Chapter 441： Intercept

Marin's face is quite adequate. After receiving Marin's letter, Hamburg Speaker Heisenberg immediately approved Marin's request to lend 100 ships for troop transport.

Most of these ships have a displacement of about 200 tons, and they can take the "Elbe-Lübeck" canal. If it were bigger, it would be difficult to pass. After all, the Principality of Saxony-Lauenburg has no strength to dig up a larger canal. Even, most of the money for digging this canal was borrowed from Lübeck and Hamburg.

Moreover, in order to keep it secret and avoid being informed by the spies sent by the Bossa Allied Forces to Hamburg, Heisenberg said that the 100 ships assisted the Swedish Army to attack Copenhagen, Denmark. Moreover, fearing that the other spy would not believe it, this statement was revealed half-covered. In this way, the persuasion is higher. Because, if you announce directly, the other party's spy may doubt its authenticity. It is easier for the enemy to believe that such “carelessness” leaked out half-covered.

Later, Heisenberg and the Hamburg Parliament also adopted Marin's proposal and promulgated the "Wartime Regulations", announcing the Hamburg curfew. If someone hangs out at night, they should all be caught by criminals.

At the same time, anyone riding a horse out of the city must get the approval of the Hamburg Sheriff, to avoid the spy riding to report to the enemy ... That is to say, the horses of Hamburg City, now the owner can not easily ride out of the city, must obtain the approval of the Sheriff.

This trick was too ruthless, and some of the Saxony spies who sneaked into Hamburg were now frowning. Even if there is any news, you can't report to Daying on horseback. Knowing this already, they hid the horses outside the city. Unfortunately, they knew too late ...

In fact, the Hamburgers are now very nervous. They knew that Lübeck's victory or defeat was related to the life and death of Hamburg. If the troops of Lübeck and Marin were defeated, Hamburg would not be able to escape. For this reason, some wealthy businessmen have now begun to secretly transfer property. Because, if the Bossa coalition broke Lübeck, the next goal must be Hamburg. If Hamburg city breaks, their property will definitely not be kept. As a result, many wealthy businessmen began to transfer property in private. Of course, the Hamburg Parliament absolutely prohibits this behavior. Therefore, those rich merchants can only quietly transfer some gold and silver that are easier to carry. Other materials are temporarily unavailable.

Moreover, there are only four thousand defenders in Hamburg, and their strength is very weak. Although the Bossa Allied Forces have not yet come to siege Hamburg, Hamburg can no longer hire mercenaries. Now the 4,000 troops still have contracts before ...

Why? After hearing that the Bossa coalition had 50,000 troops and 20,000 were Swiss mercenaries, many mercenary regiments were frightened. Even if Hamburg is willing to pay a high price, those German mercenaries will not come. Because, in their view, this is a losing battle. Although mercenaries are brave and bloody, they are not fools. Faced with 50,000 powerful enemy troops, no one was willing to die before signing a contract ...

Therefore, even if Hamburg has money, it can't hire mercenaries willing to help them fight. After all, German mercenaries have not yet defeated Swiss mercenaries in this era. Psychologically, the German mercenaries are still somewhat popular Swiss mercenaries at this stage. I heard that the Bossa Allied Forces had 20,000 Swiss mercenaries, as well as a large number of Saxony knights and Brandenburg knights. Many heads of mercenary regiments were so frightened that they did not dare to come with any more money.

Therefore, the Hamburgers at this time are very desperate ...

When they learned that Marin not only had 18,000 troops to support the Lubeck battlefield, before that, these 18,000 men also defeated the Danish army of 20,000 in the north ...

Suddenly, the Hamburg parliament struck like chicken blood, and felt like seeing hope again. Therefore, in response to Marin's request to borrow a boat, the Hamburg Parliament passed all votes in a very short time. Then the curfew or something, all passed.

These Hamburg parliamentarians are elites. They know that the Saxons have the ambition to replace Lübeck and Hamburg. If the Hamburg city is attacked by the Bossa coalition, these parliamentarians will lose everything, including property and status.

Therefore, they all eagerly hope that Marin can win the Bossa coalition. Only in this way can they retain their wealthy status. Otherwise, they will be robbed by the enemy forces and even themselves may be killed ...

Lubeck and Hamburg are not far away, so Marin received a reply from the Hamburg parliament that night. So, Marin started thinking now-how to make preparations to meet the 18,000 reinforcements ...

After thinking about it, Marin believes that-the most important thing at this time is to eliminate the Scouts of the Bossa Allied Forces along the Elbe River and the "Elbe-Lübeck" Canal. Because, once the troop carrier arrives and the enemy scouts who have reported are not intercepted, the consequences will be very serious.

Even if there is a fish that leaks out of the net, the secret of the arrival of the reinforcements will be revealed to the Bosa Coalition. As long as the 50,000 Bossa coalition prepares for containment in advance, let alone the 18,000 reinforcements attack the Bossa coalition, it may be difficult to converge with the main force of Marin.

Therefore, Marin decided to scatter all the 200 elite interception-type reconnaissance cavalry brought by Sauer to intercept the Elbe and the "Elbe-Lübeck" canal to any direction of the coalition camp The horseman, whether he is innocent or not. Would rather kill by mistake than miss one ...

Of course, the ship sent by Hamburg had just departed, bringing the 18,000 troops from Woolf Esbrand and Saqqara in a few days.

Therefore, in these few days, Marin has not been able to send troops in advance to intercept those Bossa coalition scouts.

why? Because if Marin started to intercept the Bossa coalition scouts in this direction a few days in advance, it would attract the attention of the resourceful Saxon elect Frederick III. If he sent more people to pay attention to the west side, the 200 Scout cavalrymen dedicated to intercepting messengers were not enough to intercept enemy messengers. As long as one runs away, it will cause a disaster.

The "Elbe-Lübeck" canal is not wide after all, and it is already the limit to be able to walk a wooden boat of one or two hundred tons. If Elector Frederick III of Saxony sent people to sink a few ships in the canal, just like the shipwreck on the Suez Canal during World War II, the canal would cut off traffic before it was salvaged. At that time, the fleet could not reach Lübeck and merged with Marin.

So ~ www.novelhall.com ~ when deciding to release the 200 interceptor scout cavalry, Marin made a decision-he decided to send the 200 people, cross the river by boat overnight, then go north, intercept first Northern Bossa Allied Scouts ...

The reason for this decision was actually Marin deliberately confusing the enemy. Marin sent people to intercept the Bossa Allied Scouts, then Frederick III will judge-the other party is for confidentiality, so that his scouts can not get useful information. Even, it will be further inferred-the enemy will definitely take the main route to the north. After all, Europeans don't yet understand what it means to be "sounding east to west". These schemes are currently not popular in Europe. Even if he is as clever as "Zhu Geterai", he has never seen such a method ...

Of course, Marin will also send some scouts at the same time, abandon horseback riding (horseback riding is too blatant, and tell others that you are a spy), and walk to the "Elbe-Lübeck" canal to scout all roads.

As long as all the roads leading from the Elbe-Lübeck Canal to the Bossa Allied Forces Camp were figured out, when the fleet of transport reinforcements really arrived, two hundred interception-type reconnaissance cavalry came and directed them directly, It is enough to guard every intersection leading to the Bossa Allied Forces Camp. If anyone finds that he is riding east, he shoots and kills directly, without letting anyone go. In this way, you can fully protect the whereabouts of the reinforcements ...