After returning the horses borrowed from the Teutonic Kingdom, Marin boarded the ships back to the front line of Copenhagen. In addition to the 200 subordinates he brought before, there were 100 Eastern European Mongolian horses given by Mongogirekhan.
In order to load these horses, Chief Philip also specially allocated a large number of Kirk sailboats from the port of Cornisburg to help transport the horses.
However, Philip didn't understand why Marin fell in love with these short Eastern European Mongolian horses. Although there were many Mongolian horses with heights exceeding the original version, with an average shoulder height of more than 1.5 meters, which was considered a medium-sized horse, such horses were still unpopular in Europe.
Because, the horses riding by the popular plate armor knights are mostly about 1.6 meters tall and 1.7 meters tall. Eastern European Mongolian horses with head and shoulder heights of 1.5 meters tall are considered short in front of local European horses, and it is difficult to carry the knights wearing full set of plate armor.
Marin didn't say anything, after all, his vision was completely different from that of people in this era. Although the Eastern European Mongolian horse is short, it is very suitable for light cavalry riding and is also very suitable for rushing to transfer to passengers. Because, without carrying people, it does not need to eat feed, and eating some grass is enough. Even if it is used to transfer, after carrying people, feeding some soybeans or oats is enough.
If you are rushing long distances and rushing for a long distance, this kind of Mongolian horse is much stronger than European horses. The characteristic of European horses is that they are strong and explosive, but they have poor endurance. The plate-armored knight rides European horses and charges for two rounds. However, Eastern European Mongolian horses can eat for a long time. Although the short-term explosive power cannot catch up with those tall horses. However, relying on low cost and quantity advantages, coupled with the ability to run long distances, it is enough to become an enemy's nightmare.
The Grand Duchy of Moscow, which had just become strong, suffered a lot. Faced with tens of thousands of Crimean Tatar cavalry, the Moscows could not stand it, so they had to build a series of bunkers on the southern border, which were almost connected together and became the Russian version of the Great Wall.
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Today, the southern waters of the Baltic Sea have become the world of the coalition navy. Marin's fleet has been traveling unimpeded, and even a Danish merchant ship has not been seen.
Naturally he didn't know that in the past month he went to Crimea, the joint fleet had basically snatched all the Danish merchant ships. The total number of Danish merchant ships was as high as 500. The only remaining merchant ships in Denmark were so scared that they hid in Oslo, the Norwegian Kingdom where the Prince of Denmark was regent, and they went to take refuge and no longer showed up. So, at this moment, no Danish ship appeared on the Baltic Sea. As long as they dared to appear, they would be snatched by the warships sent by the joint fleet to cruise, and they would be accompanied by the people and ships...
When Marin rushed back to Copenhagen, he found that the coalition forces had not yet captured Copenhagen. He came to the command center to learn about the battle situation over the past month.
It turned out that over the past month, Schwartz not only continued to bombard the Danish city walls with artillery, but also used troops to carry out many powerful attacks, but none of them were captured.
Fortunately, Schwartz was not stupid. When he attacked, he let Lubeck and Hamburg's mercenaries take the lead. Therefore, although there were casualties, most of them were Lubeck and Hamburg's mercenaries.
However, Lübeck and Hamburg's mercenaries were not fools. After attacking twice, these mercenaries discovered that Denmark had used many Min Zhuang to participate in defending the city. Even in the past month, more than a dozen short-barreled Karen cannons destroyed a certain section of the city wall, the Danes would organize Min Zhuang to repair and strengthen it overnight.
So, these vulgar old mercenaries went directly around Copenhagen to capture Danish men, clamped their swords around their necks, and asked them to take the hoe and climb the city walls.
The defenders of Copenhagen didn't know that they thought these Danish farmers were helping the enemy attack the city. So they used a large number of bows and arrows and stones to attack these Danish farmers who were forced to climb the city walls.
Schwartz had no objection to the mercenaries of Lubeck and Hamburg. At least, this could consume the Danes' arrows and stones.
But the consequence was that the Danes around Copenhagen hated Lübeck and Hamburg's mercenaries very much. Because the Danish farmers who were forced to climb the city walls killed and injured more than 2,000 people...
However, to the surprise of the Danish army, some Danish farmers climbed the city wall with difficulty and did not attack the Danish defenders, but instead asked to join the Danish army and jointly defend the city wall...
Then, the Danes learned that the enemy was driving their own peasants to attack the city, and no longer killed the Danish farmers who climbed the city wall, but directly accepted them. Although the farmers were forced to climb the city wall, they were willing to immediately help the Danish army and fight the coalition's attack together...
After Marin learned about it, he did not blame Schwartz, but asked about the shelling effect of artillery on the city wall.
"Master, I used a total of more than a dozen short-barrel cannons from the ship and unloaded 10 long-barrel cannons to bombard the city wall together. The effect is average, because we destroyed the city wall in time, the Danes would take advantage of the night to send masons to repair the damaged part of the city wall and strengthen it."
"In other words, our artillery will still cause damage to the city walls, right?"
"Yes!"
"I understand, please help me convey an order. Order the East Friesian fleet to dismantle all the 18-pound naval guns on the ship and send them to the front of the formation..."
"Ah? What do you mean?" Schwartz was a little surprised.
"Since more than twenty cannons can only damage the city wall, then I will remove all 600 18-pound long-barrel cannons on the ship and bomb together! You must smash the city wall!"
"But... this is not very good... Master, so many heavy artillery will scare allies..." Schwartz reminded Marin that at the beginning, they said to their allies that there were only more than 300 heavy artillery pieces. It would be too scary to pull out all 600 heavy artillery pieces.
"Then... just pull 300 doors for me! 300 red cannons are enough to smash the city wall..." After speaking, Marin said to himself.
Next, the coalition troops began a vigorous artillery transportation process. The 18-pound cannon was very heavy, almost 1.8 tons. This is the weight-reduced version, the old version weighs 2 tons.
Such heavy artillery is also difficult to transport. Therefore, it takes a lot of manpower to transport the artillery from the ship, and even a moving pulley is required.
After getting ashore, we also need to find a large cart that can carry the heavy cannon body. We work together to push the cannon under the city of Copenhagen, lift it down, arrange it, and aim it at the city wall...
In this way, in the following days, under the command of Marin, the coalition forces suspended the offensive and focused on transporting artillery...
Marin calculated that 300 red cannons would cost 1,800 pounds of gunpowder (the ratio of gunpowder to shells is 1 to 3, which is the maximum charge, but the siege must use the maximum charge). This time, Marin only brought 400 tons of gunpowder made of saltpeter purchased by India and 100 tons of gunpowder purchased from various countries. Moreover, in the past, naval and land battles (infantry artillery and clamping guns), about 180 tons of gunpowder were used. That is to say, now there is only 320 tons of gunpowder remaining. In other words, it is only enough for 300 red cannons to fire 400 times.
However, in addition to the use of gunpowder on the warships, the musketeers on the infantry also need a lot of gunpowder. Therefore, these 300 18-pound long-barrel cannons cannot be wiped out. Therefore, Marin decided to stop the shelling of the short-barrel 18-pound Karen cannon, save the gunpowder, and specifically supply the 300 long-barrel heavy cannons used to bombard the city walls. Moreover, these long-barrel cannons cannons up to 200 times. If the Copenhagen walls are not broken, there will be no artillery.
Considering that the Danes would repair the city walls in the middle of the night, Marin decided that this shelling would not stop in the middle of the night, and would not give the Danes the opportunity to repair the city walls.
Chapter completed!