The Rise of the European Emperor

As for why Captain Roman was so bold and dared to commit such a big case in East Frisland, the main reason was that Roman was not optimistic about the outcome of Marin's battle.

Because Marin faced an army of 50,000 this time, but there were 20,000 Swiss mercenaries! Out of blind confidence in the combat effectiveness of the Swiss mercenaries, Captain Roman thought that Marin would lose.

Once Marin loses, it remains to be seen whether Marin can keep his East Frisian land, let alone take revenge on him. Therefore, based on the judgment of Marin's defeat, Roman only ordered a robbery in the East Frisian manor on the west bank of the Ems River after seeing the benefits. If it weren't for the fear that the tens of thousands of people from the second legion who were left behind in the legend would come to him to settle accounts, he might have looted the east coast as well...

Moreover, this time he also made a lot of money. You know, but those 10,000 bags of rye are a million pounds. Even at the wholesale price of 0.7 pfennig per pound, it is worth 11,600 gold coins. In addition to the coins, salt, silver and copper utensils, cloth, cooking oil and other valuable materials, all of them were sold, and the total value was estimated to exceed 15,000 gold coins.

For a mercenary group of 4,000 people, this is definitely a lot of wealth. In particular, it's just a windfall, just a catch.

In the city of Lübeck, when Marin received the information from Kohler, he was furious:

"I have to kill this bastard named Roman! This guy has to pay with blood!"

But after calming down, Marin smiled:

"Hey, Zhengchou can't find an excuse to turn against the Principality of Geddes. This idiot named Roman sent the excuse to his door. It's best if Charles II doesn't know about it. Then, he can be caught off guard!"

Marin had long planned to annex West Frisland. It's just that Marin was still an ally with Charles II before, and Marin was still thinking about how to find an excuse to turn his face. No, this fool named Roman took the initiative to give an excuse. However, although Marin thanked him in his heart, he would not let this guy go. After all, this guy is burning, killing and looting on his own territory. Anyway, this guy has to die...

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At this time, near the city of Libe in the northwest of the Principality of Schleswig, there was also a major incident...

Although he vomited because he drank too much that night, he vomited most of the "Cantrella" poison. However, a small amount of the poison still penetrated into Prince Christian's body.

The end result is that after seven days, Prince Christian is still poisoned. Although he did not die from the poison, Prince Christian was still tumbling on the hospital bed in excruciating pain...

Because of the violent attack of the poison, the young Prince Christian lost all his hair overnight, and his face became haggard and terrifying. Even, half of the teeth are lost...

Although struggling to survive, Prince Christian temporarily and completely lost the ability to move, and he could not walk normally without a month of recuperation.

He was the head coach of the Danish army. The coach was poisonous, and the siege of the Danish army naturally stopped.

However, Saqqara's army did not launch an attack in time...

why? This is because, Saqqara thinks - as soon as Prince Christian is poisoned, we will attack. Isn't it obvious to tell people, "Does the poisoning have something to do with you?"

Therefore, Saqqara did not launch the attack on the seventh day after the poisoning, but on the tenth day after the poisoning, that is, three days after Prince Christian's poisoning,

Then suddenly a night attack was launched on the Danish camp...

At this time, Prince Christian was still resting in bed. Although he didn't die, he lost most of his life. Now, Prince Christian can't even eat ordinary food, and can only eat some liquid food such as meat porridge. And in the Danish camp, people were panicking.

After Saqqara's 10,000-strong army launched an attack on the Danish battalion, the Danes were in chaos. The officers wanted to ask the coach to decide, but the coach was still lying on the hospital bed.

Several adjutants disagreed, but before they could agree, the gate of the camp was breached by Saqqara's English mercenaries.

"Fight for meat!"

The battle cry of the English mercenaries is very strange, which is the result of their usual training. After shouting this slogan, the mercenaries in England were full of fighting spirit and invincible...

Being stared at by a group of English mercenaries who were desperately training for meat, the Danes who were stupefied in the middle of the night were suddenly discouraged.

There are also some North Frisians in the Danish army who understand English. But after understanding the slogan of the English mercenaries, they were scared to death...

why? Because they mistakenly thought that the English mercenaries were man-eating demons. Looking at their red eyes, those North Frisians in the Danish army thought they were going to eat their own meat...

So these people ran away in fright. Then, a lot of Danish military camps messed up...

However, after the Swiss castration training, the 20,000 Danish army did not collapse immediately. Because, they have received special training to prevent night attack.

Because, the Danes also know that Marin is a master of night attack, how can he not be on guard?

Unfortunately, in the past two or three days, because Prince Christian almost died after being poisoned, the Danish army was panicked. Therefore, despite the large number of people, it was still suppressed by the 15,000 army led by Saqqara, and it was only a matter of time before failure.

This is mainly because Saqqara sent a capable force to divide and surround the Danish battalion, preventing the gathering of Danish soldiers. If it is impossible to form a large formation, even if the Danish army is larger, there is no bombing phenomenon, but it cannot beat the more orderly and tightly formed East Frisian army.

After dividing the Danish battalion into several large pieces, Saqqara began to command the army, concentrating the superior force and clearing the camps where the enemy troops were concentrated one by one. Victory, only a matter of time...

Seeing the lack of skills, the lieutenant Maxime made up his mind and took a team of cronies, Prince Christian, who was carrying the disease on his back, under the desperate escort of more than 3,000 horses in the headquarters, and rushed out of the west gate of the camp in the chaos.

Then, General Maxime did not immediately lead his troops north, but ran directly to the west port, found a large ship, put Prince Christian on the ship, and sent his men to drive the ship to the port in Denmark, which is a little north. Spier. After all, with Prince Christian's current frail body, walking by land and sitting on a bumpy carriage, it is estimated that he will die halfway. It's better to take a boat, at least not as bumpy as a carriage...

And he himself, with the remaining two thousand men, along the land road, retreated north overnight, and went to Esbjerg and Prince Christian to turn.

After hours of fierce fighting, by daybreak the Danes were defeated, despite being trained against night raids. Except for the 2,000 people who escaped from General Maxime and Prince Christian, the others were either killed or captured. Saqqara's army lost only 300 people. And the Danes, killed and captured, reached more than 17,000...

The main method for the Danes to be trained against night attacks is to put weapons in the tents, and the soldiers try to sleep in their clothes as much as possible. Those low-level officers also slept among the soldiers and did not live alone in the military district. Only senior generals will have the treatment of a separate tent. In the event of a night attack, the soldiers immediately took up their weapons, and the soldiers of the same troop near the tent quickly gathered to get closer, and under the leadership of the grass-roots officers, they formed a formation to protect themselves.

If the number of enemy troops attacking at night is small, then they will be squeezed into the camp by the Danish troops who have formed themselves to protect themselves. Then, the grass-roots officers will move slowly according to the training method, and slowly merge with other parts of the army to form a real large formation. As the army converged, the night attacking army would eventually be surrounded by the assembled Danish army and then eliminated.

This method is a counter-tactic specially designed by a talented Swiss officer named Fabian based on Marin's characteristics of using a small number of troops to carry out night raids. Fabian is also one of the main instructors who helped Denmark train the army this time. He is a talented military theorist and is very famous in Switzerland.

But unfortunately, there were too many enemy troops in this night attack. Although there is a night attack tactic of forming a nearby self-protection, Saqqara's army of 15,000 people directly divided and surrounded the Danish army. The original strategy of forming a nearby formation for self-protection has just become the biggest weakness of the Danish army. Because of the tactics of forming a nearby formation for self-protection, the army of the Danish battalion itself was divided into a dozen pieces. Although each piece has a good defense. However, this also dispersed the force. If you are dealing with a small group of night attack troops, you can naturally use the space squeeze method to gradually converge, and then besiege the intruding enemy night attack troops. It can be used to deal with a large number of enemy troops who take advantage of the situation to divide and surround themselves. This tactic is basically giving away... Therefore, the Danish army was surrounded by Saqqara, and then the tactic of concentrating superior forces to clean up piece by piece was easily cleaned up. ...

When clearing the small phalanxes of the Danish army that had formed themselves to protect themselves, Saqqara's tactics were very brutal - he ordered his men to push hundreds of Yu Dayu unicycles full of spears and slammed into Denmark fiercely. Small phalanx of the army. The Danish spearmen couldn't keep up with the overall length of the chariot because of the length of their spears. Coupled with the huge impact of the chariot rushing up. They were either skewered by the spear-laden chariots, or they avoided... Then, as the chariots continued to charge, the Danish phalanx naturally became chaotic. Then, Saqqara concentrated its superior forces and rushed from all directions to the small Danish phalanx whose formation was smashed... Once the formation was chaotic, the Danes who formed a formation to protect themselves would naturally not be able to resist Saqqara's subordinates, who were absolutely dominant in numbers. The fierce impact of the soldiers, only defeat can go...

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When he learned from the captives that Prince Christian was not dead, Jim patted his head in remorse. No wonder the Danes did not collapse and could resist for hours. It turned out that their coach did not die. So, the Danish army is just panicking, not psychologically breaking down...

In addition, the Danish army had received strict night-attack training before, so Saqqara's army had a difficult time.

However, because everyone wore double-layer mahjong mat armor with decent protection, the casualties were not very large. Many of the Danish spearmen's attacks were blocked by double-layered mahjong mats. In particular, the outer layer of mahjong mat armor and iron sheet protection... Although more than 300 people were lost, the opponent's loss was more than 17,000. Of course, the loss of more than 300 people was mainly due to too many recruits. After statistics, Saqqara found that most of the more than 300 people were those English mercenaries who went to the battlefield for the first time. As for the five thousand veterans sent by Woolf Esbrand, only a dozen or so were injured, but no one was mortally wounded. The reason why there were so many casualties among those English mercenary recruits was because some of them rushed too hard and rushed into the crowd of others. In the face of the spears that the Danish soldiers stabbed in all directions, it is really hard to escape...

But fortunately, although Prince Christian was not poisoned, the Danes lost, and it was a crushing defeat. Although more than 2,000 people escaped, but given the courage to them, those people did not dare to turn back and provoke the East Frisian army. Because they have been terrified. Moreover, the number of opponents is too small...

Anyway, although the process did not match the script, after all, Prince Christian was not poisoned, but the result was still perfect. After all, the East Frisian army, at a small price, wiped out this huge Danish army.

Next, the main force of the army will go south to support the Lübeck battlefield...