Chapter 1725: Encourage England to seize Calais

Edward was excited and depressed at this time. What was so exciting was that he finally understood why many nobles married by close relatives were easily heirs. The depressed place is even simpler-he is not a close marriage, why can't he have a son ...

Of course he didn't know that he had been "ligated" with violence by the lack of virtue of Louis XII with the master of kicking eggs. If he knew the secret, Marin was sure Edward would attack France insanely.

Although Marin also wanted Edward to attack France frantically, the timing was wrong. Otherwise, Marin told Edward the truth.

The reason why the timing is wrong is because Marin is not ready to receive England. Once accepting England, Marin encountered not only the struggle of the opposition forces in England, but also the blow of France. Because, France also wants to annex England ...

If Marin jumps out and picks peaches, the French will be crazy with jealousy. By then, the Beihai Kingdom will be the target of French revenge. Because, France is really capable of fighting two wars at the same time.

Therefore, before annexing England, Marin hopes to weaken France. At least, let France lose the ability to fight two wars at the same time.

At the same time, Marin also hopes that the legions hidden in the Americas can also be trained. By that time, the strength was sufficient, and France had been weakened, and the hope of successfully taking over England increased greatly.

Therefore, at this moment, Marin ’s purpose was to instigate Edward to attack France. Even attacking the coasts of northern and western France is a weakening of France.

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After discussing the harm caused by the marriage of close relatives, Marin led the topic to the current unstable political situation in France. Talking, Marin suddenly encouraged:

"Your Majesty, while the little French King has not yet taken control of the situation, let us send troops to take Calais back!"

"Recapture Calais?" Edward stunned, and then showed his eager emotions ...

The loss of the Calais Fortress was a major setback after Edward ascended the throne. You should know that the Calais Fortress has been England ’s only foothold on the European continent. After losing the Calais fortress, England's influence on the European continent was greatly reduced. Even the commercial outlets of England ’s wool exports were forced to move to Antwerp, and the flat white made Prince Philip of the Habsburg family earn a lot of taxes.

Therefore, it is indeed Edward's desire to recapture the Calais Fortress. The problem is-Edward is not confident ...

England has never been a strong army and has little confidence in the French army. You know, after the French captured the Calais fortress, they had 5,000 troops stationed in the city of Calais.

The French infantry's combat power is already greater than that of the United Kingdom. With the tall and strong walls of the Calais Fortress, England may not be able to conquer the Calais Fortress even if it has mobilized 20,000 troops. Besides, the French are not dead. During the siege, Paris will definitely send a large army to rescue. Unless, England can conquer the Calais fortress in a very short time. Otherwise, as soon as the Paris reinforcements arrive, the English will fail ...

"Oh, Your Majesty, when England ruled the Calais Fortress, did there not be secret passages in and out of the city? If there are such secret passages, we can send a team of elites into the city, open the gates, and then inside and outside Ah! "Marin suggested.

But Edward shook his head and said:

"Calais has no secret road to the city. When England used to control the Calais fortress, because the English warships had the confidence to control the pier and the north gate on the side of the pier. Therefore, we do not need the secret road to fully control. Calais Fort ... "

Marin was a little speechless, but he also knew that the English were indeed confident. Because the English navy can easily clean up the French navy (if it can be counted as a navy). However, the English did not expect Calais to be captured one day.

If it is normal, the English Army does not have the ability to conquer the Calais Fortress. If that was the case, Marin would not come to Edward anymore ...

I saw Marin smiled slightly and said:

"Your Majesty, under normal circumstances, the Calais Fortress is indeed difficult to overcome. But if I could send someone to open the sewer gate in the city and let a group of English soldiers enter the city?"

Edward was lost in thought ...

The iron gate of the sewer in Calais is at the northwest corner of Calais, some distance from the north and west gates. A group of English soldiers got in in time, I am afraid that they will soon be surrounded by French soldiers ...

So Edward shook his head and said:

"No, I have studied the map of Calais. The sewer gate is at the northwest corner of the city, far away from the north gate and the west gate. Moreover, there is a small French barracks near the gate. If the French are disturbed, even if they go in, The critics are also useless. Do you want to pry open the sewer gate in the middle of the night? The gate is less than 50 yards away from a small barracks of the French. It is said that in the middle of the night, the French will send people to monitor with torches The situation over the sewer gate. If there is any movement, the French will definitely check it out. If they warn, the French troops all over the city will come in ... "

Marin smiled and said:

"Under normal circumstances, of course it is. However, my people have been lurking in the city of Calais for a long time and found a situation that is-on a rainy night, the barracks responsible for guarding the sewer gates, the French do not stay on the wall People monitor. Because torches are easily extinguished by rain on rainy days. Moreover, the rain is loud on rainy days, which can just cover the sound of opening the gate ... "

"How do you open it? Pick the lock? Violent destruction? Such a sound should alarm the people in the barracks? Even if it rains, it is difficult to cover up ..." Edward questioned. In fact, this is one of the reasons why the French do not send people to vigil on rainy days. Because the iron gates of the sewers are very thick, and if they are violently destroyed, they are easily heard by the French in the barracks. And the pry lock ... there are 5 iron locks on that iron gate ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ are all very complicated locks ...

"Relax, Your Majesty, my people will never make too much noise while breaking the iron lock. By then, your people just have to drill in!" Marin said confidently.

His confidence comes from the legendary royal water, even if there are 5 large iron locks, he is also confident that he will erode within an hour. In the past, the iron gates of sewers in Paris were destroyed in this way, and the French did not understand how the iron gates were opened.

Fortunately, Marin's men took the sewer iron gate with the iron lock corroded by the royal water, so that the French could not see the picture of the iron lock corroded. This also led to the French thinking that the enemy had obtained the key of the iron lock and directly opened the iron gate. Today, several officials in charge of the iron gates of sewers are being interrogated by the French court. They are bitter in their hearts-obviously the keys are well preserved, so they blame them ...

Before the French could understand the secret of the sewer gate being opened, Marin decided to make persistent efforts to help the British recapture the Calais fortress.

As long as England recaptured the Calais fortress, the French would have been nailed with a nail on their back. If you want to do something else, it depends on whether the English have agreed or not ...