King of Mercenaries Chapter 114

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:27:17 AM

After the Swiss retired, Denier saw that Marin's army was still in the west of the city, so he quietly came to the east gate of the city, let the guards on the city drop the basket, and brought him into the city ...

"Master, Denier, isn't the Swiss an ally of France? Why would we help Marin that **** attack us? If it weren't for the Swiss, we wouldn't be so unlucky!" Governor Fyskefrijheid exclaimed.

"Sorry, Governor, this is France's negligence. I have persuaded the Swiss below the city. After returning home, I will fight for France and the Swiss to sign an agreement prohibiting them from serving the enemy of France ..."

"It's too late to say anything now, we have suffered huge losses, and the army has lost more than half ..."

"Without losing more than half, I know from the Swiss population that your army has about 1,000 captives in the hands of Marin's thief."

"People are in that bastard's hands, he hasn't ransomed us to death?" More than 1,000 people, God knows what price Marin will offer ...

"Master, my king will definitely give you an explanation. As long as I defeat that guy, my king will compensate you for all the losses."

"How to overcome?"

"When I go back, I will seek to sign an agreement with the Swiss first, banning them from working for Marin. Then, we will pay, hire thousands of Swiss, help you to attack Texel, and destroy the small Marin. thief!"

好 "Okay, I'm going to kill that bastard!" Governor Fyskefrijheid gritted his teeth.

"Master, kill the aristocracy, isn't it good?" Baron Zvtel hesitated.

"Hum, nobles can't be killed until they surrender. But when he failed, we pretended that he didn't know he surrendered, and we said he was killed ... Is it normal that he died on the battlefield?"

"Master Governor!"

"Oh ..." Denier waited for the Frisians to think so, and then, his purpose was also achieved.

"What shall we do now? That **** still depends on not leaving the city ..."

总 Governor Fyskefrijheid turned to look at Denier ...

Chandner thought for a while and said:

"For the sake of today, I can only lie to this little thief first, and then I will find a way to get revenge ..."

"Cheated?"

"Well, I have to rush back to Paris to report the situation and wait for instructions. Then I have to courier Switzerland, sign an agreement with them, and hire thousands of Swiss ... back and forth, at least 3 months. And this For some time, it is best for you to hold Marin's thief first and coax him away ... "

"You mean ... let's make peace first, deceive Marin, wait for you to bring the Swiss army, and then counterattack?"

"Ok."

"Mr. Denier, why don't you let the previous Swiss to help us run Marin?"

"No, the Swiss tradition is not against employers. So this Swiss mercenary cannot be against Malin's thief. Therefore, I can only bring another group of Swiss to fight that thief You can also see the fighting strength of the Swiss. By then we will be carrying thousands of Swiss people, several times as many as the enemy, and they will be so powerful, afraid that we cannot kill that little thief? "

"It is true! But ... Lord Denier, I am worried about the reaction of the Habsburgs. The Marin **** is, after all, a running dog of the Habsburgs. If the Habsburgs send troops from the lowlands to rescue the young What about thieves? "

"Well ... this ... I will suggest that when you go back, we will send troops to the Flanders border to deter the Burgundy troops stationed in the lowlands, leaving them no time to rescue the thief ... ... "

"It is indeed a good idea, then ... shall we reconcile now?"

"Well, I come to be the middleman in person to match your peace talks. Remember, the other party must be a lion open. You must stabilize him and promise him some conditions, but in some important conditions talk to him more and delay time."

不过 "However, you must deceive it first. For this, you can make more concessions. Anyway, when I bring the Swiss army over, the little thief will eat it and let him spit it out ..."

"Well, it makes sense ..."

Uh ...

The next day, Denier, with 30 French knights, held up the banner of the French Valois dynasty and appeared at the entrance of Camp Marin ...

Marin had guessed that the Swiss withdrew, probably the handwriting of this guy who called himself Baron Denier. At this point, he was anxious to kill Denier, but when the other party showed the banner of the king, he dared not do anything.

Publicly killing the flag of France is tantamount to declaring war on France. Charles VIII estimated that he could not find any reason to send soldiers to kill himself. If he did that ...

So, despite hating Denier, Marin had to hold back his anger and received Denier ...

When I learned that Denier was here to mediate, Marin naturally understood, first pretending to be unwilling, but in the end half agreed to negotiate in half ...

When the two sides started formal peace talks outside the city, Marin began to open a lion and asked the Frisian noble republic to cede to him a large area west of Leeuwarden. But how can such an unreasonable request be made? Wouldn't it be more convenient for Marin to attack Frisland later if Marin had a firm foothold on land?

So the governor Fyskefrijheid, who came to negotiate in person, refused to think about it. However, Marin bite and died, thinking that the defeated man did not cede the territory and had no sincerity to seek peace ...

In the end, after consultation with Governor Fyskefrijheid and several other members of parliament, he agreed to cede the West Frisian Islands under the control of the Frisian Aristocratic Republic (the main islands were Ameland and Schiermonnikoog). The two islands, Marin, know that the combined area is nearly 100 square kilometers, which is of great development value. Among them, Schiermonnik is close to East Friesland and is a good offensive springboard.

However, he prefers Terschelling, the second largest island in the West Frisian Islands. With an area of ​​88 square kilometers, this island is the second largest island in the archipelago and has great development value.

When Marin asked for Terschelling, Fyskefrijheid smiled and told him that the two big islands, Terschelling and Vlieland, had long been ceded to the Dutch country, now belong to Habsburg. Family control. Want these two islands, you have to ask the Habsburg family to buy or buy ...

Marlin is very frustrated, but it is not a loss to get the Schimmonick Island offensive East Frisian ...

After that, the two sides negotiated other compensation outside the territory. Marin Lion opened his mouth and demanded that the other party compensate for 100,000 gold coins, which made Governor Fyskefrijheid almost jumped:

"Baron Marin, are you sure that you are talking about gold rather than copper? The total property of our 9 members is not so much!" Although Fyskefrijheid lied, the assets of their 9 barons were worth 200,000. Gold coins, and most of them are still real estate. Marin asked for 100,000, which really killed them.

Then the two sides began to bargain fiercely, even arguing, and they almost started ...

In the end, Governor Fyskefrijheid was only willing to compensate 10,000 gold coins.

Marin rolled his eyes and said:

"Governor, since you are so poor, then use something else instead ..."

"What is it?" Governor Fyskefrijheid was wary.

"Well, we captured your 5 warships ..."

"Give us back!"

不可能 "Impossible, do you still spit out the meat you eat? In short, all your warships and sailors captured by me are gone!"

"Then we don't pay for 10,000 gold coins!"

"Okay, there are thousands of captives in my hand anyway, I will put them all on Texel Island as captives, and I will not return them ..."

"shame on you!"

"Hey, don't say that. Right now it's spring ploughing time, because you're provoking the war and you're almost delaying the spring ploughing on the island. No, these 1,000 people are all strong guys, just help spring ploughing ... Well, that's it! Wait until the spring ploughing is over, and you will come back and get the money to redeem these people ... "

Uh ...

In fact, in this negotiation, both sides of UU Reading www.uukanshu.com were just delaying time. The Frisians were really waiting for the French reinforcements to arrive, while Marin was going to recruit another 2,000 men and horses to train for them. After training, with the original soldiers and horses, swallow up the entire Friesland in one fell swoop. Therefore, regarding the result of this negotiation, he is not asking for a particularly harsh price, but hopes to quickly end the negotiations and pull the skin, so that he can go back to prepare for training and the next attack.

Anyway, Marin's most valued Schiermonnikoos and 5 warships and sailors are in hand. Everything else is not that important.

In the end, the two sides reached an agreement stating that Friesland would be primarily responsible for the conflict and permanently ceding the West Frisian Islands under the control of the Frisian Noble Republic, including Ameland and Schiermonnikoog, to the Ma forest.

In addition, the 5 warships and the sailors and gunners on board originally belonged to Marin.

Finally, it is difficult to reach agreement on the amount of compensation. In the end, Friesland decided to compensate Marin for 10,000 gold coins. At the same time, they agreed that Marin would openly recruit fishermen off the coast of Friesland to enrich the fishing villages of Ameland and Schiermonnikoog ...

As for the 1,000 captives, Marin also promised in writing that they would be released after the spring ploughing. Because of the war, spring plowing on Texel Island was severely affected. Therefore, Marin urgently needs a strong labor force to accelerate spring ploughing to catch the last train of spring ploughing. With such 1,000 strong laborers, and without working wages, how can Marin let it go? Didn't everything say in the movie, prisoners and captives are the best free labor. Even better, the captives are better. Because there may be old and weak in prisoners, and the captives are basically strong men ...

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