Seeing Prince Philip's coercion and threatening, Marin was speechless when he changed to the warm route. However, the Holy Roman Crown Prince ran to him to cheat, which shows that the Habsburg family was also a little anxious.
Speaking of Switzerland, the recent war situation is indeed unfavorable to the Habsburg family. When the French sent troops to Italy, they also released 10,000 Swiss mercenaries, with the leader of the Swiss mercenary and Marin's old friend Zieg as the supreme commander.
After Zieg returned to Switzerland with 10,000 Swiss mercenaries, the French withdrew thousands of elite French troops who were originally disguised as Swiss militias. However, Zieg brought back more people, and they were all former veterans. Therefore, the Swiss Resistance Army was not weakened, but grew to 27,000 people. Zieg also became the new leader of the 27,000 Swiss Resistance Army.
Facing the 35,000 troops of the Habsburg family, Zieg's 27,000 people seemed to be weaker. But in fact, Zieg brought back old Swiss mercenaries, stronger than the original Swiss Resistance Army soldiers.
The original more than 10,000 Swiss resistance troops were actually not mercenaries, but Swiss mountain people who were forced to take up weapons to resist after the Habsburg family returned to Switzerland. Although they were more fierce than ordinary mountain people, they were limited to their strength. Fortunately, the French sent thousands of elite troops to disguise themselves as Swiss militias and help fight, which blocked the Habsburg family's offensive. Otherwise, the western region of Switzerland would have been unified by the Habsburg family at this time.
Now, Zieg returns with 10,000 veterans, which has not weakened the strength of the Swiss Resistance Army, but has been strengthened.
Zieg was not much the same as the general Swiss mercenary leader. He was younger and more cunning. Back then, in the Long Street Battle of Marin's hired by Marin to destroy the West Friesian noble republic, Zieg was inspired by Marin's command method and learned the tactics of ambush and roundabout encirclement.
Later, Zieg quickly emerged among the leaders of the Swiss mercenaries with two swords ambush tactics and roundabout encirclement tactics. In recent years, those original Swiss mercenary bosses were killed and those who died of illness. Then, Zieg, who was originally unable to line up, survived in the concentration camp with youth, and suddenly realized that he had become the leader of the Swiss mercenary...
After taking over the Swiss Resistance Army, Zieg changed the rigid and frontal combat plan formulated by French noble officers and changed it to a more flexible plan.
For example, in a battle against Lucerne, Zieg deliberately defeated and lured Lucerne's defenders to chase out of the city. Then, he used the reserve team to ambush the halfway and eliminated the pursuers in one fell swoop, causing Lucerne's more than 10,000 defenders to lose nearly 4,000 troops. If Lucerne's defenders had not decisively blocked the narrow valley road with several carriages, Lucerne's city might have changed hands now.
After this battle, the Swiss Resistance Army began to take the initiative, changing defense to offense, moving and fighting, making the Habsburg family army very embarrassed.
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After suffering losses, Emperor Maximilian I wrote a letter to his son to complain, saying that he was not strong enough now, and it would be great if he could have sent troops to help...
Of course, the emperor just complained. Because he was also very clear about Marin's situation and did not really send anyone to ask Marin to send troops to help. Marin was already very righteous to be able to lend him hundreds of thousands of gold coins before.
But Prince Philip is different. Although he also knows Marin's difficulties, he does not intend to let Marin go so easily. After all, in the eyes of his young master of the empire, shouldn't Marin be a young young man promoted by Maximilian I, shouldn't Marin contribute more to the Habsburg family's plans?
So, he came to the door on purpose and put on an ugly face and an unkind attitude, just to knock on Marin and let him help more or less. But Marin is so cunning? He said one by one, and Philip was speechless. In desperation, Prince Philip changed to the warm route...
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Although he despised Prince Philip's poor young actors' acting skills, Marin also knew that since the young master came to play tricks, it proved that the Habsburg family's life was indeed not easy. If he didn't show any of it, he would definitely be criticized. After all, in the eyes of the outside world, Marin did hold Maximilian I on the thigh. At this time, he had just sent 10,000 troops to help Edward. If he didn't help Emperor Maximilian I at all, he would definitely be despised...
Of course, he wouldn't really send troops to help the emperor. After all, this matter is too sensitive.
So, Marin thought about it and decided to use some special method to help His Majesty the old master...
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First of all, Marin naturally provided a batch of weapons to His Majesty the Emperor. He provided weapons to friendly forces. This move was played very well by various countries in later generations and was the safest. By providing weapons, allies could feel friendly. Moreover, there was no need to send someone to die on their own side.
Marin may not have many other things, but the number of weapons and gunpowder is still sufficient. Therefore, Marin directly prepared to support His Majesty the Emperor's 3,000 mesh guns to strengthen the defensive strength of the Swiss Austrian army.
Because domestic coercion guns have been discontinued, the originally stocked coercion guns have also been given to people (including to the Ming Dynasty). Therefore, now the coercion gun needs to be newly built.
However, at present, only one military factory in Beihai is producing combroach guns, and the combroach gun produced by that military factory is the counterfeit Rumi gun that Marin planned to sell to the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt...
Marin thought about it and it seemed that the Ottoman Türkiye and the Egyptian Mamluk dynasty would break out in two years before the Battle of Dabik Grassland in northern Syria...
Therefore, Marin decided to suspend the imitation of Lumi's gun and instead help His Majesty the Emperor forge a message to defend the city...
The Habsburg family army is on the defensive moment, and if you defend the city, it is best to use a mesh gun.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! As for the production of the mesh gun, Marin was also quite lazy - he directly reduced the length of the 2-meter-long Lumi gun to a normal 1.5 meters. Then, the Arabic-style pattern carving on the gun was also saved...
The reason for such a magical change is that it is more conducive to the Habsburg family's defense battle. Moreover, it is not easy for the Turks to see the source of the musket...
The barrel is shortened, which greatly facilitates the loading of musketeers' ammunition. After all, the loading of a 2-meter Lumi gun is too difficult...
When loading the front gun, the gun body must be upright to facilitate pouring of gunpowder. But the 2-meter-long Lumi gun is too exaggerated. If the gun body is up, few people with a height of more than 2 meters can load this gun. Unless, they can only use the tactics of Mushket's large musket like people before - one person shooting, one person helps to load... Moreover, the gun body must be leaned and one person supports it, which is very inconvenient...
After Marin shortened the length of the gun from 2 meters to 1.5 meters, it was very convenient. When defending the city, people stood behind the battlements. The Lumi gun, which was too tall and too long, was not very suitable. Because, reloading ammunition for such a long musket would easily rise up and be killed by the enemy.
Therefore, the 1.5-meter-long mesh gun is more suitable for the Habsburg family army to defend the city.
Therefore, Marin finally agreed to provide Prince Philip with 3,000 weakened versions of the Rumi guns. At the same time, he was willing to provide a large amount of saltpeter at the "cost price" and prepare black gunpowder for the emperor himself...
Chapter completed!