Sweeping through these six countries can only be described as devastating. Moreover, in the true sense of the word, the only one who can fight against Marin's army is actually the Duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. The other countries are almost as weak as paper.

After all, in a few small countries, the regular army in peacetime is only one or two thousand people at most. This expedition basically brought all the regular troops to Beihai Country. Only three or two kittens remained in the country. In addition to the city walls, there are some old and sick people.

Even the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel had to rely on tall and sturdy walls and heavy cast-iron gates to defend itself. Otherwise, it is simply impossible to be an opponent of the Marin army.

Once Marin found a way to deal with the gates or walls, the nations were no different from papier-mâché......

Unfortunately, relying on the power of technology, Marin has concocted gasoline to deal with the oak gates and aqua regia against the cast iron gates, making the reliance of several countries meaningless.

However, after the battle, Marin feared that his easy way of dealing with the Oak Gate and the Iron Gate would cause concern among the nations. So, Marin spent a lot of money and sent spies to spread the news everywhere and carried out reverse propaganda......

As for how to reverse promotion? Naturally, it is to dilute the existence of aqua regia. In order to dilute the existence of aqua regia, Marin spent a lot of money to falsify the news, saying that the reason why he was able to quickly take Lüneburg, Wolfenbitel and Goslar, three fortified cities with cast-iron gates, was because there was an internal response in the city and helped open the gates......

Of course, those enemy troops who had seen Aqua regia corrode the iron gate with their own eyes, Marin controlled them. As long as there are no eyewitnesses, the news will not spread at will. As for their own soldiers? It must have been told a long time ago......

In addition, Marin also spent money on "public relations" on the issue of gasoline burning the oak gates, Marin asked his spies to claim that they had just piled up firewood and grass outside the gates and poured olive oil. Then, they burned the gates of the other party......

What the? You ask me why pouring a little olive oil on it can burn the city gates? That's not the problem of olive oil, it's that the gates of these countries are so old and in disrepair, so they are so easily burned......

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In fact, the two fake news spread by the Marin faction sound more like the truth. Because, people in this era still can't understand what aqua regia is, and they don't know that there is such a thing as gasoline that can burn in particular.

After all, at this time, Boyle, the ancestor of modern chemistry in Europe, had not yet been born (Boyle was born in 1627), so he had to wait for more than a hundred years.

Therefore, the Europeans of this era simply could not understand the principle of aqua regia corroding the iron door. A bad one can be advertised as evil witchcraft.

It is easy for people to be afraid of the unknown, and if people know about the existence of aqua regia and gasoline, it will definitely arouse fear in various countries. When the time comes, if someone has a heart to push it again, he will have to put a title of "demon" on Marin's head. You must know that Marin was almost slandered as the "spokesman of the devil" by Earl Gerdon because of the problem of "being in good spirits without sleeping" before the battle. If the aqua regia and gasoline were shown to the world, without Charlie, the Earl of Geldon, who had fled, the others would panic because of fear.

And once countries are afraid of the "black technology" in Marin's hands, they will definitely be afraid of Beihai State. Then, Marin, who is already relatively isolated, may be more targeted.

Therefore, in order not to cause panic in other countries, Marin had to spend a lot of gold and silver to eliminate the bad effects. Moreover, the tampered "version" also sounds more plausible and easier to believe.

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In fact, Marin's so-called "sweeping of the six countries" this time only occupied the capitals of these six countries, and did not completely occupy the borders of the six countries.

Not to mention these six countries, even the previously occupied Lüneburg and Lauenburg are only the capitals of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and the Duchy of Saxony-Launburg, and they are still far from fully controlling these countries.

Moreover, in these countries, most of the aristocracy, especially the small and medium-sized nobles, basically lived in the country estates, rather than in the cities.

Therefore, if Marin wants to fully control these 8 vassal states, he must send troops to the countryside to sweep and occupy the estates of all the nobles in order to complete his control over these 8 vassal states.

However, in the previous great battle that broke out in the border area of East Frysland and Oldenburg, most of the nobles of these eight countries were captured after the battle. After all, the aristocrats of this era are naturally officers. But whoever can go out on the expedition will surely lead the army to battle with the king. Only the members of the aristocracy who remained at home were very old or underage.

Moreover, the members of the aristocracy who were in their prime, when they went to war with the princes, also took away the strongest forces of their respective estates. Only the old, weak, sick and disabled who actually remained in the manor. Even, not necessarily left armed men.

Then, the next step is to sweep and control the entire rural areas of the 8 vassal states. Only by completing the control of the various noble estates can it be regarded as completely controlling these 8 vassal states......

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To this end, Marin personally sat in Goslar, and then scattered his seven or eight thousand cavalry, including Cossacks, black-shirted knights, and lancers of the First Army, and went door to door to "mobilize and do work" according to the materials and addresses found in the archives of various countries, and complete the control and occupation of the rural areas of the eight countries.

Anyway, those people left behind in the country manor at this time are old, weak, sick and disabled. Even if Marin only sent a small number of men, he would be able to take those estates.

But a huge problem now confronts Marin is that he is not running out of troops......

If he only defeated the enemy, his strength would be sufficient. However, if he sent men to occupy the entire territory of the eight vassal states, he would not have enough men.

You must know that the two Duchy of Braunschweig alone have more than 20,000 square kilometers, plus the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg, the Count of Ravensburg (including the original Count of Antonios), the Count of Lipper, the Count of Bentheim-Tecklenburg, the Kingdom of Gelden, and the smaller Kingdom of Ritberg, the total area is definitely more than 30,000 square kilometers. Want, sweeping the entire territory of the noble manors, the number of troops required is staggering. The point is, it's also a long time.

In desperation, Marin had no choice but to recruit mercenaries to help control the territory. Because, the main force under the command of Marin needs to go south......

What is Marin doing with the main force south? Of course, it is to scare the princes and the coalition army!

In order to gain the recognition of the vassal states, Marin had to assume the posture of alliing with the Habsburgs in order to frighten his opponents. Moreover, the troops brought with them must not be less. Otherwise, it will not frighten those princes......

However, the eight newly conquered vassal states also needed to be garrisoned. Otherwise, there will definitely be disobedient people who make trouble.

Of course, because the main armies of the eight vassal states were basically folded in the great battle of the Beihai Kingdom. The rest were also finished in the defense of the capital.

Therefore, even if there is a disturbance in these 8 vassal states, there will be no serious opponents.

Therefore, when Marin recruited new mercenaries this time, he did not recruit any veterans, but only recruited 10,000 novice German mercenaries. Moreover, the signed contract is relatively short, only 1 year contract.

In fact, at this time, the German experienced mercenaries were basically recruited because of the two major wars, plus the invasion of Morocco by the Spanish team. If Marin wants to recruit mercenaries at this time, he can only choose those novice mercenaries who have no experience.

Fortunately, because of the frequent wars in this era, there was no shortage of enthusiastic young Germans who were willing to join the battlefield. Therefore, Marin's operation to recruit mercenaries was relatively smooth.

Besides, Marin just hoped that these 10,000 novice mercenaries would be able to stabilize the situation of the newly occupied 8 vassal states when he led his troops south, and the difficulty was already very low.

Their only challenge may be that the unwilling nobles of the eight countries instigated the peasants to revolt. After all, the surviving regular armies of the 8 countries were sent to Oldenburg for centralized detention.

Before leaving, Marin arranged 2,000 veterans for the 10,000 newly recruited mercenaries. The role of these veterans is to help train these recruits. At the same time, it can be regarded as supervising these novice mercenaries to prevent them from messing around. After all, Marin hadn't been strictly screened this time, and he didn't know what these novice mercenaries were. Marin feared that there were scum among them who would kill the people, ruin the reputation of the Beihai Kingdom, and even anger the local people. Thus, he left 2000 veterans, equivalent to the role of overseer.

Moreover, before leading his troops south, Marin issued a proclamation in the eight newly occupied vassal states - there was no need to pay taxes this year, and all the grain harvested by the serfs could be kept for themselves......

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