Chapter 991 The Death of Caesar Porgia (Part 1)
Although Senegal's Fur Company was named by Marin and its main employees were also provided by Marin, it is legally a Portuguese company whose legal representative is Jorge de Rencastre, Duke of Coimbra, Portugal.
In other words, without the support of Jorge de Renkastre, Duke of Coimbra, Marin's behavior of hunting rhinoceros skin in Senegal will not be able to continue. After all, the Senegal region is the colonial sphere of influence in Portugal.
Therefore, Eschweiin was very clear about it, and they had to give in. Moreover, both sides agreed that all rhino horns and ivory belonged to Jorge de Lentástre, Duke of Coimbra, and rhino horns and ivory were also the most valuable things on the West African prairie in Senegal. Although it was just Mido's threat at the moment, Eschweiin knew in his heart that Jorge de Lentástre would also support this decision. Because this decision was very beneficial to Jorge de Lentástre, Duke of Coimbra.
However, Eschweiin had no right to decide. After all, the steel bead bullets needed to hunt elephants were produced by local craftsmen. Therefore, he could only report to Marin and requested to allocate more steel bead bullets.
Before the new steel bead bullets allocated from the local area arrived, he continued to hunt West African black rhinoceros to obtain enough rhinoceros skin.
In fact, because Maximilian I asked to postpone the attack, Eschweiin's speed of hunting rhinos might not be able to keep up with the local demand. After all, Marin was supposed to launch an attack in September. However, in that case, the supply of rhino leather armor might not be able to keep up. Because it would take a long time to peel the rhino's skin off the rhino, make it nitrogen, and then make it into leather armor. Maximilian I delayed the time until November, just giving Eschweiin enough time.
The skins of the first batch of more than 400 West African black rhinos have been peeled off and have been initially processed, and are ready to be shipped back to China, and handed over to craftsmen who specialize in making leather armor to make leather armor. However, the skin of a rhino can only be made of several sets of rhino leather armor. The skins of more than 400 West African black rhinos can only be made of more than 2,000 sets of rhino leather armor.
But this is also impossible, because the chassis range of the West African black rhinoceros is too large. A rhino land is 10 square kilometers, and more than 400 heads are more than 400 square kilometers! If the hunting team hadn't ridden a pyrbu horse, it would have been impossible to hunt more than 400 West African black rhinoceros in the short term. You must know that more than 400 square kilometers are more than the area of the local East Friesland Province.
Fortunately, Reus divided the 100 Musketeers into a group of three people, a total of 33 groups, which expanded the hunting range a lot. Otherwise, the efficiency would be slower. Even so, hunting rhino leather with enough rhino leather armor worn by 15,000 people before November is a difficult task.
Fortunately, Marin also expects the entire army to be equipped with rhinoceros leather armor. For example, in order to deal with the possible shortcomings of rhinoceros leather armor, Marin also prepared a lot of "mahjong mats" wooden pieces of armor. The mahjong mats are also lightweight and convenient for crossing mountains and rivers. Moreover, the Siena defenders did not become a musketeer. In dealing with Siena's crossbowmen, mahjong mats wooden pieces of armor also have a certain effect. Moreover, when the war begins, Marin will put the warrior wearing rhinoceros leather armor in front. The warrior wearing wooden pieces of armor in the back. This can greatly reduce casualties.
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Just as Marin was preparing to head south to Italy to attack Siena, at the end of July, at the hottest time of the year, a shocking assassination occurred in the outskirts of Pamplona, the capital of the Navarra Kingdom in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula...
The object of assassination was naturally the famous Caesar Porgia...
At the warning of the Pope's father-in-law, Marin sent people to the Kingdom of Navarra to reconnaise Caesar Bogia's movements a few years ago.
However, what made Marin depressed was that since he arrived at the Kingdom of Navarra, Caesar Bogia has acted very low-key and lived in simplicity, so it is difficult to have the chance to assassinate. Moreover, the most depressing thing is that this guy is as afraid of death as Marin. Every time he goes out, he wears a chest armor and a steel helmet...
Fortunately, this guy is not like this all year round. Because the summer in Spain is very hot. If you wear a plate armor on a hot day, you must die of heat. After all, the temperature in Spain is more than 30 degrees. How can you wear such a thick weather?
At the end of last year, Marin had already decided to hire assassins to assassinate Caesar Borgia in the summer... and the way to assassinate was to fly a knife...
The reason why I chose to use a flying knife is not how powerful the flying knife is, but because it is easy to use and hide... After all, an assassin can put a flying knife on his own. However, if he uses a crossbow, it is easy to be exposed.
This is because the only way to assassinate Caesar Borgia is to go to church every Sunday morning on the way back and forth. How to hide crossbows during the brilliant day? Therefore, you can only use a flying knife with good concealment. As for short muskets, it is also a good tool. But the problem is that there are very few countries using short muskets, and Marin's North Sea Kingdom is the representative of it. If you assassinate Caesar Borgia with short muskets, isn't it equivalent to telling others - I killed Caesar?
Fortunately, because of Henry VII, the popular darts movement in England caused a large number of darts masters to appear in England. In this assassination, Marin hired a group of English dart masters to assassinate Caesar Borgia with poisoned darts.
Moreover, the one responsible for hiring this group of dart masters this time is a killer organization called "Assassin's Creed"...
In fact, the leader of Assassin's Creed with the pseudonym Altaïr was just an ordinary Italian spy from the North Sea Chamber of Commerce under Kohler. His real name was Egio.
After receiving support from the North Sea Chamber of Commerce, Egio recruited a group of veteran assassins in Italy and Spain in the name of Altaïr, and planned several successful paid assassins. Then, Egio sent someone to England to recruit a group of dart masters, allowing them to repeatedly practice the technique of using dart assassination.
Until the end of July, when Spain's hottest time of the year, the group of English dart masters were finally ready...
However, they did not immediately assassinate Caesar Bogia, but learned the Spanish Navarre dialect for a long time. Then, they came to the road that Caesar Bogia often walked outside the city of Pamplona half a month in advance. Moreover, before taking action, they met with Caesar Bogia's team several times...
When he first met with Caesar Borgia's team, Caesar Borgia felt a dangerous aura inexplicably, but nothing happened. Even the alert Caesar Borgia asked his subordinates to search the English dart masters. However, nothing was found. Then, Caesar Borgia felt relieved.
Afterwards, Caesar Bogia asked his subordinates to investigate the origins of these people and found that they were porters from other places. However, after monitoring for a few days, they did not find any suspicious places.
Chapter completed!