King of German Mercenaries

After entering Denburg Castle, Frenzberg immediately transferred all the soldiers to the city wall, and arranged for strong people to block the four city gates with a lot of wood, bricks and stones.

The Denburg City Wall was designed by Marin himself, and it is square and similar to the Eastern City Wall. However, this small town is very small, and the length of the walls on each side is only 500 meters. But every 50 meters on the city wall, there is a square stone house similar to the Great Wall beacon tower for the soldiers to rest. Like the beacon tower, there are 4 observation holes/shooting holes on the outside of the square stone house.

Frenzberg scattered all the 200 musketeers who had withdrawn into the stone house on the top of the city, and let them shoot from the shooting hole. Although, it is rainy weather now, and the arquebuses of the musketeers were also wet. However, Franzberg soon distributed a batch of dry matches in leather bags from the storeroom. At the same time, a batch of gunpowder was re-issued, which was also packed in a leather bag to protect against rain.

As a result, the musketeers who entered the stone house at the city head resumed their shooting ability. At the same time, on the side of the Frisian army, although Sivag sent a few bronze cannons to be removed from the warship, it was intended to be used for siege. But what made Siwager so depressed that he vomited blood was that the powder keg on the Frisian warship was damp...

After a long period of shelling, the Frisian army had not much gunpowder left, only about 10 barrels of gunpowder. And Friesland's six warships are not large, there is no multi-deck. Therefore, the Frisian artillery and gunpowder are placed on the top deck. Although the powder keg was not placed directly on the deck, it was also placed directly at the stairway from the top deck leading to the lower cabin for easy access by the gunner.

Unfortunately, the Frisians did not expect the sudden rain, and the powder keg had no rain protection. In addition, during the previous shelling, many barrels filled with gunpowder were opened for backup. Therefore, the Frisian gunpowder is basically damp.

Therefore, the four 6-pounder guns that Sivag brought on land were useless. And this rainy weather seemed to last for a while, so Shivag was helpless.

However, he thought that because of the rainy weather, Texel's musket probably wouldn't work either...

But when the Frisian army approached Den Bosch's walls with a simple ascent ladder, the gunshots rang out...

"I... haven't the arquebus and gunpowder of these bastards got wet? Why can they still shoot!"

Seeing that the first wave of attacking personnel were shot back by arquebuses, Sivag had a huge head. He also didn't think about it, as the base camp of Marin, how could there be no gunpowder and arquebus in reserve...

When the artillery couldn't show its power, Sivag gave up his plan to storm Denburg, and began to divide his troops to loot around Texel Island...

Soon, Siwager's men found a large granary in De Koch, an agricultural village north of Den Burg. The granary was filled with rye...

"Report... big... lord... we found a huge granary!" the captain in charge of the robbery reported to Siwager breathlessly.

"How huge is it?" Sivag, who was confronting the Texel defenders outside Denburg Castle, asked with interest.

"In the granary, there are about 3,000 sacks of rye, each about 100 pounds..."

"What?" Shivag jumped up in shock. His family is also the owner of the manor. The 3,000 bags of rye are about 300,000 pounds of rye, which is several times higher than the annual output of his manor.

"I've sent it, so much food, enough food for a long time. The food we sent out this time can also let that little thief out of Marin. Ahahaha..."

Excited, Sivag immediately sent several four-wheeled carriages with carriages seized from Oldsfield to the De Koch granary to pull grain.

In order to be angry with Franzberg and others on the city wall, Sivag went to De Kooch to transport food, and he almost swaggered past under the city wall.

But Frenzberg is not at all sad, because the big granary in the newspaper city also has 2 million pounds of rye in stock,

Enough to keep Den Burg for a long, long time.

Soon, Shivag's men found another granary in Kirk de Cocks, the northernmost farm on Texel Island, with 4,000 bags of rye...

Sivag was so excited that he didn't know what to say. Soon, he sent someone to take a boat from Odeshilde and returned to the base camp in Harlingen, reporting that the granary on the island was basically robbed by him...

After discovering that there were no more looted granaries on the island, the Frisian army began to plunder the belongings of the farms outside the island's city. What makes people speechless is that these Frisian infantrymen actually regarded the iron farm tools used by the serfs as treasures, and the sickles and hoes were all carried away by the Frisians.

Fortunately, the horses used for farming on the island belonged to Marin and had already been brought into the city by order of Franzberg. And the curved ploughs used for ploughing the land were also locked in Denburg's warehouse. Otherwise, those advanced curved ploughs will definitely be carried away by this group of bandits and cause technical leaks...

After learning that there were about 500 Ugrams of winter wheat in the north of Den Burg, Sivag remembered the order of the councillors - try to destroy all the crops and houses on the island.

So, Sivag sent soldiers to escort a large number of serfs captured from the farm, and ordered them to go down to the ground, uproot the 500 Eugrams of winter wheat saplings, and load them together, and finally throw them into the sea...

Looking at the wheat seedlings thrown into the sea, Sivag let out a arrogant laugh, as if he had already seen the poor and impoverished appearance of Marin after going bankrupt...

At the same time, at the Friesland base camp in Harlingen, several barons were excited when they heard that Siwager had plundered 700,000 pounds of rye from the island, and then began to quarrel fiercely over the distribution of the spoils. stand up……

They all wanted more rye to make up for the cost of sending troops, but they didn't give in to each other. As a result, several members of Congress, in the Harlingen Barracks, blushed and had thick necks, so they almost started to stage a full martial arts exercise.

As for Zitter, Baron of Leeuwarden, he was busy taking several hundred fishermen and their fishing boats from Odysschild to Harlingen to help him fish.

"By the way, pay attention to the artillery of Thorencher!" Governor Fyskefrijheid remembered the 8 heavy artillery in the port of Thorencher.

So, the messenger rushed to the castle of Den Burg and told Siwager, asking Siwager to temporarily abandon the siege of Den Burg, but to find a way to take Thorencher.

So, Siwager left 120 heavy cavalry to monitor Den Burg, and the rest were taken to Tholencher, ready to seize the port...

However, as the only trading port on Texel Island, how could Marin not be careful to manage it? The city walls of Thorencher are not worse than Denburg at all. They are all built with outsourced stones and are extremely strong. Moreover, there are 100 arquebusiers hiding in stone houses on the top of the city...

Siwag had no artillery support, and no siege equipment, so there was nothing he could do with the 400 defenders guarding Tholencher. In desperation, he only scored troops and looted near Thorenche.

As a result, the villagers in the nearby fishing villages were killed, their homes were looted, and many houses were torn down... As for the fishermen themselves and their families, they were also kidnapped.

Because, the Friesian noble republic is a country that attaches great importance to fishing. The fishermen can also provide most of the catch for the nobles of the country.

Therefore, the nobles of the Frisian Aristocratic Republic paid more attention to the fishermen. Instead, they did not kidnap the serfs, but only took away all the property (including rations) and production tools of the serfs. But more than 800 fishermen on the island were kidnapped by the Frisian army...

But the funny thing is that the adobe house built by Marin on Texel Island seems to be relatively strong because of the use of thatch as the "muscle". Therefore, when Frisian soldiers were responsible for destroying houses, they often couldn't smash the walls, which made it difficult to destroy.

On the other hand, those old houses with wooden structures are very easy to destroy, and they will fall down when they are smashed, and it will be destroyed at one point...

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