However, Marin's mood did not last long. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 After occupying the city of Osnabrück, Marin left a thousand men and horses to garrison it, and continued to march southwest to the city of Münster with an army of 10,000 men and 10,000 people.

It was fine when he first left the city of Osnabrück, but when he crossed the border from the Episcopal State of Osnabrück into the southern part of the Bishopric of Münster, Marin sensed that something was wrong......

It turned out that on the territory of the Bishopric of Münster, the roads and bridges leading to the city of Münster were vandalized......

Obviously, Conrad, Bishop of Münster, did not welcome Marin's arrival.

However, this is not a big deal for Marin, although it is troublesome. Because, among the 10,000 people under his command, there is an engineering force of 2,000 people......

What does the engineering corps do? It was dedicated to the construction of fortifications and camps, as well as the building of bridges and roads. They have a very mature response plan for bridge destruction, road excavation and so on.

With a wave of his hand, these engineering units immediately removed shovels and other tools from the wagons and began to repair the road. And some went directly to logging and repairing bridges.

In order to be in a hurry, the bridges built by the engineering troops were of a simple type. For example, if the river is very narrow, the logs are placed directly on the banks of the river and planks are laid on them. If the river is too wide, the logs cut down are tied into rafts, which are then connected together to make pontoon bridges for the army to pass through.

In this way, although the road was destroyed, four days later, Marin arrived at the city of Münster with a large army and surrounded it.

Just after Marin had besieged the city of Münster, the Bishop of Münster, Conrad, sent a letter. In the letter, Bishop Conrad asked Marin angrily: "Why have you been at odds with my Rietbergs?" ”

"Can't get along with the Rietbergs? What do you mean? Marin was a little confused. I am robbing you of the right to rule, why is it that I can't get along with your family again? Moreover, the country of Ritberg is only a small country, probably only a few hundred square kilometers in size, and it is not worth paying attention to......

However, Schwartz on the side remembered something:

"Young Master, you seem to have forgotten the old things from a few years ago......"

"You mean?" Marin wondered.

"Elizabeth, the wife of Edshad I, the former tyrant of East Friesland, is the daughter of John I, Earl of Rietberg!"

"Ah...... I remember! However, didn't I send that Elizabeth back at the beginning? "At the beginning, Marin was bloodied in the East Friesian Lamber. However, considering the unspoken rule that you can't kill the nobles of other countries. Moreover, Elizabeth of Rietberg was also childless at that time, and Marin put her back.

"Yes, you sent her back, but you only sent her back after killing her husband......" Schwartz was a little speechless - you killed someone's husband, can you not make a feud?

In fact, Bishop Conrad is Princess Elizabeth's own uncle. However, when Marin captured East Friesland, Bishop Conrad had just become Bishop of the Episcopal State of Münster, and he had not yet taken control of the situation and was not able to organize an army to fight against Marin. Moreover, his niece was not killed, and he endured it at that time. Besides, his niece Elizabeth did not have descendants with Edsard I, and Edsard I was also killed. Even if he sent troops to retake East Friesland, it would be of no avail. For a widow who has no children cannot inherit the throne. After returning, Princess Elizabeth suffered from depression and no longer wanted to remarry, but entered a convent and became a nun.

At the beginning, Bishop Conrad was extremely displeased with Marin because of this incident and wanted to teach Marin a lesson. However, after the defeat of the 20,000-strong army of the previous Duke of Saxony, Albrecht, Bishop Conrad abandoned his plan to take revenge on Marin. After all, Bishop Conrad didn't consider himself better than Saxony.

However, Bishop Conrad didn't expect that after a few years, Marin, who had bullied his niece, would go through the Holy See and bully him...... This is simply against the Rietbergs......

Marin, who learned the truth, was also a little embarrassed. He really didn't specifically target the Rietberg family, but the other party was too coincidental and used as a stumbling block in his way, and Marin also took it easy to "move them away", which was really not intentionally targeted......

It's just that the people of the Rietberg family are really back, why Mao is always in front of Marin, who is the traverser and the protagonist, waiting to be moved?

The East Friesian Lamber Kingdom is indeed the family from which Marin's mother was born, although it was faked in the marriage of nobles, but the blood inheritance is true......

And then there's the Bishopric of Münster, who told you that it's just south of the East Friesan Lamberth, and it's still that big? If Marin wants to expand, of course, he has to choose neighboring countries. In this way, the territory is also easily connected, easy to manage, and easy to allocate resources in a unified manner.

If you choose a place where the territory is scattered for expansion, even if you get those territories, it will not be convenient. If nothing else, to issue a decree, you must first pass through the territory of another country. Even the delivery of grain and other materials has to pass through the territory of other countries.

Moreover, in this era, the nobles of various countries had the bad habit of setting up cards to collect taxes. If those territories are separated from the mainland by several countries, a truckload of grain back to the mainland may be subject to several toll taxes.

Therefore, Marin would rather choose to collide with a powerful country like Denmark, but also take the opportunity to take the Earl of Oldenburg, in order to expand his territory and facilitate management. Otherwise, if Marin were to get a territory in the interior of southern Germany, there would be no way to manage it well......

In the same way, Marin insisted on marrying Angela at the great risk of offending his predecessor, Alexander VI, in order to gain the support of Julius II, who was still in decline at the time, in order to gain the support of the Holy See and complete the expansion of the Bishopric of Münster. Even, in order to get the favor and help of Julius II, the father-in-law, Marin shamelessly slept with his sister-in-law Felis, just to be the only son-in-law of the pope, Julius II, and get all the resources alone.

Now, Marin's choices have been richly reported. The duel with Denmark, because of the support of the Hanseatic League's chief and deputy leaders, made Marin gain great diplomatic support. Otherwise, it would be really difficult for Marin to legally take possession of the Duchy of Schleswig. After all, the dozens of tickets brought to him by the two leaders of the Hanseatic League were no joke.

The investment in Julius II, who was in decline at the time, was a great success. The arrival of the Bishopric of Münster greatly increased the area under Marin's control. More than 12,000 square kilometers of land made Marin ecstatic. Plotting to seize such a large area of territory, and still having the legal support of the Holy See's endorsement, is simply an order of aggression and expansion......