It was getting dark at this time, but Marin had no idea of resting. Instead, he took 6,000 men and went north non-stop, planning to drive overnight, trying to intercept the 4,000 Saxon troops that surrounded Emden.
In this decisive battle, Marin's 10,000 troops had a total of no more than five or six hundred casualties, mainly due to the losses suffered during the early shelling and late general offensive.
The Saxons were different. More than 1,400 plate armored knights alone died in battle or died of serious injuries, and nearly 2,000 plate armored knights became prisoners. The remaining more than a thousand plate armor knights either fled eastward with the Duke of Saxony, or swam across the river to escape.
As for the infantry, the Saxons suffered even greater losses. Of the 15,000 Saxon infantry, more than 2,900 died in battle or died. Among them, more than 700 people were casualties caused by trampling each other after the defeat of the Saxon army. As for the remaining 12,000 people, a small number of them swam and escaped, but 11,000 people put down their weapons and became Marin's captives. There were also 15,000 civilian husbands on the opposite side, and Marin sent 2,000 people to pursue them. Those civilian husbands are very timid, basically have no combat effectiveness, and have no weapons. Although there are 15,000 people, 2,000 soldiers are enough to scare them. The only question is whether 2,000 people are enough to catch people.
If Marin took the main force to catch up, the 15,000 civilian husbands would definitely not be able to escape. But because Marin wanted to bring the main force back to Emden, he could only send 2,000 people across the river to pursue. In this way, because the number of chasers was not enough, Marin didn't know how many people he could catch back.
Why did Marin rush back to rescue Emden? It was not that Marin was worried that Adler would not be able to defend, but because the supreme commander of the Saxon army who besieged Emden was George, the eldest son and heir of the Duke of Saxony...
The old fox, the Duke of Saxony, fled lightly. Marin didn't have enough cavalry to chase after him, so he could only look at their backs and sigh. However, George's 4000 was different.
Although it is said that George's 4,000 Saxon troops are all regular troops, they are useless. Because Adler has the advantage of a tall and solid city wall. Although they are all militiamen, they can last for ten days and a half months.
What Marin cares about is George. As long as George is caught, Marin will use the capital to make such and such conditions to the Duke of Saxony. It can be said that as the first heir of the Duchy of Saxony, similar to the crown princes of those kingdoms, George's worth is still very high. If you catch him, you will be more confident in raising conditions.
Moreover, it was not easy for George's army to surround Saxony. Because, his army needs to cross the Ems River...
The Ems River is different from the Leda River. The Leda River is just a small and medium-sized river channel and a tributary of the Ems River. The Ems River is one of the largest rivers in Germany. In particular, Emden is on the lower reaches of the Ems near the mouth of the sea, where the river is very wide.
With such a wide river, it is unrealistic to build a pontoon bridge. Therefore, George's army used many ships to transport them across the river. The place where the ship stopped was just a little east of Emden, only about fifteen kilometers away from the battlefield in Lyle County. If you hurry, you can arrive in the middle of the night.
The arrival mentioned here means arriving at the place where the enemy landed. What are you doing there? Naturally, it is to snatch the Saxons' boats to cross the river...
As long as the ships were seized by night, and George and his men in Emden besieged, they would lose their way of retreat. When Marin's army arrived, George and his men were unable to fly under the attack from inside and outside...
However, in order to prevent George from running away by boat, Malin sent someone to notify Captain Kidd, and asked him to go northward overnight to reach the water near Emden after helping to repair the pontoon bridge, so as to prevent George from learning from his father and looking for him. a boat escaped...
When Captain Kidd's fleet destroyed the Saxon pontoon bridge before, it only burned the boats near the side of the Saxon army's battle line, but did not move the boats near the civilian husband's station on the south bank. Anyway, in such a critical situation, Marin didn't think that the peasants on the other side of the river would have the courage to risk their lives by rowing across the river to meet them, and that was indeed the case...
After the winner was decided on the main battlefield, Captain Kidd led people to gather the remaining ships on the south bank of the Leda River and began to build a pontoon bridge. Then, the three warships left the Leda River, and then received orders from Marin... Their next task was very simple, which was to patrol the river mouth and stop any small boats running out of East Frisia to prevent George was in the mix...
After the arrangement, Marin's army arrived at the landing site of the Saxon army stationed in West Frisia more than ten kilometers away in the middle of the night, and saw a large number of Saxon ships...
Moreover, on the entire temporary pier at this time, the Saxons basically fell asleep...
In the horrified eyes of the Saxons, Marin suddenly appeared with an army, captured the entire temporary dock, and took control of more than a hundred large and small West Frisian ships. In this way, the back road for the Saxons to escape by boat was cut off.
Then, Marin ordered his men, except those who stood guard at night, to rest, waiting to arrive at the city of Emden the next day, to surround and intercept George's army...
George was also brain-dead. According to the original plan of the Duke of Saxony, he should have organized the fleet to land and surround Emden after receiving the news of the winner of the main battlefield in Lyle County.
However, the arrogant George believes that it is impossible for the main Saxon army to lose when the number of the main army is twice that of the enemy and there are many plate armor knights. Therefore, that morning, after learning that the Saxon army and Marin's army had begun to contact, they took their troops without authorization and began to land a few kilometers east of Emden City, and in the afternoon, surrounded Adler's guards The city of Emden…
Then, when the Saxon army collapsed, no one sent George a letter to inform him of the bad news. Therefore, George, who was triumphantly besieging Emden, did not know that his wily father had already escaped...
In the middle of the night, when Marin's main force arrived at the temporary landing site of the Saxon army, because it was a night attack, the hundreds of auxiliary troops guarding the temporary pier were captured by Marin's men in their sleep. Therefore, no one escaped to report to George.
Therefore, when Marin suddenly appeared from behind with an army of 6,000 in the morning of December 16, George was in a bad mood. Similarly, the Saxon soldiers under him also looked confused...
In the eyes of George and the Saxon soldiers, their Lord Duke is omnipotent and omnipotent. Therefore, they never thought that the Duke of Saxony, who brought twice the army, would lose. Therefore, they never considered that Marin would return with a large army. Because, they believed that at this time, Marin was either killed or captured directly on the battlefield, or retreated into Lyle County after being defeated, relying on the city wall to stop the Saxon army. Therefore, they did not expect that Marin would solve the Saxon army on the same day, and be able to bring the army back for reinforcements the next day.
Therefore, at this time, the Saxon army, led by George, surrounded Emden, but did not guard against the support of the Marin army. Because they thought it was impossible... When Marin's army appeared, all the Saxons felt stunned and unbelievable...