However, the strong attack was not very smooth. The next morning, Schwartz began to arrange the army to launch a strong attack. Like the ordinary army's siege, the East Friesian army used ladder climbing to forcibly climb the walls of Copenhagen.
But the problem is that the walls of Copenhagen are very tall and strong. After all, as the capital of Viking pirates for hundreds of years, the Danes had a very rich accumulation of wealth, so they naturally had the money to strengthen their own capital.
In addition, the southeast and northwest of Copenhagen are rivers and lakes, which are not suitable for attack. Therefore, Marin's army can only launch strong attacks on the southwest and northeastern city walls.
Although more than 10,000 defenders in Denmark were sung by the "Empressed" choir organized by Marin, the more than 10,000 people were veterans and veterans with skilled combat skills.
If the decisive battle was fought in the wilderness, more than 10,000 veterans with a weakened morale would still not work. However, with the cover of the tall and strong city walls of Copenhagen, these veterans were somewhat comforted and still had the courage to resist.
You should know that as long as you have tall and strong city walls, even militias can withstand the siege of regular troops, let alone these veterans. They are just not very morale and their combat capabilities are much stronger than militias.
Therefore, the strong attack organized by Marin caused huge casualties in the East Friesian army. More than 1,200 casualties were directly injured on the first day. I was a little careful the next day, but more than 900 casualties...
Fortunately, these casualties were mainly injured, especially fall injuries. The casualties of more than 2,100 people were killed, and only more than 300 were killed, and the rest were injured. The Mongolian doctors brought by Malin were the best at treating bruises and injuries. Except for more than 200 who broke their arms and legs directly, everyone else could be cured quickly and return to the battle sequence.
Moreover, because of the use of alcohol, gauze and lime, the disinfection work in the Marin army was done very well, and there were very few soldiers who were injured and infected.
However, such a large number of casualties still shocked Marin. In the years of war, he rarely felt such large casualties. Especially, this was only caused within two days.
In desperation, Malin had to suspend the strong attack. However, Malin could not give up the attack. After all, he was still in a hurry to go south...
In order to solve this problem, Marin convened all middle and senior officers to hold a meeting to brainstorm and seek ways to quickly break through Copenhagen.
However, most of Marin's subordinates are officers with strong execution capabilities, and they don't seem to be very good when it comes to wisdom. So Marin turned his attention to the only subordinate who is considered a smart player - Woolf Esbrand...
After all, Woolf Esbrand was able to come up with a plan to flood the Seventh Army in Europe without wisdom, which is considered a very rare wise military talent. Marin couldn't think of a solution himself, so naturally his hope fell on Woolf Esbrand.
Seeing Marin look over, Woolf Esbrand naturally knew what Marin was thinking. After lowering his head and thinking for a while, Woolf Esbrand finally spoke cautiously:
"I have a way, I don't know if it's OK..."
"Tell me quickly!" Marin was also a little anxious and rushed to seek medical treatment at this moment. Moreover, Woolf Esbrand was not a "quack doctor".
"Cage is now in charge of the special forces, right?" Woolf Esbrand said after considering the language.
"Yes, do you want Cage to climb the wall in the middle of the night?" Marin frowned.
The special forces used flying claws to climb the wall in the middle of the night. This trick was used by Marin's army when attacking Florence. However, the target was the Italian army with a scattered military discipline. Moreover, the other party had never thought that anyone would use flying claws to climb the wall in the city. What's more ironic is that Italian mercenaries were used to picking up girls at night and were not in the mood to defend the city seriously, so Stade easily succeeded.
The Danish army in Copenhagen is different. Since being besieged and suffering a great loss last time, the Danes are still very vigilant, leaving people to guard the city wall day and night to avoid giving Marin a chance to take advantage of loopholes.
Woolf Esbrand nodded and said:
"Yes, my opinion is to send special forces to climb the city wall with flying claws in the middle of the night! However, they do not climb the city wall in the southwest, nor are they afraid of the city wall in the northeast, but..."
"You mean, the city walls facing the water to the southeast and northwest?" Marin's eyes lit up.
"Yes, sir. I observed the Danish defenders with a telescope at night and found that in the middle of the night, on the southwest and northeast walls, the defense was still tight. However, on the southeast and northwest walls, the defense seemed to be relatively lax..."
"But even if they climbed the southeast or northwest city walls, it would be useless! You know, even if they occupied some sections of the city walls, the follow-up troops would not be able to attack!" Schwartz said suspiciously.
This is also a big problem, because if part of the southwest and northeastern Copenhagen walls is captured, subsequent infantry can set up ladders and continue to climb up, and then seize and stabilize this section of the walls.
However, the southeast and northwest city wall sections are different. These two city walls are close to rivers and lakes. Even if the special forces climb up and can occupy some of the city wall sections, the subsequent troops cannot attack. Because the soldiers cannot set up ladders on the river and lake surfaces to continue to attack the city wall and consolidate the results.
Woolf Esbrand nodded after hearing Schwartz's words and said:
"You are right. Even if the special forces climbed the Linshui City Wall section of the southeast or northwest section, they could not continue to guide the subsequent troops to occupy the city wall. However, I did not say that the special forces would continue to stay there..."
"Then what do you mean?" Schwartz was a little puzzled.
"My idea is to let Cage take his special forces and use claw hooks to climb up the city wall section near the water, and sneak into the city to open the city gate in the northeast!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "What if the enemy discovers it?" Schwartz asked.
"It's okay, don't we let Danish women and the elderly sing every night? Tonight, we asked the choir to sing hard under the southwest wall to attract the attention of the Danish defenders. Then, Cage took his special forces and quietly approached the southeast wall of the northeast wall, swam across the river, climbed the wall with flying claws, and entered the city, lurked under the gate of the northeast wall, and launched a raid... I have observed that the nightly chorus arranged by Lord Marin attracted the attention of the Danish defenders. As long as the enemy focuses on the southwest wall section in the middle of the night, Cage and the others are walking on the sparsely populated southeast wall section, I believe it is still easy to hide..." Woolf Esbrand explained his plan in detail.
Now the special forces under Cage have expanded to about 300. According to Woolf Esbrand's plan, they will use flying claws to climb the city from the southeast section of the city wall, near the river, and enter the city, then lurk to the inside of the northeast gate and launch a raid...
"Three hundred people, can you take down the city gate?" someone questioned.
You know, because Marin is good at sneak attacking the city gate. Therefore, now Marin's opponents have strengthened their protection on the inside of the city gate, and at least hundreds of elite soldiers guarding the inside of the city gate. This is true in Denmark. After they learned about Marin's habits through Saxony, they naturally strengthened their protection of the city gate holes.
Woolf Esbrand laughed and said:
"I believe Lord Marin himself knows the combat effectiveness of special forces!"
Marin nodded. As the founder of the special forces, he naturally knew the combat effectiveness of the special forces. Perhaps, facing head-on, special forces are not much better than elite soldiers. However, when sneak attacks, special forces are extremely good, and it is normal to win more with less.
Not to mention that the Danes stationed hundreds of elite soldiers in the city gate hole, even if there were two thousand people, these three hundred special forces could open a bloody road. However, if that was the case, there would be great casualties. However, through the high platform using telescopes to reconnaissance, generals such as Marin and Woolf Esbrand knew that the Danes had only arranged hundreds of elite soldiers in the city gate hole. Three hundred special forces could definitely easily defeat the other side...
In this way, the meeting decided to send Cage and his three hundred special forces that night, using flying claws to quietly climb the city from the unmanned section of the Linhe City Wall in the southeast section, and hooked ropes into the city with claws. Taking advantage of the night, lurked to the inside of the northeast gate of Copenhagen, and then launched a raid, opened the northeast gate, and put the East Friesian army into the city...
After having the attack method, Marin happily called Cage to his side and said with a smile:
Chapter completed!