After dealing with the extremely powerful figure in the Archbishop of Cologne, Marin did not go to the capital of the Bishop of Munster to continue bribing Bishop of Munster, but instead led the team back to the country.
Marin felt that it would be better not to let Bishop Munster know the news at this time. If they have bad ideas, they will get the news in advance, so it is easy to give them time to prepare.
Anyway, my army is ready. At that time, the Holy See will order me and I will directly lead the army into the Bishop of Munster.
Unlike the Archbishop of Cologne and those masters, the decision of the Holy See was equivalent to depriving the bishop of Munster of secular power and directly affecting his interests. However, the Archbishop of Cologne and those masters did not suffer any direct losses. Therefore, the Archbishop of Cologne and several masters were easily convinced, and Bishop of Munster was not so easy to say as the party whose interests were damaged.
Even if he could not resist openly, it would be easy for Bishop Munster to take charge of Bishop Munster for many years and secretly stumbling for Marin.
Therefore, Marin planned to take a surprise. When the Holy See ordered the order, he would directly lead the army into the city of Münster. When the troops arrived at the city, they would negotiate. In short, they would not give the other party time to react.
In addition, because we had not considered the matter of Bishop Osnabrück before, Marin had not sent his men to Bishop Osnabrück to collect intelligence. At this moment, it was time to send people to Bishop Osnabrück to collect intelligence, so as not to have problems when the army passed by, due to insufficient intelligence.
The Bishop of Osnabrück was just a weak bishop. It could exist safely mainly by the Holy See and Archbishop of Cologne. This country has a small territory and weak strength. If it weren't for its strong backing, it would have been destroyed.
Therefore, the Bishops of Osnabrück and the Bishops of Munster are different. Bishops of Munster are powerful. After all, in Germany, there are not many land areas of more than 10,000 square kilometers, only a few. Therefore, the Bishops of Munster are still relatively difficult to deal with.
As long as the Bishop of Osnabrück is dispatched to siege the city by himself, and he has been given up by his backer, it is only a matter of time before he surrenders.
What's more, Marin heard that the total number of the Bishops of Osnabrück was only seven or eight hundred, and the combat effectiveness was average. The Bishops of Münster had 5,000 standing troops, which was a powerful country.
After all, just feeding 5,000 mercenaries requires nearly 90,000 gold coins a year. Not all countries have so much money to support so many mercenaries. It can be seen that the financial situation of the Bishop of Munster is quite good.
Of course, the strength of the Bishop of Munster is not in Marin's eyes. If it weren't for the fact that the Elector of Saxony and the Elector of Brandenburg were not involved, the 5,000 troops of the Bishop of Munster alone would be a P. Don't you see, the 20,000 elite soldiers of the Duke of Saxony were defeated by Marin? What is 5,000 troops?
After returning to East Friesland, Marin asked Schwartz to step up training for the recruits. Because of the urgent time, this group of recruits, especially the 5,000 recruits who were recruited in the last 3 months, may not be able to train as planned for 3 months. Perhaps, he will have to set off for more than a month of training. Therefore, Schwartz's training task is very heavy.
Fortunately, with the assistance of the 200 young officers from the crash course, this group of recruits can form a certain combat power as soon as possible. After all, the power of role models is infinite. With 200 officers with rich theoretical experience, I don’t know how high the combat power is, but completing the training requirements is definitely much faster than not having these officers.
In order to enable the new recruits to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, it is not enough for these 200 officers with solid theoretical foundation. For this reason, Malin drew 1,200 veterans from the veterans and replaced 1,200 new recruits from the new recruits. The replaced recruits are led by veterans, so they will naturally get started quickly. On average, one veteran in every ten people in the new recruits is the squad leader. Under the leadership of these veterans, the new recruits can also become familiar with the business faster. At the same time, when encountering battles, under the leadership of these veterans, they can adapt quickly. After all, with the veterans' words and deeds, the new recruits can adapt faster.
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Before going to the war, Marin had been thinking about a question - that is, the issue of domestic security...
After Marin developed the tactic of bombardment and powder barrel blasting, the Oak City Gate became a decoration when facing artillery. The example of George conquering Leeuwarden told Marin that the city of his country could be conquered by the enemy with the same trick.
Although the city of Orich has been replaced with four large iron gates and no longer worried about being damaged by enemy shelling, other cities have not yet. Especially the Principality of Schleswig, it may face Danish revenge at any time, which is the most dangerous.
You know, the Danes suffered the loss of Marin, but obviously also learned Marin's tricks. If the gate of the Principality of Schleswig was still an oak gate, it would be easy for the Danes to use the same tricks to break.
Originally, Marin planned to wait until the zinc from the Tara lead-zinc ore was in place, and smelted out zinc, making thick white iron sheets to cover the city gates, so he didn't have to worry about the enemy's shelling. After all, the shells of this era were all iron balls, and the power of the stimulating medicine was not very powerful. As long as the city gate was covered with iron sheets, it would be difficult for the enemy to break through.
Just like in the Eastern China, the city gates are covered with copper skin and painted with red paint, so they are not afraid of the bombardment of ancient smoothbore cannons. However, in Europe, it is unrealistic to cover the city gates with copper skin. Because the cost is too high.
Europe is not the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the exchange ratio between silver and copper was as high as 1 to 130. The copper price was very cheap, so there was naturally conditions to use copper skin and copper nails to cover the city gate. But what about the era of Europe? The exchange ratio between silver and copper is 1 to 15. Using copper skin to cover such a large city gate is definitely something that the local tyrants can do...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, it is useless to cover the ordinary iron sheet. It rains a few times and it will rust immediately. The rusted iron sheet will be broken as soon as the shells hit, and it will not be useful at all.
However, the Tara lead and zinc mine has just been obtained and has not even been explored. It is not time to make the iron sheet to the gates of Montung Friesland, Oldenburg and Schleswig.
And replacing the city gates in these three areas with large iron gates would be too expensive, and even Malin could not afford it.
An iron city gate weighs at least seven or eight tons, and a city requires several cities. A country of Bo has several cities... In short, the consumption of iron is too amazing...
In Europe, blast furnace iron smelting is not popular. Iron smelting is simply replaced with ordinary charcoal furnaces. The output is low and the quality is poor, but the price is very high.
Therefore, it is very unreliable to popularize iron gates to cities in three countries...
After thinking about it, Marin suddenly remembered the commonly used tinplate on tin cans in later generations. It was to soak the tinplate in tin liquid and hot-dip it, and it was easy to obtain rust-proof tinplate.
The tinplate's rust prevention ability is very good. The only disadvantage is that the tin layer on the iron sheet cannot be destroyed. Otherwise, the damaged tin plated point will become the diffusion point of the rust of the iron sheet.
Galvanized iron sheet perfectly avoids this disadvantage. Because even if the galvanized layer is damaged a little, as long as the range is not large, it is not a big deal, but can continue to be used. Therefore, Marin thought of using zinc. Moreover, the Irish Tara lead-zinc ore has a large zinc reserve, and the ore content is 10% and the reserve is very large. If it is extracted, the cost will be very low. At least, it is much lower than tin.
But now, Marin has no time to wait for the Tara lead-zinc ore to produce zinc. Because the war will break out at any time. So, after thinking about it for a while, Marin decided to use all the 15 tons of tin that were originally intended to be used to make tinplate in the reserves.
Before the Tara lead-zinc ore is produced, cover the city gate with iron tin and hold it for a while. When the zinc is produced, replace it with the tin tin.
As for the situation where the tin tin plate layer of tin is prone to problems once it is damaged, Marin quickly thought of a solution...
When nailing the iron sheet on the city gate, there will be no damage to the tin plating layer on the nail hole. Therefore, Marin decided to nail the iron sheet out of the nail hole with iron nails before plating the tin. Then, then put it in the tin liquid to hot-dip. In this way, when nailing the iron sheet on the city gate, as long as the nail is nailed into the nail hole and try to be careful, the tin plating layer will not be damaged.
As long as the tin plated layer is not destroyed, tinplate can be used for a long time. Even if the enemy attacks with artillery, the city gate covered by the iron sheet can be held for a long time.
In fact, Marin urgently made tinplate iron sheets this time, and divided them into various cities in the control area to withstand this wave. Once Marin successfully controlled the Bishops of Munster and Bishops of Osnabrück, the 20,000 troops were freed up. It doesn’t matter whether there was a tinplate iron sheet covering the city gate. Whoever dared to invade his own territory, just fight back directly...
Chapter completed!