000 troops to support Switzerland, then, after the war here, the French could not support too much troops. Even if they can send troops, the North Sea Army can deal with them. But will the French send troops without certainty? will not! So, this war has stabilized ...