Glückstadt, the capital of the Duchy of Holstein, has been here for some time with a large army. www.biquge.info During this time, in addition to conquering the palace held by a group of local nobles led by the palace minister Bentheim, Marin also reorganized the 25,000 troops gathered here.

Not only these troops, but also the 5,000 men in Hamburg who served 5,000 mercenaries, and the 10,000 people brought by Marin, the entire size of the army reached 40,000 people.

With such a large team, it is indeed troublesome to command. As a result, Marin simply stopped for a while, mainly for the integration of the entire team. The most important thing is to incorporate the 5,000 mercenaries and 5,000 civilians in Hamburg into the system of their own army.

So, Marin asked Schwarz and other generals to conduct surprise training for the 5,000 Hamburg mercenaries and 5,000 Hamburg miners, mainly for them to conduct simple queue training, repeatedly emphasizing the problem of discipline.

In particular, the 5,000 Hamburg mercenaries, who were about to break their old habits, always wanted to "get rich" by robbing the captured city of Glückstadt. This old habit is basically a common vice of mercenaries in this era.

Within a few days, patrols sent by the East Friesian army prevented hundreds of lootings by Hamburg mercenaries. In desperation, Marin had no choice but to set up a military justice department to punish mercenaries who did not listen to advice, and repeatedly emphasized the importance of discipline.

In fact, the Duchy of Holstein was to be given territory to the Hamburg industry Lübeck, and Marin didn't care too much about whether the area was destroyed by mercenaries. However, the Duchy of Schleswig, which was going to be attacked next, was planned to be assigned its own territory, and Marin would never allow bad phenomena to happen there. Therefore, while he was still in the territory of the Duchy of Holstein, Marin planned to rectify the military discipline, put it in order, and then march north. As for whether the Danes will take advantage of this time to increase their strength? Marin didn't care. Because even if the Danes increased their strength, they would only recruit some more militia. How effective is the militia? Within a few days, it is difficult to form combat effectiveness, and at most it can only be regarded as cannon fodder. Marin was confident enough to crush all the enemies who tried to stand in his way......

At the same time, after the capture of the palace minister Bentheim, Marin forced him to give an order to the other cities of the Duchy of Holstein to surrender unconditionally.

Bentheim wanted to be uncooperative, but Marin tied Bentheim's son and his favorite grandson to him, and at the slightest disagreement, he made a gesture to throw Bentheim's favorite little grandson into a boiling cauldron, and threatened to force Bentheim to drink the broth cooked by his little grandson......

Bentheim was frightened by Marin's "brutality" and, in desperation, chose to compromise and personally issued an order ordering the unconditional surrender of other towns in the principality.

In fact, Marin was just scaring Bentheim. If Marin really cooked Bentheim's grandson and forced Bentheim to drink the broth, it is estimated that Marin would soon become a famous and brutal figure in Europe, leaving behind an infamy through the ages, just like the king of Zhou Wen Wang Ji Chang who forced him to eat the meat soup made by his son Bo Yi Kao......

After Bentheim's order was issued, it still had some effect. Of the subordinate towns, about half chose to obey. Besides, even if they didn't obey, they didn't have the confidence to stand up to the coalition forces. In addition, with Bentheim's order, they also have the steps down, this pot, since someone has carried it, why do they have to work hard? But Neumünster, the third largest city in the Duchy of Holstein after Glückstadt and Kiel (the fifth largest after Hamburg and Lübeck), chose to resist.

Located in the heart of the Duchy of Holstein, Neu Münster is the central hub for the north-south land transport of the Duchy of Holstein. The governor of the local garrison, Hamilson, was originally a Dane, and was sent to the Duchy of Holstein as the commander of the garrison as a close confidant of King Hans. Therefore, this person belonged to the die-hard of King Hans of Denmark. Moreover, his family is not here, but on Zealand itself. Therefore, he did not have any worries, so he chose to resist to the end. In other cities, many of them were dominated by local aristocrats, and most of them surrendered in order to keep their families alive and not destroyed. Anyway, there is Prime Minister Bentheim's order paperwork, and they also have the steps down. Even if the Danish king Hans later recovered the Duchy of Holstein, they would have been able to shake off the blame if they had Bentheim's order to endorse it. So, they chose to surrender instead of stubbornly resisting.

Therefore, if Marin wants to conquer the whole territory of the Duchy of Holstein, he must capture Neumünster, an important town on the way north, and pull out this "nail......

After many days of queue training, the originally unruly Hamburg mercenaries were finally beaten up by the veterans under Marin's command. As a result, they are now barely able to obey orders and listen to commands.

Sensing that the time was ripe, Marin continued north with an army of 25,000......

Because he had 20,000 troops, accounting for the majority of the coalition army, Marin became the commander of this coalition army. Along the way, the army was invincible. For the estates of the small rural nobles of the Duchy of Holstein, Marin adopted the strategy of "surrender and let go" and "take it if you don't surrender".

Most of the nobles were not fools, and when they saw tens of thousands of troops pressing over, they all chose to surrender. Only a small number of knight families, about the influence of the glory of the hand knights, did not surrender, but chose to resist.

However, these knight families, often relatively poor, can't even afford to build a castle, where can they have the strength to resist an army of 25,000?

At this time, Marin chose to send 5,000 recruits under his command to train their courage and combat skills in the estates of these rebellious small nobles......

Along the way, Marin commanded the recruits and uprooted more than 20 manors that refused to surrender, killing a river of blood. The wealth of these estates was naturally "confiscated" by Marin. And the 5,000 recruits under his command have also gradually grown up in many battles. Although there were some losses, Marin believes that it was worth it. A soldier who has not experienced a fight is not a qualified soldier. And attacking those rebellious manors is very difficult, and it is suitable for training recruits.

In this way, after capturing 30 recalcitrant knights' estates in a row, Marin and his army finally arrived at the city of Neu-Münster and besieged the city......

After that, Marin was transferred to follow the baggage troops, and more than a dozen short-barreled 18-pounder Karen heavy guns were concentrated on the north gate of the city of New Münster and carried out a continuous bombardment......

In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Marin did not choose to storm by force. Because, the forcible attack method of climbing the city wall can easily bring huge casualties to the own side. Therefore, Marin planned to replicate the previous tactics of besieging Jävre Castle, first blasting a hole in the city gate, and then sending a demolition team to step forward, bury a powder keg in the hole, and blow up the city gate......

So, after besieging Neumünster, Marin did nothing but arrange for artillery to bombard the city gates. And Dhoni. The demolition team led by Ciri is also gearing up and ready to come forward and blast open the city gate at any time......