Because the remaining Danish naval fleet had all shrunk into the narrow Copenhagen Bay, and there were basically no Danish warships outside, the combined fleets of East Friesland and Hamburg, with little hindrance along the way, passed through the Øresund Strait without any hindrance, and joined the Lübeck fleet outside the port of Copenhagen. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Everyone was full of confidence, and they did not pay any attention to the remaining Danish fleet cowering in the narrow Copenhagen Bay. As a result, several Lübeck warships rushed into the Bay of Copenhagen, which looked like a narrow canal. It's just that......

The first batch of 4 Lübeck ships rushed in and were knocked out in great disarray, and two more were burned......

It is not that the Danish warships anchored in the Bay of Copenhagen have wielded might, but that the Danish soldiers guarding both sides of the "river" have wielded might......

Originally, there were 9,000 Danish sailors left on the remaining 80 Danish warships, and at this time, the Danish Admiral knew that if it was a warship duel, these 80 warships would definitely not be the opponent of the coalition. So, Thomas simply asked the sailors to step off the warship, and with weapons such as trebuchets and bows and arrows, they directly guarded the two ends of the river channel in Copenhagen Bay, which resembled a canal, to prevent any warships from entering and avoid the warships being destroyed.

In order to ensure safety, the Danes also built a temporary fortress at the mouth of the river as a bunker to protect the Danish sailors deployed there.

In this way, the "estuary" at both ends, with more than 4,000 soldiers and horses at each end, is considered very strong. And Copenhagen Bay is such a narrow "river", at most three or four boats come in at a time, and it is also very crowded, close to the shore. In this way, the Danish sailors on the shore were given a lot of room to attack.

Trebuchets on the shore threw fireballs directly at the Lübeck ship, and the Danish archers fired rockets at the Lübeck ship. What's more, many Danish sailors threw torches directly at the Lübeck warship near the shore. Because the ships were so close to the shore, it was convenient for the sailors to throw torches.

In this way, under such circumstances, the first four Lübeck warships to rush in were burned in an instant. Many of the ships that were not burned were also damaged by burning.

The coalition fleet was a little dumbfounded, and everyone was a little overwhelmed when they saw that the entrance to this narrow river was so dangerous. Kidd then led the East Frisian warship out of the race......

Facing the Danish fortress at the mouth of the river, the East Frysian fleet turned its guns on them......

However, after some bombardment, it was found that the effect was also limited......

It turned out that the Danes' stone fortifications were so strong that even shelling would hardly work. What's more, this time, the Danes dug a lot of tunnels, and most of the personnel hid in trench-like tunnels.

In fact, the Danes didn't know that the tunnels could be very good against shelling, but when they were building fortifications, they dug a lot of tunnels temporarily, but they didn't expect that the effect against shelling was excellent.

Under the shelling, the Danes' trebuchets deployed on the ground were quite a bit destroyed. However, there were few casualties due to the fact that the personnel were hiding in the tunnel.

When Lübeck's warship saw that the trebuchet had been destroyed and tried to enter the river again, the Danes came out again to shoot rockets and throw torches......

When the East Frisian ships came up again to shell, they retreated into the tunnel......

Then, the commanders of the combined fleet were a little unsure of what to do. The three commanders met for two days, but they were unable to come up with a suitable solution. Then the combined fleet was deadlocked there, only surrounding and not fighting, encircling the outside of Copenhagen.

At the critical moment, it was Kidd who thought of his own earl, a wise man of God. Therefore, Kidd sent two warships to Obenro, a port on the eastern side of Jutland, which had been occupied by Marin, and wrote a letter to Marin for advice.

In fact, Marin was stationed in the city of Lieber with a large army at the moment. However, Obernro is also not far from the city of Liebe. A group of second-line troops left behind in Obenro (selected from the Minzhuang, with certain military skills. The cities of the Duchy of Schleswig, which Marin captured along the way, were garrisoned by Minzhuang, who had received military training), and immediately sent someone to pass the news to Marin in the city of Libe, which was not far away.

Marin spread out the map and looked at it carefully for a while, and found that there was only one way to deal with the Danish defenders on the shore - that is, to send ground troops to deal with the Danish sailors guarding both ends of the river.

The Danish sailors guarding both ends of the river, although they had an advantage in the face of the warships, were a little restless when they encountered the ground troops. Ground troops, landing from elsewhere on Zealand, and then encircling them from the flanks would wipe out the Danish sailors stationed at both ends of the river.

Moreover, once these Danish sailors stationed at the mouth of the river were completely annihilated, then the 80 Danish warships would have no sailors to operate. In this way, the Coalition forces could effortlessly capture those 80 Danish ships......

Soon, this plan was sent to Kidd. Seeing Marin's strategy, the three commanders were very sure of Marin's strategy. However, Lübeck and Hamburg hesitated to arrange the landing......

The main reason was that Lübeck and Hamburg were reluctant to allow the sailors to participate in landing battles and land offensive and defensive battles with heavy casualties. You know, both Lübeck and Hamburg are Hanseatic cities that rely on maritime trade. Ships and sailors are their roots. If these sailors are allowed to land and then attack the fortifications, they will definitely suffer heavy casualties.

As a result, the fleet commanders of Lübeck and Hamburg both hoped that the task of landing and attacking the fortified positions would be entrusted to the army. Of course, Kidd was not happy, after all, the main force of the army, but the family of his own East Friesian Lamber.

Therefore, after intense discussions, the three decided to have the mercenary infantry hired by Hamburg and Lübeck as the vanguard of the landing and storming, to overrun the Danish sailors guarding the estuary.

Anyway, those mercenaries were not Lübeck and Hamburg's own people, but were hired from outside at the expense of money. Lübeck and Hamburg were reluctant to fight their own sailors, but they were very willing to fight for those mercenaries.

The fleet commanders of Lübeck and Hamburg then sent the idea back to Lübeck and Hamburg, respectively, to await the approval of their respective councils.

Marin also received a report from Kidd, and although Marin despised Lübeck and Hamburg's approach, he also thought it was a good idea.

After all, sailors are sailors, whether it is Lübeck and Hamburg's sailors, or Danish sailors, they are actually very bad at ground offensive and defensive warfare.

To be honest, even the mercenaries of the East Friesian Lamber are not very good at the kind of hard-fought ground offensive and defensive battles. Because, they all rely on firearms to win.

For the Danish sailors who dug the tunnels, the artillerymen and musketeers of Marin, they were somewhat helpless. For this reason, Lübeck and Hamburg proposed that the mercenaries they hired should take the lead, and Marin very much agreed.

And, most crucially, once Marin's army wiped out the thousands of Danish sailors guarding the estuary, it would be possible to encircle Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.

If Copenhagen had been captured and King Hans of Denmark had been captured, the war would have ended......

Therefore, Marin decisively changed his strategy, temporarily stopped attacking the rest of Jutland, and instead landed on Zealand, first destroying Danish sailors, capturing Danish warships, and then besieging Copenhagen, trying to capture the Danish king alive and force him to sign an unequal treaty ceding land......