Chapter 493: Assault

Marin was so angry that before, he specially gave up the choice of going south and decided to go north, in fact, he had the intention of not wanting to tear his face with the German princes, and made concessions. Because, he knew, Frederick III would definitely be active.

However, he didn't expect that Frederick III, an old shameless man, would just want to pay less, and actually wanted to call on the princes of all Germany to destroy himself. So, Marlin was surprisingly furious.

Therefore, Marin decided to wave his troops south and attack Saxony......

This time, Marin decided not to stay alone, but planned to ransack the Elector of Saxony and teach the old fox a profound lesson.

Moreover, according to intelligence, although Frederick III went to Worms, his younger brother Johan, the heir to the Elector of Saxony, remained in Wittenberg.

Frederick III had no descendants and was not married. Even, he worked as a clergyman. However, his younger brother John was too incompetent, and their father, the Elector of Ernst, chose to let him succeed him as the Elector and rule the Elector of Saxony with his younger brother John. Of course, it was mainly Frederick III who had the final say. It was only when he was not in the country that John assumed the position of regent.

It was because of his religious background that Frederick III later became interested in Martin Luther and supported Martin Luther's Reformation. But in fact, Martin Luther was also used. The reformist princes supported Martin Luther because Martin Luther supported the confiscation of land and wealth in the possession of the Catholic Church. For the poor princes, this was the real reason for their support for the Reformation.

After all, the Catholic Church controlled the entire Middle Ages in Europe, possessing untold amounts of land and wealth, much to the blush of the princes and nobles. So, Martin Luther's Reformation was not so much an oppositional to Catholicism as it was a robbery of Catholic churches.

However, Martin Luther's Reformation was not complete. Because, its beneficiaries are mainly those princes, nobles and royal families, and ordinary people do not benefit much. Strictly speaking, the Calvinist Reformation was the more radical reform. Martin Luther's Reformation, on the other hand, was exploited and distorted by the princes and nobles.

Of course, the ass decides the head. From the moment Marin became a prince and nobleman, he and the Calvinists were destined to be mortal enemies. As for Martin Luther's Lutheranism, Marin was more welcoming. Although, he may be on the side of the Holy See. But that didn't stop Marin from hoping that Martin Luther's Lutherans had muddied the waters. In this way, Marin will have the opportunity to fish in troubled waters and annex the territories and wealth of those princes in the name of preserving the Holy See. After all, in the Protestant Wars, most of the northern princes sided with the Lutherans. As long as Marin is on the side of the Catholics, he can annex many, many lands......

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Speaking of which, the main reason why Marin refused to attack the Elector of Saxony was because he was afraid that his actions would interfere with Martin Luther's affairs. Because he also counted on Martin Luther to follow the historical trajectory and come to Wittenberg and carry out the Reformation.

However, now Marin is extremely angry, where can he care about things that affect Martin Luther?

Moreover, it was already July 5th, and Martin Luther was probably caught in a violent storm on his way home on July 2nd of this year, and prayed to Santa Anna to protect him and promised to become a monk. Before that, Martin Luther was just a college student and had not yet joined the church.

Marin did the math, it was July 5th, and Martin Luther should have wanted to become a monk according to his oath. As long as you get past this hurdle, it's easy to do.

Do you think Martin Luther will go to Wittenberg in the future? It was so simple that Marin could pay someone to buy the church and put Martin Luther in the church in Wittenberg.

As for whether Martin Luther will carry out the Reformation in the future? This is also easy, Marin will send professional spies to fool Martin Luther, and instill in him the "Ninety-Five Theses" he later listed through the spies in advance......

Martin Luther was born in 1483 and is now only 22 years old. For such a young man, it is easiest to fool him......

Marin then secretly paid Martin Luther to meet Frederick III in advance, and induced him to argue that the church should be impoverished, and offered to give church property to "official" management...... And so it became......

Why were there wars of religion in Germany in the 16th century? Isn't it money that makes trouble? The northern princes supported Protestantism mainly for the land and property of the Catholic Church...... All beliefs are false, and the land and wealth of the Catholic Church are the things that make the princes of the north blush......

The northern part of Germany has many plains and arable land. However, in the Middle Ages, for thousands of years, too much arable land was occupied by the Church. In the face of a strong church, the German princes did not dare to say much. But some people took the lead in making trouble, and they also proposed to divide up the land and property of the church, and if they didn't support it, they would have a ghost......

Later, the reason why almost all of the northern part of Germany converted to Protestantism, and the south remained Catholic territory, was mainly due to the death of Charles V. Because, Charles V, who owned both the Spanish Empire and the HRE, was too powerful. Austria and Hungary, the strongholds of the Habsburgs, were to the south. The princes of the south also wanted to confiscate the land and property of the church, but they could not defeat Charles V...... Of course, Charles V did not fall well, and the basic plate of Austria was preserved, but the Netherlands, where Charles V was born, was later captured by Calvinism......

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After a complicated ideological struggle, Marin confirmed that Martin Luther still had the ability to make trouble, and finally made up his mind to send troops to the Elector of Saxony and capture several important cities. And most importantly - the storming of Wittenberg, the capture of Frederick III's brother John and John's sons......

If Frederick III really mobilized all the German princes to attack him, he would have to take a ship and temporarily withdraw from Germany. You can flee to the Americas, or you can retreat to Norway. Anyway, Denmark was defeated, Sweden became independent, and it is not impossible to grab Norway by itself as a springboard for a counteroffensive.

But before leaving, Marin will slaughter the city in Wittenberg and kill John and John's children. In this way, the long branch of the Weiting family will be extinct. Frederick III had to accept the consequences of the extinction of the Wettin family. And the consequence of the long branch is that the hat of the elector will fall on the head of the second room decades in advance. As it stands, it will fall to the head of Duke George's stupid......

Of course, it was madness before being forced to retreat. It wasn't there yet, but he had to hurry south, storm Wittenberg, and capture John's family in order to blackmail Frederick III. If the other party does not accept the threat, he does not mind killing all of John's family and giving the head to Frederick III.

Although this is a bit of a bad rule, the other party actually wants to call on all the German princes to surround and beat him, and he will not give himself a way to live. The other party doesn't give himself a way to live, what rules do he still talk about? It is only right to slaughter the Wei Ting family, and then run away by boat......

But before heading south, Marin felt that it would be better to take Copenhagen first. Take Copenhagen and get Norway first. In this way, even if he faced the siege of the whole of Germany, he would have better take his family members and army and retreat to Norway first.

As for the German coalition? Who doesn't know that the Germans have always been landlubbers? The only people who were good at seafaring, the Frisians, were also adherents of Marin.

As long as you hide in Norway, a bunch of German landlubbers will have no problem. At that time, maybe you can incarnate as a new Viking and invade Germany?

But whatever, the focus now is on taking Copenhagen......

Marin had no time to wait, so he called Schwartz and commanded:

"Starting tomorrow, storm Copenhagen and take Copenhagen as soon as possible!"

Schwartz was stunned and asked:

"However, there will soon be no food in the city of Copenhagen, and at the end of July, the other party will definitely surrender!"

"We don't have that much time...... "Marin sighed and told Herman IV about the information and Schwartz.

Schwartz quickly understood Marin's intentions, so he immediately turned around and arranged for the storming of Copenhagen......