As for why Commander Roman was so bold and dared to commit such a big case in East Friesland, the main reason was that Roman was not optimistic about the result of Marin's battle.
Because, Marin faced a 50,000 army this time, there were 20,000 Swiss mercenaries! Out of blind confidence in the combat effectiveness of Swiss mercenaries, Roman Commander believed that Marin was sure to lose.
Once Marin loses, it is still unknown whether Marin can retain the land of East Friesland, let alone revenge on him. Therefore, based on Marin's judgment that he will lose, Roman ordered a large robbery in the manor of East Friesland on the west bank of the Ames River after seeing the benefits. If he hadn't been afraid that tens of thousands of troops from the legendary Second Legion who stayed behind in the country came to settle the score with him, he might have robbed the East Coast area by the way...
Moreover, this time he made a big profit. You know, but the 10,000 bags of rye weighed 1 million pounds. Even at the wholesale price of 0.7 per pound, it was worth 11,600 gold coins. With all the valuable materials such as coins, salt, silver and copper utensils, cloth, cooking oil, etc., they were sold, and the total value was estimated to exceed 15,000 gold coins.
For a mercenary group of 4,000 people, this is definitely a great fortune. In particular, it is just a fortune, just a casual harvest.
In the city of Lubeck, when Marin received the information from Kohler, he was furious:
"I must kill this bastard named Roman! This guy must pay his blood debts!"
But after calming down, Marin smiled:
"Hey, I'm worried that I can't find an excuse to turn against the Principality of Gedes. This stupid man named Roman delivered the excuse to the door. It would be best if Charles II didn't know about it. At that time, it would be better to catch him off guard!"
Marin had long been thinking about annexing West Friesland. However, he was an ally with Charles II before, and Marin was still thinking about how to make excuses to turn against him. So, this stupid man named Roman came to give him an excuse. However, although Marin thanked him in his heart, he would not let this guy go. After all, this guy burned, killed and looted his own territory. In short, this guy must die...
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At this time, something big happened near the city of Riber, northwest of the Principality of Schleswig...
Although he drank too much that night, he vomited and vomited most of the poison from Canterrera. However, a small half of the poison penetrated into Prince Christian.
The final result was that seven days later, Prince Christian was still poisoned. Although he died of no poison, Prince Christian was still rolling on the hospital bed in extreme pain...
Because the toxic attack was very violent, the young Prince Christian lost all his hair overnight and his face became haggard and terrifying. Even half of his teeth fell off...
Although he struggled to survive, Prince Christian had temporarily completely lost the ability to move and could not walk normally without a month of rest.
He was the head coach of the Danish army. The head coach was poisonous, and the Danish army's siege naturally stopped.
However, Sakara's army did not launch an attack in time...
Why? This is because Sakara believes that when Prince Christian gets poisoned, we will attack. This is not clear to tell people, "Is the poisoning related to me?"
Therefore, Sakara did not launch an attack on the seventh day after the poisoning, but on the tenth day after the poisoning, that is, three days after Prince Christian was poisoned, he suddenly launched a night attack on the Danish camp...
At this time, Prince Christian was still resting in bed. Although he was not dead, he lost most of his life. Now, Prince Christian could not even eat ordinary food, so he could only eat some liquid food such as meat porridge. And the Danish camp was also panic.
After more than 10,000 troops of Sakara launched an attack on the Danish camp, the Danes were in chaos. The officers wanted to ask the commander to decide, but the commander was still lying on the hospital bed.
Several adjutants had different opinions, but before they could discuss it, the camp gate was broken by the English mercenaries of Saccarat.
"Fight for the flesh!"
The fighting slogans of the English mercenaries were very strange, and this was the result of their usual training. After shouting this slogan, the English mercenaries were a hundred times more determined and were invincible...
Being stared at by a group of English mercenaries who were desperately training for meat, the Danes, who were confused in the middle of the night, were immediately discouraged.
There were also some Northern Friesians in the Danish army, who could understand English. But after understanding the slogans of the English mercenaries, they were so scared that they were scattered...
Why? Because they mistakenly thought that the English mercenaries were human-eating demons. Looking at their red eyes, the Northern Friesians in the Danish army thought that the other party wanted to eat their own meat...
So, these people were so scared that they ran away. Then, many Danish military camps were in chaos...
However, after the Swiss castration training, the 20,000 Danish troops did not collapse immediately because they were specially trained to guard against night attacks.
Because, the Danes also knew that Marin was a master of night attacks, so how could he not be prepared?
Unfortunately, in the past two or three days, Prince Christian almost died after being poisoned, which made the Danish army panic. Therefore, despite the large number of people, it was still under the pressure of the 15,000 army led by Sakara. It was only a matter of time before failure.
This is mainly because Sakara sent elite forces to divide and surround the Danish camp and prevent the assembly of Danish soldiers. If the Danish army could not form a large formation with a large number of people, even if the Danish army had a larger number of people, there would be no battalion bombing, but it could not defeat the more orderly East Friesian army, which formed a strict formation.
After dividing the Danish camp into several large pieces, Sakara began to command the army, concentrate superior forces, and clear out the various camps where the enemy was concentrated one by one. Victory is only a matter of time...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Seeing that the situation was too late, Deputy General Maxim made up his mind and led a team of confidants to carry the diseased Prince Christian, under the escaping of more than 3,000 troops from the headquarters, took advantage of the chaos to rush out of the Ximen of the camp.
Then, instead of leading troops north immediately, General Maxim ran directly to the port to the west, found a large ship, sent Prince Christian onto the ship, and sent his men to drive the ship to Esbjor, a Denmark port a little north. After all, with Prince Christian's current weak body, he would probably die halfway through land with his current weak body and sitting in a bumpy carriage. It would be better to take a boat, at least not as bumpy as a carriage...
And he himself, with more than two thousand remaining men, retreated north along the land route overnight to the rounds of Esbjor and Prince Christian.
After several hours of fierce fighting, by dawn, despite being trained to prevent night attacks, the Danes were still defeated. Except for the more than 2,000 General Maxim and Prince Christian who escaped, the others were either killed in battle or captured. Sakara's army lost only more than 300 people. The Danes, killed in battle and captured in battle, reached more than 17,000...
The main method for the Danes to prevent night attacks was to enter the tent, and the soldiers tried to sleep in their clothes. The grassroots officers also slept among the soldiers, not living alone in the officer area. Only senior generals would be treated as separate tents. Once they encountered night attacks, the soldiers immediately picked up their weapons, quickly gathered together with soldiers from the same unit near the tent, and formed a formation to protect themselves under the leadership of the grassroots officers.
If the number of enemy troops attacked at night is small, it will be squeezed into the camp by the Danish army that has formed a formation and protected itself. Then, the grassroots officers will move slowly according to the training method, slowly joining with other parts of the army to form a real large formation. With the convergence of the army, the night-attacked army will eventually be surrounded by the gathered Danish army and then destroyed.
This method was specially designed by a genius officer in Switzerland called Fabian based on the characteristics of Marin's good at using a small number of troops to conduct night attacks. Fabian was also one of the main instructors who helped Denmark train the army this time. He was a talented military theorist and very famous in Switzerland.
Unfortunately, there are too many enemy troops this night attack. Although there are tactics for preventing night attacks by forming a nearby formation and self-protection, Sakala's army has 15,000 people, which directly encircled the Danish army. The tactics for forming a nearby formation and self-protection have become the biggest weakness of the Danish army. Because the tactics for forming a nearby formation and self-protection have divided the Danish camp into more than a dozen pieces. Although each piece has good defense, this also dispersed the troops. If it is to deal with a small group of night attack troops, it can naturally gradually converge through the space squeezing method, and then siege the enemy's night attack troops that have penetrated to death. It can be used to deal with a large number of enemy troops that have taken advantage of the situation to divide and surround him. This tactic is basically for the heads... Therefore, the Danish army was surrounded by Sakala and then concentrated its superior forces to clean up one by one, and easily cleaned up...
When cleaning up the small Danish army formations that formed a formation and protected themselves, Sakala's tactics were very brutal. He ordered his subordinates to push hundreds of Yu Dayou's unicycle chariots filled with spears and violently crashed into the small Danish army. The Danish spearmen could not keep up with the total length of the chariot. With the huge impact of the chariots rushing up, they were either skewers by chariots filled with spears, or avoiding... Then, as the chariots continued to attack, the small Danish formation naturally became chaotic. Then, Sakala concentrated his superior forces and rushed from all directions to the small Danish formation whose formation was messed up... Once the formation was chaotic, the Danes who formed a formation and protected themselves naturally could not withstand the violent impact of the soldiers under Sakala, who had absolutely the advantageous number of people. There was only one way to defeat...
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When he learned from the prisoners that Prince Christian was not dead, Jim was so regretful that he slapped his head. No wonder the Danes did not collapse and could resist for a few hours. It turned out that their head coach was not dead. Therefore, the Danish army was just panic, not psychologically collapsed...
In addition, the Danish army had received strict night attack training before, so it was difficult for Sakara's army to fight.
However, because everyone was wearing double-layer mahjong mat armor with good protection, the casualties were not very large. Many of the attacks of the Danish spearmen were blocked by double-layer mahjong mats. Especially, the outer mahjong mat armor and iron sheet protection... Although more than 300 people were lost, the opponent's loss was more than 17,000 people. Of course, the losses of these more than 300 people were mainly due to too many new recruits. After statistics, Sakara found that most of these more than 300 people were English mercenaries who were on the battlefield for the first time. As for the five thousand veterans sent by Woolf Esbrand, only a dozen were injured, but no one was fatal. The reason why those English mercenary recruits suffered many casualties was because some of them rushed too hard and rushed into the crowd of people. Facing the spears stabbed from all directions by Danish soldiers, it was really hard to escape...
Fortunately, although Prince Christian was not poisoned to death, the Danes lost, and they lost a lot. Although they escaped more than two thousand people, they gave them the courage to turn back and provoke the East Friesian army. Because they were already scared. Moreover, the number of people on the other side was too small...
Anyway, although the process is inconsistent with the script, Prince Christian was not poisoned to death, the result is still perfect. After all, the East Friesian army destroyed this huge Danish army at a very small price.
Chapter completed!