In the West Frisian region, the Gregorian army of Saxony and the Frisian Resistance Army, which had the help of reinforcements from the Duchy of Gedes, fought each other for more than two years. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In general, it was the Saxon army that had the advantage. The Saxon army controlled not only the Hanseatic city of Groningen and the surrounding areas, but also a small part of the western West Frisian land, and was already under siege of Leeuwarden.

However, the strong walls of Leeuwarden and the number of defenders were as high as 8,000 men, which made the Saxon army unfavorable. In the end, the battle between the two families turned into a confrontation relying on the city of Leeuwarden.

Even, in order to defend, the West Frisian Resistance Army also organized the people, taking advantage of the intermittent armistice, to dig rivers south and north of Leeuwarden to prevent the Saxon army from bypassing Leeuwarden to attack westward.

Therefore, now Leeuwarden and the river channel to the north and south have become the "Chu River Han border" between the army of the Duchy of Saxony and the West Friesian resistance army. Most of the area to the east was under the control of the Saxon army; A small part of the coast to the west is under the control of the West Friesian Resistance Army.

For a long time, although the two armies had tentative contacts, they were also uneventful until ......

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It was the case that when Marin led an army of 20,000 with the 10,000 troops of Lübeck and Hamburg, and swept through the Count of Oldenburg and Denmark, he invented a very powerful siege method - that is, to use artillery to break through the oak gate first, and make a hole. Then, the powder keg was stuffed into the hole and buried it, and the city gate was blown up......

This obscene but practical tactic, the Danes did not understand the practical defense method of the Great Iron Gate until the end of the war. However, it was already too late......

However, the war took place mainly in Denmark and other regions, and the details of this are not very clear. However, this does not include Frederick III, Elector of Saxony. After all, he was the brother-in-law of King Hans of Denmark......

So, anyway, the princes who were familiar with this obscene city-breaking tactic through this war all replaced the gates of their cities with iron gates. At the worst of all, the oak gates should be covered with iron plates to prevent them from being smashed by the enemy's iron ball shells......

Coincidentally, George, Duke of Saxony, often returned home to deal with government affairs while sending a large army to confront the West Frisian Resistance Army. When he has nothing to do, he also goes to Wittenberg, the capital of the Electorate of Saxony, as a guest.

George is no longer the young man he was back then, and all the troubles after taking the throne made him realize that he was not as good as he imagined. So, he began to lay down his hat and began to curry favor with his cousin, Frederick III, Elector of Saxony.

Although Frederick III was very dissatisfied with George's despise on him, after all, they were all family. Moreover, the national strength of the Duchy of Saxony is not much worse than that of the Elector of Saxony. If it weren't for the shocking defeat suffered by the Duchy of Saxony in East Friesland, its national strength would not have been under the Elector of Saxony at all.

Moreover, although Frederick III became the new leader of the Saxon nobility after the death of Duke Albrecht, there were still a small number of Saxon nobles who continued to follow Duke George. Therefore, Frederick III was also willing to win over his cousin George for his own use.

One day in July, George visited Wittenberg again, only to see that Wittenberg was changing the city gates, which was very lively. What surprised George even more was that the replaced city gate turned out to be a large iron gate cast of pure iron. Puzzled, George asked his cousin Frederick III for advice, and Frederick III told George about the Danish battlefield......

Originally, Duke George listened to it as a joke. However, back in Dresden, when Duke Georg told the joke to his men, a general named Huss took it in mind. So, he suggested to George:

"Lord Duke, since Marin's tactics are so useful, why don't we learn them either?"

"What do you mean?" George was a little confused.

"We also have a lot of Saxon artillery, although it is not as large as the caliber of Marin's artillery. However, if hundreds of artillery pieces are fired together, if they are aimed at it, it should be no problem to make a hole in the Leeuwarden gate, right? ”

"That's true......" George seemed to understand, but not a little bit. After all, he doesn't have a high IQ. If I had been a cousin, Frederick III, I would have understood......

"Then we will send men carrying powder kegs and bury them in the holes, and we will blow open the gates of Leeuwarden? Then the army swarmed in......"

It's all so straightforward, George can understand it. He jumped with excitement;

"Great, we can finally take Leeuwarden!"

Then Duke George began to organize blacksmiths in the country, casting a large number of iron ball shells.

Previously, although the Duchy of Saxony had hundreds of artillery pieces, most of them used stone shells. It's okay to hit people with stone bullets, but if you want to smash the door, the kinetic energy is not enough......

As a result, George began to order the blacksmiths in the principality to step up the production of iron ball cannonballs for smashing doors......

In August, George arrived at Leeuwarden with a convoy of iron balls and cannonballs......

Although the artillery of the Duchy of Saxony was small-caliber marine artillery, hundreds of small-caliber marine guns were also very powerful when they bombarded the east gate of Leeuwarden.

After today, under the impact of the raindrop-like small iron ball, Leeuwarden really smashed a hole in the east gate......

Then, Duke George organized death squads and ran under the city gates at night and buried two powder kegs in the holes......

With a loud bang, Leeuwarden's east gate collapsed, connecting the bricks and stones piled up behind the gate......

Seeing this great opportunity, Duke George hurriedly commanded the sword and shield soldiers as the vanguard and rushed into the city first......

On the side of the West Friesian Resistance Army, because it was night, it was not prepared. When the East Gate was blasted open, many of the soldiers went to dinner.

Unsuspected, the West Frisian Resistance was defeated by the Saxon army and withdrew from the West Gate in the direction of Harringen and Zurich by the sea......

In this way, in one night's work, the fortress of Leeuwarden changed hands......

Moreover, the tragedy is that of the original nine nobles of West Friesland, only the former governor Fyskefrijheid and the Baron Ztel of Leeuwarden withdrew from Leeuwarden under the desperate protection of the commander Sivag.

As for the other 7 nobles, 4 were killed in the chaos, and 3 became George's prisoners, which was extremely miserable......

Of the 8,000 West Frisian Resistance troops stationed in Leeuwarden, 1,000 were killed and 2,500 surrendered. Only about 4,500 people actually escaped. However, there were less than 3,000 people who fled in an orderly manner with the two nobles and Sivag. When the others escaped, they were scattered......

In desperation, Governor Fyskefrijheid and Baron Ztel had to board a ship in the port of Harringen and retreat by sea to the Duchy of Gedus. With him was 800 men led by Sivarg.

As for the other 2,000 people, they fled south along the seaside road overnight and withdrew to the Duchy of Godes. At this point, the operation of the West Frisian Resistance Army was considered a failure......

When Marin learned of this information, he was also so depressed that he vomited blood. He didn't expect that Duke George's pig's head would actually learn to be a copycat and be very successful......

Marin, however, is not particularly pessimistic. Because, he knew, Charles II, Duke of Geddes, the old fox, would never look at George proudly...... It wasn't until the thing jumped from behind the scenes to the front and Duke George that the situation became even more exciting......

"Hehe, you're a praying mantis, I'm a yellow finch...... As for George's stupidity, of course it's a cicada...... Those idiots in West Frisland are not even cicadas...... "Marin laughed lewdly, having already made West Frisland his territory.