King of German Mercenaries

After a while, a young priest with thick eyebrows and big eyes, with Zhu Shimao's style, and a very positive image, came to the Emden Palace where Marin was temporarily stationed under the leadership of the fat man Jeffrey...

"It's no wonder that this person is able to fool people, and he is looking at the appearance of this positive person similar to Zhu Shimao. It is easy for people to believe what he said..." Malin thought to himself. If it is replaced by Chen Peisi's wretched appearance with small eyes, even if he is fooling, someone will believe it...

After Jeffrey led the man into Marin's room, he exited. As soon as Jeffrey closed the door, Assistant Bishop Taylor, who had a serious face, immediately changed to a flattering face, matched with his positive figure with thick eyebrows and big eyes, how strange it looks...

"Assistant Bishop Taylor, I have seen Lord Earl!" Bishop Taylor was also clever. Although the earl title of Marin has not been recognized by the outside world, it does not prevent him from directly admitting it. Moreover, after listening to Taylor's name, Marin was indeed relieved.

Marin doesn't care about anything, anyway, this person is useful to him, that's enough. It's not to let him participate in military affairs, but to let him help fool the people, no big deal.

Marin knew what this kid wanted, so he promised to recommend him to be the archbishop of East Friesland after the death of Bishop Rich. Taylor, who has always seen the wind, is naturally determined. Moreover, before leaving, Marin also gave him a bag of gold coins, which made Taylor extremely excited, and his footsteps became much lighter...

"This is a villain who is greedy for money!" Marin commented. However, he is in great need of such talent. So, naturally, they were drawn together.

Moreover, Taylor's appearance is too positive, it is difficult for people to believe that he is a villain. This reminded Marin of a line in Jet Li's "Eternal Dragon Saber" - "Not only beautiful women can't be trusted, but even men who seem to be loyal and good." Obviously, Taylor is a seemingly loyal and good man. But a very deceiving scum. However, the appearance of this product is too deceptive, so the success rate of deception is also extremely high...

However, while propagating Christian teachings, this fellow is helping the lord with advertisements and brainwashing, which is too creative, and the effect is excellent.

Originally, Marin wanted to establish a trainer system in the future. However, in this era, it is more difficult to survive whether it is an instructor or a political commissar.

The main reason is that people in this era are very Catholic. You send someone to promote something other than Catholicism, and the soldiers and the people may not buy it.

Moreover, in this day and age, it is really difficult to find a political propaganda talent who has nothing to do with the church. Because the literacy rate of civilians is extremely low, where can you find political propaganda talents?

But the church is different,

The priests in the church are all intellectuals. Moreover, they have been trained to spread religious teachings. When it comes to propaganda, they are the propaganda overlords of this era. Moreover, it is really a genius idea to combine missionary and brainwashing...

Therefore, Marin decided to win over a group of unwilling young people among the missionaries in the future, and let Taylor teach them how to fool and brainwash them. Then take these young priests for a walk to the churches of various towns. After the long-term propaganda of these people, I believe that it is not difficult to win the hearts and minds of the people. Not to mention the effect of the citizens in Emden City fighting to the death for Edsard I, at least it can ensure that the citizens will not rebel.

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After taking control of Emden and capturing the Edsard I and his wife, Marin was ready to march on Aurich and Lyle. As for Norton, a small town by the sea, it's just a wholesale center for salted fish by the sea, so don't worry for the time being.

However, the city of Orich is extremely strong and difficult to conquer. Also, Marin had asked Mrs. Mary if there was any secret passage or anything, but there was no news. Therefore, this time, Marin can't rely on the authentic.

However, it is indeed difficult to besiege the fortified city of Orich. Although, there are only 500 defenders in the city of Orihi, and none of them are elite straw hat swordsmen. But relying on the tall and sturdy city walls, it would take a long time to conquer even with 3,000 soldiers.

The county seat of Lyle, although small in population, also has 300 garrisoned troops. After all, there is an important grain base there, and a large-scale granary is also built.

Therefore, these two cities are very difficult to attack. Even if the attack is successful, the loss will be huge and it will take a long time.

And Marin now, the most lack is time. It is certain that once the news of the fall of Emden is known, the Saxon army will definitely find a way to join in the fun and share the fruits of victory.

Therefore, Marin next decided to send 1,000 men and horses to garrison the border area of ​​East Friesland and West Friesland to build a strong line of defense against the invasion of the Duke of Saxony.

Fortunately, near the western border of East Friesland, there is the Ems River, which serves as a natural line of defense. As long as they held the east bank of the Ems River, the Saxon army would never have succeeded in crossing the river. However, there are also about 200 square kilometers of land in the Hexi area, and they are all agricultural areas. Marin is reluctant to give up. After thinking about it, Marin decided to put the main force on Hedong's defense. As for the land in Hexi, a few bunkers will be built as outposts and temporarily topped.

After arranging the defense of the western line, Marin is now starting to worry about the offense of Aurich and Lyle. Coincidentally, Sauer came to report the situation.

Sauer reported that he had detained hundreds of businessmen and passers-by traveling in and out of Emden in the past few days in order to keep them secret...

Having said this, Marin suddenly stood up. He asked Sauer seriously:

"Sauer, are you sure that our news hasn't been revealed? No fish slipped through the net to take the news away?"

"Yes, I'm sure. Master, with the telescope you provided, it's very difficult for ordinary people to escape my observation. How many of us can escape with so many cavalry chasing them?"

"That's good, it seems that I can still use deception to capture Aurich and Lyle..."

"By the way, young master, when it comes to Aurich, my subordinates caught a messenger yesterday. It was to send a letter to ask Edsard I when he sent a convoy to deliver food..."

"Shipping food? What kind of food? Sauer, go and ask Jeffrey to ask, show him what's going on."

"Yes!"

After a while, Jeffrey came over, and after seeing the letter, he explained:

"Lord Count, the autumn harvest is coming to an end in a few days. Usually, after the autumn harvest, Edsard I would send a convoy to the two cities of Aurich and Lyle to transport food. Before that, The grain from the east and the south will be concentrated and transported to the two cities first. Then, Edsard I will send two huge transport teams to pull the grain to the Emden granary..."

"A huge convoy? Is there military protection?" Marin's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Of course there is military protection. Generally, there must be 500 soldiers to escort the food convoy..."

"That's great!" Marin was very happy.

He has already made a plan. Before the two cities have received the information about the fall of Emden, Marin can send his soldiers under the banner of Edsard I, disguised as the rations sent by Edshard I. Team, go to two cities to pull food. Just enter the city, and...hehe...

The next day, Marin collected a large number of carriages and carts from Emden, formed two huge grain transport teams, and headed to Aurich City and Lyle City respectively.

Among them, 800 people went to Aurich, including 500 elite soldiers and 300 soldiers disguised as civilians. Moreover, the 500 elite warriors all wore the armor of the most distinctive straw hat swordsmen in Emden City. These armors and straw hats were taken from the surrendered straw hat swordsmen...

And 800 people were sent to Lyle County. Because, regardless of the small size of Lyle County, the grain produced in Lyle County is no less than that of Aurich.

Moreover, it was Geoffrey Palace Prime Minister who led the team to Aurich. This fat man, Marin promised him that as long as he completes this task, he will be appointed as the official palace minister. At the same time, Marin also detained Jeffrey's family, forcing him to agree. Who said that this fat man was the minister of the East Frisian country before? With him leading the team, dare the officers guarding Aurich not give face? Moreover, Jeffrey, this fat man, is not the first time Orihila grain.

You know, going to Aurich and Laerla for grain is a fat poor. Because officials sent to collect grain can accept bribes from local officials. Generally speaking, local officials naturally hope to hand in less food and keep more for themselves. However, on the earl's side, he hoped to receive more food. Therefore, if you want to pay less grain to the earl, you must buy the chief officer who is responsible for pulling the grain. Therefore, even if you are the minister of the palace, Jeffrey couldn't help but go down and pull the food several times, and received a lot of benefits. This time Marin sent him there, which was reasonable and easy to paralyze the defenders.

As for the chief officer sent to Lyle City, it was another officer who surrendered very early. This person is called Pace, who served as Geoffrey's deputy and was also an important figure in the former counties of East Friesland. It makes sense to let him go to Lyle. Moreover, this guy's family was also controlled by Marin.

In this way, two days later, two huge traffic convoys appeared under the city of Aurich and under the city of Lyle respectively. Seeing the fat man Jeffrey leading the way, Orihi's guard didn't ask anything at all, and just opened the city gate.

And this time, for safety's sake, Marin also asked Jeffrey to bring dozens of barrels of barley wine to "reward" the local defenders. With Jeffrey's approval, the local garrison generals happily divided the instant barley wine.

In the evening, Geoffrey was invited to a banquet hosted by the local guard and Uko, the younger brother of Edsard I. The banquet was held in the old palace built by the Bullock family in the center of Aurich City. Moreover, Jeffrey also quietly brought in 200 fighters. In this regard, Aurich defender and Uko did not care about it. Mainly, they never thought, Fat Jeffrey, would be bad for them.

In the evening, when everyone was drinking happily and was a little drunk, Jeffrey suddenly threw a precious glass on the ground according to the plot designed by Marin, "drop the glass for the number"...

Everyone else at the banquet looked at Jeffrey dumbfounded, wondering why the fat man was so angry. But soon, they understood...

After the fat man threw the quilt, the 200 followed the "straw hat swordsman" who entered the palace and suddenly rushed into the banquet hall in the palace. The leader was Schwartz... Then, all the officials and officers of Aurich who participated in the banquet were wiped out in one swoop...

Then, Schwartz ran outside the palace, ignited a double-shot cannon made by Marin, and exploded in the sky...

Then, the other 600 soldiers rushed into the barracks in the city and controlled the defenders in the city who were still drinking barley wine. What makes Schwartz laugh or cry is that more than 200 of the 500 defenders in the city were drunk. No wonder, soldiers like to drink. And this time, the fat man Jeffrey brought dozens of barrels of barley wine and opened the supply for them to drink. How could they hold back? So, nearly half of the people were drunk...

There were more than a dozen soldiers who were originally guarding the city gate. Seeing something happened in the city, these people took the opportunity to escape from the city. However, it seemed that he went to Emden to report. Feelings, these people thought Emden was fine. In fact, the first accident was Emden. These people went to Emden and fell into the hands of Sauer's men.

On the Lyle County side, Frenzberg encountered a more troublesome situation. Because, although he also brought wine, the local guard was willing to drink it.

It's just that Pace's status is not high, not as good as Jeffrey. Therefore, neither the local general nor Prince Almut hosted a banquet for him. As a result, the script of "Breaking the Cup for the Number" is useless.

Fortunately, those big bosses also like to drink. So, in the middle of the night, Franzberg, who led the team, easily controlled most of the 300 defenders in the city. Only the Governor's Palace, where Prince Almut is located, is still stubbornly resisting. The walls of the Governor's Palace were tall and strong, and Franzberg could not attack for a while.

Until a team leader who had followed Marin and participated in the "Long Street Ambush" against the Friesian noble republican ** team proposed a fire attack method...

"Fire attack? This Governor's Palace is a stone building. How can fire attack?" Frenzberg was puzzled.

"Sir, set it on fire with a haystack and throw it into the fence..."

"They hide in the house, won't they be burned?"

"Hey, Lord Baron said back then that even if you can't burn your enemies to death, you can smoke them to death!"

Frenzberg thought about it and it was true, so he found a lot of wheat haystacks, tied them into bales, and sprinkled some pepper under the guidance of some wretched people. After the straw bales were lit, they were thrown into the fence by Hercules...

The ash and the pungent smell of burning pepper caused the defenders in the Governor's Palace, including Prince Almut, to cough.

After Frenzberg ordered the straw bales to be thrown for two or three hours, the dozens of defenders in the Governor's Palace were finally smoked and lost their combat effectiveness... Next, Frenzberg's men collided with each other. Open the gate of the Governor's Mansion, go in and grab the guards who are almost dizzy, and bundle them into zongzi...

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In this way, relying on the information force and the betrayal of the Leading Party, Marin successfully defrauded the two strong cities of Aurich and Lyle, and completed the control overnight.

Moreover, to Malin's relief, the citizens of these two cities did not rise up to resist. It can be seen that what Jeffrey said, only the citizens of the city of Emden were fooled, is correct...