Chapter 1506: Help out

Marin was speechless when he saw that Prince Philip was unable to cope with Lai's might. However, the prince of the Holy Roman Empire came to himself to show off, showing that the Habsburg family was also anxious.

Speaking of Switzerland, the recent fighting situation is indeed detrimental to the Habsburg family. When the French sent troops to Italy, they also put back 10,000 Swiss mercenaries, with the Swiss mercenary leader and Marin's old friend Sieg as the highest commander.

After Sieg returned to Switzerland with 10,000 Swiss mercenaries, the French withdrew thousands of elite French troops who had been disguised as Swiss militia. But Sieg brought more people, and they were all veterans. Therefore, instead of being weakened, the Swiss Resistance Army increased to 27,000. Sieg has also become the new leader of the 27,000 Swiss Resistance.

In the face of the Habsburg family's 35,000 troops, Sieg's 27,000 people seem to be weaker. However, this is not the case. Sieg brought back veteran Swiss mercenaries who were stronger than the original Swiss resistance soldiers.

The original more than 10,000 Swiss Resistance Army was not originally mercenaries, but Swiss mountain people who were forced to take up arms to resist after the Habsburg family returned to Switzerland. Although it is more aggressive than ordinary mountain people, it is also limited. Fortunately, the French sent thousands of elites, disguised as Swiss militia, to help fight, only to block the Habsburg family's offensive. Otherwise, the western region of Switzerland has long been unified by the Habsburg family.

Now, Sieg returns with 10,000 veterans, so that the strength of the Swiss Resistance Army has not been weakened, but has been strengthened.

Sieg is not the same as the average Swiss mercenary leader. He is younger and more cunning. At that time, in the battle of the long streets employed by Marin to eliminate the West Frisian noble republic, Sieg was inspired by Marin's command method and learned the tactics of ambush and roundabout outsourcing.

Later, Sieg quickly relied on the ambush tactics of two knives and the roundabout outsourcing tactics, and quickly emerged among the leaders of the Swiss mercenaries. In these years, the original Swiss mercenaries were killed, killed, and died of illness. Then, after the young Sieg survived in the concentration camp by a young man, he suddenly discovered that he had become the leader of the Swiss mercenary ...

After taking over the Swiss Resistance Army, Sieg changed the rigid and rigid combat plan formulated by the French aristocracy officers to use a more flexible plan.

For example, in a battle against Lucerne, Sieg deliberately defeated and lured Lucerne ’s defenders to chase out of the city. Then, he used the reserve team to ambush halfway and wiped out the chasing soldiers in one fell swoop, causing Lucerne's more than 10,000 defenders to lose nearly 4,000 troops. If it were not for Lucerne ’s guards to decisively block the narrow valley road with a few carriages, the city of Lucerne might have changed hands at this time.

After this battle, the Swiss Resistance began to take the initiative, changed the defense into an offensive, and started to engage in the West, making the Habsburg family army very embarrassed.

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After losing money, Emperor Maximilian I wrote a letter asking his son to complain, saying that now he has insufficient power, if only he could tell Marin to send troops to help ...

Of course, the emperor complained. Because, he is also very aware of Marin's situation, did not really send someone to ask Marin to send troops to help. And Marin had been able to loan him hundreds of thousands of gold coins, which is already very justified.

But Prince Philip is different. Although he is aware of Marin's difficulties, he does not intend to let Marin so easily. After all, in his opinion as a young master of the empire, shouldn't Marin devote a little more to the plans of the Habsburg family as a young man who was pulled up by Maximilian I?

Therefore, he came to the door deliberately, with an ugly face and a bad attitude. He just wanted to beat Marin to help him more or less. But Malindo is cunning? The reasons are set one after another, and Philip is speechless. In desperation, Crown Prince Philip changed to a warm path ...

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Although he despised Prince Philip ’s crappy little fresh meat acting skills, Marin knew that since the young masters had come to play, it proved that the Habsburgs had a really hard time. If you don't say anything at all, you will definitely be criticized. After all, from the outside world, Marin did hold Maximilian I on the thigh. At this time, he had just sent 10,000 troops to Edward. If he did not help Emperor Maximilian I at all, he would definitely be despised ...

Of course, he would not actually send troops to help the emperor. After all, this matter is too sensitive.

So, after thinking for a while, Marin decided to use some special methods to help His Majesty the Old Emperor ...

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First of all, Marin naturally provided a batch of weapons to His Majesty the Emperor. Providing weapons to friendly forces is a trick that has been played by other countries in future generations and is also the safest. Arms can be provided to make allies feel friendly. Moreover, there is no need to send someone to die.

Marin may not have much else, but the amount of weapons and gunpowder is still sufficient. Therefore, Marin directly prepared to support the emperor's 3,000 firelocks to strengthen the defensive strength of the Swiss Austrian army.

Because the domestic matchlocks have been discontinued, the originally stocked matchlocks were also taken away (including to the Ming Dynasty). Therefore, now the matchlock gun needs to be newly built.

However, at present, there is only one military factory in the North Sea country producing matchlock guns, and the matchlock guns produced by that military factory are the fake Rumi that Marin planned to sell to the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt ...

Marin thought for a while, as if the Ottoman Turkish and Egyptian Mamluk dynasties' battle in the Dabyk steppe in northern Syria would not take place for two years ...

Therefore, Marin decided to suspend the imitation of Lu Miguo, and instead help the emperor to forge a matchlock for the fortification ...

Right now the Habsburg family army is on the defensive, and if you are defending the city, it is better to use a matchlock.

As for the production of the matchlock gun, Marin is also quite lazy-he directly made people reduce the length of the 2 meter long Lu Mi to a normal 1.5 meters. Then, the Arabic-style patterns and carvings on the gun body were all saved ...

The reason for such a magical change is that such a change is more conducive to the battle of the Habsburgs. Moreover, it is not easy for the Turks to see the source of the gun ...

The barrel is shortened, which can greatly facilitate the gunner's ammunition loading. After all, it is not easy to load 2 meters of Lu Miguo ...

When loading the front gun ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ the gun body should be erected to facilitate the pouring of gunpowder. But the 2-meter-long Lu Miguo is too exaggerated. If the gun is upright, there are few people with a height of more than 2 meters that can load this gun. Unless, they can only use the tactics of people who used Muskete's muskets before-one person shoots, one person helps to reload ... Moreover, the gun body must be tilted and supported by one person, which is inconvenient ...

After Marin shortened the gun from 2 meters to 1.5 meters, it was very convenient. While guarding the city, people stood behind the battlements, and Lumi, too tall and too long, was not suitable. Because, filling such a long gunpowder with ammunition, it is easy to get killed by the enemy.

Therefore, the 1 meter 5 long matchlock gun is more suitable for the Habsburg family army for city defense.

Therefore, Marin finally promised to provide Prince Philip with 3,000 weakened versions of Lu Mi. At the same time, he is willing to provide a large amount of saltpetre at a "cost price" for the emperor himself to prepare black powder ...

Now Marin's men have begun to steadily develop the saltpetre mine in the desert area of ​​northern Chile. At this time, he is not short of saltpetre. Of course, when handed over to Prince Philip, Marin naturally cried out, describing the process of getting himself into saltpeter, which was described as small and colorful, highlighting the difficulty of obtaining saltpeter ... Of course, he can also show his sincerity ...