The Rise of the European Emperor

From Newcastle to Edinburgh, as far as Marin knows, there is actually only one main road similar to the Roman Avenue. At first, the army of Scotland also went south along this road.

Under normal circumstances, James IV's return to the north must have taken this path. However, if James IV became suspicious and feared that Edward would kill him, he might have changed lanes. After all, the road to the north is not the only one. If the army is marching, it can only take this road. But James IV only brought 50 knights and could choose other paths.

Therefore, in order to force James IV to take the main road, Marin decided to let the Robin Hood thieves send horse thieves to commit crimes frequently on several other small roads, but not the main road. In this way, after England sent James IV to the border, if James IV wanted to take a small road, the generals of the Scottish Borders garrison would definitely discourage him.

Today, the Scottish army is stretched thin, and only a small number of troops are stationed near the road. As for those small roads, there is no way to distinguish the troops stationed there. Therefore, it is also reasonable for the Robin Hood thieves to choose to commit crimes along the path. If this news reaches the ears of James IV, he must know what to choose.

However, Marin was also worried that James IV would be stunned and would not give in. So he ordered that the Robin Hood Thieves not only loot on the trails, but also destroy roads and bridges as much as possible. In this way, the roads and bridges were destroyed, and James IV had to take the road.

As for the road, Marin estimated that in a place not far from the border area, James IV and his party must be highly vigilant to prevent them from being intercepted.

On the contrary, in the second half of the journey, when approaching Edinburgh, it will relax...

This is also human nature. When approaching the enemy's territory, you must be on guard. But if you're close to home, it's easy to relax.

In the ancient history of China, many people used this general mentality to ambush. But in Europe, strategy has not yet emerged, and everyone is still very rigid. It is very rare to use the enemy's psychological means in this way.

Therefore, Marin plans to send Kahn and his men to find a roadside forest suitable for concealment in the second half of the road from the Scottish Borders to Edinburgh, and fight an ambush against James IV...

Most of Scotland is mountainous, but around Edinburgh is the southern lowlands of Scotland. However, a little further south, it is mountainous terrain. Marin planned to fight an ambush in the mountainous areas that did not enter the plains around Edinburgh. After all, the mountainous areas were suitable for Tibetan soldiers. After killing people, it is easy to run away. To this end, Marin will specially prepare a group of highland horses suitable for walking on mountain roads, which will be used for Kahn and others to run on the road afterwards.

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In addition, in order to prevent enemy knights from running away in the chaos, Malin specially asked the forge to forge a batch of new plate armor. These plate armors are all in the shape of French plate armor, but the difference is that the outside of the plate armor has been carburized and double quenched with oil and salt, which greatly improves the performance of the plate armor.

Moreover, French-style plate armor is very popular in Europe. It is the Scottish army, which is very commonly used in the French plate style. Why? Because many of the plate armor of the Scottish army was simply supported by the French.

France has always regarded the Kingdom of Scotland as an ally. Because the Scots put pressure on England in the north, and England could not let go of their hands and feet against France. Therefore, the French are also willing to invest in Scotland and support some plate armor, which is really nothing. Even, in the original history, James IV personally led his troops south to attack England in order to alleviate England's invasion of France, and then died on the battlefield...

Therefore, it is easy to confuse people by letting Kahn and others wear French-style plate armor. Even, it may be regarded as an internal rebellion.

And Marlin was happy to make people think so, so he started training Kahn's Scots...

"Bah! I opened this mountain, and I planted this tree. If you want to pass from here, leave road money (Scots)." Marin found a North Sea Chamber of Commerce spy who knew Scottish and taught Kahn to speak the Scottish version. Robbery nonsense.

However, out of bad taste, Marin turned these slang words into the opening remarks of the Dao robbers with Chinese characteristics.

Then, Kahn eagerly followed to learn these Scots-language Chinese slang...

Marlin's request to Kahn and the wolf-toothed commandos is that only Scottish language is allowed during the whole process, no German is allowed, so as not to show their stubbornness.

Moreover, the main purpose of this interception was to kill James IV. As long as James IV is killed, as for the other knights, it doesn't matter if they let go one or two. Anyway, Kahn et al wore a full set of French-style plate armor and used Scots. Paralyzed, I don't believe those Scots can deduce that when Sherlock Holmes' grandfather's grandfather has not yet been born.

You know, Marin dispatched the Wolf Fang Commando for the sake of confidentiality. If it's not for confidentiality, just use the musket directly. In the face of muskets, plate armor is not very useful, and it is more convenient to intercept. But with a musket, it is easy to be suspected. Without a musket, who could have guessed?

After all, European plate armor covers the face. Faceless, still wearing French plate armor...

"No! The mace is the special weapon of the mace commando, it's a loophole!"

Marin soon found a loophole and made adjustments - the selected wolf-tooth commandos began to use the more popular warhammers and tomahawks against plate armor in Europe. In this way, the concealment is higher...

Well, there are still a few months to go. Taking advantage of this period of time, these people can also get used to the use of warhammers and tomahawks, so as not to reduce their combat power during combat...

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Just when Marin was busy killing James IV, Garland on Cape Breton Island sent an envoy back, asking Marin to send a group of people over to collect maple sugar in the spring of next year.

Garland's mind has been alive since he saw the maple candy collection in the spring.

At first, due to lack of preparation and because it was late in the collection period, Garland only collected more than 100 barrels of maple syrup, and Marin took most of it away. Seeing the second half of the year, Garland decided to collect enough maple sugar next year...

There are simply too many sugar maple trees in Canada, everywhere. Before going through the modern opening, you basically encountered a sugar maple tree in the Canadian jungle after walking a few steps. If you want to collect maple sugar, as long as you have enough hands and tools...

Therefore, in the spring of next year, Garland plans to collect more than 10,000 barrels of maple syrup... It is the purified maple syrup, not the unpurified maple syrup...

Generally speaking, a barrel of maple syrup is about 2oo pounds. And the maple juice from an old sugar maple tree can hold about a barrel. But a barrel of maple syrup can only extract about three pounds of maple syrup. To get a bucket of maple syrup, you need to collect maple syrup from more than 30 sugar maple trees... and to get 10,000 buckets of maple syrup, you need to collect maple syrup from more than 300,000 sugar maple trees. juice……

Of course, the number of sugar maples is not an issue. After all, what Canada lacks the most is the sugar maple. But the problem is, Garand lacks manpower and tools...

Collecting sap from more than 300,000 sugar maple trees and refining maple syrup requires a lot of manpower. Moreover, collecting the sap requires a lot of barrels and pipes.

It's good to say that the carpenters under Garland can make wooden pipes. But wooden barrels, it is very difficult. The wood for barrels in America is plentiful, everywhere. Iron hoops or copper hoops for barrels, as well as the drying oil needed to make wooden barrels (there is no tung oil in Europe, only linseed oil can be used) are very lacking.

Therefore, Garland this time not only asked Marin to support his group of gathering workers, but also a large number of iron or copper hoops for hooping buckets. And n barrels of linseed oil for barrel making. There are also iron cones for drilling tree holes...

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In fact, Garland had already negotiated with Marin that the Indians would help them collect maple syrup. Then, it's refined into maple syrup by the folks at Garand. Then, Garland can just exchange the salt, cloth, glass beads and other commodities with them.

To this end, this year Garland also sent a number of messengers who understood the Indian language to board the American University 6 to contact those native Indian tribes.

Attracted by the dazzling array of European goods, most Indian tribes agreed to cooperate with Garand. But there's a problem - the Indians didn't know how to collect maple syrup and didn't have the right tools...

Therefore, next year's maple syrup collection, Garland needs a group of workers to demonstrate to those Indian tribes. At the same time, provide them with a large number of wooden barrels and pipes, as well as tools such as iron cones for drilling holes in trees.

When the next year begins, those Indians who have mastered the technology and have tools will no longer need to be demonstrated to them. At that time, Garland will directly send someone to buy maple syrup, and then transport it back to Cape Breton Island for refining. Finally, barreling the finished maple syrup back to Europe…

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