Jim, who entered the state of drama, wiped his snot and tears, and complained:

"Your Excellency, you two don't know. When Lord Marin seized the East Friesian Empire, he killed most of the nobles of the East Frisian Empire. Moreover, the whole family will kill together, and no one will be spared! ”

Frederick III nodded and said:

"Well, I've heard of it. How did your family survive? ”

Jim sobbed:

"We, the Kowak family, are related to Prime Minister Jeffrey's family. My father, the cousin of Prime Minister Jeffrey......"

"Yo, it's still a big fish!" Joakim I exclaimed. The Prime Minister's relatives must know a lot of information......

"What do you mean when you say, 'The whole family is dead'?" Frederick III asked.

"Lord Marin...... Oh no, it's Marin's tyrant, he's ruthless and likes to kill whole families. If I dare to reveal the secret and be known by him, my whole family, if one of them can't escape, they will be hanged! ”

"Shhh However, this is fine, just after defeating him, we have one more reason - this thing likes to kill the whole noble family...... Well...... We are righteous ......," said Joakim I. And Frederick III listened, and also nodded in agreement.

Frederick III thought for a moment and said:

"Well, while Marin doesn't know yet, you can send someone to inform your family and let them prepare to escape East Friesland first. Wait until the battle is decided, and then bring your family to Saxony. When the time comes, I will still canonize your family as a baronial family and give you a fief. ”

"Of course, the premise is - the information you said has that value......"

"Yes, yes, of course there is value!" Jim said, pretending to be interested.

"Then say, when you are finished, write a letter, plus a token, and give it to my subordinates, so that he can send someone to your family and inform your family to flee for their lives......"

"But...... East Friesland is very strict with the management of foreign populations...... Are your men sure they can enter the small town of Norden? ”

"That's easy, Orich, Emden and Lyle may not get in, but Norden should be fine. Because, I have heard, after Marin came out with the main force, the army guarding the house has shrunk into several important large cities such as Aurich, Emden and Lyle......"

"Why don't you let me run away with my family on my own?" Jim feigned bewilderment.

Frederick III smiled:

"Hehe, I'm afraid you're giving false information. So, stay with me for the rest of your life. If the information you give is wrong, I'll kill you......"

Jim pretended to be scared, but he was amazed - sure enough, the Duke was right......

Eventually, Jim got the promise that he would send someone to inform his 'family', and he chose to "give in" and tell Frederick III the "real secret......

When the double parchment was torn open, both Frederick III and Joakim I were shocked – and the manoeuvre......

When they saw Marin's "true intentions", Frederick III and Joakim I suddenly realized that this was the case......

The arrangement of this "true information" was so reasonable that Frederick III and Joakim I could not find any problems. As a result, both the wiser Frederick III and the young and impulsive Joakim I believed in this "true information". After all, this information arrangement is so reasonable and in line with their cognition. It's not like the parchment above, which doesn't quite match their perception. Because, their intelligence officers, completely unknown about the 10,000 army......

Soon after, under the deliberate "negligence" of the Hamburg side, some scouts risked their lives to bypass the blockade of the Hamburg cavalry in the east, rushed to the camp of the Bossa coalition army at night, and reported to Frederick III and Joakim I that Hamburg had suddenly begun to recruit and capture strong men......

Because this was exactly the same as the "true information" in the double parchment, Frederick III and Joakim I fully believed Jim's confession. Then, Jim was detained by them and stayed around. Moreover, Frederick III really sent Saxon messengers to the Kovac family in Norden to inform the people of the family to "run away......

Of course, when the messenger arrived in East Friesland, he would be warmly received by the Kovac family, as Marin had already arranged it in advance. Moreover, he will pretend that he really intends to run away with the whole family in order to cover Jim.

At this time, Jim began to pay close attention to the soldiers of the Bossa coalition army around him, to see who had more beards and was about the same height as himself. When the time comes, it is better to imitate this person's appearance. As long as you steal the uniform, you can disguise yourself as this person and leave the camp of the Bossa coalition army......

……

At the same time that Jim was showing off his acting skills in front of the two Electors, Marin also sent men to land on the west bank of the Travo River, west of Lübeck City, and began to make a front stop for the army to cross the river.

Earlier, hundreds of trebuchets had been deployed by the Saxons in the West Bank to fight against Marin's ships, all of which were captured by Marin's men and reversed.

Moreover, before the appointed time arrived, Marin sent a large number of people to dig a tunnel in front of the battle formation on the west bank......

Marin's tactics this time were to fight a positional battle with the Bossa coalition forces, and it was mainly defensive. Therefore, the two-trench tactic with strong defensive ability is naturally the first choice. Therefore, although Marin's army had not yet begun to cross the river, the people had already begun to dig two trenches in front of the predetermined battle formation with sapper shovels.

As long as the two trenches are dug and the sharp stakes are inserted, I don't believe that the enemy can rush over smoothly......

Of course, in order to facilitate a full-scale attack at a critical moment, Marin also devised a way for his troops to cross the trenches during the attack - that is, to prepare many tied rafts. When our troops attacked, our soldiers pulled out some of the sloping wooden stakes in front of the second trench to block the enemy's charge, and then spread the raft onto the two trenches as a temporary wooden bridge. Then the warriors could step on the rafts that lay across the two ditches, cross the two trenches filled with sharp stakes, and rush to the enemy position......

As for whether the enemy will cross the two trenches by building a temporary wooden bridge? Marin said — there's nothing wrong with that. Because, the musketeers of their own side will teach the soldiers carrying the wooden bridge how to behave in minutes......

Marin inspected the terrain on the scene and knew that his army was going to be in a backwater formation this time. But Marin was not worried, because the defense of the Spanish phalanx was very strong in this era.

Moreover, the backwater of this backwater array is not a dead end. For, since the occupation of the pits in which the trebuchets were buried, there was nothing on the Travo that threatened the ships of Marin and Lübeck.

Now, although fighting with his back to the water, Marin's 20,000 troops can easily achieve food supply and ammunition supply through the ships on the Travo River, but it is not the state of Han Xin's original isolated and helpless "last battle". The soldiers don't have to worry about supplies, they can naturally rely on the Spanish phalanx, which has a high defensive strength, to hold out for a long time. At least, wait until Woolf. The arrival of 18,000 reinforcements from Esbrand and Saqqara and the surprise attack on the enemy camp was completely unproblematic......