Chapter 481： The demon is here again!

When the iconic three-crossed golden eagle red flag of the Marin Army and the army of black cross-vests on white background once again appeared under the city of Copenhagen, the city of Copenhagen was suddenly in a mess.

Several ministers hurriedly ran to the Danish King Hans and said incoherently:

"Your Majesty, the demon is here again!"

"Which demon?"

"Marin Hoffman!"

"Boom--" The goblet of Danish King Hans drinking suddenly fell to the ground and shattered. And His Majesty Hans was also ignorant ...

Then, the entire palace was chaotic. The King was stupid there, and the others were not much better. Especially Francis, the youngest son of His Majesty the King. He remembered the tragic experience of being stabbed with a needle by a very “elderly grandmother” last year.

The Danish troops in the city are also nervous. After all, the enemy under the city had broken Copenhagen. Moreover, the other party has 30,000 or 40,000 troops. Although there were more than 10,000 people in the city of Copenhagen at this time, it was inevitable that they had insufficient confidence because they were facing the enemy forces who had defeated Denmark.

In fact, if these more than 10,000 Danish troops put their hearts together to fight desperately, they might be able to hold Copenhagen. After all, Marin ’s army plus those 10,000 militiamen is only 40,000, just over three times the city ’s army. According to the principle of "Sun Tzu's Art of War"-"Ten are surrounded, five are attacked". Marin has only more than three times the strength of the enemy army, and even the "five attacks" cannot be achieved.

However, in the era of "Sun Tzu Art of War", siege equipment lags behind. After the emergence of gunpowder and artillery in later generations, there was no such high demand. Generally in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the era in which Marin was, three times as many as the enemy, it was possible to steadily attack the city.

Of course, that's when the average fighting power of both armies is about the same. Marin ’s army is obviously more powerful than the Danish army. Therefore, they do not need to be three times as powerful as the enemy, and twice as many men and horses can capture Copenhagen.

However, that is the case of a strong attack. Marin has always disliked the offensive, because, in that case, even if he captured Copenhagen, there would be thousands of casualties, which Marin cannot accept. Therefore, Marin is more inclined to siege.

However, since the last time in Denmark, all four gates have used heavy iron gates. Although he was demolished by Marin after the defeat, he later made four iron gates out. After all, Denmark is an old empire, and some have money.

Although the last defeat, Marin robbed Copenhagen of money on the surface, but in fact, the Danish family is still very thick. Some underground secret treasures still have a lot of money. After all, when Denmark dominated the North Sea in Europe, a lot of money was saved.

Therefore, although the iron gate was removed, the Danes quietly made the iron gate for safety ...

When Marin's army arrived, facing the steel gates, the artillery was helpless. After all, the iron ball shell hit the steel gate, so it's still a little bit ...

However, according to news from allies Lübeck and Hamburg-Copenhagen may be short of food ...

It's not that Copenhagen is running out of food now, but that Copenhagen's food reserves are insufficient and will not last long.

why? Because, although Zealand is seven thousand square kilometers in size, it is equivalent to two East Friesland. However, Zealand has rugged terrain and undulating terrain. Only the southern region is relatively flat and fertile, and grows grain. Other regions do not produce food at all, only animal husbandry.

Moreover, after the defeat of Denmark in the last war, Lübeck and Hamburg deprived all warships and lost their sea power. After the start of the war, the waters around Zeeland were blocked by the warships of Lübeck and Hamburg, and it was impossible to bring food in.

The whole country of Denmark is desperate this time, hoping to achieve a decisive victory on land together with Saxony and Brandenburg. Therefore, the Danes did not think about storing food early.

After all, in the eyes of the Danes, the 50,000-strong Bossa Allied Forces, coupled with the 20,000 Danish army, have no reason to beat Malin's 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and the thousands of mercenaries in Lübeck and Hamburg.

Therefore, the Danes just left more than 10,000 former veterans in the city of Copenhagen to avoid the enemy's raid on Copenhagen, causing Denmark to "undefeated and defeated".

Even when the ships sent by Lübeck, Hamburg and Marin bombed Copenhagen, the Danes were not worried. Because the Danish ministers saw that the army on Salt Island was bluffing ...

If it were a real army, it would have landed on the island of Zeeland. After all, the Danish navy is over and there is no hindrance to boarding Zealand. The fake army that Marin sent on Salt Island really scared the Danes for the first few days. However, after the "army" on Salt Island did not initiate a landing, the Danes became suspicious. Then, conclude that it was just the bluff of the enemy.

After that, the Danes began to look forward to the Bossa Allied Forces and Prince Christian's 20,000-strong army to destroy Marin's army, recapture the two principalities, and even hit Aurich ...

It's just that because the surrounding waters were blocked, they didn't know at all-Prince Christian had long since been defeated, and he was almost poisoned. Although Gou survived, he was dying. If Marin had helped him detoxify, Prince Christian could really die ...

It is precisely because I believe too much in the strength of the Bossa Coalition that this led to the fact that the Danes did not store enough food in Copenhagen.

When Marin's army came outside Copenhagen for the second time, the Danish princes were all forced-what's the matter? Why did Marin's army come again? Is the powerful coalition defeated?

The Danish monarch ’s guess was quickly confirmed, because-Marin put Prince Christian back in the city ...

Copenhagen is now fish on a cutting board ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Their allies Saxony and Brandenburg can no longer make up the army at this time. Therefore, Marin is not in a hurry to attack the city.

At this time, the city of Copenhagen included more than 10,000 troops, with a population of 450,000. Moreover, because he did not prepare enough food in advance, Marin estimated that it would be scary to support it for two months.

Therefore, Marin decided to siege Copenhagen ...

In order to spread the desperate atmosphere in Copenhagen, Marin even put Prince Christian, who was getting better, back into the city.

Anyway, Copenhagen can't even fly out now, and Marin doesn't worry about the prince running away.

Moreover, during this time, Prince Christian, in the military camp of Marin, but heard of Marin's heroic military merits. Of course, it ’s a beautified heroic achievement ... For example, those sneak attacks are depicted as crushing attacks ...

From the eyes of Prince Christian, Marin saw fear. So Marin decided to let Prince Christian go back to Copenhagen to spread fear and fight the other party ’s determination to resist ... 131157