Chapter 86： Army North

Gluckstadt, the capital of the Principality of Holstein, Marin has been here with a large army for some time. During this time, in addition to overcoming the royal palace trapped by a group of local nobles led by Miyazaki Bentheim, Marin also reorganized the 25,000 troops gathered here.

Not only these large forces, together with the 5,000 civilians serving 5,000 mercenaries in Hamburg and the 10,000 civilians brought by Marin, the entire team size reached as many as 40,000.

Such a large team is really troublesome to command. So, Marin simply stopped for a while, mainly for the integration of the entire team. The most important thing is to incorporate the 5,000 mercenaries and 5,000 civilians of Hamburg into the system of their own army.

So, Marin Jean Schwartz and other generals conducted assault training for the 5,000 hamburg mercenaries and 5,000 hamburger men, mainly to train them in simple queues, and repeatedly emphasized the issue of discipline.

Especially, the 5,000 burger mercenaries are about to change their old habits. They always think of robbing "get rich" in the captured city of Gluckstadt. This old habit is basically the common vice of mercenaries in this era.

Within a few days, the patrol sent by the East Frisian army prevented hundreds of cases of burglary by Hamburg mercenaries. In desperation, Marin had no choice but to set up the Military Law Division to specifically punish mercenaries who did not heed the advice, and repeatedly stressed the importance of discipline.

In fact, the Principality of Holstein was to be allocated to the site of the Hamburg industry in Lübeck, and Marin did not care much about whether it was damaged by mercenaries. However, the Principality of Schleswig, which is going to attack next, is planning to be placed on its own territory, and Marin will never allow bad phenomena to happen there. Therefore, while still in the Principality of Holstein, Marin intends to rectify the next military discipline, rectify it, and then go northward. As for the Danes, will they use this time to increase their strength? Marin doesn't care. Because even if the Danes increase their strength, they just recruit more militia. What is the combat effectiveness of the militia? Within a few days, it is difficult to form combat effectiveness, at most it can only be regarded as cannon fodder. Marin is confident enough to crush all the enemies who are trying to stop him ...

At the same time, after Miyazaki Bentheim was captured, Marin forced him to give orders to order other cities in the Principality of Holstein to surrender unconditionally.

Bentheim wanted to be uncooperative, but Marin tied Bentheim ’s son and his beloved grandson to the front, and if he did n’t agree, he would act to make Bentheim ’s most beloved little. The grandson threw it into the boiling cauldron and threatened to force Bentheim to drink the broth cooked by his young grandson ...

Bentheim was terrified by Marin ’s “brutal”. In desperation, he chose a compromise and issued an order personally, ordering other towns in the Principality to surrender unconditionally.

In fact, Marin only scared Bentheim. If Marin really boiled Bentheim's grandson and forced Bentheim to drink the broth, it is estimated that Marin will soon become a famous brutal figure in Europe, leaving an infamy, just like persecuting Zhou Wen Wang Jichang Like the king who ate the meat soup made by his son Boyi Kao ...

After Bentheim's order was issued, some effects were still obtained. About half of the subordinate cities chose to obey. Besides, even if they do n’t obey, they do n’t have the soldiers who confidently resist the coalition. Coupled with Bentheim's order, they also have a step down, this pot, since someone is back, why do they still desperately? But Neumunster, the third-largest city in the Principality of Holstein after Gluckstadt and Kiel (including Hamburg and Lübeck, it should be the fifth largest), but chose to resist.

New Münster is located in the heart of the Principality of Holstein, and is the central hub of the east-south, north-south and land transportation of the Principality of Holstein. The local garrison, Hamilson, who was originally a Danish, was regarded as a close associate of King Hans and sent the Principality of Holstein as a garrison. Therefore, this person belongs to the death of the Danish King Hans. Moreover, his family is not here, but on the mainland of Zealand. Therefore, he had no worries, so he chose to resist the end. In other cities, many of them are dominated by local nobles. In order to enable the family to continue without being destroyed, most of them chose to surrender. Anyway, there is the order document of Prime Minister Bentheim, and they also have steps. Even if the Danish King Hans withdrew the Principality of Holstein in the future, they would be able to dump the pot if they endorsed Bentheim's order. Therefore, they chose to surrender rather than resist.

Therefore, if Marin wants to conquer the whole territory of the Principality of Holstein, he must capture the important town of New Münster on the northbound road and remove this "nail" ...

After many days of training in the queue, the unruly Hamburg mercenaries were finally beaten honestly by the veterans under Marin. As a result, they are now reluctant to obey orders and follow orders.

After feeling the time was ripe, Marin continued to go north with 25,000 troops ...

Because of the 20,000 soldiers, which accounted for the majority of the coalition, Marin became the commander of this coalition. Along the way, the army is invincible. For the estates of the little nobles in the Principality of Holstein, Marin adopted the strategy of "letting surrender" and "taking without surrendering".

Most of the nobles are not fools. When they saw tens of thousands of troops coming over, they chose to surrender. Only a small number of cavalier families ~ www.novelhall.com ~ is about the influence of the glory of the hand knight. Instead of surrendering, he chose to resist.

However, these knight families are often relatively poor and cannot even build a castle. Where can they resist 25,000 troops?

At this time, Marin chose to send 5,000 recruits under his command to use the manor of these rebellious little nobles to practice their hands, train their courage and combat skills ...

Along the way, Marin directed the recruits to remove more than 20 mansions that refused to surrender and killed blood. The wealth of these estates was naturally "confiscated" by Marin. The 5000 recruits under his command have gradually grown up in many battles. Despite some losses, Marin believed that it was worth it. A soldier who has not experienced fighting is not a qualified soldier. It is very difficult to attack those rebellious manors, which is suitable for training new recruits.

In this way, after capturing 30 stubborn knights' estates in a row, Marin and his army finally arrived under the city of New Münster and surrounded the city with water ...

After, Marin transferred to follow the dozens of short-barreled 18-pound Karen heavy artillery from the heavy troops, focused on the north gate of New Münster City, and carried out a continuous bombardment ...

In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Marin did not choose to attack. Because, the forcible attack method of climbing the city wall can easily cause huge casualties. Therefore, Marin intends to copy the previous tactics of siege to Jever Castle, first blast a hole in the city gate, and then send a blasting group to step forward, bury a gunpowder barrel in the hole, and blast the city gate ...

So, after surrounding New Münster, Marin did nothing but arrange for artillery to bombard the city gate. And the blasting team led by Donnie Curry is also a good match, ready to go forward and blow up the city gate at any time ...