Chapter 1360： Novice mercenary

Sweeping through these six countries can only be described as devastating. Moreover, in the true sense, there is only a strong army against Marin, in fact, only the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbiter. The other countries are almost as weak as paper.

After all, in a few small countries, the regular army usually has a maximum of one or two thousand people. This expedition basically brought all the regular troops to Beihai. Only three or two kittens stay in the country. In addition to the city walls, there are some old, weak and sick.

Even the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbiter can only rely on the tall and strong city walls and the heavy cast iron gates to defend itself. Otherwise, it is simply impossible to be an opponent of the Marin army.

Once Marin found a way to deal with the city gates or walls, these countries were no different from the paper ...

Unfortunately, relying on the power of science and technology, Marin has worked out the gasoline against the oak city gate and the royal water against the cast iron gate, making the dependence of several countries meaningless.

However, after the battle, Marin worried that his easy way to deal with the Oak City Gate and the Iron City Gate would cause countries to worry. So, Marin spent a lot of money, sent spies to spread the news everywhere, and carried out reverse propaganda ...

As for how to reverse propaganda? Nature is to dilute the existence of aqua regia. In order to dilute the existence of royal water, Marin spent a lot of money to falsify the news, saying that the reason why they could quickly win the three strong cities with cast-iron gates in Lüneburg, Wolfenbüttel and Goslar is because An internal response appeared and helped open the door ...

Of course, those enemies who had seen the royal water corroding the iron gate in person had been controlled by Marin. As long as there are no witnesses, the news will not spread randomly. As for his soldiers? It must have been told ...

In addition, regarding the problem of gasoline burning the oak city gate, Marin also spent money on "public relations"-Marin asked his spies to declare that they just piled firewood outside the city gate and poured olive oil. Then, the other side's city gate was burned ...

what? You ask me why pouring olive oil can burn the city gate? That ’s not the problem of olive oil. The gates of these countries are too old, and they are so old that they are so easily burnt out ...

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In fact, these two fake news spread by Marin sent people, it sounds more like real. Because, people in this era can't understand what Wang Shui is, nor do they know that there is such a special burning thing as gasoline.

After all, in this era, Boyle, the ancestor of modern European chemistry, was not born yet (Boyle was born in 1627), and he had to wait another hundred years.

Therefore, the Europeans of this era simply could not understand the principle of aquatic corrosion of iron gates. A bad one can be promoted as evil witchcraft.

It is easy for people to be afraid of unknown things. If people know the existence of aqua regia and gasoline, it will definitely cause fear in all countries. When the time comes, someone who wants to push it will have to give Marin a "demon" title. You know, Marin was almost slandered by Earl Gelden as a "spokesman for the devil" because he had "before going to bed and still full of energy". If Wang Shui and petrol were to be displayed in front of the world without using the rhythm of Charlie, the Earl of Gelden, other people would be panicked because of fear.

And once countries are afraid of Marin's "black technology", they will certainly be afraid of the North Sea State. Then, Marin, who is relatively isolated, may be more targeted.

Therefore, in order not to cause panic in other countries, Marin had to spread gold and silver to eliminate the adverse effects. Moreover, the tampered "version" sounds more reasonable and easier to believe.

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In fact, what Marin called "sweeping the six countries" this time was nothing more than occupying the capitals of the six countries, and did not completely occupy the borders of the six countries.

Not to mention the six countries, the formerly occupied Lüneburg and Fort Launce, but only the capitals of the principalities of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Saxony-Lauenburg, far from complete control of these countries far away.

Moreover, in these countries, most nobles, especially small and medium-sized nobles, basically live in manor houses in the countryside, not in cities.

Therefore, if Marin wants to take full control of these eight vassals, he must send troops to the countryside to sweep and occupy all the nobles ’estates, and then complete the control of these eight vassals.

However, fortunately, in the previous battle that broke out in the border area of ​​East Friesland and Oldenburg province, most of the nobility in these eight countries were captured after the battle. After all, the nobles of this era were naturally military officers. Anyone who can make an expedition must lead the army to fight with the lord. Those who stayed at home were only noble members who were very old or were minors.

Moreover, those members of the nobles who were in the past when they were fighting with the princes, also took away the strongest force of their respective manor. Only the old, the weak and the sick are actually left in the manor. Even, armed men are not necessarily left.

Then, the next step is to sweep and control the entire eight princely country rural areas. Only by completing the control of various noble estates can we completely control these eight princely countries ...

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To this end, Marin personally took the town of Goslar, and then scattered the seven or eight thousand cavalry including the Cossacks, the black knights and the cavalry of the First Army, scattered according to what they found from the archives of various countries. Information and address, "door-to-door mobilization to do work" from door to door to complete the control and occupation of rural areas in 8 countries.

Anyway, those country mansions were left with some old, weak and sick. Even if only a small number of horses are sent, Marin can win those manors.

But a huge problem currently facing Marin is that his strength is not enough ...

If he only defeats the enemy, his strength is sufficient. However, if he sends people to occupy the entire territory of the 8 vassals, his manpower is not enough.

You know, the two principalities of Brunswick alone, there are more than 20,000 square kilometers, plus the Principality of Saxony-Lauenburg and the Principality of Ravensburg (including the original Principality of Schaumburg, Count of Count Antonios) , Lipper, Bentheim-Tecklenburg, Geldenberg, and the smaller Ritterberg have a total area of ​​more than 30,000 square kilometers. Want to sweep the aristocratic manor across the territory, the required strength is amazing. The point is, the time is also very long.

In desperation, Marin had to recruit mercenaries to help control the site. Because the main force under Marin needs to go south ...

What does Marin take the main force to go south? Of course, it scared the coalition princes!

In order to be recognized by the princely states, Marin must pose with the Habsburg family to attack the princely coalition forces in order to scare the opponent. Moreover, the troops brought must not be less. Otherwise, the princes will not be scared ...

However, the eight newly added vassals also need to be stationed. Otherwise, there must be disobedience.

Of course, because the main armies of the eight vassals are basically folded in the battle of Beihai. The rest is also over in the capital defense battle.

Therefore, even if there are troubles in these eight vassals, there will be no serious opponents.

Therefore, when Marin recruited mercenaries this time, he did not recruit any veterans ~ www.novelhall.com ~, but only recruited 10,000 novice German mercenaries. Moreover, the signed contract is relatively short, with only a one-year contract.

In fact, at this time, the experienced German mercenaries were basically recruited because of the two major wars and the Spanish invasion of Morocco. Marin wanted to recruit mercenaries at this time, so he could only choose those novice novice mercenaries.

Fortunately, because there are frequent wars in this era, there is no shortage of German young men who are willing to join the battlefield. Therefore, Marin's recruitment of mercenaries was relatively smooth.

Furthermore, Marin only hoped that the 10,000 newbie mercenaries would stabilize the situation of the newly occupied eight princely states when he led the army south.

Their only challenge may be that the unwilling 8-state nobility instigated the peasants to launch an uprising. After all, those who survived the regular army of the 8 nations were sent to Oldenburg for centralized detention.

Before leaving, Marin arranged 2000 veterans for the 10,000 newly recruited mercenaries. The role of these veterans is to help train these recruits. At the same time, it can also be regarded as supervising these novice mercenaries to prevent them from coming in disorder. After all, Marin has not been rigorously screened this time, and he does not know what these novice mercenaries are. Marin was worried that there were scumbags that would crumple the people, corrupt the reputation of the North China Sea, and even anger the local people. Therefore, he left 2,000 veterans, equivalent to the role of supervision.

Moreover, before leading the army south, Marin issued an announcement in the eight newly occupied princes-no tax is required this year, and all the food harvested by serfs can be kept by themselves ...

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