The Rise of the European Emperor

On the Danish side, after Prince Christian received the information from the south, he led an army of 20,000 people, and it took ten days to arrive outside the city of Ribe.

At this time, Woolf Esbrand had already brought 3,000 elites into the city and made preparations for defense. In fact, there were 4,000 elite soldiers and 2,000 or 3,000 strong civilians in the city of Ribe at this time. If all the city walls were pulled up, the Danish army would not even want to attack it in a short period of time.

However, in order not to frighten Prince Christian, Woolf Esbrand ordered that only the original thousand elite soldiers, wearing black cross vests on a white background, stand on the top of the city as the main force to resist the Danish attack.

The other 3,000 elite soldiers who were reinforced all changed into the clothes of the common people and looked like strong people. Sure enough, this gave Prince Christian an illusion that only 1,000 of the defenders on the top of the city were regular troops, and the rest were strong people. In fact, the defenders at the head of the city are all regular troops, and the strong people are all under the city as substitutes...

However, when the Danish army attacked the city, Woolf Esbrand only ordered 250 arquebuses to be used for resistance. For, according to the three-to-one ratio of spearmen to musketeers in the Marlin army, musketeers should make up a quarter of the regular army. On the bright side, there should be only 1,000 regular troops on the top of the city, and of course there should be only 250 arquebuses.

As for the 750 musketeers of the other 3,000 people, Woolf Esbrand simply did not let them go to the city wall. Instead, he selected 750 young hunters who were good at archery from the strong people to replace them. Use bows and arrows on the head to attack the enemy.

However, 250 arquebuses are not a lot. The Danish army is all spearmen, and there are no muskets to shoot at the defenders. Even with a small number of archers, the kills are limited.

You must know that during the defense of Vienna in 1529, the Austrian army used 72 arquebuses to stun the 200,000 Turkish army.

Now, there are 250 arquebuses on the top of the city. On the frontal battlefield, a charge may be able to disrupt the formation. However, with the city wall as a support, it is impossible to completely suppress the Danish army. It is still possible to suppress the Danish army.

After all, the Danish army is only 20,000 people, and it is impossible to bloom in all directions. Generally, it will choose to focus on a certain direction to seek a breakthrough. In this way, as long as 250 musketeers are concentrated in the direction of the main attack of the Danish army, the effect of suppressing the Danish army can be achieved.

Sure enough, when the Danish army attacked the northern city wall, 250 musketeers used a continuous hail of bullets to suppress the Danish offensive.

"The Danish army also needs to be equipped with muskets! What's the matter, this battle is really useless!" Prince Christian said angrily, jumping his feet after several attacks were defeated.

Before, he still looked down on the use of muskets. Because the reloading of the arquebus is too slow, as long as the cavalry charges, they can rush to the musketeer and chop and kill at will.

However, the arquebus was really outstanding in the battle of defending the city. After all, no matter how fast your cavalry is, you can't rush to the city wall. The musketeers on the top of the city have enough time to reload the ammunition, and there is no sense of time urgency. After all, after setting up the siege ladder and climbing the high city wall, the musketeers must have enough time to reload. Besides, the Musketeer has a spearman for cover...

Under the condition that their own safety is fully guaranteed, the arquebusiers, using 50-gram lead bullets, taught the Danish army how to behave...

In fact, at the same time, Frederick III, who was far under the city of Lübeck,

There is also a plan to equip a musket. However, Frederick III saw it more clearly - the arquebus was the most invincible when defending the city. On the frontal battlefield, it would be tragic if the cavalry rushed to the front. Of course, digging two trenches in front of the formation, as Marin did, and filling the trenches with pickets, would have kept the musketeers safe. However, in this way, the army is fixed and it is difficult to take advantage of the offensive.

Even in the classic battle in which Marin defeated Albrecht, Duke of Saxony, the reason why the Saxon army failed was more because the high platform and the flag of the Duke of Albrecht, where the Duke of Albrecht was located, happened to be captured by horses. The guns on Lin's battleship were overwhelmed. As a result, the Saxon army thought that the Duke of Albrecht was shot and killed, and with the loud rumors of Marin, there was chaos. So, in that war, the Saxon army lost more by luck.

But Frederick III, after seeing with his own eyes that the thousands of musketeers brought by Marin beat the Bersa coalition soldiers who were tempted to attack, had to admit that the muskets were too powerful in the defense of the city...

Therefore, Frederick III planned to form a small number of musketeers in the army of the Electoral State of Saxony after the war. However, it is mainly used to defend the city. In the head-to-head confrontation, the Saxons still believed in the heavy cavalry charge. Even if the heavy cavalry can't charge well, isn't there still a powerful Swiss spearman?

Although both of them remembered to be equipped with muskets, Frederick III had planned and planned arrangements, and Prince Christian, more, because of his angry words after being frustrated.

But Prince Christian was no fool. He had also heard of the English attacking when the siege of Dublin, Ireland, took advantage of Edward's musketeers to misfire on a rainy day. So, he was not in a hurry, and decided to wait for the rainy day to take it down.

In any case, in his opinion, there are only a thousand regular soldiers on the city head. If the arquebus misfired on a rainy day, the Danish army would launch a storm, and it would be impossible to take it down.

So, in the days that followed, he simply stood still. Then, in the main account, entertain a few lieutenants to drink. And Jim's current deputy, General Maxim, is one of them.

In order to get a chance to start, Jim followed General Maxim every day, flattering wildly, and finally got the opportunity to sneak into the main account and stand behind General Maxim to serve...

In a situation where several generals and Prince Christian were very drunk, Jim took the initiative to go up to pour drinks for Prince Christian and several lieutenants. While pouring the wine, Jim swiftly slid Cantrella into Prince Christian's glass.

Under normal circumstances, several people present may find it. However, everyone was so drunk and dim-eyed that no one noticed this. Then, Prince Christian unknowingly drank the poisoned drink...

Seeing that Prince Christian drank the highly poisonous "Cantrera" wine, Jim felt stable. Because the poison was still seven days away, Jim didn't rush to escape, but on the second day, he deliberately found a few colleagues of the same level as adjutants to drink together.

While drinking, Jim deliberately pretended to be drunk. Then, while "drunk", a few Swedish words came out of his mouth, which caught the attention of the adjutants of other generals at the same table...

The next night, Jim took a chance and ran away. Then, the news that he might be a Swedish spy also spread...

After leaving the Danish barracks, Jim rode all the way south to find Saqqara's army. Because according to the agreement, Saqqara is already in the nearby area. However, Saqqara has to wait for Prince Christian's poisoning, which leads to chaos in the Danish army, before launching an attack. In this way, it is much more stable... Jim rushed over to confirm with Saqqara the schedule of Prince Christian's poisoning...

However, what Jim didn't know was that on the night he poisoned, Prince Christian drank too much and finally vomited. Most of the "Cantrera" he drank was also spit out...