Chapter 134: Frisian changes master (below)

Although Meyer is just a merchant, he has a heart that wants to be a noble. Although he was rich, his status was not high, and he was discriminated against by aristocracy. So, he wanted to pay for a noble title.
However, although European aristocratic titles were also sold in this era, the gold content was very low. Mayer did buy a jazz title for money. However, this jazz, with only the title of bareness, has little practical benefit. At most, it is the exemption from entering the city. Moreover, because the title was bare, combined with the identity of his merchant, others knew that the title was bought immediately.
Aristocrats in general are all "from a certain family or some place", this is the source. From a certain family, this family must be a noble family. From somewhere, this place must be a fiefdom. The title of jazz bought by Meyer, but only the bare title of "Sir Meyer", can not be used from XXX ...
According to the practice of this era, generally only the nobles with a fiefdom, or jazz from a certain aristocratic family, were regarded as true nobles. Of course, those trainee knights, because of their high force, are advocating the use of force in Germany, and they are also regarded as the noble reserve. Moreover, those trainee knights can also use the prefix "from a certain knight family" to indicate their origin. The same is true for jazz and squires. People from a noble family are recognized because they can use "from a certain family". As for spending money, although it can be regarded as a low-level aristocracy, people do not accept it.
This is like the Ming Dynasty of the same era. People who passed the exams were regarded as "right" origins. And those diplomas that cost money. For example, the identity of a supervised student obtained by spending money on "donor supervision" is very despised. Although, supervisors can also be officials. However, under normal circumstances, jinshis who came from journeys and raise people can serve as officials in rich and prosperous areas. Supervisors who want to be officials can only go to the poor and dangerous areas of the northwest, southwest, and eastern Liaoning. Because there are no scholars from these places who are willing to go to these places, they can spend less money to buy a diploma supervisor.
Meyer has a strong heart to become a genuine aristocrat, and the difference between the genuine aristocracy and the jazz title he bought is actually a source. As long as the Duke of Saxony is willing to reward him with a fiefdom, he will have a provenance.
However, in this era, although nobles sold jazz titles, they did not sell them casually. This is a conventional rule. The title of the jazz is not hereditary, it doesn't matter if you sell it. But if you sell the land, it will be terrible. The fiefdom can be hereditary, and nobles with fiefdoms can also be counted as genuine aristocrats. Anyone who dares to sell indiscriminately will break the rules and be rejected by other nobles.
The old aristocrats were very resistant to the new aristocrats. Even people from low-level aristocratic families like Marin, after being baron lords, were rejected by the old aristocrats, not to mention letting a merchant become like them. Therefore, although the aristocrats are willing to use jazz that is not much use and exchange money from the wealthy merchants, they are not willing to make the merchants a true aristocracy.
Of course, if this businessman has a military exploit, then no one will object to being officially noble. Just like Marin, because he has made great achievements. Even if the old nobles somewhat rejected him, they would not despise him or deny him. Because, Marin won the title by virtue of actual combat. In Shangwu's Germany, military achievements are most respected. Everyone rejects Marin because Marin belongs to the emperor's camp and is naturally hostile to the princes. However, no one disputed Marin's noble status.
After learning that the Duke of Saxony surrounded Groningen, he was in the city, and his mind was immediately alive ...
Meyer is a weapon merchant. Before learning that Friesland was defeated, he brought a few carts of weapon armor to Friesland to sell.
Alas, the Friesian nobles knew that the French would support their weapons and armor, and they did not agree to purchase Meyer's goods. At this point, Meyer was unclear, so he stayed in the city and wanted to continue selling. He was accompanied by dozens of mercenary guards.
After the army of Saxony began to surround Groningen and launch an attack, Meyer's mind began to live ...
He felt that the opportunity for his military achievements came ...
If you can cooperate with the Duke of Saxony to win Groningen, then the Duke will definitely reward yourself. May improve the title, may give a fief ...
However, in the fierce siege battle, the 60 mercenaries in Meyer's hands were too few to be useful. Because after the start of the siege war, the Frisians had blocked the gates with large tree stumps, stones, bricks, etc. To capture the gate, 60 soldiers can defeat the soldiers near the gate. However, moving those stones and stumps was not easy.
So, in order to gain this battle, Mayer secretly contacted other Saxon Hanse merchants and asked them to borrow guards ...
A few days after the encounter, Meyer borrowed a number of escorts from various Saxon merchants. Although these merchants don't have many guards, but ten of you and eight of them also make up a lot. More than a dozen Saxon and Hansa merchants came up with 260 people ...
I happen to have a lot of weapons and plate armor in Meyer's hands ...
As a result, 260 mercenaries, under Meyer's command, were equipped with two-handed swords and plate armor, ready to capture the city gate ...
上午 On the morning of the seventh day, when the army of Saxony launched another assault, Meyer rushed to the east gate with 260 merchants wearing plate armor to guard ...
At this point, the main forces of the Frisian army were all drawn to the wall. For the gates that had been blocked early, there was not enough attention, and only dozens of soldiers were called to guard.
In the face of 260 heavily armed merchant guards, dozens of people guarding the city gate were unable to resist and were quickly cut down. Meyer was also a smart man. After controlling the gate, he immediately sent people to move away from the masonry and tree stumps. Moreover, the masonry and tree stumps blocked the stairs leading to the ground on the wall, preventing people on the wall from being killed.
After the rampant, the excess masonry and tree stumps were stacked behind the city gates, forming the style of fortifications. Meyer's guards, however, deployed half of them to guard behind the fortifications to prevent the Frisians from counterattacking.
刺激 In order to stimulate the death guards of the guards, Meyer signed the instrument on the spot and gave each mercenary guard a reward of 10 gold coins. And promised that even if they died, Meyer would send the money back to their hometown ...
In this stimulation, the morale of the guards really increased. Although the Frisians sent hundreds of people to launch a counterattack, they were beaten back by drugged guards with defensive fortifications and excellent equipment.
After an hour, just as the Frisians began to mobilize their main forces and prepare to come back to recapture the city gates, Meyer's guards finally cleared the masonry, wooden stakes behind the city gate, and opened the city gate ...
"Squeak ---" After a sour noise, the gates of Groningen's east city were opened by Meyer's men ...
的 The Saxon army that is siege is a little 愣, I do n’t know what happened ...
But Meyer didn't hesitate, he jumped out and yelled in the dialect of Saxony:
"Why are you still doing that? Hurry up!"
The Saxon soldiers woke up as they dreamed, and immediately rushed in without hesitation, and started a fierce street fight with the Frisians ...
After all, the Frisians lost their brilliance in the war with Marin. Many two-handed swordsmen are currently being held by Marin on the Wadden Islands to work hard and have not been returned.
Alas, the most fighting force in the city is currently only the 120 knights ...
As for the others, they are actually artillery soldiers who have been recruited. Their combat effectiveness is average. Let them defend the city, and they can fight against the enemy with huge terrain advantages. But as soon as the advantage of the wall was lost, they immediately persuaded ...
The Saxony's professional army defeated the Frisians, and Groningen could not stand it. The Governor of the Frisian Aristocratic Republic, Fyskefrijheid, and eight other noble parliamentarians decisively brought a batch of gold that was easily carried, 120 knights, and a group of fairly good soldiers, opened the west gate and rushed out ...
By coincidence, after learning that the East Gate was opened, the Duke of Saxony immediately transferred half of the troops in the other three directions to use it to break through the East Gate.
总 When Governor Fyskefrijheid and others rushed out of the West Gate with their elites, there were not many Saxon troops outside the West Gate, and they were not particularly elite. They were all infantry. The Friesian army that fled was riding a horse. After breaking through the line of surprise of the Saxony infantry, the men left ...
After all, the Saxons came to attack. The Saxon infantry outside Simon was still busy attacking the previous moment, but the next moment it became the attacked party. Therefore, they are unavoidably caught off guard. When the Frisian elite troops attacked, many of them were still climbing the city walls ... so, they had no time to set up a defensive formation, and they were suddenly rushed out by the Frisian breakout forces and they were too late ...
Alas, the Duke of Albrecht was not very concerned about those Friesland nobles who fled. Because, as long as it takes up Groningen, the finances of the Friesland aristocracy will collapse, and it will not be able to jump up.
Of course, he did not ignore the enemy's escape. To this end, he deployed 800 cavalry, Mavis took the lead, and chased the Frisian nobles. The Frisians fled this time, bringing a total of 120 knights and 300 horse infantry. When rushing out of the gate, 50 people were also lost. Now they only have about 370 people. If it is overtaken by 800 cavalry, it is bound to run.
Alas, the Frisian nobles clearly knew this. Therefore, when they ran away, they did not follow the road leading south to the west, but instead took the path leading north ...
Mavis did not chase the Frisian nobles, but he was not stupid. Without chasing the Frisian nobles, he simply headed westward and went directly to the city of Leeuwarden, sealing the road into the city.
Within Friesland, the two cities of Groningen and Leeuwarden are relatively strong and suitable for long-term adherence. In other cities, defense is not worth mentioning. As long as these two cities cannot resist for a long time ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The army of Saxony occupies the whole territory without any effort.
Although Mavis could not capture Leeuwarden, he could prevent the Frisian nobles from entering Leeuwarden to resist ...
Alas, the Frisian nobles were made a dilemma ...
In the next few days, after occupying Groningen, the Duke of Saxony left 2000 troops in Groningen, and the rest of the army continued to advance west and won the cities ...
But the Frisian nobles were forced to hide in the swamp area north of Leeuwarden, with some dilemmas ...
Friesland changed hands, it is already a matter of course. Although Leeuwarden is a sturdy city, there are only 1,000 defenders in it. In the face of tens of thousands of Saxons, it is a matter of time to fall behind. Therefore, a few Frisian nobles, in addition to surrender, are the way to exile, or they can be killed in battle. They were clearly unwilling to surrender or fight to death. So they can only choose exile. But they don't know where to go into exile ...
At the same time, the frisian messenger rushed to Lubeck, the capital of the Hanseatic League, and asked the alliance to help Groningen.
But Luebeck was silent ...
I have no reason for it, because the Saxons are also the second largest force in the Hanseatic League. If the Alliance is determined to fight the Duke of Saxony, the Alliance will inevitably split. Moreover, after the civil war, the alliance will also lose its strength greatly and no longer have the strength against the Kalmar alliance in Denmark.
Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Lubeck chose to remain silent, allowing the Duke of Saxony to occupy Groningen to ensure the stability within the alliance ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Welcome the book readers to read, the latest, fastest and most popular Works are all in ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Mobile users please go to read.