With the efforts of the spies of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, the dog man and woman of "cousin hooked up with cousin and killed cousin" spread widely in France and gradually began to spread to other countries.

However, with the level of communication in this era, it was a bit difficult to spread all over Europe in a short period of time. But with the help of Marin's spies, the speed of transmission is not slow. Moreover, Marin did not need this rumor to spread everywhere in Europe, he just needed to spread it all over the capitals and let the monarchs and high-ranking nobles of all countries know about it. In the final analysis, this was just a way for Edward to send troops to Scotland. If it can be spread all over the capitals, even if the goal is achieved.

As for Marin himself, he began training 15,000 infantry fighters from the southern mountain people selected by Schwartz. After all, they come from different units and need to run in with each other.

In addition, in order to prepare them for mountain marching, Marin has begun to train them to be armed with off-road. Now, the spring ploughing of the Beihai Kingdom has largely ended, and these selected warriors have also begun to gather near Orich and begin training.

Although the vicinity of Aurich is all plains, there are no mountains. However, Marin still found a hilly area in the east, near the province of Oldenburg, where the fighters could train armed cross-country and "climb the mountains".

In fact, these mountain people have the foundation to cross mountains and mountains, after all, they grew up in the mountains. However, they are not familiar with such a large-scale team climb. And what Marin trained them was the habit of helping and supporting each other in the mountains and mountains. After all, it is very dangerous to climb mountains and mountains, and if you don't help each other, you will inevitably have accidental casualties. However, if you have done special training, you can still greatly reduce the probability of casualties.

Even Marin himself participated in the simulated training over the mountains. Because, he decided that this raid battle would be commanded by himself......

As for why he chose to go out in person, Marin has thought about it repeatedly. If it is an ordinary army, its implementation of Watts is enough to replace his own command.

However, this military operation was too risky. Because, Marin used a sneak attack tactic. The main point of this tactic is to be quick and sneak up on the opponent from behind without knowing it.

Because it needs to be fast, and it needs to go over mountains and mountains, the army will definitely not carry too many supplies. As for rations, even if you carry compressed biscuits that are easy to carry, everyone can carry rations for a maximum of ten days. No matter how much, it is not suitable to carry it on its back.

And this is also the problem - if the sneak attack is successful, it is okay, the army can enter the city of Siena to get new supplies. If the sneak attack fails...... With the amount of dry rations they carried, once they fell into a protracted war and ran out of food, without the Sienese army attacking them, the army itself would have to be in disarray......

Therefore, this sneak attack battle cannot afford to be lost. Otherwise, Marin would lose more than 10,000 elites, which he could not accept.

Therefore, Marin decided to personally go out this time and lead a sneak attack on the city of Siena. The reason why this is so is because Marin has a lot of ghost ideas, and he is also the best at sneak attacks. In the case of Schwartz, the command of the frontal battle is okay, and the sneak attack is definitely not as much as Marin's idea. After all, Marin doesn't have too many examples and ideas in his head. In terms of ghost ideas, Schwartz, who is deeply influenced by the traditional thinking of knights, has ten more than one ghost idea from Marin......

Now the problem is that Marin is waiting for maple syrup from the Americas and rhinoceros skin from West Africa......

Needless to say, maple syrup is used to make compressed biscuits. Compressed biscuits with maple syrup not only taste good, but also supplement a variety of nutrients, which is very suitable for soldiers.

And rhinoceros leather armor is much lighter than plate armor, and the protection is also good. It is said that the Sienese army had few muskets, and as long as it could withstand the attacks of their few artillery, the rhinoceros leather armor was sufficient to deal with most of the Sienese army's means of attack. What's more, wearing bulky plate armor, there is no need to climb mountains...... Can't climb......

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Just as Marin was sweating with his soldiers in the border hills, the port of Emden welcomed the transport ship returning from Cape Breton Island - Garand delivered the first batch of 4,000 barrels of maple syrup......

When Marin heard the news, he was overjoyed and hurried out of the barracks and rushed back to Aurich to listen to the report.

According to Garland's messenger's report, Marin learned that this spring, the collection of maple syrup in Canada was going relatively well.

After Marin provided a large number of iron cones, pipes, wooden barrels for carrying maple syrup, and a group of people to teach the natives, Garand hurriedly mobilized a group of translators who knew the local aboriginal language as a guide to the group of people, and took them to the North American continent to teach the natives how to collect maple syrup......

Since March, maple syrup has been harvested in Canada. Under the guidance of the translators, the men provided by Marin first familiarized themselves with the specific process of collecting maple syrup and the temperature conditions required for harvesting maple syrup, and then were assigned to various tribes on the North American continent to teach the local natives how to use iron cones to drill the hollows of sugar maple trees, and how to use pipes and barrels to collect maple syrup. In addition, the right temperature is also an important condition.

Of course, Marin also kept a hand. For example, the method of boiling maple syrup into maple syrup was not taught to the indigenous people. Don't look at the technique of boiling maple syrup, it is not difficult to boil maple syrup in a pot over low heat. However, the local indigenous people are not much better at science and technology than primitive people, and they may not really know how to boil maple syrup and concentrate it into maple syrup.

Maple syrup and maple syrup are two different things, the concentration of maple syrup is about 40 times that of maple syrup, and maple syrup, in fact, is almost as sweet as the sweet drinks of later generations, and the taste is not as good as the drink.

Sure enough, as Marin expected, after the first batch of maple juice was collected, those greedy local natives drank a lot of maple juice themselves, and it was estimated that they consumed one-third of the maple juice. This made Garland very angry, but he didn't have much to do. After all, he had a cooperative relationship with the natives. The other party drank a third of the maple syrup, and he couldn't stop it.

Fortunately, he used some commodities to lure the local natives, so that the natives forcibly controlled their urge to drink maple syrup. After all, compared to the sweetened maple syrup, Garand's European-style bows and arrows and other tools, as well as shiny glass balls, were more popular with the natives.

Of course, this is on the premise that the natives have not drunk the purified maple syrup. If the natives had tasted the sweeter maple syrup, they would have been tempted to stop it. Fortunately, they don't know how to purify maple syrup yet, and they don't have a pot for purifying maple syrup. Otherwise, they will retain more maple syrup.

Therefore, although many indigenous tribes were mobilized to help collect maple syrup, the maple syrup made from the maple syrup that Garand received in March was only 4,000 barrels. Of course, this is also due to the fact that the natives were not very skilled at collecting maple syrup in the first place.

And in April, as the natives are more proficient at collecting maple syrup, yields are sure to be higher. According to Garland's estimates, the total output of maple syrup this year should be able to exceed the original plan of 10,000 barrels......

For the arrival of this batch of maple syrup, Marin was also very happy. Because, he can order a large number of maple syrup compressed biscuits. In addition, the "Royal Salute" also requires a lot of maple syrup......