After a while, a young priest with thick eyebrows and big eyes, who has a very positive appearance at first glance, led by the fat man Geoffrey, came to the Emden Palace where Marin temporarily stationed...

"No wonder this person can fool people. Just because of the appearance of a positive person similar to Zhu Shimao, what he said is easy to believe..." Marin thought secretly. If it were Chen Peisi's vulgar appearance, even if he fooled him, someone would have to believe him...

After Jeffrey brought the person into Marlin's room, he withdrew. As soon as Jeffrey closed the door, the assistant bishop Taylor, who had a serious face, immediately changed into a flattering face, and with his positive image with thick eyebrows and big eyes, he looked weird no matter how he looked...

"Assistant Bishop Taylor, I've met the Earl!" Bishop Taylor was also a clever one. Although the title of Earl Marin has not been recognized by the outside world, it does not prevent him from admitting it directly. Moreover, after hearing Taylor's name, Marin felt comfortable.

Marin didn't care about anything. Anyway, this person was useful to him, that would be enough. It wasn't just asking him to participate in military affairs, but just asking him to help fool the people. It was no big deal.

Marin knew what the kid wanted, so he promised that after the death of the old Bishop Ritchie, he would recommend him to be the archbishop of the East Frieslander Kingdom. Taylor, who had already changed his mind, was naturally willing to do so. Moreover, before leaving, Marin gave him a bag of gold coins, which made Taylor extremely excited and his walking was much lighter...

"This is a villain who is greedy for money and profit!" Marin commented. However, he needs such talents at present. Therefore, he naturally won over them.

Moreover, Taylor's appearance is too positive, and it is difficult for people to believe that he is a villain. This reminds Marin of a line from Jet Li's version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" - "Not only beautiful women cannot be believed, but even men who seem loyal and honest cannot be believed." It is obvious that Taylor is a scum who seems loyal but good but is very good at lying people. However, this guy's appearance is too deceptive, so the success rate of cheating is also extremely high...

However, while promoting Christian doctrine, this guy helped the lord advertise and brainwash it, which was so creative and had excellent results.

Originally, Marin wanted to establish a teaching staffing system in the future. However, in this era, it was difficult for both instructors and political commissars to survive.

The main reason is that people of this era are very loyal to Catholicism. If you send someone to promote things other than Catholicism, soldiers and the people may not be willing to buy it.

Moreover, in this era, it is really difficult for you to find a political propaganda talent that has nothing to do with the church. Because the literacy rate of civilians is extremely low, where can you find political propaganda talents?

But the church is different. The priests in the church are all cultural people. Moreover, they have been receiving training to spread religious teachings. In terms of propaganda, they are the propaganda overlords of this era. Moreover, combining missionary and brainwashing is really a very genius idea...

Therefore, Marin decided to win over a group of unsuccessful young people among the missionaries and let Taylor teach them how to fool and brainwash them. Then he walked these young priests to churches in various towns. After these people's long-term publicity, I believe that it is not difficult to gain the hearts of the people. Not to mention the effect of the citizens in Emden fighting for Edsard I, at least it can ensure that the people will not rebel.

...

After taking control of Emden and capturing Edsard I and his wife, Marin next prepared to march into Orich and Lyle. As for the small town of Norton, it is just a salted fish wholesale center on the beach, so there is no hurry for the time being.

However, the city of Orich is extremely sturdy and difficult to conquer. Moreover, Marin once asked Mrs. Mary if there were any secret passages or something, but there was no news. So, Marin could not rely on authenticity this time.

However, it is indeed difficult to siege the strong city of Orich. Although there are only 500 defenders in Orich, and they are not elite straw-hall swordsmen. But relying on the tall and solid city walls, even if 3,000 soldiers are used, it will take a long time to conquer.

Although Lair County has a small population, it still has 300 garrisons. After all, it is an important grain base and a large-scale granary is built.

Therefore, it is very difficult for these two cities to attack strongly. Even if you succeed in attacking strongly, you will suffer huge losses and take a long time.

And what Marin lacks the most now is time. It is certain that once he learns the news of Emden's fall, the Saxon army will definitely find a way to join in the fun and divide the fruits of victory.

Therefore, Marin next decided to send 1,000 troops to garrison the border between East Friesland and West Friesland, build a solid line of defense to guard against the invasion of the Duke of Saxony.

Fortunately, near the western border of East Friesland, there is an Ames River, which can be used as a natural defense line. As long as you defend the east bank of the Ames River, Saxony's army will never think of crossing the river successfully. However, there are also about 200 square kilometers of territory in the Hexi area, and they are all agricultural areas. Marin is reluctant to give up. After thinking about it, Marin decided to put the main force in Hedong defense. As for the land in Hexi, several bunkers were built as outposts, and a temporary push is temporarily held.

Arranged the Western Front defense issues, Marin now started to have a headache about Orich and Lyle's offensive problems. Just so happened that Saul came to report on the situation.

Sauer reported that in the past few days, he has detained hundreds of businessmen and passers-by who have traveled to and from Emden to facilitate confidentiality...

Speaking of here, Marin suddenly stood up. He asked Saul very seriously:

"Sauer, are you sure our news has not been revealed? Didn't miss the net take the news away?"

"Yes, I'm sure. Master, it's very difficult for ordinary people to escape my observation with the telescope you provide. So many of us are chasing, how many of us can escape?"

"That's good. It seems that I can also use deception to seize Orich and Lyle..."

"By the way, young master, when it comes to Orich, his subordinates arrested a messenger yesterday, who came to send a letter to ask Edsad I for instructions and asked him when he would send a convoy to transport food..."

"Transport food? What food is transported? Sauer, go and call Jeffrey to ask, show him what the situation is."

"yes!"

After a while, Jeffrey came over. After seeing the letter, he explained:

"Sir Earl, the autumn harvest is about to end these few days. In the past, after the autumn harvest, Edsard I would send a convoy to transport grain to the cities of Orich and Lyre. Before that, the grain from the east and the south would be transported to the two cities first. Then, Edsard I would send two huge transport teams to pull the grain into the Emden granary..."

"A huge convoy? Is there an army's protection?" Marin's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Of course there is military protection. Generally, escorts to grain transport convoys must have 500 soldiers..."

"It's so good!" Marin was extremely happy.

He had already made plans. While the two cities had not received information about the fall of Emden, Marin could, under the banner of Edsad I, send his soldiers to disguise themselves as grain transport teams sent by Edsad I to the two cities to get food. As long as he entered the city, then... hehe...

The next day, Marin collected a large number of carriages and trolleys from Emden, formed two huge grain transport teams, and headed to Orich and Lyre respectively.

Among them, there were 800 people who went to Orich, including 500 elite warriors and 300 soldiers who disguised themselves as civilians. Moreover, the 500 elite warriors were all wearing the armor of the most distinctive straw hat swordsman in Emden City. These armors and straw hats were all taken from the surrendered straw hat swordsman...

There were 800 people sent to Lair County. Because, although Lair County is small, the grain produced in Klair County is no less than that of Olic.

Moreover, the one who led the team to Orich was Geoffrey's Palace Prime Minister. Marin promised him that as long as he completed this task, he would appoint him as the official palace prime minister. At the same time, Marin also detained Geoffrey's family and forced him to agree. Who said that this fat man was the palace prime minister of East Friesland before? With him leading the team, the officer guarding Orich dared not give face? Moreover, it was not the first time that the fat man, Jeffrey, was Orich's food.

You should know that going to Orich and Lairla food is a poor diet. Because officials sent to collect food can accept bribes from local officials. Generally speaking, local officials naturally hope to hand over less food and keep a lot of it themselves. However, the Earl's side hopes to collect more food. Therefore, if you want to hand over less food to the Earl, you must buy the chief official responsible for pulling food. Therefore, even if you are the prime minister of the palace, Jeffrey couldn't help but go down to pull food several times, and received a lot of benefits. This time Marin sent him there, which was reasonable and easy to paralyze the defenders.

As for the chief officer sent to Lyle City, it was another official who surrendered very early. This man was named Pace, who served as Geoffrey's deputy and was also an important figure in the former East Frieslander country. It was reasonable to ask him to go to Lyle. Moreover, the family of this guy was also controlled by Marin.

In this way, two days later, two huge convoys of transport appeared under Orich and Lyle respectively. Seeing the fat man Geoffrey taking the lead, Orich's guards didn't ask anything at all and opened the city gate directly.

This time, for safety reasons, Marin asked Geoffrey to bring dozens of barrels of barley wine to "reward" the local defenders. With Jeffrey's approval, the local defenders happily divided the instant barley wine.

In the evening, Jeffrey was invited to attend a banquet hosted by the local guard and Edsard I's younger brother Uko. The banquet was held in the old palace built by the Brock family in the center of Orich City. Moreover, Jeffrey also quietly brought in 200 soldiers. In this regard, Orich and Uko did not care about this. The main reason was that they never thought that Fatty Geoffrey would be detrimental to them.

At night, everyone was drinking happily and was a little drunk. Jeffrey suddenly "falls the glass as a sign" according to the plot designed by Marlin, and threw a precious glass of wine to the ground...

Everyone else looked at Jeffrey stupidly at the banquet, not knowing why the fat man got angry. But soon, they understood...

After the fat man fell down the quilt, the 200 "straw-hat swordsmen" who followed the palace suddenly rushed into the banquet hall. The leader was Schwartz... Then, all the officials and officers of Orich who attended the banquet were all beaten up in a confused look on their faces...

Then, Schwartz ran outside the palace, lit a double-fire cannon made by Marin, and exploded in the sky...

Then, the other 600 soldiers rushed into the barren camp and controlled the city defenders who were still drinking barley wine. What made Schwartz laugh and cry was that more than 200 people in the city were drunk. No wonder, the soldiers liked to drink. This time, Fatty Jeffrey brought dozens of barrels of barley wine and offered them open to drink. How could they bear it? So nearly half of the people were drunk...

There were more than a dozen soldiers who were guarding the city gate. Seeing something happened in the city, these people took the opportunity to escape from the city. However, it seemed that they had gone to the Emden newspaper. In love, these people thought Emden was fine. In fact, the first one that happened was Emden. These people went to Emden and fell into the hands of Saul.

In Lair County, Frenzberg encountered a relatively troublesome situation. Because although he brought wine, the local guards were willing to drink it.

However, Pace's status is not high, not as awesome as Jeffrey. Therefore, neither the local guard nor Prince Almut hosted a banquet to entertain him. Therefore, the script of "Smashing the Cup" was no longer used.

Fortunately, the big-headed soldiers also liked to drink. So, in the middle of the night, Frenzberg, who led the team, easily controlled most of the 300 defenders in the city. Only Prince Almut's Palace, where Prince Almut was located, was still insisting on resisting. The walls of the Governor's Palace were tall and strong, and Frenzberg could not attack for the moment.

Until a small team leader who had followed Marin and participated in the "Long Street Ambush" against the Friesian Noble Republic army, proposed a method of fire attack...

"Fire Attack? This Governor's Mansion is a stone building, how to attack fire?" Frenzberg was puzzled.

"Sir, I lit up the haystack and threw it into the wall..."

"Will they hide in the house, and they won't be able to burn?"

"Hehe, Lord Baron said that even if you can't burn the enemy to death, you can still kill them!"

Frenzberg thought about it and it was true. So he found a lot of wheat hay stacks and tied them into bundles. Under the guidance of some vulgar people, he sprinkled some pepper. After the bale was lit, it was thrown into the wall by the strongman...

The ash of grass and trees, coupled with the irritating smell of pepper burning, caused the defenders in the Governor's Office, including Prince Almut, to cough continuously.

After Frenzberg ordered the throwing of the bale for two or three hours, dozens of defenders in the Governor's Mansion were finally frightened and lost their combat effectiveness... Next, Frenzberg's men broke open the gate of the Governor's Mansion and went in to catch all the defenders who were frightened and tied them into rice dumplings...

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In this way, relying on the information force, and the betrayal of the party leading the way, Marin successfully opened the two strong cities of Orich and Lair, and completed control overnight.
Chapter completed!