At about two o'clock in the middle of the night, Marin was woken up by the guards, which was ordered by Marin before. When Marin woke up, he quickly dressed himself in half-body plate armor and put on a high-carbon steel helmet with a mask. Then, disembarked.

At this time, Schwartz had already taken the soldiers who had rested for a while, and began to pull out the oblique wooden stakes near the front of the battle, and began to cover the original two trenches with the planks that had been prepared long ago. In some parts, sapper shovels are directly used to dig and fill in the soil. Because, covered with a wooden plank, you can only walk. The planks could not withstand the weight of the artillery, and the trenches could only be filled in before the guns could pass.

When everything was ready, at half past three in the morning, three Kong Ming lanterns suddenly rose in the western sky......

Soon, Kong Ming lanterns were also raised here. Then, the Kong Ming lantern in the western sky slowly descended and went out—it was pulled down by a rope and thought it was extinguished.

After getting the exact signal, Marin waved his hand - "Go!" ”

Then, thousands of troops passed through the two trenches, which had already been covered and filled, in an orderly manner. After passing through the trench, Marin had Schwartz regroup his ranks and then began to advance slowly......

At the same time, there was chaos in the camp of the Bossa coalition army. Because, the Saxon scouts arranged by Frederick III discovered the movement in Marin's position and reported the news to Frederick III, who was already asleep.

Frederick III hastened to his feet and sent someone to wake up Joakim I to discuss a countermeasure.

Joakim I came to the Lord's tent with sleepy eyes, and muttered discontentedly:

"What are you doing? In the middle of the night, so that people don't sleep? ”

Frederick III said with a solemn face:

"Joakim, I think that Marin kid must be desperate now. Probably, he already knew that the fake reinforcements on the northern road and the fake reinforcements on the western road were wiped out by us. Now, he has no bargaining chips for us to divide our troops, probably a dog jumping off the wall in a hurry, and he wants to fight with us! ”

"Isn't that right? That boy is out of the way, and we're in time to destroy his army! ”

Frederick III shook his head and said:

"It's not that easy, although there are a lot of us, but in the middle of the night, we don't get used to it. I've heard that the East Friesian army is well adapted to night fighting. ”

"That's the same, then we can withstand these few hours and counterattack until dawn?" Joakim I rubbed his eyes and said.

Frederick III nodded:

"That's what I thought, too, and it's still two or three hours until dawn. As long as we resist, the victory is ours! ”

After that, Frederick III and Choakim I ordered together to mobilize the elite of the army to the east of the camp, intending to withstand Marin's surprise attack in the middle of the night.

But in reality, Marin didn't even think about launching a general offensive now. All the actions at the moment were only to draw the attention of the Bossa coalition forces to the front of the east flank, so as to cover the reinforcements coming from the west.

So, although it was a night attack, Marin's army did not move fast. From the front of the battle to the camp of the Bossa coalition army, there were only two thousand, but Marin walked for a while.

When he came to the east gate of the camp of the Bossa coalition army, Marin found that the other party had actually followed his example and dug two trenches outside the wall of the camp on the east side. Moreover, it is also full of sharp piles, which is simply a cottage of Chiguoguo......

In fact, Frederick III was also very complacent about this copycat. Frederick III was well aware that this kind of wild camp, because the walls were mainly wooden fences, were very weak and could easily be forcibly broken by the enemy's night raiders. Therefore, he simply learned from Marin's method, and dug two trenches outside the fence of the camp, which were also filled with wooden stakes. As long as you fall into the trench, you can't get better......

Moreover, in order to strengthen the defense, the wall on the east side of the camp of the Bossa coalition army was not only a wooden fence, but also a thick layer of mud on the outside of the wooden fence. After drying, a simple earthen wall is ready......

This kind of earthen wall is completely encased in a wooden fence with yellow mud. In this way, after the earthen wall is dried, not only the strength is greatly increased, but also it is not afraid of fire.

Replace it with a normal wooden fence wall, and the enemy can burn the wooden fence by holding some hay and placing it under the base of the wall to light a fire. However, now the wooden fence is completely covered with dirt. Even if you light a fire, you can't light it......

Faced with two trenches filled with wooden stakes and a wall covered with thick earth, Marin's men were indeed a little at a loss, and some did not know where to start.

It's just that this time, Marin's real intention was not to really attack, but to make a big noise and attract the attention of the Bossa coalition army.

Therefore, Marin did not hurry to send some soldiers, with sapper shovels, to the front to dig and fill the pit......

Moreover, before filling in the trenches, Marin will not really make it so easy for the Bossa coalition forces. So, he had dozens of trebuchets moved......

These trebuchets were originally left in the pits west of the Travo River west of Lübeck by the Bossa coalition, and when the Bossa coalition left, Frederick III ordered most of them to be destroyed, but some of them remained intact.

So, during this attack, Marin simply sent people to bring over the more than 30 trebuchets that were in good condition......

Although, the artillery brought by Marin was able to blast through such an impregnable wall. However, Marin this time was for the purpose of attracting the attention of the enemy army and causing trouble. If you blast through the wall too soon and rush in, it will turn into a head-to-head duel between Marin's 20,000 men and the enemy's well-prepared tens of thousands.

Therefore, in order to avoid a crash with the prepared Bossa coalition too early. Therefore, Marin did not use artillery to blast through the wall when he came up, but first pulled dozens of stone throwers and began to throw fireballs into the barracks through the walls of the barracks in order to create chaos in the enemy barracks.

After all, a fireball is capable of setting a tent on fire. Throwing some fireballs into the camp and lighting the tents will definitely create a lot of chaos for the Bossa coalition army.

In short, this attack led by Marin himself was not a real onslaught, but a feint. As a result, its momentum may seem immense, but its true attack power is mediocre.

However, those dozens of stone throwers really brought chaos to the Bossa coalition army.

These dozens of catapults threw balls made of hay. Then, on top of these grass balls, grease is poured over them. When the ignited ball of grass was thrown into the camp of the Bossa coalition army by a stone-throwing machine, it would inevitably ignite and burn as soon as it touched the tent.

Therefore, although there were only a few dozen stone throwers, they did create a lot of confusion for the large battalion of the Bossa coalition army. After all, the tents where they slept at night were set on fire, and those soldiers were definitely going to put out the fire. However, these grass balls were doused with grease and were difficult to extinguish, causing great confusion and trouble to the nearby soldiers.

At the same time, although the attack had not yet been launched, Marin asked the soldiers to make loud noises and shouts, intending to create psychological pressure on the Bossa coalition troops in the Bossa coalition camp.

In this chaos, the attention of the Bossa coalition army was attracted to the east by Marin's "thunder and rain" attack......