The Rise of the European Emperor

After controlling the sailors at both ends of Copenhagen Bay, Marin suddenly remembered that there were 80 Danish warships hidden in the middle part of the seemingly long and narrow Copenhagen Bay.

So, after the rest of the soldiers arrived after dawn, they immediately selected 2,000 soldiers who could swim to receive those warships.

Because the sailors all disembarked and went to defend both sides of Copenhagen Bay. At this time, only a small number of old sailors took care of the 80 warships. In the face of the 2000 coalition soldiers who came aggressively, where are those old sailors who are the opponents? Therefore, most of the old sailors who watched the ship chose to surrender. There are also strong-willed people who choose to resist, but in the face of the huge difference in strength, those who resist are either killed or tied. However, the sailors on three of the ships could not stand it, so they poured all the oil in the ship into the cabin before the coalition soldiers had boarded the ship under their watch, and then set the ship on fire... ... After setting the boat on fire, these sailors jumped off the boat one after another and ran away...

Seeing the three warships blazing, the coalition soldiers who were in charge of receiving the warships were terrified. Because, if the warship is on fire, if the control is not good, it will burn the nearby warships.

Fortunately, these warships moored in the harbor were all anchored and would not move around. The commander who came to receive the ship quickly reported the situation to the commanders of Marin and Lübeck and Hamburg.

As for the issue of the warship being burned, Marin was naturally not in a hurry. But Lübeck and the Hamburgers are in a hurry - that's their trophy!

So, two officers Hermann and Weizmann, with a large number of men, carrying sandbags, went to put out the fire...

However, it was too late, and the three ships still burned. Fortunately, when the wreckage of the three ships caught on fire was about to drift elsewhere, Hermann and Weizmann sent a lot of spearmen to stand guard on those intact warships. As soon as he saw the wreckage floating over, he immediately held it with a spear several meters long. At the same time, the two also signaled the combined fleet on the sea to send sailors over...

After working for a long time, the combined fleet on the sea finally sent hundreds of sailors to drive away the remaining 77 warships...

Marin expressed a moment of silence to the Danes in his heart. Seeing the laughing faces of Lübeck and Hamburg, the Danes' navy would definitely be difficult to recover within ten years.

According to the originally agreed plan, there were still about 8,000 prisoners of war left among the 9,000 Danish sailors (the rest died in the chaos of the night raid, and most of them died by their own hands), and Marin was quickly handed over to Lübeck and Hamburg. people. That way, Marin doesn't have to pay for these guys anymore.

According to the plan agreed by everyone before, these 8,000 Danish sailors, including the 10,000 sailors captured in the previous sea war, will be forcibly detained by the Hanseatic cities of Lübeck and Hamburg for 10 years in the name of "employment".

However, Lübeck and Hamburg would not let these Danish sailors control the ships in case they defected. In fact, because Lübeck and Hamburg are planning to build a Grand Canal connecting the two cities, these 18,000 Danish sailors will probably become the coolies digging the canal in the next ten years...

The 8,000 Danish prisoners were taken over by Lübeck and Hamburgers using the sailors on board. Then, all the 27,000 ground troops under the command of Marin released their hands. Then, under the command of Marin, the army quickly surrounded the city of Copenhagen.

The city of Copenhagen is not the city of Copenhagen in the future. The city of Copenhagen at this time is only a small part of the city of Copenhagen in the future. The later Copenhagen is a metropolis with a total population of 2.03 million and a population of 600,000 in the city center alone.

At this time, Copenhagen was just a small town with a population of less than 20,000. Of course, this smallness is relative. It is "smaller" when compared with the cities of later generations in China. In this era of Europe,

It is already a big city. At least, in the Nordic region, there is no bigger city than Copenhagen.

Now, the city of Copenhagen has only a small area in the middle section between the later Copenhagen Swan Lake and the long and narrow Copenhagen Bay.

Because the southeast and northwest are long strips of water, the current city of Copenhagen is actually surrounded by water on both sides, and only the southwest and northeast are land.

Therefore, if the Marin army wants to attack, it can only surround Copenhagen from the southwest and northeast...

But when the army arrived at the city of Copenhagen, Marin was surprised to find that the southwest gate of Copenhagen seemed to be made of iron...

Sure enough, after more than a dozen 18-pound short-barreled Karen heavy artillery opened fire, the shells landed on the city gate of Copenhagen, making a very crisp metal collision sound...

"Uh...Is my tactics cracked?" Marin was suddenly at a loss...

These days, by bombarding the city gates with artillery, and then sending demolition teams to completely destroy the city gates, Marin has easily captured many cities. Therefore, he inevitably became complacent, thinking that the siege battle was nothing more than that.

When he encountered the steel city gate for the first time, Marin was also at a loss...

To be honest, Marin was really reluctant to fight a regular siege battle. Because, if you fight like that, the casualties will be too high, and it will simply take lives. Therefore, he used his brains and invented a method of blasting the city gate first, and then burying it in a powder keg to blow up the city gate.

However, when the city gate became immobile, the new tactics invented by Marin automatically became invalid...

Through the binoculars, Marin could clearly see that even if an 18-pound shell hit it, the heavy cast-iron city gate would remain motionless and unaffected. Therefore, if you want to blast the steel city gate, there is no actual point of bombarding the city wall.

Therefore, after bombarding for a long time, Marin decisively ordered to stop this senseless shelling, first withdraw to the main camp, and think of other ways...

Seeing the retreat of the coalition forces, the Danish soldiers on the top of the city gave out cheers of victory:

"Oh-oh-the enemy retreats!"

"Long live the king, the steel gate really makes the evil earl Malin helpless!" Well, Malin won the "honorable" title of "evil earl" in Denmark because of his attack on Denmark...

In the big tent, Marin ignored the commanders of Lübeck and Hamburg, and ignored his subordinates. Instead, he held his cheeks there, thinking hard, looking for the weakness of the steel gate...

"Should we use the method of digging tunnels to blow up the city wall?" Marin thought.

But in the end, he also rejected the idea. Because the method of digging tunnels to blow up the city wall is too terrifying. Once this method is used, the city wall will lose any meaning of existence.

Although Marin can use this method to blow up other people's city walls, others can also use this method to blow up Aurich's city walls. If the enemy forces attacked the city of Orihi when Marin was out on the expedition, and used the method of digging tunnels to blow up the city wall, they captured Orihi and hurt Angela and Caesar, then Marin would collapse...

Therefore, Marin can't use this uncontrollable method that can hurt others as well as himself. Because this method is too simple, it is easy for others to imitate. And bombarding the city wall with heavy artillery, ordinary people can't imitate it. Because other countries do not have the technology of casting heavy artillery with iron at all, only the technology of casting guns with bronze. If they imitated themselves and cast so many heavy guns out of bronze, their court would go bankrupt...

Of course, what Marin didn't know was that after the war, Spain and Portugal, two countries that had mastered the eastern route, started a trade boom to buy cheap copper in India...