King of German Mercenaries

It was getting dark at this time, but Marin had no idea of ​​resting. Instead, he took 6,000 of his men to the north without stopping, intending to travel overnight, trying to intercept the 4,000 Saxon troops that surrounded Emden.

In this decisive battle, Marin's army of 10,000 people suffered a total of only five or six hundred casualties, mainly due to the losses suffered during the early artillery bombardment and the later general attack.

The Saxons are not the same. For the plate knights alone, more than 1,400 people died in battle or died of serious injuries, and nearly 2,000 plate knights became prisoners. The remaining more than a thousand plate knights either fled eastward with the Duke of Saxony, or swam across the river and fled.

As for the infantry, the Saxons suffered more losses. Of the 15,000 Saxon infantry, more than 2,900 died in battle or died. Among them, more than 700 people were casualties caused by trampling on each other after the defeat of the Saxon army. As for the remaining 12,000 people, a small number of them escaped by swimming, but 11,000 people laid down their weapons and became Marin's prisoners. There are 15,000 people on the opposite side, and Marin sent 2,000 people to pursue them. Those civilians are very timid, basically have no fighting power, and have no weapons. Although there were 15,000 soldiers, 2,000 soldiers were enough to frighten them. The only question is whether 2,000 people are enough to arrest people.

If Marin went to catch up with the main force, the 15,000 people would definitely not be able to escape. But because Marin wanted to bring the main force back to Emden, he could only send 2,000 people across the river to pursue them. In this way, because the number of people chasing is not enough, Marin does not know how many people can be brought back.

Why is Marin in such a hurry to go back to make a clearance for Emden? It's not that Marin is worried that Adler won't be able to hold it, but because the supreme commander of the Saxon army besieging Emden is George, the eldest son and heir of the Duke of Saxony...

The old fox, the Duke of Saxony, fled lightly, and Marin didn't have enough cavalry to pursue him, so he could only look at their backs and sigh. However, George's 4,000 were different.

Although it is said that George's 4000 Saxon army is a regular army, but it is useless. Because Adler has the advantage of a tall and strong city wall, although they are all militiamen, they can last ten days and a half months.

What Marin cared about was George. As long as George is caught, Marin will use the capital to open up such and such conditions to the Duke of Saxony. It can be said that as the first heir of the Duchy of Saxony, like the crown princes of those kingdoms, George's worth is still very high. Catch him and make conditions more confident.

Moreover, it is not easy for George's army to surround Saxony. Because, his army needs to cross the Ames...

The Ems River is different from the Leda River. The Leda River is only a small and medium-sized river channel and is a tributary of the Ems River. The Ems River is one of the largest rivers in Germany. In particular, Emden is close to the mouth of the sea in the lower Ames, where the river is very wide.

With such a wide river, it is unrealistic to build a pontoon bridge. Therefore, George's army used a lot of ships to transport them across the river. And the place where the ship stopped was just east of Emden, only about fifteen kilometers away from the Lyle County battlefield. If you hurry, you can arrive in the middle of the night.

Arrival here means reaching the place where the enemy has landed. What are you doing there? Of course, it was to snatch the boats of the Saxons to cross the river...

As long as they grabbed those ships in the dark and surrounded Emden, George and his army would lose their way of retreat. When the Marlin army arrived, under the internal and external attack, George and his men were unable to fly...

However, in order to prevent George from escaping by boat, Malin specially sent someone to notify Captain Kidd that after he helped repair the pontoon, he would immediately go north overnight and arrive at the water near Emden to prevent George from following his father's example. A boat escaped...

When Captain Kidd's fleet destroyed the Saxon pontoon bridge, they only burned the boats close to the Saxon army's battle formation, but did not move the boats close to the southern bank's resident camp.

Anyway, in such a critical situation, Marin did not think that the people on the other side of the river would have the guts to risk their lives and row across the river to meet them, which was indeed the case...

After the main battlefield was decided, Captain Kidd led people to collect the remaining ships on the south bank of the Leda River and began to build a pontoon. After that, the three warships left the Leda River, and then received orders from Marin... Their next task was very simple, that is to patrol the river mouth and stop any boats running out of East Frisian, Keep George out of it...

After the arrangement was completed, Marin's army arrived at the landing site of the Saxon army in West Frisland more than ten kilometers away in the middle of the night, and saw a large number of Saxon ships...

Moreover, at this time on the entire temporary pier, the Saxons basically fell asleep...

Under the terrified eyes of the Saxons, Marin suddenly appeared with a large army, seized the entire temporary pier, and took control of more than a hundred West Frisian ships of all sizes. In this way, the back road for the Saxons to travel by boat was cut off.

Then, Marin ordered his subordinates, except those who were on guard at night, to rest and wait for the next day to arrive at Emden City to surround and intercept George's army...

It was also George who was brainless. According to the original plan of the Duke of Saxony, he should have organized a fleet to land and surround Emden City after he received the news of the outcome of the main battlefield in Lyle County.

However, the arrogant George believes that the main force of Saxony is impossible to lose when the number of the enemy is twice as large and the number of plate knights is large. Therefore, in the morning, after learning that the Saxon army and Marin's army had begun to contact, they took their men and horses without authorization and began to land a few kilometers east of Emden City. In the afternoon, they surrounded Adler and guarded the city. The city of Emden...

Then, when the Saxon army collapsed, no one sent a letter to George, informing him of the bad news. Therefore, George, who was triumphantly besieging Emden, did not know that his wily father had already escaped...

In the middle of the night, when Marin's main force arrived at the temporary landing site of the Saxon army, because it was a night attack, the hundreds of auxiliary troops guarding the temporary pier were captured by Marin's men in their sleep. Therefore, no one escaped to report to George.

Therefore, when Marin suddenly appeared from behind with an army of 6,000 on the morning of December 16, George was in a bad mood. Similarly, the Saxon soldiers under his command were also bewildered...

In the eyes of George and Saxon soldiers, their dukes are tactful and omnipotent. Therefore, they never thought that the Duke of Saxony with twice the army would lose. Therefore, they did not consider that Marin would bring the army back to help. Because, they believed, at this time, Marin was either killed or captured directly on the battlefield, or he retreated into Lyle County after being defeated, relying on the city wall to block the Saxon army. Therefore, they did not expect that Marin would solve the Saxon army on the same day and bring the army back to the rescue the next day.

Therefore, the Saxon army at this time, led by George, surrounded Emden, but was not prepared for the support of the Marin army. Because, they thought it was impossible... When Marin's army appeared, all the Saxons felt astonished and disbelieving...