Chapter 422 Hot Spring Conspiracy
“Ah chirp!”
“Ah chirp!”
“Ah chirp...”
Frederick suddenly didn’t notice I sneezed three times without warning.
Mary beside him asked with concern: "Did you catch a cold?"
Penelope in Frederick's arms also asked him: "When did you get hit by the wind?"
< br>You should not take colds lightly these days. If you are not careful, big problems will occur.
Frederick shook his head and said: "It's okay, let's continue."
Everyone thought that Frederick was in the hot spring on the mountain at this time with the people he brought and later went there for. The beauties are acting wildly, but they are partly wrong.
The servants and attendants in the hot spring have all been replaced by people brought by Mary, and nothing that happens here will be revealed, lest anyone who is interested discover the clues.
Tonight Frederick entered the room with Mary and Penelope. The three of them were on the bed, but instead of engaging in hand-to-hand combat, they spread out a map.
On the grounds of friendship and security between the two countries, Frederick sent an airship to send the envoy from the Kingdom of Gaul back home. Along the way, he found out the location of the current King Louis of Gaul and the distribution of the surrounding military camps.
The three continued to discuss the military situation.
Mary pointed to the Tulus Fortress on the Gallic side of the border between the Kingdom of Gaul and the Kingdom of Tarago and said to Penelope: "Now the main food and grass are concentrated here, and their king is also here. Here, it means that their focus will only be on you.”
Penelope pointed to the border between the two countries and said: "If they want to come over, they need to cross the Snowy Cow Mountains, which are hundreds of kilometers wide. The roads there are difficult to travel and transportation is very troublesome."
Frederick put his chin on On her shoulder, he sighed and said: "What's more troublesome is that the Gauls ordered a large number of steel four-wheel transport carriages from us, because the extra money was added to the order."
Now he has not Declared war with the Kingdom of Gaul, so there is no reason to cut off their orders.
Personal relationships and national interests are two different things. Penelope knew clearly, so she didn’t say anything.
Mary pointed to the sea outside the two ends of the Snow Cow Mountains and asked: "What if they ship by sea?"
Penelope replied: "The northern seas are interfered by ships from the Kingdom of Lisenberg, so it's not a big problem."
"The southern seas belong to Pietro. He is our maritime overlord. We all Unable to win over him, he has now declared neutrality. "Without his nod, the Gauls can't even transport a chicken."
Frederick pointed at the snow. Niu Shanshan said: "The road is difficult to walk, which shows that it is difficult for the army of the Kingdom of Gaul to go and come back."
Penelope immediately said: "There are fortresses at both ends of the main passage in the mountain, and it is difficult to short-circuit it." Attack them within a short period of time and trap them in the country.”
Frederick did not speak, but clicked on the city of Leman in the westernmost part of the Helvetia Federation.
The two understood what he meant. If the army of the Kingdom of Gaul crossed the Snow Ox Mountains to the west and entered the Kingdom of Tarago, and the Helvetia Federation attacked the city of Leman in the east of the Kingdom of Gaul, then You must face a multiple-choice question.
Mary frowned and said: "I have hired mountain mercenaries and calculated that the Helvetia Federation's siege is worrisome, otherwise it would have started to recover it long ago."
Penello Pu went on to say: "I passed by Leman City when I came here and saw the surrounding terrain."
"This city is at the southernmost end of Lake Leman, and one corner of the lake stretches out like a cut cake. To the city, there are two rivers flowing through it.”
"There are high mountains to the east and west of the city, and only the narrow area between the mountains and the lake is passable."
"The Gauls built a group of fortresses beside the main road to the north outside the city and on the top of the mountain. The army wanted to spend a lot of money to get there. Destroy it with great force."
After thinking for a while, Mary said: "The best time to take action is when you have firmly stuck the main force of the Kingdom of Gaul like paste, so that you can give Leman City this opportunity. "
Frederick asked Penelope: "If our food problem is solved, can it be done?"
Penelope said proudly: "Our soldiers are also very brave."
The next moment she said anxiously: "But my father is worried that the Gauls will collude with the pagans. If the pagans make moves on the border, we will be tied up with a large number of troops. If these troops are transferred away from the defense line, we may be breached. In the end, we will be defeated." The bad thing is that our land to the west will be occupied."
Frederick nodded. The geography of this world is both similar and different to that of his hometown. Even if the Sahara desert turns into a rainforest, it doesn't matter if the Caucasus Mountains lose the Black Sea and directly connect to the Caspian Sea, but there is an extra Kingdom of Lisenberg in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. What the hell, there is a Kingdom of Madeira on a large piece of land that juts out to the west.
This geographical change divides the ocean currents. Some of the warm currents from the north of the equatorial region enter the Mediterranean and circulate in western Africa. The abundant water vapor turns the Sahara Desert into a rain forest; at the same time, the cold currents from the north enter the Mediterranean Sea and circulate in western Africa. Some parts cannot reach the south, and there is less warm current going north, making the north even colder.
At the same time, the convergence of ocean currents in the west made the sea conditions rough and the difficulty of getting to the New World greatly increased.
Geography determines geoeconomics and politics. The continent protruding westward increases the cost of shipping from the north to the south of the continent. A canal connecting the Rhine and Danube rivers reduces the cost of north-south transportation and enriches Frederick, but it adds a lot of trouble to other places.
Frederick finished complaining about the geographical environment in his heart, hugged Penelope's hand tightly, and asked: "What if I send troops to reinforce the defense line?"
"Really? ?" Penelope suddenly became excited, "Can you really send troops there? "
The Wesson Army is famous, and they will not dare to act rashly when they reach the front line of Madeira. It will take a lot to test the reality. Time, this time is enough for them to deal with internal affairs.
Frederick nodded and said: "We are preparing to expand the army, but there will be no wars in the surrounding area for a short period of time. We need a whetstone to hone the army."
"It is not realistic to take over the entire defense line. It can be arranged in some key places."
After he finished speaking, Mary immediately said: "We can also send troops over here."
"Now I After my sister became the emperor, some old ministers were not easy to arrange, and some political opponents were difficult to deal with. The young people who had just taken refuge did not know their true level. It would be better to send them to the front line of the pagan war to hone their skills, and then give them some glory at home. And benefits, this will be much more convenient."
"Well, we can also provide some help to the Helvetia Federation when attacking Leman City."
Osmaga Empire. The transition of a big country with complicated internal relations is very dangerous. If you are not careful in sorting out the internal relations, the world will collapse. The outside world is even more eager to see if they can bite off a piece of meat, so Mary is the protector of the country.
Now Queen Anna not only has to deal with internal affairs, but also wants to show her claws externally to scare her neighbors. Mary is keenly aware that Penelope provides a good starting point.
Pagans are a politically correct place to spawn monsters, and no one can refuse them in principle.
Their family has a big business, and if something leaks out, it will be enough for Penelope's family to change the situation, and even help the Helvetia Federation regain Leman City.
As soon as this claw is handed out, the surrounding countries will not dare to despise this seemingly old behemoth.
In this way, Frederick had a place to train for war, the Osmaga Empire had a place to deal with internal affairs and maintain its prestige, and Archduke Suarez had a reliable backer, the Helvetia Federation. The hope of regaining the city of Leman was achieved only by the wounded world of the Kingdom of Gaul.
The general direction was set, and the details were carefully studied by their subordinates. For example, Frederick and Anna wanted to join forces to obtain military funds from the Church of Light. We were going to fight the heretics. How could the church just watch and not pay.
This pair of Frederick and Mary were just taking advantage of the situation for their own benefit, but it was nothing more than a life-saving straw for Penelope. She was so excited that she hugged them and kissed them.
What happened next is self-evident.
In the middle of the night, Frederick left this room, went to another room, and carried a courtesan sent by Count Sforza inside to the hot spring.
What happened in the hot springs is also self-evident.
Frederick thought about it. Although Count Sforza and the others had tricked him once, they supported him because of his good attitude towards him.
So Frederick asked this courtesan to deliver a message to Count Sforza, asking him to "judge that the real target of the Kingdom of Gaul is the Kingdom of Tarago, and he contacted Duke Wesson and Duke Marie. None of the other parties have explicitly objected to providing support for the Helvetian Federation to regain Leman City." It's up to him how to do it.
Anyway, there is no evidence for this kind of private verbal agreement. Even if the Kingdom of Gaul knew about it, it would be easy to reject it. Various violent opinions among the people are endless. Who takes it seriously and who is a fool.
When the Rhine League assisted the Kingdom of Lisenberg in expelling the Kingdom of Gaul, it was not airtight, but the Black Forest mercenaries of the Rhine League were also time-honored mercenaries, even Eugene, who was Gaul at that time The officer also thought that it was not surprising at all that mercenaries appeared in the Kingdom of Lisenberg.
Later, if Frederick had not recognized the matter later, the Kingdom of Gaul would have continued to think so.
In the next few days, Frederick continued to live a luxurious life here in the hot springs, until the Archduke of Mainz and the Archduke of the Palatinate rode a fire dragon from Cologne.
“His Majesty William has passed away?!”
Frederick was shocked. His Grand Duke canonization ceremony will not be held until the spring equinox next year. Why did he die?
“Your Majesty called my name three times before he died?!”
Frederick was completely stupid.
(End of this chapter)