Chapter 1602: Material support and reinforced concrete

To be honest, Marin despised Maximilian I. You are not strong enough, what pretend? If it were n’t for his youth to say that the brain was to reunify Germany, Maximilian I would not be resisted by the entire Germany.

Although I become mature and wise when I am older, if I am young and frivolous, I have to pay for it myself. Since he had expressed his desire to unify Germany, the princes were full of vigilance against him except the Swabian League and his group to keep warm. Even Lei went to Marin. After all, Marin was founded by Maximilian I. However, everyone is afraid that Marin will become the thug and pioneer of the reunification of Maximilian I, so Marin is also in trouble.

If it wasn't for the bad luck, Marin had already swelled in the German area. Where is the need for tolerance? Looking at the expansion of the Beihai Kingdom, almost all of them seduce their opponents to fight themselves first, and then they dare to counterattack their opponents and then annex.

If not embarrassed by the emperor, Marin doesn't need to take so much trouble, just open it up. It ’s a big deal, and we ’ll pull together and expand together.

But history has no if, Marin cannot re-elect. At the beginning, when he first crossed, he was shocked by the emperor's name, and he fooled into the past in a silly manner, without studying the emperor's bad diplomatic situation. If he could do it again, he would not be willing to turn to the emperor who is enemies everywhere.

But now that we have reached this point, it is too late to repent. Therefore, Marin can only try to remedy, but also to help the emperor ...

Of course, Marin did nothing real. Because he ruined the opportunity of the Habsburg family to unite Spain. Therefore, he and the emperor, the eldest brother does not talk about the second brother, let alone who pits each other, just pit each other ...

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Since it is not possible to send troops directly, you can only find a way to support the emperor in other ways. Marin opened the map and analyzed the situation on the Swiss battlefield in detail. After thinking for a long time, he still intends to support the Emperor Musket ...

After all, the army of the Habsburg family is now fully defensive and in a defensive situation. While defending, the role of muskets is very large. Especially when defending the city, there is a group of musketeers on the head of the city.

No matter how fierce the Swiss mercenaries are, they must retreat when they encounter intensive rifle shooting, otherwise they will suffer heavy casualties. Historically, Frensberg, known as the "Father of German Mercenaries," broke the myth of Swiss mercenaries by relying heavily on the use of musketeers among German mercenaries.

Right now, the army of Frensberg, relying on his own Spanish phalanx and using the advantage of a musket, can compete with the fierce Swiss veterans. If it were pure melee, the fierce Swiss veterans could make Frentaberg's men kneel down and call their father. Even if Marin himself brought the veterans of the North Sea, he did not dare to say that pure melee can beat those Swiss veterans.

Therefore, it is a very good means of support to provide enough guns and ammunition to the Habsburg family army.

Not only to provide the Swiss garrison in Frensberg with muskets and ammunition, but also to Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan who is hiding in the Mistel Valley, and his thousands of men.

After all, the Mistel Valley is also a dangerous place. If you build a strong fortress and match it with enough matchlocks and ammunition, even if Gudendorff's strength is superior, it will be difficult to break here ...

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Thinking of this, Marin immediately arranged to prepare enough matches and ammunition to support the emperor.

The matchlock gun or something is happening now that the Beihai National Military Factory is making full efforts. Originally, this was prepared for the militia in the colony. After all, Marin originally planned to let the militia of the colony learn to shoot with a matchlock. Therefore, he prepared a lot of matchlock guns, with a total of eight thousand matchlock guns ready to be shipped to the colony.

But taking into account the needs of the emperor, Marin temporarily intercepted these arquebuses, and instead sent someone to quietly use an inland river boat to ship to Basel controlled by the emperor's army (Basel is just the top end of the navigable Rhine).

At the same time, Marin will also provide dozens of tons of saltpeter to the emperor, also shipped to Basel by boat. In fact, Maximilian I did not know the benefits of guns, but he was short of saltpeter ...

The current saltpeter in Europe is basically taken from the toilets and stables of the people's homes, and the amount is very small and not enough. Only the North Sea countries of Spain, Portugal and Marin can buy saltpetre from India.

However, in recent years, the Spanish and Portuguese seem to have become a tacit agreement, they divided up most of the Indian saltpeter, leaving only a small share of Marin.

Fortunately, Marin has opened up the Huaxia route and started to develop Chile's saltpeter. Otherwise, the guns and guns of the Beihai Kingdom are not enough.

For example, this time, Kong Tai purchased 100,000 catties of saltpeter from China and shipped it back to Beihai. One hundred thousand catties of saltpeter is 50 tons. It happened that Marin gave it to Maximilian I. There are 50 tons of saltpetre, according to three quarters of an ounce (21.2 grams) of charge per shot, the content of the saltpeter in the gunpowder is 75% ... Each shot, only 15.9 grams of saltpetre is needed ... So, 50 tons of saltpetre is enough to fire 3.144 million times ... Enough to beat the attacking side ...

As for sulfur, charcoal and lead bullets, Marin does not need support. Because these things are everywhere in Europe, no shortage.

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Of course, Marin cannot openly support the emperor's matchlock and saltpeter. Therefore, when transporting the matchlock and saltpetre to Basel, Marin will send grain ships in the name of selling grain. Then, the arquebuses and the saltpeter are hidden in the bilge, which is filled with food. In this way, you can hide the eyes and ears of the princes along the way.

Of course ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ These things are not lost, but borrowed. But Marin didn't ask for interest, it was enough to give the emperor face. However, His Majesty the Emperor has now signed a **** debt, can it be repaid, that is a question mark. But Marin is not bad for that money, nor will he recover it. After all, the emperor is his shield and it is very useful to keep.

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In addition, Marin also intends to support a group of cement and construction personnel from His Majesty the Emperor and the Duke of Milan. Because, Marin learned from his men's intelligence, the fortifications near the Mistel Valley and Lucerne seemed to be less solid.

Therefore, Marin will send people to support a batch of cement and steel, and send a team of engineers to the Mistel Valley and Lucerne to help build a group of reinforced concrete fortifications and strengthen the defense capabilities of allies.

The reason why Marin sent engineering soldiers in the past, besides worrying that allies did not know how to use cement, also kept a secret mind. After all, cement is also one of the secrets of Beihai.

With fortifications built of reinforced concrete, coupled with a musket and ammunition, even if the enemy is strong, it is difficult to break through the defense lines of Frensberg ’s army in Switzerland and Duke Ludovico of Milan in the Mistel Valley ...