According to the current situation, it is no problem for the Principality of Gedes to completely occupy West Friesland. You should know that at present, the number of Gedes troops is as high as 16,000 (thousands were lost in the previous decisive battle), while George Duke of Saxony, only less than 3,000 people were left.
Now, the Duchy of Gerdes has occupied the western half of West Friesland and is heading towards Groningen. It will not take long before it will arrive and surround Groningen.
Marin did not think that George would lead these three thousand men to defend Groningen and the army of the Duchy of Gerders, because George was the Duke of Saxony and had many retreats, so there was no need to put himself in because of the temporary gains and losses of Groningen.
Therefore, the result was nothing more than the Duke of Saxony George running away, and the Duchy of Gerders occupied the city of Groningen.
However, if anyone thinks this is the final conclusion, it would be too naive. Because, George, Duke of Saxony, no matter how useless he is, he is Duke of Saxony, not a cat or a dog.
Moreover, afterwards, seeing George suffer such a great loss, Saxony Elector cannot stand by. After all, the Duke of Gedes beat George not only but also the Weiting family in the face. Therefore, at that time, the Saxony nobles will definitely go out to fight together.
In addition, Emperor Maximilian I owed the Duchy of Saxony because of the former Duke of Saxony Albresitt in 1492 that he sent troops to help quell the rebellion in the Flanders. At that time, the counterattacking coalition would inevitably have the army of the Habsburg family. In other words, the army of the Dutch region belonging to the Habsburg family.
Therefore, Charles II, the Duke of Geders who occupied West Friesland, will usher in a group fight.
However, as long as the army of the Duchy of Gedes survived this wave of group attacks, it would be considered as overwhelming. After all, some allies can send troops to George once, but they will not do the second time. Because they are not George's parents and will not be responsible for George to the end. Being able to help form a group to fight has already given a lot of face.
The biggest reliance of the Duchy of Gedders is probably the Swiss mercenaries. In other words, the supporters behind the Duchy of Gedders are the French. Because those Swiss mercenaries were actually the French who acquiesced to help the Duchy of Gedders.
However, it was impossible for the French to send troops to help the Duchy of Gedes. Because the French were unwilling to openly break up with Shinra. In this way, France would also fall into a situation where the three parties of Spain, Shinra and Britain were attacked by the tripartite forces. Fortunately, the British fortress Calais had been conquered by France, and the British had a much reduced ability to interfere with France with the army. Of course, if Shinra and Britain form an alliance and let the British land from the Netherlands, it would be possible. Therefore, France also had to guard against the merger of the Habsburg family and the British. Therefore, it was impossible to openly send troops to intervene. What France could do was probably provide funding and acquiesce to Swiss mercenaries to help the Duchy of Gedes.
Moreover, as long as the current Swiss mercenaries, especially Zieg's mercenary group, remain, the Principality of Gedes may not have no chance of winning in the next game against the coalition forces.
As long as the same trick is repeated, Zieg's Swiss mercenaries will suddenly emerge from the side when the war is in a stalemate, even the coalition forces will be in trouble. Moreover, it is precisely because it is a coalition forces that are easier to end. Because the coalition forces must be a pieced together, with varying combat effectiveness. At that time, the one acting as the flanks will definitely be a mixed army. Zieg's Swiss mercenaries will definitely have no big problem in attacking such mixed miscellaneous troops.
Therefore, after some deduction, Marin found that the final result was that the Principality of Guedes continued to win... and this was also in Marin's interests.
Why? Because Marin's final plan was to take advantage of the opportunity of the Duchy of Gedes to defeat the coalition forces and make a request to buy Westfriesland. At that time, George was desperate and could not recover the Duchy of Gedes, so it would be better to sell it to Marin and recover some of the costs.
In this way, Marin can successfully capture West Friesland...
As for buying Westfriesland and going to war with the Duchy of Gedes? What is Marin afraid of? Because the Marin phalanx with powerful long-range abilities is not afraid of the Swiss phalanx.
Moreover, as long as you keep the reserve team, defend Zieg's side attack, and defeat the Duchy of Gedes. After all, the Duchy of Gedes seems to have no other way except this killer move. In other words, this tactic is almost equivalent to the killer moves and trump card of the Duchy of Gedes. As long as you break this card, the opponent will have nothing to be scary.
This is not a problem with the alliance between the Malin and the Principality of Gedes. Because when Malin and the Principality of Gedes formed an alliance, they were actually secretly allied, without any legal documents.
So, even if we turn against the Principality of Gedes, it doesn't matter. Because no one knows that we are allies...
Even the reason why they chose to form a secret alliance was because Marin and Charles II had ulterior motives. At the beginning, the two families agreed to divide West Friesland together. However, both Marin and Charles II had the ambition to monopolize West Friesland. Therefore, their covenant was not written on paper. In other words, both sides were ulterior motives, waiting to defeat each other later and monopolize West Friesland. Therefore, it would only take sooner or later for the two families to turn against each other.
However, for now, what Marin had to do was to appease Charles II and let him face the group fights of the Saxons without any worries.
For this reason, Marin specially wrote a letter to Charles II, declaring that he had launched the battle for Sifries and was willing to give Groningen to Charles II. As for the reason? He had occupied such a huge vassal state as the Bishop of Munster. Sifries and so on no longer took it seriously...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Charles II was indeed very happy after receiving Marlin's letter. As long as Marlincoln gave up coveting West Friesland, he could take over West Friesland himself.
Moreover, Charles II was not worried that Marin would turn against him later. At least, when George organized a multinational coalition to attack him, Marin would not intervene. If his army defeated the multinational coalition, then Marin's army could also be defeated. Therefore, Charles II believed that there was nothing scary about Marin's threat.
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While Marin was thinking about West Friesland's plan, the Roman side suddenly sent an invitation letter to invite Marin to participate in a negotiation after the autumn harvest.
As for what negotiations are? Of course, it is the matter between Spain and Portugal regarding the revision of the Treaty of Todd Silas...
In history, in order to win over Spain, Julius II naturally agreed to the original version of the Treaty of Todd Silas. Moreover, Spain in history had no other ideas and just wanted to keep it as it was.
But this life is different. Because of Marin's intervention, the Spaniards targeted India's spice trade interests. Therefore, the Spanish definitely wanted to modify the original "Torde Silas Treaty". Only the Portuguese, because the original "Torde Silas Treaty" was beneficial to them, would want to keep it the same.
In fact, Marin had already discussed with Julius II to support the Spanish's trade interests in India. However, the Spanish could not take any advantage. Therefore, it was necessary to let them expose the interests of the Americans. Because Marin fell in love with America...
In order to force the Spaniards to give up their American interests, Julius II even planned to invite French representatives to participate in the negotiations and force the Spaniards to give up America. Anyway, for the Spanish enemy France, what they are unfavorable to Spain is what they are happy to see...
The role of Marin in attending the talks was mainly to explain the Sanghai Empire in West Africa and the ancient Zimbabwe Empire in southern Africa, to let Spain and Portugal choose one of them, and then to spend the hard work of the two countries to allow them to devote more energy to conquering these two golden countries.
Therefore, in this negotiation, Marin actually used to be a commentator. In the name of "Einstein" disciple, he explained the information about the two gold kingdoms in detail to the two countries, and lured the two countries to conquer the two countries.
As for opposing Spain's continued domination of America, Julius II has already chosen a suitable partner - France. The French must have opposed the Spanish taking all the benefits. Moreover, because of their strong national strength, France has a strong voice. It is most suitable for them to force Spain to give up the interests of America. Other people or other forces to force Spain are not suitable. For example, Marin, or even Julius II himself is not suitable. Only great powers like France have a strong voice and are enemies of Spain, and it is the most suitable for them to make trouble for Spain. In this way, Julius II and Marin can both take away themselves.
Even the invitation to France to participate in the negotiations was not invited by Julius II himself, but Julius II hinted that the Portuguese invited France to be a "notary".
The Portuguese were hinted that they felt that a great power like France not only had the right to speak, but also the enemy of Spain. It would be beneficial for them to ask them to help. Therefore, the French were invited by the Portuguese to participate in the talks. Louis XII was also willing to make things difficult for the Spaniards, so they agreed to send representatives to attend the talks.
Chapter completed!