On the Danish side, after receiving information from the south, Prince Christian led an army of 20,000 men and took ten days to reach outside the city of Riber.

And at this time, Woolf. Esbrand had already entered the city with three thousand elites and was ready for defense. In fact, at this time, there were 4,000 elite soldiers and 2,000 or 3,000 strong men in the city of Libe, and if all of them were pulled up the city walls, the Danish army would not have thought of taking them down in a short time.

However, in order not to frighten Prince Christian, Woolf. Esbrand ordered that only the original 1,000 elite soldiers, wearing black cross vests on a white background, stand at the head of the city as the main force to resist the Danish attack.

The other 3,000 reinforcements of elite soldiers all changed into the clothes of the common people and looked like the people. Sure enough, this gave Prince Christian an illusion that only a thousand of the defenders at the head of the city were regulars, and the rest were civilians. In fact, the defenders at the head of the city are all regular troops, and the people are all substitutes under the city......

However, when the Danish army was attacking the city, Woolf. Esbrand ordered only 250 arquebuses to be used for resistance. Because, according to the ratio of spearmen to musketeers in the Marin army was three to one, musketeers should have made up a quarter of the regular army. On the surface, there should have been only a thousand regular troops in the city, and of course only 250 arquebuses.

As for the 750 musketeers of another three thousand people, Woolf. Esbrand did not let them go up to the city wall at all, but selected 750 young hunters who were good at archery from among the people to replace them, and used bows and arrows against the enemy on the city.

However, 250 arquebuses are no less. The Danish army was all spearmen, so there were no muskets to shoot at the defenders. Even with a small number of archers, the damage is limited.

You must know that during the defense of Vienna in 1529, the Austrian army used 72 arquebuses to stun the 200,000 Turkish army, and even if the artillery bombarded the city wall, it failed to capture Vienna from the broken part of the wall.

Now, there are 250 arquebuses at the head of the city, and the formation may be disrupted by a single charge on the frontal battlefield, but with the city wall as a backing, it is impossible to comprehensively suppress the Danish army, but at a certain point and surface, it is still possible to suppress the Danish army fiercely.

After all, the Danish army is only 20,000 men, and it is impossible to blossom on all sides, and it will generally choose to focus on attacking a certain direction in order to seek a breakthrough. In this way, as long as 250 musketeers were concentrated in the direction of the main attack of the Danish army, the effect of suppressing the Danish army could be achieved.

Sure enough, when the Danish army was attacking the northern city wall, 250 musketeers used a continuous rain of bullets to suppress the Danish offensive.

"The Danish army is also going to be armed with muskets! Damn, this battle is really bad! Prince Christian said angrily after several attacks were repulsed.

Before, he still looked down on the use of muskets. Because the arquebus is too slow to reload, as long as the cavalry charges, they can rush to the musketeers and slash at will.

However, the arquebus was too prominent in the siege of the city. After all, no matter how fast your cavalry is, you can't rush up the city walls. The musketeers at the head of the city, with plenty of time to reload their ammunition, have no sense of urgency. After all, with the siege ladder erected and the man climbed up the high walls, the musketeers would certainly have plenty of time to reload during this time. Besides, the musketeers have spearmen to cover them up......

With their own safety fully assured, the arquebusiers taught the Danish army how to behave with 50 grams of lead bullet......

In fact, at the same time, Frederick III, far below Lübeck, also had plans to be armed with muskets. It's just that Frederick III saw it more clearly - the arquebus was mainly the most invincible when defending the city. On a frontal battlefield, it would be tragic to be rushed in front of you by cavalry. Of course, digging two trenches in front of the battle, as Marin did, and filling the trenches with stakes, would have kept the musketeers safe. However, in this way, the army was immobilized, and it was difficult to give full play to the advantages of the offensive.

Even in the previous battle of Lyre County, the classic battle in which Marin defeated the Duke of Saxony Albresit, the reason why the Saxon army failed was more because the high platform and handsome banner where the Duke of Albrecht was located happened to be crushed by the naval guns on the Marin warship. As a result, the Saxon army thought that the Duke of Albrecht had been killed by a cannon, and Marin was loudly spreading rumors, so there was chaos. So, in that war, the Saxon army lost more by luck.

But Frederick III, after seeing with his own eyes the thousands of musketeers brought by Marin and crushing the soldiers of the Bossa coalition who were trying to attack, had to admit that muskets were too powerful in the defense of the city......

Therefore, Frederick III intended to form a small number of musketeers in the army of the Elector of Saxony after the war. However, it was mainly used to defend the city. In a head-to-head duel, the Saxons still believed in heavy cavalry charges. Even if the heavy cavalry can't charge well, aren't there still powerful Swiss spearmen?

Although both of them remembered to be armed with muskets, Frederick III had a planned arrangement, and Prince Christian, more because of the angry words he said after being frustrated.

But Prince Christian was not a fool either, and he had heard of the English attacking on a rainy day while Edward's musketeers were dumb when they were besieging Dublin, Ireland. So, he was not in a hurry, and decided to wait for the rainy day to take it down.

Anyway, it seemed to him that there were only a thousand regular troops in the city. If you wait until the rainy day when the arquebus is dumb, the Danish army will launch a strong attack, and you can't take it.

So, in the following days, he simply did not move. Then, in the main account, entertain a couple of lieutenants for a drink. And Jim's current lieutenant, General Maxim, is one of them.

In order to get a chance to make a move, Jim followed General Maxim every day, patted himself wildly, and finally got the opportunity to blend in with the main account and serve behind General Maxim......

At one point, when several generals and Prince Christian were drunk, Jim took the initiative to go up and pour wine for Prince Christian and several lieutenants. As he poured the wine, Jim quickly slid the "Cantrella" into Prince Christian's glass.

Under normal circumstances, a few of you may find out. However, everyone was drunk and hazy, and no one noticed the situation. Then, without knowing it, Prince Christian drank the poisoned drink......

Seeing Prince Christian drink the poisonous "Canterella", Jim felt stable. Because there were still seven days left for the poison, Jim did not rush to escape, but deliberately found several colleagues of the same rank as adjutant on the next day to drink together.

While drinking, Jim deliberately pretends to be drunk. Then, while "drunk", a few Swedish words came out of his mouth, which attracted the attention of the adjutants of the other generals at the same table......

The next night, Jim found a chance to run away. Then, the news that he might be a Swedish spy also came out......

After leaving the Danish barracks, Jim rode south in search of Saqqara's army. Because as agreed, Saqqara is already in the vicinity. However, Saqqara had to wait for Prince Christian's poison to cause chaos in the Danish army before attacking. In this way, it is much more stable...... Jim rushed over to confirm with Saqqara the timeline of Prince Christian's poisoning......

It's just that what Jim doesn't know is that on the night he poisoned, Prince Christian drank too much because of drinking and ended up throwing up. Most of the "canterella" that he drank was also vomited......