Chapter 100: Night Attack
Fort Kailong is only a little over 90 kilometers from Copenhagen, and Marin's army can definitely reach it in two days if he is in a hurry. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoIt's just that a lot of time was wasted because Marin had robbed the island of Zealand and had the mercenaries of Hamburg and Lübeck carry the banner to plague the Danish burghers and noble squires.
There was only a distance of more than 90 kilometers, and the army was stunned for 6 days before arriving. At this time, in addition to the soldiers themselves and food supplies, there were only truckloads of looted property left in the coalition troops.
These Hamburg and Lübeck mercenaries were also ruthless, not only robbing other people's gold, silver, treasures and grain, but also robbing other people's wagons to transport stolen goods.
Looking at the long queue behind the large army, the corners of Marin's mouth twitched......
To be honest, seeing these bastards robbing so much property, Marin was a little red-eyed. A rough estimate shows that the looted property is worth more than one million gold coins.
Of these, about seven CDs were snatched by mercenaries from Lübeck and Hamburg. Only 30% is owned by Marin. This was also due to the fact that Marin's army, after occupying every small town, went straight to the official treasury and granary.
In other words, Marin mainly annexed the Danish public property, while the mercenaries of Lübeck and Hamburg mainly robbed the Danish commoners, merchants, and ordinary aristocratic families. As for the big nobles and big merchants...... Well, it seems that they all live in the city of Copenhagen......
Of course, Marin enacted very strict military discipline forbidding the mercenaries of Lübeck and Hamburg to possess their belongings. Every time he returned from a robbery, Marin would register and pack the belongings stolen by each mercenary and put them under the care of the baggage troops.
Then, when the war was over, half of the looted goods belonging to Lübeck and Hamburg would be divided equally among the mercenaries who had been responsible for the robbery and had registered. The other half was handed over to the Lübeck and Hamburg authorities. Although Lübeck and Hamburg were very rich in their own right, the amount of this robbery was too large, and even if it was divided equally with the mercenaries, Lübeck and Hamburg would share a huge fortune of 350,000 gold coins. With this money, the huge investment of the two cities in this war can also pay off a lot.
What's more, Copenhagen, the richest city in Denmark or the whole Kalmar Union, has not yet been taken. Once you take Copenhagen, go grab it again...... Marin estimates that the value of what can be grabbed in Copenhagen is definitely higher than it is now. Fortunately, Copenhagen is a port city, and the Combined Fleet has many ships, and it is easy to transport stolen goods. Even better, the two Hanseatic commercial cities of Lübeck and Hamburg have many pawn shops, which are very convenient for them to sell and dispose of stolen goods......
Because too much time was wasted on the robbery on the way, when the army reached the outside of Copenhagen, the Danish sailors were already on the sides of the narrow Copenhagen Bay.
The Danes seem to have tasted the benefits of the tunnels against shelling, and now the shores of Copenhagen Bay are covered with tunnels dug by the Danes.
When Marin arrived with a large army, he did not know at first that the Danes had dug a pit. After all, through the telescope, Marin could not see anything wrong with the Danish position. So, he arranged his troops and horses and launched a charge......
As a result, in front of the Danish N tunnel, the soldiers of the coalition forces who rushed in front naturally turned on their backs. If it weren't for the timely rescue, it is estimated that the hundreds of soldiers who fell into the pit would not have escaped death. But even though Marin ordered a rescue, hundreds of people were killed by the Danish sailors in the tunnel.
Marin, who had calmed down, temporarily stopped the attack on the Danish sailors' positions, but ordered the troops to retreat, and then began to set up camp.
During the night, Marin sent Sauer's scout unit to lurk in front of the Danish sailors' positions and approach to reconnoitre. Then the scouts were amazed to find that the Danish sailors had all run out of the pit after dark, and had gone back to rest in the camp, and that almost no one had remained in the pit yet.
When Marin learned the news, he couldn't sleep anymore. So, in the middle of the night, he called Schwarz, Stade and other East Frisian generals, and ordered:
"Blow the emergency assembly whistle and assemble the East Frisian veterans!"
The East Frisian army was trained strictly according to Marin's requirements, so it was not uncommon to blow emergency assembly whistles at night. The soldiers were also basically trained to march in the middle of the night, or to fight in the middle of the night.
Therefore, after the emergency assembly whistle sounded, the 13,000 East Frisian veterans in the barracks gathered outside the tents in a short time, dressed and equipped with equipment. The mercenaries of Lübeck and Hamburg were jumping for a while, thinking that the enemy was attacking at night, and almost bombed the camp.
As for the 5,000 East Frisian recruits brought by Marin, the training time was still relatively short, especially since they had not specifically experienced night combat training. So, in the end, the East Friesian recruits who came to assemble were only a thousand people.
Marin did not blame the recruits for this. However, in a blink of an eye, Marin immediately sent officers to take note of the 1,000 recruits who arrived in time, and ordered them to focus on training in the future. These people, who have not undergone special training, can arrive in time, and they seem to be quite clever, and in the future, they can be trained as grassroots officers. As for the unresponsive East Frisian recruits, unless they have made a mark on their exploits. Otherwise, the order of promotion will definitely be behind this thousand people......
Seeing the chickens and dogs jumping in the camp because of the emergency gathering in the middle of the night, Marin couldn't stand it anymore. Under his orders, 4,000 of the 14,000 assembled troops in East Friesland took up arms and went to intimidate the panicked Lübeck and Hamburg mercenaries and silence them.
As for the other 10,000 veterans, Marin decided to split up and attack the Danish sailor battalions on both sides of the Copenhagen Bay overnight.
The encounter during the day made Marin soberly realize that if he launched a general attack with the Danish sailors hiding in the tunnel, he would certainly be able to defeat the enemy, but it would definitely lose a lot. Because, in the face of the dense tunnels, the power of the coalition army's battle array cannot be brought into play at all. Once the formation is out of order, the combat effectiveness of those young men under Marin is not much better than that of Danish sailors.
Because, the East Frisian army, relying on strict discipline and dense battle formations, crushed the enemy. If the war is dismantled by the tunnel, then the battle between the two sides is no different from a group fight between the gangsters. In this way, the casualties of the East Friesian army will certainly be large.
It is not impossible to take the mercenaries of Lübeck and Hamburg to "fill in the pit". However, in this way, the casualties in Lübeck and Hamburg will definitely be large.
If this is the last battle, there is nothing wrong with doing so. But the crux of the matter is that this is not the last battle......
There are still thousands of Danish defenders in Copenhagen. If the loss is too great in the tunnels outside the city, it will be even more difficult to fight the impregnable Copenhagen.
Therefore, Marin was not happy to waste too many troops in the process of attacking the Danes' tunnels. When he heard the news from the scouts that the enemy had retreated to rest in the camp on the flat ground in the middle of the night, Marin immediately ordered an urgent assembly without hesitation, intending to attack the enemy camp at night......
In this way, 10,000 East Friesian veterans, led by Marin and Schwartz respectively, divided into two lines and prepared to attack the Danish sailor camps at both ends of Copenhagen Bay......
Along the way, none of the East Frisian soldiers lit torches, but quietly approached the Danish camp by the faint light of the stars, led by more experienced scouts......
Because it was a dark march, the marching speed was slower. By the time the army arrived outside the Danish camp, it was already past 4 o'clock in the morning. In a little while, the sky will be dark.
After a slight adjustment, Marin decisively let his men light a batch of arquebuses. Then, Doni. Carrying the powder keg on his back, he came to the gate of the camp to the east of the Danish sailors......
And, accompany in Dhoni. Beside him was another Demolition Team fighter carrying a bucket of butter......
In Dhoni. When Zri and his companions rushed to the camp gate, the scouts under Sauer's command had already shot the Danish sentry on the gate tower with crossbows.
Although the commotion alarmed the Danish soldiers in the battalion, Doni . What they want is for no one to interfere with them in a short period of time.
So, Doni. Ciri's teammates first poured a bucket of butter on the wooden fence gate of the Danish sailors' camp. Then, Doni. Ciri put down the powder keg, lit the fuse, and fled with his companions......
It was accompanied by an explosion of "boom-". Because there was no time to bury it deeply, the gate was not damaged. However, because butter had been poured on the gate in advance, the fire broke out quickly......
Before the Danish sailors could react, the gate of the camp had been swallowed up by everyone......
After a while, Marin directly asked his spearmen to directly push open the burned camp gate with spears several meters long......
Then, after the East Frisian soldiers who came up with them, after extinguishing the fire in front of the gate because of butter with a fool in the sandbags they carried, everyone rushed directly into the collapsed gate, and began to fire everywhere, and spread rumors loudly in the Danish language they had learned:
"The enemy is coming!"
"Our army is defeated!"
"The general is dead!"
"The King is dead......
Hearing this, Marin covered his face with some shame - you girl, King Hans of Denmark is still in the city, and he is not in this barracks, how do you know that 'the king has died'? Obviously, before the departure, this slogan was rejected because of logical problems, but I didn't expect someone to shout it......
But what Marin didn't expect was that the Danish sailors were panicking at this time, and when the soldiers under Marin's command shouted these rumors in the broken Danish language that they had learned and sold, many Danish sailors believed it......
As a result, there was even more chaos in the Danish camp......
The Danish sailors looked around for the garment, but there was chaos in the tents. In order to save money, except for the general's tent, there are oil lamps lit, and there is generally no light in the tents of ordinary soldiers, and it is naturally dark in the middle of the night. Therefore, at this time, in the camp of ordinary Danish soldiers, it was chaos......
"Hansen, where's my Neku?" A Danish sailor asked anxiously. Apparently, this comrade sailor liked to sleep fruitfully......
"How do I know? I'm still looking for the shoe on the left! Damn, where's my left shoe, Risson, did you see it......"
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In this way, chickens and dogs jumped to the ground, and when Marin's army had already attacked the Chinese tent of the Danish sailors, many of the Danish sailors had not yet been dressed.
With the main roads in the camp under the control of the East Friesian army, the Danish sailors were no longer able to recover......
Some of the tents of fierce resistance, the East Frisian veterans did not talk nonsense, and directly set fire to the tents with torches. When the recalcitrant Danish sailors in the camp had to rush out, they were directly skewered with spears and barbecued......
Marin is going very well on his side, and Schwartz is not bad on his side. Schwartz did not choose to blow up the door, but two people, Kahn, wearing plate armor all over their bodies, each carrying a sledgehammer of dozens of pounds, rushed to the front of the enemy camp, directly smashed the deadbolt of the enemy camp door, and directly violently opened the enemy camp gate. Then, Schwartz's army entered the enemy camp a little faster than Marin's side. What's even more terrifying is that when the Danish sailor general ran out of the Chinese tent to organize the soldiers to resist, he was directly smashed in the head by Karn with a hammer......
Next, most of the Danish sailors were honest, except for a few frightened Danish sailors, who were a little mentally mad, and cut people when they saw them with weapons, as if they were crazy. For such people, the East Friesian army obviously has a very good way, that is, "line up and shoot......
By daybreak, the two Danish sailor barracks had all fallen under the control of the East Friesian army. And the 10,000 East Friesian veterans brought by Marin only suffered more than 30 casualties. Most of the casualties were caused by the Danish sailors who had gone mad from the bombing of the camp...... If it weren't for the fact that there were a lot of musketeers in the East Friesian army, who specialized in dealing with such "madmen", it is estimated that more people would have been cut.
What made Marin laugh and cry was that more than 500 of the 4,500 Danish sailors in the sailor battalion he occupied were injured in the hands of his own family......
Because of the impact of the bombing of the camp, many sailors in the Danish military camp with poor psychological quality suddenly went berserk, their eyes were red, they cut people when they saw them, and they did not distinguish between friend or foe at all. The East Friesian soldiers were better, so they had to take precautions. The Danish sailors, who were already frightened and ran around, were more unlucky, they were already in a panic, and they did not expect that "their own people" would suddenly draw their swords against them. Therefore, among the Danish sailors, there are more recruits......
In this way, through a simple night attack, Marin only used 10,000 veterans and spent more than three hours to successfully annihilate the 9,000 sailors in the Danish battalion, without letting go of a single enemy. And they only paid a small price of more than 30 casualties......