Chapter 312: George defeated
Time has entered September, East Friesland's autumn harvest is earlier than other countries, so the autumn harvest is coming soon. In order to speed up the autumn harvest, Marin intends to send the garrison to participate in the autumn harvest, so as not to encounter rainy weather, causing the wheat to rot in the ground.
However, just as Marin deployed the autumn harvest, an urgent report came from the western border—George Duke of Saxony, with more than two thousand cavalry, fled into the western border in a frantic manner. At present, the northern border defense forces are intercepting on the west bank of the Ames River. Seemingly eager to escape, Duke George made a request for transit.
It was said that George was also unlucky, and it was difficult to assemble the 15,000 elite army and the army of the Duchy of Geddes. Unexpectedly, while the two sides were fighting fiercely, suddenly an enemy reinforcement came from the south, taking advantage of their own exhaustion and killing the Saxon army by surprise. In this way, the Saxon army, which did not fall down, suffered a big defeat and was hunted down by the Principality of Geddes. Finally, less than 3,000 people fled to Groningen.
Subsequently, the army of the Principality of Gede Si besieged Groningen. The walls of Groningen were tall and strong, and the gates were replaced with iron gates. Coupled with the escape from George, most of them were high-tech saxon heavy cavalry, but they were not worried about being defeated by the army of the Principality of Geddes.
However, Groningen has insufficient food reserves ...
Before, George was confident to defeat the army of the Duchy of Geddes. He never thought Groningen would be under siege. Therefore, there is not much food stored in the city of Groningen. Most of the food brought to the front was taken away by the Gedesi army.
So, George, who was stalking Groningen, encountered a food crisis ...
In desperation, George took the army, taking advantage of the night, with his elite cavalry, and forcibly broke away from the encirclement of the Duchy of Geddes. After losing and defeating the elite cavalry, it finally broke into the territory of East Friesland.
However, the eastern border of East Friesland is heavily guarded, especially the ferry crossing on the Ames, which is blocked by special bunkers. Duke George had no choice but to ask for transit. Otherwise, if he is such a person, if Marin sends all the soldiers to intercept, he will definitely be finished.
Fortunately, Duke George was the cousin of Emperor Maximilian I. Therefore, George believes that it is unlikely that he will be detained by Marin. After all, both parties reached a written peace agreement before.
The news reached Aurich that Marin had indeed moved to seize George in exchange for the idea of West Frisian sovereignty. However, in order not to be opposed by all princes, Marin gave up the seductive idea of detaining George. After all, the two sides are not in a state of hostility. Otherwise, it is reasonable to seize the other party.
In the end, Marin approved George's request to take his 2,000-plus cavalry under his command.
However, Marin was still puzzled as to why the powerful Geddes army let George go. Because if the Gedesi army seized George, he could force George to cede West Friesland ...
So, Marin sent excellent students from the spy school to investigate the news.
Soon, the news came back ...
It turned out that it wasn't the Geddes army that didn't help, but George's luck was so good ...
The victory of the army of the Principality of Geddes is in sight, and Groningen will soon be won, but there are internal problems. It turned out that Fyskefrijheid, the governor of the former Frisian aristocratic republic, saw that victory was imminent, and after taking over Groningen, he still controlled himself and regained control of the noble republic of Friesland, but formed an alliance with the Principality of Geddes and served as Charles Duke Charles The world is the leader.
But who is Charles II, Duke of Geddes? That is an ambition! Will the meat in his mouth spit out? As a close friend of Charles II, Marshal Bonitz, the commander of the Geddes army, categorically rejected the request of Governor Fyskefrijheid, stating that the Geds army would be stationed in Groningen, "instructing" Governor Fyskefrijheid to manage the Frisian noble republic.
In this case, it is equivalent to using Fyskefrijheid as a puppet governor. Later, in the noble republic of Friesland, it was actually Charles II, Duke of Geddes, who had the final say. It's just that there is a brand of Frisian Noble Republic on the outside. And Governor Fyskefrijheid will only be a decoration in the future.
Although Governor Fyskefrijheid's ability is mediocre and a little silly, he hasn't been silly yet. He knew that Charles II had finally uncovered the mask of hypocrisy and was ready to tear his face.
As a result, Governor Fyskefrijheid took Baron Leeuwarden, Ztl, and his first general, Sivag, with the remaining 3,000 West Frisian Resistance Army, and suddenly escaped ...
Charles II, Duke of Geddess, needed Governor Fyskefrijheid to be the leader of the world and fool other countries. Where would he let them escape? Therefore, Bonitz also sent a large army to chase.
Unexpectedly, the Frieskefrijheid Governor, Baron Zütel of Leeuwarden, and the West Frisian Resistance Army led by Siwag, although not powerful, had an amazing escape speed.
In desperation, Bonitz sent an army to catch up, and relaxed the siege of Groningen. Then, when George, Duke of Saxony, led his men to break through, half of the main force of the Duchy of Geddes was not there. Therefore, Duke George was able to break through successfully. Otherwise, George might be a captive of the Geddes army at this time ...
Marin had to sigh ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ George, although a little low energy, but luck is really good. If captured by the army of the Principality of Geddes, it is inevitable to be forced to sign a humiliating cession of land agreement like Hans of Denmark.
However, even if he escaped, it would be of little use. Because the army of Gedsi is really strong. Even if George struggles with a large number of allies, it is difficult to win.
And Marin is planning to wait for George to taste the failure again and seek to buy West Frisian ...
In fact, it is not impossible for Marin to send troops to capture West Friesland. However, it was Maximilian I who sold West Friesland to the Principality of Saxony.
Marin, as a member of the emperor's faction, under the staff of Maximilian I, was not good at tearing his face and forcibly seizing West Friesland. Otherwise, Marin, who lacks allies in her own right, is really about to become an orphan. If George formed an allied army and fought against him, George ’s army was nothing, and he was afraid that Denmark, Saxony and Frederick III and Brandenburg ’s elector Joachim I would take advantage of the crew to build an extremely large coalition. Even the army of Maximilian I may be within the coalition.
By that time, I really became a lonely man ...
Therefore, Marin ’s plan for West Friesland was to wait until George, Duke of Saxony, found that he really could not beat the Principality of Geddes, and then, according to the terms of the “preemption right” in the peace treaty signed before Frisian ownership was bought. Then, send troops to drive away the army of the Principality of Geddes and monopolize West Friesland ...
As for abandoning the covenant? Although he privately formed an alliance with the Principality of Geddes, he did not sign an alliance. Therefore, the two are not legitimate allies. At that time, even if he stabbed the Principality of Geddes, he would not be considered a ally ...
