The Rise of the European Emperor

In the next few days, Marin's soldiers began to "disaster" the Dane village on Zealand Island. The soldiers who were sent out were all East Frisian veterans, and they were very particular about when they harmed the people of Denmark.

In fact, unlike the mercenaries in Lübeck and Hamburg, these East Frisian veterans don't really kill innocents. But they would test their reactions in front of the young Danish farmers, molesting their wives, beating their children and parents.

If the Danish peasant had chosen to be cowardly and not resist at all, then the East Frisian veteran would have chosen to beat the man and then rob him of his property.

However, if this man has a fierce personality and chooses to protect his family recklessly, then well, it's you... Then, this unlucky bastard will be captured and his family will be brought under control.

The serfs of this era, after all, few have the spirit of resistance. Therefore, after seven days in a row, the veterans only captured 200 young Danish serfs who were more protective of their families.

Then, Marin asked Schwartz to give the 200 young serfs simple combat training, and he also asked them to meet with their families frequently.

However, in order to deter the 200 Danish young men, according to the intelligence, Marin found some of the Danish young men's family members, including their parents, wives and children, who chose to go against the water and guard the wall with the Danish army after climbing the city wall, and pulled them under the city wall.

Then, some of the local youths who had taken refuge in the Danish army on the top of the city saw with stunned eyes that their families, from grandparents to infants, were all pulled under the city wall. Then, he was brutally executed by a group of executioners.

For a time, the screams of old and weak women and children resounded outside Copenhagen. On the spot, there were many local young men who climbed to the top of the city and took refuge in the Danish defenders, and collapsed on the wall. Because their family members were brutally murdered...

Everyone present was terrified. Before, several officers jokingly said that Marin's plan was a "vicious Trojan horse plan", but they did not expect that Marin was so vicious that even the elderly and children were not spared... You know, the people killed in the city today are all old people, women and children. Even the swaddling babies were poisoned.

Therefore, even as aggressors and battlefield veterans, many people in the coalition were frightened to the point of chilling...

Even Marin himself was frightened. Although, the decision was made by him. However, when more than 100 old and weak women and children were executed in public, and listening to their screams, Marin himself was frightened.

In fact, it is not the first time that Marin has done such a thing. Before, outside the city of Ribe in Jutland, Marin killed a group of noble families. However, this is the first time that Marin has killed civilians' families. The miserable howls of more than 100 old and weak women and children before they died left a psychological shadow on many people present. For a long time after that, many of those who visited the massacre often had nightmares.

However, the most frightened were the 200 Danish serfs who were chosen as "trojan horses". They witnessed the tragic death of more than 100 old and weak women and children, and some people fainted from fright on the spot. Some people are simply scared to pee.

What scares them even more is yet to come, Marin told them through an interpreter. If they are unwilling to help open the city gate in the middle of the night after they climbed the city wall, then their family members will also die tragically...

What Marin didn't expect was that the stimulus was probably too strong. Of the 200 Danish farmers, more than a dozen people went crazy.

Marin had planned to let the dozen or so crazy Danish farmers go, but unexpectedly, others began to imitate. So, Marin once again hardened his heart, and executed the dozen or so mad and later false mad people, as well as their families, in front of the remaining 170 people. ...

At this time, Marin was probably stimulated by blood,

Also became a little crazy. He frantically shouted to the remaining one hundred and seventy Danish youths:

"Either help me open the gates of Copenhagen, or watch your whole family die in front of you! If Copenhagen is captured and you are still alive, I will reward you with a manor and let you feel at ease as the owner. Even if you die in battle, Your family will also receive a large pension and be taken back to the country of East Friesland without worrying about future arrangements."

"However, if you dare to surrender to the Danish defenders, or leak the news, all your family members will be executed. You will also be killed when Copenhagen breaks down!"

Looking at Marin, whose eyes were glowing red, with a bit of madness, the more than 170 Danish serfs who were present seemed to see a demon coming from hell...

A few days later, Marin placed 50 cannons outside the city wall on the northeast side of Copenhagen, and fired several rounds at the city wall. Then, they cleaned up the defenders at the head of the city.

The whistling iron ball skipped over the city of Copenhagen and smashed the heads of the Danish defenders who dared to show their faces, or other parts of the upper body. For a time, blood spurted out, and the death was extremely miserable.

Then, the Danish defenders did not dare to take the lead. At least, when the coalition artillery cleared the city, no Danish defenders dared to take the lead.

And the 176 young Danish serfs, after 10 days of training, gradually became more courageous. Success or failure depends on their performance...

In order to attack the northeastern city wall, the coalition forces drove a total of 2,000 young Danish men as "cannon fodder" to climb the city wall. Then, in order to cover the 176 young Danish young men, Marin specially used a lot of money to coax 200 mercenaries from Lübeck and Hamburg, who were highly skilled in martial arts, to put on peasant clothes and mix with the 2,000 Danish serfs.

Unlike the 2,000 Danish farmers with hoes and sickles, these 200 mercenaries all wore one-handed swords. If you have sharp eyes, you can see through them at a glance and know that they are peasants in disguise and real soldiers.

In fact, Schwartz et al. objected to Marin's arrangement. They think that doing so will surely be discovered by the Danes. These 200 people, even if they climbed the wall, would be killed by the Danes.

However, Marin sent these 200 people to let them die, and then to cover the real killer move-the 176 Danish serfs...

Before, Schwartz sent the Danes as cannon fodder to climb the city wall, because a large number of Danish youth turned against the water, this tactic has been considered a failure. If it is, the Danes will definitely be suspicious of this tactic.

Therefore, Marin had previously killed some of the family members of the rebels in front of the young Danish men who were against the water. It seems that this is more like deterring the Danish youth who will climb the city wall next, and it is also a cover for this action.

In addition, the 200 mercenaries from Lübeck and Hamburg who were abandoned as children were actually the flaws that Marin deliberately let the Danes discover.

The Danes will definitely communicate with them when this new batch of young Danish men climbs to the top of the city. Those 200 selected mercenaries do not speak Danish at all. As long as they communicate, they will be exposed, and then they will be beaten to death by the Danish army...

However, the death of these 200 people will dispel the doubts of the Danes, and will think that Marin's trick has failed...

But in fact, the 200 mercenaries were all deliberately given to the Danes to kill by Marin. Those 176 young Danes who are regarded as their own by the Danes are the real killers...

Sure enough, after the fierce siege began, most of the more than 2,000 Danish young men who were forcibly driven out climbed to the top of the city. However, the Danes were not stupid, and began to communicate loudly with the "Danish youth" who climbed to the top of the city. Then, the 200 German mercenaries were exposed like this...

Among the 200 people, there were also quick-witted people who directly followed the ladder that they had just climbed up, and quickly climbed down, saving their lives. However, most of them were caught by the Danes, or killed directly...

"It turns out that the devil in Marin is fighting this ghost idea! It's a pity, I saw through it!" Conason, the general of the northeast city wall defender, said with a proud face. Then, he wrote this matter on the report and reported it to the headquarters.

From the Danes' point of view, Marin clearly wanted to use the 200 German mercenaries to infiltrate the young Danish men against the water, and then find an opportunity to control a section of the city wall and cover the follow-up troops to the city. Or, open the city gates.

However, after careful screening, those German mercenaries were found. And other young Danes who are against the water can prove that they are real Danes. Even in the Danish city, many people have acquaintances among them, and it is very convenient to prove their identity.

However, the Danes never imagined that among these "own people", there are spies of the enemy...

In the middle of the night, 150 surviving young Danish men who were threatened, tiptoely left the temporary camp at the foot of the city wall and came to the inner side of the northeast city gate...

Originally, 176 people climbed the city wall together, but 26 people fell directly from the city head because of an accident. Some fell to their death on the spot, while others were injured. Fortunately, there are 150 people who successfully climbed up.

In the evening, when arranging the camp, the 150 people also deliberately chose the open space near the northeast gate as the camp.

In the middle of the night, seeing that everyone fell asleep, these 150 people, from the edge of the camp, found some scrapped swords, guns and sticks, and hurriedly went to the city gate hole of the northeast city gate...

At this time, there were only dozens of Danish defenders in the city gate cave. Also, almost asleep...

Because of the outstanding performance of the Southwest Gate, these dozens of Danish soldiers guarding the Northeast cast iron gate are very confident in their own big iron gate. Therefore, in the middle of the night, most of them slept in the duty room in the city gate cave, instead of sending someone to watch the night in the city gate cave.

Therefore, when 150 young Danish young men arrived in the city gate cave, there was no one in the city gate cave...

It was also these Danish farmers who had little experience and didn’t know how to sneak up on the sergeant in the duty room in the city gate, but they used force together to remove the big iron bolt of the city gate. In the sound, the big iron door opened...

At this time, the scout lurking outside the city gate saw the gate open, and directly took out the clockwork musket that he was carrying with him. With a "bang", he fired a shot into the sky...

This shot was the signal for an attack. The cavalry team hiding 300 meters outside the city gate quickly began to accelerate and rushed towards the city gate...

At this time, the Danish defenders also discovered the terrible problem of the northeast gate being opened. The first person to react was the Danish sergeant sleeping in the duty room in the city gate cave. They shouted and dressed, took up their swords, and began to attack the 150 young Danish men who opened the city gates. The 150 Danish youths who opened the city gate were naturally not the opponents of these Danish sergeants because they had not received long-term martial arts training.

Seeing that 150 people were beaten and retreated by dozens of awakened Danish sergeants, they were about to lose control of the city gate hole, and the cavalry ambushed outside the city finally killed...

Hundreds of cavalry, roaring, rushed their horses into the city gate hole, directly knocking the Danish youth and the Danish sergeant who were blocked in the city gate hole, knocking them over, trampling and injuring many people on the spot. Of the 150 Danish youths who had opened the city gates, after fighting with the Danish soldiers and colliding with the warhorses, only a few hundred or so were left...

The cavalry then quickly dismounted and slashed dozens of Danish sergeants who were trying to retake the gate. After clearing the gate hole, the cavalry drove the surviving more than 100 Danish young men into the room used by the Danish sergeant at night. And they sent a dense formation to defend the gate of the city, waiting for the follow-up troops to come up...

The Danish soldier on duty at the top of the city also seems to have discovered the terrible fact that the northeast city gate has fallen. As a result, the Danish officers went crazy, mobilized more than 2,000 soldiers, desperately swooped on the city gate hole of the northeast city gate, tried to regain the city gate hole, and closed the big iron gate.

However, the East Frisian soldiers who guarded the gates of the city formed a dense battle formation, and stubbornly defended the gates of the city, never allowing the enemy to advance.

After a quarter of an hour of fierce fighting, after paying the cost of more than 40 casualties, these East Frisian cavalry finally waited for the infantry who ran up behind.

Then, the top one was replaced by a large shield soldier...

These warriors carrying huge shields unreasonably used their door-sized shields to slam the Danish soldiers. Because the large shields are covered with iron, the Danes' swords cannot cut those large shields at all.

In this way, under the guidance of the Great Shield Soldiers, the coalition forces slowly advanced and finally entered the city of Copenhagen. Next, is the brutal street fighting stage...