When the princes gathered together Walms to convene a "Heroes Conference", the war in Switzerland did not stop at all.
After discussing the timber trade with Denmark King Hans, Marin received information from Switzerland sent by Kohler that night - the 10,000 army of the Habsburg family. Under the leadership of Frenzberg, Marin's former general, the former Swiss general, was in a state of unstoppable power.
Frenzberg led a large army, not only quickly captured the Habsburg family's dragon-rise land, Algo, but also took advantage of the opportunity to capture the western half of the Swiss state, Zurich, the largest state in Switzerland. Even the city of Zurich was about to be conquered.
At the same time, Frenzberg also divided his troops south to attack Lucerne, south of Algoyle. It is said that Frenzberg also planned to send troops to attack Bern, which is no less than Zurich. Unfortunately, his troops were not enough. After all, Maximilian I only gave him 10,000 people.
Switzerland has mountainous terrain and there are many fortresses built along the mountains. To sweep across Switzerland, you not only have to overcome the ups and downs, but also need to conquer these fortresses.
Frenzberg followed Marin for a long time, familiar with Marin's style, and admired Marin's tactics and tactics very much. Therefore, although he was sent to serve the emperor, Frenzberg never stopped studying and imitating Marin's novel tactics.
For example, this time, Frenzberg specially brought most of Austrian artillery and ammunition. As for what to do with artillery? Of course, he imitated Marin's tactics and bombarded the city gate.
Moreover, the Swiss region did not use the iron gate like Denmark and Saxony. Because the Swiss never thought that the local area would be attacked. In addition, this is a mountainous area and the news is relatively closed.
Therefore, taking advantage of the Swiss news and before they could change the city gate, Frenzberg learned Marin's tactics and formed a large-scale artillery unit and a professional blasting team to deal with the Swiss oak city gates and fortress gates.
In this way, relying on advanced tactics and the weakness of the Swiss's empty troops, Frenzberg led his troops to sweep across the northern part of Switzerland. When Kohler's intelligence personnel sent the message, Frenzberg was about to capture the city of Zurich. In fact, when Marin received this information, Zurich had already been in the slope...
But Marin knew very well that this was not the end, but just the beginning...
Why? Because the Swiss were not that easy to conquer. In addition, the Habsburg family also took advantage of Switzerland's empty military force.
Not to mention the 18,000 Swiss mercenaries captured by Marin, there are more than 10,000 mercenaries even in France and the Principality of Gedes.
The prisoners of Swiss mercenaries captured by Marin may not have the chance to return to China to participate in the war against the Habsburg family. Because Marin had decided to sell them to the emperor.
However, more than 10,000 Swiss mercenaries hired by France and the Principality of Gedes will definitely return to China to fight the occupation of the Habsburg family. They are not straitors or guerrillas, but super powerful regular troops in the system.
According to the intelligence sent by Marin's spy in the Principality of Gedes, the Zieg mercenary group led by the commander of the Zieg mercenary who had fought for the Principality of Gedes and several other Swiss mercenary groups were packed and ready to return to China to join the war.
Including the thousands of people in France, if they all go back, there will be more than 12,000 elite troops. Moreover, France will definitely provide them with assembly points and logistics supplies.
Because the French would never want the Habsburg family to control the entire Switzerland. Otherwise, once this is the case, the French would not have thought of recruiting powerful Swiss mercenaries from Switzerland under the control of the Habsburg family in the future.
Marin concluded that the French would make great efforts to support the Swiss mercenaries this time and hoped that they would defeat the Habsburg army.
Therefore, the current army of the Habsburg family is obviously not enough to fight against the Swiss mercenaries who returned home. Even if they use double the army, they may not be able to win. Therefore, Marin concluded that Maximilian I would definitely have to expand its army. At least, it would have to increase its army of ten thousand to withstand the counterattack of the Swiss...
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After seeing off King Hans, Marin took the initiative to visit Emperor Maximilian I, who was still in Wolms...
Of course, Marin is not just here to remind the emperor, he also has a very important task - to promote arms...
Uh...isn't right, it should be said that it is selling weapons and armor...
Nowadays, military equipment is mostly cold weapons and does not carry fire. Therefore, it is more appropriate to call military equipment weapons and armor.
Marin won the war this time and caught so many prisoners, so he naturally would not be polite. It goes without saying that he would strip off the weapons and armor of the prisoners.
Although a peace agreement was reached with Brandenburg and Saxony, as long as the other party had a ransom of 1 million gold coins, it was only enough to redeem people. As for war horses and weapons and armor, they were naturally not in the ranks of redemption. Of course, the two electoral states were not short of that little weapon and armor. Especially Saxony, it was not difficult to equip the soldiers with all their soldiers. However, Brandenburg's electoral states were poor, and it was a bit difficult to get another set. Fortunately, Marin reduced half of the ransom from the other party. Otherwise, Jokiem would not even be able to get the ransom.
Saxony and Brandenburg are both traditional vassal states that advocate the Plate Armor Knights. Therefore, there are many Plate Armor Knights. In the last decisive battle, Brandenburg's Electoral State dispatched more than 3,000 Plate Armor Knights. Saxony Electoral State has more than 4,000.
Although Frederick III finally escaped with hundreds of Saxon Knights, in order to get on the battlefield and facilitate escape, the hundreds of Saxon Knights took off their plate armor and horse armor, and were eventually picked up by the pursuers sent by Marin.
Therefore, in that decisive battle, Malin seized seven thousand sets of plate armor and horse armor alone. As for the rest of the weapons, they were piled up.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Marin is not very happy for his army to use these backward weapons and armor, but his unhappiness does not mean that others are not happy...
For example, Austria will definitely be interested. You should know that in history, Maximilian I was known as the "last knight" and even created the famous and most pinnacle armor - Maximilian armor.
Therefore, this knight emperor must be very interested in the plate armor and horse armor. This time, Marin asked His Majesty the Emperor to inform him, not only did he inform him, but also wanted to sell second-hand weapons and armor.
After all, the war is imminent, and the Habsburg family definitely needs to expand their troops. It is easier to recruit people, but weapons and armor may not be able to be in place at once. Although Marin's second-hand weapon and armor, such as plate armor, is not as advanced and useful as the "Maximilian Armor" designed by Maximilian I, it is also a popular product seized from the two electoral emperors, and it is still usable. The most important thing is that it can be used just by taking it.
You know, war is imminent, but there is no time for Maximilian I to order the Royal Arsenal in Innsbruck to produce enough Maximilian armor. Therefore, the second-hand plate armor that Marin delivered to the door is the best choice.
After all, the Swiss are good at using spears, and moving is not afraid of spears. Although Swiss mercenaries also use warhammers, which are specially used to deal with plate armor. However, that is, warriors wearing plate armor are not stupid. Standing there for you to smash, you will definitely fight back. When the number of warriors wearing plate armor reaches a certain number, Swiss spearmen will also feel very difficult.
When he arrived at the emperor's temporary residence, Marin easily met the emperor. When he learned about Marin's information, Maximilian I was not too surprised. Obviously, he also received relevant information.
As Marin thought, Maximilian I also felt that the troops were not enough and decided to expand tens of thousands of people. However, the source of weapons and armor did become the emperor's heart. The war was imminent, and there was no time to produce weapons and armor...
It's okay to say that weapons are, for example, spears are nothing more than a spearhead in front of a wooden stick, which costs less iron and short working hours. However, plate armor is different. It takes a long time for a skilled craftsman to make it. The production efficiency is not high, otherwise it will not be so expensive. It is unlikely to produce quickly.
In fact, what Maximilian I wanted most was to let the army under Marin help him fight. Marin's army had the combat effectiveness there, and as long as Marin's army was used, victory was certain. But how could Marin agree?
Not to mention that Marin was unwilling to jump into the quagmire of the war in Switzerland, Marin himself also wanted to use the quagmire of Switzerland to hold the Habsburg family back, and it was even less likely that he would be willing to help.
As for the excuse? Isn’t the oppression of Marin by the princes at the Imperial Conference obvious? What the princes are most worried about is that Marin will become the thug of Maximilian I. If Marin hadn’t made a thug of faithful statement that he would not become the thug of the emperor’s unification of Germany, this would be very sad.
If Marin turned around and helped the emperor fight Switzerland, wouldn’t this be a joke on the princes?
Therefore, Marin had sufficient reasons to refuse to send troops to fight for the emperor. Maximilian I had no choice. After all, he also knew that if Marin really agreed to help him fight, Marin might turn around and be beaten up by himself...
Just when Maximilian I was a little worried, Marin suddenly said:
Chapter completed!