Chapter 90: Capture the Principality of Schleswig

Marin's plan drawings were quickly delivered to Hamburg and Lübeck, but they were rejected by Lübeck. Although it is said that Kiel is also a city of Lübeck, the core of Lübeck must still be Lübeck City. Therefore, in the eyes of Congressman Lübeck, it is better that the canal leads directly to Lübeck.

The same thoughts happened on the Hamburg side. Although digging a canal between Lenzburg and Kiel is relatively easy, they are not happy because they do not have access to Hamburg. When the Lübeck news came, the Hamburg parliament also rejected Marin's proposal. However, the plan proposed by Weizmann to exchange Dietmarchen County for Lenzburg was approved by the Hamburg Parliament.

Why did it cause such a result? Mainly because there is no agricultural tax in Europe in this era, only commercial tax ...

No matter how vast the countryside is, no tax is collected, and the benefits are taken by the nobles of the manor owners. For the Hamburg parliament, no matter how large the countryside is, it is not as important as a Hanseatic city that can collect commercial taxes.

Therefore, the Hamburg Parliament finally decided to take Dietmarschen County in exchange for the Hanseatic commercial city of Lenzburg.

Marin is a little dumb-take a county of more than a thousand square kilometers in exchange for a small town only a few square kilometers along with the suburbs. Is the Hamburg congressman teaching mathematics to the uncle?

I don't care about him, but it is himself who ultimately benefits. Although there may not be any taxes in the short term, Marin believes that the one who will ultimately benefit more must be himself. After all, a Dietmarschen county is basically a third of East Frisian Lambert. As for the local resistance force, it was never in Marin's eyes. As long as the other party's old skills are reprevented, a "flood of seven armies" will surely outperform the other party. You know, Dietmarshin resisted Denmark last time, but only used 1,000 main militia and 3,000 militia. In front of Marin's 20,000 troops, this person is absolutely difficult to resist.

As for the Woolf Esbrand, who used floods to drown thousands of Danish elites, Marin was very interested in seeing them. After all, in Europe that is accustomed to confrontation, it is hard to come up with a strategy of drowning the enemy by dredging.

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Just like that, Marin handed over the Hanseatic commercial city of Lenzburg to Hamburg. Then he continued with the army and began to march to other parts of the Principality of Schleswig.

The principality of Schleswig is not only about 5,200 square kilometers of land north of the Eile River in Schleswig-Holstein, but also about 3,900 north of the border between Germany and Denmark. More square kilometers of land. That piece of land is called South Jutland after generations. If you count the southern Jutland of Denmark in later generations, the area of ​​the Principality of Schleswig reaches a total of 9,200 square kilometers.

Of course, the Principality of Schleswig actually belonged to the princehood of Denmark for a long time. In 1460, Christian I of the Oldenburg family, while inheriting the Principality of Holstein and the Principality of Schleswig, announced that the two principalities were connected and inseparable. Although two palace phases were set up, stationed in Gluckstadt and Schleswig, respectively, according to the Treaty of Ribe signed by Christian I in 1460, the two principalities were “never separated”.

But whether it was Marin, Lübeck or Hamburg, they didn't take this "Riber Treaty" into their eyes. After all, it was a treaty signed by human beings, and it was not the will of God. There was nothing to change. Big deal, forcing the current Danish King Hans to sign another treaty ...

In fact, the situation in the Principality of Schleswig is very complicated. In later generations in South Jutland, all Danes lived. In the area south of South Jutland, all Germans live. Therefore, when Germany and Denmark signed an agreement in the 19th century, the area where Schleswig South was German was assigned to Germany; and the area where the northern half was Danish was assigned to Denmark. That is to say, in the Schleswig area, all the Germans in the south and the Danes in the north are completely different places.

However, Marin was not very worried. Because, in this era, nationalism has not yet risen, and the difference between the Germans and the Danes, people do not care much. As long as they treat the people better and let them live a good life, they don't care who rules them. The rise of true nationalism was still a matter of the 19th century. Right now, there is no problem with the unification of the European Catholic region. As long as it is not unified with the Orthodox Church or the Green Church, there will be no major problems. Of course, the ruler cannot oppress the people too much.

As for the Danish King's agreement or disagreement, Marin was not worried. With his army first, he took all Schleswig, together with the Jutland Peninsula. If King Hans of Denmark refuses to cede the principality of Schleswig and Holstein, then the entire Jutland will not be returned to Denmark ...

The Principality of Schleswig consists of several cities including Schleswig, Husum, Ekenfried, Flensburg, Ribe, and Obanro. Of course, these cities are not big, only Schleswig and Flensburg have got a countertop. The other few are small cities with very underdeveloped commerce.

Among them, Husum is the capital of North Friesland County. In the North Frisian county with an area of ​​more than 2,000 square kilometers, most people are Frisian, and Frisian is spoken. This is one of the important reasons why Marin is willing to ask the Principality of Schleswig. After all, the Frisian fisherman is an important source of sailors for his hegemony.

The city of Schleswig is not far north of Lenzburg. After leaving from Lenzburg, Marin took 28,000 troops and surrounded the city of Schleswig. Then, of course, artillery bombarded the door. But what Marin didn't think of was that after Murat, the principality of the Principality of Schleswig, learned that Marin's artillery bombarded the South Gate, he directly sent a full-scale bricklayer and used a lot of bricks to put the South Gate inside Completely built a wall, and a very thick wall ...

After Marin's artillery blasted the oak gate of Schleswig, Donnie Curry rushed to the gate but was dumbfounded. Because, the gunpowder barrel has no place to plug ... after all, behind the oak door, there is a thick wall, there is no gap to put the gunpowder barrel ...

So, Donny Curry had to return to the battlefield in dismay, and reported the situation to Marin ...

"What? The other party built the inside of the gate into a wall? That's too much ..." Marin was also dumbfounded.

Before, the cities attacked by Marin chose bricks, stones and wood opposite the gates. Although it is tightly plugged, there are still gaps. Donnie Curry can find a space for a gunpowder barrel just by pulling a few more times. However, the opponent built all the gate holes behind the gate, and built a dead wall, so it was not easy to put a gunpowder barrel. Even with a gunpowder barrel, it is difficult to explode the thick wall. Because the loosely piled masonry wood and the completely built wall are two completely different concepts.

In desperation, Marin had to order the transfer of artillery positions and divide the 16 heavy artillery into two, one to bombard the West Gate and one to bomb the North Gate ...

The next day, both doors were popped out of the hole. Marin sent a blasting team to check up and found that behind the Simon was also built a dead wall by the bricklayer. But behind the north gate, only part of it was laid, but it was not finished yet. The yellow mud between the bricks was still moist and not firm enough. So, Marin decisively ordered Donizri, with three members of the blasting team, with three gunpowder barrels and iron picks, he made a big hole in the new wall that had just been built, and cut three Put the gunpowder barrel in it and bury it, then ignite ...

Three barrels of gunpowder exploded the wall of the north gate gate, which was only a small half of it. Then, Marin put the big shield soldiers in the front, and the two-handed swordsman in the back, rushed into the city of Schleswig, and gave the local nobles such as Murt to the pot ...

The next few towns, it will be easier to fight. The gates of Husum city are very thin, far less robust than the city of Schleswig. Marin ordered an artillery bombardment for an hour, and the Husum gate was bombed. No need to send a demolition team to Marin, the local defenders immediately chose to surrender.

Flensburg is the second largest city in the Principality of Schleswig. The city gate is strong enough, but it can't stop the brutal city mode of heavy artillery + gunpowder barrel explosion. After the city was broken, the local defenders and nobles chose to surrender.

Is the area north of Flensburg, and Marin has encountered more resistance. Because Flensburg went north, from the area where the Germans lived, into the area where the Danes lived.

Although Marin's army has strict discipline and has not robbed the people. However, in response to the old saying that "non-my people will have different hearts", the Danish little nobles have a very low level of identification with the coalition forces ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ resistance is also very strong.

Basically, after entering the Danish region, no town or manor is willing to surrender. As a last resort, Marin had to divide his troops and pull out these stubborn towns and manors one by one, killing blood.

While hitting the city of Oban Luo, although the city gate was opened and the army rushed in, none of the local nobles were willing to surrender. As a result, all of the 48 local nobles, large and small, in Obanro City died in battle, and none of them surrendered. Before they died in the war, they also brought casualties to Marin's army that had not been seen in other cities-a full 300 people ...

Malin was furious, and in spite of the whole family under his control, arrested the family members of the 48 local nobles who died in the end. When the army marched down to Ribe City, Marin killed 230 families of all the family members of the 48 recalcitrant nobles of Auburn in front of the defenders of Ribe City.

For a time, the battle had not yet begun. Outside the city of Ribe, blood had flowed into the river. The air was filled with the screams of women and children ...

The nobles in the city of Ribe were frightened. They did not expect that they encountered a man like Marin who totally ignored the glory of the nobility, and slaughtered the innocent noble family under the large crowd.

Killed women and children in public, and they are all noble family members, which means that they are completely shameless. Faced with such a shameless Marin, these nobles in the city of Ribe also shuddered. In order to avoid the death of the whole family after the city broke, Ribe City chose to surrender the whole city without fierce battle ...

At this point, the Principality of Schleswig was completely captured by the coalition forces, leaving only some remote rural areas not yet occupied to occupy ...

And time has just passed a month and a few days. The day when Marin won Libe City, it was only March 15th, which was a good time for spring cultivation ...