When Sakara proposed to lead the army south to support Lubeck, Woolf Esbrand frowned and said worriedly:
"I heard that there are more than 10,000 troops in the city of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, all of which are the main forces. What if both of our troops go south and the Danes go crazy and attack the Principality of Schleswig?"
Sakara thought about it and it was true. However, he had no choice but to say:
"Or what if I will lead the 10,000 troops of our headquarters to go south, and your troops will not move?"
"It's not appropriate. If only your 10,000 troops go south, if they are encountered by the main force of the Bossa coalition, they will definitely not be able to escape the defeat. Therefore, I will provide at least eight thousand veterans with you to go south. In this way, even if the main force of the Bossa coalition is surrounded, they will have the power of fighting. If there are fewer people on the other side, they will definitely not be able to eat you. If there are too many people, the Duke can go out of the city and attack us in front and behind."
Sakara nodded, Woolf Esbrand's concerns were very reasonable. Although this time, although it was to be quickly and concealed, it was difficult to protect the Bossa coalition's troops from sending scouts to discover them. If they were unfortunately discovered by the enemy's scout cavalry early, then they would inevitably be blocked.
If you only lead 10,000 people from the headquarters, and the other party just needs to stop 10,000 people from the headquarters and then send out superior troops to surround them, you will have no choice but to wait for it to be eliminated.
But if there are 8,000 veterans from the Principality of Schleswig, it will be different. 18,000 people will face the 50,000 Bossa coalition, and even if they lose, they will be able to protect themselves for a long time.
Moreover, if the enemy wants to eat his 18,000 troops, he will have to dispatch at least 30,000 to 40,000 people. In this way, the enemy's siege of Lübeck will have to relax. With the ability of his own lord Marin, he will never miss such a good opportunity. At that time, taking advantage of the relaxation of the encirclement outside the city, more than 20,000 people in the city will definitely come out. Then, the two sides will attack each other in the front and back, and the possibility of the enemy's failure is extremely high.
Of course, this is the worst case. In fact, there is the best case. For example, these 18,000 people were not discovered by spies from the Bossa coalition. Then, they suddenly attacked the Bossa coalition's camp, and it was a night attack...
But the premise is that after the army headed south, the Danes were not nervous and suddenly dispatched large troops to attack them. If they had just left, the Danish army suddenly attacked the Jutland Peninsula from the island of Zeland, it would be easy to take advantage of the emptiness of the Duchy of Schleswig to occupy the local area. The most dangerous thing was that more than 10,000 people from Denmark were surrounded from behind.
If it was a little north, it would be nothing. If it happened to be near the camp of the Bossa coalition, the fun would be great. Under the front and back of the Bossa coalition and the Danish army, these 18,000 people would definitely die without a burial place.
Therefore, Woolf Esbrand and Sakara felt very embarrassed and did not dare to lead troops south easily.
Then, the two wrote this situation into a report and sent people to go south. At night, intelligence personnel took a boat across the river and entered the city of Lübeck, and handed the report to Marin.
After Marin was reported, although he felt a little sorry for not killing Prince Christian, he was still very happy that the army had eliminated 20,000 Danish main forces. In addition to the more than 2,000 people who ran away, Woolf Esbrand and Sakara won a total of 12,000 prisoners of war.
Although, with the poor financial resources of Denmark and the civilian origin of most of these prisoners of war, Marin was extremely likely to extort from these prisoners of war to ransom, Marin didn't care. Because more than 10,000 people could be used as laborers to build roads and dig canals. Just in time, there is a canal in the South Münster area that needs to be excavated. More than 10,000 prisoners of war were just pulled over to dig canals, regardless of season...
As for the more than 10,000 main troops in Copenhagen, the Danish capital, which Woolf Esbrand and Sakara are concerned about, it is indeed a big problem and an unstable factor affecting the situation of the war. If they follow Woolf Esbrand and Sakara's army, it will indeed affect the safety of the reinforcements.
Therefore, it is necessary to come up with a way to make more than 10,000 troops in the Danish capital Copenhagen stay in Copenhagen honestly, so as not to run around and affect the situation of the war.
Obviously, the best way is to let the Swedish army take the initiative to attack Copenhagen. In this way, the Danish army in Copenhagen dare not attack casually. After all, there is a group of Denmark's core people in Copenhagen that need protection.
However, it will take a long time to get to Malmö, which is across the sea in Denmark. If the Danish army takes advantage of the Swedes and heads directly to land before they arrive, it will be too late.
In fact, Marin had previously judged that since the last time the Danes broke Copenhagen city, they might be scared and dared not attack the main force to avoid Copenhagen from breaking again. Just like the last time, more than 10,000 Denmark's army was trapped in Sweden, but Copenhagen was later captured by Marin. Then, there was no need to fight the battle...
However, that was just Marin's inference, but it was not ruled out that the Denmark King Hans was so angry that he sent the main force out to fight desperately. After all, as long as the Lubeck Conference was won, even if the Denmark capital city was broken, it would be fine. Because, even if Copenhagen was broken, no one dared to kill the Danish nobles. Then, Copenhagen's losses could be recovered through negotiations after the victory of the coalition forces.
If King Hans had the courage to take the initiative to send the main force out to follow the army of Woolf Esbrand and Sakara, and before the reinforcements raided the Bossa coalition camp, they started a battle, and then dragged the main force of the Bossa coalition to come. Then, this reinforcement of 18,000 people would be really over. As long as the reinforcements are finished, Marin would not win. The best result is to lead the troops out of the siege and run away...
Although he was sure that Hans was not so bold, Marin still dared not bet. So he came up with a compromise - sending a fleet to shell Copenhagen and making an attitude of attacking Copenhagen. In this way, the Danes would not dare to send troops out.
Moreover, it is very convenient to send warships to shell Copenhagen. Because Kidd took 10 warships on the sea surface of the Bay of Lubeck. As long as one order is issued, Kidd could take 10 warships to shell Copenhagen. After all, Copenhagen City is on the edge of the Ore Strait and belongs to the seaside city.
Now that the Danish navy has been destroyed, Lübeck and Hamburg often go to sweep Denmark's ports and snatch all the big ships away. Therefore, the Danes now do not have the strength to resist the shelling of the 10 250-level armed merchant ships.
If 10 250-level armed merchant ships are bombarded at the same time, hundreds of heavy artillery will bombard Copenhagen at the same time. Their power cannot be underestimated.
The only worry is that the cannons would be too consuming gunpowder. After all, the ship to buy saltpeter in India has not come back yet. Marin now does not have a lot of gunpowder in the army, so he has to save some use...
However, it is impossible to shoot all day long, but it is still possible to scare the Danes for a day or two. Next, let the warships fire a few shots in sporadic lights and scare the other party.
Of course, this is not enough. Marin also needs to pretend that the Swedish army is about to attack Copenhagen in order to truly scare the Danish army.
Marin looked at the map of Denmark and suddenly laughed...
It turned out that Marin saw on the map, just a few kilometers east of Copenhagen, there was an island of more than ten square kilometers called Salter Island. This island is only four kilometers away from Copenhagen. On sunny days, standing on the walls of Copenhagen, you can definitely see the distant view of Salter Island.
Marin planned to send people to build a military camp on Salter while shelling the walls of Copenhagen. Of course, this was a fake military camp to scare the Danes.
Anyway, now that the Danes have lost their navy, it is unlikely that they will send people to Salter Island to observe the truth.
Therefore, Marin only needs someone to build a large camp on Salter Island that looks a bit large, and then, taking the banner of the Swedish army, can suppress the Danes.
As for the camp's men? This is easy. Anyway, there are many sailors in Marin's fleet and Lubeck's fleet. At that time, it will be fine to let them play guest roles as Swedish soldiers.
Although the city of Lubeck was in a war at this time, the maritime trade in Lubeck Bay did not stop. Moreover, there were also fleets of Lubeck and Hamburg stationed in Malmö. It was okay to find thousands of sailors from the Lubeck merchant ship in Lubeck Bay.
As long as the Danes see the Swedish army flags on Salter and the people entering and leaving the fake barracks, they will not dare to move. In addition, Marin's fleet fires fire at the city of Copenhagen from time to time, and the possibility of the Danish army leaving Copenhagen is very low. Unless King Hans and the great Danish nobles become as fearless as revolutionary martyrs... but this is impossible...
In this way, Marin signed an order, sending people out of the city overnight and to the fleet in Lubeck Bay, asking Captain Kidd to fire at Copenhagen to shock the Danes. However, Marin also specifically explained that the shelling was only a little stronger in the first three days to scare the Danes. Three days later, sporadic shelling was used to save gunpowder.
At the same time, Marin also asked the Speaker of the Grand Speaker of Lübeck Tagfaht to issue an order document to send it to Lübeck Bay and Malmö. He asked thousands of sailors to temporarily recruit from those merchant ships to go to Salter Island near Copenhagen to perform Swedish infantry for a period of time. Anyway, Denmark now has no naval and it is impossible to land on Salter Island. Therefore, this show is relatively safe.
Moreover, in Hanseatic cities like Lubeck, most of the sailors on merchant ships have received some combat training. Of course, most of them have naval combat training. Because, basically all Hanseatic merchant ships and sailors on merchant ships have signed an agreement with Lubeck Parliament - that is, during the war, the parliament has the right to recruit merchant ships and sailors to fight for Lubeck. Of course, ships and sailors who participated in the war later will receive certain economic compensation or tax exemptions.
Because most of these sailors have military foundations, there is no problem to play the Swedish army. However, thousands of spears are needed as "props" for acting. But this is not difficult, because Sweden is a country full of forests, and you can cut trees into long sticks for making spears. Anyway, it is not real spears for combat purposes, but props for acting. Therefore, those wooden sticks do not need to be specially processed. Just apply a little paint on the head and make them into spears, and you can fool the Danes...
In this way, while Marin asked Kidd's fleet to shell Copenhagen, he also made thousands of sailors on Salter Island, four kilometers east of Copenhagen, pretending to be Swedish troops. With the urinary nature of Danish monarchs and ministers, if he dared to send troops to land in the war, there would be ghosts... After all, the great nobles were very afraid of death, otherwise Europe would not have the tradition of redeeming people...
Chapter completed!