The Rise of the European Emperor

As expected, after hearing the news, the garrison in Birmingham came and found this silk wallet in the gap in the fence where the horse bandits entered and exited. . шщш.㈦㈨ⅹS.сом update very fast.

After all, the purse was lost near the exit, and the silk was so bright. Once the garrison entered the 'gate', it was easy to spot.

Originally, Baron Jorgen, the commander of the Birmingham garrison, planned to hack the purse, but after opening the purse, he found two letters in French, and immediately dismissed the idea.

From the information obtained, it should be a group of horse thieves who attacked the camp. However, the purse dropped by the horse thief contained two letters in French, and some French coins--Baron Jorgen knew something was going on. He was one of Henry VII's cronies, and he quickly 'handed over' the purse to Henry VII. Moreover, I also added my own judgment-this group of horse thieves, probably supported by the French secretly, is to cause 'disturbance' to England...

Baron Jorgen did not know French, but Henry VII did. Before the rebellion, Henry VII lived in the Principality of Brittany in France for a long time, and was no stranger to French.

Opening two letters, Henry VII found that these two letters, one was a family letter, written by a French 'woman' named Jeanne to her husband Henry, mainly some words of concern, and a letter to her husband. The other party reports - everything is fine at home...

And the second letter is very important - this letter was written by the French Count Duarte, who was in charge of intelligence, to a knight named Henri Spaaio. The content of the letter made Henry VII tremble when he saw it...

In this letter, Earl Duarte stated that, after receiving information from London, the British army had built a base camp in Warwickshire, which may be used to deal with thieves in several central counties. Therefore, Earl Duarte ordered this knight named Henry Spayo to lead the horse bandits of his Robin Hood bandit to take advantage of the fact that the British soldiers were busy with the 'spring' plowing and had not yet assembled to destroy the British camp and burn the other party. forage, to sabotage its operations...

This paragraph clearly explains why the British camp was attacked. Of course, that's not the point, and it's not what frightened Henry VII. The next part made Henry VII feel scared...

The letter went on to say that the great Lord of France, His Majesty Louis, decided to take advantage of England's civil turmoil to conquer the Kingdom of England and end the centuries-old feud between France and Britain...

The specific plan is to send a fleet to raid the British fleet in the Irish Sea and help Edward land in England...

Of course, this is just a stratagem - the real plan of the French is to use the conflict in the Irish Sea to attract most of England's ships and weaken the maritime defense of the English Channel...

When the British fleet was attracted by the conflict in the Irish Sea, the French would suddenly launch a large-scale login operation,

Breaking through London in one fell swoop...

As for Edward, his life and death have nothing to do with the French, but he can fully attract the attention and main force of the British...

And this knight named Henry Spayo, his task is to take the horse bandits to find fault with the British army, specially 'specially' attack its supply line, and weaken the combat effectiveness of the British army to a certain extent... Wait for the British army to all. After all attention was paid to Edward and the thieves in the middle, the French launched a large-scale landing battle and won England in one fell swoop...

Even, in the letter, "Count Duarte" proudly stated that they had used several fake chambers of commerce to deceive most of the large merchant ships and a large number of experienced sailors from the Five-Port Alliance that could be used as warships. . As long as the French attacked before those big ships came back, Britain would be doomed...

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Seeing this, Henry VII was in a cold sweat...

Henry VII might be skeptical if there was only this letter. But Marin is too "chicken" thief, he specially used the prop of the wallet, and also added some French silver coins and a letter from home to make everything seem so reasonable...

If it is only the second letter, Henry VII may suspect that the enemy is trying to pass wrong information to himself and deliberately mislead himself. But with that letter from home, it seemed more plausible. Because, no one will send their family letters to the enemy to read. Marin took advantage of the fixed thinking mode of the Europeans in this era, and set up a clever game, using a wallet containing family letters and French silver coins, so Henry VII initially dispelled his doubts...

Henry VII has already made up the complete storyline - a French knight named Henry Spaieu, under the instigation of the French intelligence chief Count Duarte, took advantage of the 'chaotic' and 'chaos' in northern and central England. The opportunity came to the Sherwood Forest Song in Nottinghamshire, where Robin Hood the Rogue once used to play. He took the pseudonym Robinson and pulled up a team of robbers from the 'wandering' victims, specially 'door' to do damage, so that England could not live in peace. ...and, it looks like they succeeded...

However, this group of thieves will not bring a fatal threat to England. The real threat is the use of the conflict in the Irish Sea and Edward's power to attract the main force of the English navy to facilitate the French fleet to cross the sea as mentioned in the letter. Of course, there is also the matter of the French hiring the big merchant ships of the Five-Port Alliance at high prices - these are the most deadly...

After all, in Henry VII's point of view, although Edward's army looked quite large, its combat effectiveness was just that. Even if they crossed the sea, they would not be able to beat the English army. The biggest threat to Britain is the French...

The French army is very powerful. After the late Hundred Years War, the British army is no longer an opponent of the French army. Otherwise, the King of England would not have lost all French territories except the fortress of Calais.

Moreover, the French army was large enough to dispatch tens of thousands of troops to fight national wars. Unlike Edward, there are at most about 10,000 people, and it is not a climate. And if the French army successfully landed in England, the British army will be miserable, and it is not impossible to destroy the country...

Before, the British relied on civilian merchant ships and experienced sailors to successfully repel the French invasions again and again, and they also attacked the northern coast of France mainly against tourists. The sweep 'sweep' has something to do with it)…

Now, if the main navy of the British army is attracted to the Irish Sea, the big ships of the Five-Port Alliance will still be diverted... It seems that the English Channel really can't stop the French landing battle...

Henry VII hurriedly sent someone to the port of the Five-Port Alliance to verify. At this time, the branches of the so-called Dutch and Italian chambers of commerce were already empty under the notice of Marin. The people sent by Henry VII only found some French supplies and paper with French...

After hearing that most of the merchant ships of the Five-Port Alliance were really hired to go out to sea at high prices, Henry VII had to believe the contents of the letter-the French were really going to attack England...

Therefore, Henry VII immediately sent a large number of speedboats to chase the direction of Italy and the Baltic Sea, and ordered the merchant ships of the Five-Port Alliance to return to China to prepare for the war in order to stop the French invasion at sea.

In addition, Henry VII specially summoned small boats and experienced sailors from various ports and let them participate in the war together...

However, Henry VII was also a 'shrewd' man. Knowing that the French might cross the English Channel, he guessed that the French were bound to send ships to scout. So instead of ordering all the boats to go to the English Channel at once, he ordered them to wait for orders in ports on the southeast and southwest coasts of England...

Then, Henry VII sent many small fishing boats to scout the English Channel. Report to the British court as soon as the French reconnaissance ship is spotted. And if the reconnaissance ship sent by the French turned back, Henry VII would immediately order all ships large and small to gather on the southern coast of England, waiting for the arrival of the French fleet... This time, Henry VII decided to annihilate the French fleet and give A fatal lesson for the French...

As everyone knows, all of this happened to fall into Marin's calculations...

The reason why Marin came up with this letter is to 'door' France. England wants to annex, but the threat of France is greater. If the French are really allowed to land in England, a war is inevitable. The French may not have many ways to deal with England across the sea, but they have a way to deal with the Grand Duchy of the North Sea, which is also on the European continent. This is proved by the tragic end of the original history of the Netherlands...

In the Anglo-Dutch War, the United Kingdom finally won the Dutch by relying on the alliance with France to end the homeland of the Netherlands on land...

So it is best to drive the British to engage the French...

Originally, Marin intended to pass the news through the spy of England in the French palace. However, since Coster went to sneak attack on the British army camp in advance, it is better to 'hand it over' to Coster. After all, the more the British prepare in advance, the more fully prepared, and the higher the success rate of defeating the French fleet...

Moreover, when England knew the so-called "truth" that "the battle in the Irish Sea was only to attract the attention of the main force of the English navy", it would not desperately send ships to stop Edward...

After all, in the letter, the French believed that Edward was just a pawn, a pawn of the English army that attracted Henry VII...

Moreover, Henry VII also had an idea-since Edward was hiding on the island of Ireland and couldn't get him, why not put Edward in England and annihilate him in one fell swoop? You know, that fake Richard is so finished...

Henry VII thought that as long as he resisted the landing of the French, he would not smile when he turned around and cleaned up Edward's family. It's just that he was hiding on the island of Ireland, but he dared to return to England, and he was asking for his own death...

And this half-truth from Marin was just to make Henry VII focus his attention on the French. Then, when blocking Edward's landing, water was deliberately released...

In this way, when the French want to land, they will directly hit the iron plate - the fully mobilized English navy is still very powerful...

It is precisely because the content of this information is half-truth, and the true part can be confirmed. Therefore, Henry VII believed in the authenticity of this information. Otherwise, the wily Henry VII is not so easy to deceive...

It is true that the French want to invade England (this can also be verified by British spies in France). It is also true that the big ships of the Five-Port Alliance were deceived overseas (Marin just threw the deceiver's pot to the French)...

Even, in order to deceive the French, Marin did not hesitate to "reveal" the news that he was going to launch a "feint" in the Irish Sea to Henry VII. According to Marin's understanding of Henry VII, the old fox, it is very likely that the other party will "just plan" and let Edward land in England. That's because Henry VII didn't know that he had quietly landed 20,000 troops in Newcastle...

In a previous life, Marin had heard such a statement - a lie that is "seven percent true and three percent false" is the easiest way to deceive people. Although the false information provided by Marin to Henry VII did not reach the level of "seven points of truth", it was also half of the truth. In Europe in the 16th century, when conspiracy was not prevalent, this half-truth and half-false information was enough to fool people, even a scheming person like Henry VII... Because, due to the background of the times, he had never seen a brilliant Deception... A half-truth and half-false information is enough to make Henry VII fall into the trap...