Although it was impossible to attack East Frisia immediately because a large number of soldiers had to be given a holiday and let them go home to participate in the autumn harvest, Albrecht, Duke of Saxony, still planned to do something to create momentum for the attack on the Counties of East Frisia. More importantly, find an excuse to do it.
As a result, the Duke of Saxony sent a large number of people to start publicizing that Marin "seizes power by force, is a Tyrant" argument.
At the same time, the Duke of Saxony secretly sent people to search for the remnants of the Sexner family. However, Marin did too hard at the beginning, and directly shot, exterminated the Sexner family, and killed a large number of followers of the Sexner family. This makes it difficult for the Duke of Saxony to find a spokesperson...
The so-called spokesperson is an important figure in the overthrown previous dynasty, and it is best to have the family blood of the previous monarch. Such a character may not have much ability on his own. However, as long as he is there, he can give the Duke of Saxony an excuse to "help" him.
After all, the Duke of Saxony is also a veteran nobleman, so he must behave according to the rules...
In this way, after several months of searching, finally, Saxon found a suitable spokesperson...
This person is called Kanu, and he can be regarded as a member of the Sexner family. However, Kanu's father Jess is only the illegitimate son of Ulrich I, the first Earl of East Frisia, and has no inheritance rights. However, the heir of Ulrich I, that is, Jess' elder brother Enno I, still generously gave Jess the legal procedures to join the Sexner family, allowing him to use the Sexner family's The surname belongs to the side branch. Of course, because they are offshoots, they are not eligible to inherit the earl's position. Therefore, Jess was only arranged in the small town of Norden, the "land of dragon prosperity" of the Sexner family, as a small official responsible for collecting the "tax" of salted fish from fishermen. After Jess died, Kanu inherited the small official position of collecting salted fish taxes for the Earl.
When Marin's army swept away Aurich and Lyle, Kanu got news from a traveling merchant on his way to Norden on the North Sea. So, he packed up his belongings overnight and fled Norden, without having time to inform the members of the Sexner family in the city.
Because Kanu, as a petty official who collects salted fish, lives outside Norden. It was already night when he received the news from the traveling merchant. And Norden City has been closed, and he didn't bother to inform the clansmen in the city. Instead, he took his property and used his official status to force a family of fishermen to send him out to the sea across the sea to England...
In this way, Kanu became the only surviving male of the Sexner family to use the Surname Surname...
Later, when Kanu heard that the Duke of Saxony was looking for members of the Sexner family, Kanu happened to be in poverty in England, having spent all his money. So he found a trading post set up in London by a Saxon Hanseman merchant, identified himself, and took out a document to prove his identity.
The Saxon businessman was overjoyed and quickly sent Kanu to Groningen...
Then, Albrecht, the Duke of Saxony, began to regard Kanu as his trump card and began to promote Kanu's "legitimacy"...
In fact, Kanu is only the son of an illegitimate son, and is not in the succession sequence of the Sexner family at all. The descendants of the women of the Sexner family who married abroad are more qualified than Kanu to have the right of inheritance.
But the Duke of Saxony doesn't care about that. He just coveted the territory of the East Frisian County, and he didn't really want to help the Seksner family restore the country.
Therefore, when Kanu was boasted by the Duke of Saxony as the heir of the Sexner family, he was forced to secretly sign an unpublished document—in the document, Kanu first asked the Duke of Saxony to help restore the country, and then, the second half of the document The part expresses that Kanu is willing to sell the Counties of East Frisia to the Duke of Saxony for 10,000 gold coins...
Kanu was too poor to eat, so he was naturally at the mercy of the Duke of Saxony. Moreover, there will be 10,000 gold coins to take after the matter is completed, which is enough for him to be chic. Moreover, from a legal point of view, he does not have any qualifications to be an earl, and he has never thought of such a thing. This time I went to the Duke of Saxony only because I was too busy to eat. Therefore, he signed the document readily and agreed to cooperate with the Duke of Saxony in the early stage of publicity...
After Marin got the news, after checking the old information, he found that Kanu was only the son of an illegitimate son of the Sexner family. So, Marin sent someone to release the news and showed evidence that Kanu was just an illegitimate child. Back then, the Sexner family had males in the line of succession, but he killed them all.
However, the Duke of Saxony was determined to seek East Frisia, so he accused Marin of forging the evidence, and Kanu was an official member of the Sexner family.
Anyway, everyone is not very clear about the small country of East Frisia. Moreover, Kanu did come up with proof of family membership. That certificate was that Jace's elder brother, Enno I, took care of him and formally accepted him as a branch of the family. However, the document did not specifically state that Jess was an illegitimate child, but gave Ann the identity of a collateral child.
Therefore, the Duke of Saxony insisted that Kanu's father, Jess, was not the illegitimate son of Ulrich I, but the son of a cousin of Ulrich I, who belonged to the succession sequence. The Duke of Saxony insisted that the evidence that Marin presented to prove that Jess was an illegitimate child was forged by Marin... At the same time, the nobles of the Saxon family all voiced their voices and all believed that the certificate presented by Marin was forged...
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Later, Marin didn't bother to argue. Anyway, no matter what he says, the Duke of Saxony and his allies will never admit that they are determined...
Therefore, Marin simply began to integrate the army and actively prepare for war...
During his time in Spain, the newly recruited 5,000 soldiers, under the training of the officers, were already very good. At least, discipline is very strict.
Moreover, this time on the battlefield, there are 5,000 veterans at the front, and these 5,000 recruits are only used as a reserve team. Therefore, there is no such thing as recruits being attacked and causing crashes. This kind of thing can only happen when the recruits are put at the forefront.
To Marin's surprise, the 800 black-shirted knights trained by Steindorf were also very good at riding and shooting with muskets. At least, it works well when used to shoot phalanxes. Of course, the price paid was that the black shirt knights consumed a lot of gunpowder and lead bullets.
Fortunately, Columbus brought back 30 tons of saltpeter, and after Marin bought enough sulfur and charcoal, he ordered people to process 40 tons of gunpowder. So much gunpowder is absolutely enough.
Even at the same time as the autumn harvest, Marin asked the musketeers to practice shooting hard. In order to allow the musketeers to adapt to the tense atmosphere on the battlefield and avoid the strange incident of American musketeers "stuffing more than 20 lead bullets into the barrel but no gunpowder" during the Civil War, Marin found a team of soldiers. Throw mud balls at the musketeers on the sidelines to interfere with the musketeers' shooting...
The mud ball will not really hurt these musketeers, but it can simulate to a certain extent the scene of musketeers being attacked and disturbed on the battlefield. To be a qualified musketeer does not mean that you have to be excellent in your usual training, but also that you will not make mistakes due to tension and interference from the enemy on the battlefield. Among them, the most fatal mistake is forgetting to load gunpowder and stuffing lead bullets into the barrel... If such a thing happens, it will be very troublesome to deal with. Because, after the buckshot is pressed to the bottom, it is difficult to take it out. If you don't take it out, you can't continue shooting. Because the lead bullet will block the fire hole, and then pour gunpowder into it, it will not be ignited by the fire hole...
Therefore, Marin asked some soldiers to interfere with the musketeers by throwing mud balls, just to test whether they would make mistakes in the face of troubles and threats.
Sure enough, many musketeers made mistakes in their busy schedule under the test. Some musketeers, because of nervousness, really forgot to load gunpowder and pressed lead bullets into the barrel...
Fortunately, this is just an adaptation training. After many drills, the situation has improved a lot. It's just that, every time the training ends, many musketeers are bruised and swollen by the mud balls. Although the mud ball is not fatal, it still hurts when it is hit on the face...
At the beginning, those musketeers were hit by the mud ball and screamed. By the end, they had ignored the mud ball's attack. Even if I got hit, I continued to reload my own ammunition, and I didn't make many mistakes...
In addition, the newly formed artillery unit also started a lot of shooting training after having enough gunpowder. Fifty bronze muzzle-loading three-pounders have all been cast. The speed of the iron mold casting method is not limited. It is fast to manufacture bronze cannons, and it does not affect the quality.
In order for the army artillery to quickly form combat effectiveness, Marin mobilized 50 experienced old artillerymen from the navy and the fort on Texel Island. With these old artillerymen, these novice artillerymen can also form combat effectiveness as soon as possible...