When Marin gave an order to Saqqara in Newcastle, while asking Saqqara to transport the newly recruited 10,000 English mercenaries to the unexplored and remote East Frisian Islands, he also asked Saqqara to leave a group of people and continue to recruit 5,000 new men to guard Newcastle. Anyway, Marin is not short of food, and recruiting soldiers from the disaster areas of England only needs to be given food.

Of these 10,000 English mercenaries, Marin was intended to be used as a surprise soldier. Therefore, Marin will not announce their existence to the outside world, but intends to hide it first.

Anyway, Marin felt that he would have to fight with someone sooner or later, so it was better to play a big game and fool the enemy first. When the real battle begins, the enemy will be horrified to find that Marin has an extra 10,000 troops. In this way, the morale of the enemy will be hit. Coupled with misjudgment in strength and mistakes in layout, it is easy to fail.

Moreover, while the spring plowing was underway, Marin also secretly ordered - to prepare for the gathering of militia. For example, in the East Friesian Lamb region, the original 8,000 militia, in addition to the 3,000 people who were brought by Adler to garrison Oldenburg, the remaining 5,000 people, will also be gathered after the end of spring ploughing, commanded by the elder Hoffmann, stationed in cities such as Aurich and Emden, to defend the mainland. Then, the regular army of the native country will be left free to go with Marin.

Of course, Marin's militia will not be just 5,000 people, but 10,000 people. In this way, it is enough to be used to guard the security of the homeland.

By Marin, he meant the East Friesian Lamberan region. As for the Münster region, because it was divided from the north and south with Bishop Conrad, Marin could actually draw all the garrisons in the Münster region and use them for war. Because, the southern border, borders the southern region controlled by Bishop Conrad. Bishop Conrad is now an ally of interest with Marin, and with the Holy See's connections, he will not attack Marin's controlled area.

Therefore, Marin could safely transfer all the regular troops stationed in the northern part of Münster for use in the war effort. As for the 10,000 garrisons of the Duchy of Schleswig, they could not be used lightly. Because, they have to guard against a Danish attack.

The mainland area, because of its border with West Friesland, requires a certain amount of defense. The 10,000 militia that Marin intended to recruit was actually to guard against the Gedes army, which controlled the West Friesland region. After all, Marin was ostensibly allied with Charles II, Duke of Guedes, but both of them had their own evil intentions and could not trust each other. Therefore, Marin needs to keep enough troops to guard against the army of the Duchy of Gedes. But because it was a defensive city, Marin did not need a regular army to defend against the enemy, leaving 10,000 militiamen, which was enough for defense. Even if the Guedes army did sneak up on Marin's rear during the war, the 10,000 militiamen would be able to defend the city until Marin's main army returned.

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Here, Marin was thinking about whether the Duchy of Gedes would attack him from behind when the war started, and Charles II, the Duke of Geddes, sent someone to contact Marin......

As for what? It turned out that Charles II learned through intelligence that George, Duke of Saxony, had taken away two puppets of the Duchy of Gedes, the Governor of Fyskefrijheid and the Baron of Leeuwarden, and temporarily placed them in the territory of the Earl of East Friesland.

At this time, George had already rushed back to China with more than 10,000 people to preside over spring ploughing. At present, in the temporary military camp of the Duchy of Saxony on the east bank of the Ames River, only 2,000 garrisons of the Duchy of Saxony remain, and a group of prisoners of war brought back by George from Groningen during the previous retreat, including Governor Fyskefrijheid and Baron Ztel Leeuwarden.

Charles II, Duke of Geddes, was clearly aware of the important role of the Governor of Fyskefrijheid and the Baron of Leeuwarden, Ztel. If George was allowed to take them to the Imperial Diet to accuse him, Charles II would surely be politically passive.

Therefore, Charles II, Duke of Guedes, intends to deal with these two people. If it were possible, Charles II naturally hoped to snatch the Governor of Fyskefrijheid and the Baron of Leeuwarden, Zytel, back to West Friesland and continue to act as puppets.

However, these two men, including two thousand troops of the Duchy of Saxony, were stationed in the territory of the East Friesian Lamber. Even if Marin allowed him to send a large army into East Friesland, a large number of troops would be needed to take the Saxon army camp. Moreover, Charles II felt that Marin would not allow him to send a large army into the territory of East Friesland to attack the temporary barracks of the Saxon army.

Therefore, Charles II's intention in sending people to Marin was simple - to get Marin to allow him to send assassins to assassinate the two men, Governor Fyskefrijheid and Baron Leeuwarden Ztel. As long as the two men were dead, George would not be able to show his credentials in the Imperial Diet. There was no witness, and Charles II, Duke of Guedes, could have flatly denied that he had captured West Friesland, and there was no conclusive evidence or means for George to accuse him.

After thinking about this for a long time, Marin agreed to the request of Charles II, Duke of Geddes.

As for why Charles II's request was granted? Obviously, Marlin didn't want George to go too well. If George had gone well and Marin had wanted to buy West Friesland, it wouldn't have gone well. It was only when George was put in a desperate situation that Marin had a chance to buy West Friesland.

To this end, Marin ordered that the intelligence officers in the country begin to pay attention to infiltrating the temporary camps of the Duchy of Saxony in the territory, observing the movements of the Saxon army, and the life patterns of the Governor Fyskefrijheid and the Baron of Leeuwarden, Ztel, in order to create opportunities for the assassins sent by Charles II.

Moreover, in the temporary barracks of the Duchy of Saxony, since George brought more than 10,000 people back to the Duchy of Saxony to participate in the spring ploughing, there were only a few thousand prisoners and 2,000 Saxon soldiers left in the barracks. The captives were obviously not allowed to leave the barracks at will, and the soldiers were not too good at labor. As a result, they needed to hire some local laborers from East Friesland to take care of some of the things of life.

Thus, in East Friesland, there was some labor, employed by the Saxons, who could enter and leave the Saxon barracks. The intelligence officers under Marin's command can enter the barracks to find out the news through this way.

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Soon, two killers sent by Charles II, Duke of Geddes, arrived. Both were highly skilled assassins, and their looks were very standard - standard faces, ordinary figures, and no noticeable features. But Marin specially sent his subordinates to test it, and these two people's martial arts skills are indeed high. They are good at assassinating with daggers, and they are both holding daggers in both hands, and two daggers can play with flowers in their hands.

In fact, most of the assassins of this era also used daggers. Because, the dagger is well hidden, it can be easily hidden in the sleeve, and when it is time to assassinate, the assassins can easily remove the dagger from the sleeve and stab the target in the heart.

As for the musket assassination? Sorry, that thing hasn't caught on yet. Moreover, the arquebus is not suitable for making a short gun. Also, the arquebus is so obvious that you have an arquebus tied to your arm, and everyone knows you're a musketeer...... The clockwork musket that Marin made could be made into a short gun suitable for assassination, but people from other countries couldn't.

And the use of a crossbow to assassinate or something in the previous Marin movie is also unreliable. Because, in this era, there were no small wire crossbows. And the large crossbow is too easy to expose the target and is not convenient to carry. Therefore, the assassins of this era still believe in daggers more.

When the two assassins came, Marin's intelligence officers had already inquired about the situation in the Saxon military camp and arranged for the two killers to enter the Saxon military camp as hired coolies to help the Saxons repair their houses. Then, he waited for the opportunity to assassinate the two Governors of Fyskefrijheid and the Baron of Leeuwarden, Ztel......

On a dark and windy night, the two Assassins crept into the rooms where Governor Fyskefrijheid and Baron de Leeuwarden Ztel were located, slipped the deadbolt with their sharp daggers, entered the room, and stabbed them in the heart......

After the first blow, the two killers quickly left their room, and then, quietly, left......