After entering the city of Den Burg, Frundsberg immediately transferred all the soldiers to the city wall and arranged for the people to seal the four city gates with a large amount of wood, bricks and stones.
The Den Burg city wall was designed by Marin himself. It is boxy, similar to the oriental city wall. However, this small city 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 beacon tower of the Great Wall for soldiers to rest. Like the beacon tower, there are 4 observation holes/shooting holes on the outside of the square stone house.
Frundsberg dispersed all the 200 musketeers who had withdrawn into the stone houses on the top of the city, and let them shoot from the firing holes. Although, it is rainy now, the matchlocks of the musketeers were also wet. However, Frundsberg quickly distributed a batch of dry matchlock in leather bags from the storeroom. At the same time, a batch of gunpowder was reissued, which was also packed in leather bags to prevent rain.
As a result, the musketeers who entered the stone house at the top of the city regained their shooting ability. At the same time, on the Frisian army's side, although Sivager sent people to dismantle a few bronze cannons from the warship, they planned to use them to attack the city. But what made Sivager 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 very little gunpowder left, only 10 barrels of gunpowder. The 6 warships in Friesland were not large and did not have multiple decks. Therefore, the artillery and gunpowder of the Frisians are placed on the top deck. Although the gunpowder barrel was not placed directly on the deck, it was also placed directly at the stairway leading from the top deck to the lower cabin for the convenience of the gunner.
Unfortunately, the Frisians did not expect the sudden rain and did not protect the powder kegs from rain. In addition, during the previous shelling, many wooden barrels containing gunpowder were opened for backup. Therefore, the gunpowder of the Frisians is basically damp.
Therefore, the four 6-pound guns that Sivager brought on land were useless. And this rainy weather seemed to last for a while, and Sivager was helpless about it.
However, he thought that because of the rainy weather, Texel's musket might not be usable...
However, when the Frisian army approached the city wall of Den Burg with a simple climbing ladder, the gun rang...
"I... haven't the matchlocks and powder of these bastards been soaked? Why can they still shoot!"
Seeing the first wave of attacking personnel being shot back by matchlock guns, Siwager's head was huge. He didn't even think about it, how could Tenburg, as Marin's base camp, have no reserves of gunpowder and matchlocks...
With the artillery unable to show its power, Sivager gave up his plan to storm Denburg, and began to divide his troops to go around Texel Island to rob...
Soon, Sivager's men found a large granary in De Koog, an agricultural village north of Den Burg. The granary was filled with rye...
"Report... lord... lord...we found a huge granary!" The captain in charge of the robbery reported to Sivager out of breath.
"How huge is it?" Sivager, who was confronting the Texel defenders outside Den Burg, asked with interest.
"In the granary, there are about 3,000 sacks of rye, each weighing about 100 pounds..."
"What?" Sivager jumped up in shock. His family is also the owner of the manor. 3,000 bags of rye are about 300,000 pounds of rye, which is several times higher than the annual output of his manor.
"Fat, send, so much food, enough to last for a long time. The food we dispatched this time can also make the little thief Marin come out. Hahahaha..."
Excited, Sivager immediately sent several wagons with carriages seized from Aldersfield to the De Koog granary to pull grain.
In order to annoy Frundsberg and others on the city wall, Sivager went to De Koch to transport grain, almost swaggering past under the city wall.
But Frundsberg is not sad at all, because the large granary in the city of Dengbao still has 2 million pounds of rye in reserve, which is enough to keep the city of Denburg alive for a long time.
Soon, Sivager's men found another granary in Cork de Cox, the northernmost farm on Texel Island, with 4,000 bags of rye in stock...
Sivager was so excited that he didn't know what to say. Soon, he sent someone to take a boat from Odesschild and return to the Harlingen base camp, reporting that the granary on the island was basically robbed by him...
After discovering that there were no surplus granaries to loot on the island, the Frisian army began to plunder the property of the farms outside the city on the island. What makes people speechless is that these Frisian infantrymen even 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 to cultivate the land on the island belonged to Marin and had already been brought into the city by Frundsberg's order. And those curved shaft plows used for farming were also locked in the warehouse in Den Burg. Otherwise, those advanced Quyuanli will definitely be carried away by these bandits and cause technology leaks...
After learning that there were about 500 Ugrams of winter wheat in the north of Den Burg, Sivager remembered the orders of the councilors—trying 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 to the ground, pull up all the 500 Ugrams of young winter wheat seedlings, ship them together, and finally throw them into the sea...
Looking at the wheat seedlings thrown into the sea, Sivager laughed arrogantly, as if he had seen Marin's poverty after bankruptcy...
At the same time, at the Friesian coalition headquarters in Harlingen, several barons were very excited when they heard that Sivager had plundered 700,000 pounds of rye from the island, and then began to quarrel fiercely over the distribution of these spoils stand up…
They all wanted to share more rye to compensate for the cost of sending troops, but they refused to give in to each other. As a result, in the Harlingen barracks, several congressmen were so blushing and thick-necked that they almost staged a full-scale martial arts.
As for Zitter, Baron of Leeuwarden, he was busy taking hundreds of fishermen from Oderschild and their fishing boats into Harlingen to help him fish.
"By the way, pay attention to the artillery of Te Horenche!" Governor Fyskefrijheid remembered the 8 heavy artillery in the port of Te Horenche.
Therefore, the messenger rushed to the base of Den Burg and told Sivager to ask him to give up the siege of Den Burg for the time being, but to find a way to capture Te Horenche.
Therefore, Sivager left 120 heavy cavalry to monitor Denburg, and the rest were taken to Te Horenche, preparing to seize the port...
However, as the only trading port on Texel Island, how could Marin not manage it carefully? The city walls of Te Horenche are no worse than those of Den Burg. They are all made of purchased stones and are extremely strong. Moreover, there are 100 matchlock gunmen hiding in stone houses on the top of the city...
Sivager has no artillery support, nor does he have a wealth of siege equipment, so he has nothing to do with the 400 defenders guarding Te Horenche. In desperation, he only divided his troops and went to the vicinity of Te Horenche to rob.
As a result, villagers in nearby fishing villages were raped, their homes were looted, and many houses were knocked 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. And the fishermen can also offer most of the catch to the nobles of the country.
Therefore, the nobles of the Friesian Noble Republic valued the fishermen more, but instead of kidnapping the serfs, they just robbed all the serfs' property (including rations) and production tools. But more than 800 fishermen on the island were all kidnapped by the Frisian army...
But the funny thing is that the adobe house built by Marin on Texel seems to be relatively strong because of the use of thatch as the "bones". Therefore, when Frisian soldiers were responsible for destroying houses, they often couldn't smash the walls, making it difficult to destroy them.
On the other hand, those old houses with wooden structures are very easy to destroy. They can fall down as soon as they are smashed, and they will catch fire with just one touch...