Ziggy was right, these days, no one really thought that someone would send troops to do something at Christmas. In addition to Marin, who has the Pope as a backer, it is also a powerful country like France that dares to kidnap the Pope to dare to mess up like this.

Therefore, the local nobles of the Duchy of Brabant would not have expected an enemy attack this night. Many people get drunk and sleep like dead pigs because they celebrate Christmas.

When the 4-way men arrived at the target manor, they met with little resistance, except for a few loyal dogs raised by nobles who came out and barked a few times, and then were unlucky enough to be stabbed to death with spears by the murderous Swiss mercenaries.

Subsequently, this group of Swiss mercenaries, who had not eaten meat for a long time, actually left someone on the spot to skin and dispose of the dogs that were stabbed to death, and then put them on the grill......

The Europeans of these years are not as hypocritical as later generations, and there are no animal protection activists. It's good if people can live, who will protect dogs? And Christianity does not have a rule against eating dog meat, so a group of Swiss mercenaries who have not eaten meat for a long time eat a delicious meal of roast dog meat.

As for the nobles and squires in the noble manor? In the face of 500 fierce and sophisticated Swiss mercenaries, there is no resistance at all......

Fortunately, the officers knew that they were in a hurry, otherwise, these villains, who had not drunk wine and eaten meat for a long time, would rely on drinking wine and eating meat, and then harm women......

Before leaving, the Swiss mercenaries robbed the manor of all the gold and silver coins, and took a lot of food and clothing. As for the nobles who were captured, although they could not be killed because of the common practice in Europe. But the Swiss mercenaries beat the captured nobles to vent their anger. Even, there are some noble ladies and noble ladies who have been scourged......

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In one night, more than 2,000 Swiss mercenaries ransacked more than a dozen aristocratic estates, snatching 200 horses and hundreds of weapons. And, of course, plenty of food and clothing.

Early the next morning, Ziggy gathered everyone and distributed food and clothing. Then, let everyone form a team and follow the 7000 French knights south.

And the French knights were also chicken thieves, and in order not to give the Holy See a handle, they deliberately waved the black bear flag of the canton of Geneva in western Switzerland. In this way, the rescue of Swiss mercenaries makes sense - the Swiss rescue the Swiss......

Originally, Louis XII wanted to fly the banner of the Habsburgs. But that's too nonsense, and I don't believe ghosts when I say it. And although Louis XII was not afraid of the Pope, it was very troublesome to provoke the Pope to be excommunicated. So, he simply had his men fly the state flag of the Swiss canton of Bern. In this way, even if the Pope is angry with them for making trouble at Christmas, he can shake the blame...... And the Holy See definitely doesn't want to completely fall out with France, so the Holy See will end up scolding the blamebreaker......

As for the canton of Bern, which has a black pot on its back? How does the Holy See punish? Excommunicated all the people of a state? It doesn't seem realistic......

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As the army marched south, Ziggy continued to divide his forces and sack the manors along the way. The French knights also sent cavalry to help, mainly to rob the horses of the estates along the way. With horses, the march can be faster. Also, you can get some weapons and food......

In addition to the estates, the small towns along the route were also attacked by this army. In particular, the towns along the route that were not fenced were all sacred.

By the time the army passed through the Duchy of Brabant and entered the territory of Namurb, the army was basically equipped with weapons - most of them were long-haired. In addition, they grabbed 4,000 horses. Although they were all horses, they were used to carry the food and supplies looted by the army along the way, but they couldn't have been better......

After entering the country of Namurber, this Swiss mercenary army, which gradually regained the memory of the battle, also tried to attack a small city. As a result, they really beat it down......

And while they wreaked havoc in the territory of Namurber, Philip, the handsome king of Ghent, did not make any move......

There was no way, at this time the Habsburgs had only 6,000 soldiers left in the Netherlands, and only 5,000 in Ghent. According to the spies' report, the enemy had as many as six or seven thousand cavalry who came to rob the prison. And the rescued Swiss veteran mercenaries, there are also 17,000. Unless he is insane, he will send a garrison of 5,000 Grt out of the city to die......

Therefore, Prince Philippe could only watch as more than 20,000 enemy troops went all the way south into France......

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As for Marin, who has the ability to intercept them, Prince Philip has sent someone to ask for help. However, Marin did not want to rescue. So, Marin wittily "fell ill......

Of course, it was estimated that the group had almost left the Netherlands, so Marin took two thousand cavalry to the Netherlands. At the same time, I brought some gifts of condolence, which can be regarded as confession......

Although Prince Philip was very angry, he didn't dare to turn his face with Marin. After all, the Habsburgs could not afford to turn against the North Sea State......

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After sending the envoy of the handsome king Philip, Marin immediately "recovered" from his illness and began a very important work - post-war reconstruction......

In this war, the Oldenburg region, the North and South Münster region, and the Ruhr area, which were mainly affected by the military disaster, were seriously damaged by the local social order and economy by the coalition of the princes of the eight countries. Many houses in the manor were burned down by the coalition forces, and many ordinary people were also persecuted by the coalition forces of the princes of the eight countries......

Therefore, what Marin has to do now is to appease those people and help the affected people rebuild their houses to survive the winter.

To this end, Marin is now mobilizing food for disaster relief in the Oldenburg area. Then, Marin also forced the tens of thousands of captured coalition soldiers and people to help the affected people build adobe houses in this cold winter......

The construction of an adobe house is very simple - just use the stirred yellow mud and wrap some weeds that are "bones" as "bones". Then, using the method of plate building, the stirred yellow mud is pressed between the two splints to wrap the grass tendons, and then compacted and dried on a fire......

The cost of such a house is very cheap, after all, all you need to build a house is yellow mud and weeds. At most, doors, windows, and fixtures in the house require some wood.

The only trouble is that it takes a lot of labor to build this kind of house. But fortunately, after Marin won the war, he obtained tens of thousands of prisoners, which were used to build adobe houses.

In addition to the post-war reconstruction of the former North Sea States, Marin also attached great importance to the post-war reconstruction of the newly annexed regions of the newly annexed Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Saxony-Lauenburg, Ravensburg, Schaumburg, Lipber, and Tecklenburg. After all, now these areas are considered to be the ruling areas of the Beihai Kingdom, and they are no longer foreign countries, so they naturally have to be treated equally and provided with the same relief. Otherwise, it will be difficult to get the local people to return to their hearts......