Chapter 123： Sacking Copenhagen

Under the persecution of Marin's musketeers, King Hans was helpless and surrendered to the coalition forces with the queen, the little Francis and his brother Frederick. Only 22-year-old Crown Prince Christian of Denmark, accompanied by the rebel army to Sweden, was stationed in southern Sweden and did not return. Other members of the Danish royal family, except for their married daughters, were basically wiped out.

After controlling the members of the Danish royal family, Marin quietly sent people to arrest the officials in several royal palaces and began to torture them to inquire about the treasury.

In this era of Europe, the national treasury is the treasure house of the palace. Because the national financial expenses are basically paid by the king. Only after the rise of parliament and the implementation of a comprehensive taxation, the royal treasury and the national treasury were distinguished.

Inside the palace, the library is naturally in the palace. Under the leadership of several palace officials in charge, Marin sent Kahn, with some confidantes, to quickly take over the treasury in the palace and seize the full amount of coins. However, most of these coins are silver coins. Although they are full, they are equivalent to about 300,000 gold coins. For a powerful country like Denmark, it is nothing. What makes Marin cry is that in the treasure trove, he found many Danish counterfeit coins that he ordered to make.

Then, under the guidance of those palace officials, Marin learned that most of the residences of the Danish nobles were also in the old town on Castle Island.

So, Marin immediately sent troops to attack the mansion of those big nobles. Because in the royal city, the mansions of those big nobles cannot naturally be strong castles. Therefore, it didn't take much effort to attack these mansions.

However, after taking the harvest from these mansions, Marin was stunned ...

Because these great nobles are richer than the king. More than a dozen Danish nobles, storing coins and treasures worth more than one million gold coins ...

Marin quietly gave the belongings black. Early the next morning, Marin found Weizmann and Herman to let their army attack the Danish army that was stubborn on the street from the rear.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that Marin told them-as long as the entire Copenhagen is captured, the whole city is allowed to be looted ...

When the whole news passed on, the mercenaries of Lübeck and Hamburg were boiling. An emotion called greed breeds in them, they forget the danger and only the money left in their eyes ...

So, the mercenaries of the two Hanseatic cities with 9,000 people left wailing, and from the rear, they killed the stubborn Danish troops ...

It's just that in the narrow streets, although the mercenaries of Lübeck and Hamburg fought forward bravely, they were still blocked by the enemy. After all, the street is so wide that it cannot be opened.

Marin moved, and first withdrew the mercenaries from Lübeck and Hamburg. Then, he released a dozen palace guards, drove them to the Danish army, and let them yell while running:

"Not good, the king is captured!"

"Not good, the king is captured!"

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As expected, the Danish army still stubborn on the street caused a great commotion. In particular, many of these royal guards also know ...

"Johnson, is the king really captured?" An officer who led his resistance hurriedly grabbed a former palace guard who was running and shouting.

"Yeah, Brother Hessen, the enemy army went from the wall to the gate of the palace and exploded the gate. Now, the members of the royal family are all captured ..." said the guard of the palace named Johnson, frustrated.

A dozen other bodyguards were also surrounded by acquaintances for inquiries. When they learned that the royal family members and large nobles on the castle island were captured, the morale of the army immediately collapsed.

After, when Marin once again commanded the army to push from the rear and shouted "surrender not kill" in the Danish language now learned, most of the Danish sergeants who had lost their backbones put down their weapons and raised their hands to surrender. A small number wanted to resist, Marin ordered to kill with a musket ...

Just like this, the six former Danish soldiers stubborn on the street were quickly wiped out and captured. Then, the army began to control the other gates, and opened the southwest gate, and put the coalition soldiers who stayed outside the southwest gate.

After controlling the main arteries, Marin immediately discussed the distribution of robbery with Weizmann and Hermann. According to the agreement, the belongings of the royal palace belonged to Marin, and the belongings of the mansion of the nobility also belonged to Marin. However, there are many headquarters of the Danish Chamber of Commerce in Copenhagen. At the headquarters of those chambers of commerce, the amount of money is also staggering. According to the agreement, Lübeck and Hamburg are equally divided.

As for the wealthy households and civilians in the city, they are handed over to the soldiers to divide the area for robbery ...

This time, Marin did not restrain his men, but let the 5,000 soldiers with the greatest military skills participate in the robbery. However, Marin strictly ordered soldiers-if possible, no murders, no strong X women ...

As for the mercenaries of Lübeck and Hamburg, Marin did not restrain them this time. Anyway, all his soldiers are wearing black cross vests on white background. Whoever does the bad things at a glance ...

Was the first to be hit, naturally those shops on the street. Except for the headquarters of a dozen large chambers of commerce that were partially occupied by officers of Lübeck and Hamburg, other small shops were looted by coalition soldiers.

In the earth-shattering cry, the doors of the shops were smashed open. A group of red-eyed mercenaries rushed in, **** the master first, and then began to turn over the boxes and look for money. Even the bound hostess, the soldiers will directly touch their neck and earlobe, and fingers to obtain necklaces, rings and earrings. It's nothing if the necklace and ring were robbed. Those earrings were robbed. That's miserable. The soldiers couldn't wait to pick the earrings, and pulled them hard, and then came the miserable howling of the woman-apparently, their earlobe was torn ...

Weizmann and Herman, two Hansa officers, after counting the headquarters of the dozen Danish chambers of commerce that they controlled, were surprised to find that they seized millions of gold coins. This does not count, the goods accumulated in the chamber of commerce are also worth 500,000 or 600,000 gold coins.

In this way, Lübeck and Hamburg can each be divided into huge wealth worth 780,000 or 500,000 coins. Counting the hundreds of ships seized again, the two can be sure that they made a lot of money in this war ...

Because of this war, the total investment of the two cities did not exceed 1 million gold coins, but the income far exceeded the investment. Regardless of the value of these properties and merchant ships, they simply eliminated Denmark, a competitor in the maritime trade. Even if they invested millions of gold coins, they would make a lot of money without any return on property. Moreover, they will also acquire a large territory of the Principality of Holstein ...

Copenhagen is worthy of being the largest city in Northern Europe. In a day, all the soldiers involved in the robbery, everyone ’s pockets are full of possessions ~ www.novelhall.com ~ This is not enough, the soldiers involved in the robbery, everyone carries one Hemp bags, I don't know where to put them. Because it is inconvenient to take the property and go to the robbery again. But in the barracks, I was afraid of being stolen ...

Seeing this, Marin set up a warehouse directly and let the soldiers tie the sacks to a knot with a rope, write a name, and threw them into the warehouse. The next day, they went out to grab ...

However, the soldiers grab so much. Marin vacated several large houses, but failed to hold the property. The main thing is that these soldiers not only robbed money, but also robbed pots and pots ... these things are not necessarily high in value, but they occupy a lot of space.

The soldiers were robbing, and Marin was not idle. On the one hand, Marin told Weizmann and Herman to inform the two big speakers and important members of Lübeck and Hamburg to come to Copenhagen to discuss the division of the fruits of victory.

On the other hand, Marin did something that made King Hans vomiting blood in the future—he collected all the paper (including parchment) in the city. Then, divide the paper into small pieces of paper. Marin asked people to write in Danish on the note-"You are robbed, it's all a disaster caused by your king" ...

Every time the soldiers go out to rob and finish a family, they will drop such a note to the victim according to Marlin's advice ...

Those victims, after reading the note, were literate and angered after reading it—yes, it was all the stupid king Hans who provoked strong enemies and caused us to follow bad luck. Light, I hate this hapless king ... Those illiterate people, after asking others to help me, also resented King Hans ...

After the withdrawal of the coalition, King Hans completely lost the trust of the people. Within a few years, he died in depression ...