As for the reason why the head of Roman is so bold and dare to do such a big case in East Friesland, the main reason is that Roman is not optimistic about the results of Marin's battle.
Because of the 50,000 troops Marin faced this time, there were 20,000 Swiss mercenaries! Out of blind confidence in the combat effectiveness of the Swiss mercenaries, the head of Roman believed that Marin had lost.
Once Marin loses, it is still unknown whether Marin can retain the land in East Friesland, let alone retaliate against him. Therefore, based on Marin's judgement that he would lose, only after seeing the benefits, Roman ordered a robbery in the manor in East Friesland on the west bank of the Ames. If he were not afraid of the tens of thousands of horses from the legendary second legionary army who came to him to settle accounts, he might have ransacked the East Bank area by the way ...
Moreover, this time he was considered a great deal. You know, but those 10,000 bags of rye weigh 1 million pounds. Even at a wholesale price of 0.7 fenny per pound, it is worth 11,600 gold coins. With the addition of coins, table salt, silver and copper utensils, cloth, cooking oil, and other valuable materials, all of them were sold, and the total value was estimated to be more than 15,000 gold coins.
For a 4,000-person mercenary regiment, this is definitely a great fortune. In particular, this is just a windfall, just handed in.
In Lubeck city, when Marin received the information from Kohler, he was so angry that he was furious:
"I must kill this **** called Roman! This guy must be **** and bloody!"
But after calming down, Marin smiled:
"Hey, I am worried that I can't find an excuse to turn my face with the Principality of Geddes. This stupid defect called Romain sent the excuse to the door. Charlie II didn't know it was best. At that time, it was better to beat him by surprise!"
Marin had already thought about annexing Severisland. However, before being an ally with Charles II, Marin was still thinking about how to make excuses. This is not, this silly lack called Roman is willing to send an excuse. However, although Marin thanked him in his heart, he would not let this guy go. After all, this guy burned and looted in his own territory. In short, this guy must die ...
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And at this time, near the city of Ribe in the northwest of the Principality of Schleswig, it was also a big deal ...
Although he drank too much that night, he vomited, and he gave up half of the poison of "Cantrera". However, there was still a small half of the poison that penetrated into Prince Christian's body.
The final result is-seven days later, Prince Christian still had a poison. Although he was dead without poison, Prince Christian still rolled on the hospital bed with great pain ...
Because the toxic attack was very violent, the young Prince Christian lost his hair overnight, and his face became haggard and horrible. Even, the teeth have fallen by half ...
Although struggling to survive, Prince Christian temporarily and completely lost the ability to move. Without a month of rest, he could not walk normally.
But he was the head coach of the Danish army, the head of the poison, and the siege of the Danish army naturally stopped.
It ’s just that Saqqara ’s army did n’t attack in time ...
why? This is because Saqqara believes that--when Prince Christian had a poison, we would attack, and it was not clear to tell others, "Is the poisoning related to me?"
Therefore, Sakara did not attack on the seventh day after poisoning, but on the tenth day after poisoning, that is, three days after the poison of Prince Christian, he suddenly launched a night attack on the Danish camp ...
At this time, Prince Christian is still resting in bed. Although he didn't die, he lost most of his life. Now, Prince Christian can't even eat ordinary food, and can only eat some liquid food such as meat porridge. And in the Danish camp, people are also panicked.
After more than 10,000 troops from Saqqara attacked the Danish battalion, the Danes immediately made a mess. The officers wanted to ask the coach to decide, but the coach was still lying on the hospital bed.
Several adjutants disagreed, but before they could discuss it, the Zhaimen of Daying was broken by the English mercenaries in Saqqara.
"Fight for the meat!"
The fighting slogan of the English mercenaries is very strange, this is the result of their usual training. After shouting this slogan, the mercenaries in England were fighting for a hundred times and were desperate ...
Was stared at by a group of English mercenaries who were desperately training for meat, and the Danes who were confused and confused at midnight suddenly became discouraged.
There are also some North Frisians in the Danish army who understand English. But after understanding the slogan of the English mercenaries, they were so scared ...
why? Because, they mistakenly thought that the English mercenaries were cannibals. Seeing their red eyes, the North Frisians in the Danish army thought that the other party would eat their own meat ...
So, these people ran away in fright in a fright. Then, many Danish barracks were in chaos ...
Only after the castration training of the Swiss, these 20,000 Danish troops did not immediately collapse. Because they have been specially trained to guard against night raids.
Because, the Danes also know that Marin is a master of night raids, how can he not guard against it?
Unfortunately, in the last two or three days, the Danish army was panicked because Prince Christian almost died after the poison. Therefore, despite the large number of people, it was still hit by the 15,000 army led by Saqqara. It was only a matter of time before failure.
This is mainly due to the fact that Saqqara sent a capable force to divide the Danish camp and prevent the assembly of Danish soldiers. However, if a large group with large numbers of people cannot be formed, even if the Danish army has a larger number, there will be no bombing, but it will not be able to fight more orderly and form a tightly formed East Frisian army.
After dividing the Danish battalion into several large pieces, Saqqara began to command the army, concentrate the superior forces, and clean up the various camps where the enemy forces were concentrated one by one. Victory is only a matter of time ...
Looking back at Tianxianshu, Lieutenant General Maxim made up his mind and took a team of close friends, carrying the sick Prince Christian, under the desperate guard of more than 3,000 horses in the headquarters, and rushed out of the west gate of the camp.
Then, General Maxim did not immediately lead troops north, but ran directly to the west port, found a big ship, sent Prince Christian to the ship, and sent his men to drive the ship to the Danish port Aye Spillo. After all, with the current weak body of Prince Christian, taking the land and sitting on the bumpy carriage is estimated to die halfway. It ’s better to take a boat, at least not as bumpy as a carriage ...
And himself, with the remaining more than two thousand men, along the road, retreating north overnight, to Esbjerg and Prince Christian round.
After several hours of fierce battle, by daybreak, despite being trained to prevent night raids, the Danes were defeated. In addition to the more than two thousand people who fled General Maxim and Prince Christian, the others were either killed or captured. The army of Saqqara lost only more than 300 people. The Danes, killed and captured, reached more than 17,000 people ...
The main method for the Danish people to receive anti-night raid training is to record the weapons, and the soldiers should sleep as much as possible. Those grassroots officers also sleep among the soldiers and do not live alone in the officer's area. Only senior generals will be treated as separate tents. Once the night attack happened, the soldiers immediately took up their weapons, and the soldiers from the same unit near the tent quickly gathered together, led by the grassroots officers, and formed a self-protection.
If the number of enemy troops attacking at night is small, they will be squeezed into the camp by the self-protected Danish army. Then, the grassroots officers will slowly move according to the training method, and slowly merge with other parts of the army to form a real large formation. With the confluence of the large armies, the night raid army will eventually be surrounded by the assembled Danish army and then wiped out.
This method is a countermeasure tactic specially designed by a Swiss genius officer named Fabian based on Marin's ability to use a small number of troops for night raids. Fabian is also one of the main instructors who helped the Danish training army. He is a talented military theorist and well-known in Switzerland.
But unfortunately, there were too many enemy troops in this night attack. Despite the nearby self-protection anti-night attack tactics, Kosakala ’s army had 15,000 people, which directly divided and surrounded the Danish army. The tactics of self-protection, which had been formed nearby, just became the biggest weakness of the Danish army. Because of the self-protection tactics nearby, the Danish army was divided into a dozen pieces. Although each piece has a good defense. However, this also dispersed the troops. If you are dealing with small-unit night raids, you can naturally converge through the space squeeze method, and then siege dead enemy night raids. It can be used to deal with a large number of enemy forces that have divided and surrounded themselves while taking advantage of this situation. This tactic is basically given to others. Therefore, the Danish army was surrounded by Sakara with division, and then the tactics of concentrating the dominant force to clean up piece by piece, easily cleaned up ...
When cleaning up the small squares of the Danish army that defended themselves one by one, Sakala ’s tactics were very brutal-he ordered his men to push hundreds of Yu Dayou unicycles with spears and slammed into Denmark fiercely. Small phalanx of the army. The Danish spearman could not keep up with the total length of the tank because of the length of the spear. Plus the huge impact of the chariot. They were either skewered by chariots filled with spears, or avoided ... Then, as the chariots continued to strike, the small square of Denmark naturally became chaotic. Then, Sakala concentrated his superior strength and rushed from all directions to the small Danish phalanx where the formation was disrupted ... Once the formation was chaotic, the Danes who formed a self-protection naturally could not withstand the absolute predominance of Sakara. The violent impact of the soldiers can only be defeated ...
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When he learned from the prisoner's mouth that Prince Christian was not dead, Jim regretted his head straight. It is no wonder that the Danes have not collapsed and can resist for several hours. It turned out that their coach did not die. Therefore, the Danish army is only panic ~ www.novelhall.com ~ instead of psychological collapse ...
In addition, the Danish army had been trained in the strict anti-night attack, so the army of Saqqara was more difficult to fight.
It's just that because everyone wears double-decker Mahjong mat armor with good protection, casualties are not great. Many attacks by the Danish spearman were blocked by double mahjong mats. In particular, the outer layer of mahjong mat armor and the protection of the iron sheet ... Although more than 300 people have been lost, the other party's loss is more than 17,000. Of course, the loss of these more than 300 people is mainly due to too many recruits. After statistics, Saqqara found that most of these three hundred people were the English mercenaries who first entered the battlefield. As for the five thousand veterans sent by Woolf Esbrand, only a dozen were injured, but no one was fatally injured. And the recruits of the mercenaries in England suffered a lot of deaths and injuries because some people rushed too hard and rushed into the opponent's pile. In the face of a spear poked by Danish soldiers in all directions, it is really hard to escape ...
But fortunately, although Prince Christian was not poisoned, the Danes lost, and it was defeated. Despite escaping more than two thousand people, but gave them two courage, those people did not dare to turn back to provoke the East Frisian army. Because, they have been scared. Moreover, the number of opponents is too small ...
Anyway, although the process does not match the script, after all, Prince Christian has not been poisoned, but the result is still perfect. After all, the East Frisian army wiped out this large Danish army at a very small cost.
Next, the main force of the army went south to support the Lubeck battlefield ...