Chapter 175： The fall of Leeuwarden

In the West Friesland region, the Saxony army and the Frisian Resistance Army with the aid of the Principality of Gede Division have fought each other for more than two years.

In general, it is the Saxon army that has the upper hand. The Saxon army not only controlled the Hanseatic city of Groningen and the surrounding areas, but also controlled a small half of the western region of West Friesland, and had already been under the city and often besieged Leeuwarden.

It was just that the wall of Leeuwarden was strong, and the number of defenders was as high as 8,000, which made the Saxony army uncomfortable. In the end, the two wars turned into a confrontation relying on Leeuwarden.

In order to defend, the West Frisian Resistance Army organized people to take advantage of the intermittent truce, digging river channels in the south and north of Leeuwarden to prevent the Saxon army from bypassing Leeuwarden to attack westward.

Therefore, Leeuwarden and the north and south rivers have become the "Chu River Han Kingdom" of the army of the Principality of Saxony and the Resistance Army of West Friesland. Most of the area east of the area belongs to the control area of ​​the Saxon army; while a small area of ​​the area west of the coast is the control area of ​​the West Frisian Resistance Army.

For a long time, although the two armies have had tentative contacts, they have remained peaceful until ...

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This is the case. When Marin led a 20,000 army of 20,000 troops to join Lübeck and Hamburg, and swept the Oldenburg and Denmark, he invented a very powerful siege method-that is, using artillery First blast through the oak city gate and make a hole. Then, tuck the gunpowder barrel into the hole and bury the gate ...

This frivolous and practical tactic, the Danes did not realize the practical defense method of the big iron gate until the war was almost over. However, it was too late ...

However, this war mainly occurred in Denmark, and other areas, the details of which are not very clear. However, this does not include Elector Frederick III of Saxony. After all, he is the youngest son of Danish King Hans ...

So, any princes who knew this kind of sloppy city-breaking tactics through this war, all put their own city gates and replaced them with iron gates. The worst thing is to cover the oak city gate with iron plates to prevent the enemy ’s iron ball shells from breaking through the holes ...

Coincidentally, George, Duke of Saxony, sent the army and the West Frisian Resistance to confront each other, and often returned to the country to deal with government affairs. When it was okay, he went to the capital of Saxony's electoral country, Wittenberg.

George is no longer the second-stroke youth of the year, and the various discomforts after assuming the throne make him realize that he is not as **** as he thought. So he began to lay down his face and began to please his cousin, Frederick III, the elector of Saxony.

Although Frederick III was very dissatisfied that George looked down on him at first, but after all, he was a family. Moreover, the national power of the Principality of Saxony does not differ much from the electorate of Pisaxen. Had it not been for the Principality of Saxony to have suffered a terrible defeat in East Friesland, its national power was not under the electorate of Saxony.

Moreover, although Frederick III became the new leader of the Saxon nobility after the death of Duke Albrecht, there are still a few Saxon nobles who continue to follow Duke George. Therefore, Frederick III is also willing to attract his cousin George for his own use.

One day in July, George went to Wittenberg again as a guest, but he saw that Wittenberg was changing the city gate, which was very lively. What surprised George even more was that the replaced gate was turned out to be a large iron gate made of pure iron. George was puzzled and asked his cousin Frederick III for advice, so Frederick III told George about the Danish battlefield ...

Originally, Duke George heard it as a joke. However, when he returned to Dresden and the Duke George told the joke to his men, a general named Hus became interested. So he suggested to George:

"Master Duke, since Marinah's tactics are so easy to use, why don't we learn them?"

"What do you mean?" George was a little puzzled.

"We also have a lot of Saxon artillery. Although there is not a large caliber of the artillery of Malinah. However, if hundreds of artillery fought together and aimed at it, it should be no problem to make a hole in the Leeuwarden gate? "

"It's true ..." George seemed to understand, but it was still close. After all, his IQ is not high. If you change to cousin Frederick III, you already know ...

"Then, we will send someone to carry the gunpowder barrel and bury it in the hole, so that the city gate of Leeuwarden will not be blown up? Then, the army swarms in ..."

Said that it was so straightforward, and George understood. He jumped up excitedly;

"Great, we can finally take Leeuwarden!"

Then, Duke George began to organize a domestic blacksmith shop, casting a large number of iron ball shells.

Before, although the Principality of Saxony had hundreds of artillery pieces, most of them used stone bullets. It's okay for the stone bomb to hit people. If you want to smash the door, the kinetic energy is not enough ...

So, George began to order the blacksmiths in the Principality to step up the manufacture of iron ball shells for smashing the door ...

In August, George came to Leeuwarden with a team of iron ball shells ...

Although the artillery of the Principality of Saxony are small-caliber land artillery, but hundreds of small-caliber land artillery bombarded the east gate of Leeuwarden together, it is also very powerful.

After today, under the impact of raindrops like a small iron ball, Leeuwarden East Gate really broke a hole ...

Then, Duke George organized the Death Squad and ran down the city gate at night, burying two gunpowder barrels in the hole ...

With a loud bang, Leeuwarden ’s Dongcheng Gate was collapsed, connecting the bricks and stones piled up behind it ...

Seeing this great opportunity, Duke George quickly commanded the Sword and Shield as the vanguard and rushed into the city first ...

The West Frisian Resistance Army, because it was night, was not prepared. When the Dongcheng Gate made a loud noise and was blasted, many soldiers would go to dinner.

Unprepared, the West Frisian Resistance Army was defeated by the Saxon army and retreated from Simon to the seaside Harlingen and Zurich ...

Just like this, in one night, Leeuwarden changed his fortress ...

And ~ www.novelhall.com ~ the tragedy is that the original nine Friesian noblemen, only the original governor Fyskefrijheid and Leeuwarden Baron Ztrell, with the protection of coach Seawar, desperately withdrawn .

As for the other 7 nobles, 4 were killed in the chaos, 3 became prisoners of George ’s rank, miserable ...

The 8,000 West Frisian Resistance, originally stationed in Leeuwarden, killed 1,000 people and surrendered 2,500. Only 4,500 people actually escaped. However, there were only 3,000 people who followed the two nobles and Siwag in an orderly escape. After the others escaped, they all dispersed ...

In desperation, Governor Fyskefrijheid and Baron Zterl had to take a boat at the port of Harlingen and retreat from the sea to the Principality of Geddes. With the boat, there were 800 people led by Siwag.

As for the other two thousand people, they fled south along the road by the sea and evacuated to the Principality of Geddes. At this point, the operation of the West Frisian Resistance Army was considered a failure ...

When Marin learned this information, he was also depressed like vomiting blood. He did not expect that the pig head of Duke George actually learned the cottage and was a great success ...

However, Marin is not particularly pessimistic. Because, he knows, the old fox of Charles II, Duke of Geddes, will never look at George's complacent ... the situation will become more exciting after the goods jump from behind the scenes to the front desk and Duke George just in front ...

"Hey, you're a praying mantis, I'm a carduelis ... As for George's idiot, of course it's a cicada ... Several fools in West Friesland, not even cicadas ..." Marin smiled wretchedly, already By default, West Frisian was his own territory.