The Rise of the European Emperor

When Marin gave orders to Saqqara in Newcastle, while asking Saqqara to transport 10,000 newly recruited English mercenaries to the undeveloped remote East Frisian Islands, he also asked Saqqara to keep a group of people , continue to recruit 5,000 new people to guard Newcastle. Anyway, Marin is not short of food, and recruiting soldiers from the disaster areas in England, as long as the food is on the line.

With these ten thousand English mercenaries, Marin intended to be used as a surprise soldier. Therefore, Marin will not announce their existence to the outside world, but intends to hide them first.

Anyway, Marin felt that sooner or later he would have to fight someone, so he might as well play a big game and confuse the enemy first. When the real war begins, the enemy will be horrified to discover that Marin has an army of 10,000 more. As a result, the morale of the enemy will take a hit. Coupled with misjudgments in strength and mistakes in layout, it is easy to fail.

Moreover, at the same time as the spring ploughing, Marin also secretly ordered to prepare to gather the militia. For example, in the Counties of East Friesland, the original 8,000 militiamen, in addition to the 3,000 people who were brought by Adler to garrison in Oldenburg, the other 5,000 people will also be gathered after the spring ploughing. Hoffmann commanded, stationed in the cities of Aurich and Emden, and defended the homeland. Then, the local regular army will be freed and can go out with Marin.

Of course, the militias that Marin recruited were not just 5,000, but 10,000. In this way, it is enough to guard the homeland security.

By Marin, the native land means the region of the Counties of East Friesland. As for the Munster area, because it was divided into north and south with Bishop Conrad, Marin could actually mobilize all the garrison in the Munster area for the war. Because, the southern border, borders the southern area controlled by Bishop Conrad. And Bishop Conrad is now an ally with Marin in terms of interests, and coupled with the relationship with the Holy See, he will not attack Marin's control area.

Therefore, Marin can safely transfer all the regular troops stationed in the northern area of ​​Münster for the war. As for the 10,000 garrison of the Principality of Schleswig, it cannot be used easily. Because, they have to guard against the Danish attack.

The homeland, because of its border with West Frisian, needs a certain defensive strength. The 10,000 militia Marin intended to call were in fact to guard against the Geddes army that had taken control of the West Frisian region. After all, Marin was ostensibly allied with Charles II, Duke of Geddes, but both of them had their own minds and couldn't trust each other. Therefore, Marin needs to keep enough troops to guard against the army of the Principality of Gede. But because it was defending the city, Marin did not need a regular army to guard against the enemy, leaving 10,000 militiamen, enough for defense. Even if the Gedes army did attack Marin's rear during the war, the 10,000 militiamen would be able to defend the city and hold out until Marin's main force returned.

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Here, Marin is thinking about whether the Gerdes company will attack him from behind when the war starts, and Charles II, Duke of Gerdes, has sent someone to contact Marlin...

As for what? It turned out that Charles II, through intelligence inquiries, learned that when George, Duke of Saxony, was retreating, he took the two puppets of the original Gede company who were used to rule West Frisland-the governor of fyskefrijheid and the Baron of Leeuwarden. Gone, and, temporarily placed in the territory of East Friesland.

At this time, George had already rushed back to China with more than 10,000 strong people to preside over the spring ploughing. At present, in the temporary military camp of the Duchy of Saxony on the east bank of the Ems River, there are only 2,000 garrisoned troops of the Duchy of Saxony and a group of prisoners of war brought back by George from Groningen during the previous retreat, including the Governor of Fyskefrijheid and the Baron Zeit of Leeuwarden. Er inside.

Charles II, Duke of Geddes, was clearly aware of the important roles of both the governor of fyskefrijheid and the Baron Zettel of Leeuwarden. If George was allowed to take them to the Imperial Parliament to accuse him, Charles II would definitely be politically passive.

Therefore, Charles II, Duke of Geddes, intends to get rid of these two people.

If possible, Charles II naturally hopes to snatch the governor of fyskefrijheid and the Baron Zettel of Leeuwarden back to West Frisland and continue to act as puppets.

However, both men, including two thousand Saxony troops, were stationed in East Frisian territory. Even if Marin allowed him to send a large army into East Frisian territory, it would take a large number of troops to take down the barracks of the Saxon army. What's more, Charles II felt that Marin would not allow him to send a large army into the temporary barracks of the Saxon army in East Frisian territory.

Therefore, the intention of Charles II to send someone to find Marin is very simple - to let Marin allow him to send killers to assassinate the governor of fyskefrijheid and the Baron Zetl of Leeuwarden. As long as the two were dead, George would not be able to present witnesses at the Imperial Parliament. Without witnesses, Charles II, Duke of Geddes, can completely deny that he has captured West Frisland, and there is no conclusive evidence and way for George to accuse him.

In this regard, after thinking for a long time, Marin agreed to the request of Charles II, Duke of Geddes.

As for why did you agree to Charles II's request? Obviously, Marin also didn't want George to be too smooth. If George went well and Marin wanted to buy West Frisian, it didn't go well. It was only by bringing George to a desperate situation that Marin had a chance to buy West Frisian.

To this end, Marin ordered that the domestic intelligence personnel began to pay attention to infiltrating the temporary camp of the Duchy of Saxony, to observe the movements of the Saxon army, and the law of life of the governor of Fyskefrijheid and the Baron Zetl of Leeuwarden for Charles II. The killers sent out create opportunities.

Moreover, in the temporary military camp of the Principality of Saxony, since George brought more than 10,000 people back to the Principality of Saxony to participate in the spring ploughing, there were only a few thousand prisoners and two thousand Saxon soldiers left in the military camp. The prisoners obviously could not leave the barracks at will, and the soldiers were not too good at labor. Therefore, they need to hire some local labor from East Frisian to deal with some life things.

Therefore, there is a local workforce in East Friesland, employed by the Saxons, who can enter and leave the Saxon barracks. The intelligence officers under Malin's command could use this channel to enter the barracks to inquire about news.

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Soon, two killers sent by Charles II, Duke of Geddes, came over. Both of them are highly skilled assassins, and their looks are very standard - standard public faces, ordinary statures, and nothing to attract attention. However, Malin specially sent his subordinates to test it, and the two are indeed highly skilled in martial arts. They are good at using daggers to assassinate, and they all hold daggers in both hands, and two daggers can play flowers in their hands.

In fact, most assassins of this era also used daggers. Because, the dagger is easy to hide and can be easily hidden in the sleeve. When it comes to assassination, the assassins can easily remove the dagger from the sleeve and stab the target's heart.

As for the musket assassination? Sorry, that stuff isn't popular yet. Also, arquebuses are not suitable for short guns. In addition, the matchlock is too obvious. With a matchlock on your arm, everyone knows that you are a musketeer... And the clockwork musket that Marin made can be made into a short gun suitable for assassination, but people from other countries still No.

And the assassination with a hand crossbow seen in Marin's movies in the previous life is not reliable. Because, in this era, there is no small wire crossbow. And large crossbows are too easy to expose the target and are inconvenient to carry. Therefore, the assassins of this era still believe in daggers more.

When the two assassins came over, Marin's intelligence personnel had already inquired about the situation of the Saxon barracks, and arranged for the two killers to enter the Saxon barracks as hired coolies to help the Saxons repair house. Then, waiting for the opportunity to assassinate Governor Fyskefrijheid and Baron Zitter of Leeuwarden...

On a dark and windy night, the two assassins quietly touched the rooms where Governor Fyskefrijheid and Baron Zettel were in Leeuwarden, quietly cut the door bolt with a sharp dagger, entered the room, and stabbed the two human heart...

After a successful blow, the two killers quickly left their room, and then quietly left...