Chapter 426： Arrive at

The terrain of Lübeck is very complicated. Its main part is located in the middle of the Trava River, surrounded by water on all sides. Only in the southeast and north, some areas are connected to the outside world. In addition, there is a bridge to the southwest to connect with the outside world.

Therefore, Lubeck is an island city in a river surrounded by water, and the defense effect is very good. Because he has a natural moat on all sides, which brings great difficulties to the siege troops. The previous attack by the Bossa Allied Forces was launched from a small land area on the southeast side.

In fact, after ordering to stop the attack, Frederick III did not really wait, but sent troops to capture the local people and forced them to fill the river with sacks filled with sand and sand, intending to give the narrow water channels around Lübeck Filled in. As for the Trave River, Frederick III intended to release the river channel to the west and fill the narrow river channel to the east to facilitate siege.

And Marin, at the moment, was a little frightened. Why? Because, he saw a great danger-if you came to change the Chinese art of war, everyone would come and see that Lübeck is a city suitable for flooding ...

Seeing Frederick III send people to dig soil to fill the river, Marin almost scared to pee, thinking that the other party saw the shortcomings of Lübeck and was about to build a dam. As long as the dam is built and the waters of the Trava River pour into the city of Lübeck, Marin will follow.

For a moment, Marin was ready to be captured and then ceded most of the territory. It ’s a big deal, let ’s go to the American nation ...

But after a few days, he was finally relieved-the other party just wanted to fill in some narrow parts to facilitate the siege. It seems that Europeans still don't know how to be flooded. Like Hua Xia, when the three families divided into Jin, they knew how to flood Jinyang City ...

Anyway, from Marin's point of view, Lübeck's repair of the city in the middle of the river was simply a failure. That is to say, the Europeans in the Middle Ages were brainwashed and stupid. They were replaced by someone who had studied art of war in China. They flooded the dam in minutes ...

For safety, Marin asked Sauer and others to use a telescope to observe the enemy situation 24 hours. Once the enemy army showed signs of damming, he planned to take the 20,000 army out of the city and desperately. Although there is no certainty to win, but rely on advanced tactics, at least not lose.

Fortunately, after all, Frederick III was not a Chinese military strategist, and he eventually did not think of damming and flooding tactics, and Marin did not have to rush out of the city for a decisive battle.

While waiting for both sides, Marin's fleet arrived first ...

This fleet of 10 250-class armed merchant ships and 10 cargo ships, loaded with food and weapons and ammunition, arrived in Lübeck Bay and along the Travo River, 15 kilometers up the river and arrived in Lübeck City. The wide west channel of the outer Trave River is the west channel of Lübeck.

The river here is relatively wide, and there is a row of docks in the northwest to provide freight transportation. The fleet docked at the wharf area in the northwest direction and began to unload food and materials.

Take a look at the Bossa Allied Forces-is this still worth it? So they planned to attack the fleet. Of course, because the ships were in the river, they dragged all the 60 artillery pieces of the coalition forces and began to shell them.

Captain Kidd, who was in charge of the team, had a look at this? As a result, 10 armed 250-class merchant ships lined up, and the artillery of the Allied forces blasted across the river.

The 10 250-class armed merchant ships have 10 18-pound guns on each side and are of extraordinary firepower. 100 heavy artillery volleys are not as powerful.

The Bassa's coalition artillery is basically two or three pounds of light rear-mounted bronze infantry guns, that is, Fran machine guns. Although this kind of running speed is higher, but the power difference is too much. Two or three pounds of shells hit the 250-class armed merchant ship, and some wood chips were smashed, and several bad luck eggs were injured, and the wooden ship was not injured at all.

But in turn, the 18-pound iron ball shells on the 250-class armed merchant ship hit the Bosa coalition crowd, which was really bloody. Where the iron ball rolled, there were deaths and injuries, and howling.

100 18-pound naval guns faced 60 rear-mounted infantry guns of two-three-pound class, winning ...

After being killed by Kidd's naval gun and wounding dozens of artillery and more soldiers of other arms, Frederick III had to order the artillery unit to withdraw from the fighting range. Then, I watched the supply fleet add a lot of food and various military supplies to the city of Lübeck.

Frederick III thought for two days. Eventually, he thought of a way to use a catapult to throw a fireball and burn the ship ...

It is a pity that the Bossa Allied Forces abandoned the equipment of the stone thrower because they were generally equipped with artillery. Therefore, the stone thrower needs to be newly built. Fortunately, the time for the Saxon army to equip artillery was not very long. In the army, there were carpenters who knew how to make stone throwers. So Frederick III ordered the carpenters to start searching for wood on the spot and making stone throwers.

Three days later, more than a dozen simple rock-throwing machines were placed on the opposite bank of the Travo River, and began to shoot fireballs at 10 250-class warships.

After this attack, two ships were burnt off the sails and part of the hull. If the sailors were not rescued in time, the ship would be over.

At a glance, Malin did not work. So, taking advantage of the few Bossa coalition stone throwers, Kidd quickly withdrew the fleet out of the Travo River and returned to the sea. After all, the channel of the Trava River outside Lübeck is too narrow. At such a short distance, the ship is simply the target of the rock thrower. If the Bossa coalition has enough stone throwers, it is normal to burn several ships.

However, this does not matter. Because the fleet unloaded the food, ammunition and artillery that Marin needed ...

With artillery and ammunition, Marin put the artillery on the city head and began to bombard with the artillery of the Bossa Allied Forces, smashing the opposing artillery position into a sparse, no longer daring to be within the range of the city head artillery .

"That **** got ammo supplements, how can they run out of ammunition now?" Brandenburg elector Joachim I said worriedly.

"It's okay, wait for the Danish army to come." Frederick III comforted.

"However, the Danish army of 20,000, even if it is dead, does not necessarily consume the guy's ammunition. You also saw that there are a lot of supplies this time ..."

"Well, I think about it. When the Danish army comes over, let the Danish army hold the local people as cannon fodder and put it in front, consuming their ammunition ..."

"What?" Joakim I stood up in shock:

"His Frederick ~ www.novelhall.com ~ This is no joke. If such a thing is known, the reputation will be wiped out!"

European nobles are very honourable, and driving people away as cannon fodder is easy to defame reputation. If there is no reputation, this noble will be despised, and no one will listen. Especially in a place where nobles such as Germany stand, the loss of reputation equals the loss of the right to speak at the Imperial Conference ...

Elector Frederick III of Saxony smiled slightly:

"So, I let the Danes do this! The Danes hate Marin and Lübeck. Even if they do something disgraceful, the Danes will not care."

Joakim nodded abruptly, the Danes were bullied badly, this time for **** revenge, naturally they would not care about a little reputation. It is natural for them to do such evil things.

At that time, the Danish army will drive the local people to the city and attract Marlin ’s guns and ammunition, which will indeed be very effective. There are many people around, but Marin's ammunition is limited ...

Thinking of this, Joakim I and Frederick III looked at each other heartily, and then both grinned chuckly ...