The terrain of Lübeck is very complex. Its main part is located in the middle of the Travo River, surrounded by water on all sides. It only has the southeast and north sides, and some areas are connected to the outside world. In addition, there is also a bridge connecting to the outside world to the southwest.
Therefore, Lübeck is an island city surrounded by water, with very good defense effects. Because it has a natural moat on all sides, it has brought great difficulties to the siege troops. The previous attacks of the Bossa coalition were launched from a narrow area on land in the southeast.
In fact, after ordering the cessation of the attack, Frederick III did not really wait. Instead, he sent troops to capture the local people and forced them to fill the river with sacks with mud and sand, intending to fill the narrow waterways around Lübeck. As for the Travo River, Frederick III planned to release the riverways in the west and fill the narrow riverways in the east to facilitate the siege.
But Marin was a little scared at this moment. Why? Because he saw a great danger - if we change the Chinese military strategy, we would know that Lubeck is a city suitable for flooding...
Seeing Frederick III sending someone to dig up the river, Marin was almost scared. He thought the other party had seen Lubeck's shortcomings and was ready to build a dam in the middle. As long as the dam was built and the water of the Travo River flowed back into the city of Lubeck, Marin would also be done.
For a moment, Marin was ready to be captured and ceded most of the territory. At worst, let's go to the Americas to develop...
But a few days later, he finally felt relieved - the other party just wanted to fill in some narrow parts to facilitate the attack. It seems that Europeans still don’t know how to flood the water. Unlike China, when the three families divided Jin, they knew how to flood the Jinyang city...
Anyway, in Marin's opinion, Lübeck's construction of the city in the middle of the river was a failure. In the medieval Europeans were brainwashed and dumb. If it were a Chinese who had read the art of war, they would have flooded the dam in minutes...
For safety reasons, Marin asked Saul and others to use telescopes to observe the enemy situation 24 hours a day. Once the enemy showed signs of building a dam, he planned to take 20,000 troops out of the city and fight desperately. Although he was not sure to win, he would at least not lose with advanced tactics.
Fortunately, Frederick III was not a Chinese military strategist after all. In the end, he did not expect the tactic of building a dam and flooding. Marin did not have to leave the city to fight in a decisive battle.
While waiting between the two sides, Marin's fleet arrived first...
This fleet of 10 250-class armed merchant ships and 10 cargo ships, loaded with food, weapons and ammunition, arrived at the Bay of Lubeck, and went up 15 kilometers along the Travo River, reaching the wider western river channel of the Travo River outside Lubeck, which is the western river channel of the Lubeck City.
The river channel here is relatively wide, and in the northwest direction, there is a row of docks for freight. The fleet docks in the dock area in the northwest direction and begins to unload grain and supplies.
When the Bossa coalition saw that it was nothing? So they planned to attack the fleet. Of course, because the ships were in the river, they towed all 60 artillery pieces of the coalition and began to shell the ships.
Captain Kidd, who was in charge of leading the team, saw that it was nothing. So, 10 250-level armed merchant ships lined up and bombarded the artillery of the coalition across the river.
There are 10 18-pound guns on each side of the 10 Class 250 armed merchant ships, with extraordinary firepower. The volley of 100 heavy guns is not ordinary.
The artillery of the Bossa coalition was basically two or three pound-level light bronze infantry cannon, which is the Fran machine cannon. Although this kind of running and fire rate is higher, its power is much different. Two or three pounds of shells hit a level 250 armed merchant ship, it only smashed some wood chips, and injured a few unlucky guys, and could not hurt the wooden ship at all.
But on the other hand, the 18-pound iron ball shells on the level 250 armed merchant ship hit the Bossa coalition crowd. It was really bloody. Where the iron balls rolled, there were casualties and wailing.
100 18-pound naval guns, facing 60 two- or three-pound rear-mounted infantry guns, they won...
After being killed and injured dozens of artillery and more soldiers from other groups of soldiers by Kidd's naval guns, Frederick III had to order the artillery troops to withdraw from the combat range. Then, he watched helplessly as the supply fleet replenished the city of Lübeck with a large amount of food and various military supplies.
Frederick III thought about it for two days, and finally, he thought of a way - to shoot a fireball with a trencher and burn the boat...
Unfortunately, because the Bossa coalition generally equipped the artillery, it gave up the equipment of the stone thrower. Therefore, the stone thrower needed to be built. Fortunately, the Saxon army did not have a long time to equip the artillery. Among the civilians and soldiers, there were carpenters who knew how to make stone throwers. So Frederick III ordered the carpenters to start looking for wood on the spot and make stone throwers.
Three days later, more than a dozen simple stone throwers were placed on the other side of the Travo River and began to shoot fireballs at 10 250-level warships.
After this attack, two ships were burned with sails and part of the hull. If the sailors had not rescued them in time, the ship would have been done.
When Marin saw that this was not good. So, while there were not many stone throwers in the Bossa coalition, Kidd quickly took his fleet out of the Travo River and returned to the sea. After all, the Travo River channel outside the city of Lubeck was too narrow. At such a close distance, the ships were simply the target of the stone thrower. If there were enough stone throwers in the Bossa coalition, it would be normal to burn several ships.
However, it doesn't matter. Because the fleet unloaded all the food, ammunition and artillery needed by Marin...
With artillery and sufficient ammunition, Marin put the artillery on the top of the city and began to bombard the artillery of the Bossa coalition forces, smashing the opponent's artillery positions, and never dared to get close to the range of the artillery on the top of the city.
"That bastard has been replenished with ammunition. How can he consume all their ammunition now?" said Jokiem I, the Elector of Brandenburg.
"It's okay, wait for the Danish army to come." Frederick III comforted.
"But, even if the Denmark's 20,000 troops are dead, they may not be able to use up all the guy's ammunition. You have also seen that there are so many supplies added this time..."
"Well, I've decided. When the Danish army comes, let the Danish army escort the local people as cannon fodder, push them in front, and consume their ammunition..."
"What?" Jokim stood up in shock:
"Your Excellency Frederick, this is not a joke. If someone knows this, it will definitely be disgraced!"
European aristocrats pay great attention to reputation. To drive away the people as cannon fodder, it is easy to lose their reputation. If they lose their reputation, the aristocrats will be despised and no one will listen to their words. Especially in places like Germany where there are many nobles, losing reputation is equivalent to losing the right to speak at the imperial meeting...
Frederick III, the Elector of Saxony, smiled and said:
"That's why I let the Danes do this! The Danes hate Marin and Lübeck to the core. Even if they do something unfamous, the Danes will probably not care about it."
Jokim I nodded in a clear way. The Danes were bullied so badly that they were revenge this time, so they naturally would not care about their reputation. It is natural that they would do such evil things.
At that time, the Danish army drove the local people to the city and attracted Malin's guns and ammunition. It would indeed be very effective. There are many people around, but Malin's ammunition is limited...
Chapter completed!