Zieg's judgment is right. Nowadays, no one would have thought that anyone would send troops to cause trouble on Christmas. Except for Marin, who has a pope as a backer, there are only a powerful country like France that dares to kidnap the pope and dares to do so indiscriminately.
Therefore, the local nobles of the Principal of Brabant would not have expected that enemies would attack this night. Many people were drunk and slept like dead pigs because of celebrating Christmas.
When the four people rushed to the target manor, they basically encountered no resistance. Only a few loyal dogs raised by nobles came out and barked a few times, and then unfortunately was stabbed to death by the vicious Swiss mercenaries with spears.
Afterwards, this group of Swiss mercenaries who had not eaten meat for a long time actually left people to peel off the stabbed dogs on the spot, and then put them on the grill...
These days, Europeans are not as pretentious as later generations, and there are no animal protection people. It is good for humans to survive. Who can protect dogs? Moreover, there is no canon of Christianity that does not eat dog meat. Therefore, a group of Swiss mercenaries who have not eaten meat for a long time had a beautiful meal of roasted dog meat.
As for the nobles and servants in the noble manor, they are powerless to resist in the face of 500 fierce and sophisticated Swiss mercenaries...
Fortunately, the officers knew that they were in a hurry, otherwise, these villains who had not drunk or ate meat for a long time would rely on drinking and eating meat and then harm women...
Before leaving, these Swiss mercenaries snatched all the gold and silver coins from the manor and took away a lot of food and clothes. As for the captured nobles, although they could not be killed due to European customs, these Swiss mercenaries beat the captured nobles hard to vent their anger. Even some noble ladies and noble ladies were harmed...
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In one night, more than two thousand Swiss mercenaries looted more than a dozen noble estates, grabbed 200 horses and hundreds of weapons. Of course, there was also a lot of food and clothes.
The next morning, Zieg gathered everyone and distributed food and clothes. Then, he asked everyone to form a team and followed 7,000 French Knights south.
The French knights were also very treacherous. In order not to give the Holy See the Holy See, they deliberately cast the black bear flag of Geneva, western Switzerland. In this way, the rescue of Swiss mercenaries makes sense - the Swiss rescued the Swiss...
Originally, Louis XII wanted to cast the Habsburg family's flag. But that was too nonsense and no one believed it if they said it. Although Louis XII was not afraid of the pope, it was very troublesome to really anger the pope and be punished. So, he simply asked his subordinates to cast the state flag of Bern in Switzerland. In this way, even if the pope gets angry, they can make trouble on Christmas, he can still blame himself... The Holy See definitely doesn't want to have a complete quarrel with France, so the Holy See will eventually fight the blame...
As for the State of Bern, which took the blame, how did the Holy See punish the people in a state? It seems unrealistic...
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On the way south, Zigg kept splitting his troops to loot the manors along the way. The French knights also sent cavalry to help, mainly robbing the horses in the manors along the way. With horses, the marching speed could be faster. In addition, they could get some weapons and food...
In addition to the manor, the small towns along the way were also attacked by this army. Especially those towns along the way without walls were all spared and were looted.
When the army passed through the Principality of Brabant and entered the territory of Namulbe, the army's weapons had been basically equipped - most of them were long hair. In addition, they also grabbed 4,000 horses. Although they were all picking up horses, they were used to carry the food and supplies robbed along the way.
After entering Namurbo, this Swiss mercenary, who had gradually recovered his combat memory, tried to attack a small city. As a result, they really defeated him...
While they were raging in the territory of Mulber, Ghent's handsome King Philip did not make any noise...
There is no way, at this time, the Habsburg family had only 6,000 troops left in the Netherlands, and only 5,000 were in Ghent. According to spies, the enemy had as many as six or seven thousand cavalrymen who came to rob the prison. And there were 17,000 experienced Swiss mercenaries rescued. Unless he was crazy, he would send 5,000 Ghent troops out of the city to die...
Therefore, Prince Philip could only watch more than 20,000 enemy troops heading south and entering France...
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As for Marin who was able to intercept them, Prince Philip sent someone to ask for help. However, Marin did not want to rescue him. So Marin wisely "falls ill"...
Of course, as the group of people almost left the Netherlands, Marin photographed two thousand cavalry and went to the Netherlands. At the same time, he brought some gifts of condolences, which was also explained...
Although Prince Philip was very angry, he did not dare to turn against Marin. After all, the Habsburg family could not afford to turn against Beihai...
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After sending out the envoy of handsome King Philip, Malin immediately "recovered" and began a very important task - post-war reconstruction...
In this war, as the Oldenburg area, the north and south Munster area and the Ruhr area, the local social order and economy were severely damaged by the coalition forces of the eight kingdoms. Many houses in the manors were burned down by the coalition forces, and many ordinary people were also persecuted by the coalition forces of the eight kingdoms...
So, what Marin has to do now is to appease the people and help the affected people rebuild their houses to survive the cold winter.
To this end, Marin now mobilized food and distributed disaster relief in the Oldenburg area. Then, Marin forced tens of thousands of captured coalition soldiers and civilians to help the affected people build adobe houses in this cold winter...
The construction of adobe house is very simple - just use the stirred yellow mud to wrap some weeds that are "strong and bones". Then, by using the plate construction method, press the stirred yellow mud between the two plywood to wrap the grass tendons, and then compact it, and dry it with a fire...
This kind of house costs very cheaply. After all, building a house only requires yellow mud and weeds. At most, doors, windows and fixtures in the house require some wood.
The only troublesome thing is that building such a house requires a lot of labor. Fortunately, after Marin won the war, he obtained tens of thousands of prisoners, which happened to be used to build adobe houses.
Chapter completed!