The military operations of the Duchy of Guedes were apparently supported by France. In order to ensure the success of the operation, Charles II, Duke of Guedes, sent a letter to King Louis XII of France, asking him to support the actions of the Duchy of Guedes.

Louis XII in principle supported the Duchy of Guedes in taking the 17,000 Swiss mercenary prisoners of war, and if the Duchy of Guedes really recaptured those Swiss prisoners of war, then the anti-Habsburg camp would be greatly enhanced.

It's just that France has just suffered huge losses in the expedition to England, and its vitality has been greatly damaged. Therefore, Louis XII was not willing to confront the Habsburgs head-on. Therefore, Louis XII's decision was to increase military assistance to the western Swiss cantons to help them repel the Habsburg attack.

In this way, the Habsburgs were able to focus on Switzerland before the Duchy of Gedus, and neglect the defense of the Netherlands, giving the Duchy of Gedes an opportunity to send troops.

To this end, King Louis XII of France sent 10,000 French soldiers, dressed in the strange cut-out clothing of the Swiss, into several western Swiss cantons, fought with the Swiss resistance, and also launched several counter-attacks against the weak points of the Habsburgs' territory......

This trick really attracted the attention of the Habsburgs, and according to the reconnaissance of the Duchy of God's spies in the Netherlands, the Netherlands, to which the Habsburgs belonged, sent about three or four thousand men south, apparently to support the Swiss battlefield......

Of course, this information is not wrong. Because, indeed, the Habsburgs sent three or four thousand troops from the Netherlands south to support the Swiss battlefield. After all, the French supported the Swiss army of 10,000, which greatly increased the pressure on the Habsburgs on the Swiss battlefield, and it was normal to draw reinforcements from the Netherlands.

As for the actual 17,000 Swiss mercenary prisoners of war, they were secretly taken by Maximilian I to the Count of Zeeland near Ghent, the administrative center of the Austrian Netherlands. Zeeland is an island group at the mouth of the Rhine, rich in water and swampy. Maximilian I sent the 17,000 Swiss mercenary prisoners of war there, and in addition to security reasons, he also held the prisoners to build windmills and extract water from the swamps to obtain fertile arable land. The idea of pumping water with windmills has actually been around in the Netherlands for a long time. But what really attracted the attention of the Habsburgs was because Marin promoted windmill pumping on a large scale in East Friesland, and obtained tens of thousands of eugram arable land, which stimulated the Habsburgs. Today, with exactly 17,000 free laborers in place, the Habsburgs also intend to learn from Marin, using windmills to drain water on a large scale and obtain fertile arable land from the marshes......

According to Marin, when the swamp is drained, it becomes a fertile grain field. This is well founded, because, most of the marshlands are rich in peat. In addition, because of the activities of fish and shrimp, the carcasses of fish and shrimp are deposited, which is also rich in phosphorus. Therefore, when such land is reclaimed, it is fertile arable land. Don't be like Marin to reclaim tens of thousands of eugrams, even if you reclaim thousands of eugrams, the Habsburgs will make a lot of money. After all, in the absence of Marin's unique fertilizer technology, swamplands, a naturally fertile area, are fertile land, not barren land. Now that the price of grain in Europe is so high, even according to the old grain production, the net income brought by 10,000 eugram arable land is more than 100,000 gold coins per year. This was definitely good news for the financially struggling Habsburgs.

Under the leadership of Marin's former subordinate Frenzberg, the Austrian army of the Habsburgs was overwhelming in Switzerland. Today, the Austrian army occupies most of the Swiss region of Graubünden, St. Gallen, Zurich, Aargau, Schwyz, Uri, Walden, Lucerne, and more. Today, Wrenzberg is leading a large army in the siege of Bern. If the canton of Bern is taken, the Swiss resistance will be essentially over.

In general, the Swiss Union has two allies – the cantons of Zurich and Bern. Of these, the canton of Zurich was originally the strongest. However, most of the mercenaries from the canton of Zurich were sent to Lübeck and were captured by Marin. finally ushered in his release, but in the blink of an eye, he was captured by the Habsburg army of Maximilian I......

Therefore, the originally strongest canton of Zurich was taken by the army led by Frenzberg when the local army was empty. Then, the canton of Bern became the leader of the Swiss Union.

In fact, Bern had lost a lot of troops in previous wars and was no longer able to fight the Habsburgs.

However, the canton of Bern is not far from France. Moreover, the western part of the Bern region is French-speaking and politically biased towards France. Thus, the canton of Bern also received the unsparing support of the French.

When he heard the information that the Habsburgs were attacking Switzerland, King Louis XII of France immediately sent 5,000 French troops, dressed in Swiss cut suits, and joined the defense of Bern.

However, in the face of the Spanish phalanx mastered by Frentzberg, the remaining mixed corps of Swiss mercenaries and French troops were invincible and could only retreat to the big cities.

Today, the eastern German-speaking part of Bern fell largely to the Habsburg army in Flensberg. Only the city of Bern has not yet fallen, and the French-speaking area west of Bern has not fallen into the hands of the Habsburgs for the time being.

However, the Habsburg army had little interest in the countryside of Bern. Why? Because Bern is a mountainous state, it is mainly located in the Bernese Oberland. The terrain is rugged and not very suitable for agriculture. Before the rise of industry, Bern was a chicken-ribbed region. Although Bern was an important producer of Swiss watches, there is no watch industry in the Bern region today.

The reason why the Bern region later became a center of horology was because Calvin banned the wearing of expensive gold and silver jewelry and jewelry after the Swiss Reform. But people are used to wearing jewelry, and they are not used to wearing something. It just so happened that in the late 16th century, the watch industry began to rise, and pocket watches appeared. As a result, the Swiss began to produce clocks and watches, and it became popular to wear pocket watches on their bodies as accessories for B...... In this way, it does not violate the Calvinist religious rules, and it can be pretended to be B...... Therefore, many Swiss pocket watches were made of gold in the early days...... After all, what isn't gold is not enough to hold B...... In the end, because of the long history of watches, Switzerland naturally became a country rich in clocks......

The reason why Swiss gold watches became famous all over the world is because from the beginning, the Swiss paid great attention to the practicality and effect of clocks...... Over the centuries, Swiss gold watches have become synonymous with practicality and B-fitting, and are very popular with people in the B-fitting world......

Of course, that was the Bern of later generations. The current state of Bern is a poor mountain canton, and agriculture is not good. And the largest source of income in the state is the commission earned by the mountain people as mercenaries......

Therefore, for the Habsburgs, the most valuable part of the canton of Bern is the city of Bern. After all, many mercenary officers in the canton of Bern bought property in the city. The occupation of the city of Bern is equivalent to obtaining more than half of the property of the canton of Bern......

However, the French were clearly not happy to see Bern fall to the hands of the Habsburgs. So, until then, Louis XII had been supporting the canton of Bern and several other western Swiss cantons, allowing them to resist the expansion of the Habsburgs. If the canton of Bern falls, I am afraid that the remaining states will not be able to withstand it. At that time, the Habsburgs would occupy all of Switzerland and have a direct border with France. And this is something that the Kingdom of France would never want to see. Therefore, Louis XII directly sent 10,000 troops this time to support the Swiss resistance. Although it was not enough to defeat the Habsburg army, it was barely possible to hold on to the current gains.

Of course, the actions of the French can be concealed from the Habsburgs, but they cannot be concealed from the North Sea Kingdom, which has eyeliner in the French royal palace. When Kohler sent information about Paris to Schwartz, who was in the Duchy of Clifford, Schwartz was overjoyed. Because, he knew, the French sent 10,000 troops to support Switzerland, then, in the subsequent war here, the French would not be able to support too many troops. Even if it can send troops, it will be able to deal with the Beihai army. But will the French send troops without certainty? No! So, this war is stable......