The Rise of the European Emperor

After arriving near the main battlefield, the signal soldiers arranged by Marin came to meet them. Why did Marin send someone to meet them? Because it is no longer possible to send people into Marin's camp.

In order to stop the enemy, Marin dug all around the camp into tunnels, with pickets in the tunnels. It is really difficult to send people into the camp.

Of course, Marin's men can still send news to the barracks. The method is very simple - with carrier pigeons...

Steindorf certainly didn't have pigeons in the big camp dedicated to flying Marin. After all, this big camp has only just been built, and it is not a fixed stop for pigeons. Pigeons are not human after all, and don't remember new stops so easily.

Therefore, in order to contact the outside world, Malin specially sent people to bring a lot of carrier pigeons to the high platform of the camp to let the carrier pigeons get familiar with the environment here. When the Allied Forces of the Eight Kingdoms arrived, Malinte let a group of his men leave with the carrier pigeons.

Moreover, in order to force these pigeons that were taken away to return to this new docking point, Marin's people deliberately broke up dozens of pigeon couples, and only took one of the pigeon couples away, leaving one in the In the high platform cage in the big camp.

Pigeons, on the other hand, have only one mate in their lifetime, and they will never change until death. So, for the other half, as long as the messenger releases them, they will definitely fly to their spouses. And this is the means for Marin's subordinates to deliver news to the camp.

As for the transmission of news from the big camp, that is another way - let the pigeons fly back to the fixed point in Aurich...

After all, the whereabouts of the outgoing signal soldiers are uncertain, and it is difficult for pigeons to locate them. Therefore, the pigeons brought out by Aurich could only pass the news back. Then, Kohler, who was in Aurich, sent someone to send the news on horseback.

Responding to Steindorf's signal soldiers, they opened the cages and released three pigeons in batches, letting them fly into the camp with information. The main reason is that the communications soldiers are afraid that the pigeons will be intercepted halfway.

There are letters tied to the pigeon's legs, and these are all digital letters, using Morse code, even if the enemy shoots the pigeon and gets the letter, they will not be able to read it.

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After seeing the news that Steindorf had successfully brought people near the battlefield, Marin was overjoyed and sent someone to reply:

"Continue to intercept the courier, and clean up the enemy's scouts at the same time, try not to alarm the enemy. Then, let's do it together in 4 days!"

Afterwards, a few pigeons flew out of the Marin camp and flew to the city of Aurich...

In fact, Marin planned to agree to do it together in three days.

However, he knew that Aurich received the information and sent someone to report to the Steindorf camp tens of kilometers away, and it would take a day to delay. Therefore, it can only be agreed after 4 days.

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In fact, Marin's preparations are a bit insufficient. Because, he did not expect Steindorf's army to come so early. After all, the Third Army and the Cossack cavalry were trapped on the east bank of the Elbe River, and it was difficult to reach the battlefield quickly. Therefore, Marin didn't expect that they could arrive at the battlefield within ten days, so they didn't have enough preparations, and they planned to continue to spend it.

Now, Steindorf brought people to arrive in time, so he had to start early...

Then, the whole camp began to move. The soldiers began to arrange their weapons and equipment one after another. The officers, on the other hand, boarded the earthen wall of the camp and observed the enemy's movements with binoculars.

At the same time, a large number of guns were also taken out from the underground warehouse of the camp...

Before, in order not to scare the opponent, Marin didn't take out many guns and put them on the city wall, just for fear of scaring the opponent.

Moreover, Marin also deliberately released news that the gunpowder stock in Beihai State was insufficient. As for the reason for the shortage, it is because of difficulties in purchasing saltpeter in India. After all, when Spain and Portugal also intervened in the purchase of Indian saltpeter, it was really difficult for the North Sea country to buy enough saltpeter.

The news spread to the camp of the Allied Forces of the Princes of the Eight Kingdoms. At that time, Charlie, the Earl of Geldon, didn't quite believe it, so he specially sent people to Spain and Portugal to verify the matter. As a result, both the Spaniards and the Portuguese admitted that they purchased a lot of saltpeter in India, which really made it difficult for the North Sea country to purchase saltpeter.

Then, the princes of the Eight Kingdoms were very relieved. After all, without enough saltpeter, the sharp guns of the Beihai Kingdom lacked gunpowder and became a complete display.

In several tentative attacks, the defenders of the Beihai Kingdom did not use many guns. Even, in order to repel the enemy, Marin also sent archers...

In fact, these archers were all selected from the folk. Because Beihai State forbids people to hold guns, many folks who want to hunt have to practice archery. Just like Marin who traveled back and forth, because the country banned guns, he had to practice archery skills, and made great contributions in the early days of time travel.

Moreover, muskets have just become popular in this era, and it was the era of bows and arrows before. Therefore, it is not difficult to find archers, and there are even a lot of shops that sell bows and arrows, so it is very easy to purchase bows and arrows.

Before the expedition, Marin randomly purchased a batch of low-quality bows and crossbows that were about to be eliminated by merchants, and some rusty arrows, and distributed them to the soldiers and civilians who could shoot arrows, and asked them to help guard the camp.

These poor-quality bows and arrows allowed Marin to achieve his goal of showing weakness. The eight princes believed that the gunpowder storage in the Beihai Kingdom was indeed running out...

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But now that Steindorf's Third Army and Alsace's Cossack cavalry are in place, Marin doesn't need to hide. Before, I was afraid of scaring the opponent away, but now, I want to keep the opponent...

However, how to attack from this temporarily built earthen city is a big problem...

In the past, in order to improve the defense force, when building the rammed earthen city, several ditches were dug outside the earthen city, and wooden pickets were buried in the ditch. These indeed blocked the enemy's pace, but at the same time blocked the way for our own soldiers to leave the camp.

Even if someone blows up the earthen wall and fills in a few trenches, there will be no room for combat. After all, the enemy camp is outside the trench.

Moreover, filling the trench is also a big project. Don't wait for your army to be attacked while filling the ditch...

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So, Marin came up with an idea-let the other party help fill the ditch...

How do you get your opponent to help? This is easy - Marin organized an army to fight again...

Under Marin's instructions, a group of Beihai soldiers greeted the two family women of Duke Henry and the family women of several other princes. Moreover, while scolding them, despise the other party, and conclude that the other party has nothing to do...

The two Dukes of Henry, who were furious, drove the villagers to bring soil to fill the pits, intending to fill up several trenches, so as to make room for the army to attack.

As a result, what the coalition forces did not expect was that when the coalition forces of the Eight Kingdoms sent out Min Zhuang to fill the pit with cloth bags of soil, the towers did not attack those Min Zhuang much...

You know, when the coalition forces sent Minzhuang to fill the pit a few times ago, they were resolutely attacked by soldiers from the Beihai State on the top of the city. In order to prevent the coalition troops and civilians from filling the soil, the defenders of the Beihai State on the top of the city kept using bows and arrows and a few muskets to attack the coalition troops and civilians who were filling the soil. But this time, only a few arrows were shot sparsely from the top of the city, and the obstacles were not firm at all...

"What's going on? Why doesn't the other party attack those farmers who fill the soil?" Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, was surprised.

"Maybe, the other party has no arrows?" Simon V, Earl of Lipper guessed.

In fact, Simon V guessed right. The inferior bows and arrows brought by Marin were indeed useless. After all, bows and arrows are not the main weapon of the Beihai army, and Marin doesn't carry many.

But Charlie, Earl of Geldon instinctively felt that something was wrong, because Marin would not send someone to insult them for no reason, and there must be intentions. So, he thought for a while and said:

"How about we send someone to test it out and see his reaction?"

Several other princes nodded in agreement, so Charles, Earl of Geldon, sent an officer to the city to protest against the Beihai Army's insulting of the eight princes. At the same time, deliberately ridiculed the Beihai army's inability to shoot arrows, and pointed out that the Beihai army has no arrows...