The Rise of the European Emperor

It can be said that after sending 15,000 troops to the south, the Beihai Kingdom fell into a state of emptiness. Counting the 5,000 people left by the First Army and the 5,000 police officers transferred to Aurich, Aurich had only 10,000 capable troops at this time. As for the 20,000 recruits from the army and civilians, at most they can only help defend the city and must not be used in field battles.

Therefore, the entire Beihai country is a bit imaginary right now. Fortunately, after defeating the eight vassal states before, Marin gathered the original captured princes and most of the nobles of the eight states to the Bremen area. Half of Steindorf's Third Army is stationed in Bremen Province to guard against the princes and nobles of the eight countries who were forced to migrate.

With the defense of the Third Legion, there is no need to worry about the troubles of the captured princes and nobles. What's more, for the sake of safety, Marin simply asked Steindorf to take the other half of the Third Army and temporarily move all of them to Bremen Province to ensure that these captured princes and nobles could not escape and rebel.

Marin did a very good job. If these nobles were allowed to stay in their hometown, once they saw that the Beihai Kingdom was empty, they would definitely take the opportunity to make trouble. In the face of the rebellion of these local snakes in his hometown, Marin will pay a high price if he wants to suppress it. Therefore, every time he defeated a country, he moved the main nobles of those countries to Bremen Province. In this way, although Bremen Province was harmed, there was no danger of chaos in other provinces.

As for the eight vassal states conquered last year, Marin's control over the local area is still relatively weak. However, this summer, there will probably be a large number of veterans who will retire. The total number is estimated to be as high as 2,000. Marin plans to disperse the officers among these veterans to the territory of the eight princes at that time, and let them serve as police chiefs. Then, recruit people from the local people to form more police forces. If there are 500 veterans serving as police chiefs, and each trains 25 people, it is equivalent to adding 12,500 police forces to Beihai. With these policemen, and the fact that the original nobles were basically immigrated to Bremen, Marin's control of the eight vassal states can be roughly completed. But right now, Marin only needs to ensure that there will be no rebellion in those places.

Fortunately, Marin is now most afraid of the vicious French. The main force is now in Italy, and it is impossible to threaten the mainland of the North Sea. As for those German princes, they were able to free up their hands to deal with themselves. It's just that they didn't commit suicide right now, and they had no reason to do it. Moreover, he sent 15,000 troops to the south, but he helped King Vladislas II of Bohemia, one of the seven German electors, to suppress the peasant uprising. At this time, whoever organizes the troops and Marin to make it difficult will hit Vladislas II in the face. In any case, Vladislas II was the number one leader among the secular princes of the Shenluo Empire (it was just that he didn't like to take care of things, so he was taken away by the elector Frederick III of Saxony).

Compared with Marin, the nobles obviously hated the rebellious peasants more. In their view, the dispute with Marin was nothing more than political hostility. As for the peasants who rebelled, the attitude of the nobles is the same - they must be killed!

Therefore, when Marin sent troops to help other nobles suppress the peasant uprising,

Others can't find an excuse to target Marin. Even if someone ignores it, it will be difficult to bring together the princes of all Germany. As long as there are not many princes coming, Marin will not be afraid even if there are only two legions guarding the mainland, plus 20,000 recruits. The only worry is that places outside East Frisia are destroyed by enemy troops. After all, with this strength, the priority must be to defend the core area. As for remote areas, we can only give up for the time being...

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However, Marin actually didn't only have such a little force. For example, he still has tens of thousands of sailors available...

There are now more than 10,000 sailors under Marin's command, and at the end of May and the beginning of June, maritime trade is not the peak season. Therefore, Marin simply gathered 5,000 sailors who were fine in Emden, the largest seaport, and held a sailor contest...

What is a sailor tournament? It is very different from a land infantry tourney. Fighting on land, either riding a horse or fighting on foot. The sailor contest is completely different. Mounted combat is impossible, and foot combat is very different from land foot combat.

Because the sailors competed with the enemy with their swords drawn on the ship that was shaking from side to side. However, the contest in Emden Port obviously cannot be contested on a ship. Otherwise, the audience cannot see it.

So, Marin thought of a way - he had someone make a huge plank, and then drilled holes at both ends of the plank, stringed iron chains, and hung it in the air. Then, it became something like a swing.

However, this plank is very long and wide, kind of like the deck of a boat. After being pushed to swing the swing, it is very similar to the scene of a ship shaking from side to side on the sea.

At this time, Marin asked the sailors on both sides of the competition to jump onto the wide plank, pull out the sailor's scimitar, and compete with each other. It is easy to simulate the situation of the battle on the ship.

Of course, the sailor scimitar used in the competition must have no edge, and the blade was wrapped with cloth strips to prevent the players from hurting the opponent.

At the same time, both sides of the competition will also wear wood chip armor and steel wire mask helmets to avoid accidental injuries during the competition...

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Marin personally took the guards to the square outside Emden to watch the contest of 5,000 sailors, and set up a high bonus.

In addition, when the sailors jumped on the wide planks that swayed from side to side to compete, Marin sent a violinist to play the theme song of "Pirates of the Caribbean" in his previous life - "He's a Pirate". Of course, Marin had already named this song "He's a Knight" before. However, such passionate music is also extremely appropriate to set off sailors' jousting. In fact, the song was originally called "He's a Pirate", and it couldn't be more appropriate to describe the sailors' swordsmanship on the swaying wooden board...

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"I announce that the sailors' tournament will start now!" After Marin announced loudly with an earth horn, the contestants put on wood chips on the boat, put on steel wire mask helmets, and held unsharpened sailor's scimitars wrapped in cloth strips , jumped onto the wide plank that was shaking from side to side...

After looking at it, the referee announced loudly:

"Simulate the calm sea conditions!"

Afterwards, the wide plank was shaken from side to side in a very small range under human manipulation. The two sailors who participated in the competition, holding the sailor's scimitar wrapped in cloth strips, slid forward and fought with their opponents. At the same time, the passionate violin music of "He's a Pirate" sounded on the side...

Amid the cheers of the audience, the two fought back and forth on the wooden board until one of them was stabbed in the chest...

Afterwards, after the referee announced the winner, he announced:

"Now, simulate moderate wind and waves!"

The side-to-side shaking of the wide plank has increased, and it has also increased the difficulty of the two sailors' competition. But both sides are old sailors, and this shaking will not trouble them. In the end, one of the sailors made a sudden kick during the battle and kicked the opponent off the plank...

Of course, the board is very close to the ground, and it won't hurt if you drop it. However, according to the rules, dropping a plank is equivalent to falling into the sea in a naval battle, and it is equal to losing...

In the end, the two sailors fought on a wide plank that swayed from side to side in simulated conditions of strong winds and waves. This time, one of them didn't stand firm, fell down by himself, and was directly sentenced to lose...

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Then, the contestants from other groups came on stage one by one, and presented a wonderful simulated ship fighting for the audience, which made the audience excited. In particular, there is also the passionate "He's a Pirate" as the dub.

Because of this wonderful sailor tournament, many local teenagers in East Frisia even dreamed of becoming a sailor. For a time, the number of applicants for the seafarer school increased a lot...

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At the same time, this sailor tournament also made the foreign spies who came to watch the battle realize one thing-even if the Second Army left the mainland, Marin could still draw thousands of sailors with superb swordsmanship from the sailors to guard the mainland .

These sailors may not be able to beat regular infantry in field battles. However, in the battle of defending the city, these sailors who are good at fighting in a small space are more suitable for repelling the incoming enemies on the city wall...

And this is exactly the original intention of Marin to hold this sailor tournament—to let people know that he can still mobilize thousands of sailors to help defend the city...

As a result, some vassal states that seemed to be taking advantage of the fire to loot, dispelled some bad ideas. They understand that if they can't take the opportunity to quickly break through the city of Aurich and get rid of Marin, they will die when Marin's army outside the country reacts and returns to the country for reinforcements...