Of course, Marin did not only create momentum without attacking. If there was no real offensive pressure, when reinforcements launched a real attack in the west, the Bossa coalition would easily mobilize reinforcements to the west.
Therefore, Marin chose an attack point on the east side of the Bossa Allied Forces camp. This attack point is the east gate of the Bossa Allied Forces camp and the main gate of the Bossa Allied Forces camp...
There are no tunnels outside the east gate of the Bossa Alliance Camp. Otherwise, the army would not be able to go out when it was out of the camp. Moreover, in order to facilitate the entry and exit of the army, the main gate of the camp was very wide, about 30 meters wide.
Moreover, there are three gates at the East Gate, all of which are thick and strong. At night, the East Gate also arranged a large number of defenders to guard these three gates to prevent the enemy's sneak attacks.
Not only that, at night, behind the three gates east of the camp, Duoliang cars were parked to the camp gate to prevent the camp gate from being knocked open by the enemy.
However, these arrangements were futile. Because Marin brought the cannons up...
The 6-pound cannon shells are used to smash the door, which may be average. However, the 18-pound short-barrel Karen cannon heavy cannon shells are used to smash the camp gate, which is the best.
After all, no matter what, the gates of the temporary camp are definitely not as strong as those of the city gates. Not to mention the gates, even the walls are just mud-mashed earth walls, some of which are simply wooden fences. Such walls will definitely not be able to withstand the bombardment of the 18-pound cannon...
As expected, under the blast of more than a dozen 18-pound short-barrel Karen cannons, the three thick wooden doors at the east gate of the Bossa Allied Army camp were all blown open...
Seeing the danger of the East Gate, Frederick III immediately sent a large number of elite troops to block the door and would never allow Marin's army to break into the camp.
But Marin did not let the main force rush into the camp gate at all, but suspended artillery and used muskets to shoot the elite enemy troops blocking the door behind.
Under the continuous platoon shooting, many Bosa coalition soldiers fell down within the east gate of the East Camp of the Bosa coalition...
At the same time, the civilians and strong men under Malin were holding engineer shovels and digging soil in an orderly manner to fill the two trenches east of the Bossa coalition camp.
As long as the trenches are filled, even if part of them is filled, it will make it easy for the army to pass. What? You said the walls of the Bossa coalition camp? That is too simple, just use artillery to bombard them...
However, before launching the general attack, Marin did not intend to blow open the wall of the Bossa coalition camp. Because once the wall is blown open, the decisive battle will begin.
However, Marin did not have sufficient strength and confidence yet, and immediately fought a decisive battle with the main force of the Bossa coalition. Therefore, Marin maintained the status quo, but in front of the three wooden doors of the east gate of the camp that were blasted open, he used musketeers to shoot and kill hundreds of coalition soldiers.
Frederick III and Jokim I obviously knew the importance of the East Gate. In order to resist the impact of Marin's army on the camp, they sent thousands of troops to support the East Gate.
However, Marin's army did not directly rush in through the three wooden doors of the East Gate that were bombed open, but used musketeers to shoot inside. As long as the Bossa coalition soldiers who dared to show up, whether they were wearing plate armor or not, they would be of no use to face the hundreds of muskets. For Mushket's large musket, there was not much difference between wearing plate armor or not...
Under such circumstances, Marin's musketeers killed and injured hundreds of Bossa coalition soldiers in one breath through the three wooden doors of the east gate that were bombed open.
As for the Bossa coalition, he knew that it was dangerous to guard the east gate, but he did not dare not give up. After all, letting Marin's army rush in was not a good thing. Therefore, even though he knew it was dangerous, a large number of soldiers still rushed forward...
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At the same time, under the night a few kilometers west of the Bossa Allied Army camp, an army of up to 18,000 people was ready to go...
After using Kongming lanterns to send a signal to contact Marin's troops, Woolf Esbrand and Sakala chose to wait. Because Marin's previous order mentioned that after the main force started fighting for half an hour, an attack would be launched...
Obviously, both Woolf Esbrand and Saccarat understand that the main force wanted to use this half hour to attract the attention of the Bossa coalition to the east. In this way, it would be much easier for them to launch a sneak attack from the west. At least, they would not be resisted by the army...
As time was about to be over, Woolf Esbrand and Sakara stood up and prepared to lead the team to launch an attack.
However, Woolf Esbrand suddenly said:
"Sakara, I suddenly had a great idea!"
Sakara asked with some confusion:
"What's the idea?"
"I plan to bypass the western front and go to the south of the Bossa coalition camp, and break into the Bossa coalition camp from there!"
Sakara wondered and asked:
"Why?"
"You know what kind of troops are stationed in the south of the Bossa Alliance camp?"
Sakara nodded and replied:
"Of course, that's 30,000 people."
"Yes, that is the 30,000 people of Brandenburg and Saxony, and it is not the main force of the enemy. However, there is no wall between them and the main force of the Bossa coalition..."
After thinking about it, Sakara asked uncertainly:
"You mean... taking advantage of the lack of wall barrier between the Bossa Coalition Civilian-Purchase Station and the Bossa Coalition Camp in the south, breaking in from there?"
Woolf Esbrand nodded and said:
"Yes, according to the information, there is no wall between the 30,000-strong garrison and the Bossa Allied Forces Camp. After breaking through there, it will not be blocked by the wall. If you launch an attack from the west, you must first break through the recommended camp specially built for Hamburg prisoners of war. Then, attack the wall of the Bossa Allied Forces' own camp... This will be a very delayed time. Moreover, when passing through the Hamburg prisoners of war, it is easy to alarm the Bossa Allied Forces soldiers..."
"But... when we attack the Minzhuang camp of the Bossa coalition in the south, we will also alarm the soldiers of the Bossa coalition..." Sakala was a little puzzled.
Woolf Esbrand shook his head and said:
"It's different. First of all, there is no wall between the original civilian camp of the Bossa coalition in the south and the camp of the Bossa coalition warriors. As long as you push in, there is no obstacle. In addition..."
Woolf Esbrander paused and said:
"Sakara, you have been with the lord for so long. You must have heard of the tactics of using defeated troops to attack the main force of the enemy, right?"
Sakara thought about it and it was really. Marin once mentioned that on the battlefield, there is a tactic of tactics, which is to first attack the weak part of the enemy, then defeat this part of the enemy's army, and drive them to attack the main positions of the enemy. After these defeated soldiers were driven to rush towards the position where the enemy's elite soldiers were located, they would destroy the formation of the enemy's elite soldiers, destroying the strict battle formation that the opponent's elite soldiers had originally maintained.
Then, our army followed the defeated soldiers and rushed towards the enemy's elite troops...
At this time, the enemy's elite troops will be very uncomfortable. They want to fight back, but they are attacked by their own defeated soldiers and their formation will be destroyed. In severe cases, it may even lead to the defeated soldiers directly rushing down the battle formation and causing chaos without fighting.
Of course, there are countermeasures for this situation. That is, the elite troops are determined to kill their original comrades, that is, those defeated soldiers, and strictly prohibit them from rushing towards the formation. Otherwise, they will directly kill the rushing soldiers, scare them, and then command them to pass through the two sides so as not to attack the formation.
However, this is familiar to the Chinese army. However, the European army is not very familiar with this vulgar tactic. Woolf Esbrand hopes to take advantage of the current European army's unfamiliarity with this tactic and choose the Minzhuang camp at the southern end of the Bossa coalition camp as a breakthrough point to invade the Bossa coalition camp. Then, they drive away the Minzhuang who has no combat effectiveness and force them to flee in the direction of the war camp...
You know, that's 30,000 people...
So many people who were driven to the war camp would definitely cause great chaos. They might even lead to panic and even fleeing...
Sakara probably thought of this, so he shrugged and said:
"Okay, anyway, you are the main general, and I am the deputy, so as you can say..."
Chapter completed!