Chapter 101: Iron door is hard to break
After controlling the sailors at both ends of the Copenhagen Bay, Marin suddenly remembered that there appeared to be 80 narrow Danish warships hidden in the middle of the elongated Copenhagen Bay.
So, after dawn, the rest of the soldiers arrived and immediately selected 2,000 swimming soldiers to go and receive those warships.
Because the sailors all disembarked to defend on both sides of Copenhagen Bay, only a small number of old sailors were in charge of the 80 warships. Facing the violent 2000 Allied soldiers, where are the old sailors? Therefore, most of the old sailors who watched the ship chose to surrender. Some of them also chose stubborn resistance, but in the face of huge differences in strength, the stubborn were either killed or tied. However, the sailors on three of the ships couldn't resist it. They took the coalition soldiers on board the ship they were in charge of and poured all the oil into the cabin. Then, the fire was burned ... ... After lighting the boat, these sailors jumped off the boat and ran away ...
Saw the three warships burning with fire, the coalition officers responsible for receiving the warships were frightened. Because, if the warship is on fire, if it is not well controlled, it will burn to nearby warships.
Fortunately, these warships anchored in the harbour were all anchored and would not move around. The commander who came to receive the ship quickly reported the situation to the commanders of Marin and Lübeck and Hamburg.
Marlin is naturally not anxious about the burning of warships. However, Lübeck and the Hamburgers were anxious-that was their loot!
So, two officers, Herman and Weizmann, with a large number of men, carrying sandbags, went to fight the fire ...
However, it was still late, and the three ships burned out. Fortunately, when the wreckage of the three ships was going to float elsewhere, Herman and Weizman sent many spearmen to stand in line on those intact warships. As soon as he saw the wreckage of the fire floating, he immediately slammed it with a spear of several meters in length. At the same time, the two also signaled to the joint fleet on the sea that they would send sailors over ...
Has been busy for a long time, the joint fleet on the sea finally sent hundreds of sailors, and drove away the remaining 77 warships ...
Marin expressed his silence in his heart to the Danes. When he saw that the Lübeck and Hamburgers had to tear their mouths apart, the Danish navy might be absolutely difficult to recover within ten years.
According to the originally agreed plan, about 8,000 prisoners of war remained in the 9,000 Danish sailors (the rest were killed in the chaos of the night raid, most of them died in the hands of their own people), and Marin was quickly transferred to Lübeck and Hamburg. people. In this way, Marin no longer has to pay for these guys.
According to the previously agreed strategy, the 8,000 Danish sailors, including the 10,000 sailors captured in the previous sea battle, will be forcibly detained by the two Hanseatic cities of Lubeck and Hamburg for 10 years in the name of "hiring".
However, Lübeck and Hamburg did not let the Danish sailors control the ship in case they fled the ship. In fact, because Lübeck and Hamburg are planning to build a grand canal that connects the two cities, these 18,000 Danish sailors will probably become a hard worker to dig the canal in the next ten years ...
The 8,000 Danish captives were taken over by Lübeck and the Hamburgers, using the sailors on board. Then, the 27,000 ground troops commanded by Marin all freed their hands. Then, under the command of Marin, the army quickly surrounded Copenhagen.
City of Copenhagen is not the city of Copenhagen in later generations. Copenhagen City at this time is only a small part of the city of Copenhagen in later generations. In later generations, Copenhagen is a metropolis with a total population of 2.03 million, and a city center with a population of 600,000.
At this time, Copenhagen was just a small city with a population of less than 20,000. Of course, this smallness is relative. It is only "smaller" than the cities of later generations and the Chinese cities of the same period. In this era of Europe, it is already a big city. At least in the Nordic region, there is no bigger city than Copenhagen.
At present, in the city of Copenhagen, only the middle section between the later Copenhagen Swan Lake and the long and narrow Copenhagen Bay has a small area.
Because the southeast and northwest are long strips of water, the current city of Copenhagen is actually surrounded by water on both sides, only the southwest and northeast are land.
Therefore, if the Marin army wants to attack, they can only surround Copenhagen from the southwest and northeast ...
But when the army drove down to Copenhagen, Marin was surprised to find that the southwest gate of Copenhagen seemed to ... seem to be iron ...
Sure enough, after dozens of 18-pound short-barrel Karen heavy artillery fired, the shells fell on the city gate of Copenhagen, making a very crisp metal collision ...
"Uh ... Is this tactic broken?" Marin was suddenly at a loss ...
These days, relying on artillery to blast through the city gate, and then sending a blasting team to completely destroy the city gate, Marin easily captured many cities. Therefore, he inevitably became complacent in his heart, thinking that siege warfare was no more than that.
When he first met the Iron Gate, Marin was also at a loss ...
To be honest, Marin is really reluctant to fight conventional siege. Because, if you hit like that, the casualties are too big, it is just to kill people. Therefore, he used his brain to invent a method of blasting the city gate first, and then burying it with gunpowder barrels to blow up the city gate.
However, when the city gate became sensational, the new tactics invented by Marin automatically failed ...
Through the telescope, Marin can clearly see that even if an 18-pound shell hits the heavy cast iron gate, it will not move at all. So, if you want to blast through the steel gates, there is no actual point to bombard the city walls.
Therefore, after a little blast for a long time ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Marin decisively ordered to stop this meaningless shelling, first withdraw to the big camp, and think of other methods ...
Seeing the retreat of the coalition forces, the Danish soldiers at the head of the city gave cheers of victory:
"Oh-oh-the enemy retreats myself!"
"Long live His Majesty the King, the steel gate really made the evil Earl Marin helpless!" Yes, because Marin attacked Denmark, he was awarded the honorable title of "Evil Earl" in Denmark ...
In the big tent, Marin ignored the commanders of Lübeck and Hamburg, and ignored his own men. Instead, he was holding his cheek, thinking hard, looking for the weakness of the steel gate ...
"Isn't it time to use the method of digging tunnels to explode the walls?" Marin thought.
But in the end, he still rejected this idea. Because the method of digging tunnels to blow up the walls is too scary. As soon as this method comes out, the city wall will lose any meaning of existence.
Although Marin can use this method to blow up other people's walls, others can also use this method to blow up the walls of Aurich. If the enemy forces attacked the city of Aurich while Marin was on the expedition, and dig tunnels to explode the walls, they captured Aurich and injured Angela and Caesar, then Marin would collapse ...
Therefore, Marin cannot use this uncontrollable method that can hurt others and may hurt himself. Because this method is too simple, it is easy for others to imitate. While bombarding the walls with heavy artillery, most people cannot imitate them. Because other countries don't have the technology of using iron to cast heavy guns at present, only the technology of using bronze to cast guns. If they imitated themselves and cast so many guns in bronze, their court would go bankrupt ...
Of course, Marin did n’t know that after the war, Spain and Portugal, two countries that had mastered the Eastern route, had a trade boom to buy cheap copper in India ...
