Chapter 784: Secret troops
Shortly after the departure of Marin from Emden Port, Schwartz, who was originally responsible for staying behind, also began secretly gathering soldiers and horses in preparation for going south to the Principality of Cliff. After all, as I said before, Schwartz would take 20,000 troops south to fight for John II, Duke of Cliff, in the name of mercenaries.
At this time, shortly after the spring cultivation began, all of Europe was busy with spring cultivation. Even the Principality of Geddes who wants to send troops is busy plowing in spring. After the spring tillage is over, anyway, it is too early for the autumn harvest in October, which is just right for a war ...
Schwartz and Marin had planned beforehand-to take advantage of everyone's busy spring ploughing period to complete the mobilization plan without knowing it ...
It is not easy to send 20,000 troops to the south quietly without getting notice. In the end, the way Marin and Schwartz negotiated was to take the waterway ...
At this time, the small canal connecting the Ames and the Rhine in South Münster was completed. Marin decided to mobilize a large number of inland transport ships and quietly transport troops ...
Every riverboat is covered with a tarp so that soldiers can hide in the cabin without being discovered by others. Then, these ships walked away in low-key, quietly going south ...
Along the way, it was Marin's site. As long as you greeted in advance, there was naturally no daring to stop the ship and check it. Even when he arrived in South Munster ... Marin wrote a secret letter to Bishop Conrad, telling him not to take care of things on board ...
Dozens of people are hidden in the cabin of each small boat, get more boats ... It is not possible, you can also let the extra people take the land separately, and travel by day and night.
In fact, as long as you do not follow the prosperous business path, the chance of being seen by outsiders is very small. After all, this was an era when serfs could not leave the manor casually, and there were few foreigners on the road. Ordinary foreign spies have to be disguised as merchants and follow normal business methods. Therefore, as long as you avoid businessmen passing through many roads and take special paths, plus decentralization, the number of people per share is not large, you can still avoid people's attention.
After Schwartz arranged, he took 20,000 troops, boarded the ship, took the land by land, and began to go south in batches. As for the local guard work, it was naturally handed over to old Hoffman.
Although the old Huffman had no talents, the guard work was much more difficult than the leader's expedition. After several experiences, Old Huffman was familiar with it.
In fact, the old Huffman is not old at all, only in his early 50s, it is just a young and powerful age. Although the ability is limited, it is still capable of guarding several major cities with a group of soldiers.
As for the interior, Old Hoffman is not good at it, but Mrs. Mary understands ...
Of course, the usual interior of Mrs. Mary does not need to be dealt with. After all, there is Prime Minister Jeffrey in government affairs. Mrs. Mary ’s task was to look at Prime Minister Jeffrey, lest he take advantage of Marin ’s absence. After all, Jeffrey's demeanor is not too good.
In this way, the old Hoffman is in charge of the military, and Mrs. Mary supervises the government affairs. Even if Marin is absent, there will be no trouble in the country.
However, with the ability of the old Hoffman, at most it can only guard some important regions and towns such as East Friesland and Groningen. No matter how many areas, it is beyond his ability. However, Marin did not expect him to hold the entire Grand Duchy of the North Sea. As long as he could hold the core area of East Friesland, even if it was lost elsewhere, Marin would be able to take it back.
Moreover, Marin actually hopes that old Hoffman and Mrs. Mary will be more familiar with the process of staying in China. In this way, Marin can go abroad with confidence.
It is not necessary to go to other places, but the Ming Dynasty is definitely going to go. It was not that Marin wanted to worship the emperor and kneel to lick Daming, but Marin did have a strong curiosity about the people of the ancient Ming Dynasty. What does Emperor Zhengde look like? Marin wanted to know. There is also **** Liu Jin, who is also very famous. I do n’t know if it will be "Sunflower Collection" ...
In short, Marin must go to Daming Wave in his life. Moreover, he also intends to take a group of oil painting masters to Daming, and to emperor Zhengde, Liu Jin and other celebrities, use oil painting to truly record their appearance as a historical archive. Hundreds of years later, when making movies, those directors also have a reference, so they do n’t just look for actors to mess up ...
Of course, for those second directors who like to look for Niang Cano Xiao Xianrou as their starring role, Marin is helpless. Just like the "Jianjun Daye" on the street, the director tried to find a group of people who did not look like the prototype ... It is clear that these protagonists have photos of them, and there are also corresponding special actors. What are you looking for? The completely different little fresh meat comes to play ... feels paralyzed that the audience has no knowledge? So it ’s strange that the movie does n’t pounce ...
For a costume movie, you can just look for tall, short, fat, and thin ones. Because, those people don't have pictures to survive, you want to let anyone act. But it is obviously people who were decades ago, all of which have photos in the world. What you deliberately did not look like is completely insulting IQ ... Those martyrs whose uprising faces are as white as flour? To put it bluntly, in ancient times, it was not that there was no **** guy, such a white face, who had been opened as a rabbit rabbit and opened the backyard, all of them had **** fissures, and could they resist the revolution?
The anti-Japanese **** drama **** is all about men washing and blowing small white faces, women are not only white and beautiful, but also daring to wear avant-garde ... The most bizarre thing is-they are so beautiful to wear, those devils are still blind ... They are all **** guys, don't like flower girls? Therefore, Marin has always believed that the reason why "Bright Sword" is regarded as a classic in the anti-Japanese drama classics, in addition to the well-written plot, the good selection of actors is also the key. Just like Li Youbin's big and rough image, that is the true image of revolutionaries of that era, rough and stubborn. If you find a little fresh meat to play Li Yunlong, it is estimated that it will be played in minutes ... Nima ’s grown up like this, the whole group is probably thinking of you, and can you still be the group leader? You know, the soldiers are full of fire, and the sows are like Diao Chan ...
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Farther away ...
As an army commander, Schwartz also wanted to go south. However, he was the general that Marin was responsible for staying behind. If he disappeared, it would certainly be speculative. Especially over the Principality of Geddes, some people were sent to lurk in Aurich to observe the situation. Of course, their actions were monitored by the spies under Kohler.
Before starting, it was clear that the spies of the Principality of Geddes could not find Schwartz gone. Once this happens, Charles II, Duke of Geddes, who is suspicious by nature, will inevitably have suspicions. Therefore, Schwartz was going, but he could not let people know that he was gone.
Therefore, before he set off, Marin negotiated with Schwartz-a soldier with a very similar figure to Schwartz was selected from the army. Then, let him play Schwartz every day and go to the palace every day for business.
What if I do n’t look like it? This is easy-wear plate armor to work ...
The helmet of the Gothic plate armor is covered with a mask. As long as the mask is pulled down, no one can see the face. The stand-in brother, as long as he was posing as Schwartz, pulled off his mask and hurried off, so there would be no problem.
Then ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Schwartz's mount and several personal guards will also stay, escorting the substitute brother from Schwarz's mansion to the front yard of the palace every day. In the evening, **** him back to Schwarz's mansion ...
In this way, no one will know that Schwarz himself is no longer in Aurich. And the real Schwartz has secretly led troops south ...
In fact, Marin is also a plagiarism from later generations of Britain. During World War II, the British and American coalition forces wanted to engage in Normandy landings, but they were afraid that the Germans would see their true intentions. So he found a Lieutenant James who resembled the British commander Montgomery, swaying everywhere, successfully attracting the attention of Nazi German spies. The Germans made mistakes in their judgments, and then the Allied raids landed successfully ...
Of course, Marin hastily failed to find a warrior whose face resembled Schwartz. Fortunately, the helmet of this era had a mask. Just let it be put on the mask, ride Schwartz ’s horse, and surround Schwartz ’s personal soldiers It is still possible to deceive the spies with very low level of business in the Principality of Geddes ...
In this way, when the whole of Europe was busy plowing, Schwartz took 20,000 troops, either in batches or by boat, or landed south, to the Principality of Cliff. In Aurich, a substitute, wearing Schwartz's plate armor, riding Schwarz's war horse, under the **** of several Schwartz's guards, commuted to and from work every day, confusing outsiders ...
