The Rise of the European Emperor

In the past few days, the sailors of Marin's baggage unit have been busy lifting the artillery from the warship, and the workload is heavy. Of course, Marin was not idle either, and drove the Danish serfs on Zealand Island captured by the soldiers to build a very high soil slope to observe the situation in the city.

The soil slope is about 1,000 meters away from the Copenhagen city wall, and any long-range weapons of the Danes cannot cause damage to the high soil slope one thousand meters away. Its height, also reached 20 meters, is twice the height of the Danish city wall.

Therefore, Marin took the elites of the reconnaissance troops such as Sauer with confidence, climbed the high slope, and observed the situation in the city with binoculars...

What surprised Marin was that the Danes had greatly thickened the southwestern city wall, which was the main attack of the coalition forces. Through the binoculars, Marin could clearly see that the houses near the southwestern city wall of Copenhagen were all demolished by the Danes. All the masonry of those houses was used to thicken the city wall. The current southwestern city wall of Copenhagen is about twice as thick as before. No wonder Schwartz let the artillery bombard it for more than a month and could not open it. What's more, once the city wall is damaged, the Danes will send people to reinforce it desperately, which is very difficult to deal with.

Marin suddenly hesitated, and now he is not sure whether he can blast the city wall with 300 Hongyi cannons. The Danes are too cruel. In order to strengthen the city wall, they don't hesitate to demolish the houses. Unless these 300 cannons can blast away the city wall in a short time, the Danes will definitely repair the city wall desperately.

If the Marlin gunpowder is sufficient, it can naturally blast hard. However, his gunpowder is too difficult to get. The main gunpowder in Marin's hands came from 400 tons of gunpowder configured with 300 tons of saltpeter purchased by Columbus from India. The other 100 tons of gunpowder, or the Marinite merchants, traveled all over Europe, and finally managed to get it together. For this reason, there is now a shortage of gunpowder in the European market.

That is to say, once Marin burns out this batch of gunpowder, he will not be able to replenish the gunpowder for a long time. If there is no gunpowder replenishment, the artillery on Marin's warship, as well as the musketeer, will become a display.

The artillery on the warship became a decoration, and Marin didn't care too much. But if the musketeers are all decorations, it will be fatal...

You must know that the Spanish phalanx used by Marin's soldiers mainly relies on the firepower of the arquebusiers to attack the charge of the plate knights. Without the power of the Mushkert musket, Marin's phalanx would be vulnerable under the charge of the plate knights.

Therefore, even if Marin captures Copenhagen and obtains the desired territory, he will become a toothless tiger in the future and enter a period of weakness.

At that time, if there is a strong enemy, I will not be able to use the corresponding strength to resist...

And to replenish gunpowder, the most direct way is to take the fleet and make another trip to India to import hundreds of tons of saltpeter back. However, even if the fleet is familiar with the Indian route, it takes more than half a year to bring back the saltpeter. If during this period East Friesland is attacked, it will be over.

So Marin gave up on bombarding the Danish walls, and decided to do something else. However, he did not give up when the artillery bombarded the city wall.

In order to play the Danes, Marin sent his artillery to the northeast area of ​​Copenhagen, making a plan to blast through the northeast wall. As a result, the Danes acted immediately and carried out "demolition" again, frantically demolishing the houses at the foot of the northeast city wall, and using the bricks and stones of the houses to thicken the northeast city wall.

As for the northwest and southeast directions, because of the proximity to the water, there is no possibility to arrange artillery. It's not that it's impossible to bombard the city walls in these two directions. It was because the two city walls were adjacent to the water, and even if the city walls were blasted, the army would not be able to flood in from the gap on a large scale. Because the soldiers will not "float on the water".

Therefore, the only city walls that can be used for shelling and influx are the southwest and east. As for the iron gate, no one thought about it. At most, the iron ball will be a little deformed, but it will not be broken.

Using gunpowder barrels, it is also difficult to blow up the thick iron door.

However, when observing with a telescope on a high slope, Marin found a strange phenomenon-that is, behind the cast iron city gate, the Danes did not seem to be blocked...

Generally speaking, when defending the city, the defending side usually uses various heavy objects such as bricks, stones and logs to firmly press against the back of the city gate to prevent the city gate from being smashed by the enemy's bark. There are so many things behind it, it is difficult for Sakura to break open the city gate. Because, the impact of the wood hitting the city gate was absorbed by the masonry and logs bearing against the city gate.

However, Marin, who observed with a telescope on the southwest high slope twice as high as Copenhagen's city wall, found that there seemed to be no debris accumulated in the city gate hole northeast of Copenhagen...

Marin saw that although the Danes were demolishing houses to thicken the city wall in the northeast direction, they did not pile up debris in the city gate hole...

"Could it be that the Danes are so confident in the city gates?" Marin asked in surprise.

Marin is really right. After the previous actual combat test, the cast iron city gate on the southwest side and Marin's artillery have nothing to do with it. So the Danes are confident. In addition, the artillery bombed the city wall later, and the Danes did not pay attention to the accumulation of debris behind the city gate. However, because the city gate of the southwestern city wall was attacked first, a lot of debris was piled up behind it. As for the city gate in the northeast, because it was not attacked before, and it was later discovered that the enemy would not bombard the iron city gate, so simply did not accumulate debris in the city gate hole.

"If only someone could sneak into the city and open the big iron gate to the northeast..." Malin muttered.

But how easy is it to say? Standing on the high slope, Marin suddenly remembered the plot of N Mongolian warriors using "big wings" to fly into Samarkand when Guo Jing helped the Mongolian attack on Samarkand city...

However, after careful deliberation, Marin rejected this approach. Because that plot is purely a plot from Lao Jin YY, it is difficult to say whether it is useful or not. Moreover, even if it is useful, the premise is that there are mountains nearby in order to engage in gliding. But near the city of Copenhagen is either the sea or the plain, and there is no mountain for gliding at all.

Even if there are mountains nearby, Marin can't do hang gliders... You know, hang gliders are also very scientific things, and you can't just remodel the tent like in "The Condor". If the two sides are unbalanced, it will be unbalanced in the sky and then fall down and die.

Even if the glider is successful, what's the use of flying hundreds of people into the city? It is estimated that in mid-air, more than half of them were shot to death by people as birds. Even if they landed safely, they would be surrounded and beaten to death. Unless, in this group of people, there is a Guo Daxia who can subdue the dragon and eighteen palms...

For the same reason, using a hot air balloon is not suitable. However, it is a good idea to use a hot air balloon to drop bombs. But Marin thought about it and gave up on this tempting plan. Europeans are too good at imitating each other. If you make a hot air balloon yourself, someone learns it, and throws bombs into your own palace, killing yourself or your family, it will be miserable.

Marin, who was full of thoughts, returned to the big tent with a tangled face, and listened to Schwartz's report on the battle of the previous month. When he heard that the Danish people who were driven by the mercenaries climbed the city wall and started to help the Danish army guard the city wall, Marin burst into laughter...

It is almost impossible to drive those people out to fill the moat. If you really expect them to use force against the Danish army, that is unlikely. Once they climbed up the city wall, those people would not be threatened by the guns and knives of those mercenaries. At this time, they are very easy to counterattack. Therefore, the previous practice of letting more than a thousand strong Danish men climb the wall is actually ridiculous and a farce.

However, if there are hundreds of his own people among the more than 1,000 Danish strong men who have climbed the wall... Marin suddenly has a brain hole again...

"It seems that this method is very feasible..." Marin's eyes lit up.

So, Marin and Schwartz and other men discussed this method...

"Master, it won't work. After those people climbed to the top of the city, most of them would immediately turn back and help defend the city. Our people climbed up with them, and it was easy to be betrayed by those real Danes. Because our people do not Know Danish! When you speak, you will be exposed..."

"That's right, if you want to open the city gate, you can only open the northeast city gate. However, you have to wait until midnight. In broad daylight, there are so many Danes in the city, under their watchful eyes, it is completely impossible to send People go to the northeast city gate to seize the city gate... and if you don't understand Danish, you will be caught in a few interrogations, and you won't be able to take the city gate in the middle of the night..." General Stade also opposed this plan. Because it's too easy to expose.

"If so, what if I let my subordinates learn Danish?"

"I'm afraid it's too late. Who can learn Danish in a short period of time? Moreover, it has to be the dialect of Zeeland. Once an abnormality is heard, it will die immediately." Hermann, the commander of the Lübeck mercenary army, also objected.

"Is that so..." Marin thought for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up again:

"What if we let the Danes do it?"

"Let the Danes do it? Will they be willing?" Several people present did not believe it.

"Hmph, that's not necessarily..." A dangerous light appeared on Marin's face.

"What if we threaten the lives of the Danish men's wives, children and parents?" Marin said grimly.

"This, it's too unruly..." Hamburg commander Weizmann said.

"It's just civilians. We're not targeting the nobles. Even if you kill those civilian women and children, it doesn't matter. You are knights. If you don't want to do this, I can let the infantry from civilians do it." Marin is not like in Copenhagen. The city delayed for too long, so he simply chose a vicious method.

"What if a commoner doesn't care about the lives of his parents, wife and children after he climbs to the top of the city?" Schwartz questioned. This situation, although rare, is not unique.

"Um... this... When you went to the Danish villages to catch the strong men, you sent your infantry soldiers to deliberately pretend to hurt their wives, children and parents. Those Danish men who are desperate to protect their parents, wives and children regardless of their own lives, are the ones we are looking for. Because they care about the lives of their parents, wives and children. As long as they capture their parents, wives and children and threaten their lives, they have to obey our instructions. As for those who abandon their wives, children and parents and only care about their own , do not be included in this program."

"Good idea!" Schwartz and others nodded.

"Everyone, this tactic is very similar to the 'Trojan Horse' tactic in Troy City in history! Let the Danes open the city gates by themselves, which is even smarter than the 'Trojan Horse' tactic!" Herman exclaimed in admiration.

"It's just a little vicious..." Weizmann whispered.

"Haha, then it's called a 'malicious Trojan horse plan'. As long as it succeeds, it doesn't matter what the process is. The sooner Copenhagen is laid, the sooner we can get the fruits of victory! Come on, for victory, cheers!"

"cheers!"

"cheers!"

"cheers!"

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