King of German Mercenaries

In an inconspicuous yard outside Emden, the capital of East Frisian Country, a group of people are conspiring:

"Captain, how is the situation this time? Is there any water seepage?"

"No, this time there is no water seepage. Mad, the tunnels dug the first two times were severely water seeped. They were full of water and couldn't be used at all. It took a few months and a lot of time wasted!"

"There's no way. Emden is close to the Emden River, and the land here is naturally wet. For the first time, we also chose a place by the Emden River. It is convenient to dump the soil, but the seepage is terrible. Even if we dig through it. , and you can't pass people."

"Okay, not much more to say, when it gets dark, let's sleep first, then get up in the middle of the night and continue digging!"

"Yes!"

Then, a group of people went back to their rooms to rest...

This group of people was the same group that Marin sent to dig tunnels outside Emden City. Back then, Marin's first choice was the area south of the city near the Emden River. Because, south of Emden, is the Ems River. Tunnel digging is a secret and must not be discovered by East Frisians. However, when digging a tunnel, a large amount of dirt needs to be transported out. Therefore, when digging tunnels under the eyes of the enemy, it is necessary to ensure that when the soil is transported out, it cannot be discovered.

In the south of the city, on the Ames River, because it is close to the Ames River, as long as the soil is poured into the Ames River at night, everything will disappear.

Therefore, for the first time, this team chose outside the city wall in the south of the city. However, after digging for a while, they found that the tunnel seepage is too serious. Because it is close to the Ames River, the land by the river outside the city is very humid and water seepage is also very serious. After just a week of digging, water started to seep in the tunnel. After half a month of digging, the tunnels are generally filled with water...

Therefore, they had to give up the extremely humid area in the south of the city and switched to the west of the city, which was finally a little farther from the Ems River...

However, the west of the city is also not good. Because this side is much drier than the Ames River in the south of the city, but it is still relatively humid.

At the beginning, the excavation team found no abnormality. But after more than two months of digging, when it was close to the foot of the city wall, because it needed to dig deeper (the foundation of the city wall is deep, it must be very deep to bypass the city wall), so I dug down a few meters again... and then... spray water. now...

So, this tunnel was scrapped again...

In desperation, for the third time, everyone was much more cautious and began to carefully inspect the city walls of Emden. Finally, after investigating for more than a month, they chose the driest northeast direction outside the city.

This direction is the farthest from the river and the driest.

Then, the excavation team excavated again. This time, they directly lowered the excavation depth to a position similar to the depth of the foundation of the city wall. Even if seepage is detected, it can be detected early. So as not to find the problem at the bottom of the city wall like last time.

This time, the excavation team was very lucky and did not encounter water seepage. Of course, it is not completely impermeable, after all, this is a humid area. However, it only sees a little water droplets, and does not affect the excavation and extraordinary performance.

However, this time excavation, soil transportation is very troublesome. Because this place is too far from the river. And the soil they dug out of the tunnel should not be piled up outside, so as not to attract the attention of East Frisian.

Therefore, in desperation, the captain of the excavation team, Blue.Fly (also translated as Blue.Xiang), sent someone to apply for a sum of money from Marin, and pretended to establish a business to engage in food. sell.

In fact, every time rye is shipped out, the sacks under the car are not filled with grain, but with soil dug out of tunnels...

Relying on this method, the excavation team led by Bruce Fry quietly moved the soil to the field and poured it into the sea, without finding any abnormality in East Frisian.

After hearing about Bruce Fowler's outstanding work, Marin personally named Blue Fowler's excavation team "Lan Xiang". And this "Lan Xiang" excavation team will also attack some fortified cities for Marin in the future, making great contributions...

After three months of hard excavation by the Lanxiang excavation team, the tunnel finally successfully bypassed the city wall in the northeast direction of Emden City and entered the city.

At this time, the Lanxiang excavation team divided a group, entered the northeast corner of the city, purchased a batch of private houses inside the city wall, and prepared to connect to the tunnel entrance.

Then, the tunnel excavation technicians of the Lanxiang excavation team began to carefully exert force on both sides, trying to open the tunnel to the entrance in the city.

However, tunnel excavation and positioning are more difficult. The first attempt to connect failed, because the excavation team outside the city chose the upward exit of the tunnel under the foundation of a stone building in the city, which was full of stone foundations. How to break the hole?

Then, avoiding the house, which was all stone foundations, they started digging in the direction of another house with earthy ground built by the poor...

At the beginning of August, the two teams finally succeeded in working together to get through the exit in the slum hut that was bought...

Then, Bruce Fry, excitedly rushed back to Den Burg to report the results to Marin...

"Sure enough, it's the Big Lanxiang excavation team. The excavation skills are bulls! You can dig so well without an excavator! I've served it. Foley offered him a bonus of 1,000 gold coins and asked him to keep an authentic secret.

Then, most of the Lanxiang excavation team withdrew. There are only a few who stay there, pretending to be doing business. Moreover, the two entrances of the tunnel are also well disguised.

Although, with the tunnel, Marin is not ready to attack. Because, last time, 300 prisoners of war were returned to the Friesian nobles, and 500 were later sent to Cork, Ireland. So, Marin later recruited another 800 men to regroup the army to 6,000 men.

Then, a new round of military training began, and the tossing beach landing training...

Not only that, Marin also sent another group to Krumhern, a small fishing village 15 kilometers northwest of Emden, where he bought several houses and brought two large fishing boats to make a pair of fishing boats. The attitude of living and fishing in the local area.

The members of this group (two families) were all former Frisian fishermen. This time, they were sent to Crumhorn to prepare for the landing of the army.

Moreover, in order to facilitate the docking and loading and unloading of ships loaded with war horses and armors, this group specially built two wooden long bridge piers to dock the two windy 100-ton "big fishing boats".

Because they are all Frisian, local officials have no objection to the presence of the two rich families in the fishing industry. You must know that since the Duke of Saxony occupied West Friesland, it was normal for the Frisians to flee to the Counties of East Friesland because of the exploitation of the local Frisians. Therefore, the locals did not doubt their origin and identity at all.

There was even praise from the locals for the construction of a new fishing pier in Crumhern by two local tyrant families. Because these two docks are also allowed to be shared by everyone...

In this way, after months of preparation, Marin quietly completed the layout in East Friesland. It's just that Marin's army has not yet been trained, and the time has not come, so they can't attack immediately...