Seeing that the city gate was broken, the Italian mercenaries, who were already trapped, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and lost the courage to continue to resist. As a result, many Italian mercenaries put down their weapons one after another.

After putting down the weapons, these Italian mercenaries did not kneel down and surrender, but lie down on the ground and sleep...

The soldiers of the Eight-National Princes coalition looked at the Italian mercenaries who had dropped their weapons and snored on the ground, and didn't know what to do for a moment.

Fortunately, the experienced commanders reacted. Under the command of these experienced commanders, the soldiers of the Eight-National Princes coalition first confiscated the weapons thrown from the ground by the surrendered Italian mercenaries. Then, they carried the Italian mercenaries who were sleeping in the middle of the road and blocked the road to the side of the road. Then, the army was able to continue moving forward. Of course, they were still subject to a lot of resistance.

Later, Foster, an officer from Liperber who knew Italian, suddenly became happy and shouted in Italian:

"The surrender can sleep now!"

Then, many Italian mercenaries who were still resisting were completely defeated...

"Sleep...Sleep...Sleep..." These words suddenly hovered in the minds of Italian mercenaries and could not be removed...

Then, many Italian mercenaries threw down their weapons, picked up the quilt beside them and lay down to sleep, and soon started to snore.

"Don't sleep in the middle of the road, go to the side of the road!" Foster then shouted in Italian.

Then, the sleepy Italian mercenaries followed suit, threw away their weapons, and went to bed directly on the roadside to hit the ground and fell asleep. Moreover, they were sleeping very hard, and the noise around them could not affect them at all.

The senior generals of the coalition forces saw this trick very well, so they let more mercenaries who knew Italian and persuaded the Italian mercenaries who were still resisting to put down their weapons and sleep...

Then, many Italian mercenaries who were so sleepy that they put down their weapons and went to bed directly on the floor.

Only the highest leader of the 10,000 Italian mercenaries, Pargani, led 500 subordinates to guard the Oldenburg Cathedral and refused to surrender. Because of his fear of the church, the soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance did not dare to attack the church.

As a result, Charles Earl of Gelden, who had already entered the city, directly asked all the Italian-speaking mercenaries to run to the door of the Oldenburg Church and persuaded him in Italian:

"Sleep! Go to bed! You are sleepy, it's time to go to bed..."

Some people even sang lullabies in Italian...

In this way, Pargani's 500 loyal subordinates were persuaded to sleep for half of them. The remaining hundreds of subordinates could not stop the hundreds of knights rushing in with a full set of plate armor - they were wearing plate armor, not afraid of swords...

In this way, Oldenburg City fell into the hands of the coalition forces of the eight kingdoms in such a dramatic way. Then, the eight princes breathed a sigh of relief...

...

In fact, Marin breathed a sigh of relief with the eight princes—

"The city finally broke down. In this way, I don't have to pay the 2 million gold coins!"

After settled the Italian mercenaries in the city, the next step was a spoils. The eight princes looked at their soldiers with their eyes shining brightly as they moved a large amount of property from the Oldenburg warehouse, and their eyes were dazzled.

But Simon V, Earl of Liper, closed her eyes in pain and said:

"I'd better stop watching. I'll give half of the money to Steindorf and Wagner. The more I look at it, the more I feel unwilling to accept it. So, it's better not to watch it..."

The other princes were also worried. Seeing countless money, they did not belong to them. This feeling was so sad...

But Charlie, Earl of Gelden, persuaded everyone:

"Don't be sad, sir, it doesn't matter if the property in Oldenburg is given to others. Do you know that in Orich, there is more wealth than in Oldenburg... It is said that the total wealth in Orich may reach more than 5 million gold coins..."

Speaking of this, the other seven princes suddenly breathed rapidly - 5 million gold coins, how much does it cost...

In fact, this was originally made up by Charlie Earl of Gelden to comfort everyone. But what Charlie didn't expect was that the news he made up was a big truth - he was right...

There is indeed a lot of wealth in the city of Orich, and it is far more than 5 million gold coins. The so-called 5 million gold coins actually mainly refer to the value of other property in the city of Orich. If food is included, it will be even more.

In order to reserve grain, Marin even expanded an outer city in the northern city of Orich, dedicated to reserve grain. Orich's total grain reserve is estimated to reach 500 million pounds, with a market price of about 8.333 million gold coins.

If the princes of the Eight Kingdoms could really conquer Orich, they would probably get a huge amount of wealth worth more than 13 million gold coins...

...

But even if they didn't know Orich's real wealth, the 5 million gold coins still stimulated them...

"Do it! We must defeat Marin, take Orich, and grab the wealth of 5 million gold coins!" Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, growled in a low eye.

"We did it too!" Several other princes were also excited.

"But, the opponent has an army of 20,000. If we defend Olichersh to the death, it will be difficult for us to conquer!" Otto VIII, Earl of Benthem-Tecklenburg, said worriedly.

The Oldenburg city, which was stationed by an Italian mercenary of 10,000 people, was so difficult to win. Orich was stationed in the First Legion, which was much stronger than the Italian mercenaries...

The other princes probably thought of this and their faces were a little bad.

And Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbitel, turned his eyes:

"Maybe, we can continue to use the day and night shift attack to deal with Orich's defenders. Haven't you seen the Italian defenders' sleepiness? Think about it, then, that guy Marin will probably not be able to sleep with dark circles! At that time, after a few days in a row, even the First Legion of the Beihai Kingdom will not be able to stand it!"

"Yes, we can use this trick to make the Beihai Guards unable to sleep well!" Several other princes lit up their eyes.

But they didn't know that their self-contained "digging enemy strategy" had long been a mess in China. And Malin would definitely not be hit.

And Charlie, Earl of Gelden, said:

"Don't think so simple, Marin is difficult to deal with. Maybe we can increase our strength..."

"Increase the force? How to increase it? Should I capture the strong men of the Beihai Kingdom as the recruiting soldiers? This is useless. The recruiting soldiers are low in combat, and the strong men of the Beihai Kingdom may not be willing to fight for us..." Antonios, Count of Schaumburg and Ravensburg, asked in confusion.

"How could it be? I mean, the more than 8,000 Italian mercenaries we just captured..." Earl Charlie shook his head and said. The original 10,000 Italian mercenaries were only more than 8,000 left.

"Italian mercenaries? No, if these captured Italian mercenaries turn to our employment, it will be difficult for them to gain a foothold in the mercenary world in the future." Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, questioned.

In this era, there are certain principles for hiring mercenaries. For example, two families will not be hired in a war. If they are captured, they will not be hired by their opponents.

Because, once they do this, their reputation will be greatly damaged. In the future, there may not be employers willing to hire such mercenaries who will surrender to the enemy. Especially some mercenary group leaders attach great importance to reputation. Because, only with reputation can someone hire them.

But Count Charlie smiled sly:

"I know those mercenaries care about reputation, but most of the people who care about reputation are the leaders of those mercenary groups. But what if we leave those mercenary leaders aside?"

"you mean……"

"We just find an unknown man from the Italian mercenary and ask him to build an empty shell mercenary group. Then, absorb these Italian prisoners of war into this empty shell mercenary group. In this way, even if they defect to us and serve us, they will not damage the reputation of the previous mercenary group. After the end of this battle, this temporary empty shell mercenary group with damaged reputation will be disbanded, and the Italian mercenaries will return to their original mercenary group..." Earl Charlie explained in detail.
Chapter completed!