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Seeing that Prince Philip couldn't play coercive and changed his warm route, Marin was also speechless. However, the dignified Holy Roman Crown Prince came to him to cheat, which shows that the Habsburgs are also a little anxious.

On the Swiss side, the recent war situation has indeed been unfavorable to the Habsburgs. When the French sent troops to Italy, they also sent back 10,000 Swiss mercenaries, with the leader of the Swiss mercenaries, Marin's old friend Zieg, as the supreme commander.

After Ziggy returned to Switzerland with 10,000 Swiss mercenaries, the French withdrew thousands of the elite French army who had been disguised as Swiss militiamen. But Ziggy brought back more people, and they were all former veterans. As a result, instead of being weakened, the Swiss Resistance grew to 27,000 people. And Ziggy became the new leader of the 27,000 Swiss Resistance Army.

Faced with the 35,000 Habsburg army, Ziggy's 27,000 men seemed weaker. But this was not the case, Ziggy brought back old Swiss mercenaries, stronger than the original Swiss Resistance fighters.

The original more than 10,000 Swiss Resistance troops were not originally mercenaries, but Swiss mountain people who were forced to take up arms to resist after the Habsburgs returned to Switzerland. Although it is more fierce than ordinary mountain people, it is also limited. Fortunately, the French sent thousands of elites disguised as Swiss militia to help fight and block the Habsburg offensive. Otherwise, the western part of Switzerland would have been unified by the Habsburgs long ago.

Now, Ziggy has returned with 10,000 veterans, so that the strength of the Swiss Resistance has not been weakened, but strengthened.

Ziegy was not like the average Swiss mercenary leader, he was younger and more cunning. In the Battle of the Long Street, where he was hired by Marin to destroy the aristocratic republic of West Frisland, Ziegy was inspired by Marin's command methods and learned the tactics of ambush and outflanking.

Later, Ziegy quickly rose to prominence among the Swiss mercenary leaders by relying on ambush tactics and roundabout outflanking tactics with two knives. And over the years, those original Swiss mercenary bosses have been killed, and those who have died of illness have died. Then, after Zieg survived in the concentration camp as a young man, he suddenly found that he had become the leader of the Swiss mercenaries......

After taking over the Swiss Resistance, Ziegy changed the rigid frontal battle plan developed by the French aristocratic officers to a more flexible plan.

For example, during an attack on Lucerne, Zieg deliberately deceived Lucerne's defenders into chasing them out of the city. Then, with his reserves, he ambushed the pursuers in one fell swoop, so that Lucerne's more than 10,000 defenders lost nearly 4,000 men. Had it not been for the resolute decision of Lucerne's defenders to block the narrow valley road with a few wagons, the city of Lucerne might have changed hands by now.

After this battle, the Swiss Resistance began to seize the initiative, changed defense to offense, and made a move, a west, and the Habsburg army was very embarrassed.

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After suffering a loss, Emperor Maximilian I wrote to his son to complain, saying that he did not have enough strength in his hands now, and it would be good if he could say that Marin would send troops to help......

Of course, the emperor also complained. Because, he was also very aware of Marin's situation, and he didn't really send someone to ask Marin to send troops to help. And Ma Lin was able to give him a loan of hundreds of thousands of gold coins before, which was already very righteous.

But Crown Prince Philip is different, although he also knows Marin's difficulties, he doesn't intend to let Marin go so easily. After all, in the eyes of him, the young master of the empire, shouldn't Marin, as a young man raised by Maximilian I, contribute a little more to the great plans of the Habsburgs?

Therefore, he deliberately came to the door, putting on an ugly face and an unkind attitude, just to knock Marin and ask him to help him more or less. But how cunning is Marin? The reasons were one by one, and Philip was speechless. In desperation, Crown Prince Philip changed to take the warm route......

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Although he despises Crown Prince Philip's crappy little fresh meat acting skills, Marin also knows that since the young master has come to the door to cheat, it proves that the Habsburg family is indeed having a hard time. If you don't say anything about it, you will definitely be criticized. After all, in the eyes of the outside world, Marin did hold Maximilian I's thigh to the top. At this time, he had just sent 10,000 troops to help Edward, and if he did not help Emperor Maximilian I at all, he would definitely be despised......

Of course, he wouldn't really send troops to help the emperor. After all, it's too sensitive.

Therefore, Marin thought about it and decided to use some special methods to help His Majesty the Emperor of his old club......

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First of all, Marin naturally provided a batch of weapons to His Majesty the Emperor. Supplying weapons to friendly forces is a trick that has been played by countries in later generations, and it is also the safest. If you provide a weapon, you can make your allies feel friendly. Moreover, there is no need to send someone to death on your own side.

Marin may not have much else, but the number of weapons and gunpowder is still sufficient. Therefore, Marin directly prepared to support His Majesty the Emperor with 3,000 arquebuses to strengthen the defense of the Austrian army in Switzerland.

And because the domestic arquebus has been discontinued, the original inventory of arquebuses has also been given away (including to the Ming Dynasty). So, now the arquebus needs to be new.

However, at present, there is only one military factory in the North Sea Kingdom that produces arquebuses, and the arquebuses produced by that military factory are the imitation of the Rumi guns that Marin intended to sell to the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt......

Marin thought for a moment, as if the battle of the Ottoman Turks and the Egyptian Mamluks in the Dabik steppe in northern Syria would not break out until two years later......

Therefore, Marin decided to suspend the imitation of the Lu Mi gun and instead help His Majesty the Emperor forge the arquebus for defending the city......

At the moment, the Habsburg army was on the defensive, and if it was to defend the city, it was better to use arquebuses.

As for the production of arquebuses, Marin was also quite lazy - he directly asked people to reduce the length of the 2-meter Lumi gun to the normal 1.5 meters. Then, the arabesque-style pattern carving on the body of the gun was also omitted......

The reason for this magic change is that it is more conducive to the Habsburgs' defense of the city. Moreover, it is not easy for the Turks to see the origin of the muskets......

The barrel was shortened, which greatly facilitated the loading of ammunition for musketeers. After all, it is not easy to reload a 2-meter Lumi gun......

When the front-loading gun is loaded, the barrel of the gun is to be erected to facilitate the pouring of gunpowder. But the 2-meter-long Lumi gun is too exaggerated, and if the gun is upright, there are few people who can be more than 2 meters tall to reload this gun. Unless, they have to do the same tactics that people used to use Mushkert muskets – one shoots, one helps reload...... Moreover, the body of the gun must be tilted and supported by one person, which is very inconvenient......

And after Marin shortened the length of the gun from 2 meters to 1.5 meters, it was very convenient. When defending the city, people stand behind the battlements, and it is not suitable for the Lumi gun, which is too high and too long. Because, reloading such a long firearm with ammunition is easy to be killed by the enemy.

Therefore, the 1.5-meter-long arquebus was more suitable for the Habsburg army to defend the city.

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