Marin's drawings were quickly sent to Hamburg and Lübeck, but they were rejected by Lübeck. Although it is said that Kiel is also a subordinate city www.biquge.info of Lübeck now, the core of Lübeck must still be Lübeck City. Therefore, in the eyes of the Lübeck parliamentarians, it is better to have a direct canal to Lübeck.

Hamburg, too. Although it was easier to dig a canal between Lenzburg and Kiel, they were not happy to do so because of the lack of access to the city of Hamburg. When news came from Lübeck, the Hamburg parliament also rejected Marin's proposal. However, Weizmann's proposal to exchange the county of Dietmarchen for Lenzburg was approved by the Hamburg parliament.

Why is this happening? The main reason is that in this era in Europe, there was no agricultural tax, only a commercial tax......

No matter how vast the countryside is, there is no tax, and the benefits are taken by the lords and nobles of the manor. For the Hamburg parliament, the countryside was less important than a Hanseatic city with a commercial tax.

Therefore, the Hamburg parliament finally decided to exchange the county of Dietmarchen for the Hanseatic commercial city of Lenzburg.

Marin was a little stunned -- taking a county of more than 1,000 square kilometers in exchange for a small town with a suburban part of only a few square kilometers, did the Hamburg parliamentarians teach mathematics to the janitors?

But whatever, in the end, it is himself who benefits, although there may be no tax in the short term, but Marin believes that the ultimate benefit must be greater himself. After all, one county of Dietmarshin is basically one-third the size of East Friesian Lamber. As for the local resistance force, it was never in Marin's eyes. As long as you guard against the opponent's old tricks and come to a "flooded Seventh Army", your own side will definitely defeat the other party. You must know that the last time Dietmarshin resisted Denmark, he only used 1,000 main militia and 3,000 people. In front of Marin's 20,000 troops, this is absolutely difficult to resist.

As for the one who used floods to drown thousands of Danish elite Woolf. Esbrand, Marin would be interested in meeting him. After all, in Europe, which is accustomed to hard encounters, it is rare to be able to come up with a strategy to drown the enemy army by breaking the levee.

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In this way, Marin handed over the newly captured Hanseatic merchant city of Lenzburg to Hamburg. Then, continuing with his large army, he began to march towards the rest of the Duchy of Schleswig.

The Duchy of Schleswig was not only about 5,200 square kilometers north of the Elder River in the later state of Schleswig-Holstein, but also about 3,900 square kilometers north of the border between Germany and Denmark. That land was later called South Jutland. If you include the later Danish county of South Jutland, the area of the Duchy of Schleswig totals 9,200 square kilometers.

Of course, the Duchy of Schleswig was actually a Danish vassal state for a long time. In 1460, Christian I of the House of Oldenburg, having inherited both the Duchy of Holstein and the Duchy of Schleswig, declared the two principalities to be united and indivisible. Although two palaces were stationed in Glückstadt and Schleswig, the two principalities were "never separated" according to the Treaty of Riber signed by Christian I in 1460.

But neither Marin, nor Lübeck nor Hamburg took this Liberty very seriously. After all, it was a human treaty, not God's will, and there was nothing that could not be changed. It's a big deal to force the current king of Denmark, Hans, to sign another treaty......

In fact, the situation in the Duchy of Schleswig is very complicated. In the later South Jutland region, it was the Danes who lived. The area south of South Jutland, on the other hand, is inhabited by Germans. Therefore, when Germany and Denmark signed an agreement in the 19th century, the southern half of Schleswig, which was occupied by Germans, was assigned to Germany; The northern half of the area was Danish and was assigned to Denmark. In other words, the Schleswig region, with all Germans in the south and Danes in the north, is two completely different places.

Marin, however, was not so worried. Because, in this era, nationalism had not yet emerged, and people did not care much about the differences between Germans and Danes. As long as they are kind to the common people and let them live a good life, they don't care who rules them. The rise of true nationalism was in the 19th century. At present, there is no problem with the unification of the Catholic regions of Europe. As long as it is not unified with the Orthodox Church or the Green Church, there will be no major problems. Of course, the ruler should not oppress the people too much.

As for the question of whether the Danish king agrees or disagrees, Marin is not worried. He first led a large army and occupied Schleswig, along with Jutland. If Hans, the king of Denmark, refuses to cede the Duchy of Schleswig and the Duchy of Holstein, then the whole of Jutland will not be returned to Denmark......

The Duchy of Schleswig is mainly composed of several cities such as the city of Schleswig, Husum, Ekchenford, Flensburg, Riber, and Obenro. Of course, none of these cities are large, only Schleswig and Flensburg have the table. Several others are small cities and have underdeveloped commerce.

Of these, Husum is the capital of North Friesland County. In North Frisian County, which covers an area of more than 2,000 square kilometers, most people are Frisians and speak Frisian, which is one of the important reasons why Marin is willing to ask for the Duchy of Schleswig. After all, the Frisian fishermen were an important source of sailors for him to dominate the oceans.

The city of Schleswig, not far north of Lenzburg, was besieged by Marin with an army of 28,000 men. Then, naturally, there was an artillery bombardment of the door. But what Marin didn't expect was that after learning that Marin's artillery was bombarding the south gate with all his might, he directly sent masons all the way to use a large number of bricks to completely build a wall on the inside of the south gate, and it was a very thick wall......

When Marin's artillery blasted open the oak gates of Schleswig, Doni . Ciri rushed to the city gate, but was dumbfounded. Because, there is no place to stuff the powder keg...... After all, behind the oak door, there is a thick wall, and there are no gaps for powder kegs......

So, Doni. Ciri had no choice but to return to the formation and report the situation to Marin......

"What? The other party built the inside of the city gate into a wall? This is too......" Marin was also a little dumbfounded.

In the past, the cities that Marin attacked were faced with bricks, stones, and wood behind the city gates. Although it is tightly blocked, there are still gaps. Dhoni. With a few more pulls, he will always find room for a powder keg. However, if the other party has built the hole in the city gate behind the city gate to death and built a dead wall, it will be difficult to set a powder keg. Even if you put a powder keg, it will be difficult to blow up the thick walls. Because loose piles of masonry and timber and complete walls are two completely different concepts.

In desperation, Marin had no choice but to order the transfer of artillery positions and divide the 16 heavy guns into two, one to bombard the west gate with all his strength and the other to bombard the north gate with all his might......

The next day, both doors were blasted out of their holes. Marin sent a demolition team to inspect and found that the back of the west gate had also been built into a dead wall by masons. But behind the north gate, only part of the brick has been built, and the yellow mud between the bricks and the bricks is still wet and not strong enough. So, Marin decisively ordered Donitsley, with three members of the demolition team, with three powder kegs and iron picks, to dig a big hole in the new wall that had just been built, put the three powder kegs in them, bury them, and then light them......

Three powder kegs blew up the wall of the North City Gate, which was only half built. Then, with the big shield soldiers in front and the two-handed swordsmen behind, Marin bravely rushed into the city of Schleswig, and served the local nobles such as Muerte......

After a few small cities, it will be easier to fight. The gates of the city of Husum were made very thin, and they were far less strong than the city of Schleswig. Marin ordered the shelling for an hour, and the gates of Husum were breached. Without the need for Marin to send a demolition team, the local defenders immediately chose to surrender.

As the second largest city in the Duchy of Schleswig, Flensburg has a strong city gate, but it can't stop the barbaric city-breaking mode of heavy artillery + powder keg blasting. After the city was broken, the local defenders and nobles chose to surrender.

North, however, in the area north of Flensburg, Marin met with more resistance. Because, to the north of Flensburg, it was from the German-inhabited area to the Danish inhabited area.

Although, Marin's army was disciplined and did not rob the people. However, in response to the old saying that "those who are not of my race must have different hearts", the Danish nobles had a very low sense of identification with the coalition forces, and their resistance was very strong.

Basically, after entering the Danish region, no small town or manor is willing to surrender voluntarily. As a last resort, Marin had no choice but to divide his troops and uproot these recalcitrant towns and manors one by one, killing rivers of blood.

When it came to the city of Obenro, although the gates were blasted open and the army rushed in, none of the local nobles were willing to surrender. As a result, all 48 local nobles of the city of Obenro, large and small, were killed in battle, and none of them surrendered. And before they died in battle, they also brought casualties to Marin's army that no other city had seen - a full 300 people......

In a fit of rage, Marin disregarded his entire clan and arrested the families of the 48 local nobles who had fought to the death. When the army marched under the city of Ribe, Marin killed all the families of the 48 recalcitrant nobles of Obenro in front of all the defenders of the city, totaling 230 people.

For a while, before the battle began, there was already a river of blood outside the city of Liber, and the air was filled with the screams of women and children......

The nobles defending the city of Liber were all stupid, they didn't expect to meet a person like Marin, who completely disregarded the glory of the nobles, and actually slaughtered innocent noble families in public.

Killing women and children in public, and they are all noble family members, is tantamount to being completely shameless. In the face of such a shameless Marin, these nobles of Lieber City were also frightened. In order to avoid the death of the whole family after the city was destroyed, the city of Liber chose to surrender without a fierce battle......

At this point, the Duchy of Schleswig was completely captured by the coalition forces, and only some remote rural areas were left to occupy......

And the time, just a month and a few days have passed. On the day Marin took the city of Riebe, it was only March 15th, which was a good time for spring ploughing......