As far as Marin knows, from Newcastle to Edinburgh, there is actually only one main road similar to the Roman Avenue. At that time, the Scottish army also headed south along this Avenue.

Generally speaking, James IV will definitely follow this path when he returns north. However, if James IV is suspicious and afraid that Edward will intercept him, he might change the path. After all, there is more than this road to the north. If a large army marches, he can only follow this road. However, James IV only brought 50 knights, so he can choose other paths.

Therefore, in order to force James IV to walk the main road, Marin decided to let the Robin Hood thieves send horse thieves to commit crimes frequently on several other roads, but he did not move the main road. In this way, after England sent James IV to the border, James IV wanted to walk the small road, and the Scottish border defenders would definitely dissuade him.

Nowadays, Scottish troops are catching their elbows, and only a small number of troops are stationed near the main road. As for those small roads, there is no force to be stationed at all. Therefore, it is reasonable that the Robin Hood thieves choose to commit crimes along the small road. If this news reaches James IV, he will definitely know how to choose.

However, Marin was also worried that James IV would not surrender. So he ordered that the Robin Hood Robber Group not only robbed on the road, but also tried to destroy the roads and bridges. In this way, the roads and bridges were destroyed, and James IV had to go on the main road.

If you walk the road, Marin guessed that James IV and his party would be highly vigilant to prevent being intercepted and killed in a place not far from the border area.

On the contrary, when you reach Edinburgh in the second half of the journey, you will relax...

This is also human nature. When you get close to the enemy's territory, you must be nervous and alert. But if you are very close to home, it will be easy to relax.

In ancient Chinese history, many people used this to attack ambush. However, in Europe, strategies have not yet emerged, and everyone is still very stubborn. It is still very rare to use the enemy's psychological means in this way.

Therefore, Marin planned to send Kahn and his men to find a suitable hidden roadside forest in the second half of the Scottish border to Edinburgh, and fight an ambush against James IV...

Most of Scotland is mountainous, while Edinburgh is surrounded by lowlands in southern Scotland. However, to the south, it is mountainous terrain. Marin plans to fight an ambush in the mountainous areas that have not entered the plains around Edinburgh. After all, mountainous areas are suitable for Tibetan soldiers. After killing people, it is easy to run away. For this reason, Marin will also specially prepare a batch of highland horses suitable for mountain roads for Kahn and others to run away later.

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In addition, in order to prevent enemy knights from running away in chaos, Marin specially asked the forging factory to forge a batch of new type of plate armor. These plate armors all use the shape of French plate armor, but the difference is that the outside of the plate armor has been carburized and double-quenched oil and salt, which greatly improves the performance of the plate armor.

Moreover, French-style plate armor is very popular in Europe. The Scottish army generally adopts the French plate armor style. Why? Because many of the plate armors of the Scottish army are simply supported by the French.

France has always regarded the Kingdom of Scotland as an ally. Because the Scots put pressure on England in the north, which made England unable to let go of their hands and feet to deal with France. Therefore, the French were willing to invest in Scotland and support some plate armor, which was nothing. Even in history, James IV led his troops south to attack England in order to alleviate England's invasion of France, and then died on the battlefield...

Therefore, it is easy to confuse the public by letting Kahn and others wear French-style plate armor. They may even be regarded as internal rebellion.

Marin was so happy that people thought so, so he began to train Kahn in Scottish...

"Ha! This mountain is blooming, this tree is planted by me. If you want to pass by, leave money to buy roads (Scottish)." Marin found a North Sea Chamber of Commerce spy who knew Scots and taught Kahn to speak the Scottish version of the scoundrel slogan.

However, out of evil taste, Malin turned these slander words into the opening remarks of the Taoist robber with a very Chinese characteristic.

Then, Kahn followed up with a bitter look and learned these Scottish versions of Chinese slang...

Marin's requirement for Kahn and the Wolf Tooth Commando was that the whole process was only allowed to speak Scottish, not German, and avoid exposing his feet.

Moreover, the main purpose of this interception was to kill James IV. As long as James IV was killed, as for the other knights, it would be fine if one or two were let go. Anyway, Kahn and others were wearing a full set of French-style plate armor and also used Scottish. Paralyzed, they didn't believe that those Scottish people could infer that before Holmes's grandfather was born.

You should know that Marin dispatched the Wolf Tooth Commando to keep it confidential. If he didn't use the musket directly for the sake of confidentiality, he would just use the musket. Facing the musket, plate armor is useless and it is more convenient to intercept it. However, if you use the musket, it is easy to be suspected. Without the musket, who can guess?

After all, European plate armor covers their faces. They don’t show their faces, but they still wear French plate armor...

"No! The mace is a special weapon of the Wolf Tooth Commando, and it is a loophole!"

Marin soon discovered the loophole and made adjustments - the selected Wolf Tooth Commando began to switch to the more popular European warhammers and tomahawks against plate armor. In this way, the concealment will be even higher...

Just so happens, there are still a few months left to start. During this period, these people can adapt to using warhammers and battle axes to avoid the decline in combat power during combat...

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Just as Marin was busy killing James IV, Garland on Cape Breton Island sent an envoy back and asked Marin to send a group of people to collect maple syrup in the spring of next year.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Since spring saw the collection of maple syrup, Garland's mind has become lively.

At the beginning, because of insufficient preparation and in the late stage of the collection period, Garland only collected more than 100 barrels of maple syrup, and most of them were snatched away by Marin. Seeing that the second half of the year, Garland decided to collect enough maple syrup next year...

There are too many sugar maple trees in Canada, everywhere. Before modern development, I basically encountered a sugar maple tree in the Canadian jungle after walking a few steps. If you want to collect maple syrup, as long as you have enough people and tools...

So, at the beginning of next spring, Garland plans to collect more than 10,000 barrels of maple syrup... It is purified maple syrup, not unpurified maple syrup...

Generally speaking, a bucket of maple syrup is about 200 pounds. A maple syrup flowing from an old sugar maple tree can hold about one bucket. But a bucket of maple syrup can only extract about three pounds of maple syrup. To get a bucket of maple syrup, you need to collect maple syrup from more than 30 sugar maple trees... To obtain 10,000 barrels of maple syrup, it is equivalent to collecting maple syrup from more than 300,000 sugar maple trees...

Of course, the number of sugar maples is not a problem. After all, Canada has the most undesirable is sugar maples. But the problem is that Garland lacks manpower and tools...

Collecting sap from more than 300,000 sugar maple trees and refining maple syrup requires a lot of people to work with. Moreover, collecting sap requires a lot of wooden barrels and tubes.

It’s okay to say that the carpenters under Garland can make wooden pipes. But wooden barrels are very difficult. There are so many wood in the Americas, and there are many iron hoops or copper hoops for the hoops, as well as the dry oil needed to make wooden barrels (Europe does not have tung oil, so they can only use linseed oil) but they are very lacking.

Therefore, this time, Garland not only asked Marin to support his group of collecting workers, but also needed a large number of iron or copper hoops for hoop barrels, as well as linseed oil for N barrels for making buckets, and iron cones for drilling tree holes...

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In fact, Garland had already discussed with Marin and asked the Indians to help them collect maple syrup. Then, Garland's people refined it into maple syrup. Then, Garland only had to exchange the salt, cloth, glass beads and other products with them.

To this end, Garland also sent a number of Indian-speaking messengers this year to land on the American continent and contact those native Indian tribes.

Under the temptation of a wide range of European goods, most Indian tribes agreed to cooperate with Garland. But there is a problem - the Indians did not know how to collect maple juice, nor did they have the right tools...

Therefore, for next year's maple sausage collection, Garland needs a group of workers to demonstrate to the Indian tribes. At the same time, they will provide them with a large number of wooden barrels and wooden pipes, as well as iron cones for drilling tree holes and other tools.
Chapter completed!