Chapter 120: Vicious Trojan

These days, the sailors of Marin's heavy troops are busy lifting the artillery from the warship, and the workload is very heavy. Of course, Marin was not idle. He drove the Danish serfs on the Zealand Island captured by the soldiers to build a very high earth **** to observe the situation in the city.

The earth **** is about 1000 meters away from the city walls of Copenhagen, and any long-range weapons of the Danes can't cause damage to the high earth **** one thousand meters away. Its height has also reached 20 meters, twice the height of the Danish city wall.

Therefore, Marin was relieved to take the elite of Sauer and other reconnaissance troops, climbed the high slope, and observed the situation in the city with a telescope ...

To Marin's surprise, the southwestern wall of the coalition's main attack was greatly thickened by the Danes. Through the telescope, Marin can clearly see that the houses near the southwestern wall of Copenhagen have all been demolished by the Danes. The masonry of those houses was all used to thicken the walls. The current southwestern wall of Copenhagen is about twice as thick as before. It is no wonder that Schwartz could not let the artillery bombard for more than a month. What's more, once the city walls are damaged, the Danes are desperate to send people to strengthen, it is very difficult to tangle.

Marin suddenly hesitated, and he is not sure now, whether relying on 300 Hongyi cannons, can he open the city walls. The Danes are too ruthless, in order to strengthen the city walls, they do not hesitate to demolish the houses. Unless these 300 cannons can blast through the city walls in a short time, the Danes will definitely repair the city walls desperately.

If Marin gunpowder is sufficient, it can naturally make an effort. However, his gunpowder is too difficult to get. The main gunpowder in Malin's hands came from the 400 tons of gunpowder that Columbus purchased from India with 300 tons of saltpeter. Another 100 tons of gunpowder, still Marin sent merchants, traveled all over Europe, and finally got it together. For this reason, gunpowder is now in short supply in the European market.

That is to say, once Marin has burnt out this batch of gunpowder, he will not get gunpowder supplement for a long time. Without gunpowder replenishment, the artillery on Marin ’s warships, as well as the musketeers, would become the decoration.

The artillery on the battleship became a decoration, and Marin didn't care much. But if the musketeers are all decorated, it will be dead ...

Know that the Spanish phalanx used by the marshals under the command of Marin mainly depends on the firepower of the matchlock gunners to strike the plate knight's charge. Without the power of Musquette's muskets, Marin's phalanx, under the charge of the plate armoured knight, would be vulnerable.

Therefore, even if Marin captured Copenhagen and acquired the desired territory, he would later become a toothless tiger and enter a period of weakness.

When the time comes, if there is a strong enemy, you ca n’t afford the corresponding strength to resist ...

The most direct way to replenish gunpowder is to take the boat trip to India and import a few hundred tons of saltpeter back. However, even if the fleet is familiar with the Indian route, it will take half a year to transport it back to saltpetre. If East Friesland was attacked during this period, it would be over.

So, Marin gave up the plan to bombard the walls of Denmark, but planned to think of another way. However, he did not give up the artillery bombardment.

In order to play with the Danes, Marin sent the artillery to the northeast area of ​​Copenhagen city, making a plan to break the northeast city wall. In this way, the Danes immediately took action and again engaged in "demolition", frantically demolishing the houses at the foot of the northeast city wall, and using the masonry of the houses to thicken the northeast city wall.

As for the northwest and southeast directions, because of the adjacent water, there is no possibility to arrange artillery. It's not that you can't bombard the walls in these two directions. It is because the two walls are adjacent to the water, and even if the walls are blasted open, the army cannot flood in from the gap. Because the soldiers will not "float lightly."

Therefore, the walls that can be used for artillery bombardment and flooding are only in the southwest and east directions. As for the iron gate, no one thought about it. The iron ball is smashed at most, but it is not bad. Using gunpowder barrels, it is also difficult to blow up thick iron doors.

However, when looking through a telescope on a high slope, Marin discovered a strange phenomenon-that is, behind the cast iron gate, the Danes did not seem to block ...

Generally speaking, when defending the city, the defender usually uses various kinds of bricks, logs and other heavy objects to slam the back of the gate to prevent the gate from being knocked open by the enemy's sapwood. There are so many things in the back, it is difficult for Taki to hit the gate. Because the impact force of the sapwood against the city gate was absorbed by the masonry and logs that hung on the city gate.

However, Marin observed with a telescope on a high-slope in the southwest direction that is twice the wall of Copenhagen found that there was no debris accumulated in the city gate cave in the northeast direction of Copenhagen ...

Marin saw that although the Danes demolished the houses to thicken the northeastern city walls, they did not accumulate debris into the city gate cave ...

"Can the Danes be so confident about the city gate?" Marin said in surprise.

Marin is really right. After the actual combat test, the cast iron gate in the southwest and Marin's artillery have no way to deal with it. As a result, the Danes became confident. Coupled with the later artillery bombardment of the city walls, the Danes did not pay attention to the accumulation of debris behind the city gate. However, the gates of the southwestern city wall were attacked first, but a lot of debris accumulated behind them. As for the city gate in the northeast direction, because it had not been attacked before, and later it was discovered that the enemy would not shell the iron city gate, so there was no accumulation of debris in the city gate hole.

"If someone could get into the city, just open the big iron gate in the northeast ..." Marin murmured.

But how easy is this? Standing on the high slope, Marin suddenly remembered the plot of N Mongolian warriors flying into Samarkand with "big wings" when Guo Jing helped Mongolia attack Samarkand ...

However, after careful scrutiny, Marin denied this approach. Because, the plot is purely a plot from the old gold YY, it is difficult to tell whether it is useful. Moreover, even if it is useful, the premise is that there are high mountains nearby in order to engage in gliding. However, there is no sea or plain near Copenhagen, and there are no high mountains for gliding.

Even if there are high mountains nearby, Marin wouldn't be a gliding wing ... you know, gliding wing is also a very scientific thing. It won't be possible to transform the tent just like in "Jiaodiao". If the two sides of the manufacturing are unbalanced, they will be unbalanced in the sky and then fall to death.

Even if the gliding wings are successfully manufactured, what is the use of flying hundreds of people into the city? It is estimated that in the air, most of them were shot and killed by birds. Even if they land safely, they will be beaten to death. Unless, there is Guo Daxia who will drop the dragon and palm 18 ...

Similarly, hot air balloons are not suitable. However, it is a good idea to use a hot air balloon to throw a bomb. But after thinking about it, Marin gave up this attractive plan. Europeans are too strong to imitate each other. It would be miserable if you made a hot air balloon, learned it, dropped a bomb into your palace, and killed yourself or your family.

Marlin, who was full of concerns, returned to the big account with a tangled face, listening to Schwartz's report about the battle situation more than a month before. When he heard that the Danish people driven by mercenaries climbed the city wall, but started to help the Danish army to guard the city wall, Marin suddenly laughed ...

It's almost the same to drive the people to fill the moat. I really hope that they will use force against the Danish army, which is unlikely. Once climbing up the city walls, those people will not be threatened by the mercenaries' swords and guns. At this time, they are very easy to fight back. Therefore, the practice of allowing more than a thousand Danish soldiers to climb up the wall was actually ridiculous and a farce.

However, if there are more than a hundred people in this thousand Danish heroes who climbed up the wall ... Marin suddenly opened his brain ...

"Looks like this method is very feasible ..." Marin's eyes brightened.

So, Marin and Schwartz and others discussed this method ...

"Master, it doesn't work. Most of those people will immediately turn back to help the city after climbing the city. Our people climb up with them and are easily betrayed by the real Danes. Because, our people don't Know Danish! When you speak, you will be exposed ... "

"That's true. If you want to open the city gate, you can only open the northeast city gate. However, you have to wait until midnight. In the daytime, there are so many Danes in the city. Under their watch, they can't be sent at all. People go to the northeastern city gate to seize the city gate ... and if you don't understand Danish, a few sentences will be exposed, and you can't hold the city gate at midnight ... "Admiral Stade also opposed this plan. Because it is too easy to expose.

"If so, how about I let my people learn Danish?"

"I'm afraid it's too late. Who can learn Danish in a short time? And, it's also a dialect on Zealand. Once an abnormality is heard, it will be dead." Lübeck mercenary commander Hermann also opposed.

"Well ..." Marinto's cheeks thought for a while, and suddenly his eyes brightened:

"If, let's let Danish Zhuang Ding do this?"

"Let the Danes do it? Will they be willing?" A few people on the scene did not believe it.

"Hum, that's not necessarily ..." Marin's face showed a dangerous light ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ What if we threaten the lives of the wives and children of Danish men? Marin said grimly.

"This is too unruly ..." Hamburg commander Weizmann said.

"Civilians only, we are not targeting nobles. Even killing those civilian women and children, it's okay. If you are knights, if you don't want to do this, I can let the infantry of those civilians do." After prolonging the city for too long, I simply chose a vicious way.

"If any civilian climbed to the top of the city, don't care about the life and death of his parents, wife and children?" Schwartz questioned. Although this situation is rare, it is not without it.

"Um ... this ... when you went to the Danish village to capture Zhuang Ding, you sent your infantry to pretend to hurt their wives and their parents. Those Danish men who care about their lives and protect their wives and children are the ones we are looking for. People. Because they care about the lives of their parents, wives and children. As long as they seize their parents and wives and threaten their parents ’lives, they will have to listen to our instructions. As for those who have abandoned their wives and children, only their own , Do not include in this plan. "

"Good idea!" Schwartz and others nodded.

"Everyone, this strategy is very much like the Trojan horse in the history of Troy! Let the Danes open the gates themselves, which is even smarter than the Trojan horse!" Herman said with awe.

"It's just a bit vicious ..." Weizman whispered.

"Haha, let's call it a" venomous Trojan horse ". As long as it succeeds, let him know how he goes. Earn Copenhagen early, and we will get the fruits of victory soon! Come, toast, toast!"

"Cheers!"

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