In the past few days, the sailors of the baggage troops under Marin were busy lifting artillery from the warships, and the workload was very high. Of course, Marin was not idle either. He drove the Danish serfs on the island of Zeland, which the soldiers captured, to build very tall earth slopes to observe the situation in the city.
The earth slope is about 2,000 meters away from the city wall of Copenhagen. No Danes' long-range weapon can cause damage to the high earth slope 2 kilometers away. Its height is also 20 meters, which is twice the height of the city wall of Denmark.
Therefore, Marin was relieved to take the elite troops of Saul and other reconnaissance units to climb the high slope and use a telescope to observe the situation in the city...
What shocked Marin was that the southwest wall that the coalition forces attacked was thickened by the Danes. Through the telescope, Marin could clearly see that all the houses near the southwest wall of Copenhagen were demolished by the Danes. The bricks and stones of those houses were all used to thicken the walls. The current southwest wall of Copenhagen is about twice the thickness of the previous one. No wonder Schwartz made the artillery bombardment for more than a month. What's more, once the city wall is damaged, the Danes would send people to reinforce it, which is very difficult to deal with.
Marin suddenly hesitated. He was not sure whether he could open the city wall with 300 red cannons. The Danes were too cruel. In order to strengthen the city wall, they would demolish all the houses. Unless these 300 cannons could open the city wall in a short time, the Danes would definitely repair the city wall.
If Marin had enough gunpowder, he could naturally rush it hard. However, his gunpowder was too difficult to get. The main gunpowder in Marin's hand came from 400 tons of gunpowder made of 300 tons of saltpeter purchased by Columbus from India. The other 100 tons of gunpowder were the ones that Marin sent merchants to travel all over Europe and finally got it. For this reason, there is a shortage of gunpowder in the European market.
In other words, once Marin wipes out all this batch of gunpowder, he will not be able to receive the gunpowder supplement for a long time. If the gunpowder supplement is gone, the cannons on Marin's warship and musketeers will become decorations.
Marin didn't care much about the cannons on the warships. But if the musketeers all became decorations, it would be deadly...
You should know that the Spanish phalanx used by the soldiers of Marin is the most important thing to rely on the firepower of the mesh gunners to strike the charge of the plate armor knights. If it is not the power of the Mushket musket, Marin's phalanx will be vulnerable under the charge of the plate armor knights.
Therefore, even if Marin conquered Copenhagen and obtained the territory he wanted, he would become a toothless tiger in the future and enter a period of weakness.
At that time, if a strong enemy attacks, I will not be able to use the corresponding power to resist...
The most direct way to replenish gunpowder is to shoot the fleet to travel to India and import hundreds of tons of saltpeter back. However, even if the fleet is familiar with the Indian route, it will take more than half a year to transport saltpeter back. If the East Friesland State was attacked during this period, it would be over.
So Marin gave up the plan to bombard the Danish walls with great force, but instead planned to think of another way. However, the artillery bombarded the walls with no choice.
In order to play with the Danes, Marin sent people to transfer artillery to the northeastern region of Copenhagen and made a plan to break the northeastern city wall. In this way, the Danes took action immediately and carried out "demolition" again, crazily demolishing the houses at the foot of the northeastern city wall, and using bricks and stones of the houses to thicken the northeastern city wall.
As for the northwest and southeast directions, there is no possibility of artillery arrangement because of the water adjacent to it. It is not that it cannot bombard the city walls in these two directions. But because these two walls are adjacent to it, even if the city walls are blasted open, the army will not be able to pour in from the gap on a large scale. Because the soldiers will not "float on the water with light skills."
Therefore, the city walls that can be used for shelling and influx are only in the southwest and east directions. As for the iron gate, no one wants to do it. The iron ball will be slightly deformed at most, but it will not be damaged. It is difficult to blow up the thick iron gate with a gunpowder barrel.
However, when observing with a telescope on the high slope, Marin discovered a strange phenomenon - that is, behind the cast iron gate, the Danes seemed to be blocked...
Generally speaking, when defending the city, when defending the city, a variety of heavy objects such as bricks and logs are usually used to tightly hold the back of the city gate to prevent the city gate from being knocked open by the enemy's squats. There are so many things behind it, and it is difficult for the squats to break open the city gate. Because the impact of the squats hitting the city gate is absorbed by the bricks and logs that are pushing against the city gate.
However, on a high slope in the southwest direction that was twice as tall as the Copenhagen wall, Marin, who observed with a telescope, found that there seemed to be no debris in the gate hole in the northeast direction of Copenhagen...
Marin saw that although the Danes were demolishing houses and thickening the city walls in the northeast, they did not accumulate debris into the city gate hole...
"Is it possible that the Danes are so confident in the city gate?" Marin said in surprise.
Marin was really right. After previous practical tests, the cast iron city gate in the southwest and Marin's artillery had no way to do it. So the Danes became confident. In addition, the artillery changed to bomb the city wall, and the Danes did not pay attention to pile up debris behind the city gate. However, the city gate in the southwest city wall was first attacked, but a lot of debris was piled up behind it. As for the city gate in the northeast, because it was not attacked before, and later it was discovered that the enemy would not bombard the iron city gate, so they simply stopped piled up debris in the city gate hole.
"If someone could get into the city, they would have opened the big iron gate in the northeast..." Marin murmured.
But, how easy is this? Standing on the high slope, Marin suddenly remembered the plot of N Mongolian warriors flying into Samarkand when Guo Jing helped Mongolia attack Samarkand when he attacked Samarkand with his "big wings"...
However, after careful consideration, Marin denied this method. Because the plot was purely a plot produced by Lao Jin YY, it is difficult to tell whether it is useful. Moreover, even if it is useful, the premise is that there must be mountains nearby to glide. However, near Copenhagen City, there are either seas or plains, and there are no mountains for gliding at all.
Even if there are mountains nearby, Marin will not be able to make gliders... You know, gliders are also very scientific and will not be able to transform the tent like in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". If the two sides of the creation are unbalanced, they will be unbalanced in the sky and fall and die.
Even if the glider is successfully created, what's the use of flying hundreds of people into the city? I guess most of them will be shot to death by people as birds in mid-air. Even if they land safely, they will be beaten to death. Unless there is a Guo Daxia who can subdue the eighteen dragons among this group...
By the same token, using hot air balloons is not suitable. However, using hot air balloons to throw bombs is a good idea. But after thinking about it, Marin gave up this attractive plan. Europeans have a strong ability to imitate each other. If they make a hot air balloon, learn it, throw bombs into their palace, and blow themselves or their family to death, it would be miserable.
Marin, full of worries, returned to the tent with a tangle with a confusion and listened to Schwarz's report on the battle situation for more than a month. When he heard that the Danish people driven by the mercenaries climbed up the city wall, he began to help the Danish army guard the city wall, Marin laughed in silence...
It is almost the same to drive away those people to fill the moat. It is unlikely to expect them to use force against the Danish army. Once they climb up the city wall, those people will not be threatened by the swords and guns of the mercenaries. At this time, they are very likely to fight back. Therefore, the previous practice of letting more than a thousand Danish men climb onto the wall was actually ridiculous and a farce.
However, if there were hundreds of their own people mixed in the more than a thousand Danish men climbing up the wall... Marin suddenly had a brainstorm again...
"It seems that this method is very feasible..." Marin's eyes lit up.
So, Marin and Schwartz and others discussed this approach...
"Young master, it won't work. After those people climbed up to the city, they would probably immediately turn against each other and help defend the city. Our people would climb up with them and would be easily betrayed by the real Danes. Because our people don't understand Danish! Once they speak, they will be exposed..."
"That's right, if you want to open the city gate, you can only open the northeast gate. However, you have to wait until midnight. In broad daylight, there are so many Danes in the city, under their gaze, and they cannot send people to the northeast gate to seize the city gate... If you don't understand Danish, you will be exposed after a few sentences of investigation, and you can't hold on to the middle of the night to capture the city gate..." General Stad also opposed this plan because it was too easy to be exposed.
"What if I let my subordinates learn Danish?"
"I'm afraid there is no time. Who can learn Danish in a short time? Moreover, if it is the dialect on the island of Zeland, it will be dead." Lubeck's mercenary commander Hermann also opposed it.
"That's it..." Marin held his chin and thought for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up again:
"What if we let Danish men do this?"
"Let the Danes do it? Will they agree?" No one present believed it.
"Hmph, that's not necessarily..." A dangerous light appeared on Marlin's face.
"What if we threaten the lives of the wives, children and parents of those Danish men?" Marin said gloomyly.
"This is too unruly..." Hamburg commander Weitzmann said.
"It's just civilians. We are not targeting nobles. Even if we kill those civilian women and children, it's nothing. You are knights. If you refuse to do this, I can let those civilian infantrymen do it." Marin didn't delay too long in the city of Copenhagen, so he simply chose a vicious way.
"What if any civilian doesn't care about the life or death of his parents, wife and children after climbing to the top of the city?" Schwartz questioned. Although this situation is rare, it is not without it.
"Well... this... When you went to a Danish village to catch strong men, you sent your infantry to deliberately pretend to hurt their wives, children and parents. Those Danish men who ignored their lives and tried to protect their parents, wives and children are the people we are looking for. Because they care about the life and death of their parents, wives and children. As long as they catch their parents, wives and children and threaten their lives, they have to obey our instructions. As for those who abandon their wives, children and parents, and only care about themselves, don't include them in this plan."
"Good idea!" Schwartz and others nodded.
"Everyone, this strategy is very similar to the Trojan plan in Trojan City in history! Letting the Danes open the city gate by themselves is even more clever than the Trojan plan!" Hermann said in admiration.
"It's just a little vicious..." Weizmann said in a low voice.
"Haha, that's called the 'vicious Trojan Scheme'. As long as it succeeds, no matter what the process is. We can capture Copenhagen early, so we can get the fruits of victory sooner! Come, toast for victory!"
"cheers!"
"cheers!"
"cheers!"
Chapter completed!