Marin's face was still relatively sufficient, and after receiving Marin's letter, Hamburg Speaker Heisenberg immediately approved Marin's request to lend 100 ships for troop transport.

Most of these ships have a displacement of about 200 tons, just right for the Elbe-Lübeck canal. No matter how big it is, it will be difficult to pass. After all, the Duchy of Saxony-Raunburg could no longer afford to dig a larger canal. In fact, most of the money for digging this canal was borrowed from Lübeck and Hamburg.

Moreover, in order to keep it secret and avoid being known to spies sent to Hamburg by the Bossa coalition forces, Heisenberg's claim to the outside world was that the 100 ships would assist the Swedish Army in attacking Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Moreover, for fear that the other party's spies would not believe it, this statement was still half-concealed. In this way, the persuasiveness is higher. Because, if you declare it directly, the spies of the other party may doubt its authenticity. And such a half-concealed "accidental" leak out is easier to convince the enemy.

Later, Heisenberg and the Hamburg parliament also adopted Marin's suggestion and promulgated the "War Regulations" and declared a curfew in Hamburg. If someone is out at night, they will be arrested as spies.

At the same time, anyone riding out of the city on horseback had to get permission from the Hamburg sheriff to avoid spies riding horses to inform the enemy...... In other words, the horses of Hamburg City, now the owners cannot easily ride out of the city, and must be approved by the sheriff.

This trick was so ruthless that a few Saxon spies who infiltrated Hamburg City were now sad. Even if you find out any news, you can't ride out of the city to report to the camp. Knowing this, they hid their horses outside the city. It's a pity that they found out too late......

In fact, the people of Hamburg are also very nervous right now. They knew that the victory or defeat on Lübeck's side was a matter of life and death for Hamburg. If Lübeck and Marin's armies were defeated, Hamburg would not have been spared. For this reason, some wealthy businessmen have now begun to secretly transfer their property. Because, if the Bossa coalition had broken through Lübeck, the next target would have been Hamburg. If the city of Hamburg is broken, their property will definitely not be saved. As a result, many wealthy businessmen began to transfer their property privately. Of course, the Hamburg Council absolutely forbids this. Therefore, those wealthy merchants could only quietly transfer some gold and silver that were easier to carry. Other supplies cannot be transported away for the time being.

Moreover, in the city of Hamburg, there are only 4,000 defenders now, and the strength is very weak. Although the Bossa coalition had not yet come to besiege Hamburg, Hamburg could not hire mercenaries now. Now these 4,000 troops still have a contract before......

Why? After hearing that the Bossa coalition army had 50,000 troops, and 20,000 were Swiss mercenaries, many mercenary groups were directly frightened and retreated. Even if Hamburg was willing to pay a high price for the mercenaries, the German mercenaries would not come. Because, in their eyes, it was a battle that was to be lost. The mercenaries, though hot-blooded and brave, are not fools either. In the face of 50,000 powerful enemy troops, no one wants to come to death without signing a contract before......

As a result, even if Hamburg had money, it could not hire mercenaries willing to help them fight. After all, the German mercenaries had not yet defeated the Swiss mercenaries in this era. Psychologically, German mercenaries are still a bit of a popular Swiss mercenary at this stage. I heard that there were 20,000 Swiss mercenaries in the Bossa coalition army, as well as a large number of Saxon knights and Brandenburg knights, and many mercenary group leaders were so frightened that they didn't dare to come no matter how much money they paid.

Therefore, the people of Hamburg at this time are very desperate......

When they learned that Marin not only had 18,000 troops to support the battlefield of Lübeck, but that these 18,000 men had previously defeated the Danish army of 20,000 in the north......

Suddenly, the Hamburg parliament felt like a chicken blood, and felt that there was hope again. Therefore, the Hamburg parliament unanimously approved Marin's request to borrow a boat in a very short time. And then the curfew or something, also passed unanimously.

These Hamburg parliamentarians were human spirits who knew the ambitions of the Saxons to replace Lübeck and Hamburg. If the city of Hamburg were to be breached by the Bossa coalition, they would lose everything, including property and status.

Therefore, they all desperately hoped that Marin would be able to defeat the Bossa coalition. Only in this way can they retain their status as wealthy. Otherwise, they will be robbed by the enemy army, and they may even be killed......

Lübeck and Hamburg were not far away, so Marin received a reply from the Hamburg parliament that night. So, Marin is now thinking about how to prepare for the 18,000 reinforcements......

After thinking about it, Marin decided that the most important thing at this time was to clear the Scouts of the Bossa coalition forces along the Elbe and along the Elbe-Lübeck canal. Because, once the troop carrier arrives, if it does not intercept the enemy scouts who are reporting the news, the consequences will be very serious.

Even if there is a fish that slips through the net, the secret of the arrival of reinforcements will be revealed to the Bossa coalition forces. As long as the 50,000 Bosa coalition troops are prepared for encirclement in advance, these 18,000 reinforcements, let alone a sneak attack on the Bosa coalition army, may be difficult to converge with Marin's main force.

Therefore, Marin decided to scatter all the 200 elite interceptor scout cavalry brought by Sauer, and do a good job of intercepting and killing any horseback rider along the Elbe River and the "Elbe-Lübeck" canal in the direction of the Bossa coalition camp, whether he is innocent or not. It is better to kill by mistake than to miss a ......

Of course, the ship sent out by the Hamburg side had just set off to take Woolf. It would take a few days for the 18,000 troops of Esbrand and Saqqara to arrive.

Therefore, in the past few days, Marin has not been able to send troops in advance to intercept and kill those scouts of the Bossa coalition army.

Why? For, if Marin had begun to intercept the Bosa scouts in this direction a few days in advance, he would have attracted the attention of the resourceful Elector Frederick III of Saxony. If he had sent more men to pay attention to the western side, Sauer's 200 scout cavalry who had been specially used to intercept the messengers would not have been enough to intercept the enemy messengers. If you run away from one, it will cause a catastrophe.

After all, the Elbe-Lübeck canal is not wide, and it is already the limit of one or two hundred tons of wooden boats. If Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, had sent a few ships to sink in the canal, as had been done in the Suez Canal during World War II, the canal would have been cut off from traffic until the shipwreck was salvaged. At that time, the fleet would not be able to reach Lübeck at all, and join Marin, let alone a sneak attack......

Therefore, when it was decided to release the 200 interceptor scout cavalry, Marin made a decision - he decided to send these 200 people to cross the river in a small boat overnight, and then go north to intercept and kill the northern Bosa coalition scouts first......

The reason for this decision was in fact that Marin deliberately confused the enemy. Marin sent someone to intercept and kill the scouts of the Bossa coalition, and Frederick III would have judged that the other party was trying to keep it secret and prevent his scouts from receiving useful information. Even, it will be further deduced that the enemy army will definitely take the main route to the north. After all, Europeans still don't know what it means to "strike at the west". These tactics are not yet popular in Europe. Even if he is as smart as "Zhuge Martyr", he has never seen such a method......

Of course, Marin will also send some scouts, abandon horseback riding (it is too ostentatious to tell others that you are a spy), and go on foot to the banks of the "Elbe-Lübeck" canal to reconnoiter all the roads.

As long as all the roads leading to the Bossa camp on both sides of the Elbe-Lübeck canal were found, and when the convoy transporting reinforcements actually arrived, two hundred interceptor scouts came and guarded every road to the Bossa camp according to the instructions of these people. Anyone who finds a horse riding eastward will shoot and intercept him, and no one will be spared. In this way, the whereabouts of the reinforcements can be fully protected......