The Rise of the European Emperor

Ziger was right, these days, no one would have thought that someone would send troops to do things on Christmas. In addition to Marin, who has the Pope as his backing, it is France that dares to kidnap the Pope.

Therefore, the local nobles of the Principality of Brabant never expected that an enemy would attack this night. Many people got drunk and slept like dead pigs because of Christmas celebrations.

When the 4 passersby arrived at the target manor, there was basically no resistance. Only a few loyal dogs raised by nobles came out and barked a few times, and then unfortunately they were stabbed to death by a murderous Swiss mercenary with a spear.

Then, this group of Swiss mercenaries who had not eaten meat for a long time actually left people on the spot to skin the dogs that were stabbed to death, and then put them on the grill...

The Europeans these days are not as hypocritical as later generations, let alone animal protectionists. It is good for people to live, but who will protect dogs? And Christianity doesn't have a canon that doesn't eat dog meat, so a group of Swiss mercenaries who haven't eaten meat for a long time ate a delicious meal of grilled dog meat.

As for the nobles and attendants in the noble manor? In the face of 500 fierce and experienced Swiss mercenaries, there is no resistance at all...

Fortunately, the officers knew that they were in a hurry, otherwise, these thugs who hadn't drunk and eaten meat for a long time would rely on drinking and eating meat, and then harm women...

Before leaving, these Swiss mercenaries stole all the gold and silver coins in the manor, and took a lot of food and clothes. As for those captured nobles, although they cannot be killed because of European common practice. But the Swiss mercenaries beat the captured nobles hard to vent their anger. Even some noble ladies and noble ladies have been harmed...

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In one night, more than 2,000 Swiss mercenaries sacked more than a dozen noble estates, looting 200 horses and hundreds of weapons. And, of course, plenty of food and clothing.

Early the next morning, Ziger gathered everyone and distributed food and clothing. Then, let everyone team up and follow the 7,000 French knights to the south.

And the French knights are also very chicken thieves. In order not to give the Holy See a word, they deliberately played the black bear flag of the canton of Geneva in western Switzerland. In this way, the rescue of the Swiss mercenaries makes sense - the Swiss rescue the Swiss...

Originally, Louis XII also wanted to play the banner of the Habsburg family. But that's too nonsense, I don't believe it if I say it. And although Louis XII was not afraid of the Pope, it was very troublesome to really provoke the Pope to be excommunicated. Therefore, he simply asked his men to display the canton of Bern, Switzerland. In this way, even if the Pope gets angry and they make trouble at Christmas, he can take the blame... And the Holy See definitely doesn't want to completely fall out with France, so the Holy See will eventually go to the scapegoat...

As for the canton of Bern who is to blame? How does the Holy See punish it? Excommunicate a state? It doesn't seem realistic...

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On the way of the army going south,

Zig kept dividing his troops to loot the manor along the way. The French knights also sent cavalry to help, mainly to snatch the horses of the estates along the way. With horses, the marching speed can also be faster. Also, you can get some weapons and food or something...

In addition to the manor, the small towns along the way were also attacked by this army. In particular, the towns along the route without walls were all looted.

When the army passed through the Principality of Brabant and entered the territory of the Country of Namur, the army's weapons had been basically equipped - most of them were long hair. In addition, they also grabbed 4,000 horses. Although they are all drawn horses, they are the best for carrying the food and supplies that the army has grabbed along the way...

After entering the country of Namur, this Swiss mercenary army, which gradually recovered its fighting memory, also tried to attack a small town. As a result, they were really beaten...

And when they were raging in the country of Namul, the handsome king Philip of Ghent did not make any movement...

No way, at this time the Habsburg family had only 6,000 troops left in the Netherlands, and only 5,000 in Ghent. According to the report of the spies, the number of enemy cavalrymen who came to rob the prison was as many as six or seven thousand. And there were 70,000 Swiss experienced mercenaries who were rescued. Unless he's mad, he will send a garrison of 5,000 ghents out of town to die...

Therefore, Prince Philip could only watch helplessly as more than 20,000 enemy troops headed south and entered France...

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As for Marin, who has the ability to intercept them, Prince Philip sent someone to ask for help. However, Marin didn't want to rescue. So, Marin tactfully "falls ill"...

Of course, it was estimated that almost all of those people had left the Netherlands, so Marin only took 2,000 cavalry for a trip to the Netherlands. At the same time, I brought some condolence gifts, which can be considered as an account...

Although Prince Philip was very angry, he did not dare to turn against Marin. After all, the Habsburg family can't afford to turn against the North Sea country...

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After sending the messenger of the handsome king Philip, Marin immediately "recovered" and started a very important work-reconstruction after the war...

In this war, the Oldenburg area, the North and South Münster area and the Ruhr area, which were mainly affected by military disasters, suffered serious damage to the local social order and economy by the coalition forces of the princes of the eight countries. Many manor houses were burnt down by the coalition forces, and many ordinary people were persecuted by the coalition forces of the princes of the eight countries...

Therefore, what Marin has to do now is to appease those people and help the affected people rebuild their houses to survive the cold winter.

To this end, Marin is now mobilizing food to distribute disaster relief in the Oldenburg area. Then, Marin forced the tens of thousands of captured coalition soldiers and civilians to help the affected people build adobe houses in this cold winter...

The construction of the adobe house is very simple - just use the mixed yellow mud and wrap some weeds as "bones". Then, using the method of plate construction, press the stirred yellow mud between the two plywoods to wrap the grass tendons, then compact |, set a fire to dry...

The cost of this kind of house is very cheap, after all, all you need to build a house is yellow mud and weeds. At most, some wood is needed for doors, windows and interior fixtures.

The only trouble is that building such a house requires a lot of labor. But fortunately, after winning the war, Marin won tens of thousands of prisoners, which happened to be used in the construction of adobe houses.

In addition to the post-war reconstruction in the former North Sea country, Marin also attaches great importance to the newly annexed Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Brunswick-Lüneburg, Saxony-Lauenburg, Post-war reconstruction of the newly annexed counties of Ravensburg, Schaumburg, Ripper, and Tecklenburg. After all, these areas are now the ruled areas of Beihai Kingdom, and they are no longer foreign countries. Otherwise, it will be difficult for the local people to return to their hearts...

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