King of German Mercenaries

Although he was unable to attack East Friesland immediately because he had to give a large number of soldiers a holiday and let them go home for the autumn harvest, Duke Albrecht of Saxony still planned to do something to build momentum for the attack on the country of East Friesland. More importantly, find an excuse to do it.

As a result, the Duke of Saxony sent a large number of people to his own territory, the Electoral State of Saxony, the other noble territories of the Saxon family, and the kingdoms of the princes who were friends with the Saxon family. Tyrant" argument.

At the same time, the Duke of Saxony also secretly sent people to search for the remnants of the Serksner family. However, Marin was too ruthless at the beginning. He shot directly, exterminated the Serksner family, and killed a large number of followers of the Serksner family. This makes it difficult for the Duke of Saxony to find a spokesperson...

The so-called spokesperson is an important figure in the overthrown previous dynasty, preferably with the family blood of the previous monarch. Such a person may not be capable of anything on his own. But as long as he was there, the Duke of Saxony could be given an excuse to "help" him.

After all, the Duke of Saxony is also an old-fashioned nobleman, and he must obey the rules...

In this way, after several months of searching, finally, Saxony found a suitable spokesperson...

This person's name is Kanu, and he can be regarded as a member of the Serksner family. However, Kanu's father Jess was only the illegitimate son of the first count of East Frisian, Ulrich I, and did not have any inheritance rights. However, Ulrich I's heir, that is, Jace's elder brother, Enno I, still largely gave Jace the legal procedures to join the Serksner family, so that he could use the Serksner family's Surname, belonging to the side branch. Of course, because they are side branches, they are not eligible to inherit the position of earl. Therefore, Jace was only arranged in the small town of Norden, the "Land of Dragons" of the Serksner family, as a petty official responsible for collecting the "tax" of the fishermen's salted fish. After Jace's death, Kanu inherited the petty office of collecting salted fish taxes for the Earl.

After Marin's army had swept through Aurich and Lyle, on the way to Norden on the North Sea, Kanu got word from a traveling merchant. So, he packed up his property overnight and escaped from Norden, without having time to inform the Serksner family members in the city.

Because, as a petty official who collects salted fish, Kanu lives outside Norden City. It was already night when he received the news from the traveling merchant. And Norden City was closed, and he didn't bother to inform the clansmen in the city. Instead, he took his property and used his official status to force a fisherman to send him out to sea in a fishing boat to England across the sea...

In this way, Kanu became the only surviving male of the Serksner family who used the Serksner surname...

Later, when Kanu heard that the Duke of Saxony was looking for a member of the Serksner family, Kanu happened to have spent all his money in England and was destitute. So, he found a trader's store set up in London by a Hanseatic merchant of the Saxony system, showed his identity, and took out a document to prove his identity.

The Saxon merchant was overjoyed and hurriedly sent Kanu to Groningen...

Then, Albrecht, Duke of Saxony, began to take Kanu as his trump card and began to promote Kanu's "orthodoxy"...

In fact, Kanu is only the son of an illegitimate child, and is not in the Ceksner family's inheritance ranking sequence at all. The descendants of Serksner women who married abroad were more entitled to inheritance than Kanu.

But the Duke of Saxony doesn't care about that. He just covets the territory of East Frisian Country, and he doesn't really want to help the Serksner family restore the country.

As a result, when Kanu was boasted by the Duke of Saxony as the heir of the Serksner family, he was forced to secretly sign an unpublished document-in the document, Kanu first asked the Duke of Saxony to help restore the country, and then the document Half, indicating that Kanu is willing to pay 10,000 gold coins,

Sold East Friesland to the Duke of Saxony...

Kanu was so poor that he could barely eat, and was naturally at the mercy of the Duke of Saxony. Moreover, after the event is completed, there will be 10,000 gold coins to take, which is enough for him to be cool. Moreover, from a legal point of view, he does not have any qualifications to be an earl, and he has never thought of such a thing. This time I went to the Duke of Saxony just because I was too busy to eat. So, he readily signed the document, and agreed to cooperate with the Duke of Saxony in the promotion...

After Marin got the news, after consulting the old information, he found that Kanu was just the son of an illegitimate son of the Serksner family. So Marin sent someone to release the news and show evidence that Kanu was just an illegitimate child. At the beginning, the males of the Serksner family who had an inheritance sequence were all killed by him.

However, the Duke of Saxony was determined to win East Friesland, so he accused Marin of falsifying the evidence, and Kanu was an official member of the Serksner family.

In any case, no one knows much about the small country of East Frisland. Moreover, Kanu did come up with proof of family membership. That proof was that Jace's elder brother, Enno I, took care of him and officially accepted him as a side branch of the family. However, the document did not specifically state that Jace was an illegitimate child, but instead gave An the identity of a collateral child.

Therefore, the Duke of Saxony insisted that Kanu's father, Jace, was not the illegitimate son of Ulrich I, but the son of a cousin of Ulrich I, who belonged to the person with the succession sequence. As for the proof that Marin produced to prove that Jace was an illegitimate child, the Duke of Saxony insisted that it was forged by Marin... At the same time, the Saxon nobles spoke out in unison, all agreeing that Marin's proof was forged...

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Later, Marin was too lazy to argue. Anyway, no matter what he said, the Duke of Saxony and his allies would not admit that they were determined...

So, Marin simply began to integrate the army and actively prepare for the war...

During his time in Spain, the 5,000 newly recruited soldiers, under the training of the officers, were already very good. At least, the discipline is very strict.

Moreover, this time on the battlefield, 5,000 veterans are at the top, and these 5,000 recruits are only used as a reserve team. Therefore, there is no such thing as a crash caused by a recruit being attacked. This kind of thing only happens when the recruits are at the forefront.

What surprised Marin was that the 800 black-shirted knights trained by Steindorf were also very good at musket shooting. At least, it works well when used to shoot close formations. The price paid, of course, was that the black knights consumed a lot of gunpowder and lead.

Fortunately, Columbus brought back 30 tons of saltpeter, and after buying enough sulfur and charcoal, Marin ordered people to process 40 tons of gunpowder. So much gunpowder, absolutely enough.

Even at the same time as the autumn harvest, Marin let the musketeers practice shooting hard. In order to allow the musketeers to adapt to the tense atmosphere on the battlefield and avoid the bizarre incident of the American musketeers "stuffing more than 20 lead bullets into the barrel of the gun but no gunpowder" during the Civil War, Marin found a team of soldiers. Throwing mud balls at the musketeers' team on the side, interfering with the musketeers' shooting...

The mud ball will not really hurt these musketeers, but it can simulate the scene of the musketeers being attacked and disturbed on the battlefield to a certain extent. To be a qualified musketeer, it doesn't mean that you are good at training, but also that you won't make mistakes when you are on the battlefield because of tension and the interference of the enemy. Among them, the most fatal mistake is to forget to load the gunpowder and put the lead bullet into the barrel... If such a thing happens, it is very troublesome to deal with. Because, after the lead bullet is pressed to the bottom, it is difficult to take it out. If you don't take it out, you can't continue to shoot. Because the lead bullet will block the fire hole, and if you pour gunpowder into it, it will not be ignited by the fire hole...

Therefore, Marin asked some soldiers to throw mud balls to disturb the musketeers, just to test whether they could make mistakes in the face of trouble and threats.

Sure enough, under the test, many musketeers made mistakes while busy. Some musketeers, because of nervousness, really forgot to load gunpowder and pressed lead into the barrel of the gun...

Fortunately, this is just adaptation training. After many exercises, this situation is much better. However, every time the training ended, several musketeers were bruised and bruised by the mud. Although the mud ball is not fatal, it still hurts when it is hit in the face...

At the beginning, the musketeers were hit by the mud ball and exclaimed. Later, they have ignored the attack of the mud ball. Even if he was hit, he continued the process of reloading himself, and he didn't make many mistakes...

In addition, the newly formed artillery unit, after having enough gunpowder, also started a lot of shooting training. All 50 front-mounted bronze three-pounders have been cast. The speed of the iron mold casting gun method is not limited. When making a bronze gun, it is called a fast, and it does not affect the quality.

In order to quickly form the combat effectiveness of the army artillery, Marin dispatched 50 experienced old artillerymen from the Navy and the Texel Island fort, each of whom was responsible for a gun, and was responsible for instructing the recruits to reload and clear the gun chambers. With these old artillerymen, these novice artillerymen can also form combat effectiveness as soon as possible...