When Malin introduced to his subordinates the idea of ​​establishing a ritual room and using the Maoist father-in-law, his friends were all shocked...
"This...is a bit inhumane..." Prime Minister Jeffrey swallowed, feeling a chill in his crotch.
"What's inhumane? It's natural to prevent bloodline from being defiled!" Kohler was Marin's loyalty and directly supported Marin's approach.
"Well, the young master's decision is right!" Kahn expressed his support without saying a word, regardless of whether it is good or not.
A group of civil servants were hesitant, but Schwartz's words dispelled their doubts:
"Everyone, the Grand Duke is not a castrated person, but a foreigner of the Ross who purchased from the Crimean barbarians. Moreover, those Rosss are pagans. So, what does it have to do with their sufferings to us? It is not our turn into slaves and castrated them..."
Schwartz's words unraveled the hearts of civil servants - yes, the unlucky Ross is the people who have something to do with us? So everyone supports Marin to form a tribute room. It is just a requirement - Germans and Catholics must not be used as eunuchs...
Marin naturally agreed to their request. Anyway, he did not plan to engage in eunuchs in China, which was indeed inhuman. However, the affairs of the Russians... were also done by the barbarians of the Crimeans. As for Marin himself, he provided at most a disinfection plan... Well, it also stimulated the enthusiasm of the Crimean Khanate to arrest Russian men. In the past, because of the high mortality rate of castration infection, the Crimeans were not very interested in arresting Russian men...
But no matter what, Marin originally wanted to suppress the rise of the Russians. Therefore, letting the Crimean barbarians catch more Russian men can be considered as weakening the Russians...
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As time went by, it was finally time to release Swiss prisoners of war. The Habsburg family also sent tens of thousands of cavalry to urgently come from Austria and Switzerland.
In order to capture these Swiss prisoners of war, Maximilian I suspended the attack on western Switzerland. Then, he concentrated his horses and sent tens of thousands of troops to the South Münster area, and temporarily stationed in the Principality of Clifford, which had a good relationship with the Habsburg family.
Of course, these 10,000 troops are not all real cavalry. The cavalry actually has only 4,000 people, and the other 6,000 people are actually infantry riding horses.
Horse farming is popular in Europe, and there are many ordinary families with horses. Therefore, there are many infantrymen in the Habsburg family army. Although they may not know how to fight horses, there is still no problem riding horses. In order to hurry up, Maximilian I also concentrated 20,000 horses in his hand, giving these 10,000 men to travel and transfer.
In order to save time, the 10,000 troops did not bring much food and grass, but instead brought a lot of money with them and purchased food and grass along the way.
Although the expenses are a little too high, compared with the catching of the 18,000 Swiss prisoners of war, this expense is nothing.
You should know that once these 18,000 Swiss prisoners of war successfully return to Switzerland, they can immediately be converted into powerful combat power. Then, the balance of the battle situation in Switzerland will be instantly broken. The Habsburg family may be driven out of Switzerland due to their military strength...
Switzerland is the "land of dragon development" of the Habsburg family, how can we give up? Moreover, Switzerland is really big... Although there are a little more mountains, it is large enough... Taking Switzerland, most of the loss of most of the annexation of the Principality of Burgundy by France can be made up immediately...
To this end, Maximilian I spent a lot of money to allow the soldiers to purchase supplies on site along the way to save time so as to catch the Swiss mercenaries.
When the 10,000 troops of the Habsburg family arrived at the Principality of Cliff, the leader sent someone to send a letter to Marin. After receiving the letter, Marin knew that he could release the person.
So Marin went to visit the Swiss prisoners of war in a hypocritical manner. Then, he also equipped each of them with a grain bag and gave them a few silver coins as the travel expenses for their return home... Damn, this is too much like a certain army's policy of preferential treatment of prisoners...
The Swiss prisoners of war were really moved - Oh my god, they actually gave food and travel expenses, which was so considerate and warm... However, when these Swiss prisoners of war requested to be issued weapons, Marin refused sternly and explained - you are all mercenaries, giving you weapons, afraid that you will not be able to resist robbing the people along the way... I can't bear to see you hurt those people... So, I can't give you weapons so that you can't harm the people...
Then, on the border between the South Münster region and the Principality of Cliver, Marin waved farewell to the 18,000 Swiss mercenaries:
"Come and play often in the future!" Marin said with a smile.
"Let's have fun!" The Swiss mercenaries said in their hearts. They never want to do this when they were caught as coolies digging canals. Although Marin had a lot of food for them during the digging of canals, they were really hard and tired. They dig soil all day long and picked soil. The workload, the boss, and the sweat they dripped every day, probably had to be calculated by pounds, and the genius was willing to come again...
After leaving Münster, the Swiss mercenaries were in a good mood and even sang songs from their hometown while walking...
However, they soon couldn't sing. The next day, when they walked to Wesel on the east bank of the Rhine River and planned to cross the river, tens of thousands of cavalry suddenly appeared next to them-the emperor's army had been waiting for them for a long time...
According to the route of these Swiss people, crossing the river from Wesel was the first choice. So, Maximilian I's people chose the ambush location in Wesel.
And this is also the agreement between Marin and Maximilian I - not to start arresting people at the border. If that were the case, the three-year-old child would understand that he and Maximilian I had already colluded. In this way, Marin would be under great pressure. After all, he was rejected by the nobles. If he did another move, he would become a thorn in the eyes of the princes...
So, the two sides discussed and waited for the Swiss prisoners of war to leave the Munster area and enter the Duchy of Cliff before taking action. The city of Wessel is an important ferry between the Lipper River and the Rhine River. It is very likely that the Swiss prisoners of war will cross the river and return home from here. Therefore, the Habsburg family's army simply lie in Wessel...
When 18,000 Swiss mercenaries arrived outside Wesel with their luggage and singing the songs from their hometown, ten thousand cavalrymen with the Habsburg family's double-headed eagle flag appeared from the side...
"It's the lackeys of the Habsburg family! We were ambushed!" shouted the knowledgeable officer among the Swiss mercenaries.
"Bad bastards, how do they know we're here?" many Swiss mercenaries shouted in despair.
"It must be that bastard Marin told the Habsburg family that the messy ones!"
"Stop talking, stop them quickly, or we will all be done!"
"But we don't have weapons, we don't even have a knife!"
"Damn it, I'm dead! No wonder that bastard Marin refused to give us weapons. It turned out that he was waiting for the Habsburg family's lackeys to deal with us!"
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However, no matter how the Swiss mercenaries complained, it was futile. The 10,000 army of the Habsburg family quickly launched a charge. Facing the unarmed Swiss mercenaries, their advantages should not be too obvious...
Although the Swiss resisted fiercely, there were no weapons in hand. Although a very small number of people grabbed weapons from the enemy and caused some casualties to the Habsburg army, this was a minority after all.
It took only two or three hours to prevent the 18,000 unarmed Swiss mercenaries from war and were defeated and captured. And it was only a day after they were released by Marin...
Chapter completed!