Chapter 438： Shelling Copenhagen

When Saqqara proposed to take the army south to support Lübeck, Woolf Esbrand frowned, and then said worriedly:

"I heard that there are more than 10,000 troops in the Danish capital Copenhagen. They are the main troops. If both of our troops went south, what would happen to the Danes going crazy and attacking the Principality of Schleswig?"

Sakala thought about it, really. However, he had no choice, so he had to say:

"Otherwise, I will go south with the 10,000 army of the headquarters, your troops will not move?"

"No, if only your 10,000 army went south, if it was met by the main force of the Bossa Allied Forces, it would definitely be hard to escape. Therefore, I will provide at least eight thousand veterans to go south with you. In this way, even if it encounters When the main force of the Bossa Allied Forces is contained, there is also a fighting force. If the other party is coming, there will certainly be no way to eat you. If there are too many people coming, the Duke can go out and attack us directly. "

Sakala nodded, and Woolf Esbrand's concerns made sense. This southward trip, although it was said to be fast and concealed, it is difficult to ensure that the Bossa Allied Forces will send scouts to find them. If unfortunately discovered by the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry early, then they will inevitably be blocked.

If you only take the headquarter with 10,000 people to the south, as long as the other party stops the 10,000 people of your own side and then dispatches the superior troops to surround them, you will have no difference, and you can only wait to be eliminated.

But with the addition of the eight thousand veterans of the Principality of Schleswig, it would be different. 18,000 people faced the 50,000 Bossa coalition, and even if they lost, they would be able to protect themselves for a long time.

Moreover, if the enemy wants to eat the 18,000 troops on their side, at least 30,000 or 40,000 must be dispatched. As a result, the enemy's siege of Lübeck had to be relaxed. And with the ability of his own protagonist Marin, he will never let go of such a good opportunity. By then, while the outer circle of the city is slack, more than 20,000 people in the city will definitely be killed. Then, the two sides came back and forth, and the enemy was very likely to fail.

Of course, this is the worst case. In fact, there is the best case. For example, these 18,000 people have not been discovered by spies from the Bossa Allied Forces. Then, suddenly attacked the Bossa coalition camp, and it was a night attack ...

But the premise is that after the army went south, the Danes did not get nervous, and suddenly dispatched the army to attack behind them. If they had just left their forefoot, the Danish army suddenly attacked the Jutland Peninsula from the island of Zeeland, and it was easy to take advantage of the emptiness of the Principality of Schleswig and occupy the area. And the most dangerous thing is that more than 10,000 people in Denmark have copied it from behind.

If it is a little north, this is fine. If it happens to be near the big camp of the Bossa Allied Forces, the fun will be great. Under the attack of the Bossa Allied Forces and the Danish Army, these 18,000 people will surely die without burial.

Therefore, both Woolf Esbrand and Sakala felt very embarrassed and dared not take the troops south easily.

Then, the two wrote a report on the situation and sent a person south. At night, the intelligence personnel took a boat across the river and entered the city of Lübeck, and gave the report to Marin.

After receiving the report, Marin felt a pity that he did not kill Prince Christian. However, I am very happy that the army has eliminated 20,000 Danish forces. In addition to the more than two thousand people who ran away, Woolf Esbrand and Saqqara received a total of 12,000 prisoners of war.

Although the poor finances of Denmark and the civilian background of most of these prisoners of war make Marin very unlikely to blackmail from these prisoners of war to ransom, Marin does not care. Because these 10,000 people can be used as labor to pull roads and dig canals. Exactly, there is a canal to be excavated in the South Munster area. These more than 10,000 prisoners of war, just pulled over to dig the canal, regardless of season ...

As for Woolf Esbrand and Saqqara, the more than 10,000 main forces in the Danish capital Copenhagen are indeed a big problem, and also an unstable factor affecting the war situation. If they immediately follow the forces of Woolf Esbrand and Saqqara, they will indeed affect the safety of the reinforcements.

Therefore, we need to come up with a way to allow more than 10,000 troops in the Danish capital Copenhagen to stay in Copenhagen honestly, so as not to run around and affect the war situation.

Obviously, the best way is to get the Swedish army to attack Copenhagen. In this way, the Danish army in Copenhagen is afraid to attack casually. After all, in Copenhagen, there is a core group of people in Denmark who need protection.

However, it will take a long time to wait for Sweden to assemble its army and then drive to Malmö, across the sea from Denmark. It would be too late if the Danish army went directly to land while the Swedes were not coming.

In fact, Marin had previously judged that since the last time the city of Copenhagen was broken, the Danes might be scared this time and would not dare to attack the main force, lest Copenhagen be broken again. Just like the last time, more than ten thousand Danish troops were deeply trapped in Sweden, and as a result, Copenhagen was attacked by Marin. Then, there is no need to fight ...

It was just Marin's inference, but it did not rule out that Danish King Hans had a fevered mind and sent the main force desperately. After all, as long as the General Assembly battle of Lübeck is won, even if the capital city of Denmark is broken, it will be fine. Because even if the city of Copenhagen is broken, no one dares to kill the Danish nobles. Then, Copenhagen ’s losses can be recovered through negotiations after the victory of the coalition forces.

If King Hans had the courage to spare, send the main force to follow the forces of Woolf Esbrand and Saqqara, and before the support force raided the Bossa coalition battalion, start fighting and then drag Come to the main force of the Bossa coalition. Well, this 18,000-strong reinforcement may really be over. As long as the support army is finished, Marin will not want to win. The best result is to lead the soldiers out of the encirclement and then run ...

Although Hans wasn't as aggressive, Marin was afraid to gamble. So, he came up with a compromise solution-sending a fleet to shell Copenhagen and make a gesture of attacking Copenhagen. In this way, the Danes did not dare to send troops out.

Moreover, it is also very convenient to send warships to bombard Copenhagen. Because Kidd took 10 warships on the sea in Lübeck Bay. As long as a command is given, Kidd can take 10 warships to shell Copenhagen. After all, Copenhagen City is on the edge of the Øresund Strait and belongs to the seaside city.

Now that the Danish navy has been destroyed, Lübeck and Hamburg often go to sweep Danish ports and rob large ships. Therefore, the Danes now have no strength to resist the shelling of the 10 250-class armed merchant ships.

If ten 250-class armed merchant ships bombarded at the same time, there would be hundreds of heavy artillery bombarding Copenhagen at the same time. Its power cannot be underestimated.

The only worry is that if the artillery fires, the gunpowder is too expensive. After all, the boat that went to India to buy saltpetre has not yet returned. Marin does n’t have a lot of gunpowder in the military now, so save it ...

It's just that bombardment is impossible all day, but it's okay to bombard the Danes for a day or two now. Next, let the warship fire a few shots sporadically and startle the opponent.

Of course, this is not enough. Marin also needs to pretend that the Swedish army is about to attack Copenhagen in order to really scare the Danish army.

Marin looked at the map of Denmark and suddenly smiled ...

It turned out that Marin saw a map on the map. Just a few kilometers east of Copenhagen, there was a small island of more than ten square kilometers called Salt. This island is only four kilometers away from Copenhagen. When it is sunny, standing on the walls of Copenhagen can definitely see the distant view of Salt Island.

Marin intends to send people to build a military camp on Salt Island while shelling the walls of Copenhagen. Of course, this is a fake military barracks in order to scare the Danes.

Anyway, now that the Danes do not have a navy, it is unlikely that they will send people to Salt Island to observe it.

Therefore, Marin only needs people to build a large-scale camp on Salt Island, and then, under the banner of the Swedish army, they can calm down the Danes.

As for the big camp? This is easy, anyway, there are many sailors in the Marin and Lübeck fleets. At that time, it's okay to ask them to pretend to be Swedish soldiers.

Do n’t look at the city of Lübeck at this time, but the Lübeck Bay has never stopped trading at sea. Moreover, there is also a fleet of Lübeck and Hamburg stationed in Malmö. It was okay to find thousands of sailors from the Lübeck merchant ship in Lübeck Bay.

As long as the Danes see the flag of the Swedish army on Salt Island and the men and women in the fake barracks, they will not dare to move. Coupled with Marin ’s fleet firing artillery at Copenhagen from time to time, the possibility of the Danish army daring to leave Copenhagen is very low. Unless, King Hans and the Danish nobility have become as afraid of death as the revolutionary martyrs ... but this is impossible ...

Just like this, Marin signed an order to send people out of the city overnight to the fleet of Lübeck Bay, asking Captain Kidd to fire on Copenhagen to deter the Danes. However, Marin also specifically stated that-only in the first three days the shelling was a bit more powerful to scare the Danes. Three days later, sporadic shelling was used to save gunpowder.

At the same time, Marin also asked the Speaker of the Lübeck Council, Tagfacht, to issue an order document to be sent to Lübeck Bay and Malmö. Asked to temporarily recruit thousands of sailors from those merchant ships to go to the island of Salter near Copenhagen to play Swedish infantry for some time ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Anyway, Denmark now has no navy and it is impossible to be in Salt Landed on the island. Therefore, this show is relatively safe.

Moreover, in the Hanseatic cities like Lubeck, most of the sailors on the merchant ships have received some combat training. Of course, it is mostly naval combat training. Because basically all Hanseatic merchant ships and sailors on merchant ships have signed an agreement with the Lübeck Parliament-that is, during the war, the Parliament has the right to requisition merchant ships and sailors to fight for Lübeck. Of course, ships and sailors participating in the war afterwards will receive certain economic compensation or tax relief.

Because most of these sailors have some military foundation, there is no problem in playing the Swedish army. However, thousands of spears are needed as "props" for acting. But this is not difficult, because Sweden is a country with a lot of forests, and any tree can be cut into long sticks that make spears. Anyway, it's not a real spear for combat, but a prop for acting. Therefore, those wooden sticks do not need special treatment, as long as a little paint on the head, like a spear, can fool the Danish ...

In this way, while Marin let Kidd's fleet bombard Copenhagen, he made thousands of sailors posing as the Swedish army on the island of Salter, four kilometers east of Copenhagen. With the urinary nature of the Danish princes, if you dare to send troops to join the war, there will be ghosts ... after all, the big nobles are very afraid of death, otherwise Europe will not have the tradition of money to redeem people ...

Basically, in the Middle Ages, European nobles competed for territories. In addition to grabbing territories, it was also a battle between "kidnappers" and "meat tickets." Whoever wins is the "kidnapper", who loses is the "meat ticket", and generally seldom kills the big nobles ...