Because of the order of the palace minister Bentheim, most of the Holstein cities found under the steps also chose to surrender. www.biquge.info Of course, there are those who are as stubborn as Neumyster, and there are those who are in a wait-and-see state.

However, the coalition forces were so fierce that in two days they captured the fortified city of Neu-Münster, which greatly deterred the other cities. As a result, those cities that were watching from the sidelines chose to surrender one after another, and no longer saw the wind and rudder.

In fact, the reason why the siege was so smooth was inseparable from the use of heavy artillery and the use of powder kegs. After all, in this era, the city gates of various cities were still mainly made of oak, and no matter how thick they were, they could not stop the continuous smashing of 18-pound iron ball shells.

You know, even those warships with thickened sides will be overwhelmed by the continuous slamming of 18-pound iron balls at the same point. Although the gates were thick, they were different from warships. The ship kept shaking, and it was difficult for the artillery to hit the same point twice in a row. As long as it is not smashed once, it is difficult to be pierced. But the city gate is different, the city gate is fixed, it will not move its position, the artillery is flat, as long as the angle is adjusted, it can be bombarded repeatedly at the same point mountain. No matter how strong the city gate is, as long as it is a wooden gate, it cannot withstand this continuous blow. Therefore, it was only a matter of time before the gates were broken. Then, bury a powder keg in the hole that has exploded, and it will be difficult to blow it up......

After easily blasting open the castle gates of a recalcitrant baron with an 18-pounder cannon, Marin said to Schwartz on the side:

"It seems that we have to cover the city gate with an iron plate when we turn back, otherwise, we can't stop the artillery bombardment......"

"Young Master is wise!" Schwartz said respectfully. In fact, Schwartz was also intimidated by the power of the 18-pounder short-barreled Cullen heavy gun. Although it consumes a lot more gunpowder than the Korhorn mortar, it is also more powerful. No matter how strong the city gate is, it will inevitably be pierced under the continuous bombardment of more than a dozen 18-pounder guns. Oak doors, in the face of heavy artillery, should indeed be eliminated......

In fact, the city gates of the Oriental and many large cities of the same era were covered with bronze skin and covered with copper nails to enhance the strength of the city gates.

It's just that European copper is too expensive. At this time, even the wealthy Hanseatic cities did not have the luxury of covering the city gates with copper skin. However, Marin used heavy artillery to easily blast open the city gates, which will prompt various countries to wrap the city gates with metal. If it is not included, if it encounters artillery in the future, it will be just around the corner......

Having made up his mind to befriend the Hanseatic League, Marin no longer went to cities that had already announced their surrender to collect official money. To this end, Marin specially informed Lübeck and Hamburg and asked them to send someone to receive these cities. And himself, he led the army to continue north, marching in the direction of the Duchy of Schleswig.

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On the side of Kiel, Lübeck's army of 5,000 was also moving very well. Because Kilben was a Hanseatic city, although the Danish king Hans sent troops and nobles to manage the city, the Hanseatic merchants in the city were still very powerful. While Marin was staying in Glückstadt, Lübeck's army attacked the city of Kiel.

The army of the Hanseatic Big Brother has been killed, where is the reason for the Hanseatic merchants in the city to resist? Even, at night, several Hanseatic merchants, sending out all their guards, attacked and opened the gates of the city, welcoming the Lübeck army into the city......

Although Kiel's defenders put up a stubborn resistance, the regular army in the city numbered only a few hundred men, and the gates were opened. Under the attack of 5,000 Lübeck's army, the defenders of the city were completely annihilated. In this way, Lübeck easily took control of the Hanseatic merchant city of Kiel.

When Marin's army conquered Neumünster, the Lübeck army that captured Kiel, and after leaving behind a few hundred defenders, followed to join Marin's army. By the way, a word about the ownership of the city of Nova Münster.

Of course, Lübeck wanted to negotiate with Hamburg on the partition of the Duchy of Holstein, and Marin could not intervene. At present, there are six major cities in the Duchy of Holstein: Kiel, Glückstadt, Neumünster, Itzeho, Bad Aldslo and Hyde.

Glückstadt is the capital, but because of its proximity to Hamburg, it is clearly to be assigned to Hamburg. Kiel was on the east coast and was obviously to be placed under Lübeck's jurisdiction. Hyde, although nominally part of the Duchy of Holstein, is now the territory of the self-governing Dietmarshin and does not belong to Denmark.

Strictly speaking, the reason why Hans, the king of Denmark, was so unlucky was that he was unlucky with the people of Dietmarshin. Because, through the "Battle of Hemingstedt", the Dietmarshin people dug a dam of the reservoir and flooded the Danish army, so that the Danish king Hans, who sent tens of thousands of troops and drove the expedition in person, lost most of the elite and fled back with only a few survivors. After seeing the Danes frustrated, the Swedish regent Sten. Sturley dared to raise his army again and declare Sweden's independence.

It was precisely because of Sweden's independence that the Quadripartite Alliance took advantage of the emptiness in the Danish rear to jointly send troops and stab Denmark severely.

Therefore, the three companies involved in the land dispatch - East Friesland, Lübeck and Hamburg - were somewhat unsure of what to do with Dietmarshen.

According to the geographical location, the area of Dietmarchen, together with the capital city of Heide, should be assigned to Hamburg. However, Hamburg is not happy. Because, the spirit of resistance of the Dietmarshin people is too strong. If you get Dietmarshin, you will be in a huge trouble.

To this end, Hamburg demanded that the area of Dietmarschen be separated from the Duchy of Holstein, and that the rest of the cities be divided with Lübeck. But Lübeck disagreed, believing that Hyde was a city on the West Coast and should be considered Hamburg. Then, the city of Neumünster is located a little east-central and should belong to Lübeck. Hamburg, on the other hand, felt that the area of Dietmarschen was not under the jurisdiction of the Duchy of Holstein and should not be included in Hamburg. At the same time, they also wanted Neumünster......

In this way, the representatives of the two cities quarreled on the spot and refused to give in to each other......

Marin didn't care where Neumyster belonged, and it wasn't his territory anyway. However, if Lübeck and the Hamburg delegates were allowed to quarrel like this, it would be a waste of time. So he said to Weizmann, the representative of Hamburg, and Hermann, the representative of Lübeck:

"Two, the question of the ownership of New Münster should be left to the two speakers for negotiation, the two are just army commanders, and it doesn't count as ......."

As soon as Marin's words came out, the representatives of Lübeck and Hamburg reacted - yes, they were only representatives sent by their respective parliaments to command the army. The real power is still in the hands of the respective parliaments. As a result, Hermann, the military representative of Lübeck, and Weizmann, the representative of Hamburg, both put aside their prejudices, temporarily surrounded Marin, and continued northward to attack the Duchy of Schleswig as planned......

However, after taking Lenzburg, on the border between the Duchy of Holstein and the Duchy of Schleswig, all three had some difficulties. Because, the question of the ownership of the city has become a big problem.

The process of capturing Lenzburg was nothing more than Marin sending artillery to blast a hole in the city gate, and then the demolition soldiers went up to blow the city gate open. Then, the Great Shield Soldier led a group of mercenaries into the city to eliminate the rebels...... But the ownership of Lenzburg, an important Hanseatic commercial city, is somewhat unclear......

Originally, Lenzburg was a city belonging to the Duchy of Holstein. However, in 1460, Christian I of the House of Oldenburg became Duke of Holstein and Duke of Schleswig, but Lenzburg was placed under the jurisdiction of the Duchy of Schleswig.

The traditional dividing line between the Duchy of Holstein and the Duchy of Schleswig is the Ayde River, the largest river in the region. But it happened that Lenzburg was right on the edge of the Eide River, and it was not clear whether it was on the south or north bank of Lenzburg.

If according to tradition, Lenzburg should have belonged to the Duchy of Holstein. But according to the current situation, it is under the jurisdiction of the Duchy of Schleswig. Marin naturally wanted Lenzburg to belong to Schleswig, but Hamburg felt that Lenzburg should belong to Holstein. Preferably, divide Hyde from the Duchy of Holstein and Lenzburg to Hamburg. Because, Hamburg was not happy to take over the still rebellious area of Dietmarchen, lest it fall into the pit of rebellion.

Even, in order to gain control of Lenzburg, Hamburg was willing to give up the sovereignty of the Dietmarschen region (later the county of Dietmarschen) and exchange it for control of Rentzburg.

Marin was a little confused - Nima, although Lenzburg is prosperous, it is only a city. The people of Hamburg are willing to change a city for a place as large as Dietmarchen. In the long run, it's definitely a good deal......

Although the rebellion in Dietmarchen County continues, and the people of Hamburg are afraid of rebellion, who is Marin? Will you be afraid of this? It's a big deal to kill more rebels......

You know, Dietmarshin County has more than 1,000 square kilometers. If it is reclaimed, there will be a lot of arable land......

So, Marin was not afraid of trouble and agreed to the bustling commercial city of Narentsburg in exchange for the area of Dietmarshin, which was still in rebellion. Of course, Weizmann can't call the shots. In the end, it is up to the Hamburg parliament to decide.

Weizmann, however, felt that the Hamburg parliament would certainly agree......

Because, Lenzburg is a Hanseatic commercial city and is relatively prosperous. Moreover, its proximity to Kiel, as well as the River Ayder and the North Sea to the west, is very commercially promising.

What is Hamburg? It was a Hanseatic commercial city. Merchants pay the most attention to areas with developed trade. As for the land? They don't depend on the land for food, but they don't care as much as Marin.

In fact, Marin remembers very well that Lenzburg, right on the edge of the later famous Kiel Canal, was indeed a very important place. Developing business is indeed very good.

But at the same time, Marin also remembers that the later Kiel Canal, near the North Sea, was also the border between the counties of Dietmarchen and Stanburg (the capital of Itzeho). Even if you lose control of Lenzburg, you can still use the Kiel Canal as long as you take the whole of Dietmarschen County. The premise, of course, was that Lübeck and Hamburg were willing to dig the canal according to the plans of the later Kiel Canal.

In fact, it was not for nothing that the German authorities later chose to dig a canal here. This is because, along the route of the later Kiel Canal, there were originally many natural rivers. To dig the Kiel Canal, it was only necessary to connect the rivers together and then widen and dig deeper.

However, after Marin's field trip, he found that if he dug the canal, it would actually be more convenient to make good use of the existing Ayde River. Because, the Eide River is right east next to Lenzburg. And Lenzburg is only twenty or thirty kilometers away from Kiel. Not only that, but to the east of Lenzburg, there is a large river called Ober-Eider, which extends a long distance to the east. If you dig a dozen or twenty kilometers further east along this river, you can connect to the port of Kiel.

The reason why the Kiel Canal did not choose to connect to the Eide River and chose to dig it downwards is probably also because Hamburg is underneath. Because, at the time of the canal opening, Hamburg was the largest port city in Germany. Since the canal was dug, it was natural to take into account the Hamburg side.

Although it is more convenient to open a canal on the Eide River, the western estuary of the river is also a little further away from Hamburg. What's more, the Elder River is not straight, it is winding. If you use it for boating, it will be a waste of time.

Moreover, if the river is not straight, it is also inconvenient for those long boats of more than 100 meters in later generations to walk on the tortuous river. If you're not careful, you might run aground. Therefore, it is still straight, and the canal to the largest port, Hamburg, is more conducive to transportation.

However, this is subject to chronology. In this era, ships longer than 100 meters long did not exist, and ships longer than 30 meters were rare. The use of the Eide River to dig a canal on the spot is more aspect. This is because the distance required to be excavated is much smaller than that of the later Kiel Canal.

In this era, there were no machines, whether it was digging rivers or pumping water, it was completely human. Therefore, it is better to reduce the amount of work as much as possible. The distance of excavation of ten or twenty kilometers, even if pure manual labor is used, only three or five years is good. If you excavate dozens of kilometers, you can't do it in more than ten years. At the end of the 19th century, with the help of a steam engine, it took eight years to gather the power of all Germany. Replaced by the current scientific and technological strength, it is estimated that it will take more than ten years to dig. However, if you use the Eyder River directly, you can connect it instead. Then, even without the help of machines, it can be dug through in three or five years.

Of course, in the long run, the Aide River used to be meandering, and it was not very suitable as a navigable canal. However, the most important thing at the moment is to solve the problem of having and not having it, not the question of whether it is good or not. Therefore, Marin thinks that the canal should be built first by using the river Ayder to connect to Kiel. As for the problem that the river is not straight, it is possible to dig another canal directly to Hamburg while it is navigable. When the new channel is dug up, it is not too late to block and abandon the Ayder River, and connect and activate the new channel.

So, Marin drew the plan in drawings and wrote a large text note to put forward his own opinions. He then made a copy of the same and, through Weizmann and Hermann, commissioned them to send the drawings to the parliaments of Lübeck and Hamburg to express his views, and suggested that the river Eder should be used to dig the river leading to Kiel, and that the canal should be built first. In this way, there is no need to look at the Danish face in the future......