The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, after seeing the development of the "Robin Hood Thieves Group" of Coster and Maric, the restless young men among the refugees in the northern counties have not thought of imitating the "Robin Hood Thieves Group" to create a new group of thieves. , to be king and hegemony, to eat fragrant and spicy. The problem is, they don't have enough weapons...

After all, behind Coster and Maric stood Marin, who had a large number of weapon workshops, and could openly supply standard weapons such as spears and bows. Therefore, "Robin Hood Thieves" developed very smoothly.

But others can't. Some young refugees with active minds have formed some new independent thieves groups, but they just can't grow. The main reason is that they lack weapons. Some thieves, because they have no weapons, can only use the simplest wooden sticks and some metal agricultural implements they have stolen. In this way, they can rob the poor farmers. Once you encounter the manor of the heavily defended manor owner, it is difficult to conquer. Therefore, they are difficult to become a climate. However, because they robbed many ordinary farmers, they also created a large number of new refugees in the central counties of England...

However, no matter how troublesome these thieves groups are, no one dares to shout out a declaration like "A prince and a general, I would rather have a seed". Because, whoever dares to shout such a slogan, those nobles will desperately form a group to suppress it. After all, the mouth cannot be opened indiscriminately.

As for Marin, although it is like messing up the middle of England, he did not dare to let Coster and Maric shout such slogans. Because, if a precedent is set, Europe will be lively in the future. Maybe, the people under his own control will also make such a scene for himself...

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On the German side, when the Elector Frederick III of Saxony and the Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg heard that Marin accused them of treason, their faces turned green with anger.

However, despite their exasperation, neither Frederick III nor Joachim I now have time to go to Worms to defend themselves. Everything has to wait until the war is over.

However, let Marin black himself so much. By the time the war is over, they will be black and black, and it will be difficult to clean up. So, Frederick III decided to fight...

To this end, Frederick III and Joachim I sent civil officials to Worms to defend their actions...

The envoys of Saxony and Brandenburg declared that the reason why the Electorate of Saxony and the Electorate of Brandenburg sent troops was to maintain justice and order.

The two countries were indignant at the arrival of Marin in East Friesland, as well as Lübeck and Hamburg forcibly plundering the fiefdoms of Schleswig and Holstein that originally belonged to the Oldenburg family. Invitation to seek justice for East Frisian, Lübeck and Hamburg who broke the rules.

Frederick III was very smart. He repeatedly told his subordinates - not to mention the Kingdom of Denmark, only to emphasize the Oldenburg family.

Because the Kingdom of Denmark is indeed a foreign country. However, the Oldenburg family has always been German. The two countries helped the Kingdom of Denmark fight Germany's feudal state, and there is indeed a suspicion of treason.

But the problem is that King Hans of Denmark, from the Oldenburg family in the county of Oldenburg, is not an outsider. As long as the identity of the Oldenburg family in Germany is emphasized, the suspicion of "colluding with other monarchs" can be avoided.

Sure enough, the rhetoric of Frederick III has won the support of many veteran nobles. After all, the old-fashioned aristocrats all value the birth of blood.

King Hans of Denmark is indeed from the old German noble family - the Oldenburg family. Frederick III's defense of himself in this way is indeed very tricky.

Unfortunately,

It's useless. Because, Marin had already arranged for Kohler to send a large number of spies to bribe the bards of various countries, and in the whole of Germany, in the form of rap art, they smeared Frederick III and Joachim I everywhere.

No matter how Frederick III and Joachim I argued, it was a matter of the Worms Imperial Council. But among the people, Marin had already bribed the popular European storytellers—the bards, and savagely hacked the two of them.

No matter how eloquent they are, they cannot hide the fact that they have united foreign monarchs to attack their own vassal states. Under the extensive publicity of the bards, German commoners and minor nobles in many regions knew that in addition to the two great aristocrats in the Holy Roman Empire - Elector Frederick III of Saxony and Elector Joachim of Brandenburg A generation……

After all, Frederick III was an orthodox veteran aristocrat, and the route he took was also the official route. How shameless is Marlin? I am willing to spend money to spread public opinion among the people...

Also, this trick works very well. After all, European entertainment is also very lacking in this era. The common people, most like to listen to the bard bragging about...

It's a pity that the common people of this era didn't have much money to reward those bards, so most bards were very poor. Therefore, the spies sent by Kohler bought a large number of bards with only a little money. After all, those bards are going to eat...

For the meal money, those bards began to sing in various taverns and other public places of He Frederick III and Joachim I according to the scripts provided by the spies...

However, the people of this era, who lack entertainment culture, like this very much. Then, these bards were watched strongly by the common people who had nothing to do after the spring ploughing...

Moreover, the script given by Marin is very wonderful. This not only points out the fact that the Electors of Saxony and the Electors of Brandenburg colluded with foreign monarchs to invade their own power, but also falsifies the fact that Frederick III and Joachim I tried to make a futile attempt to kill Maximilian I after the death of His Majesty Maximilian I. , the false story of electing the King of Denmark as Holy Roman Emperor. Then, the script repeatedly emphasized that the Viking leader, the Danes, was coming to invade Germany...

If the king of Denmark becomes the Holy Roman Emperor, those tall, fierce, bloodthirsty and vicious Viking pirates will carry blood-stained axes and run rampant in the German region, killing whoever is unhappy...

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It's a wonderful story, and it's a lot like that. In addition, the dissemination of information in this era is really lacking, so many people actually believe it...

As a result, a bizarre rumor that "Viking pirates will enter Germany" quickly spread throughout Germany...

In fact, the Viking pirates disappeared as early as the 11th century, four or five hundred years ago. However, the various barbaric legends of Viking pirates still reverberate on the European continent.

Therefore, the bard is just bragging, and many ordinary people believe it to be true...

Then, these ordinary people hated the Saxon Elector Frederick III and the Brandenburg Elector Joachim I, who tried to collude with the "Viking pirate chief" King Hans of Denmark.

Some radical citizens even shouted the slogan of dethroning Frederick III and Joachim I, suggesting that they should be put in prison...

Of course, none of these citizens are from Saxony and Brandenburg. Otherwise, they themselves would have been caught in jail long ago...

At this time, Frederick III and Joachim I, who were on the front line, didn't know yet-they had a bad reputation in most parts of Germany... As long as they dared to appear and did not return the army guard, welcome him The two are rotten eggs...

Of course, Marin, who planned all this, did not know that his two opponents were notorious at this time. Because he was besieged in the city of Lübeck, and it was very inconvenient to communicate with the outside world.

Because Frederick III lined up a lot of trebuchets on the west side of the Trave River, the ships of Marin did not dare to approach the port of Lübeck easily. Because hundreds of thousands of trebuchets throw fireballs together, which is really terrible for wooden boats.

So Marin was going to clean up those trebuchets on the other side. He ordered the artillery, put the artillery on the top of the city, and started aiming at the trebuchets...

Within a day, Marin's artillery destroyed hundreds of trebuchets on the other side of the river, startling the Bursa coalition forces, and hurriedly transported the remaining trebuchets away.

Unfortunately, two days later, Frederick III came up with a countermeasure - he ordered people to dig a big hole on the bank of the river. Then, place the trebuchet into the pit. That way, the shells won't hit those trebuchets.

After all, the shells had a great range and could easily have flown over the head of the big crater where the trebuchet was. As for throwing a parabola into a crater. This difficulty is too high.

Marin suddenly regretted not bringing the Cohoun mortars with him. Because mortars are designed to restrain tunnels. Unfortunately, it's too late to say anything. The ones he brought here were all cannons, with low ballistics, and there was no way to use the trebuchets in the tunnels.

However, after the trebuchets of the Allied Forces of Boza were put into the big pit, because the ballistics of the trebuchets were parabolic, the wooden boats moored by the pier were not affected at all.

In desperation, Marin had to stop the shelling. Because a cannon with a low ballistic trajectory has nothing to do with those big pits.

Fortunately, before the opponent's trebuchet was built, Marin's fleet had already brought in sufficient food and ammunition. Even if the wooden boat can no longer dock, it will not affect the combat effectiveness of the army in the city.

At the same time, the Bursa coalition forces forced the local people to fill a large number of sandbags in the southeast and eastern parts of the city of Lübeck. Over time, these two sections were filled with sandbags, which was not a problem at all. At that time, it will be easier for the Bursa coalition to attack the city of Lübeck...

Of course, Marin was not idle either. He sent a scout with good water skills to go out of the city at night, take his own letter, swim across the Travo River, and go to the seaside to inform Kidd, the commander of the East Frisian Fleet, to send a ship back to the country to collect the dozens of people in the warehouse. Menkhoun mortars were brought in for use against the trebuchets in the tunnels. Also, if possible, get the gunsmiths to cast a few more Cohoun Cannonballs out. After all, it is not difficult to cast bronze cannons, and there are ready-made iron molds. Coupled with the large amount of copper ingots shipped from the Fallon Copper Mine in Sweden, it is not difficult to cast more Cohoun shells.

As for how the Cohoun mortars were transported into the city? This is also easy, just send two boats to risk their lives to transport the artillery to the dock. Even if these two ships were sunk, as long as the artillery was brought ashore, it would be a success. The loss of two ships was nothing to Marin...