The Rise of the European Emperor

Kronborg is only 90 kilometers from Copenhagen. If Marin's army is in a hurry, they will definitely arrive within two days. It's just that Marin wasted a lot of time because he was looting and looting on the island of Zealand, and specially let the mercenaries from Hamburg and Lübeck carry the banners to harm the Danish citizens and noble squires.

With only a distance of more than 90 kilometers, the army took 6 days to arrive. At this time, in the coalition troops, apart from the soldiers themselves and food supplies, there were only truckloads of stolen property left.

These Hamburg and Lubeck mercenaries are also ruthless, not only robbing others of their gold and silver treasures and food, but also robbing others of their carriages to transport stolen goods.

Marin's mouth twitched as he looked at the long-drawn convoy behind the troop...

To tell the truth, seeing these bastards robbing so much property, Marin is a little jealous. After a rough estimate, the stolen property was worth more than one million gold coins.

Of these, about seven CDs were snatched by mercenaries from Lübeck and Hamburg. Only 30% are owned by Marin. This was also because Marin's army, after occupying every small town, went straight to the official treasury and granary.

That is to say, Marin mainly annexed those Danish public properties, while the mercenaries in Lübeck and Hamburg mainly robbed the Danish civilians, merchants and ordinary noble families. As for those big nobles and big businessmen... well, they all seem to live in Copenhagen...

Of course, Marin issued a very strict military discipline, and strictly prohibited those mercenaries from Lübeck and Hamburg from hiding their belongings. Every time he came back from a robbery, Marin would register and pack the property that each mercenary robbed, and put them under the custody of the baggage unit.

Then, after the war, the stolen property belongs to Lübeck and Hamburg, and Marin will give half to the mercenaries who are responsible for the robbery and registered according to the principle of equal distribution. The other half will be handed over to Lübeck and Hamburg officials. Although Lübeck and Hamburg themselves are very rich, the amount of this robbery is too large. Even if they are divided equally with the mercenaries, Lübeck and Hamburg will share a huge wealth of 350,000 gold coins. With this money, the huge investment of the two cities in this war can also be repaid a lot.

What's more, Copenhagen, the richest city in the whole of Denmark or the whole Kalmar Union, has not yet been captured. Once Copenhagen is captured, go grab it again... Marin estimates that the value of the property that can be grabbed in Copenhagen is definitely higher than it is now. Fortunately, Copenhagen is a port city, with many ships in the combined fleet, and it is also convenient to transport stolen goods. What's even better is that there are many pawn shops in the two Hanseatic commercial cities of Lübeck and Hamburg, which can be professionally responsible for selling stolen goods and handling stolen goods, which is also very convenient...

Because too much time was wasted for robbery on the way, when the army arrived outside Copenhagen, on both sides of the narrow Copenhagen Bay, the Danish sailors were already ready.

The Danes seem to have tasted the benefits of the tunnels to prevent shelling. Now, the shores at both ends of Copenhagen Bay are covered with tunnels dug by the Danes, which are densely distributed.

When Marin arrived with the army, he did not know that the Danes had dug a hole. After all, through the telescope, Marin couldn't see anything wrong with the Danish position. So, he arranged troops and launched a charge...

As a result, in front of the Danes' N tunnel, the coalition soldiers who rushed in front of them naturally turned their backs. If it weren't for the timely rescue, the hundreds of soldiers who fell into the pit would probably die. But even though Marin ordered the rescue, hundreds of people were killed by the Danish sailors in the tunnel.

After calming down, Marin temporarily stopped the attack on the Danish naval positions, and instead ordered the army to retreat, and then began to set up camp.

At night, Marin sent Sauer's scout troop, lurking in front of the Danish sailors' positions, and approached for reconnaissance. Then, the scouts were surprised to find that after dark, the Danish sailors all ran out of the tunnel and went back to the camp to rest, and almost no one stayed in the tunnel.

When Marin got the news, he couldn't sleep again. So, in the middle of the night, he called Schwartz, Stade and other East Frisian generals and ordered:

"Blow the emergency muster whistle to gather the East Frisian veterans!"

The East Frisian army was trained strictly according to Marin's requirements, so it was common practice to blow the emergency muster whistle at night. The soldiers have also basically received the training of marching in the middle of the night, or fighting in the middle of the night.

Therefore, after the emergency assembly whistle blew, the 13,000 East Frisian veterans in the military camp, dressed up and equipped with equipment, assembled outside the camp in a short time. And the mercenaries from Lubeck and Hamburg were jumping around for a while, thinking that the enemy was attacking at night and almost blowing up the camp.

As for the 5,000 East Frisian recruits brought by Marin, the training time is still relatively short, especially since they have not specially experienced overnight training. Therefore, there were only a thousand East Frisian recruits who finally came to assemble.

For this, Marin did not blame the recruits. However, in a blink of an eye, Marin immediately sent officers to write down the 1,000 recruits who arrived in time, and ordered them to focus on training in the future. These people can arrive in time without special training. They seem to be very clever and can be trained as grassroots officers in the future. As for the unresponsive East Frisian recruits, unless there is a military exploit. Otherwise, the promotion order must be behind these thousand people...

Marin couldn't bear to see the chickens jumping around because of the emergency gathering in the middle of the night. Under his orders, 4,000 of the 14,000 troops assembled in East Frisian took up arms and went to deter the panicked Lübeck and Hamburg mercenaries and make them quiet.

As for the other 10,000 veterans, Marin decided to divide his troops into two groups and attacked the Danish naval battalions on both sides of Copenhagen Bay overnight.

The encounter during the day made Marin soberly realize that if the Danish sailors were hiding in the tunnel, if they launched a general attack, although they could defeat the enemy, they would certainly lose a lot. Because, in front of the densely covered tunnels, the power of the coalition army's battle formation cannot be exerted at all. Once the formation is messed up, the boys under Marin's command are not much better than the Danish sailors.

Because, the East Frisian army, relying on strict discipline and dense battle formations, to crush the enemy. If the war was disrupted by the tunnel, then the battle between the two sides would be no different from a group fight between gangsters. In this way, the casualties of the East Frisian army will definitely be great.

If the mercenaries from Lübeck and Hamburg are taken to "fill the pit", it is not impossible. However, in this way, the casualties of Lübeck and Hamburg will be very large.

If this is the last battle, it is understandable to do so. But the crux of the matter is that this is not the last battle...

There are thousands of Danish defenders in Copenhagen. If the losses in the tunnels outside the city are too great, it will be even more difficult to fight the incomparably strong Copenhagen.

Therefore, Marin was not willing to waste too many troops in the process of attacking the Danes' tunnels. When he heard the information from the scouts that the enemy had retreated to the camp on the flat ground in the middle of the night to rest, Marin immediately ordered an emergency assembly without hesitation, planning to attack the enemy camp at night...

In this way, 10,000 East Frisian veterans, led by Marin and Schwartz, divided into two groups, preparing to attack the Danish naval camps on both ends of Copenhagen Bay...

Along the way, none of the East Frisian soldiers had a torch, but relying on the faint starlight, led by more experienced scouts, quietly touched the Danish camp...

Because it is marching in the dark, the marching speed is slow. By the time the army arrived outside the Danish camp, it was already past 4 in the morning. In a while, the sky will be bright.

After a little adjustment, Marin decisively let his men light a batch of arquebuses. Then, Doni Tserui personally carried the powder keg on his back and came to the gate of the eastern camp of the Danish sailors...

Moreover, next to Donny Tserui was another Demolition team fighter who carried a bucket of butter...

When Doni Tserui and his companions rushed to the front of the camp, the scouts under Sauer had already used crossbows to shoot the Danish sentry on the upstairs of the gate.

Although the movement disturbed the Danish soldiers in the battalion, what Doni Tserai wanted was that no one would interfere with them in a short period of time.

So, Donny Tsri's teammates first poured a bucket of butter on the wooden fence gate of the Danish sailor's camp. Then, Doni Tseri put down the powder keg, lit the fuze, and fled with his companions...

Accompanied by an explosion of "Boom--". Because there was no time to bury it deeply, the Zhaimen was not destroyed. However, because the gate of the village was doused with butter beforehand, the fire started quickly...

Before the Danish sailors could react, the gate of the camp had already been engulfed by everyone...

After a while, Marin directly let the spearmen under his command push open the burned camp door with spears several meters long...

Then, following the East Frisian soldiers who came up, after using the fools in the sandbags to put out the fire caused by the butter in front of the door, everyone rushed in directly along the collapsed gate, and started to fire everywhere. And loudly spread rumors in the Danish language that he is currently learning:

"The enemy is coming!"

"Our army is defeated!"

"The general is dead!"

"The king is dead..."

Hearing this, Marin covered his face with shame—you, the Danish King Hans is still in the city and not in this military camp, how do you know that the king died? Obviously, this slogan of the current study was rejected due to logic problems before departure, but I didn't expect someone to shout it out...

But what Marin didn't expect was that the Danish sailors were panicking at this time. When Marin's soldiers shouted these rumors in the crappy Danish they were learning and selling, many Danish sailors believed them. ...

So, the Danish camp is even more chaotic...

The Danish sailors looked around for this dress, but the camp was in chaos. In order to save money, except for the generals' tents, where oil lamps are lit, there are generally no lights in the tents of ordinary soldiers, and it is naturally dark in the middle of the night. Therefore, at this time, in the camp of ordinary Danish soldiers, it was chaos...

"Hansen, where is my Neku?" a Danish sailor asked anxiously. Obviously, this sailor comrade likes to sleep...

"How do I know? I'm still looking for the left shoe! Damn, where did my left shoe go, Risen, did you see it..."

...

Just like that, when Marin's army had already invaded the central tent of the Danish sailors, many of the Danish sailors were not dressed yet.

With the main points in the camp being controlled by the East Frisian army, the Danish sailors are powerless...

Some of the camps that resisted fiercely, the East Frisian veterans did not talk nonsense, and directly set the camps on fire with torches. When the recalcitrant Danish sailors in the camp had to rush out, they were directly strung into a barbecue by spears...

Marin's side went very well, Schwartz's side wasn't bad either. Schwartz didn't choose to blow up the door, but Kahn and two people, all wearing plate armor, each carrying a sledgehammer of several dozen pounds, rushed to the enemy's camp, directly smashing the door of the enemy's camp. The door bolt, directly violently opened the gate of the enemy camp. Then, Schwartz's army entered the enemy camp faster than Marin's side. What's even more terrifying is that when the main Danish sailor ran out of the Chinese army tent and wanted to organize the soldiers to resist, he was directly smashed by Kahn with a hammer...

Next, most of the Danish sailors were honest, and only some of the frightened Danish sailors were a little crazy in spirit. For this kind of person, the East Frisian army obviously has a solution, that is, "queuing to be shot"...

After dawn, the two Danish naval camps were all under the control of the East Frisian army. The 10,000 East Frisian veterans that Marin brought, only suffered more than 30 casualties. Most of the casualties were actually cut by the Danish sailors who had gone mad because of the bombing of the camp... If it wasn't for the fact that there were many musketeers in the East Frisian army who specialized in dealing with such "madmen", it is estimated that they would have been cut. More people are hurt.

What makes Marin laugh or cry is that in the sailor battalion he occupied, more than 500 of the 4,500 Danish sailors in it were injured at the hands of his own family...

Due to the impact of the bombing, many sailors with poor psychological quality in the Danish military camp suddenly went crazy. East Frisian soldiers are better, at least take precautions. And those Danish sailors who were scared and fled around were more unlucky. They were in a panic, and they didn't expect that "their own people" would suddenly draw their knives against them. Therefore, among the Danish sailors, there are more people who are recruited...

In this way, through a simple night attack, Marin used only 10,000 veterans and took more than three hours to annihilate the 9,000 sailors in the Danish battalion without letting off a single enemy. As for himself, he only paid a small price of more than 30 casualties...