The Rise of the European Emperor

If you want to win the Dittmarschen area, you must face 1,000 well-trained militiamen and about 3,000 people in the Dittmarschen area.

If it is a face-to-face confrontation, the 4,000 militiamen on the opposite side are definitely not the opponents of Marin's army. However, Marin is also worried that the other party will use old methods, such as building a dam, and then bursting the embankment and releasing water to drown his army.

Therefore, before marching into Dittmarschen, Marin asked Sauer to scatter the reconnaissance troops, focusing on reconnaissance of the rivers and dams in the Dittmarschen area, so that his army would not repeat the mistakes of the Danish army.

Then, Marin began to gather a large army, preparing to march into Hyde, the capital of the Dietmarschen region, striving for a quick advance and encircling Hyde City in the shortest possible time.

With the in-depth investigation of Sauer's scouts, Marin unexpectedly discovered that the main ethnic group in the Ditmarschen area turned out to be Frisian...

The Frisians are widely distributed in the German North Sea, from the Dutch province of Friesland to the west coast of Denmark.

For example, the western coastal areas of the Principality of Schleswig are dominated by Frisian fishermen. Unexpectedly, the Dietmarschen area in the south is also dominated by Frisians.

In fact, in this era, not only the coastal areas of West Frisian and East Frisian regions were dominated by Frisians. The North Sea coasts of Oldenburg, the Archbishopric of Bremen, the Principality of Holstein and the Principality of Schleswig are dominated by Frisians.

Even the Anglo-Saxons who moved to England were mixed with a large number of Frisians. Or, it can be said that the later Frisians were, after all, the group of people left behind by the Anglo-Saxons who moved to England...

So, in the Middle Ages, English and Frisian were so similar. Even between the two, it is completely possible to communicate. It's just that the two are written in completely different ways. Frisian is written in German, while English is written in English. The difference between the two is somewhat similar to the script of Inner Mongolia and Inner Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also uses traditional Mongolian script, while Outer Mongolia, because of Maozi colonization, uses very funny Slavic script. However, people from Inner and Outer Mongolia can directly communicate verbally with language, but they cannot communicate with each other in words...

Marin has always claimed to be the co-owner of the Frisian people, and most of these Frisian people are familiar with water, good at fishing, and are a very good source of sailors. According to the intelligence, there are more than 20,000 people in the Dittmarschen area, most of them are Frisian.

Therefore, in any case, Marin is to take Dittmarschen. Not to mention its excellent geographical location, the 20,000 Frisians alone are enough to make Marin's heart move.

In fact, another piece of intelligence shows that the reason why the Dietmarschen region was able to resist Denmark and not be annexed before, Lübeck's support for it was very important.

Whenever the Danish army gathers and wants to attack Dietmarschen, the Lübeck people will get information from Copenhagen early, and then quickly send them to the Dietmarschen area. When the Danish army arrived, the Frisians in the Dittmarschen area were already on guard.

The Battle of Hemmingstedt that broke out before was that after the Dietmarschen got the intelligence of the Danish army's attack, commander Woolf Esbrand made a plan to flood the Danish army.

To this end, the Dittmarschen army voluntarily abandoned the capital Hyde and retreated to the higher village of Hemmingstedt. Then, it attracted the siege of the Danish army, and then opened the gate to release the water, drowning the countless Danish army...

However, now that Lübeck is an ally of Marin, naturally he will no longer govern Dietmarschen's own combat intentions. Moreover, Marin's army of 20,000 people is now retreating and has not been disbanded. At this time, when they attacked Ditmarschen, they did not need to spend time to mobilize, and they could drive in directly.

After Sauer's reconnaissance team found out the situation in the Dittmarschen area,

Marin did not care to appease the disfavored nobles who were about to be sent to Las Vegas City, which did not yet exist. After leaving 5,000 men and horses to guard the Principality of Schleswig, he led an army of 15,000 troops to investigate according to Sauer's scouts. Good road, go straight to the Dittmarschen area.

First of all, Marin took the army and crossed the pontoon prepared by the scout troop, and crossed the Eide River, the natural dividing line between the Principality of Holstein and the Principality of Schleswig. Then, the army marched down south in a mighty manner, heading towards Hyde, the capital of the Dietmarschen region.

In order to prevent the enemy's old trick from repeating itself, Marin let 1,000 lancers go first, cut off the road from Hyde to the village of Heimingstedt in the south, and patrolled the nearby river to prevent the enemy from "flooding the Seventh Army". .

The 14,000 people in the main force, with a lot of artillery, artillery shells and food baggage, rushed towards Hyde City in a hurry...

In Hyde, the capital of Dithmarschen, an officer hurriedly rushed into the city and ran towards the city hall. Then, regardless of the sweat, he rushed directly into the office of ruling Woolf Esbrand:

"Report, Your Excellency, the army of East Frisian Counties of about 10,000 people has invaded Dietmarschen!"

"What? More than 10,000 people? Why isn't there any news in advance?" Woolf Esbrand, the governor of the Dietmarschen Peasant Republic, was also a little panicked. Usually, people from Lübeck would warn before Dittmarschen was attacked. However, this time, the Lübeck people did not come to warn. Unprepared, the enemy suddenly came with an army of 10,000 people, which made the so-called "resourceful" Woolf Esbrand panic a little.

"It's not very clear. It is said that the East Frisian country is allied with Hamburg and Lübeck. The Lübeck people are now allies of East Friesland, so they did not warn us."

"It doesn't matter, you go and call General Anriel to come over and ask him to issue a mobilization order to recruit strong men from all over the country to assist in the defense. Then, find an opportunity to retreat to Hemingstedt Village..." Woolf Esplan Germany plans to repeat the old trick and drown the enemy with flooding...

"I'm afraid it won't work, Your Excellency. When I came, the enemy dispatched a thousand cavalry, one person and two horses, to control the main road outside Hyde City. Moreover, according to my observation, those cavalry are not ordinary. Light cavalry, but heavy armored knights in armor and strong martial arts... If our army leaves the city, the 1,000 cavalry alone can easily destroy us... Before, I had to enter the city from the west of the city. The south of the city is now under the control of the 1,000 enemy cavalry..." the officer said in a dejected tone.

When Woolf Esbrand heard this very bad news, he was also depressed. However, he quickly made a decision:

"Never mind, since flooding cannot be achieved, then please go to the towns and villages west of Hyde, and ask them to send more militiamen to help defend Hyde. By the way, let them ride over, don't delay on the way. When the main force of the enemy arrives, we may not be able to connect to the reinforcements..."

"If you can't beat..."

"No ifs! Even if we can't fight, we have to fight. Of course, we can negotiate with the enemy. But first, we must fight a good fight. That way, even if we negotiate, we can take the initiative..."

"Understood..." The officer quickly left to carry out the order.

As for Woolf Esbrand, he sat at the table with a sad face, thinking about countermeasures. For Marin, Woolf Esbrand is also familiar. Back then, when Denmark helped the Earl of Oldenburg to force Marin to cede land and pay indemnity, Woolf Esbrand even thought of forming an alliance with Marin. Because, he has long inquired and learned that Marin is a military wizard with strong ability to train and command troops. But what he didn't expect was that in a blink of an eye, Marin not only avenged Denmark, but also went directly to Copenhagen.

Obviously, the combat effectiveness of Marin's army was unbelievably high. At least, beat the Danish army to the point of crying. Originally, Woolf Esbrand was happy that Denmark was unlucky. However, before he was happy for a long time, the East Frisian army turned to deal with Dietmarschen, which caught Woolf Esbrand by surprise...

What made Woolf Esbrand even more helpless was that the other party seemed to be guarding against a repeat of his old trick. Using flooding, he had already dispatched cavalry to block the road to the upper reaches of the eastern river. Esbrand's full of flooding tactics have all lost their usefulness...

Speaking of which, Woolf Esbrand can be regarded as the "Zhuge Kongming" of Europe. To be able to use 1,000 militiamen to defeat the 10,000-strong Danish army is definitely enough to go down in history.

It is a pity that, without the miraculous plan of flooding, one thousand militiamen were at a loss against the East Frisian army that had just defeated Denmark, and even the resourceful Woolf Esbrand was a little helpless. After all, the difference in strength is simply too great. Not to mention anything else, if there is no protection of the city wall, the 1,000 lancers in the east and south of the city alone can hang the 1,000 militiamen in Hyde City a hundred times a hundred times, not to mention the main force of 10,000. What an army...