After Zieg obtained accurate information, he began to order people to strengthen the city walls while looking for iron sheets to cover the city gates. In addition, he also sent people to sneak into the eastern region to inquire about the information to confirm the authenticity of the information.

The most important thing is that Zieg retreated all the military camps that were originally deployed in the field. These military camps were originally deployed to launch an attack. Now they are still in the field, just waiting to be eliminated by the enemy's superior forces. Only by withdrawing back to the city can safety be ensured.

Then, Zieg selected a group of mountain people who were very familiar with the local terrain, formed a guerrilla team, and equipped them with many crossbows to raid the enemy's supply lines. These crossbows can fire rockets, mainly used to burn the enemy's food and grass, especially the forage of war horses.

However, guarding the city requires a lot of food. The Swiss don't have much food, so they can only ask for help from France. The carrier pigeon flew to Paris. François I thought about it and agreed to provide food and grass support to the Swiss. However, it takes time.

So, at the suggestion of French officials, Zieg deliberately sent people to the palace of Emperor Innsbruck, the capital of Tyrol, to pretend to negotiate "recruitment".

Zieg's envoy pretended to agree to join the Habsburg family, but demanded a certain right to autonomy. At the same time, for the sake of the generals of the Resistance Army, he asked for the title of baron and territory.

In fact, Zieg and a group of Swiss resistance generals never thought of seeking refuge with the Habsburg family. They just had to delay time because the food supported by France had not been delivered.

The emperor had doubts about Zige's messenger, but the messenger sent by Zige was very smart. At the beginning, he asked for a lot of prices and insisted on ensuring the autonomy of western Switzerland, which made the emperor believe it a little...

If the envoy said he wanted to surrender unconditionally, the emperor would definitely not believe it. Because there would be no pie falling from the sky. However, the Resistance Army's request for such rudeness (which seemed rude to the Habsburgs) was a bit like the real thing.

Of course, the emperor refused to let western Switzerland be autonomous. In addition, he wanted to paralyze the Swiss resistance through negotiations. So, he pretended to consider it. But secretly, he began to arrange for the transfer of Goodendorff's army to the front line.

But the soldiers of Gudendorf said that they should settle their families before attacking. Therefore, for a while, Gudendorf's army could not enter the battlefield. Therefore, whether it was Zieg's resistance or Maximilian I, they were willing to pretend to negotiate to delay time. In fact, neither side had any sincerity...

Zieg wanted to delay time and to France to transport food. Maximilian I had to wait for Goodendorf's men to settle and rush to the front line. In addition, he also wanted to catch the Swiss resistance army off guard... So, both sides pretended to negotiate, deliberately quarreling for small conditions, and spent time...

But neither side knew, neither side was actually ready. So, they were actually a waste of time when negotiating acting...

Not only did Zieg's Swiss Resistance Army's food and grass not be in place, but the food and grass needed by Gudendorf's 16,000 troops were not in place. It was true that Maximilian I received the loan from Marin, but it was useless to have money, and he had to purchase food. This took time, so Maximilian I allowed Gudendorf and his men to settle their families first. Because it also took time for Maximilian I's men to use money to purchase and transport food.

In particular, Maximilian I originally wanted to buy military rations with Marin, who had sufficient food. However, because Maximilian I did not agree to besiege France together, Marin was a little reluctant to sell grain to the emperor, and found a lot of excuses that the storage of food was not enough. The emperor had no choice but to purchase food from other places.

For cost considerations, the emperor ordered people to be sent to the Lviv region of Poland, which had the lowest food prices in Europe at this time...

At this time, although Lviv was located in the black soil zone of Ukraine, it belonged to Poland and the most important grain-producing area in Poland. In history, Lviv later belonged to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and was later divided into Austria in Poland. After World War II, the Soviet Union, as a victorious country, ruthlessly took away the fertile area of ​​Lviv. As compensation, the Soviet Union assigned most of the Silesian region, which originally belonged to East Germany, to Poland. Of course, this was the Soviet Union's generous gift for others, and the unlucky one was actually Germany.

In this era, the Lviv region had a higher grain output due to fertile black soil. The local area was vast and sparsely populated, and the land was fertile. Therefore, the price of grain was very cheap, only 0.5 to 0.6 per pound of rye, which was only half that of the German region.

However, it was very difficult to transport grain from southern Poland to Switzerland. Fortunately, the emperor found a very powerful merchant in Moldavia (later Moldova). He could transport grain to the main Danube River through the Siret River, a tributary of the Danube River that originated near Lviv, on the Danube River. Then, he went all the way to reach Bavaria. Bavaria was very close to Switzerland, so it was more convenient to transport grain. In general, it was a little cheaper than purchasing grain from the North Sea. Mainly, there were too many mountain roads to transport the land from Bavaria to Switzerland, and the cost of land transportation was very high. Otherwise, the transportation cost would be cheaper.

However, transporting it out of Lviv, taking the Siret River, entering the Danube River, and then going to Bavaria and then moving onto the mountain road... Although the cost is low, it takes a long time. This is also the biggest reason why Maximilian I needed to delay the attack. Zieg didn't know, and he foolishly sent people to fake negotiations with the emperor to delay time. Little did he know that he didn't have to do this, and His Majesty the Emperor was unable to launch an attack in a short period of time...

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Marin laughed so much about this self-deceptive pair after learning the truth from the spy report stationed in Switzerland. Of course, he didn't say it out loud, just waiting for both sides to be proud of themselves, and finally found out that the day had been in vain.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Of course, Marin has more important things to do - he wants to take his son to London for engagement...

Although many people are now watching whether Queen Mother Anne of France can get pregnant and give birth to a postpartum child, Marin knows that it is impossible. Because Queen Mother Anne has long lost her fertility, it is the medicine he ordered in person.

So, when others were watching, he had already been sure. While others were waiting, Marin and Caesar had already prepared to go to London.

In fact, there is no custom of making children in Europe. Marin took Caesar on this trip and would not have made a marriage contract with Edward. The reason for this is mainly because the death rate of children in Europe is extremely high. For example, Queen Anne in later generations gave birth to 17 children but did not live to adulthood.

Therefore, Europeans generally do not marry a baby. Because even a king cannot guarantee that his children can live to adulthood. It is a waste of effort to marry a baby. It is better to wait until both parties live to the corresponding age before discussing marriage.

But Marin's trip was not to confirm the engagement in writing, but to take her son to declare the ownership of Princess Margaret.

As the only daughter of the King of England, marrying Princess Margaret means that it is very likely to inherit the entire Kingdom of England, including Scotland and Ireland conquered by Edward.

Therefore, there are quite a few people who covet Princess Margaret. Everyone wants their son to marry Princess Margaret and then become the ruler of England.

Originally, because of Louis XII, most people dared not jump out to fight. But now that Louis XII is dead, many people are ready to move.

What? You say that according to the Treaty of Nantes, Marin's son Caesar was the second-ranked person who married Princess Margaret?

Having said that, some unsightly nobles in England do not think so. Just as the French did not accept the King of England as King of France a hundred years ago, there were also many nobles in England who disagreed with the marriage between Caesar and Princess Margaret and became the King of England.

Inspired by the French, some great English nobles believed that a noble child of noble origin could be selected from within England to marry Princess Margaret. This would be considered as "there is no good or poor water flowing to the outsiders' fields."
Chapter completed!