Chapter 77： Assault on Oldenburg

The eastern border of Lyle County is not too far from Oldenburg, less than 40 kilometers away. The horse ran for an hour and rested for half an hour, and then ran for another hour, and it was almost there. Then, feed some oatmeal to recover.

For this reason, before the expedition, each horse used by the army was fitted with a rucksack with a dozen pounds of fried oats in it. In Marlin's war horse Karl, the sash on the neck is higher, it is fried soybeans ... who asked Amerigo to send a few bags of soybeans back ...

After the assembly, taking advantage of the faint moonlight emitted by the crescent moon in the sky, 5000 veterans stepped on the warhorse, armed with weapons, and ran all the way towards the city of Oldenburg ...

Because the weapon is a large shield with a large door, the soldiers of the large shield riding horses suffer the most. Therefore, Malinte equipped the 100 large shield soldiers with double horses. Because, the shield is quite heavy ... As for the other 100 shield soldiers, they were sent to Hamburg by the ship. They will meet Schwarz's army outside Hamburg in the middle of the night ... In addition, Donnie Curry's blasting team is also very suffering, bringing a few gunpowder barrels, and also needing a double horse ...

5000 cavalry, the march is very powerful, but it is not chaotic at all. This is because Marin has trained once before to hurry up at night and everyone has experience.

Led the scouts under Sauer. These days, they have to take this road every night to get acquainted with the situation and prepare for the large army as a guide. After so long, they are already very familiar with this road.

Under the guidance of the scout guide, the army roared by the moonlight, and the sound of horseshoes made the earth tremble. Although the estates passing by along the way were alarmed, no one dared to come out to inquire about the news, and no one dared to report to Oldenburg. Because no one is a fool, not to mention the danger at night, as long as someone sees a horse riding towards Oldenburg, it will definitely be chased.

In this way, Marin brought a total of 100 large shield soldiers, 1,000 musketeers and 3900 lancers to gallop, and spent more than three hours to arrive outside Oldenburg.

According to the previous arrangement, the army quietly went outside the east gate of Oldenburg. Because, during the day, Marin had sent people to declare war. At this time, he was facing the west gate of East Frisian Lambert. Therefore, attacking from the east gate is the best choice.

Then, Marin took the army and took a rest for an hour away from the east gate and fed the horses with oats. After that, Marin took out the double-gun artillery dedicated to the army and dropped one into the sky ... At the same time, everyone started again ...

Long waiting for the 100 East Frisian Scouts in the east gate of Oldenburg city, they immediately swarmed from the nearby houses to kill the defenders of the undefended Old City Gate ...

At the same time, Marin's army also began to steer the horse, close to the city gate. After arriving outside the city gate, everyone dismounted, handed over the horse to a small number of soldiers, and then quickly began to line up. Among them, 100 large shield soldiers are at the forefront ...

The movement of the army outside the city alarmed the defenders on the tower. However, by the time they responded, it was too late. Because, the 100 scouts who attacked the Dongcheng Gate have already opened the Dongcheng Gate ...

Then, the 100 large shield soldiers took the lead and rushed into the city with the large shield on the door panel ...

Marin suddenly remembered that he could not let the enemy run away. So he immediately ordered 1,000 men to guard at the north gate of Oldenburg to avoid the escape of the Oldenburg family members.

Oldenburg is a river to the south and east Friesland to the west. If the East Gate is broken, the opponent is likely to run north. Therefore, Marin sent 1,000 people to block people outside the North Gate. In addition, Ximen also went to 300 people. If someone from Ximen breaks through, the person sent to Ximen will take the initiative to release a double-sounding firecracker and send a signal.

At this time, in the city of Oldenburg, there was a mess. There are only 1,000 defenders in the city, half of which are on the walls, and the other half are protecting the royal palace in the center of the city. Those residents, daring to go out in the middle of the night when they heard shouts, just jumped at home.

Therefore, there were no people on the streets of Oldenburg at this time. Therefore, Marin directly led more than three thousand troops and quickly approached the direction of the palace ...

At this time, John V and other members of the Oldenburg family were awakened:

"What happened? What happened?" John V asked aloud when he saw a mess outside and got up quickly.

"Master Earl, the East Frisian army is here!" A court guard shouted anxiously.

"What? So fast? They only wrote the war books during the day ..." John V looked pale. At this time the Oldenburg army was unprepared, and only Simon had blocked the door with something in the city. The other gates are not ready for defense.

John V was still stunned. Marin's army had rushed to the center of the city and quickly completed the siege of the palace. In addition, Marin also sent people to control the other three gates. When he learned that the inside of the West Gate was blocked with bricks and wood by the Oldenburg people, Marin assuredly separated the horses to the North Gate and South Gate to seize the city gate.

It is very easy to grab the city gate from the city gate, because the other party never thought that they would be attacked from behind. In this way, the North Gate and South Gate were quickly captured, and only some of the defenders of the South Gate escaped from the city, and boarded the small boat on the Hangt River to escape. But according to the captives, the people who escaped were ordinary soldiers, not members of the Oldenburg family that Marin valued.

In fact, the members of the Oldenburg family basically live in the palace compound and do not have a residence outside the palace. Of course, it is better to say that it is a royal palace than a large castle complex.

The largest castle in the middle is obviously the residence of John V. There are several small castles on the side, where all the people of John V lived. However, for safety, several castles are inside a tall wall, guarded by a large number of troops.

When the north gate was opened, 1,000 people outside the north gate also came in and participated in the siege of the Oldenburg palace. In addition to guarding more than 800 soldiers at the other three gates and 300 people outside Ximen, the remaining 3,800 soldiers surrounded the Oldenburg palace with only 500 defenders.

And the 500 defenders on the city wall surrendered from time to time, that is, tied down under the wall with a rope and fled overnight. After all, they face 5000 soldiers. How many people are willing to fight violently without winning wisely? Moreover, the most loyal guards in Oldenburg are all in the palace courtyard ...

Thinking of Edsad I's escape from the tunnel, Marin waved and called Sauer:

"Sauer, you sent some scouts and took your binoculars to guard outside the city. If you see a well-dressed person riding a horse and running, be sure to stay!"

Sauer also obviously remembered the fact that Edsad I had escaped, and immediately arranged 200 scouts to ride out and patrol the city.

But Marin didn't know that because of Denmark as a big backer, the members of the Oldenburg family didn't even think about running. Therefore, they did not dig any tunnel at all. At this time, all the members of the Oldenburg family were in a hurry in the palace ...

Marin did not launch an attack at night, but waited until dawn, before letting Danny Curry ’s blasting group step forward ...

Is still the original formula. After using the engineer shovel to dig out the stone slab in front of the east gate of the palace, the blasting team took a hole under the gate of the palace and buried a gunpowder barrel ...

After a loud noise, the gate of the Oldenburg palace collapsed ...

Then, a big shield soldier, holding the big shield, rushed in as soon as he was there, and when he saw someone, he smashed it with the big shield ...

Marin ’s bodyguard Kahn, who also had itchy hands, put on his body plate armor, carried the mace, and killed him ...

As for Marin himself, instead of going deep, he chose to observe the battle situation with a telescope on the wall of the east gate of the palace.

About two hours later, most of the defenders in the palace were cleared. There are only dozens of guards left, dying to guard the main castle where John V is located.

"Count Marin, I am John V. I demand negotiation! Request negotiation!" John V shouted inside the castle. He was terrified, afraid to die like his brother-in-law Edo Wilmken. Therefore, he was timid and wanted to save his life through negotiations.

Hearing John V's cry, Marin was also happy. This is a national annihilation battle. Do you still talk about negotiating, when Lao Tzu is vegetarian? Where can you spit out the meat that comes to your mouth?

So ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Marin ignored him and continued to order the offense.

When Donnie Curry's blasting team blew up the gate of the main palace castle again, Marin did not rush into it. He sent people to find a lot of firewood from the nearby residents' homes, and after the gate was lit, he threw it into the castle ...

Frightened by John V, thinking that Marin wanted to burn him, he quickly surrendered and demanded the treatment of the noble captives.

In fact, Marin just intended to smoke them. However, there are many wooden furniture in the castle, it is indeed easy to cause a fire, no wonder John V misunderstood.

Marin agreed to John V ’s request for the treatment of noble captives. Anyway, he did not intend to kill John V. However, in the future, this person wants to rule Oldenburg again, but it is impossible ...

Of course, Marin did not rush to talk about the territory, but threatened John V to sign an order to surrender the city of Farrell. John V refused, and Marin immediately asked Kahn, who had a vicious look, to take out a **** knife and said to help him "bleed" the blood ...

In desperation, John V had to sign the order, ordering the defenders of Fallar to surrender unconditionally ...

After receiving the document, Marin immediately asked Sauer to send his men, two men and one horse, to go outside the city of Farrell, looking for the team led by Stad.

Is responsible for attacking Farrell is the recruits led by Stad and the 3000 mercenaries in Hamburg. At the same time, this team also brought a lot of heavy artillery and other loads.

When the scouts of Sauer arrived with the order document, the army led by Stade had not yet reached the city of Farrell. After all, they walked forward ...

On the same day, Adler also led the 2,000 elite East Frisian militia and launched attacks on two small cities in the Jever region-Jever Castle and Wangerland ...