The Rise of the European Emperor

The collective replacement method led by Schwartz and Sauer has been implemented very smoothly. The members of the Habsburg family who manage the Duchy of Brabant have long received a secret order from Maximilian I, to The actions of the North Sea Kingdom are very cooperative. After all, the Principality of Geddes, who colluded with France, was itself the enemy of the Habsburgs. The Habsburgs are certainly happy to do things that bring bad luck to their enemies.

Schwartz's troop movement was also very smooth. As expected, the troops of the Principality of Geddes had gathered in the last Principality of Dess, and there was a lack of manpower to monitor the Rhine River. Coupled with the fact that the troop transport is nocturnal, it is even more difficult to find.

In fact, the river patrol officers in the lower Gedes region of the Gedes company knew that there were ships passing by in the middle of the night. However, they were treated as civilian ships for tax evasion. In this era, in order to avoid the toll tax, there are indeed many boats that travel at night. Moreover, these civilian boats evading taxes, like the smugglers in later generations, are a group of ruthless people. If you don't mobilize enough people, you might be beaten to death by these tax evaders. Therefore, a certain tax officer in Lower Geddes, who accidentally noticed a boat crossing in the middle of the night, chose to turn a blind eye. This unintentional move of his also completely declared that the Principality of Gede Company was doomed.

After passing through the Rhine River in the territory of the Principality of Gerdes, the fleet arrived at the port in the Duchy of Brabant. Then, with the assistance of the Habsburg family army, 3 kilograms of River Principality infantry and 1,000 North Sea country musketeers directly and rudely waded to land to buy time.

The men then changed into borrowed Habsburg army uniforms and flags and started filling their pockets with silt... After filling with silt, the pockets were placed on borrowed vehicles, and it seemed, and There is no difference in the rations.

Of course, the pockets on the car were not filled with sand and sand, but also the muskets and ammunition of the North Sea Country musketeers. As for the weapons of the Principality of Clifford's infantry, there is no need to hide them. Because most of this "grain transport team" should be infantry escorting grain and grass, and should carry weapons...

When the so-called "grain transport team" arrived at the Parson concentration camp in Brabant, the secret agents of the Gede company arranged near the camp were taken aback. They quickly reported to the country - a team of 2,000 people escorted a large amount of food and grass into the concentration camp...

Charles II, Duke of Geddes, who received the urgent report, was also startled.

But soon, another intelligence came from the Duchy of Brabant-the escort army of the grain transport team did not stop, but left...

On the bright side, the Brabant Parson concentration camp was guarded by about 4,000 "Habsburg troops". If you add 2,000 people, it is almost an increase of half of the troops. If 6,000 people guard the concentration camp, even if the Principality of Gedes intends to send 14,000 troops, it will take a long time to capture it.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is - Charles II, Duke of Geddes, thought the Habsburgs had discovered his little tricks...

If the Habsburgs were prepared,

If there are more troops, the Principality of Gede Company may not be able to take the concentration camp in a short time. If the concentration camp cannot be won in a short period of time, there will be two dangers - one is that the Habsburg family may send reinforcements to relieve the siege; the other is that the defenders of the concentration camp are afraid of massacring the "Swiss prisoners of war"... In desperate circumstances, The concentration camp guards chose to slaughter the prisoners of war before the concentration camp city was broken, so they were busy working in vain... Fortunately, the soldier of the ration team left...

But soon, the food delivery team reappeared... and then left...

"Phew—" Charles II, Duke of Geddes finally breathed a sigh of relief. The previous big ups and downs were too exciting, making him a little unacceptable.

Immediately, he began to ecstasy again:

"Ahaha, what a surprise! I didn't expect that the other party sent so much food. In this way, in addition to winning those Swiss mercenaries, we can also earn a lot of food! It's just that the army's food consumption Huge, and the Habsburgs have relieved my expense burden!"

"Congratulations to the Duke, even God is doing you a favor!" Bonitz, the highest military commander of the Geddes Corporation, flattered.

It's just that they didn't know that the two "grain transportation" operations under their noses actually replaced all 4,000 "defenders" in the concentration camp. The previous "defenders" were fake, but the current ones are serious...

In the next period of time, large-scale reconnaissance was launched on the side of Gede Company and Beihai Kingdom. The target of the spies from the Principality of Gerdes was to detect whether there were any Habsburg troops nearby. The direction of their reconnaissance is the area westward from the junction of the Upper Gedes region of the Duchy of Gedes and the eastern junction of the Duchy of Brabant. After all, the Habsburg family's territory is in the west, and the army can only appear in the west...

As for the scouts under the command of Sao Er of the North Sea, the goal of the reconnaissance is - whether the Principality of Gede Company has seen the tricks and whether it will continue to act...

In the end, both parties achieved satisfactory reconnaissance results - the spies of the Gedes Company reported that there was no large group of Habsburgs nearby; and the reconnaissance results of the North Sea State scouts - the Gedes did not Anomalies are found, and actions remain the same...

Now that the reconnaissance results are satisfactory, then, naturally, both sides will start to deploy their troops...

The most elite army of 14,000 people in the Principality of Geddes was gathered at the junction between the Upper Gedes area and the Principality of Brabant, ready to attack at any time.

The 20,000 troops of the North Sea Kingdom, including a total of 8,000 soldiers and horses raised by John II, Duke of Clifford, from the Duchy of Clifford and the Counties of Mark, were also quietly dispatched to the border between the Duchy of Clifford and the Duchy of Brabant. place……

It should be pointed out that the Duchy of Clifford and the Duchy of Brabant are directly bordered. The area on the west bank of the Rhine River in the Principality of Clifford directly divides the Principality of Geddes into two parts: Upper Geddes and Lower Geds.

However, the 4,000 soldiers and horses did not directly enter the territory of the Principality of Brabant from the Principality of Cliff. Because, at that time, the border between the Principality of Brabant and the Principality of Cliff was full of spies from the Principality of Geddes. On the contrary, 4,000 people had to hide from the spies and enter the territory of the Principality of Brabant. Because those spies also like to come out in the middle of the night to observe...

Therefore, the previous army of 4,000 soldiers and horses first sailed out of the Rhine River, then arrived in the Counties of Zeeland, and then entered Ghent, the capital of the Counties of Flanders (also the general capital of the Austrian Netherlands). Disguised as a grain convoy to Parsons. Because, the Austrian Netherlands forage is basically sent from Ghent. When I got there, I pretended to be a food delivery team, and there was no flaw...

But now that the troops are really dispatched, there is no need to go around such a big circle. Because the junction of the Principality of Clifford and the Principality of Brabant is not far from the Brabant Parson Concentration Camp, if you march quickly, you can reach it in one day.

However, the problem is that now we have to wait for the army of the Principality of Gerd to make the first move...

And the army of the Principality of Gedes did not live up to everyone's expectations. In April after the end of spring ploughing, troops were dispatched as scheduled and suddenly invaded the territory of the Principality of Brabant.