The Rise of the European Emperor

Sweeping these 6 countries can only be described as devastating. Moreover, in the true sense, only the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel can stand against Marin's army. The other countries are even weaker than paper.

After all, in several small countries, the regular army usually has at most one or two thousand people. This expedition basically brought all the regular troops to Beihai. There are only three or two kittens left in the country. In addition to the city walls, there are some old, weak, sick and disabled.

Even the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel can only rely on tall and solid walls and thick cast iron gates to be able to defend itself. Otherwise, it is impossible to be the opponent of Marin's army.

Once Marin finds a way to deal with the gates or walls, these countries will be no different from paper...

Unfortunately, relying on the power of technology, Marin fiddled with gasoline for oak gates and aqua regia for cast iron gates, making the reliance of several countries meaningless.

However, after the battle, Marin worried that his easy way of dealing with the oak gates and iron gates would arouse the concerns of all countries. Therefore, Marin spent a lot of money, sent spies to spread the news everywhere, and carried out reverse propaganda...

As for how to reverse propaganda? Naturally, it is to dilute the existence of aqua regia. In order to dilute the existence of aqua regia, Marin spent huge sums of money to forge news, saying that the reason why he was able to quickly take down the three strong cities with cast iron gates, Lüneburg, Wolfenbüttel and Goslar, was because An internal response appeared and helped to open the door...

Of course, Marin took control of those enemy troops who had witnessed the corrosion of the iron gate by Wang Shui. As long as there are no witnesses, the news will not spread at will. As for your own soldiers? I must have told you already...

In addition, Marin also spent money on "public relations" on the issue of gasoline burning down the oak city gate-Marin asked his spies to declare that they just piled up firewood outside the city gate and poured olive oil on it. Then, they burned down the opponent's city gate...

What? You ask me why pouring some olive oil can burn down the city gate? That's not a problem with olive oil. It's because the city gates in these countries are too old and in disrepair for a long time, so they are so easy to be burned...

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In fact, the two fake news that Marin sent people to spread sounded more like the truth. Because people in this era still can't understand what aqua regia is, and they don't know that there is such a thing as gasoline that can burn.

After all, in this era, Boyle, the ancestor of modern European chemistry, had not yet been born (Boyle was born in 1627), and he had to wait another hundred years.

Therefore, Europeans in this era could not understand the principle of aqua regia corroding iron gates at all. One bad one can be advertised as evil witchcraft.

It is easy for people to fear the unknown. If people know the existence of aqua regia and gasoline, it will definitely arouse the fear of all countries. At that time, those who are interested will give another push, and they must give Marin the title of "devil". You know, before the battle, Marin was almost slandered by Earl Geldon as "the devil's spokesperson" because of the problem of "still being energetic without sleeping". If the aqua regia and gasoline were displayed in front of the world, and the escaped Earl of Geldon Charlie was not required to lead the rhythm, others would also panic because of fear.

And once countries have a fear of the "black technology" in Marin's hands, they will definitely fear the North Sea State. Then, Marin, who is already relatively isolated, may be targeted even more.

Therefore, in order not to cause panic in other countries, Marin had to scatter gold and silver to eliminate adverse effects. Moreover, the tampered "version" sounds more reasonable,

Easier to believe.

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In fact, Marin's so-called "sweeping the six countries" this time was nothing more than occupying the capitals of these six countries, and did not completely occupy the borders of the six countries.

Not to mention these six countries, even Lüneburg and Lauenburg, which were previously occupied, are only the capitals of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Saxony-Lauenburg, which is far from completely controlling these countries. far away.

Moreover, in these countries, most of the nobles, especially the small and medium-sized nobles, basically live in manors in the countryside instead of living in the city.

Therefore, if Marin wants to completely control these 8 vassal states, he must send troops to the countryside to sweep and occupy all the manors of the nobles before he can complete the control of these 8 vassal states.

However, fortunately, in the previous war that broke out on the border between East Frisia and Oldenburg, most of the nobles from these eight countries were captured after the battle. After all, nobles in this era are naturally officers. Anyone who can go to war must lead an army to fight with the lord. Those who stay at home are only very old or minor noble members.

Moreover, when those members of the nobility at that time went to war with the princes, they also took away the strongest force of their respective manors. The only ones who actually stayed in the manor were the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled. Even, armed personnel may not necessarily be left behind.

Then, the next step is to sweep and control the rural areas of the entire eight vassal states. Only by completing the control of various noble manors can we completely control these 8 vassal states...

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For this reason, Marin personally sat in Goslar, and then scattered seven or eight thousand cavalry under his command, including Cossacks, black shirt knights, and Lancers of the First Legion, according to the documents found from the archives of various countries. Information and addresses, "door-to-door mobilization to do work" from door to door, and completed the control and occupation of the rural areas of the eight countries.

Anyway, the people staying in those country manors at this time are old, weak, sick and disabled. Even if Marin only sent a small number of people, he could still win those manors.

But a huge problem facing Marin at present is that his troops are not enough...

If it is just to defeat the enemy, his strength is sufficient. However, if he sent people to occupy the entire territory of the eight vassal states, his troops would not be enough.

You know, the two principalities of Brunswick alone cover more than 20,000 square kilometers, plus the principality of Saxony-Lauenburg and the Earl of Ravensburg (including the original Earl of Schaumburg of Count Antonios) , Lipper County, Bentheim-Teklenburg County, Gelden County, and the relatively small Rietberg County, the combined total area is definitely more than 30,000 square kilometers. If you want to sweep the noble manors in the whole territory, the required troops are astonishing. The point is, the time is also very long.

In desperation, Marin had no choice but to recruit mercenaries to help control the territory. Because, the main force under Marin needs to go south...

What is Marin doing with the main force going south? Of course it was to scare the coalition forces of the princes!

In order to get the recognition of the vassal states, Marin had to put on a posture of attacking the vassal coalition forces with the Habsburg family in order to frighten the opponent. Moreover, the troops brought must not be less. Otherwise, I can't scare those princes...

However, the newly conquered 8 vassal states also need manpower to be stationed. Otherwise, there will definitely be troubles caused by dissatisfied people.

Of course, because the main forces of the eight vassal states were basically lost in the battle of Beihai State. The rest were also finished in the defense of the capital.

Therefore, even if someone makes trouble in these eight vassal states, there will be no serious opponents.

Therefore, when Marin recruited new mercenaries this time, he did not recruit any veterans, but only recruited 10,000 novice German mercenaries. Moreover, the signed contract is relatively short, only a one-year contract.

In fact, at this time, the experienced German mercenaries were almost recruited because of the two major wars and the Spanish invasion of Morocco. Marin wanted to recruit mercenaries at this time, so he could only choose those inexperienced novice mercenaries.

Fortunately, because of the frequent wars in this era, there is no shortage of young Germans who are willing to join the battlefield. Therefore, Marin's recruitment of mercenaries went relatively smoothly.

Besides, Marin just hoped that these 10,000 novice mercenaries would be able to stabilize the situation of the newly occupied 8 vassal states when he led his troops south. The difficulty was already very low.

Their only challenge may be that the unwilling nobles of the eight countries instigated peasants to launch an uprising. After all, all the survivors of the regular army of the eight countries were sent to Oldenburg for centralized detention.

Before leaving, Marin arranged 2,000 veterans for the 10,000 newly recruited mercenaries. The role of these veterans is to help train these recruits. At the same time, it can be regarded as supervising these novice mercenaries to prevent them from messing around. After all, Marin has not been strictly screened this time, and he doesn't know what these novice mercenaries are. Marin worried that some scum among them would harm the people, tarnish the reputation of Beihai, and even anger the local people. Therefore, he left 2,000 veterans, which is equivalent to the role of supervisor.

Moreover, before leading the troops south, Marin issued an announcement in the eight newly occupied vassal states-there is no need to pay taxes this year, and all the grain harvested by the serfs can be kept for themselves...

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