Chapter 204: Brutal street fighting

Entering the city of Marin, he was ordered to play the banner of the Brock family—a red shield with a golden battle eagle. On the head of the war eagle, on the left and right wings, each wore a crown with three crosses.
After the army entered the city, it was natural to wipe out dozens of East Frisian soldiers who came for reinforcements. However, Emden's persistence was terrible. At least, its streets are narrow. What about narrowness? You can imagine those ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River, whose streets are only about three or four people away side by side ...
There can only be four people side by side, or two horses in parallel. Such a width was relatively rare in the European Middle Ages. Because only the streets of small towns can be so narrow.
In fact, the entire city of Emden has only one north-south avenue, which is relatively spacious. Because this avenue leads directly to the port south of Emden. For business needs, the Sykesna family has particularly widened this street. East-west streets have not yet had time to widen.
Because, although Emden is a trading port, it is very small. Earlier, Emden also sought to join the Hanseatic League. However, because the trade was small and the port was not up to standard, it was rejected by the Hanseatic League.
Frankly speaking, the Selxner family is still a more promising family. Moreover, the rulers of this family did not exploit the common people too much, and they were considered better nobles in this era. Therefore, when the 24th vassals jointly invaded East Frisian in 1516, the common people also climbed up the city walls to help the Sexner family defend the coalition's offensive and eventually won.
Marin suddenly had some regrets, regretting that he didn't let people go to the south gate to open the city gate, and then let the main force enter from the south gate. However, although the streets are narrow, they are also pedestrian-friendly. That is, the trellis of the army cannot be developed.
When the garrison in the city reacted, the offensive difficulty increased greatly ...
Marin's square was entered from the east gate, and after about 400 meters ahead, it seemed to be close to Emden Palace in the center of the city. At this time, East Frisian's straw hat swordman finally arrived ...
East Frisian's heavy armored swordsmen are very interesting. They wear upper body plate armor, which is similar to ordinary heavy armored swordsmen. However, instead of wearing helmets, they wear wide-brimmed straw hats with local characteristics. This straw hat has a wide brim and a size that resembles a bucket in the south of China, but with a different shape.
If the road is wider, Marin is naturally not worried. However, the road that can only accommodate 4 people was blocked by 100 enemy forces at once ...
The 100 East Frisian Straw Hat Swordsmen, along with the 200 West Frisian Heavy Armor Swordsmen who were pioneers of the Marin School, fought together. There is not much difference between the martial arts of the two sides, and the narrow streets are actually not very suitable for the heavy armored swordsmen of Dahe Dahe. Therefore, the Episcopals of both sides fought very hard.
However, the way forward of the Marin army was blocked, and the army had to stop and wait for the battle ahead ...
"Kahn, you take a group of people, go from the side alley to the side of the enemy, destroy the enemy, they are blocking the way!"
Marin was a little impatient, so he asked Kahn to bring dozens of guys wearing full-body plate armor, intending to go from the side alley to the side of the enemy ...
But then something unexpected happened ...
When Kahn took the horse into the alley, he was ambushed ...
"What's going on? Kahn? What's wrong?" Marin was taken aback, thinking that it was Edsad I's ambush.
"It's nothing, it's the citizens of Emden. They stopped us and didn't let us pass!"
"Oh, that's the case, then fight them back!" Marin was relieved.
"But, sir, they moved everything from the house, even the furniture, and blocked the alley ..."
"I ..." Marin was a little bit rude. The streets were originally narrow and the alleys were even narrower. These Emden citizens are really uncomfortable stuffing their tables and stools into the alleys. In particular, those who wear full plate armor, such as Kahn, are most vulnerable to restrictions.
"What to do, master?"
"Break me! Use your mace to smash all the clutter of furniture and other things that are blocking the road. Be sure to clear a road!"
"What about the citizens who stand in front?"
"The blocker is dead!"
"Ah?" Kahn listened a little. Because he hit civilians with maces, he hasn't done it, not even thought about it.
"Kahn, they are blocking our way, they are no longer civilians, but fighters fighting us, destroy them!" Marin didn't like the pace of marching was hindered. Therefore, he has no good opinion of these citizens who are opposed to Marin's army. He had to quickly control Emden before the forces of all sides reacted, and then sent troops to control the entire territory of East Friesland.
Therefore, Marin was impatient and had no time to persuade these people to surrender. Under the situation of tense war, Marin did not hesitate to order the clean-up for the citizens who had blocked themselves from marching ...
Soon, Kahn gritted his teeth, raised his mace, and spearheaded the furniture, debris, and ... people ...
"哐 当 哐 当 " From time to time, debris and furniture were smashed and smashed.
But after a while, the sound was a bit unsightly-screams came from the alley ...
"Ah-" There are young men, old people, and even women ...
"How is this possible?" Marin was shocked. He didn't expect that in order to cover the Sequner family's army, old men and women were involved in the fight that blocked Kahn's advance ... It seemed that the Sequner family had a great reputation in Emden. High ...
Marin was still shocked, but the people in Emden reacted ...
"Ah? These are killing civilians! Bastards! We fight with them!" The 100 East Frisian Straw Hat Swordsmen, who were originally in a disadvantage, seemed to be completely outraged after hearing the screams of the elderly and women. As a result, these people broke out a lot stronger than usual, and began to fight desperately with the 200 West Frisian Episcopals as forwards. At the same time, 400 straw hat swordsmen opened in the middle of the city ...
The 700 West Frisian prisoners of war that Marin arranged to take the lead, did not seem to expect that the opponent suddenly burst into tyrannical combat power, so he was defeated one after another, directly blocking the marin army's pace ...
At first sight, Marin could not do this, so he personally led a group of soldiers wearing plate armor from the alley on the other side, ready to attack the enemy's other wing.
However, to his surprise, the alley was still blocked by the citizens of Emden. It was full of furniture, debris, and people ...
"Give me a break, otherwise the blockers will die!" Marin shouted angrily in Frisian.
"We are not afraid of death, and we will never let your robbers harm the Earl!" It seems that Edsad I had a high reputation in Emden, and there were residents willing to die for him.
"I'm not a robber. I'm the heir of the Bullock family. Do you see this banner? Golden Eagle Red Shield!"
"We don't know what the Brock family is, we only know that Lord Earl is very good to us and better than other lords, we must swear to defend him!"
"As long as you give way, I can win East Frisian, and I can treat you as well. I'm no worse than Edsad I!" Marin argued.
"We don't believe you, robber, intruder!"
"I rub, you forced me!" Marin was angry. Obviously, these Emden citizens have chosen to be hostile to themselves. For the enemy, Marin will never show mercy to his men, even if they are old and weak.
In previous lives, the veteran in the village that taught Marin to capture and fight was once overcast by an old and weak woman on the battlefield in South Vietnam. Once, the former master of Marin, because of his kindness, relaxed his worries about the old and weak women and children in the villages of South Vietnam. Unexpectedly, a 9-year-old girl even used AK, severely injured him, and fell into disability. As a result, the veteran had to retire to his hometown and spend the rest of his life in desolation. Because, the little girl, because of insufficient arm strength, failed to kill Marin with a gun, but broke the calf of one leg of it ...
Later, the master of Marin repeatedly warned Marin-no matter whether the other party is male or female, old or young, as long as the other party takes up arms and is your enemy, then don't show mercy ...
Thinking of the master, Marin no longer hesitated:
"Musketeers, prepare--"
"put--"
Although the alley is very narrow, two muskets can still be discharged side by side, and although the number of single rows is small, the number of shots can be increased by increasing the number of rotations. Then, the Emden citizen in front of him was tragedy ...
"Ah ... it hurts ..."
"Mom, my heart is pierced ..."
After clearing a dozen people in the alley, Marin began to order the furniture and debris in the alley ...
However, when Marin and his men cleaned up the alley in the alley and rushed to the street, he discovered that more people came from the enemy ...
What made Marin even more surprised was that these "recruits" were not regular soldiers, but young male citizens with a variety of weapons. Some people even use a kitchen knife ...
Marin suddenly had a deep sense of guilt, feeling that she was an executioner, and it was shameless to start with the women and children. However, thinking of the past master's encounter, thinking of myself must also protect my comrades and relatives ...
Finally, Marin eliminated the internal tangles and regained his coldness in his eyes:
"Since they choose to be against me and want to kill us, then ... let them die!"
Then, instead of sending soldiers to the street, Marin calmly ordered the Musketeers to climb up the roof of the houses on both sides of the street and shoot the enemies on the street freely. Moreover, shooting down from a high place has a wider field of vision and can also accommodate more musketeers ...
"Hit me! Give priority to those who wear armor and straw hats!" At a distance of dozens of meters, even a rifle can be aimed. Although, at a certain distance, aiming may not be useful ...
Under the cover and shooting of the musketeers on the roof, the West Frisian POW soldiers who lost dozens of people finally stood up to the crazy counterattack of the East Frisian Straw Hat Swordsmen. The situation has also begun to develop in a direction beneficial to Marin ...
However, in order to rush towards the palace in the center of the city, too many people died on the street, blood, and the street was red ... even, among the dead, many were civilians in Emden ...
Seeing all this, Marin's eyes were a little red. He stood standing on the roof, shouting at the rebellious East Frisian army and civilians on the street:
"Why don't you surrender? You have no chance of winning at all! I have brought thousands of soldiers and horses and will certainly be able to successfully occupy the entire city. Your resistance is simply futile and will only increase deaths and injuries!"
"Is your life cheap? Why go to the dead? I don't want to kill you, and you will be safe if you surrender, understand? Understand?" Marin yelled excitedly.
However, for Marin's persuasion, only one feather arrow answered him, straight into Marin's chest ...
But this is futile. Because, in Marin's white cross black vest, there are excellent breastplate armor ...
However, this arrow angered Kahn and other Marin men:
"You want to kill Master, you bastards, me, let me die!" Originally, Kahn was still very resistant to killing civilians, even if the other party was holding a weapon to fight him. However, when he saw the arrow in Marin's chest, even if he knew that Marin was not a big deal, Kahn broke out. He picked up a mace, rushed to the front of the battlefield, and began to smash, whether it was a straw hat swordsman, Or those citizens of Emden who came to help, flew under the mace ...
"It's over, it's over! This time the hatred can't be resolved ..." Marin covered his face in pain, squatted down, and couldn't bear to see the scenes of ordinary people being killed, and the obsessed people took the initiative to ask for their death ...
Originally ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Marin was just going to scare them, kill a few of them, and calm them down. Unfortunately, he met a group of abnormal people. Some people were killed, but they were not able to scare them, but they stimulated their blood. Today, Marin is also difficult to ride a tiger ...
Before that, Marin fantasized about Li Yuanjin's coming to Changan to come up with three chapters of law and quickly soothe the citizens of Emden. Unexpectedly, this city was met with fierce resistance from the citizens as soon as it entered the city. For the sake of this, I can only continue to fight hard. After all, Marin's strength is dominant ...
Moreover, this time Marin completely understood why the Emperor and the Duke of Saxony joined forces in 1516, and the 24 princes and the army of ten thousand and thousand participated in the attack on East Frisian.
What about the siege of thousands of troops? There are not enough soldiers, people come together! Faced with such a group of zealous people loyal to their count, the already strong Emden walls were even harder to break. If Marin hadn't sent someone to dig the tunnel beforehand and opened the gate, could the 6,000 men and horses have captured Emden, a question mark would have to be asked.
It seems that the count of East Frisian at that time was also Edsad I. What charm of this person actually made the citizens of Emden willing to die for him, Marin suddenly had a sense of inquiry ...