But Marin did not rush to go to the main fort to meet Kahn and the others, but sent people to the other three city gates and opened the gates.
Because Edor Wilmken retracted the remaining Jeffer soldiers back to the main fort, so the soldiers under Marin opened the other three gates without any effort. In this way, less than two thousand soldiers under Marin surrounded the main fort.
After Marin arrived at the main castle, he saw the structure of the main castle and was also a little scratching his head. Because the main castle is like a sealed box, with only a few gloomy windows. But it is simply delusional to enter through the window. Because, at this time, there were more than 100 Yevre warriors in the main castle. If they wanted to climb the window, they would definitely be poked out...
If it was a large courtyard, Marin would have sent people to throw burning bales into it and smoke the people inside, just like when he was dealing with Sivag in Friesland. However, the main castle was like a sealed box, and there was no place to throw bales. It was impossible to throw them in through the window. Because, Marin clearly saw that behind the window of the main castle was full of Jeffer soldiers...
The only good news is that there is no balcony on the main fort, which is probably a design problem. Because the Wilmken family did not expect the enemy to break through the solid walls of the castle. Therefore, the main fort is not like the city wall, where defenders can smash things down.
Moreover, although there were windows, when Marin's men approached, they did not throw bricks and stones down and smashed people. What does this mean? It means that Edor Wilmken and his men retreated into the main fort in a hurry, and they did not expect to bring the bricks and stones that smashed people into it.
So, Kahn directly led a group of people to stand in front of the oak door of the main fort and started smashing the door...
But as the only gate of the main fort, its solidity is obviously not bad. Kahn's hand was numb and he couldn't smash the gate of the main fort.
Marin looked at it and stopped Kahn's bull-behavior:
"Stop smashing it, Kahn, your two wives have already obtained it! I'll give it to you when I go back!"
The soldiers next to him burst into laughter, making Kahn feel embarrassed...
Schwartz came over with his army and asked:
"Young Master, do you want to bring the cannons over and knock them out?"
Marin thought about it, but did not agree. Because he was worried that the jumping would hurt his own people.
There is no large open space in front of the main fort, just a wider street. If you bring the cannons over, you can only place them across the street and bombard the main fort gate.
However, at such a close distance, if the iron ball shell does not smash the door, it will easily rebound. The artillery position is so close that the iron ball bounces back and it will easily kill the artillery. This is not the result that Marin wants. Therefore, we must think of another way.
At this time, Doni Zerry ran over with his already ragged oak door and offered to fight:
"Sir Earl, let me set the powder barrel and blow up this door!"
"No, this door was not smashed out of the hole. The powder barrel was placed under the door. The detonating gas spread directly to the opposite direction of the door, without the explosion effect just now..."
Gunpowder needs to be placed inside the object to be blasted to produce the greatest effect. If you want to blow up the door, you can put it outside the door. Of course, high-energy explosives from later generations may be able to do it. However, it is difficult to have a big effect if the gunpowder barrel is not buried deep.
In his previous life, when he was a teenager, Marin had conducted an experiment. He put the gunpowder peeled from the firecrackers into the cans of glass bottles and Coke. As a result, the glass bottle just broke and the noise was not loud. The gunpowder in the cans exploded...
Because when gunpowder gas expands rapidly, the greater the binding force, the stronger the explosive force as the reaction force. Therefore, the shells of grenades in later generations are all steel. In addition to creating shrapnel to injure people, it is also a very important reason to provide the maximum binding force for the charge inside.
The binding force of the wooden barrel is not much better than the glass bottles that Marin did experiments in his previous life. The explosive power of black gunpowder is already weak, so putting an oak gunpowder barrel in front of the door will cause limited damage.
...
However, Doni Cry's words reminded Marin...
Originally, Marin was planning to go to the house in the castle to tear down the beams and hit the gate. However, that was too laborious and might not work. But, blasting...
"Go and send a few people to the camp site and find some shovels..." Marin ordered Schwartz.
The logistics and supplies troops are equipped with shovels. Because the camping camp also requires digging holes around the military camp and placing inclined wooden pickets to prevent the enemy from stealing the camp.
Although Schwartz was a little puzzled, he quickly executed the command...
After a while, several engineer shovels specially used to dig trenches were sent over...
"You guys, pry open the stone slabs in front of the fortress gate!" Marin sent only a few soldiers to ask them to use tools to pry open the stone slabs in front of the gate.
"Young Master, are you going to bury the powder barrel?" Schwartz was not a stupid person, otherwise Marin would not have trained him. Seeing Marin sending people to pry stone slabs in front of the fort gate and adding the several engineer shovels he had taken before, he finally understood.
"Yeah, not stupid!" Marin nodded.
In ancient wars, a large amount of gunpowder was buried on the city wall and the foot of the foot, and the city wall was blown down. This move was commonly used by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army.
During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, the Taiping Army often used the method of digging tunnels to dig tunnels below the base of the city wall. Then, the Taiping Army would use a large number of coffins, wooden boxes, fill gunpowder, and place them into the tunnels through the tunnels. Then, drag out a long fuse. After dragging out the fuse, the Taiping Army soldiers would once again fill the coffin filled with gunpowder in the tunnels, and block the area outside the large wooden box with soil to create a better sealing effect.
Afterwards, they ignited the fuse that had been laid out in advance...
Then, the city wall collapsed and the Taiping Army rushed in...
Marin actually thought about using this trick to deal with Yevre Castle, but because he was afraid that others would use it to deal with him after learning it, it was useless.
But now, when the enemy did not bring bricks and stones to retreat into the main fort, Marin asked someone to dig a hole in front of the city gate without any interference and could safely build the construction.
And no one can learn this trick. It is useless to learn it. When siege, the enemy cannot let you dig a pit under the city gate, and you must smash it to death with bricks and stones. Therefore, digging a pit in front of the city gate can only be achieved without the enemy's ability to fight back, and the scope of application is relatively narrow...
If the tactics of the Taiping Army were learned by the Europeans of this era, it would be very terrible. Because if the Danes learned it, they could successfully conquer Stockholm in Store and pacify Sweden's independence, which was obviously something Marin didn't want to see; if the Turks learned it, it would be even more terrible. Perhaps Vienna would not be as unbreakable as in history. Once Vienna was broken, the entire Germany would be exposed under the iron hooves of the Turks...
Therefore, Malin was unwilling to take out the tricks of the Taiping Army to attack the city. However, in this specific situation, you can still use it...
Soon, a deep pit was dug out in front of the fortress gate and was dug into it. Marin ordered a gunpowder barrel to bury it and the fuse was pulled out. Then, Marin ordered the pit to fill it up and stepped on it...
Then, all the East Friesian soldiers retreated far away under the orders of Marin. Then, Marin ignited a long fuse...
"Boom--" The solid fortress gate was quickly exploded. The solid oak door was very funny at this time. The upper part was still left, but the lower part was gone...
Seeing that the fortress gate was open, Kahn immediately picked up the mace and took the lead in rushing in...
Unfortunately, Kahn flew out soon...
Marin was stunned - Nima, Kahn were beaten out, with Lu Bu and Xiang Yu inside?
But soon, Kahn revealed the truth:
"Young master, there are so many hammers inside. Seven or eight big hammers hit me, almost smashing me out of breath. Fortunately, this pair of plate armor is of good quality, otherwise I will definitely be seriously injured..."
Kahn's plate armor was not made of inferior iron of this era, but made of high-carbon steel produced by steel mills, with very high strength. Therefore, despite being smashed by several warhammers, Kahn's plate armor was not deformed. However, the person was smashed away and could not breathe for a long time. That is, Kahn's body shape like a beast. If it were a poor physique or a moderate quality of a plate armor, it might have been hung...
Marin frowned and waved his hand:
"Let the Musketeer come!"
Then, several powerful Yevre soldiers blocked the main entrance were directly killed...
However, before Marin was happy, he rushed out a few more people, rushed into the ranks of musketeers, and killed the musketeers. The musketeers had just finished firing bullets and had not had time to load them. At this time, it was the weakest time and had no resistance. They could only watch themselves being hacked to death...
Ma Lin immediately felt worried. Before, he had not sent the musketeers to rush into the city, but he was afraid that the musketeers would not have resistance after a round of shooting. Now, it turns out that's true...
Marin then began to think about how to ensure that they are not dead while using the attack power of the musketeers...
So, Marin thought of the battle between the Friesian noble Republic troops who ambushed Sivag in Friesland...
Marin remembers that during that battle, the musketeers climbed onto the roof and fired, so the Friesian army had no choice but to attack the musketeers.
"Yes, shoot from a high place!" Marin thought of a countermeasure.
You said how to shoot from a high place in the castle? This is easy:
"Go and find a dozen strong soldiers!" Marin ordered.
Schwartz was puzzled, but he brought people quickly.
"You, in a group of two, carrying musketeers, to ensure that they are taller than ordinary soldiers..."
Marin's method is to let the melee soldiers wearing plate armor stand in front and block the enemy. The musketeer is at the back, higher than the soldiers in front, and in the sky, killing the resisting enemies with muskets...
This move is very effective. The soldiers in front just need to withstand the enemy and don’t have to fight to the death. The musketeer who was lifted behind is the killer move...
Relying on this tactic, Marin's soldiers quickly killed and injured dozens of enemies, but he only injured a few people. Because the front row soldiers were all mainly defense and did not fight against the enemy...
When we arrived at the main room where Edo Wilmken was located, at this time, the main room was full of elite Marin's subordinates, who rushed several times, but were blocked and several of them died.
Moreover, Marin didn't dare to use muskets casually, because there was a Princess Hedwig who could not touch...
That was the dear cousin of the King of Denmark. If Hedwig died, Marin would bear the anger of Denmark. So he tried his best to siege...
In this way, Marin sent troops to surround the main room and arranged a full of manpower outside the window of the main room to prevent the other party from escaping...
In this way, after four days of siege, the people inside finally couldn't stand the hunger...
However, Marin did not expect that at this time, the desperate Edo Wilmken went crazy...
He probably knew that he would die, because Marin had never let Edsad I go before. Therefore, Edor Wilm was determined to die...
He knew that Marin would not hurt Hedwig. Because Hedwig was the cousin of the King of Denmark. However, since he knew that he was going to die, Edor Wilmken went crazy...
He said to Hedwig gently with red eyes:
"Dear, do you love me?"
Hedwig nodded in a daze, not knowing what was going on.
Edor Wilmken said happily:
"Since that's the case, then let's go to heaven together!"
Then, before Hedwig understood what was going on, he inserted a long sword into his chest...
"Edor... Why?" Until his death, Hedwig didn't understand why her husband killed her...
"Because, our family is going to reunite in heaven..." Edor Wilmken laughed wildly.
In fact, his inner thought was that if my Wilmken family was exterminated, it would not make you a Hoffman family better. If you offend the Oldenburg family, the Hoffman family would be buried with the Wilmken family! Even if you can't be buried with you, it will make you unlucky...
Then, Edo Wilmken, who had fallen into madness, used a velvet quilt to suffocate his daughter Maria, who was not one year old. She muttered to herself while covering her:
"Baby, our whole family went to heaven to reunite..."
After suffocating Maria who was less than one year old, Edo Wilmken was about to draw his sword and commit suicide. However, he suddenly remembered that the person who committed suicide would not go to heaven. So he decided to change his way of death...
"After I die, you surrender. The Wilmken family is sorry for you!"
After saying this to his subordinates, Edor Wilmken raised his sword and rushed out of the door with a frantically face. He was beaten into a sieve by the frightened East Friesian musketeers...
When Marin entered the room after the Yevre surrendered and surrendered, he saw two corpses, one big and one small, lying on the bed, especially the body of the woman...
Marin's face suddenly changed:
Chapter completed!