The Rise of the European Emperor

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() When a group of princes gathered in Worms to hold the "Heroes Meeting", the war in Switzerland did not stop at all.

Negotiating with King Hans of Denmark about the timber trade, Marin received information from Switzerland that night from Kohler. The Habsburg army of 10,000 was led by Franzberg, Marin's former general. , in the vacant Swiss region of the country.

Frenzberg led the army, not only quickly captured the Habsburg family's Longxing canton of Aargau, but also took advantage of the situation to capture the western half of Zurich, the largest canton in Switzerland. Even, the city of Zurich is about to be conquered.

At the same time, Frenzberg also divided his troops south and attacked the canton of Lucerne in the south of Aargau. It is said that Frenzberg also intends to send troops to attack Bern, an area no less than the size of Zurich. Unfortunately, his troops are not enough. After all, Maximilian I only gave him 10,000 people.

Switzerland has a mountainous terrain, and there are many fortresses built on the mountains. To sweep across Switzerland, you must overcome not only the undulating terrain, but the fortresses.

Frenzberg has followed Marin for a long time, is familiar with Marin's style, and highly respects Marin's tactics. Therefore, although he was sent to serve the emperor, Frenzberg never stopped studying and imitating Marin's novel tactics.

For example, this time, Frenzberg specially brought most of the Austrian artillery and ammunition. What about the guns? Naturally, they imitated Marin's tactics and bombarded the city gate.

Also, Switzerland did not switch to iron gates like Denmark and Saxony did. Because the Swiss never thought that their homeland would be attacked. In addition, this is a mountainous area, and the news is relatively closed.

Therefore, taking advantage of the lack of information about the Swiss and the opportunity to replace the city gates, Franzberg learned Marin's tactics and formed a large-scale artillery unit and a professional demolition team to deal with the Swiss oak city gates and Fortress gate.

In this way, relying on advanced tactics and the weakness of the Swiss army's emptiness, Frenzberg led his troops to sweep the northern regions of Switzerland. By the time Kohler's intelligence officers sent the news, Franzberg was on the verge of taking the city of Zurich. In fact, when Marin received this information,

Zurich is already a city

However, Marin knew in his heart that this was not the end, but only the beginning

why? Because the Swiss are not so easy to conquer. In addition, the Habsburg family also took advantage of Switzerland's just empty force.

Not to mention the 80,000 Swiss mercenaries captured by Marin, there are more than 10,000 mercenaries in France and the Principality of Geddes.

The Swiss mercenaries captured by Marin may not have the chance to participate in the war against the Habsburg family. Because, Marin has decided to sell them to the emperor.

However, the more than 10,000 Swiss mercenaries employed by France and the Principality of Gede will definitely fight against the occupation of the Habsburgs. They are not stragglers, nor guerrillas, but a super-strong regular army formed into a system.

According to the intelligence sent by Marin's spies in the Ged Company, the Zig mercenary regiment and several other Swiss mercenary regiments led by the head of the Sieg mercenary who fought for the Ged company before had already packed up and prepared to country entered the war.

Counting the thousands of people on the French side, if they all go, there will be more than 20,000 elite troops. Moreover, France will certainly provide them with staging points and logistical supplies.

Because the French never want the Habsburgs to control the whole of Switzerland. Otherwise, once this is the case, the French will never think about recruiting tough Swiss mercenaries from Switzerland under the control of the Habsburg family.

Marin concluded that the French would do their best to support the Swiss mercenaries this time, and hoped that they would defeat the Habsburg army.

Therefore, the current army of the Habsburg family is obviously not enough to confront the Swiss mercenaries who have returned home. Even if you use double the army, you may not be able to win. Therefore, Marin concluded that Maximilian I must expand his army. At least, you have to add 10,000 troops to withstand the counterattack of the Swiss

After sending off King Hans, Marin took the initiative to visit Emperor Maximilian I, who was still in Worms

Of course, Marin is not just here to remind the emperor, he also has a very important task to sell arms

Uh, that's not right, it should be said that it is selling weapons and armor.

These days, most of the military equipment is still cold weapons, without fire. Therefore, it is more appropriate to call military equipment weapons and armor.

Marin won the war this time and captured so many prisoners. Naturally, he would not be polite. It goes without saying that he took off the weapons and armor of the prisoners.

Although a peace agreement has been reached with Brandenburg and Saxony, as long as the other party has a ransom of 1 million gold coins, that is only enough for the ransom. As for war horses and weapons and armor, they are naturally not in the ranks of redemption. Of course, the two electoral states are not inferior to that weapon and armor. Especially in Saxony, it is not difficult at all to equip the soldiers. On the contrary, the electorate of Brandenburg is relatively poor, and it is a bit difficult to get another set. Fortunately, Marin reduced the other half of the ransom. Otherwise, Joachim I wouldn't even be able to get the ransom.

Saxony and Brandenburg are traditional vassal states that respect plate knights. Therefore, their plate knights are many. In the last decisive battle, the Electorate of Brandenburg dispatched more than 3,000 plate knights. And the electorate of Saxony is more, there are more than 4,000.

Although Frederick III finally escaped with a few hundred Saxon knights, in order to go into battle lightly, the hundreds of Saxon knights took off their plate armor and horse armor, and were eventually picked up by pursuers sent by Marin. come.

Therefore, in that decisive battle, Malin captured 7,000 sets of plate armor and horse armor alone. As for the rest of the weapons, there are piles of them.

Marin is not very happy for his army to use these backward weapons and armors, but he is not happy, it does not mean that others are not happy.

For example, the Austrian side will definitely be interested. You know, in history, Maximilian I was known as the "last knight", and he also fiddled with the famous and most peak plate armor Maximilian armor.

Therefore, this knight emperor will definitely be very interested in those plate armor and horse armor. This time, Malin was looking for His Majesty the Emperor, not only for the tip off, but also for the purpose of selling second-hand weapons and armor.

After all, the war is imminent, and the Habsburgs will definitely need to expand their army. People are easier to recruit, but weapons and armor may not be in place all at once. Marin's second-hand weapons and armor, such as plate armor, are not as advanced and easy to use as the "Maximilian armor" designed by Maximilian I, but they are also popular items seized from the two major imperial states, and they can still be used. of. Most importantly, it can be used.

You know, the war is imminent, but there is no time for Maximilian I to order the Royal Arsenal in Innsbruck to produce enough Maximilian armor. Therefore, the second-hand plate armor delivered by Marin is the best choice.

After all, the Swiss are good at using spears, and movers are just not afraid of spears. Although Swiss mercenaries also use warhammers, they are specially used to deal with plate armor. However, that is a minority after all. What's more, the warriors in plate armor are not stupid. If you stand there and let you smash, they will definitely fight back. When the number of fighters in plate armor reaches a certain number, the Swiss spearmen will also feel very difficult.

Coming to the emperor's temporary residence, Marin easily saw the emperor. When he learned about Marin's intelligence, Maximilian I was not too surprised. Obviously, he has also received relevant information.

Just as Marin thought, Maximilian I also felt that the force was not enough and decided to expand the army by tens of thousands. However, the source of weapons and armor did become the emperor's heartache. The war is imminent, there is no time to produce weapons and armors

Weapons, such as spears, are nothing more than a wooden stick with a spearhead in front of it, which requires less iron and short working hours. The plate armor is different. It requires a skilled craftsman to spend a long time to make, and the production efficiency is not high, otherwise it will not be so expensive. It is impossible to mass-produce quickly.

In fact, what Maximilian I wanted most was for Marin's army to help him fight. The fighting strength of Marin's army is there. As long as Marin's army is used, victory is certain. But, where is Marin?

Not to mention that Marin is unwilling to jump into the quagmire of war in Switzerland, Marin himself also wants to use the quagmire of Switzerland to hold back the Habsburg family, and is even less willing to help.

As for excuses? Wasn't it obvious that the princes oppressed Marin at the Imperial Council? What the princes were most worried about was that Marin became Maximilian I's thug. If it wasn't for Marin's oath that he would not become a thug for the emperor to unify Germany, this level would be very sad.

If Marin turned his head and went to help the emperor fight Switzerland, wouldn't it be obvious that he was playing with the princes?

Therefore, Marin had good reason to refuse to send troops to fight for the emperor. In this regard, Maximilian I had nothing to do. After all, he also knew that if Marin really agreed to help him fight, he might be beaten by the group as soon as he turned around.

Just when Maximilian I was a little worried, Marin suddenly said:

"Your Majesty, do you want second-hand weapons and armor?"

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