Chapter 485: "Embattled" Choir
Marin was eating an oyster sauce steak when suddenly a bunch of English recruits asked to see him. Marin didn't know what was going on, so he met with them.
But when he heard that these English recruits were actually going to rob his daughter-in-law, Marin's face immediately darkened......
"Are these bastards here to fight, or are they here to rob women?" Although he thought so, Marin didn't say it. After all, it would be very demoralizing to rudely refuse these boys.
So, after thinking about it, Marin said softly:
"Lads, girls will. But you'll have to wait until the battle is over. Now, the war is not over yet, don't think about it! After the fight, you will definitely be allowed to choose your own Danish girl as a wife. However, you are not allowed to rob a married woman! Of course, the premise of all this is that we have to win! ”
"Don't worry, for the sake of women, we will fight bravely!"
Then, Marlin watched as the over-energetic fellows returned to camp with a look of longing on their faces......
In the days that followed, the English recruits began to discuss what kind of Danish girl they were going to take as a wife...... For a time, the camp tent was full of topics of eighteen prohibitions......
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During this time, because it was a siege, Marin's army looked very leisurely. But after Marin climbed the heights and observed with a telescope, he noticed that the Danish defenders seemed to be very leisurely......
This is unbearable, and our army is relaxed because it has won. How could Nima's Danish army also look so laid-back? So, Marin, who was not in a good mood, decided to make some trouble for the Danish army. At the very least, don't make them feel so good......
Originally, Marin planned to send troops to attack the city at night so that the other party could not sleep well. However, after thinking about it, such a method seems to be very tormenting to my own people......
After all, even if it is a feint, the movement in the middle of the night is definitely not small. In that case, everyone won't want to sleep.
In the dead of night, Ma Lin suddenly had a flash of inspiration, thinking of the "embattled" strategy used by the Han army when Chu and Han were fighting for hegemony, and sang away the military spirit of the Chu overlord in the city, causing Xiang Yu, the Chu overlord with 100,000 troops, to break through and flee with only 800 cavalry, and finally defeated......
Thinking of this, Marin gathered hundreds of Danish-speaking soldiers in the army early the next morning, and asked them to take their soldiers and horses to various villages on the island of Zealand, searching for singing women and old people, as well as many lovely children......
Of course, this is not that Marin wants to use these people to blackmail the soldiers at the head of the city, but that he wants to use them to break the morale of the Danish army in the city......
In any case, there are still more than 10,000 regular troops in Copenhagen. If the other party desperately defends it, Marin is also a little helpless. After all, the army under Marin's command is better at breaking the enemy in formation, and it is suitable for night battles. In the face of the strong city walls, there is also some rut. If there was enough gunpowder, Marin would have been able to bombard the walls with all his might. However, the gunpowder is a little lacking now...... Therefore, it is best to use some other tricks......
Within a few days, the Danish-speaking warriors had found more than 2,000 Danish women and old men who could sing, as well as hundreds of children with crisp voices.
Then, Marin began to ask the Danish women to sing in Danish the love songs of the women who miss their lovers and the wives who miss their husbands......
A few days later, Marin screened out some of the most poignant love songs for the women to practice singing in unison. And those who can sing are responsible for singing some songs that parents miss their children as harmonies......
After a week of practice, more than 2,000 women and elderly people are singing neatly. As a result, Marin officially formed the "Embattled" choir and was ready to enlarge the recruitment......
After having had enough rest during the day, at midnight that night, the "embattled" choir of more than 2,000 people began its first chorus outside the range of bows and arrows near the walls of Copenhagen......
First, the women sang in unison the song of longing for their husbands and lovers, and at Marin's request, they sang very poignantly......
After the women had sung a song, the old men continued to sing a song of longing for their son, deep and sad......
As for the hundreds of children with their voices in a crisp voice, their task was to cry for their fathers as the women sang about their wives missing their husbands......
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The mournful singing immediately alarmed the Danish defenders in the city. It was so quiet in the middle of the night, and the chorus of more than 2,000 people, although it was sung in a deep voice, was sung by more people, and it still spread far and wide......
Marin inquired that there are more than 10,000 Danish veterans in the city, many of whom are married and have children, but most of their hometowns are in the countryside. Either on Zealand, or on the island of Funen, or on Jutland......
After all, this is not the later industrial era, and there are more people in the city. Now, the majority of people live in the countryside, and the few who live in the cities.
Therefore, when these Danish veterans entered Copenhagen for defense, their families were basically left behind in their hometown in the countryside......
At this moment, the mournful singing was heard, which immediately alarmed most of the Danish soldiers - they could not sleep anymore......
And the cries of the hundreds of children "want a father" made those Danish veterans who were married and have children listen to it, and their hearts are like knives......
They thought that at this moment in Denmark, only the city of Copenhagen had not yet fallen. However, everywhere else, it must have fallen......
So, what happened to their parents, wives and children now?
They don't dare to think about it, because they are afraid that it will end badly......
However, the lamentation of the night reminded them of their parents, wives and children at home in the countryside. The children cried and shouted, which broke the hearts of many Danish soldiers who became fathers......
Some Danish soldiers couldn't help crying......
A kind of sadness and despair began to spread in the Danish military camps......
As for Marin's barracks, although those songs were also heard. However, it was all sung in Danish, and most of the soldiers did not understand it. So, everyone's emotions were not affected too much. Unlike in the Danish barracks in the city, morale has already plummeted......
The next day, the Danish women, the elderly, and the children, who had been singing sad songs all night, were also tired. Marin arranged for them to eat bread and then let them rest.
In the middle of the night of the next day, the "embattled" choir of these well-slept Danish women, old people and children came out to sing sad songs again......
And so on, and so on. The Danish soldiers did not sleep well at night, and the homesickness caused by these sad songs made everyone in poor spirits.
The Danish officers saw it in their eyes and were anxious in their hearts, but there was nothing they could do. They can't let people shoot arrows at those Danish women and children, can they? Not to mention that the other party is outside the firing range, even if it is within the firing range, they cannot give this order. For, among these women and children, there were indeed wives and children of the Danish soldiers in the city. If he had ordered these men to be shot, his soldiers would have rebelled. Therefore, there is no solution to this, so everyone can only cover their ears and sleep as much as possible in the middle of the night.
But how could the Danish soldiers really sleep with their ears covered in indifference? Guided by homesickness, they can't help but listen and feel sad......
The morale of the Danish soldiers is declining day by day...... 10