King of German Mercenaries

The chiming of the church bell was the signal for the operation. When the bell rang, the ambushers on the roof pulled out the small torches that were lit on the side and began to light the grass balls that had been prepared for a long time. After the flame of the grass ball rose, it was thrown directly onto the road...

"Ah! Fireball! It's so hot!" In an instant, many people from the Frisian army crowded on the road were recruited.

And because some olive oil was poured on the grass ball, the person who was hit by the grass ball would inevitably get some oil on it, and then the flame would be difficult to put out...

In fact, grass balls don't really hurt that much because too little oil is poured on them. However, hundreds of burning grass balls fell, causing great confusion for the Frisian army. The Frisian soldiers avoided the burning grass balls, but the road was full of people at this time. In desperation, many soldiers slammed open the door of the roadside houses and hid in... As a result, the formation of the Frisian army was completely chaotic...

At this time, no matter how stupid Sivag was, he knew that he was plotted against him. It is a pity that there are too few cases of ambushes in Europe in this era, and the army generally does not have any standard response strategies.

Faced with this novel attack method, Sivag had no choice but to loudly order the soldiers to gather together and form a defensive formation. But leaning together is clearly not the right approach. Because the Swiss on the roof will throw the burning grass balls at the pile of people harder. The denser the crowd, the greater the damage. Then, the team that had just gathered together was forced to spread out again by the fireball...

Seeing that the Friesian army was already in chaos, Marin ordered the second round of bells to be rung. As a result, the ambush soldiers hiding behind the fake wall pushed down the fragile wall one after another. And the two stone walls to the east and west of the town were also torn down...

At this point, about half of the Frisian army was trapped in the long streets and in roadside houses, in chaos. Several Swiss ambushes easily divided the Frisian army in the streets into several parts.

But what made Marin depressed was that he saw that the convoy of the Frisian nobles happened to be blocked by the torn down wall on the west side of the town...

So he hurriedly sent a guard to pass the word, and let the Swiss pursue several luxury carriages in the west. But Marin was in the east of the town at this time, and it would take some time for his guards to run from the east to the west of the town.

When Marin's escort ran to Ziger and asked the Swiss to pursue those cars, the nine Frisian MPs in the car had already realized that something was wrong, and ordered people to turn the car around and run away on the way... and, Alongside them were 120 knights who had not had time to put on their plate armor.

For Governor Fyskefrijheid and others, no matter how stupid they are, they can see that the army is being plotted against. According to the rumors of the Italian war, they were able to determine at the first time that this was the handwriting of the little thief of Marin. Because the king of France was so unlucky at the time...

In fact, at this time, the people who were besieged on the long street at this time were basically cannon fodder spearmen, except for the most advanced Shivag and about 200 heavy-armored two-handed swordsmen beside him. Friesland's most elite about 120 knights and the remaining 200 heavy armored swordsmen were all escorted by several carriages.

At this time, seeing that the situation was urgent, several bosses could not care about anything else, and directly asked their subordinates to escort them to escape to Lufaden...

It is precisely because of the decisiveness with which they escaped that they escaped. After receiving a letter from Marin, Ziger quickly separated 1,000 elite Swiss infantry and began to hunt down the convoys of the nobles.

However, they were desperately intercepted by the abandoned 200 heavy armored swordsmen. Although the Swiss finally solved the group of heavy armored swordsmen, it took a long time. Because the heavy armored swordsmen have high protection, the Swiss have tossed a lot to deal with them, and the halberdman and the spearman came together to solve them. When the Swiss tried to pursue again, they found that the carriages of the Frisian nobles, the guard knights, and some of the fast-running Frisian light infantry had already run a long way...

after all,

The Swiss are all infantry, and many still wear heavier breastplates and helmets, and some cannot run. They were unlikely to catch up with the Frisian carriages and cavalry. The 200 Frisian heavy armored swordsman who was regarded as an abandoned child before was thrown out as an abandoned child because he could not run. And these guys actually accepted the fate of being abandoned, and still stepped forward to intercept the Swiss, which ruined Marin's major event... Sure enough, they are ancient people, and they are relatively stupid. It is very easy to surrender directly after being abandoned by modern people...

At this time, Marin's side was suitable for chasing down the Frisian nobles, and only 50 cavalrymen under Schwartz and 20 horse-riding guards of Marin were left.

However, these 70 people went to hunt down the convoy of the Frisian nobles, and it was no different from delivering food. Because, beside the nobles, there are 120 knights with high martial arts.

Marin's subordinates are basically recruited from the common people, and they can also bully the next knights by virtue of their numerical superiority and the superiority of battle formation. When it comes to personal martial arts, they are far from the old knights. Therefore, even if these 70 people rushed up, it was not enough for those knights to fight.

Moreover, Schwartz had actually taken 30 cavalry to the east to monitor the movements of Groningen. If the hundreds of people in Groningen rush out, it is better to report it to Marin in time. In addition, Schwartz also had the task of intercepting the courier sent by Groningen and preventing the news of the Swiss mercenaries from being revealed to the Frisian army.

Therefore, Marin can only watch the group of Frisian nobles run away...

Fortunately, most of the Frisian infantry remained. Even the rickshaws carrying the plate armor and lances of the 120 knights were also cut off.

Seeing that there was no hope of chasing and killing, Ziger immediately ordered the 1,000 people to return to the street to help clean up the remaining about 1,600 Friesian infantry on the long street that was still in chaos.

The Swiss put their plate-clad veterans at the forefront, and the Friesian spearmen began to "hurt each other". However, the Friesian spearmen had no armor, and their technical and tactical skills were far inferior to the Swiss, and were quickly defeated. However, the dying counterattacks of some brave soldiers also caused a small number of casualties to the Swiss.

And the 200 heavy armored swordsmen led by Sivag, who protected Sivag, retreated into the large courtyard where Felt, the richest man in the town, lived, relying on the high walled courtyard to resist stubbornly...

At the same time, there were also a lot of Frisian light infantry, taking advantage of the chaos, sneaked out of the alleys that some Swiss people were not paying attention to, and then ran westward from the back of the house...

At this time, the Swiss were basically pressed onto the streets, and they really didn't pay much attention to the people who escaped from the back of the house, and they didn't care about it. In this way, about two or three hundred people took advantage of the chaos and managed to escape...

The rest of the people, except for the Siwager group who had retreated into the mansion, were slowly cleaned up by the Swiss. However, there are still a lot of Frisian infantrymen who had avoided the fireball before and hid in the house or yard on the street, and it takes time to search and clean up.

After besieging Fürth's mansion, the Swiss charged several times, but were repelled by the tenacious Frisian epee. Marin got impatient and ordered the storm to stop. Then, Marin ordered the remaining grass balls to be collected, ignited, and thrown into the yard by Hercules, burnt and smoked...

In this way, Marin ordered hundreds of fireballs to be thrown in, and the yard was burned to the ground. Dozens of Frisian epees were burned to death on the spot...

It is also fortunate that Western mansions are basically made of stone, and the wooden houses of the East have been burned into a sea of ​​fire long ago. Of course, even if it is a stone building, burnt and smoked by so many fireballs, the people inside are uncomfortable. Many epee swordsmen in the courtyard were burned to death because they had nowhere to hide because they were crowded in the courtyard.

Seeing that Marin was going to have people throw fireballs inside, Sivag couldn't sit still any longer. In addition, Sivag also knew that the situation was over, and resistance could only lead to a dead end, so he asked for negotiations...

Marin didn't want to continue fighting, because in this ambush, the Swiss had already killed and wounded hundreds of people because of the enemy's stubborn resistance. Although he didn't care about the life and death of the Swiss, it was stated in the previous contract that for the dead and injured Swiss, 40 gold coins were paid for the death and 20 gold coins for the injured.

In fact, this clause was actually added by Marin himself. Because, at that time, the Swiss refused to play for him. In a hurry, Marin added this very generous, even unbelievable condition. With double the high price, Marin finally moved the Swiss. But now, when Marin looked at the dead and wounded Swiss, it was like looking at the bills to be paid, and he was very upset...

In the end, Marin accepted Siwager's surrender, and Marin also promised not to strip his clothes or search his body, and to treat him as a decent noble captive. The remaining 120 epee swordsmen under Sivag were all disarmed.

After that, Marin asked Siwager to come forward and persuade a few groups of Frisian soldiers who had fled into the residential courtyard to resist...

In the end, the Swiss mercenaries brought by Marin took 1,000 Frisian prisoners and killed nearly 500 Frisian soldiers at the cost of 47 dead and 58 wounded. In addition, there were about 400 Friesian light infantry, who escaped from the back of the house while taking advantage of the chaos...

This refers to the victory on the long street. In addition, there are 120 Frisian knights and hundreds of light infantry who escaped early without entering the long street. Most of them followed the carriage of the Frisian nobles and fled westward...

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