Chapter 1359: Swept across 6 countries
To be honest, Marin is relatively speechless to the princes of the Principality of Lüneburg, obviously there is such a large grassland, 7,200 square kilometers, and the Shanghai market in the future will be about a thousand square kilometers. Such a large grassland, not to mention reclamation as a good field, at least for grazing?
The Duke of Kronborg did not, but rather did not use it. In the later generations, the title of "Lüneburg Wasteland" is retained.
Of course, there are salt mines in Lüneburg, and there was no shortage of money. Therefore, the Duke of Lüneburg who did not think about it, naturally did not want to develop that prairie well. Like the coal bosses of later generations, there are mines at home, why go to farm?
Ma Lin coveted this grassland, not to do any economic development, but to treat it as an important military area.
In this grassland, Marin is mainly used to raise horses. At the same time, large-scale military exercises can also be conducted. It seems that later generations of NATO troops stationed in Germany often conduct military exercises in this grassland. Especially some tank cluster exercises are often held here. After all, the development in other parts of Germany is relatively high. If you want to find a place where there are few people to do military exercises, it is difficult to find.
Moreover, the location of the Lüneburg wasteland is very good. This is the hinterland of North Germany and belongs to the core area. If the cavalry is stationed here, it can be reached quickly no matter where it attacks or supports northern Germany. After the capture of Lüneburg, the main force of the Cossack cavalry in the future may be moved to the wasteland of Lüneburg ...
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Regardless of the military value of the Luneburg wasteland, Marin is now supervising the investigation of the property of Luneburg.
However, because the city of Lüneburg is an important member of the Hanseatic League, Marin also had to take it seriously. Because there are many important business families in the Hanseatic League in Lüneburg.
To deal with these Hansa business families, Marin had to be cautious and not just grab it.
Therefore, Marin had to first control most of the merchant families in Lüneburg. Then, send someone quickly to the city of Hamburg and Lübeck and ask them to show the list of people to be protected.
Marin's attitude is that all the Hanse business families of Lüneburg that the allies Hamburg and Lübeck want to protect do not move. As for the fact that Hamburg and Lübeck do n’t come forward to protect ... Naturally they need to be checked ...
In this way, Marin eventually searched nearly half of the business families in Lüneburg. These families are all families with bad relations with Hamburg and Lübeck, and most of them are vassals of the Welf family. In this way, Marin has no psychological burden to **** ...
In the end, Marin grabbed four million gold coins worth of property and food in the Welf family and nearly half of the merchants of Lüneburg. However, there was about one million of money in it, which was originally robbed by the coalition forces of the eight kingdoms from the Beihai Kingdom. Therefore, what Marin's men actually grabbed in Lüneburg was only worth more than three million gold coins. But even this number is very scary. After all, in this era, the general princes can have one or two hundred thousand gold coins, which is very good.
However, there are salt mines in Lüneburg. Salt in Europe in this era is known as "white gold". There is a salt mine in hand, and it has been mined for hundreds of years, it is not surprising that the city of Lüneburg can check out so much money. In fact, if it is checked together with the other half of the large merchant family of Lüneburg, the total value will certainly easily break 5 million gold coins. However, in order to maintain friendly relations with the Hanseatic League, Marin still refrained. After all, small unbearable is a mess. Besides, Marin is not short of money ...
Although the Hanseatic League is a group of cities, each city has limited strength. However, the accumulation of less and more is also an important political force that cannot be ignored when the Hanseatic League comes together. Right now, Marin needs diplomatic support to annex the eight vassals. Therefore, he could not commit evil with the Hanseatic League. Moreover, it is not necessary.
Therefore, after the investigation and disposal of the family of merchants who were close to the Welf family, Marin stopped the investigation in Lüneburg. Anyway, the money he found was enough for him to squander.
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After completing the investigation of the city of Lüneburg, Marin left only part of the army, and then continued to go south with most of the army.
However, this time when he went south, Marin no longer gathered 30,000 troops to go south. In pursuit of efficiency, Marin divided the army into six parts-he personally took 15,000 people to continue south, heading straight to Brunswick-Wolfenthal, the capital of the Principality of Wolfentel.
As for the remaining people, in addition to leaving two thousand people to continue to be stationed in Lüneburg, the rest were divided into five groups-one group went to Detmold, the capital of the Lipperbee, and one group went to Bentheim-Teke The first down payment for Tecklenburg in Lumberberg, one group goes to Lefeld, the capital of Lasborg, one group goes to Gelden, the capital of Geldenburg, and one group goes to the capital of Rieterberg. Teberg ...
Of course, the group that went to Lefeld also had a task-to send someone to capture the basic plate of Earl Anthony Schaumburg ...
However, in addition to Marin's many people, the other five routes, each army also has two or three thousand soldiers. After all, they captured, but they were all the capitals of the little insignia.
These small countries were originally brought out by their princes to attack the North Sea country. Those who stayed in the country were all crooked melons and three or two kittens. Just send two or three thousand people to conquer them.
Only Wolfenthal, this important city, was the home of Henry, the leader of the North Sea nation, and its defense was no less than that of Lüneburg. It is said that there are more than 3,000 regular army guards in the city. In addition to the conscripts recruited, the number of defenders is estimated to exceed 10,000.
Therefore, Marin intends to bring more people and take the main force south to go to besiege Wolfentel.
In addition, the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfentel has a mining city that is highly valued by Marin, Goslar.
The Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenter and the Principality of Braunschweig-Lüneburg are similar. The difference is that the Principality of Brunswick-Lüneburg mainly sells salt by mining salt mines, while the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfentel mainly depends on Rammels Bay near Goslar Silver, copper, lead and gold produced in the grid mine (European people will not refine zinc at this time). As the most important silver producing area in northern Germany, Goslar has always been a cash cow in the hands of the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenter. It is said that in order to ensure the safety of Goslar City, not only the capital Wolfentl has changed the Iron Gate, but also the Goslar City has been replaced by the Iron Gate, to avoid being easily broken by the enemy ...
I do n’t know what the Duke Henry thought. The Principality of Brunswick-Wolfentel is already strong enough. He has to provoke the Beihai Kingdom. How can I say that human greed is endless ...
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While Marin was heading south, in the southwestern city of Gelden, Charlie, the Earl of Charles, who had escaped luckily, was instructing his men to pack up valuable property, ship together, and plan to take away ...
"Master, why should we run? Can't we wait for Lord Frederick to come back to preside over justice?" Asked the guard of an Earl of Charles, puzzled.
Charlie, Earl of Galden, shook his head and said:
"I also want to wait for Lord Frederick to come back to support justice, but, I'm afraid I won't wait for that time ..."
His spies have heard the secret report that the city of Lüneburg was broken by Marin ’s army for a long time with special methods ...
This news made Count Charles tremble. He knew, however, that the rich Principality of Brunswick-Lüneburg specially replaced the city of Lüneburg with thick cast-iron gates, which were firm. Such a strong iron gate was removed by Marin in less than half a day, not to mention the city of Gelden with a much lower defensive force.
Count Charles was worried-until Frederick III and others returned, he would be caught by Marin's army and become a prisoner ...
Moreover, he also worried that the coalition of princes composed of Elector Frederick III of Saxony and others might not be able to beat the army under Marin.
Therefore, for the sake of safety, he simply asked people to put the only gold and silver treasures in Geldenberg to ship together, planning to go to France to take refuge ...
Charles, Earl of Gelden, was an ally of the French. It was with the support of the French that the original Principality of Geddes was restored and became a prince of the German powers. Later, despite the defeat of the Principality of Geddes, he had to cede most of the territory, but France did not completely abandon him, but said-if the calf is finished, you can come to France to take refuge ...
No, now the country of Gelden is almost finished. He remembered this and planned to take refuge in France.
As long as he fled to France, Marin did not have the guts to send troops to France to catch him ...
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The day after Earl of Gelden's ship left Gelden ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Marin's contingent arrived in Gelden ...
As Marin expected, the capitals of these little uncles were basically wooden doors. Marin gave the bàopò hands of the various troops, burned the oak city gate with blended gasoline, and then a bàopò broke the city gate. As for the three or two kittens left in the city, they ca n’t cope with two or three thousand enemies, they can only surrender ...
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The Marin side is also very smooth. Because, when he besieged the city of Wolfendel and Goslar, he was pleasantly surprised to find that these two cities, like Lüneburg, actually did not pile bricks and stones in the gate hole behind the Iron City Gate Roundwood or something. As long as the location of the latch is corroded, the city gate can be pushed open directly ...
Therefore, Marin's army easily broke through the two cities of Wolfenthal and Goslar, completing the most important occupation of the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfentel. Moreover, the old people accumulated in the two cities for hundreds of years have also given Marin a full stomach, and they are almost "supporting"-in these two cities, Marin has found out more than 5 million Gulden gold coins. The property ...
In this way, the remaining six princely states were quickly swept by Marin's soldiers in six ways ... 14
