As a qualified merchant-type prince, Marin is the most disadvantaged. In particular, such benefits as territory. Therefore, as soon as Edward promised to give another county, Marin agreed without thinking about it, and then directly organized a large army to go north.

However, halfway through, Marin suddenly reacted - Nima, I can't just kill King James IV of Scotland. Otherwise, the German princes would not have eaten me? Killing the king at will be hostile to all monarchs.

So, Marin found Edward with a bitter face and said:

"Your Majesty, don't fool me. I'm a man of the rules, and I can't just kill the king of Scotland. If you can't kill their king, you can't annex Scotland. Isn't a promise you made an invalid promise? ”

Edward smiled awkwardly, he had been impulsive before. Now that I think about it, it seems a bit difficult......

However, he quickly thought of a solution:

"Otherwise, you can get one more ship that will sink. Shall we then send James IV home by sea and let him sink in the North Sea? ”

Marin suddenly looked at Edward speechlessly:

"Your Majesty, if you let your nephews sink into the sea once, everyone will think it is an accident. Let James IV sink into the sea again, and everyone in Europe will know that it was you...... "This kind of skillful killing, with one can be called an accident, and again, and it is from the same person, and the fool knows what is going on......

"This ......," Edward was a little at a loss.

However, after thinking about it, Edward decided to destroy the Scottish army. Now, Newcastle has 8,000 defenders, with the help of bandits. If Marin's 20,000 main forces suddenly arrived again, there was no reason why the Scottish army of 10,000 could not be destroyed.

And after destroying Scotland's 10,000 army, there is basically no one in Scotland who can fight. After all, the total population of the Kingdom of Scotland is only four or five hundred thousand. After that, it would be easy for England to destroy Scotland.

However, now is really not the time to destroy Scotland, at least until he controls the whole of Hungry England before he can destroy Scotland. Otherwise, England is still unstable, so it will annex Scotland and it will die.

But this opportunity is too rare, and Edward doesn't like to let it go. However, if you can't give Marin a Scottish county, you have to take a county from England and give Marin to Marin. Otherwise, Marin, a businessman-like guy, would definitely not buy it. But if it was given to the counties of England, Edward would not be willing to give it up. What is the difference between letting Marin sit in England and being controlled by France?

After thinking about it, Edward finally made up his mind:

"Grand Duke Marin, the pay of a county is unchanged. Since the territory of Scotland cannot be given to you, then I will give you an Irish county as payment! ”

"Okay, deal! However, it has to be an agricultural county in the east! ”

Edward nodded and agreed to Marlin's request. Edward didn't pay much attention to the island of Ireland either. For the Kingdom of England, the island of Ireland was more of a colony than a territory. Because, the Irish and the English are not the same. As Marin said, the Irish and the French Gauls, as well as the Scots, were almost the same, were Celts, while the English were of Germanic descent. As a result, it was difficult for the Kingdom of England to control the island of Ireland, and rebellions there were frequent. So, giving a county to Marin is nothing.

Marin doesn't care, as long as you have land. As for the national question in Ireland, Marin did not think it was a big problem. The reason why there is a problem is not your own doing? The English rule the island of Ireland, but they don't treat the Irish as human beings, but treat them as human beings, and it's no wonder that people don't rebel. Moreover, Marin argues, the national consciousness of Europeans in this era has not yet awakened (this thing was mainly awakened during the French Revolution, and it was also long before the French Republic. Because, the fanatical nationalists are the craziest of the special meows, second only to the fanatical cultists), as long as those Irish people are allowed to live a good life, it is not difficult to integrate the Irish by means of tenderness and the combination of eradicating diehards.

After unifying his thoughts, Marin no longer hesitated and led his army to the north......

……

And in Newcastle City, on the north bank of the Tyne River, fierce fighting was taking place at this time. Scotland's 10,000-strong army, surrounded by Newcastle, is attacking......

The Robin Hood Thieves supported Newcastle's 3,300 thieves and were unable to reach Newcastle before the Scottish army. Because, they marched on foot. And the southern Pennines are several days away from Newcastle City, and Coste's henchman Lescott is still one step behind the Scottish army with 3,300 thieves.

In desperation, Lescott had no choice but to stay on the south bank of the River Tyne with his men. It just so happened that England also needed to guard against the Scottish army crossing the Tyne River to the south. Moreover, on the south bank of the Tyne River, more than 60,000 refugees are camped here. Therefore, Lescott simply led people to camp on the south bank of the Tyne River to prevent the Scottish army from crossing the river......

These 3,300 thieves all have hatred with the Scots. Therefore, with the greatest enthusiasm, they went to guard the defense line of the Tyne and imitate the Scottish invaders to cross the river......

As Lescott expected, the Scottish army sent men across the river. The reason why he sent people to cross the river was because James IV coveted the tens of thousands of refugees on the south bank of the Tyne River - and the Kingdom of Scotland was also short of population......

Moreover, James IV was surprised to find that the refugees on the south bank of the Tyne River actually had food in their hands. Every day, smoke can be seen rising from refugee camps on the South Bank......

So, James IV thought - send people to cross the river, capture people at the same time, but also grab food. Looking at the amount of cooking smoke on the south bank, it seems that there is a lot of food......

Previously, the Scottish army had passed through the northern part of Northumberland, but they had not grabbed much food. After all, production over there has not yet recovered much, and there is only a limited amount of food that can be grabbed. If we can grab the food of tens of thousands of refugees on the south coast, even if we can't grab the population, it will be very cost-effective......

However, the Scots' crossing of the river was met with strong resistance from the Robin Hood thieves. With spears several meters long, the thieves stabbed the Scottish soldiers who tried to get to the south bank in small boats and rafts......

If you want to talk about Scottish soldiers, the quality is definitely higher than that of the thieves of the Robin Hood Thieves Regiment. If you change to a knight to charge into battle, hundreds of knights can defeat these thieves. But alas, the Scottish army is crossing the river...... Before the successful crossing of the river, the Scottish army was simply unable to form an effective formation, and the knights' horses were useless on the boats. In the face of the thieves of the 3,300 Robin Hood thieves waiting on the shore, the Scots were helpless......

Fortunately, the Scottish army was not short of food, and Newcastle was said to have more food reserves. Therefore, James IV, who personally led the army, simply stopped the plan to cross south and concentrated on attacking Newcastle City. Anyway, the militia-like thieves on the south bank would never dare to cross the river. Otherwise, the Scottish knights must have let them know what it means to trample with iron hooves...... Although there are few Scottish knights, there are several hundred. They wore plate armor aided by the French, and their martial arts were also instructed by French knights, and their combat effectiveness was still good, but the number was a little less......

In this way, a relatively delicate balance was formed near Newcastle - the Scottish army could not cross the river to the south, but the 3,300 thieves of the "Robin Hood Thieves Regiment" did not dare to cross the river to support Newcastle......

The other two groups of the "Robin Hood Thieves", after seeing that the Scottish army had arrived on the north bank of Tyne, went directly to the west, intending to bypass the upper reaches of the Tyne from the mountain and forest areas, go around to the rear of the Scottish army, and launch an attack......