King of German Mercenaries - Chapter 287

At this time, it was getting dark, but Marin didn’t have the idea of ​​rest. Instead, he took 6,000 men and kept going north, hoping to rush the road overnight, trying to intercept the 4000 Saxon army that surrounded Emden.

In this decisive battle, Marin took 10,000 troops, with a total of five or six hundred casualties. It was mainly the losses suffered during the early shelling and the later total attack.

萨 The Saxons are not the same. More than 1,400 people were killed or wounded and died of plate armor knights alone. Nearly 2,000 plate armor knights became captives. The remaining more than a thousand plate knights either fled east with the Duke of Saxony or fled across the river.

As for the infantry, the Saxons have suffered even greater losses. 15,000 Saxon infantry, more than 2900 people died or died. Among them, more than 700 people were the casualties caused by the trample on each other after the defeat of the Saxony army. As for the remaining 12,000 people, a small number of them escaped by swimming, but 11,000 people laid down their weapons and became Marin’s captives. There are also 15,000 minions opposite, Marin sent 2,000 people to pursue. Those folks have very little courage, basically no fighting power, and no weapons. Although there are 15,000 people, 2,000 soldiers are enough to scare them. The only problem is that 2,000 people are enough to catch people.

If Marin takes the main force to catch up, these 15,000 people will definitely not run away. But because Marin wanted to bring Emden back to aid, he could only send 2,000 people across the river to pursue. As a result, Marin did not know how many people could be returned because there were not enough followers.

Why Marin hurried back to make a clearance for Emden? Not that Marin was worried that Adler could not keep it, but that the supreme commander of the Saxony army who besieged Emden was George, the eldest son and heir of the Duke of Saxon …

老 The old fox, Duke of Saxony, fled lightly. Marin did not have enough cavalry to chase after him, only to sigh at their back. But George’s 4,000 are different.

Although it is said that George’s 4000 Saxony army is regular, it is useless. Because Adler has the advantage of occupying the tall and sturdy city walls. Although they are all militia, they can also last for ten and a half months.

Marin cares about George himself. As long as George was seized, Marin used capital to open the conditions to the Duke of Saxony. It can be said that as the first heir of the Principality of Saxony, similar to the crown princes of those kingdoms, George’s worth is still very high. Grab him, and you can be more confident about the conditions.

Alas, it was not easy for George to surround Saxony. Because, his army needs to cross the Ames …

不同 The Ames River is different from the Leda River. The Leda River is only a small and medium-sized channel, and it is a tributary of the Ames River. The Ames is one of the great rivers in Germany. In particular, Emden is near the estuary downstream of the Ames, where the river is very wide.

With such a wide river, it is unrealistic to build a pontoon. Therefore, George’s army used many ships to transport it across the river. The place where the ship stayed was just east of Emden, only about 15 kilometers from the battlefield in Lyle County. If you hurry, you can arrive in the middle of the night.

所说 The arrival here is the place where the enemy landed. What to do there It is natural to rob the Saxons to cross the river …

As long as the ships were seized in the dark, George, who surrounded Emden, and his men’s army lost their retreat. When the Army of Marin arrived, George and his men would be difficult to fly under the internal and external pinch …

However, in order to prevent George from running away by boat, Marin sent someone to notify Captain Kidd, so that after helping to repair the pontoon, he went north overnight and arrived at the water surface near Emden to prevent George from learning his father, A boat escaped …

When Captain Kidd’s fleet destroyed the Saxon pontoon, he only burned down the boat close to the side of the Saxon army battlefield, but did not move the boat near the South Shore Minfu station. Anyway, in such a critical situation, Marin doesn’t think that the folks across the river have the courage to risk their lives and row to cross the river to meet, and this is indeed the case …

After the main battlefield was divided, Captain Kidd led people to collect the remaining ships on the south bank of the Leda River and began to build a pontoon. Then, the three warships left the Leda River, and then received Marin’s order … their next task was very simple, to patrol the estuary and stop any boats running from East Friesland, Prevent George from getting in …

After the arrangement, Marin’s army arrived at the landing site of the Saxony army in West Friesland more than ten kilometers away in the middle of the night, and saw a large number of Saxon ships …

Also, at this time the entire temporary dock, the Saxons basically went to sleep …

In the terrified eyes of the Saxons, Marin suddenly appeared with his army, seized the entire temporary dock, and controlled more than a hundred West Frisian ships, large and small. As a result, the Saxon’s trail was cut off by boat.

Then, Marin ordered his men, except to stay on duty, to rest, waiting for the next day to arrive under Emden, to surround and intercept Her Majesty’s army …

He was also a brainless man. According to the original plan of the Duke of Saxony, he should organize the fleet to land and surround the city of Emden after receiving the news that the main battlefield of Lyle County was divided.

However, the arrogant George believes that the main force of Saxony is twice as likely as the enemy and there are many plate knights ~ www.mtlnovel.com ~ is impossible to lose. So, in the morning, after learning that the army of Saxony and Marin were in contact, they took the men and horses without permission and began to land a few kilometers east of Emden, and surrounded Adler in the afternoon. Emden City …

Then, when the army of Saxony collapsed, no one sent a letter to George to inform him of the bad news. So George, who was so proud of besieging Emden, didn’t know yet that his old-fashioned father had lost …

In the middle of the night, when Marin’s main force arrived at the temporary landing site of the Saxony army, because of a night attack, hundreds of auxiliary troops guarding the temporary dock were captured by Marin’s men in his sleep. Therefore, no one escaped to report to George.

So, when Marin suddenly appeared from behind with an army of 6,000 in the morning on December 16th, George was all bad. In the same way, the generals of his Saxons are also aggressive …

In the eyes of the generals George and Saxon, their Duke is tactical and omnipotent. Therefore, they never thought that the Duke of Saxony, who had twice as many troops, would lose. Therefore, they never considered that Marin would return with a large army. Because, they believe that Marin at this time was either killed or captured directly on the battlefield, or retired into Lyle County after defeat, relying on the city walls to block the Saxon army. Therefore, they did not expect that Marin would solve the Saxony army on the same day and be able to bring the army back to aid the next day.

So, at this time, the Saxon army, under the leadership of George, surrounded Emden, but did not have the support of the Marin army. Because, they thought it was impossible … When Marin’s army appeared, all the Saxons felt wrong and unbelievable …