Seeing that the city gate was broken, the Italian mercenaries, who were already sleepy, suddenly let out a breath and lost the courage to continue to resist. As a result, many Italian mercenaries laid down their arms.

And after laying down their arms, these Italian mercenaries did not surrender on their knees, but directly lay down on the ground and slept......

The soldiers of the alliance of the princes of the eight countries looked at these Italian mercenaries who threw down their weapons and lay on the ground and snore, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

Fortunately, there were experienced commanders who reacted, and under the command of these experienced commanders, the soldiers of the alliance of the princes of the eight countries first collected the weapons thrown on the ground by the Italian mercenaries who surrendered. Then, the Italian mercenaries who were sleeping in the middle of the road blocking the road were carried to the side of the road. Then the army was able to move on. Of course, there was still a lot of resistance.

Later, Foster, an officer of the Lipber Kingdom who knew Italian, was suddenly overwhelmed and suddenly shouted in Italian:

"Those who surrender can sleep now!"

Then, many Italian mercenaries with black eyes who were still resisting suddenly lost their fighting spirit......

"Sleep...... Go to bed...... The words ...... sleep" suddenly lingered in the minds of the Italian mercenaries......

Then, many Italian mercenaries directly threw down their weapons, picked up the quilt next to them and lay down to sleep, and soon snored.

"Don't sleep in the middle of the road, go sleep on the side of the road!" Foster then shouted in Italian.

Subsequently, the Italian mercenaries, who were so sleepy, did the same, threw away their weapons, and fell asleep directly on the side of the road. Moreover, sleeping very deadly, the noise around them does not affect them at all.

The senior generals of the coalition saw that this trick was very good, so they let more mercenaries who knew Italian and persuaded the Italian mercenaries who were still resisting to lay down their arms and sleep......

Then, many Italian mercenaries who were so sleepy that they couldn't do it laid down their weapons and slept directly on the floor.

Only Pargani, the supreme leader of the 10,000 Italian mercenaries, with 500 men, held on to Oldenburg Cathedral and refused to surrender. And because of the fear of the church, the soldiers of the alliance of the princes of the eight countries did not dare to storm the church.

As a result, Charles, Earl of Geldon, who had already entered the city, directly asked all the Italian-speaking mercenaries to run to the door of the Oldenburg church and persuade in Italian:

"Sleep! Go to sleep! You're sleepy, it's time to sleep......"

There are even people who sing lullabies in Italian......

In this way, Pargani's 500 diehard men were persuaded to sleep for the most part. There were more than 100 of his subordinates left, and they couldn't stop the hundreds of knights who rushed in wearing a full set of plate armor - they wore plate armor and were not afraid of swords......

In this way, the city of Oldenburg fell to the combined forces of the princes of the Eight Kingdoms in such a dramatic way. Then, the eight princes breathed a sigh of relief......

……

In fact, along with the 8 princes, there was also Marin-

"Finally, the city is broken, so I don't have to pay the 2 million gold coins!"

After leveling the Italian mercenaries in the city, the next step was naturally the spoils sharing conference. The eight princes watched with their eyes full of light as they watched their soldiers move a huge amount of goods from the warehouses of Oldenburg.

But Simon V, Earl of Lipper, closed his eyes in agony, and said:

"I still don't look at it, so many belongings, I have to give half of them to Steindorff and Wagner, the more I look at it, the more unwilling I become. So, it's better not to watch it......"

Several other princes are also related. I saw a lot of money, but it didn't belong to me. This feeling, so sad to say......

But Charles, Earl of Geldon, persuaded everyone:

"Your Excellency, don't grieve, even if all the property in Oldenburg is given to someone else. Did you know that in Aurich there is a lot more wealth than in Oldenburg...... It is said that the total wealth in the city of Aurich may reach more than 5 million gold coins......"

Speaking of this, the other 7 princes suddenly became short of breath - 5 million gold coins, how much does that cost......

In fact, this was originally made up by Charlie, Earl of Geldon, to comfort everyone. But what Charlie didn't expect was that the news he made up blindly was a big truth - he was right......

There is indeed a lot of wealth in the city of Aurich, and it is much more than 5 million gold coins. The so-called 5,000,000 gold coins actually mainly refer to the value of other goods in the city of Aurich except for food. If you count food, it's even more than that.

In order to store grain, Marin even expanded an outer city in the northern city of Aurich to store grain. Aurich's total grain reserves are estimated to be 500 million pounds, with a market value of about 8.333 million gold coins.

If the princes of the Eight Kingdoms can really conquer Orishi, it is estimated that they can obtain a huge amount of wealth with a total value of more than 13 million gold coins......

……

But even if they didn't know the true amount of Aurich's wealth, the figure of 5 million gold coins still stimulated them......

"It's done! We must defeat Marin, take down Aurich, and grab the fortune of 5 million gold coins! Henry, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, roared with red eyes.

"We did it too!" Several other princes were also stimulated.

"However, the opponent has an army of 20,000 men. If we defend Aurich, it will be difficult for us to conquer it! Otto VIII, Count of Bentheim-Tecklenburg, worried.

The city of Oldenburg, which was garrisoned by Italian mercenaries with a size of 10,000 people, was so difficult to take, but Aurich was garrisoned by the First Army, which was much stronger than the Italian mercenaries......

The other princes probably thought of this as well, and their faces were a little unpleasant.

Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttle, rolled his eyes and said:

"Perhaps, we can continue to attack day and night against the defenders of Aurich. Don't you see the sleepy look of the Italian defenders? Think about it, when the time comes, that guy from Marin will probably not be able to sleep with dark circles under his eyes! When the time comes, after a few days in a row, even the First Legion of the Beihai Kingdom will not be able to stand it! ”

"That's right, we can use this trick to make the defenders of the Beihai Kingdom sleep badly!" Several other princes were dazzled.

But they didn't know that what they thought was an original "tired enemy plan" had long been rotten on the streets in China. And Marin, for sure, won't be hit.

And Charles, Earl of Geldon, said:

"Don't think it's so simple, Marin is not easy to deal with. Perhaps, we can increase the number of troops......"

"Increasing the number of troops? How to increase? Do you want to capture the strong men of the Beihai Kingdom to serve as levies? It's useless, the levies are low in combat, and the strong men of the North Sea Kingdom may not be willing to fight for us......" Antonios, Count of Schaumburg and Ravensburg, asked suspiciously.

"How so? I mean, more than 8,000 Italian mercenaries we have just captured......" said Count Charles, shaking his head. Of the original 10,000 Italian mercenaries, there were only about 8,000 left.

"Italian mercenaries? No, if these captured Italian mercenaries accept our mercenary employment instead, it will be difficult for them to gain a foothold in the mercenary world in the future. Henry, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, questioned.

In this era, mercenaries still have certain principles. For example, in a war, you will not be employed by two companies. If captured, they will not accept the employment of an opponent.

Because, once they do, their reputations will be greatly damaged. In the future, I am afraid that no employer will be willing to hire such mercenaries who will defect to the enemy. In particular, some mercenary group leaders value reputation. Because, with reputation, people will be willing to hire them.

But Count Charles smiled slyly:

"I know those mercenaries care about reputation, but most of the people who care about reputation are the leaders of those mercenary groups. But what if we leave those mercenary leaders aside? ”

"What do you mean......"

"Let's find a random nobody among the Italian mercenaries and ask him to set up an empty shell mercenary group. Then, absorb these Italian prisoners of war into this empty shell mercenary group. In this way, even if they defect to us and serve us, it will not damage the reputation of the previous mercenary group. At the end of the war, the discredited temporary shell mercenary group will be disbanded, and the Italian mercenaries will return to their original mercenary group...... "Count Charles explained in detail.

The other 7 princes all looked at Earl Charles in amazement - and such a sassy operation?