Because the city of Lubeck was surrounded by water on several sides, the Brandenburg Electoral and Saxony Electoral, which were also landslides, were unable to cross the river immediately and could not fully encircle them. Therefore, as long as you send a boat to cross the river in the middle of the night, you can still communicate with the city of Lubeck. After the communications soldiers arrived at the city of Lubeck in the middle of the night, they would take a basket to get up and down the city wall, which was convenient.
When Marin received a joint report from Woolf Esbrand and Sakara, everyone also appreciated it:
"Woolf is indeed an alien among Europeans. He is good at using strategies!"
In fact, Woolf Esbrand was forced by reality and specialized in strategy. Why? The reason is very simple. Woolf Esbrand was born in the weak Dietmarshen region and was the leader of Dietmarshen's army resisting Denmark.
However, the total number of soldiers in the Dietmarshen area was only more than 1,000. However, Denmark could easily dispatch tens of thousands of troops.
In such a huge gap in strength, if the weak side is not clear-headed and thinks of facing a head-on battle, it is a brainless person.
A dunk without strength and a tall, rich and handsome man who is strong and upright will definitely be kicked by a donkey. If the weak want to defeat the strong, they can only do conspiracy and tricks. Even if someone praises the open conspiracy and belittles the conspiracy, it is the intentional guidance and publicity of those with strength.
Because conspiracy is the only way for Diansi to defeat tall, rich and handsome men. If Diansi is not clear-headed and easily gives up the conspiracy and instead play open conspiracy with tall, rich and handsome men, it will definitely be ugly to die. The rich and handsome men are also afraid of being underestimated, so they manipulate public opinion, belittle the conspiracy, and praise the conspiracy. In fact, this is to make Diansi lose the opportunity to counterattack and maintain the stability of their privileged class.
In fact, looking at the past and present, all the wise generals who defeated the more with few and weak and strong with the weak were all conspiracies. Only through conspiracy can we make generals like Woolf Esbrand lead a thousand militias, defeat tens of thousands of Denmark's army, and drowned 7,000 Danish soldiers.
It was precisely because the strength gap between the Dietmarshen region and the Kingdom of Denmark was too great that Woolf Esbrand was forced to use conspiracies to deal with the Danes and eventually won the war with the flooding strategy.
For military strategists, only "combination of strange and righteousness" can be invincible. Only strange and too risky. Only righteousness will lack flexibility and are easily conspired by conspiracies. Therefore, truly great military strategists generally need "combination of strange and righteousness", rather than just Qi and only righteousness.
Woolf Esbrand is one of the few generals in Europe who understands strategy, plus the traditional European "righteous" education. Therefore, his ability is greater than that of most generals in this era. Of course, if he wants to win a battle, he must have strong strength. Otherwise, if he only wins by surprise, he will encounter a cautious enemy and block his surprise, he will easily be unlucky.
Therefore, while Malin is good at using conspiracies, he also attaches great importance to the training and improvement of his own army's combat effectiveness. If he only relies on strange things, he cannot last long. Only by taking both strange things and righteousness can he truly become a lord at the hegemony level.
Of course, in this era, Europeans are not popular with conspiracies, so most of them are too straightforward. If they encounter cunning opponents, they are likely to suffer a great loss. Therefore, in this era, using tricks in Europe is quite effective.
However, Woolf Esbrand was a half-bucket conspirator after all, and he was not capable enough. The one who was really good at conspiracy was Marin, who had experienced the "Information Bang" in later generations. After all, there were so many examples of strange and clever plans that Marin had seen in books and online in later generations.
For example, in the reports submitted by Woolf Esbrand and Sakala, Marin saw a lot of improvements...
Take the fact that eight thousand Minzhuang disguised himself as the main force to move south as an example. Originally, Marin’s request was that Woolf Esbrand made the illusion that eight thousand main force to move south. Woolf Esbrand also did it, but he made a very fatal mistake - he did not send Minzhuang to accompany him, but only sent the "eight thousand main force" to move south.
This is very unreasonable. Because now that countries use large armies now, they will definitely send a huge number of civilians to transport military rations and supplies at the same time. Otherwise, if the combat troops are responsible for pulling carts and transporting military rations and supplies at the same time, once they encounter an emergency battle, they will not have the energy and physical strength to fight and there will be no time to change the formation. After all, transporting military rations and supplies is very physically exhausting.
Fortunately, Prince Christian, the commander of the Danish army, was young and inexperienced. If an old fox like Frederick III heard that only eight thousand people went south, he would definitely doubt whether it was true or not - how could a large army not accompany the civilians...
So, while Marin wrote to the Hamburg Parliament, asking them to borrow boats and impose curfews, and also wrote back to Woolf Esbrand and Sakara, asking them to recruit another seven or eight thousand people, disguise themselves as civilians, and follow the eight thousand people before. On the one hand, this seems more reasonable. On the other hand, there are more people and more deterrent...
However, in order to cover the movements of the real army, the 8,000 fake main forces should not march too fast. Otherwise, if the Bossa coalition was led to attack too early, everything would be exposed. With Frederick III's cunning, he would definitely be guarding against the raid of real reinforcements.
Therefore, Marin decided to perfect the strategy of Woolf Esbrand and Saccarat and create a shocking scam, so that an old fox like Frederick III would also believe that the fake reinforcements were the real main force...
After thinking, Marin believed that a main force composed of eight thousand main forces would definitely march very quickly. Therefore, if you want to deceive the Bossa coalition, you must make the Brandenburg Elector Jokiem I and Saxony Elector Frederick III believe that this reinforcement army has too many new recruits, so you can't walk fast...
The discipline of the recruits is not good and requires long-term training. It is reasonable to march with the recruits, and it will not arouse the suspicion of Frederick III. Therefore, Marin needs to make Frederick III believe that there are many recruits in this reinforcement army, which has dragged down the speed of the marching...
To this end, Marin came up with a solution - deliberately leaking false information...
How to leak intentionally, it is very simple. Marin would ask Woolf Esbrand to deliberately send a messenger to carry the "secret letter" to Lübeck City semi-publicly to attract the enemy to intercept it.
If the messenger is alone, I believe that the scouts under Frederick III of Saxony's Elector will definitely not give up intercepting him. At this time, the messenger who is alone is needed to deliberately escape in panic, and then "accidentally" lose the secret message, and then let the Saxony scouts pick it up...
In this "secret letter", Woolf Esbrand will report to Marin - the northern border of the Principality of Schleswig. He himself is leading 5,000 main veterans and tens of thousands of people to fight to the death to resist the attack of the Danish army. Therefore, he can only send half of the main force, that is, 5,000 veterans, and lead 5,000 new soldiers to go south together...
In this way, it makes sense that reinforcements go slowly. After all, half of the newbies are...
As for how eight thousand people disguised themselves as ten thousand troops, it was too easy - just by falling apart the team...
If this "secret letter" falls into the hands of the enemy, they will understand that half of the 10,000 troops who went south to rescue were "parallel goods"... but in fact, these people were all parallel goods, and there were not 10,000 people...
As for whether the news of Denmark's defeat will be known by the Bossa coalition? There is no need to worry about this. Because the Jutland Peninsula and the German region are separated by the sea and the Principal of Schleswig. Now, the Principal of Schleswig has been fully martial law, and outsiders cannot pass. The Danes are now unable to pass the sea and send information to land. After all, the fleets of Lübeck and Hamburg will definitely not allow it. Therefore, it is not easy for the Bossa coalition to know the situation in Denmark for a long time. The fake secret letter said that half of the veterans and tens of thousands of people in the Principal of Schleswig were relying on the city to resist the Danish army. It is very reasonable and easy for people to believe. If the 10,000 army of Schleswig's Principal destroyed the 20,000 army of Denmark in a short period of time, others would not believe it...
Of course, "there are half of the recruits in the team", this excuse is not enough to make the fake main force go very slowly. Therefore, Marin came up with other tricks - pretending to transport a lot of artillery and baggage...
If artillery and baggage are taken by land, it is very difficult to transport. Therefore, it is very reasonable to affect the speed of the army's journey.
To this end, Marin ordered Woolf Esbrand through a letter to ask him to summon a large number of carpenters in the Duchy of Schleswig to cut some logs into the shape of artillery, paint the outside, and seal the "muzzle" part (moisture-proof), so that the appearance looks very much like a real artillery. Then, the carpenters were asked to create East Friesian gun stands and assemble them.
At the same time, some wooden balls of the same size as iron ball shells were cut, and painted with black paint, which looked like iron ball shells, and placed on a cart, making it difficult for the villagers to transport them...
So many "artillery" and "iron ball shells" need to be transported will definitely affect the speed of the march. In addition, with the oak barrels "loaded with gunpowder" and the sacks that carry enough food for so many civilians to eat, the baggage force will definitely be in a mighty way. It is reasonable and reasonable to affect the speed of the army's march. Even the resourceful Frederick III is difficult to see the flaws. After all, half of the recruits, and there are piles of artillery, iron ball shells, powder barrels and grain, etc. need to be transported. Is it strange that the army's march slow? It's strange that it's not slow...
Moreover, carrying so many "cannons" and "ammunition" makes people have to believe that it is the main force. Because these days, artillery is made of copper and is very precious. There are so many artillery, if it weren't for the main force, I wouldn't believe it if I told others...
Chapter completed!