As expected, after the garrisons in Birmingham arrived after hearing the news, they found this silk wallet at the gap in the fence where the horse bandits entered and exited.
After all, the wallet was thrown near the exit, and the silk was so eye-catching. As soon as the garrison entered the door, it was easy to find it.
Originally, Baron Yogan, the commander of the Birmingham Garage, planned to hack the wallet, but after opening the wallet, he immediately gave up the idea after discovering two French letters.
Judging from the information obtained, it was probably a group of horse thieves who attacked the camp. However, the horse thieves fell into their wallets, and there were two French letters and some French coins - Baron Jorgen knew that the matter was very important. He was one of Henry VII's confidants, and quickly handed the wallet to Henry VII. Moreover, he added his own judgment - this group of horse thieves was probably secretly supported by the French, in order to make trouble for England...
Baron Jorgen did not understand French, but Henry VII understood. Before the rebellion, Henry VII had been wandering in the Principality of Brittany, France for a long time and was not unfamiliar with French.
When Henry VII opened the two letters, he discovered that these two letters, one was a family letter, written to her husband Henry by a French woman named Jeanne, mainly some words of care and reports to the other party - everything in the family is safe...
And the second letter is very important - this letter was written by Count Dult, who was in charge of intelligence in France to a knight named Henry Spayo. The content of the letter made Henry VII frightened...
In this letter, Count Dult said that he had obtained intelligence from London that the British army built a base camp in Warwickshire, which may be used to deal with the thieves in several central counties. Therefore, Count Dult ordered the knight named Henry Spayo to lead his Robin Hood thieves group to take advantage of the British soldiers being busy with spring plowing and not yet assembled to take the lead in destroying the British camp and burning the other party's food and grass to destroy their operations...
This paragraph clearly explains why the British camp was attacked. Of course, this is not the point, nor is it the place that scares Henry VII. The next part made Henry VII feel scared...
Next in the letter, His Majesty Louis, the great Lord of France, decided to take advantage of the civil strife in England to conquer the Kingdom of England and end the century-old feud between France and Britain...
The specific plan is to send a fleet to raid the British fleet on the Irish sea and help Edward land in England...
Of course, this is just a plan to attack the east and west. The French’s real plan was to use the conflicts in the Irish sea to attract most of England’s ships and weaken the maritime defense forces in the English Channel...
When the British fleet was attracted by the conflict at the seas of Ireland, the French would suddenly launch a large-scale login battle and break through London in one fell swoop...
As for Edward, his life and death have nothing to do with the French, but he can fully attract the attention of the British and the main forces...
And this knight named Henry Spayo, his mission was to take the horse bandits to find fault with the British army, specifically attack their supply lines, and to a certain extent weaken the British army's combat effectiveness... After all the British army's attention was put on Edward and the thieves in the middle, the French launched a large-scale landing war and took England in one fell swoop...
In the letter, "Earl Dult" proudly stated that they had used several fake chambers of commerce to deceive most of the large merchant ships in the Five Port Alliance that could be used as warships and a large number of experienced sailors out of the sea. As long as the French army launched an attack before the big ships returned, Britain would not escape the destruction...
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Seeing this, Henry VII was sweating coldly...
If only this letter were made, Henry VII might have doubted it. But Marin was too thief. He used the wallet prop and added some French silver coins and a letter, making everything seem so reasonable...
If it were just the second letter, Henry VII might have suspected that the enemy wanted to convey wrong information to him and deliberately mislead himself. But with that letter of family, it seemed more reasonable. Because no one would give his letter of family to the enemy. Marin took advantage of the fixed thinking mode of Europeans in this era, set up a plan, and used a wallet containing family letters and French silver coins to let Henry VII initially dispel his doubts...
Henry VII has already figured out the complete storyline - a French knight named Henry Spaio, under the instruction of the French intelligence leader Count Dult, took advantage of the chaos in the north and central England to come to the Sherwood Forest Song in Nottinghamshire, where the robbers were once active, with the pseudonym Robinson, and he brought up a team of robbers from the wandering victims, specifically sabotaging the destruction, making England unsafe... and, it seems that they succeeded...
However, this group of thieves will not pose a fatal threat to England. The real threat is the use of conflicts at the seas in Ireland and Edward's power to attract the main force of the English Navy to facilitate the French army to cross the sea. Of course, there are also the French who hired the large merchant ships of the Five Port Alliance at high prices - these are the most deadly...
After all, in Henry VII's view, although Edward's army looked a lot, its combat effectiveness was just that. Even if it crossed the sea, it could not defeat the English army. The biggest threat to Britain was the French...
The French army was very powerful. After the late period of the Hundred Years' War, the British army was no longer a rival to the French army. Otherwise, the British king would not have lost all French territory except the Calais Fortress.
Moreover, the French army has enough numbers to be able to dispatch tens of thousands of troops to fight national wars. Unlike Edward, which has a maximum of about ten thousand people, it will not be a climate. If the French army successfully lands in England, the British army will be in trouble, and it is not impossible to destroy the country...
Before, the British relied on civilian merchant ships and experienced sailors to successfully repel the French invasion again and again, and turned their backs on the enemy's side to invade the northern coast of France (the French navy was not strong, and in addition to not paying attention to it, it was also related to the British's mobilization).
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Now, if the main force of the British naval force is attracted to the Irish sea, the ships of the Five Port Alliance are still drawn away... It seems that the English Channel really cannot stop the landing war of the French...
Henry VII quickly sent people to the port of the Five Port Alliance to verify. At this time, the so-called branches of the Dutch and Italian Chambers of Commerce had already left the house empty after Marin's notice. The people sent by Henry VII only found some French supplies and paper in French...
After hearing that most of the merchant ships in the Five Port Alliance were really hired to go to sea at high prices, Henry VII had to believe the contents of the letter - the French were indeed going to attack England...
So Henry VII immediately sent a large number of speedboats to chase the direction of Italy and the Baltic Sea, and ordered the merchant ships from the Five Port Alliance to return home to prepare for war to stop the French maritime invasion.
In addition, Henry VII also specially summoned small boats and experienced sailors from various ports to let them participate in the war together...
However, Henry VII was also a shrewd man. After knowing that the French might cross the English Channel, he guessed that the French would definitely send ships to reconnaissance. So, instead of immediately ordering all the boats to arrive on the English Channel, he ordered them to wait for orders on the ports on the southeastern and southwest coasts of England first...
Then, Henry VII sent many small fishing boats to reconnaise on the English Channel. Once the French reconnaissance ships were found to come, they would report to the British court. If the reconnaissance ships sent by the French turned back, Henry VII would immediately order all ships of all sizes to gather on the southern coast of England, waiting for the arrival of the French fleet... This time, Henry VII decided to wipe out the French fleet and teach the French a fatal lesson...
Little did they know that all this happened to fall into Marin's plan...
The reason why Marin produced this letter was to specifically cheat France. England wanted to annex, but France was threatened even more. If the French really made it into England, a war would inevitably be inevitable. The French might not have many ways to deal with England across the sea, but there were ways to deal with the North Sea Duchy of the same European continent. This point, the tragic ending of the Netherlands in history proved this...
During the British-Dutch War, Britain finally won the Dutch people by uniting France to unite with the Netherlands...
Therefore, it is best to drive the British to engage in French...
Originally, Marin planned to convey the message through the spy in England in the French Royal Palace. However, since Coster went to attack the British camp in advance, it would be better to leave it to Coster. After all, the more the British prepared, the more they prepared, and the success rate of defeating the French fleet would be higher...
Moreover, when England knew that "the battle at the sea of ​​Ireland only attracted the attention of the main force of the English Navy" the so-called "truth", they would not try their best to send ships to stop Edward...
After all, in the letter, the French believed that Edward was just a pawn, just a pawn that attracted Henry VII's English army...
Moreover, Henry VII also had an idea - since Edward was hiding on the Ireland Island, there was no way to deal with him, why didn't he put Edward on the land of England and wipe it out in one fell swoop? You know, that fake Richard was so ruined...
Henry VII believed that as long as he resisted the landing of the French, then he would not smile when he turned around and cleaned up Edward's family's wealth? It would be fine if he hid on the Ireland Island, but it would be a pity for his own death to return to England...
Marin's half-true and half-false information was to make Henry VII focus on the French. Then, when preventing Edward from landing, he deliberately let the water go...
In this way, if the French want to land, they will hit the iron plate directly - the fully mobilized English Navy is still very powerful...
It is precisely because the content of this information is half true and partially verified. Therefore, Henry VII believed the authenticity of this information. Otherwise, the scheming Henry VII would not be so easy to cheat...
It is true that the French were going to invade England (this can also be verified through British spies in France). It is true that the ships of the Five Port Alliance were deceived overseas (Marlin just threw the scam into the French).
In order to cheat the French, Marin revealed the news that he wanted to launch a "feint attack" on the sea of ​​Ireland to Henry VII. With Marin's understanding of Henry VII, the other party is likely to "take a trick" and let Edward land in England. That's because Henry VII didn't know that he had quietly landed in Newcastle in 20,000 troops...
Chapter completed!