Just when war broke out in the eastern part of Ireland and northern Naples at the same time, Stade, who received the news, was also ready to attack Florence. However, whether the city gate could be opened, the Medici family needed to send a signal to confirm that they could cooperate inside and outside before they could notify Stade. Then, Stade led the army to attack Florence.
At the same time, Julius II also needed to prepare enough horses for Stade's army. After all, it was only 200 kilometers from Rome to Florence. At such a long distance, if you want to run for a long distance, it would take at least two days to reach it even at a fast pace. Moreover, it would take one person and two horses. Therefore, Julius II needed 14,000 horses, whether it was a war horse or a horse lift, which would take some time to prepare. After Julius II prepared the horses, Stade's army could almost set off, and they were all lightly equipped and did not plan to carry artillery. Otherwise, it would delay the itinerary.
Of course, once the attack succeeds and the news comes back to Rome, Rome will hire some Italian mercenaries to help take over Florence. Although the Italian mercenaries have lower frontal combat power than German mercenaries, it is still sufficient to defend the city. The premise is that as long as they do not encounter internal and external cooperation.
Marin actually made preparations for the issue of internal and external cooperation. Since seizing the city of Rome, in order to avoid being interfered with internal and external cooperation again, every night, the defenders will set up a line of defense behind the city gate and arrange hundreds of people to guard the line of defense to avoid the city gate being seized.
Moreover, the inside of the city gate is no longer just a door bolt, but a large iron lock is added to each city gate. Even if the assaulter breaks through the defense line and arrives behind the city gate, he still has to face a huge iron lock. The key of the iron lock is not in the hands of the defenders in the city gate, but in the hands of the officers in the city camp. Every morning, the officers send a team of soldiers to each city gate to issue iron lock keys to open the city gate.
In this way, even if a commando breaks through the city gate, it will not be able to open the large iron lock in the short term. With such delays, the defenders on the city wall have long reacted and come down to support, and will eliminate the enemies who broke into the city gate.
This method has been implemented in cities in East Friesland, making it extremely difficult to cooperate with the inside and outside. However, in the city of Rome, only the method of increasing the inner defense of the city gate has been implemented, and the method of large iron locks has not been implemented. This is mainly because it is afraid that it will be learned from Florence. Florence now has more commercial connections with Rome, and Marin is also afraid that this secret will be learned by the Florentines, so that Florentines will not be able to fight. Even if the defense line on the inner gate is increased, Stade, at Marin's request, tried to strengthen his strength as much as possible to avoid attracting the attention of the Florentines and copycats.
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While all parties in Italy were ready to go, Marin in East Friesland was not idle either. What was Marin doing? He was preparing to take over the Bishop of Munster...
Before, Marin and Julius II discussed. Both of them believed that it was easy to award the Bishop of Munster to Marin, but it was still very troublesome to let Marin truly gain control of the Bishop of Munster.
Therefore, in the process of accepting the Bishop of Munster, it is very necessary for Marin to show off his muscles and suppress the people who are unwilling to lose their power in the Bishop of Munster.
According to the agreement between Marin and Julius II, the religious power of the Archbishop of the Bishop of Munster will continue to be retained. However, secular power will be obtained by Marin.
But the problem is that all glory and wealth are obtained by secular power. Even if the Bishop of Munster is willing to give up, the officials and nobles in the Bishop of Munster who are in charge of secular power are not happy. Therefore, a resistance is indispensable. After all, no one is willing to easily withdraw from the stage of history.
What Marin had to do was to use a powerful army to drive into the Bishop of Munster, forcing those who were rebellious to bow their heads, and let them realize the cruel reality of "death if they do not obey".
Moreover, the capture of the Bishop of Munster also required a large number of troops to guard the country. The Bishop of Munster was at its most glorious period, with an estimated total land area of ​​7,000 square kilometers, which was larger than the Bishop of Munster on the German situation chart in 1648 that Marin had seen. It seems that during the religious war that broke out in the mid-16th century, the Bishop of Munster lost some territory. Later, only more than 6,000 square kilometers were left.
Isn't the reason why Marin wanted the Bishop of Munster so much because the south of the Bishop of Munster was next to the Ruhr area? Some of the territory even extended into the Ruhr area.
Now, the control of the Ruhr area mainly belongs to the Principality of Clifford (the westernmost part of the Rhine River, mainly the agricultural area, and there is no coal); the county ofvest, which has a lot of coal, has a famous steel city, Essen, currently within the territory of Westerb); to the east is the Ruhr area of ​​the Markbourg, which is the largest and has the largest coal mines; and the part belongs to the Free City of Dortmund, with an area of ​​hundreds of square kilometers... In addition to these forces, there are other forces at the east point of the Ruhr area, but there are basically no coal mines there. The core areas are mainly the Ruhr area of ​​the Markbourg and Westerb.
(It should be pointed out that during the Cologne War that broke out in 1582-83, the entire country was annexed by the Archbishop of Cologne. The reason is that the State of Wester was Protestant and pagan. Then, the entire country was destroyed. The statement mentioned above that belonged to the Bishop of Munster was wrong. The map that Lao Niu got was a map after the Cologne War. Moreover, the original Westerb part of the Ruhr area was the same as that of the Bishop of Munster, and they were all affiliated with the Archbishop of Cologne, so Lao Niu read it wrong. But strangely, the country of Westerb was not introduced in detail in Wiki English, and it was a blank.)
The Bishop of Munster also has part of its territory that transnational Lippe River and penetrates deep into the Ruhr area. This part is connected to Dortmund, which seems to be to strengthen economic ties with Dortmund. After all, Dortmund is also a commercial city. If it is connected to Dortmund, trade interests must be greatly affected.
In order to successfully take over the Bishop of Munster by then, Marin sent Schwartz, who had just been brought back, to the mountainous areas in southern Germany to recruit soldiers. This time, Marin planned to recruit 7,000 soldiers.
These 7,000 people are actually intended to be stationed in the Munster area in the future. After all, the Bishop of Munster is so big that people need to be stationed.
In addition, because there were 7,000 people in Rome in the south. When Florence happened, Marin planned to keep 5,000 people stationed in Rome for a long time to ensure his influence on Rome. As for the other two thousand people, they would withdraw their homeland, either stationed in East Friesland, or stationed in Munster.
However, taking over the battle of Bishop Munster, Marin could not expect these 7,000 new recruits to complete. For this reason, Marin planned to dispatch 8,000 main forces left in the country to do this. The 7,000 people followed the main forces, training and gaining experience. After the opposition forces of Bishop Munster were extinguished, these 7,000 people remained in the city of Munster as garrisons.
Moreover, Marin believes that the core senior leaders of the Bishops of Munster are all in Munster. As long as the city of Munster is taken down, the people at the highest level of the Bishops of Munster will be under their control. As for people in other areas, they can slowly clean up.
Therefore, Marin had already made plans to conquer Munster City. As long as he took down Munster City, he forced the Bishop of Munster to submit. At the same time, he controlled the generals who were commanding the troops in Munster City. The small characters below could not make any waves...
To this end, Marin asked Kohler to form a new chamber of commerce and sent people to the Bishop of Munster to collect various intelligence. In addition, he also sent troops to lurk in Munster City to see if there was any opportunity to cooperate with Marin's army to cooperate inside and outside.
Now, as the details of several major wars gradually began to spread in Europe. Opportunities such as internal and external cooperation will probably be less and less. After all, those princes are not fools. When people are frequently attacked, the defense of the city gate will definitely be taken seriously. Therefore, it will be difficult to achieve such a thing as internal and external cooperation in the future. This time, sending people to the city of Munster to see if there is such an opportunity is also a chance. If the military commander of the Bishop of Munster is an idiot, he will give Kohler's subordinates the opportunity to internal and external cooperation. If the commander of the Bishop of Munster is a shrewd person, then Marin plans to take a strong attack. Anyway, Marin has also made it clear about the matter of internal and external cooperation. His point of view is - I am lucky if I get it, but I am lucky if I lose it...
Chapter completed!