Chapter 892: 10,000 barrels of maple syrup plan

To the best of Marin's knowledge, from Newcastle to Edinburgh, there is actually only one main road similar to the Roman Boulevard. At the beginning, the Scottish army also went south along this avenue.

Under normal circumstances, James IV returned northward, and certainly followed this path. However, if James IV became suspicious and feared that Edward would intercept him, he might change lanes. After all, there is more than one road going north. If the army marches, it can only take this avenue. But James IV only brought 5o knights, you can choose other paths.

Therefore, in order to force James IV to take the road, Marin decided to let the Robin Hood rogue group send out horse thieves to commit crimes on several other roads, except for the main road. In this way, after England sent James IV to the border, James IV just wanted to take a small path, and the general of the Scottish border guards would certainly dissuade.

Today, Scottish forces are stretched, and only a small number of troops are stationed near the road. As for those trails, no troops can be stationed at all. Therefore, it is reasonable for the Robin Hood bandit to choose to commit crimes along the path. If this news reached James IV's ears, he certainly knew how to choose.

However, Marin also worried about James IV's brainstorming and refused to follow suit. So he ordered that the Robin Hood bandit not only rob on the road, but also destroy the roads and bridges as much as possible. In this way, the roads and bridges were destroyed, and James IV had to take the road.

When going the road, Marin estimated that James IV and his party must be very vigilant to prevent being intercepted in a place not far from the border area.

Conversely, in the second half of the journey, when you are close to Edinburgh, you will relax ...

This is also human nature. When approaching the enemy's site, you must be alert. But if it is close to home, it is easy to relax.

In ancient Chinese history, there were many people who used these words to fight in ambush. But in Europe, the strategy has not yet risen, and everyone is still very weak. This method of using the enemy's psychology is still very rare.

Therefore, Marin intends to send Kahn to take his men and find a suitable roadside mountain forest in the second half of the road from the Scottish border to Edinburgh to fight an ambush against James IV ...

Most of Scotland is mountainous, and around Edinburgh is the southern lowlands of Scotland. However, a little further south, it is mountainous terrain. Marin intends to fight an ambush in the mountainous area that has not entered the plains around Edinburgh. After all, the mountainous area is suitable for Tibetan soldiers. After killing people, it is easy to run. To this end, Marin will also specially prepare a batch of highland horses suitable for walking on mountain roads, for use by Kahn and others afterwards.

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In addition, in order to prevent the enemy knights from running away in the chaos, Malinte also asked the forging plant to forge a batch of new plate armor. These plate armor are all in the shape of French plate armor, but the difference is that the outer part of the plate armor has been carburized and double-quenched with oil and salt, which has greatly improved the performance of the plate armor.

Moreover, French-style plate armor is very popular in Europe. It was the Scottish army, which used the French plate armor. Why? Because many of the plate armour of the Scottish army was simply supported by the French.

France has always regarded the Kingdom of Scotland as an ally. Because the Scots put pressure on England in the north, so that England can not let go of France and France. Therefore, the French are very willing to invest in Scotland and support some plate armor, which is really nothing. Even, in the original history, James IV was to ease the invasion of France against France, and he personally led the soldiers south to attack England, and then died on the battlefield ...

Therefore, let Kahn and others wear French-style plate armor, it is easy to confuse the audio-visual. It may even be regarded as an internal rebellion.

And Marin also made people think so, so he started training Kahn's Scots ...

"Oh! This mountain was opened by me, and this tree was planted by me. If I want to go from now on, I will leave to buy money (Scots)." Marin found a North Sea Chamber of Commerce spy who knew Scots and taught Kahn to speak the Scots version Robbery.

However, out of bad taste, Marin made these remarks into the opening remarks of a Chinese traitor.

Then, Kahn followed with a grueling face to learn these Scots versions of Huaxia slang ...

Marin's request to Kahn and the Spike Commando is that only Scots should be spoken during the whole process, German is not allowed, and horse feet are not exposed.

Moreover, the main purpose of this interception is to kill James IV. As long as James IV is killed, as for the other knights, it doesn't matter if you let go of one or two. Anyway, Kahn and others wore a full set of French-style plate armor and also spoke Scots. Paralyzed, without Holmes' grandpa's grandpa being born, I don't believe those Scots can infer.

You know, Marin dispatched the Spike Commando for confidentiality. If not for confidentiality, just use a musket. In the face of a musket, plate armor is of little use, and it is more convenient to intercept it. But with a musket, it is easy to be suspected. Without a musket, who can guess?

After all, the European plate armor covers the face. Faceless, still wearing French plate armor ...

"No! The mace is a special weapon for the mace commando, it is a loophole!"

Marin quickly found a loophole and made adjustments-the selected mace commandos began to use the more popular European hammers and tomahawks against plate armor. In this way, the concealment is even higher ...

Exactly, there are still months to go. Taking advantage of this time, these people can adapt to the use of warhammers and tomahawks, so as not to reduce their combat power during combat ...

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Just as Marin was busy killing James IV, Garland on Cape Breton Island sent a messenger to come back and asked Marin to send a group of people to the maple sugar collection next spring.

After seeing the collection of maple syrup in the spring, Garland's brain came alive.

At the beginning, because of insufficient preparation, and because the latter part of the collection period, Garland only collected more than 1oo barrels of maple syrup, most of them were taken away by Marin. Seeing the second half of the year, Garland decided that he must collect enough maple syrup next year ...

There are too many sugar maple trees in Canada and they are everywhere. Before going through modern times, the Canadian jungle basically walked a few steps before encountering a sugar maple tree. If you want to collect maple sugar, as long as you have enough manpower and tools ...

Therefore, next spring, Garland intends to collect more than 10,000 barrels of maple syrup ... it is purified maple syrup, not unpurified maple syrup ...

In general, a barrel of maple syrup weighs about 2oo pounds. The maple syrup from an old sugar maple tree can be filled in a bucket. But a barrel of maple syrup can only extract about three pounds of maple syrup. If you want to make up a bucket of maple syrup, you need to collect maple syrup on more than 30 sugar maple trees ... and to get 10,000 buckets of maple syrup, you must collect maple syrup on more than 300,000 sugar maple trees. juice……

Of course, the number of sugar maples is not a problem. After all, the most important thing in Canada is the sugar maple. The problem is, Garland lacks manpower and tools ...

Collecting sap on more than 300,000 sugar maple trees ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ plus refining maple syrup requires a lot of manpower. Moreover, collecting sap requires a lot of wooden barrels and pipes.

Fortunately, the pipe can be made by the carpenters under Garland. But the barrel is very difficult. There are so many wooden barrels in America that they are everywhere. Iron hoops or copper hoops that can hoop barrels, and the dry oil required to make wooden barrels (Europe has no tung oil, only linseed oil is used) are very scarce.

Therefore, Garland not only asked Marin to support his collection of workers this time, but also needed a large number of iron hoops or copper hoops for the barrel hoop. And n barrels of linseed oil used to make barrels. And iron cones for drilling trees ...

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In fact, Garland had already negotiated with Marin and asked the Indians to help them collect maple syrup. Then, they were refined into maple syrup by Garland people. Then, as long as Garland exchanges them with salt, cloth, glass beads and other commodities.

To this end, Garland also sent a number of messengers who understood Indian language this year to board the Big 6 of the Americas and meet with those Native Indian tribes.

Enticed by the array of European goods, most Indian tribes agreed to cooperate with Garland. But there is a problem-the Indians do not know how to collect maple syrup, nor do they have the right tools ...

Therefore, next year's maple syrup collection, Garland needs a group of workers to give demonstrations to those Indian tribes. At the same time, they should be provided with a large number of wooden barrels and wooden pipes, as well as iron cones for drilling trees and other tools.

After the beginning of the following year, those Indians who mastered the technology and possessed the tools did not need anyone to show them. At that time, Garland sent someone to buy maple syrup directly, and then shipped back to Cape Breton Island for refining. Finally, barrel the finished maple syrup back to Europe ...

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