The Rise of the European Emperor

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() The attack on Berlin was unimaginably smooth. Woolf Esbrand and his 10,000 troops arrived outside Berlin in the middle of the night on the second day after departure.

After resting for two or three hours 10 kilometers away from Berlin, the army approached the Berlin Wall at around three in the morning. Nicholas Cage, the commander of the special forces, went into battle in person again, with more than 200 men, using flying claws, in the blind spot defended by Berlin, climbed the city wall, and quickly entered the city, heading straight for the southern gate of Berlin.

At this time, Berlin, because of the news that the two sides were going to negotiate in Worms, was not prepared that Marin would send troops to attack at this time. Moreover, there were only 3,000 levies in the city, and even the commanders were young nobles at the half-baked level. Therefore, the defense of Berlin City is full of loopholes. Moreover, behind the city gate of Berlin City, there were not enough soldiers to guard the city gate hole, and no debris was used to block the city gate hole.

Under such a flawed defense, the gatekeepers of Berlin City were naturally unable to resist the raid of Cage's special forces. Soon, the southern gate of Berlin was opened, and Woolf Esbrand rushed in with a large army...

In the face of the enemy's night attack, even a professional regular army is prone to chaos, not to mention the three thousand conscripts? Without waiting for Woolf Esbrand to order the assault, the defenders in the city collapsed on their own, scurrying all over the street. Some conscripts were even frightened, and they just rammed wildly, like a headless fly.

In the end, only the two hundred loyal guards stationed at the Berlin Palace are still standing there, insisting on protecting the Elector's wife and the young Prince Joachim who is only a few months old...

However, Marin sent Woolf Esbrand to attack Berlin, and he didn't plan to do anything with Berlin.

The reason is because Joachim I didn't do anything to anger Marin...

Frederick III jumped up and down, and wanted to put Marin to death, but Marin would not be polite, and directly demolition in Wittenberg. And because Brandenburg didn't provoke Marin, Marin didn't plan to do anything, just won Berlin as a bargaining chip.

Therefore, Woolf Esbrand did not storm the palace in Berlin, but first sent troops to control the main roads in the city and control the mansions of the great nobles.

restricted their access.

Then, at dawn, through negotiations, Woolf Esbrand led his troops into the palace in Berlin.

Negotiating with Woolf Esbrand was 15-year-old Prince Albert, brother of Joachim I. As for the Elector's wife, Princess Elizabeth of Denmark, she was too frightened to speak, she only knew that she was shivering in the bedroom with her son in her arms.

Therefore, in the absence of elders to call the shots, Prince Albert, who was only 15 years old, bite the bullet and started negotiations with Woolf Esbrand.

To Prince Albert's surprise, Woolf Essbrand, who led the army to conquer Berlin, was surprisingly eloquent. In the end, the two sides agreed that Woolf Essbrand's army could take over the palace, but would not enter the residential area where the Elector's wife Elizabeth and the young little prince Joachim were located.

And Woolf Essbrand's plan to enter the palace was just to enter the treasury to search for it. After all, although Brandenburg is not rich, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat...

But in order not to irritate the young and vigorous Joachim I, Marin had told Woolf Esbrand in advance - only to rob cash, not to plunder those gold and silver utensils, and not to enter the inner court to harass the family of the elector. ...

As for the aristocratic mansions of Brandenburg, Woolf Essbrand adopted the same strategy - only robbing gold and silver coins, and conspicuous gold and silver utensils, and not robbing other property. Of course, the grain for this 10,000 army also needs to be extracted from the granary in Berlin...

In fact, as the royal family and nobles, they rarely exchange their belongings for gold coins and put them in the warehouse. In order to maintain a luxurious aristocratic life, they often exchange gold and silver coins for a large number of luxury items and gold and silver utensils, and decorate the palaces and mansions magnificently.

Although Woolf Esbrand sent people to rob the palace and the gold and silver coins of the nobles, he only plundered a small part of the wealth of the nobles. After all, the big and small nobles in Brandenburg do not have as much business as the Saxon nobles, and their cash is also very limited.

After statistics, from the palace and those noble families, only gold and silver coins worth hundreds of thousands of Gulden gold coins were copied, which is extremely shabby compared to the electorate of Saxony.

Of course, this is also impossible. Because of the low agricultural output, an aristocrat who relies on agricultural output is completely incomparable to a business aristocrat. The gap between the two is equivalent to the difference between a well-off family and a rich man.

In desperation, in order to collect 200,000 gold coins in cash, Woolf Essbrand also sent someone to visit the homes of a few big businessmen in Berlin, knocking out tens of thousands of gold coins. Only got enough cash for 200,000 gold coins.

Then, Woolf Essbrand stopped, and did not let his subordinates snatch other property of the nobles, nor ordered a city-wide looting, which surprised Berliners.

Even Woolf Esbrand allowed Prince Albert to write everything that happened in Berlin into a letter, which was sent to Worm by the messengers sent by Woolf Esbrand to Worm. Stamarin's army.

Because they brought two fuel bottles in the carriages of King Hans of Denmark and Joachim I, the Elector of Brandenburg, Marin's army did not march too fast. Before arriving at Worms, Prince Albert's letter was delivered to Marin by the messengers under Woolf Esbrand. This letter was accompanied by a detailed report from Woolf Esbrand to Marin.

Hearing that Berlin was attacked, Joachim I stood up angrily and shouted at Marin:

"Why are you attacking Berlin? Negotiations are about to begin! If anything happens to my family, I will refuse all your demands! Even if I become your captive forever!"

"Don't worry, Lord Joachim, your family is fine. Also, my soldiers did not enter the residential area of ​​your palace, but took some gold and silver coins from the warehouse."

After finishing speaking, Marin showed Joachim I the detailed battle report sent by Woolf Esbrand...

After reading the battle report, King Joachim I sighed and said:

"I didn't have much money, and I was the poorest among the seven emperors. Now you have robbed all the remaining 100,000 gold coins in cash, and I have to pay a large amount of indemnity. In the future, I will have a meal. The hard life of black bread is over!"

When Marin thought about it, it really was... The Electoral State of Brandenburg had no money in the first place. Now that the land is ceded and the indemnity is paid, Joachim I will really have to tighten his belt to live.

But then again, it was because he had no money that Joachim I was fooled by Frederick III and helped to attack Lübeck and Hamburg together! After all, as long as one of Lübeck and Hamburg was attacked casually, Joachim I would have made it... but I didn't expect it, and it finally failed. It seems that it is really unfortunate that the land has to be ceded and the indemnity is paid...