Chapter 1271: Turn to Franche Comté
"Stop loss? Our first priority is to contain the expansion of the Habsburg family?" Anthony Duke of Lorraine vomited.
"Yes, we lost no problem, at least we are the masters of the countries. If the Habsburg family is strong, we will be wiped out, not to mention being the master!" Joachim I echoed.
"Otherwise, shall we ask the princes of the church for help?" At this time, Count Hessian Kassel, who had lost much in this ambush, suggested.
Speaking of which, the princes here frowned ...
This action, although most church princes support it. However, when it was specifically implemented to send troops, it was mainly the secular princes who contributed. As for the church princes, most of them only expressed verbal support and provided some financial support, but were not keen to send troops. Otherwise, if the coalition exceeds 100,000, it is light.
This is mainly because the church princes are not hereditary. Every prince in the church is desperately trying to make money, not trying to govern. Because the princes of the church have no heirs, and the kingdom of the princes of the church cannot be a heir, so why bother?
Moreover, it would cost a lot of money to dispatch an army. It is very unpleasant for church princes who want to make money.
Only the secular princes, the kingdom can be passed on to future generations, more worried about the Habsburg family uniting Germany and regaining the autonomy of the princes, so they spare no effort to send troops.
Furthermore, in addition to the little contribution of the church princes, King Vladislas II of Bohemia also remained neutral to this operation. It seems that he did not want to offend the emperor.
"Ask them for help? Are they willing to give up the money?" Joakim I sneered.
Philip I, Earl of Kassel in Hessen, said:
"Master Chuckim, those church princes are mean. But most of them are also from secular princes' families. As long as we tell them-if the Habsburgs are strong, their respective families will be unlucky. I think, They should support us with more money and food. At least, they will not let us lack food! "
Elect Frederick III of Saxony heard this and nodded:
"Yes, finding someone to share is also a way to stop losses!"
Before, the situation was very good, and those church princes might not be willing to pay too much money. But now that the situation is critical, the Habsburg family may be really big. Therefore, Frederick III was confident to convince most religious princes to support himself. Especially those church princes who came from the family of secular princes, they do not want their family to fall ...
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At this moment, the young Marquis of Anhalt (also called Prince or Prince) Wolfgang suddenly said:
"Masters, what you said makes sense. But, asking the princes of the church for money, it takes a long time to discuss and get it. Now, we have more than 60,000 mouths and we can't wait that day!"
At this time, the princes present suddenly thought of it-Frensberg put back nearly 40,000 people, and suddenly made the food supply in Basel extremely tense ...
Before, the coalition lost most of its food during the ambushes in the Kostal Valley. But at the beginning, only 25,000 soldiers ran back, and the remaining small amount of food could still persist. But when the 40,000 people are released, the food will not be enough now ...
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"Shall we send someone to the Baden country to grab a little more?" Anthony Duke of Lorraine suggested.
"Inappropriate, the food of Badenberland along the road was basically robbed by our army, and now it is not much to go to grab ..." Frederick III shook his head.
As for grabbing local food in Basel? Do n’t be fooled, it ’s better not to produce food in the mountains of northern Switzerland. Basel is on the banks of the Rhine. There are also some grain fields and narrow valleys. Grain production is very limited. For the army of 65,000 people, it is basically a salary.
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At this time, Philip I, Earl of Kassel, did not speak, but picked up the map on the table and began to look at it. After looking at it for a while, Philip I's eyes brightened:
"I have a way!"
Everyone turned their eyes to him, and he saw that Philip I, the Earl of Kassel, pointed to the march map and said to everyone:
"Masters, please see-here is Basel, which is the position of our army. Look, where is Base West?"
"Franche Comté?" Several princes thought without hesitation.
Franche Comté was part of the native region of the former Principality of Burgundy. Later, the most elite part of the Principality of Burgundy (that is, the later Burgundy region of France), including the capital of Dijon, was French I robbed it, leaving only the relatively barren Franche Comté area to Philip, the handsome son of Maximilian I.
"Yes, Franche Comté is the site of the Habsburg family. Although it is not a major place or rich in food. But Besançon is also a richer city. We will now send Franche Comt. Thai, go grab food! "Philip I, Earl of Kassel, Hess, excited.
"However, go to the emperor's territory to grab food ... How can I feel that I am at a loss ..." Joakim I hesitated.
Philip I, Earl of Kassel in Hessen, excitedly said:
"Admiral Joakim, that was before. Before, we were still trying to excuse ourselves for attacking the Habsburg family. Now, we don't need to make an excuse. Frensberg of the Habsburg family has already ambushed. We are ours, we are the reason. He robbed most of our food, which is equivalent to the Habsburg family robbing us of military food. Yeah! "
"Okay! Count Philip's idea is very good!" Frederick III clapped the table excitedly and stood up, supporting the idea of Philip I of Count Kassel of Hesse.
Frederick III has reacted-now, they are the first to be attacked, and have changed from the unreasonable side to the reasonable victim side.
Therefore, the following actions do not need to be covered up. The excuse to grab food from Franche Comté is also readily available-your Frensberg grabbed our food, and we went to Franche Comté to get it back ... By the way, grab some money to subsidize the loss of the army ... …
"Hey ..." Many princes laughed knowingly ...
The Franche Comté area is not large, but it also has tens of thousands of square kilometers. Besançon is not a big city, but it is also an important capital city. Winning this city is definitely bigger than the oil and water in Basel, Switzerland. After all, the taxation in the Franche Comté area should basically be concentrated on Besançon. Wine and dairy products from the Franche Comté region are also concentrated in Besançon. As long as you occupy it, you can get a lot of benefits.
And ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Now that the Habsburg family is underpowered, they are mainly used to compete with the French in Switzerland. It is said that in Franche Comté, only Besançon, the capital, has two or three thousand garrisons ...
So, as long as the coalition of princes marched into Franche Comté, there was little resistance ...
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"Okay, that's it, let's march into Franche Comté! Grab all the food and treasure there!" Frederick III said with determination.
"But don't we send troops to join the French?" Anthony Duke of Lorraine asked. The Principality of Lorraine is close to France and has a close relationship with France. It has always united France against the Habsburg family. But the Lorraine family did not expect that after the end of the "Thirty Years' War" more than a hundred years later, the French, who were allies, cut off a large area of the principality of Lorraine (who called Lorraine has a large iron mine). Then the Principality of Lorraine became a staunchly anti-Legal faction ...
"It's okay, it's not too late to support the French when we have enough food. In this way, you send someone to notify the French and let them be more careful. When we have enough food, we will go to join them and attack together. The **** in Frensberg! "
Having said that, Frederick III took the princes out of the army, took a total of 20,000 troops and all the people, and went to the Franche Comté region under the Habsburg family to grab food, leaving only Under 5,000 soldiers stationed in Basel, in anticipation of Franzberg counterattack ...
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