The Rise of the European Emperor

The terrain of Lübeck is very complex. Its main part, located in the middle of the Trave River, is surrounded by water on all sides. Only the southeast and north, some areas are connected to the outside world. In addition, there is also a bridge to the southwest to connect with the outside world.

Therefore, Lübeck is an island city in a river surrounded by water, and its defense effect is very good. Because he has a natural moat on all sides, which brings great difficulties to the siege troops. The previous attack of the Bossa coalition forces was launched from a small area on the southeast side by the land.

In fact, after Frederick III ordered to stop the attack, he did not really wait. Instead, he sent troops to arrest the local people, forcing them to fill the river with sacks with mud and sand, intending to give the narrow waterways around Lübeck. filled in. As for the Trave River, Frederick III planned to open the river in the west and fill up the narrow channel in the east to facilitate the siege of the city.

And Marin, at this moment, is a little frightened. why? Because, he saw a great danger - if you change the Chinese art of war, you can see that Lübeck is a city suitable for flooding...

Seeing that Frederick III sent people to dig soil and fill the river, Marin was almost scared to pee, thinking that the other party saw Lübeck's shortcomings and was about to build a dam. As long as the dam is built and the Trave River floods the city of Lübeck, Marin will also be finished.

For a moment, Marin was ready to be captured and ceded most of his territory. The big deal, let's go to the Americas to establish a country and develop...

But after a few days, he finally felt relieved - the other party just wanted to fill in some narrow parts to facilitate the siege. It seems that Europeans still don't know how to flood. It's like Huaxia, when the three families divided Jin, they knew how to flood Jinyang City...

In any case, in Malin's view, Lübeck's construction of the city in the middle of the river was simply a failure. In the Middle Ages, Europeans were brainwashed and foolish, and they were replaced by people who had read the art of war in China, and they were flooded by dam building in minutes...

For the sake of safety, Marin asked Sauer and others to use binoculars to observe the enemy's situation 24 hours a day. Once the enemy army showed signs of building a dam, he planned to take 20,000 troops out of the city desperately. Although there is no certainty of winning, but relying on advanced tactics, at least not defeated.

Fortunately, Frederick III was not a Chinese military strategist after all. In the end, he did not think of the tactics of building a dam and flooding, and Marin did not have to rush out of the city for a decisive battle.

While the two sides were waiting, Marin's fleet arrived first...

The fleet of 10 250-class armed merchant ships and 10 cargo ships, loaded with food and weapons and ammunition, arrived at the Bay of Lübeck, and along the Trave River, upstream 15 kilometers, arrived at the city of Lübeck The wider west channel of the Outer Trave River is the west channel of the city of Lübeck.

The river here is wider.

To the northwest, there is a row of piers that provide freight. The fleet docked at the dock area to the northwest and began to unload grain and supplies.

Take a look at the Allied Forces of Bursa - is this still worth it? So they planned to attack the fleet. Of course, because the ships were in the river, they brought in all 60 guns of the coalition and started shelling the ships.

Captain Kidd, who is in charge of leading the team, sees this as well? As a result, 10 Class 250 armed merchant ships lined up and bombarded with coalition artillery across the river.

Ten 18-pounder guns on each side of the ten Class 250 armed merchant ships provided extraordinary firepower. 100 heavy artillery salvos, that power is not generally large.

The artillery of the Bursa coalition is basically two or three pounds of light rear-mounted bronze infantry guns, that is, the Fran cannon. Although the speed of this kind of running is higher, the power is far worse. Two or three pounds of artillery shells hit the 250-level armed merchant ship, and some sawdust was smashed, and a few unfortunate people were injured, but the wooden ship was not damaged at all.

But on the other hand, the 18-pound iron ball cannonball on the 250-level armed merchant ship smashed into the crowd of the Bursa coalition forces, and it was really bloody. The place where the iron ball rolled over was filled with casualties and mourning.

100 18-pound naval guns, facing 60 two- or three-pound rear-mounted infantry guns, won...

After being smashed to death by Kidd's naval guns and wounded dozens of artillerymen and more soldiers of other arms, Frederick III had to order the artillery units to withdraw from the fighting area. Then, I watched helplessly as the supply fleet replenished a large amount of food and various military supplies in the city of Lübeck.

Frederick III thought about it for two days, and finally, he came up with a way - to use a trebuchet to throw fireballs to burn the ship...

It is a pity that the Allied Forces of Bursa gave up the equipment of the trebuchet because they were generally equipped with artillery. Therefore, the trebuchet needs to be newly built. Fortunately, the Saxon army has not been equipped with artillery for a long time. Among the strong people who accompany the army, there are carpenters who know how to make trebuchets. So, Frederick III ordered those carpenters to start looking for wood on the spot to make trebuchets.

Three days later, more than a dozen simple trebuchets were placed on the opposite bank of the Travo River and began to throw fireballs at 10 Class 250 warships.

After the attack, two ships had their sails and parts of their hulls burned. Had it not been for the timely rescue of the sailors, the ship would have been doomed.

Malin looked at it and saw that this was not possible. So, when there were not many trebuchets in the Bursa coalition, Kidd took the fleet out of the Travo River and returned to the sea. After all, the Trave is too narrow outside Lübeck. At such close distances, the boat is a target for a trebuchet. If the Bursa coalition forces have enough trebuchets, it is normal for several ships to be burned.

However, that doesn't matter. Because the fleet unloaded the food, ammunition and artillery that Marin needed...

With the artillery and sufficient ammunition, Marin put the artillery on the front of the city and began to bombard the artillery of the Bossa coalition, smashing the opponent's artillery position to pieces, and never dared to approach the range of the artillery at the front of the city. .

"The bastards got ammo refills. How can they use up their ammo?" said Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg, worriedly.

"It's okay, wait for the Danish army to come." Frederick III comforted.

"However, even if the Danish army of 20,000 is dead, it won't necessarily use up that guy's ammunition. As you can see, there are a lot of supplies replenished this time..."

"Well, I've figured it out. When the Danish army comes over, let the Danish army hold the local people as cannon fodder, stand in front, and consume their ammunition..."

"What?" Joachim I stood up in shock:

"Your Excellency Frederick, this is no joke. If this kind of thing is known, it will definitely be discredited!"

European aristocrats are very particular about their reputation, and it is easy to discredit them by expelling ordinary people as cannon fodder. If there is no reputation, this noble will be despised by others, and no one will listen to his words. Especially in a place like Germany where there are many nobles, losing one's reputation means losing the right to speak at the imperial meeting...

Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, smiled slightly:

"That's why I asked the Danes to do this! The Danes hate Marin and Lübeck to the core. Even if they do something dishonorable, the Danes won't care."

Joachim I nodded clearly. The Danes were bullied badly. This time it was blood revenge, so naturally he didn't care about his reputation. It is naturally appropriate for them to do such evil things.

At that time, the Danish army will drive the local people to the city and attract Marin's guns and ammunition, which will indeed be very effective. There are many people around, but Marin's ammunition is limited...

Thinking of this, Joachim I and Frederick III looked at each other knowingly, and then both laughed hilariously...