The collective substitution method led by Schwartz and Sauer was implemented very smoothly, and on the side of the Duchy of Brabant, the members of the Habsburgs who managed the Duchy had already received a secret order from Maximilian I, and they were very cooperative with the actions of the North Sea State. After all, the Duchy of Guedes, in collusion with France, was itself an enemy of the Habsburgs. What makes the enemy unlucky, the Habsburgs must be willing to do.

Schwarz's troop movement was also very smooth, and as expected, the troops of the Duchy of Gedes had gathered in the previous Duchy of Des, and the monitoring of the Rhine was naturally lacking in manpower. In addition, troop carriers are day and night, making it even more difficult to detect.

In fact, the river patrol officer in the Lower Guedes area of the Duchy of Guedes knew that there were boats passing in the middle of the night. However, they all became civilian ships for tax evasion. In this era, in order to avoid toll tax, there are indeed many ships traveling at night. Moreover, these tax evasion boats, like the smugglers of later generations, are a group of ruthless people. If you don't mobilize enough people, you may be beaten to death by these mobs who evade taxes. Therefore, a certain tax collector of the Lower Gedes Division, who accidentally discovered that a ship was crossing the border in the middle of the night, chose to turn a blind eye. This unintentional act of his also completely declared that the Duchy of Gedes was hopeless.

After passing through the Rhine section of the Duchy of Guedes, the fleet arrived at the port in the Duchy of Brabant. Then, with the support of the Habsburg army, 3 kilograms of Principality of River infantry and 1,000 musketeers of the North Sea Kingdom directly and rudely waded through the water to buy time.

Then these people changed into the clothes and flags of the borrowed Habsburg army and began to pocket mud...... After loading the sediment, the bags were placed on the borrowed vehicle, and they looked indistinguishable from the grain convoy.

Of course, the pockets on the car were not all filled with mud and sand, as well as the muskets and ammunition of the musketeers of the North Sea Kingdom. As for the weapons of the infantry of the Duchy of Cliver, there is no need to hide it. Because, most of this "grain transport team" was supposed to be an infantry escorting grain and grass, and should have carried weapons......

When the so-called "grain convoy" arrived at the Parson concentration camp in the Duchy of Brabente, the agents of the Duchy of Godes, who had arranged near the camp, were taken aback. They hurried to report back to the country - a team of 2,000 men escorted a large amount of grain and grass into the concentration camp......

Charles II, Duke of Gedes, who received the urgent report, was also taken aback, and the army of Gedes, which had already been prepared, almost stopped preparing to attack.

Soon, however, information came from the Duchy of Brabant that the convoy of the grain convoy did not stop, but left......

On the surface, the Brabant Parson concentration camp was guarded by about 4,000 "Habsburg troops". If you add 2,000 people, you will increase the number of troops by almost half. If 6,000 men were to guard the camp, even if the Duchy of Gedes planned to send 14,000 troops, it would take a long time to take it.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. And most importantly - Charles II, Duke of Guedes, thought that the Habsburgs had discovered his little move......

If the Habsburgs had been prepared and had increased their troops, the Duchy of Gedes might not be able to take the concentration camps for a short time. If the concentration camp cannot be taken in a short time, there will be two dangers - one is that the Habsburgs may send reinforcements to relieve the siege; Second, they were afraid that the defenders of the concentration camp would massacre "Swiss prisoners of war...... In desperation, the camp guards chose to slaughter the prisoners of war before the camp was breached, and they were in vain...... Fortunately, the soldier of the food convoy left......

But soon, the grain convoy appeared again...... Then, again......

"Whew—" Charles II, Duke of Geddes, finally breathed a sigh of relief. The previous big ups and downs were too exciting, which made him a little difficult to accept.

Immediately, he began to rejoice:

"Ahaha, what a surprise! Unexpectedly, the other party actually sent so much food. In this way, we will not only be able to capture those Swiss mercenaries, but also earn a lot of food! It just so happens that the army's food consumption is huge, and the Habsburgs have also relieved me of the burden of expenses! ”

"Congratulations to the Duke, even God has helped you!" Bonitz, the supreme military governor of the Duchy of Gedes, patted his ass.

It's just that they don't know that the two "grain transport" operations right under their noses actually replaced all the 4,000 "defenders" in the concentration camp. The previous "defenders" were fake, but the current defenders are serious......

In the following period, the Duchy of Gedesi and the Beihai Kingdom launched large-scale reconnaissance respectively. The target of the Duchy of God's spies was whether there were any Habsburg troops nearby. The direction of their reconnaissance was the area west of the junction between the Upper Guedes area of the Duchy of Guedes and the eastern border of the Duchy of Brabant. After all, the Habsburgs' territory was in the west, and the army could only appear in the west......

And the scouts under the command of Sauer of the North Sea Country, the target of the reconnaissance is - whether the Duchy of Gedes has seen the cat and whether it will continue to operate......

Eventually, both sides achieved satisfactory reconnaissance results - agents of the Duchy of Guedes reported that there were no large Habsburgs nearby; And the result of the reconnaissance of the scouts of the North Sea Country was that the Gedesi people did not find anything abnormal, and the operation was as usual......

Now that the reconnaissance results are satisfactory, the next step is naturally for both sides to start their own troop deployments......

The elite 14,000 troops of the Principality of Guedes were gathered at the junction of the Upper Guedes region and the Duchy of Brabant, ready to attack at any time.

The 20,000 troops of the North Sea State, including a total of 8,000 soldiers and horses raised by John II, Duke of Cleaver, from the Duchy of Cleaver and the Principality of Mack, were also quietly sent to the border between the Duchy of Cleaver and the Duchy of Brabant......

It should be noted that the Duchy of Clive and the Duchy of Brabant are directly bordered. The area on the west bank of the Rhine in the Duchy of Cleaver directly divided the Duchy of Geddes into two parts: the Upper Guedes and the Lower Guedes.

However, the 4,000 soldiers and horses did not directly enter the territory of the Duchy of Brabant from the Duchy of Cleaver. Because, at that time, the border between the Duchy of Brabant and the Duchy of Cleaver was full of spies of the Duchy of Godes. On the contrary, 4,000 men had to enter the territory of the Duchy of Brabant without the secret agents, even by day and night. Because, those spies also like to come out in the middle of the night to observe......

Therefore, the previous army of 4,000 men and horses first sailed out of the Rhine, then arrived in Zeeland, and then entered Ghent, the capital of Flanders (and also the general capital of the Austrian Netherlands), and then disguised themselves as grain convoys and went to Parsons concentration camp. This is because the grain and grass of the Austrian Netherlands are basically sent from Gent. When I got there, I disguised myself as a grain transport team, and there were no flaws......

But now that the troops are actually dispatched, there is no need to go around in such a big circle. Because, at the junction of the Duchy of Cleaver and the Duchy of Brabant, it is not far from the concentration camp of Parson in Brabant, and if you march quickly, you can reach it in one day.

The problem, however, is that now it is up to the army of the Duchy of Gedes to strike first......

And the army of the Duchy of Godes did not live up to everyone's expectations. In April, after the end of the spring ploughing, the troops were dispatched as scheduled, and suddenly invaded the territory of the Duchy of Brabant, and the troops were directed at the Parsons concentration camp......