Chapter 1318: Set fire to the field
"So how do we change the combat plan?" Schwartz asked.
Schwartz is now the Minister of Military Affairs, but because Wagner needs to "act" in Jutland, he had to go out of the mountain and temporarily serve as the commander of the real Second Army. Fortunately, he has been in the legion for a long time, and he is familiar with it and can get started immediately.
Marin tapped the table with his finger, and pointed to the map to the commanders of Schwartz and Stade:
"According to the original plan, we led the first and second legions to the border area of East Friesland and Oldenburg province, and faced a decisive battle with the coalition forces of the eight countries. However, the main defense is."
"Next, the 10th Cossack Cavalry Regiment led by Steindorff and Arthas suddenly came from the east and attacked the enemy's rear. And the two legions in front of us also took the opportunity to attack and strike back and forth to wipe out the enemy completely ... "
"However, because of the betrayal of the old nobles of Bremen, it was difficult for the Third Army and the Cossack Cavalry Regiment to reach the battlefield within the prescribed time. Therefore, this plan had to be cancelled ..."
"However, it will not take long for the third legion and the Cossack cavalry to be transported by sea boat ..." Kohler wondered.
"No time!" Marin shook his head helplessly and continued:
"The transport fleet now transports 5000 militiamen to the Jutland Peninsula pretending to be the Second Army. The Jutland Peninsula is hundreds of kilometers away from the mainland. The fleet will go back and forth for half a month. Then, go to pick up the Third Army and go back and forth It will take half a month. "
"Moreover, the fleet can only transport 5,000 soldiers at a time. Even transporting the Third Army requires two round trips. Transporting the Cossack cavalry is even more troublesome. You know, a Cossack cavalry, at least one person with two horses. People can also squeeze, and horses are impossible to squeeze. Once squeezing some bad-tempered horses together, it is likely to bite each other, causing the horse to be injured. So, a boat can carry many people, but The number of horses transported is limited ... "
"According to the transport capacity of the professional troop transport fleet, the Third Army and the Cossack cavalry will be transported back. It is estimated that it will take four or five trips, and the time is estimated to be two months ... However, Oldenburg is away from Aurich Only a few tens of kilometers away, the enemy troops marched in two or three days ... so, there is no time ... "
Coller was suddenly dumbfounded:
"So how do we adjust now?"
Marin closed his eyes. After thinking for a long time, he opened his eyes and said:
"What we lack the most is probably time. But now that the autumn harvest has begun, we can't let our opponents harvest the crops. Once the other party participates in the autumn harvest and learns the real mu yield of grain, our secret will definitely pass All over Europe. When the time comes, the paper will not cover the fire ... "
"So, I need a team now to do something in the Oldenburg area ..." Marin said, closing his eyes in pain, as if making a difficult decision ...
"What are you doing?" Schwartz asked curiously.
"Burn the field!"
"What?" Several people present were stunned ...
You know, it is already mid-to-late September, and the autumn harvest in the four provinces of Oldenburg, East Friesland, North Münster and West Friesland will start soon.
At this time, the rye stalks in the field had withered and the ears of wheat had matured. At this time, setting fire to the field, the yellow straw was hard to parry. Once the wind is set on fire, large tracts of ripe rye field will have no grain ...
Schwartz and others do n’t know what to say. If you set fire in the crop field before the autumn harvest, it would be a sinful sky ... How much wheat should be burned, and how huge the property loss should be ...
Marin's idea is almost the same as the madman's decision. Therefore, several people disagree.
But Marin asked blankly:
"Then what do you say? If you let the princes of the Eight Kingdoms send people to harvest the crops, then the secret of the yield per mu can't be kept! Once the secret is spread, then all the 50,000 princely coalition forces and more than 30,000 princely coalition forces will know . At that time, in order to keep it secret, should I kill those more than 80,000 insiders? "
Several people were silent ...
For confidentiality, 80,000 people were massacred. If this reputation spreads ... the title of a devil will not run away properly ...
Therefore, the seemingly crazy idea of Marin is more reliable ...
"Okay, I agree to set fire to the field. But who is going to line up? Now, on the side of Oldenburg, but under the control of the enemy ..." Schwartz said helplessly.
Marin said lightly:
"Nominally, the Oldenburg area is indeed under the control of the coalition forces of the Eight Kingdoms, but, don't forget, the mangers of those manors are our people ..."
"You mean, send someone to notify the manor to let them arrange the fire to burn the field?" Kohler immediately understood.
Most estates in the Oldenburg area are under the management of the Hoffman family. Only a small part of the land was given to the nobility. Moreover, many estate managers are actually intelligence personnel under Kohler's command to help Kohler monitor the people. Even if it is not a formal intelligence officer, many estate managers are also "informers" of the intelligence bureau, and are more obedient to orders.
Of course, Marin was also afraid that some manor servants would disobey orders because they were reluctant. Therefore, he ordered:
"Send someone to inform each manor that the order to burn crops must be strictly implemented. If it is not carried out, it will be executed!"
"Who send someone? Now the province of Oldenburg is under enemy control ..."
"Send all the cavalry to inform the old mansions of Oldenburg and order to burn the fields!"
"What if the enemy cavalry stops?"
"Then send the cavalry of the 1st Legion to attract the enemy's cavalry. The other cavalry, including the reconnaissance cavalry, is fully responsible for notifying the arson field! It must not let the enemy know the real food production!" Marin said decisively.
"Will the entire province of Oldenburg be burned? What about East Friesland?" Kohler asked with a painful face. That was all money ...
"It seems that the area of Oldenburg must be burned, and the enemy is basically controlled there. If you don't do it, the enemy will send someone to reap. As for East Friesland ... So, we take the two legions to the original Plan to enter the eastern border of East Friesland. In this way, it will not only attract the enemy forces, so that they will not dare to divide their troops to harvest food. At the same time ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ will also be able to keep the East Friesland native grain field ... "
After all, Marin was not willing to burn grain fields in East Friesland, because East Friesland, as the core area of the North Sea, has the most grain fields. If a large area is burned, the loss will be incalculable ...
As for the area of Oldenburg ... If we can keep the food in East Friesland this year, we can still subsidize the manor there ...
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Soon, more than 3,000 light cavalrymen in East Friesland, including the horse riding police in the countryside (there is no police car this year, the police can only ride horses to go to the countryside to handle cases. Of course, it is also Marin Qianduo who gave these police officers responsible for rural law enforcement Equipped with so many horses), divided into multiple groups, quietly sneaked into multiple manor houses in the province of Oldenburg, and ordered them to set fire to the grain fields that were about to be harvested in autumn.
Moreover, they are not only responsible for notification, but also for supervision. If there are disobedience people, these people will also be responsible for killing the disobedience in situ ...
At the same time, a total of 1,000 cavalrymen from the two regiments were also dispatched to the area of Oldenburg to provoke and seduce the cavalry of the coalition forces.
In order to facilitate the marching of the Lancers, Marin asked them to replace the heavy plate armor and wear light rhinoceros armor to facilitate their long-term maneuvering (otherwise the horses could not eat). At the same time, the most elite 500 Marlin's scout cavalry, who is good at using muskets, also followed the two cavalry regiments.
If the opponent sends a light cavalry to chase, then the cavalry will be handed over to kill. If the opponent sends a plate armor knight such an opponent with too high protection ... Then, hand over the scout cavalry who uses a musket to "kite" and "point kill" one by one ...
In short, this 1500-person mixed cavalry team is to hold down the cavalry power of the coalition forces of the eight kingdoms to prevent the other party from sending cavalry to hinder the action of setting fire to the field ...
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