Chapter 123: The Sacking of Copenhagen

Under the pressure of Marin's musketeers, King Hans had no choice but to surrender to the coalition forces with the queen, the little prince Francis, and his brother Frederick's family. Only the 22-year-old Danish crown prince Christian www.biquge.info accompanied the counterinsurgency army to Sweden, stationed in southern Sweden, and did not return. The rest of the Danish royal family, except for the daughter who got married, was basically wiped out.

After taking control of the Danish royal family, Marin immediately quietly sent people to arrest several stewards in the royal palace, and began to torture them to extract confessions and inquire about the whereabouts of the treasury.

In Europe at this time, the treasury was the treasury of the royal palace. Because, the national financial expenses are basically distributed by the king. It was only after the rise of parliament and the introduction of a general taxation that the royal treasury and the treasury were separated.

The inner treasury of the royal palace is naturally located in the royal palace. Led by several subdued palace stewards, Marin sent Karn, with some of his henchmen, to quickly take over the treasury of the palace and seize a full warehouse of coins. However, most of these coins are silver coins, although the warehouse is full, but when converted, it is only about 300,000 gold coins. For a power like Denmark, it's really nothing. What made Marin laugh and cry was that in the treasury, he found a lot of counterfeit Danish coins that he had ordered to be made.

Then, under the guidance of the palace stewards, Marin learned that most of the mansions of the Danish nobles were also in the old town on Castle Island.

Therefore, Marin immediately sent troops and horses to attack the mansions of those great nobles. Because they are in the royal city, the mansions of those great nobles naturally cannot be a strong castle. Therefore, it didn't take much effort to attack these mansions.

However, the harvest of taking these mansions stunned Marin......

Because, these great nobles are especially richer than the king. More than a dozen Danish nobles have stored coins and treasures worth more than one million gold coins......

Marin quietly blacked out the belongings, and the next morning, Marin approached Weizmann and Hermann and asked their troops to attack the Danish army, which was still stubbornly resisting on the streets, from the rear.

Of course, this is not the main thing. The main thing was that Marin told them that as long as they took the whole of Copenhagen, they would let the whole city plunder......

When the whole news spread, Lübeck and the mercenaries in Hamburg were boiling. A sentiment called greed grows in them, it is they who forget the danger and only have money left in their eyes......

So, the mercenaries of the two Hanseatic cities, who still had 9,000 people left, screamed, and killed the Danish troops who were still resisting from the rear......

However, in the narrow streets, despite the courageous advance of the mercenaries of Lübeck and Hamburg, they were blocked by the enemy. After all, the streets are so wide that they can't be opened.

Marin's heart moved, and he withdrew the mercenaries of Lübeck and Hamburg first. Then he released a dozen palace guards, drove them to the Danish troops, and made them shout as they ran:

"Oh no, the king has been captured!"

"Oh no, the king has been captured!"

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Sure enough, to Marin's surprise, the Danish troops, who were still stubbornly resisting on the streets, caused a huge commotion. In particular, many of these palace guards were known to many officers......

"Johnson, is the king really captured?" An officer leading his men in resistance asked, eagerly grabbing a former palace guard who was running and shouting.

"Yes, Brother Hazen, the enemy army went around the city wall in front of the palace gate and blew it open, and now, the royal family members are all captured......" said the palace guard named Johnson in frustration.

More than a dozen other guards were also surrounded by acquaintances and questioned. When it was learned that the royals and nobles on Castle Island had been captured, the morale of the army immediately collapsed.

Later, when Marin once again commanded the army to force through the rear and shouted "Surrender or kill" in the Danish language he was learning, most of the Danish sergeants who had lost their backbone laid down their arms and raised their hands in surrender. A small number of people still wanted to resist, and Marin ordered to be killed with muskets......

In this way, the more than 6 former Danish soldiers who resisted on the street were quickly eliminated and captured. Then, the army began to control the other city gates, and opened the southwest city gate, and let in the coalition soldiers who remained outside the southwest city gate.

Immediately after taking control of the main arterial road, Marin consulted with Weizmann and Hermann about the distribution of the robbery. According to the agreement, the property of the royal palace belonged to Marin, and the property of the mansions of the great nobles also belonged to Marin. However, there are also quite a few headquarters of the Danish Chamber of Commerce in Copenhagen. In the headquarters of those chambers of commerce, the amount of money is also staggering. According to the agreement, those were divided equally between Lübeck and Hamburg.

As for the rich and civilians in the city, they were handed over to the soldiers, and the areas were divided into loots......

This time, Marin did not restrain his subordinates, but let the 5,000 soldiers with the greatest achievements participate in the robbery. However, Marin strictly ordered his soldiers, if possible, not to kill people or force women......

As for the mercenaries of Lübeck and Hamburg, Marin did not restrain them this time. Anyway, his soldiers are all wearing black cross vests on a white background, and it is clear who did bad things at a glance......

The first to be hit were the shops on the street. With the exception of the headquarters of a dozen large chambers of commerce, which were partially occupied by Lübeck and Hamburg officers, all other small storefronts were looted by Allied soldiers.

In the midst of earth-shattering cries, the doors of one shop after another were smashed open. A group of red-eyed mercenaries rushed in, tied up the master, and then began rummaging through boxes and cabinets in search of money. Even, the tied hostesses, the soldiers would touch their necks and earlobes, as well as their fingers, to get necklaces, rings and earrings. It's okay if the necklaces and rings were robbed, but those earrings were robbed, that's what a miserable thing. The soldiers couldn't wait to take off their earrings, and they pulled them hard, and then there was a miserable howl of women killing pigs - apparently, their earlobes were torn......

Two Hanseatic officers, Weizmann and Hermann, were surprised to find that they had seized millions of gold coins after counting the headquarters of a dozen Danish chambers of commerce under their control. That's not all, the goods piled up in the Chamber of Commerce are also worth five or six hundred thousand gold coins.

In this way, Lübeck and Hamburg were able to share a huge fortune worth seven or eight hundred thousand gold coins each. Counting the hundreds of ships captured, the two can be sure that they have made a lot of money in this war......

Because, in this war, the total investment of the two cities did not exceed 1 million gold coins, but the benefits far exceeded the investment. Not to mention the value of these goods and merchant ships, they would have made a lot of money just by eliminating Denmark, a competitor in the maritime trade, even if they invested millions of gold coins and had no money in return. Moreover, they will also gain a large part of the territory of the Duchy of Holstein......

Copenhagen is the largest city in Northern Europe, and at the end of the day, all the soldiers involved in the robbery had their pockets full of belongings. And that wasn't enough, the soldiers involved in the robbery, each carrying a bag of marijuana, didn't know where to put it. Because, it is very inconvenient to rob again with property. But in the barracks, I was afraid that someone would steal it......

Seeing this, Marin directly set up a warehouse, and asked the soldiers to tie the sacks into dead knots with ropes, write their names, and throw them into the warehouse. The next day, they continued to go out and grab ......

However, the soldiers looted so much. Marin vacated several large houses, but none of them were able to hold these belongings. Mainly, these soldiers not only robbed money, but also robbed pots and pots...... These things may not be of much value, but they take up a lot of space.

The soldiers were looting, and Marin was not idle. On the one hand, Marin asked Weizmann and Hermann to inform the two speakers and important members of Lübeck and Hamburg to come to Copenhagen to discuss the division of the fruits of victory.

Marin, on the other hand, did something that made King Hans vomit blood in his despair in the future—he collected all the paper, including parchment, in the city. Then, divide the paper into small strips. Marin had a note written in Danish - "Your robbery is the fault of your king......

Every time a soldier goes out to rob and rob a house, he will follow Marin's instructions and drop such a note to the victim......

The victims, who were literate when they saw the note, were angry when they read it - yes, it was Hans, a stupid king, who took the initiative to provoke a strong enemy, and caused us to be unlucky, and all our property was robbed by the enemy, and I hated this unfortunate king...... Those who were illiterate, after asking others to help them read, also resented King Hans......

After the withdrawal of the allied forces, King Hans completely lost the trust of the people, and within a few years, he died in depression......