It can be said that after sending 15,000 troops southward, the Beihai Kingdom fell into a state of empty troops. Including the 5,000 people left by the First Legion and the 5,000 police officers transferred to Orich, at this time, Orich only had 10,000 troops to fight. As for the 20,000 new recruits formed by the military and civilian strength, they could only help defend the city at most and could not be used for field battles.

Therefore, the entire Beihai Kingdom is a bit weak at the moment. Fortunately, after defeating the eight vassal states, Marin concentrated several captured princes and most of the nobles of the eight countries in the Bremen area. And half of the forces of Steindorf's Third Legion were stationed in Bremen Province to guard against the princes and nobles of the eight countries who were forced to migrate.

With the defense of the Third Legion, he was not worried about the captured princes and nobles causing any trouble. What's more, for safety reasons, Marin simply asked Steindorf to temporarily move all the troops and horses of the Third Legion to Bremen to ensure that these captured princes and nobles could not escape and cause chaos.

Marin made a beautiful move. If these nobles were allowed to stay in their hometown, they would definitely take the opportunity to cause trouble once they saw the North Sea country's military strength was empty. Faced with the rebellion of these local snakes in their hometown, Marin would pay a lot of money to suppress them. Therefore, he simply migrated the main nobles of those countries to Bremen Province for every victory over a country. In this way, although Bremen Province was harmed, other provinces were no longer in danger of chaos.

As for the eight vassal states conquered last year, Marin's current control over the local area is still relatively weak. However, this summer, a large number of veterans will be retired. The total number is estimated to be as high as 2,000. Marin plans to disperse the officers of these veterans to the territory of the 8 vassal states and let them serve as sheriffs. Then, draw personnel from the local civilians and bravery to form more police forces. If 500 veterans serve as sheriffs, each training of 25 people will be equivalent to adding 12,500 police forces to the Beihai Kingdom. With these policemen, and the original nobles were basically immigrated to Bremen, Marin's control over the eight vassal states can be roughly completed. At present, Marin only needs to ensure that there is no rebellion in those places.

Fortunately, the French that Marin feared the most now, now all the main force is in Italy, and it is impossible for him to threaten the land of the North Sea Kingdom. As for the German princes, they can free up their hands to deal with him. However, they are not willing to die at the moment, and they have no reason to take action. Moreover, they sent 15,000 troops south, but they helped Bohemia King Vladislas II, one of the seven German electoral emperors, to suppress the peasant uprising. At this time, whoever organized the troops to fight with Marin was to hit Vladislas II in the face. No matter what, Vladislas II was the top leader among the secular princes of the Shenluo Empire (it was just that he didn't like to manage things, so he took the dominance away by Frederick III, the Elector of Saxony).

Compared with Marin, the nobles obviously hated the rebellious peasants more. In their opinion, the dispute with Marin was nothing more than hostility with different political views. And for the rebellious peasants, the nobles had the same attitude - they must be killed!

Therefore, when Marin sent troops to help other nobles suppress the peasant uprising, others could not find an excuse to target Marin. Even if someone ignored it, it would be difficult to bring together the princes of all Germany. As long as there were not many vassal states, Marin would not be afraid even if he had only two legions to guard the land and plus 20,000 new recruits. The only thing he was worried about was that the place outside the East Friesland province was destroyed by the enemy. After all, this amount of military force would definitely be given priority to defend the core area. As for remote areas, he could only give up for the time being...

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However, Marin actually has not only such a small amount of troops. For example, he still has tens of thousands of sailors available...

Marin now has more than 10,000 sailors serving him, and at the end of May and early June, maritime trade is not the peak season. Therefore, Marin simply convened 5,000 sailors who are fine in the largest seaport Emden and held a sailor competition...

What is a sailor martial arts competition? It is very different from a land infantry competition. Land martial arts competitions are either riding a horse or in the infantry battle. Sailor martial arts competitions are completely different from it. Cavalry warfare is impossible, and infantry warfare is also very different from a land martial arts battle.

Because the sailors were fighting against the enemy on the shaking ship left and right. However, the competition at Emden Port obviously cannot be competed on the ship. Otherwise, the audience would not be able to see it.

So, Marin thought of a solution - he asked someone to make huge wooden boards, then drill holes at both ends, tie iron chains, and hang them in the air. Then, it became something similar to a swing.

However, this wooden board is very long and wide, a bit like the deck of a small boat. After someone pushes the swing, it is very similar to the scene where the boats sway left and right on the sea.

At this time, Marin asked the sailors of both sides to jump onto a wide wooden board, pull out the sailor's scimitar, and compete with each other, which can easily simulate the situation of fighting on the ship.

Of course, the sailor scimitar used in the competition must have no edges, and it also wraps the blade with a cloth strip to prevent the contestant from hurting the opponent.

At the same time, both sides of the competition will also wear wooden armor and wire masks and helmets to avoid being accidentally injured during the competition...

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Marin personally took the guards to the square outside Emden City to watch the 5,000 sailors' competition, and set up a high bonus.

In addition, when the sailors jumped on the wide wooden boards shaking left and right to compete, Marin sent a violinist to play the theme song of his previous life "Pirates of the Caribbean" - "He is a Pirate". Of course, Marin had named this song "He is a Knight". However, such passionate music is also very appropriate to set off the sailors' competition. In fact, this song was originally called "He is a Pirate", which was used to set off the sailors' swordplay on the wooden boards shaking left and right, which was more appropriate to set off the sailors' swordplay...

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"I announce that the sailors' competition will begin now!" After Marin announced loudly with a trumpet, the contestants who participated in the competition tied their armor on the boat, wore wire masks and helmets, and took the unbladed sailor scimitar wrapped in cloth strips, and jumped onto the wide wooden board that was shaking left and right...

After looking at it, the referee announced loudly:

"Simulate the calm sea conditions!"

Then, the wide wooden board was shaking left and right with a very small amplitude under artificial control. The two sailors who participated in the competition held a sailor scimitar wrapped in cloth strips and slid forward and fought with the opponent. At the same time, the passionate violin song "He is a Pirate" sounded on the side...

Amid the cheers of the audience, the two fought back and forth on the wooden board until one of them was stabbed in the chest...

Afterwards, the referee announced the victory and defeat, and announced:

"Now, simulate medium storm!"

The wide wooden board shaking left and right increased the difficulty of the two sailors competing. However, both sides were old sailors, and this shaking could not help them. In the end, one of the sailors suddenly made a foot during the battle and kicked the other party off the wooden board...

Of course, the wooden plank is very close to the ground, and you will not be injured even if you fall off the wooden plank. However, according to the rules, falling off the wooden plank is equivalent to falling into the sea in a naval battle, which is equivalent to losing...

Finally, the two sailors fought on a wide wooden board with a very large swaying range while simulating strong winds and waves. This time, one of them did not stand firm and fell down by themselves, and they were directly judged to be lost...

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Then, the contestants from other groups took the stage one after another, giving the audience a wonderful simulated boat fighting, which made the audience excited. In particular, there was the passionate song "He is a Pirate" next to it as the voice.

Because of this wonderful sailor competition, many local teenagers in East Friesland actually had the idea of ​​becoming a sailor. For a time, the number of registrations for the seafarer school increased a lot...

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At the same time, this sailor martial arts competition also made foreign spies who came to watch the battle realize one thing - even if the Second Legion left the local area, Marin could still draw thousands of sailors with superb swordsmanship from the sailors to guard the local area.

These sailors may not be able to defeat regular infantry in field battles. However, in the battle of defending the city, these sailors who are good at fighting in small spaces are more suitable for repelling invading enemies on the city walls...

And this is exactly the original intention of Marin to hold this sailor competition - let people know that he can also draw thousands of sailors to help defend the city...
Chapter completed!