When Saqqara offered to go south with a large army to support Lübeck, Woolf. Esbrand, however, frowned, and then, worriedly, said:

"I heard that there are more than 10,000 troops in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, all of which are the main army. What if both of our armies go south and the Danes go mad and attack the Duchy of Schleswig? ”

Saqqara thought about it, and it really is. However, he couldn't help it, so he had to say:

"Or, I'll take my headquarters of 10,000 troops south, and your troops won't move?"

"No, if only your 10,000 troops go south, if they are met by the main force of the Bossa coalition army, they will definitely not escape defeat. Therefore, I will provide at least 8,000 veterans to go south with you. In this way, even if it is surrounded by the main forces of the Bossa coalition army, it will have the strength to fight. If there are fewer people on the other side, they will definitely not be able to eat you. There are so many people coming, the Duke can go directly out of the city and fight us back and forth. ”

Saqqara nodded, Woolf. Esbrand's concerns are justified. Although it is said that the southward movement should be swift and covert, it is difficult to guarantee that the Bossa coalition will not send scouts to find them. If they were unfortunate enough to be spotted early by the enemy's scout cavalry, they would inevitably be blocked.

If you only take 10,000 people from your headquarters to the south, as long as the other party stops 10,000 people from your own side, and then sends superior forces to surround them, then you have no choice but to wait to be wiped out.

But with the addition of eight thousand veterans of the Duchy of Schleswig, it was different. 18,000 men faced 50,000 Bosa coalition troops, and even if they were defeated, they could defend themselves for a long time.

Moreover, if the enemy wants to eat the 18,000 troops on his side, he must send at least 30,000 or 40,000 people. As a result, the enemy encirclement of Lübeck had to be relaxed. And with the ability of his own master Marin, he will definitely not let go of such a good opportunity. At that time, while the encirclement outside the city is relaxed, more than 20,000 people in the city will definitely be killed. Then, the two sides will attack back and forth, and the possibility of defeat for the enemy is extremely high.

Of course, this is the worst-case scenario. Actually, there are best-case scenarios. For example, the 18,000 people were not discovered by the spies of the Bossa coalition army. Then, suddenly, the camp of the Bossa coalition army was attacked, and it was a night attack......

But the premise is that after the army went south, the Danes did not get nervous and suddenly sent a large army to attack behind them. If the Danish army suddenly attacked Jutland from Zealand, it would be easy for them to take advantage of the lack of forces in the Duchy of Schleswig. And the most dangerous thing is that more than 10,000 people in Denmark have been outflanked from behind.

If it's a little north, it's fine. If it happens to be near the camp of the Bossa coalition army, then the fun will be great. Under the attack of the Bossa coalition army and the Danish army, these 18,000 people will surely die without a place to be buried.

So, Woolf. Both Esbrand and Saqqara felt embarrassed and did not dare to easily lead their troops south.

Then, they wrote a report on the situation, sent people south, and at night, the intelligence officers crossed the river in a small boat, entered the city of Lübeck, and handed the report to Marin.

When Marin was reported, he felt a little sorry that Prince Christian had not been killed. However, it was still very happy that the army had wiped out the main Danish force of 20,000. In addition to the more than 2,000 people who ran away, Woolf. Esbrand and Saqqara received a total of 12,000 prisoners of war.

Although, with Denmark's poor finances and the civilian background of most of these POWs, it was extremely unlikely that Marin would want to extort ransom from these POW Mountains, Marin did not care. Because, more than 10,000 people can be used as labor to build roads and dig canals. It just so happened that there was a canal in the South Münster area that needed to be excavated. More than 10,000 prisoners of war were pulled over to dig canals, regardless of the season......

As for Woolf. The more than 10,000 main forces in Copenhagen, the Danish capital, that Esbrand and Saqqara were worried about, were indeed a big problem and an unstable factor affecting the war situation. If they were on their heels at Woolf. Behind the armies of Esbrand and Saqqara will indeed affect the safety of the reinforcements.

Therefore, it is necessary to come up with a way to let the more than 10,000 troops in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, stay in Copenhagen honestly, so as not to run around and affect the situation of the war.

Obviously, the best thing to do is to get the Swedish army to attack Copenhagen. In this way, the Danish army in Copenhagen did not dare to attack casually. After all, in the city of Copenhagen, there is a core group of people in Denmark who need to be protected.

However, it will take a long time for Sweden to gather its army and drive to Malmö, across the sea from Denmark. If the Danish army had taken advantage of the fact that the Swedes had not yet driven over and went directly to land, it would have been too late.

In fact, Marin had judged that since the last time Copenhagen was broken, the Danes might be frightened this time and dare not attack the main force, lest Copenhagen be broken again. Just like last time, more than 10,000 Danish troops were trapped in Sweden, and then Copenhagen was broken by Marin. Then, there was no need to fight......

It's just that that's Marin's inference, but it is not excluded that the Danish king Hans was hot-headed and sent the main force out desperately. After all, as long as the Battle of Lübeck is won, even if the Danish capital is broken, it will be fine. Because, even if the city of Copenhagen is broken, no one will dare to kill the Danish nobles. Then, the loss of Copenhagen can be recovered through negotiations after the victory of the coalition forces.

If King Hans had the courage to go out and send the main force out to follow Woolf. The armies of Esbrand and Saqqara, before the reinforcements attacked the camp of the Bossa coalition, fought and dragged until the main force of the Bossa coalition arrived. Then, this reinforcement of 18,000 people may really be finished. As long as this support army is finished, Marin will not want to win, the best result is only to lead his troops out of the encirclement and then run away......

Although he was sure that Hans was not so bold, Marin still did not dare to gamble. So, he came up with a compromise - send a fleet to bombard Copenhagen and make a gesture of attacking Copenhagen. In this way, the Danes did not dare to send troops out.

Moreover, it is also very convenient to send warships to shell Copenhagen. Because, Kidd was on the sea in Lübeck Bay with 10 warships. With just one order, Kidd was able to shell Copenhagen with 10 warships. After all, the city of Copenhagen is located on the edge of the Øresund Strait and is a seaside city.

Now that the Danish navy has been destroyed, Lübeck and Hamburg often go to raid Danish ports and loot all the big ships. Therefore, the Danes are now not in a position to resist the shelling of the 10 armed merchant ships of the 250 class.

If 10 250-class armed merchant ships bombard Copenhagen at the same time, hundreds of heavy guns will bombard Copenhagen at the same time, and its power should not be underestimated.

The only concern is that if the artillery is fired in a salvo, it will be too gunpowder-intensive. After all, the ship that went to India to buy saltpeter has not yet returned, and Marin does not have a lot of gunpowder in the army now, so he has to save some money......

It's just that it's impossible to shell all day long, but it's still okay to bombard the Danes for a day or two now and scare the Danes. Next, let the warship fire a few shots sporadically to scare the other party.

Of course, this is not enough, Marin also needs to disguise the Swedish army about to attack Copenhagen in order to really scare the Danish army.

Marin looked at the map of Denmark and suddenly smiled......

It turned out that Marin saw on the map that just a few kilometers east of Copenhagen was a small island of more than ten square kilometers called Sarthe Island. The island is only four kilometres from Copenhagen, and on a clear day, you can see the island of Salt.

Marin intended to send men to set up a military camp on the island of Salt, in parallel with the shelling of the walls of Copenhagen. Of course, this is a fake military camp in order to scare the Danes.

Anyway, now that the Danes have no navy, it is unlikely that they will send people to the island of Saltt to observe what is going on.

Therefore, Marin only needs to have people build a large battalion on the island of Salt, which looks like a small size, and then, under the banner of the Swedish army, can suppress the Danes.

As for the men and horses of the battalion? This one is easy, anyway, Marin's fleet and Lübeck's fleet, there are a lot of sailors. When the time comes, let them make a cameo appearance and pretend to be Swedish soldiers, it's still no problem.

Don't look at the city of Lübeck at this time, there is a big war, but on the other side of Lübeck Bay, maritime trade has not stopped. Moreover, the Malmö side also had fleets from Lübeck and Hamburg stationed. From the Lübeck merchant ship in Lübeck Bay, it was no problem to find a few thousand sailors.

As long as the Danes saw the flag of the Swedish army on the island of Salt, and the men and horses coming and going in the fake barracks, they would not dare to move. Coupled with the fact that Marin's fleet fired at the city of Copenhagen from time to time, the probability that the Danish army would dare to leave Copenhagen was very low. Unless, King Hans and the Danish nobles became as unafraid of death as the revolutionary martyrs...... But this is impossible......

In this way, Marin signed an order to send the ships out of the city overnight to the fleet in Lübeck Bay, asking Captain Kidd to open fire on Copenhagen in order to deter the Danes. However, Marin also made a point of explaining that the shelling was only a little more intense in the first three days in order to scare the Danes. After three days, sporadic shelling was used to save gunpowder.

At the same time, Marin also asked the Speaker of the Lübeck Parliament, Tagfacht, to issue a letter of order to be sent to Lübeck Bay and Malmö. It was requested that several thousand sailors be temporarily requisitioned from those merchant ships to the island of Salt, near Copenhagen, to play Swedish infantry for a period of time. Anyway, Denmark now has no navy, and it is impossible to land on the island of Salt. So, this show is relatively safe.

Moreover, in a Hanseatic city like Lübeck, most of the sailors on merchant ships actually had some combat training. Of course, most of it is naval combat training. Because, almost all the Hanseatic merchant ships and sailors on the merchant ships had an agreement with the Lübeck Council - that is, in times of war, the parliament had the right to requisition merchant ships and sailors to fight for Lübeck. Of course, ships and sailors who participated in the war afterwards received some financial compensation, or tax relief.

Because most of these sailors have some military foundation, it is not a problem to play the role of the Swedish Army. It's just that thousands of spears are needed as "props" for acting. But it's not difficult, because Sweden is a country full of forests, and you can cut a tree into a spear-making stick if you cut it down. Anyway, it's not a real spear for making a fight, it's a prop for acting. Therefore, those wooden sticks do not need to be specially treated, just brush a little paint on the head and make it look like a spear, and you can fool the Danes......

In this way, while Marin had Kidd's fleet bombard Copenhagen, he had thousands of sailors posing as Swedish troops on the island of Salt, four kilometers east of Copenhagen. With the urine nature of the Danish monarch and minister, if he dares to send troops to land and participate in the battle, then there will be a ghost...... After all, the great nobles are very afraid of death, otherwise there would be no tradition of money in Europe......

Basically, the aristocrats of the European Middle Ages fought for territory, in addition to grabbing territory, it was also a struggle between "kidnappers" and "meat tickets". Whoever wins is a "kidnapper", and whoever loses is a "meat ticket", and generally rarely kills the big nobles......