When Marin issued an order to Newcastle's Saccarat, he asked Saccarat to transport the newly recruited 10,000 English mercenaries to the undeveloped remote East Friesian Islands, and also asked Saccarat to leave a group of people and continue to recruit 5,000 new people to guard Newcastle. Anyway, Marin did not lack food, and recruited soldiers from the disaster area in England, as long as food was given.
Marin planned to be a surprise soldier for these ten thousand English mercenaries. Therefore, Marin would not announce their existence to the public, but instead planned to hide it first.
Anyway, Marin felt that sooner or later he would have to fight with others, so it would be better to play a big game and fool the enemy first. When the real war started, the enemy would be horrified to find that Marin had an army of 10,000. In this way, the morale of the enemy would be hit. Coupled with misjudgment of strength and mistakes in layout, it would be easy to fail.
Moreover, while the spring plowing was underway, Marin also secretly ordered the gathering of militias. For example, in the East Frieslander country, the original 8,000 militias, except for the 3,000 people who were brought to the Oldenburg by Adler, the remaining 5,000 people would be gathered after the spring plowing, commanded by the old Hoffman, stationed in cities such as Orich and Emden to defend the local area. Then, the local regular troops would be freed and could go out with Marin to fight.
Of course, Marin recruited not only these 5,000 militias, but 10,000. This is enough to protect local security.
The local area mentioned by Marin refers to the East Frieslander region. As for the Munster region, because it was divided between the north and south with Bishop Conrad, Marin could actually draw out all the garrisons in the Munster region for war. Because the southern border is bordered by Bishop Conrad. Bishop Conrad is now an ally of interest with Marin, and with the relationship between the Holy See, he will not attack the area controlled by Marin.
Therefore, Marin could safely transfer all the regular troops stationed in the northern part of Münster for war. As for the 10,000 troops of the Principal of Schleswig, they could not be easily used, because they had to be guarded against Denmark's attack.
The local area, because it borders West Friesland, requires a certain amount of defense. The 10,000 militias that Marin planned to recruit was actually to prevent and control the Guedes army in the West Friesland region. After all, Marin appeared to have an alliance with Charles II, the Duke of Gedes, but both of them were ulterior motives and could not trust each other. Therefore, Marin needed to keep enough troops to guard against the army of the Guedes Principality. However, because it was defending the city, Marin did not need regular troops to guard against the enemy, leaving 10,000 militias, which was enough for defense. Even if the Guedes army really attacked the rear of Marin during wartime, the 10,000 militias could guard the city and persist until Marin's main army returned.
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On this side, Marin was considering whether the Duke of Gedes would attack him from behind when the war began. On the other side, Charles II, the Duke of Gedes, sent someone to contact Marin...
As for what it is? It turned out that Charles II learned through intelligence that when the Duke of Saxony George was retreating, he also took away two puppets from the former Duchy of Gedes, Governor Fyskefrijheid and Baron Leeuwarden, who were used to rule West Friesland, and was temporarily placed in the territory of East Friesland.
At this time, George had already brought more than 10,000 Minzhuang back to China to preside over the spring plowing. At present, in the temporary military camp of the Principal of Saxony on the east bank of the Emes River, only 2,000 garrisons of the Principal of Saxony and during the previous retreat, George brought back a group of prisoners of war from Groningen, including Governor Fyskefrijheid and Baron Leeuwarden Ztel.
Charles II, Duke of Guedes, was obviously aware of the important role of Governor Fyskefrijheid and Baron Lywarden Ztel. If George was allowed to take them to the Imperial Parliament to accuse himself, Charles II would definitely be passive in politics.
Therefore, Charles II, Duke of Geders, planned to deal with these two people. If possible, Charles II naturally hoped to steal the Governor Fyskefrijheid and Baron Leeuwarden, Ztel, back to Sifrisland and continue to act as puppets.
However, these two men, including two thousand Duchy of Saxony, were stationed in the territory of East Friesland. Even if Marin allowed him to send a large army into East Friesland, it would take a large number of troops to take down the Saxony army's barracks. What's more, Charles II felt that Marin would not allow him to send a large army into East Friesland to attack the temporary barracks of Saxony's army.
Therefore, Charles II's intention to send people to Marin was very simple - let Marin allow him to send a killer to assassinate the two men, Governor Fyskefrijheid and Baron Ztel of Leeuwarden. As long as these two people die, George will not be able to obtain evidence in the Imperial Parliament. Without evidence, Charles II, Duke of Gedes, could completely deny that he had captured Sifriesland, and that George would not have conclusive evidence or solution to accuse him.
After thinking about this for a long time, Marin agreed to the request of Charles II, Duke of Guedes.
As for why he agreed to Charles II's request? Obviously, Marin didn't want George to go too far. If George went well and Marin wanted to buy Sifriesland, it would not go well. Only by letting George reach a desperate situation can Marin have the opportunity to buy Sifriesland.
To this end, Marin ordered that domestic intelligence personnel began to pay attention to infiltrating the temporary camps of the Principality of Saxony within their territory, observe the movements of the Saxony army, and the life patterns of Governor Fyskefrijheid and Baron Leeuwarden Ztel, so as to create opportunities for the killers sent by Charles II.
Moreover, in the temporary barracks of the Principal of Saxony, since George brought more than 10,000 Minzhuang back to the Principal of Saxony to participate in spring plowing, only a few thousand prisoners and two thousand Saxony warriors were left in the barracks. The prisoners obviously could not leave the barracks at will, and the soldiers were too good at labour. Therefore, they needed to hire some laborers from East Friesland to deal with some life matters.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Therefore, there are some laborers in East Friesland who are employed by Saxons and can enter and exit the Saxon military camp. The intelligence personnel under Marin can enter the military camp through this channel to inquire about information.
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Soon, two assassins sent by Charles II, Duke of Guedes, came over. Both were assassins with high martial arts skills, and they looked very standard-standard with a public face and an ordinary figure, without any noticeable characteristics. But Marin specially sent his subordinates to test that these two men were indeed very skilled in martial arts. They were good at assassinating with daggers, and they both held daggers in both hands. Two daggers could be played with in their hands.
In fact, assassins of this era often use daggers. Because daggers are easy to hide and can be easily hidden in their sleeves. When the assassination is assassinated, they easily remove the daggers from their sleeves and then stab the target's heart.
As for musket assassination? Sorry, that thing is not popular yet. Moreover, the combs are not suitable for short guns. In addition, the combs are too obvious. You have a comb on your arm. Everyone knows that you are a musketeer... The clockwork fired by Marin can be made into short guns suitable for assassination, but people from other countries don't.
The use of hand crossbows to assassinate and other things seen in Marin's movies in the previous life is not reliable. Because there is no small wire crossbow in this era. Large crossbows are too easy to expose their targets and are inconvenient to carry. Therefore, assassins in this era still believe in daggers more.
When the two assassins came, Marin's intelligence personnel had already inquired about the situation of the Saxony barracks and arranged to bring the two killers into the Saxony barracks as a coolie to help the Saxony people repair houses. Then, they waited for an opportunity to assassinate Governor Fyskefrijheid and Baron Lywarden Ztel...
On a dark and windy night, two assassins quietly touched the rooms where Governor Fyskefrijheid and Baron Leeuwarden Ztel were each located, quietly cut the door bolt with a sharp dagger, entered the room, and then stabbed them in the hearts with a dagger...
Chapter completed!