Chapter 496: Pack and Take Away
The more than 10,000 Danish veterans in Copenhagen were already disheartened by the "embattled" choir. The main reason why the walls have been kept alive is that the walls of Copenhagen are too tall and strong.
The tall and sturdy walls of Copenhagen and the large iron gates gave the demoralized Danish veterans a great sense of security, so that they did not collapse.
However, when the northeastern gates were opened, and the support of the city walls was lost, the self-confidence of the Danish defenders collapsed at once......
Although some Danish veterans were still resisting and preventing the East Frisian army from advancing in the direction of the palace, it was the muscle clubs of the 250 "wolf-tooth commandos" led by Kahn who took the lead.
Under the ravages of 250 maces wielding muscle clubs armed to the teeth, the defense line of the few Danish defenders who insisted on resisting was directly crushed......
Before arriving at the Danish royal palace, Schwartz repeated his old trick and asked the demolition team to dig a pit and bury powder kegs, blowing up the main entrance of the palace......
The main entrance of Danish Wang Gong is still an oak door, and there is no iron door. After all, Denmark has been in financial difficulties since it was sacked by Marin's army last time, and it is already the limit to be able to replace the city gate with an iron gate. If you want to replace the palace gate with an iron gate, the Danish court doesn't have the financial resources. Besides, if the big iron gate of the city gate is breached, the Danish royal palace will definitely not be spared, and it makes no sense to replace the iron gate......
At daybreak, Marin, surrounded by a large group of guards, re-entered the royal palace in Copenhagen.
In the face of the complacent Marin, the hapless King Hans didn't even bother to speak. He had already been appointed, and he lay directly on the throne, without making a sound, and made it clear that he was at the disposal of Marin......
However, Marin now needs to move south to occupy the Electorate of Saxony as soon as possible, and there is no time for King Hans of Denmark to talk nonsense. So, after seeing Hans, Marin waved his hand directly and said:
"There's no time to explain, hurry up and pack up and come with me to Schleswig!"
King Hans's mouth immediately grew in surprise, and he had thought that now Marin would definitely force him to sign a new territorial cession. Vaguely, King Hans felt that Norway might not be able to be saved. However, he didn't expect that Marin would say this in his first sentence when he saw him......
In fact, in today's Kingdom of Denmark, the defenders were disarmed and imprisoned. And those Danish nobles were basically controlled, and they couldn't make any waves.
In normal times, Marin would naturally stay in Denmark and use various methods to force King Hans to sign an unequal treaty ceding land and the throne.
But now Marin is in a hurry to lead the army south, and there is no time to deal with the Danish king and the Danish nobles. If 10,000 troops were left to garrison Copenhagen, there would be no problem.
However, Marin now needs to concentrate his superior forces to go south, leaving 10,000 troops in Copenhagen, which is obviously a bit of a luxury.
Therefore, after much thought, Marin decided to bring the Danish king's family and the Danish nobles to Schleswig City first, and then supervise and imprison them on the spot.
The Danish royal family and the great nobles were brought to Schleswig because it was now the territory of Marin, which was dominated by Germans.
If they were to be imprisoned in Copenhagen and Marin went south with the main force, the Danes might have taken the opportunity to riot, rob the king and the nobles, and possibly release the Danish veterans who had been imprisoned. At that time, Marin will once again face the dilemma of fighting on two fronts.
Therefore, Marin decisively chose to bring the Danish royal family and the great nobles to the city of Schleswig, where they were guarded by two thousand credible local veterans and thousands of militiamen.
Under Mikel's rule, Schleswig had now been de-Danified, and the nobles who supported the Oldenburg family had been relocated to Las Vegas. Therefore, it is a good choice to put the Danish royal family and the Danish nobles under house arrest in the royal palace in Schleswig.
As for the more than 10,000 Danish veterans who were captured, Marin did not bother to divide his troops to take care of them. Marin sent people to contact Lübeck and Hamburg and asked them to settle the more than 10,000 Danish veteran prisoners of war. Then, when Marin returned from fighting in the south, he would renegotiate and reschedule.
In this way, Marin would not need to detach a large number of soldiers and horses to guard the prisoners of war, as he did with Swiss mercenaries. Although the armies of Lübeck and Hamburg were not strong, they were still quite good at guarding thousands of unarmed prisoners of war each. In this way, Marin could go south with a full army of 40,000. With so many soldiers and horses, Marin could also fully demonstrate to the princes who wanted to attack him, so that they would not dare to act rashly.
In this way, the merchants in Copenhagen were surprised to find that after the fall of Copenhagen, the East Frisian army did not plunder as they did last time, but hastily packed the valuable and portable belongings of the royal palace and the mansions of the great nobles and the Danish treasury, loaded them into wagons, and looked like they were about to move......
This was indeed the case, and while Marin informed Lübeck and Hamburg to send people to take over more than 10,000 Danish veteran prisoners of war, he arranged for his soldiers to pack up in the Danish royal palace and the mansions of the great nobles, and take them to Schleswig.
In order to allow Lübeck and Hamburg to take over the more than 10,000 veteran prisoners of war with peace of mind, Marin expressed his willingness to hand over the city of Copenhagen to Lübeck and Hamburg until the end of the war and the final results of negotiations with the Danes.
For the two Hanseatic commercial cities of Lübeck and Hamburg, the time spent in charge of Copenhagen was enough for them to complete the layout in Denmark. And the purpose of their layout is naturally to suppress the merchants of Denmark and support the trade merchants who are close to the Hanseatic League...... At that time, even if the Danish monarch regained his sovereignty, he would sadly find that his country's commerce had been controlled by the Hanseatic League......
Therefore, Marin believed that Lübeck and Hamburg would never refuse his offer. Marin even promised that he would stay with the Danish monarch for a little more time, so that Lübeck and Hamburg would have enough time to complete their layout in Copenhagen......
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Sure enough, when they learned of the opportunity to take control of a metropolis like Copenhagen, Lübeck and Hamburg immediately showed great interest. Moreover, Marin also hinted that they could take advantage of the opportunity to imprison the more than 10,000 Danish veterans to dig into the wall and win those veterans to Lübeck and Hamburg as much as possible. In this way, Lübeck and Hamburg were strengthened, but Denmark was weakened. Even if you take back the sovereignty later, you won't be able to do anything......
After Lübeck and Hamburg sent a large number of sailors to Copenhagen and took over the prisoners of war, Marin quickly took the army and the packed royal palace and the valuable belongings of the Danish nobles (including the Danish royal family and the nobles themselves, who were also "packed") together, with the help of the merchant ships of Lübeck and Hamburg, directly embarked in the port of Copenhagen, then sailed to Schleswig Bay near the city of Schleswig, and then landed directly near the city of Schleswig, and took King Hans and the royal family, and all the members of the Danish aristocracy, who were placed under house arrest in the royal palace of Schleswig, and then arranged for the 2,000 elite soldiers of the Second Army and thousands of militiamen to guard the city of Schleswig, who were responsible for strict supervision......
As for Marin and his 40,000-strong army, after landing near the city of Schleswig, they will go straight south to the Electorate of Saxony, vowing to take Wittenberg and capture all the members of the Wettin family except Frederick III......