After making a plan, Alsace led 5,000 Cossack cavalry to the south of Hamburg from the east bank of the Elbe River. In short, the most needed to build a pontoon bridge across the river were the Cossack cavalry. Because the Cossack cavalry often had three horses per man. If ships were transported, the horses occupied a lot of space, which was very inconvenient. Often, the space occupied by a horse could squeeze out several people.

As for the Third Legion, there were 2,000 black-shirt knights and 4,000 horses that needed to cross the river. Steindorf was the first musket commander of the North Sea Army, and 2,000 black-shirt knights have always been his leader. When he was transferred to the commander of the Third Legion, the 2,000 black-shirt knights who used carbines were also transferred to the Third Legion.

In total, the Third Legion and the Cossack Legion have as many as 7,000 cavalry, and it would be difficult to cross the river without a pontoon bridge. If it is just infantry, it would be enough to wait for Marin's transport fleet to recruit people. But with 7,000 cavalry and up to 19,000 horses, it would be very terrifying. No fleet can transport so many horses long-distance maneuvers, even if there are, they have to be divided into many batches.

Therefore, this army cannot do without surfing the pontoon bridge. Otherwise, it will be easier to transport it in many batches - just queue up to cross the river...

Arthas led 5,000 Cossack cavalry and under the guidance of Durm, the commander of the Black-shirted Knight under Steindorf, entered Hamburg City.

At this time, the Speaker of the Grand Secretary of Hamburg City was no longer Heisenberg. Three years ago, Heisenberg had passed away. The current Speaker of the Grand Secretary is Bernard, and he is a shrewd middle-aged man.

The Hamburgers had never seen the Cossacks, but they had seen the Black-Shirt Knights, and even fought side by side with the Black-Shirt Knights. Therefore, under the leadership of Dulm, Alsace successfully entered Hamburg and discussed the borrowing of the boat with Speaker Bernard.

The Hamburgers were still very proud. Speaker Bernard quickly approved the loan of the inland ships in Hamburg (the offshore ships are mainly in the port of Cooks on the west bank of the Elbe River, but it is enough to build a pontoon bridge inland ships). Moreover, he agreed to let the ships go south quietly at night and enter the territory of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg before building a pontoon bridge.

In fact, there was a fierce debate within Hamburg City as to whether to support Beihai Country. But Speaker Bernard knew that Beihai Country was the big customer of Hamburg. Marin had money and often went to Hamburg to purchase materials such as bricks, beeswax and minerals for domestic construction, which made hamburgers make a lot of money.

Moreover, having a strong ally is also very beneficial to Hamburg. Although Hamburg has developed sea trade and good sea strength, it is a weak chicken on land. With the Beihai Army of Marin, Hamburg's land security is also guaranteed.

If the Beihai Kingdom was swallowed by the princes of the Eight Kingdom, then it might be possible. Bernard could not guarantee that if the coalition of the Eight Kingdom destroyed the Beihai Kingdom, would it further swallow the hamburger? At least, Marin's Beihai Kingdom had no intention of annexing the hamburger, but was very close to the Hanseatic Alliance. And it was hard to say about the eight princes. As far as Speaker Bernard knew, Magnas I, the Duke of Saxony-Launburg, was very envious of the wealth of the nearby hamburger.

Therefore, Speaker Bernard disagreed with the opposition and unconditionally cooperated with the Beihai army. Moreover, he believed that if this 15,000 army of thousands of cavalry rushed to the front line, it would be difficult for the coalition of princes of the eight countries to not fail...

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That night, with the stars everywhere, hundreds of large and small river ships in Hamburg Port carefully left the port under the guidance of Hamburg sailors and sailed slowly southward along the Elbe River.

Because it was night, it was difficult to control the sails. Therefore, Speaker Bernard dispatched five thousand boatmen to pull the inland boats south on the shore with ropes. In this way, there was no need to experience the risk of sailing ships being stranded at night because of the possibility of controlling the sails being stranded. Moreover, because the boatmen were pulling empty ships, it was not so difficult. If the cargo ship was loaded, the boatmen would suffer. Moreover, the boats were arranged to further reduce the burden on the boatmen.

After dawn, the fleet left the part across the river from Bremen and entered the opposite bank of the Principal of Lüneburg.

It was almost done, Alsace and the Black-shirt Knight Commander Dulm began to arrange the Hamburg sailors to start building the floating bridge.

Arthas had no experience in this, but Durm was considered a veteran of the North Sea Kingdom and was very experienced in building pontoon bridges. So, under his command, hundreds of Hamburg-sized and large inland boats were lined up on the Elbe River. Then, the Hamburg sailors took out the ropes on the boat, tied the boat further, and lay some small boats with spare wooden boards to make the pontoon bridges flatter and facilitate the passage of the carriages.

At noon, the pontoon bridge was basically built. Then, the Cossack cavalry began to line up to cross the bridge. Alsace was worried that there would be an enemy attack in the north, so he asked the Cossack cavalry to ignore the transfer horses, but instead asked the two thousand Cossack cavalry to cross the pontoon bridge with only war horses. Then, he was responsible for protecting the safety of the pontoon bridge and avoiding damage...

Sure enough, Alsace's worries were right. After two thousand Cossack cavalry passed through the pontoon bridge, soldiers from the 3,400,400 coalition forces of the princes of the three, four thousand and eight countries came to the north. Obviously, the other party came to seize and destroy the pontoon bridge...

In fact, in the morning, the people of the Duchy of Lüneburg discovered the Beihai Army and Hamburg fleet that were building a pontoon bridge. Then, someone specially sent someone to the north to report the message.

However, the local horses were forced to be conscripted by their lord, Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Therefore, the person who reported the news could not ride a horse and could only walk to report the news.

Although the person who reported the news ran very fast, comparable to a marathon runner, it was already around 9 a.m. when he ran to the coalition headquarters.

Then, the generals of the Allied Forces of the Eight Kingdoms began to gather troops and go south. Unfortunately, they were also infantrymen and could not run very quickly. It was not until after one o'clock in the afternoon that the soldiers of the Allied Forces of the Three-to-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-Four-

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" the Cossack Scout shouted.

Then, the scout was slapped in the face...

Cossack Commander Jurgen roared:

"What are you panic? That's just three or four thousand infantrymen. Look, you're scared! The army is crossing the river, and you shout so anxiously, it's easy to cause chaos, do you understand?"

The new Cossack scout covered his face and nodded aggrievedly, stopping talking nonsense.

In fact, Commander Jurgen slapped him very promptly. If he let this guy scream in panic, it would really affect the army's crossing the river.

If infantry crosses the pontoon bridge, it's nothing. But the cavalry all carry horses. Once the cavalry feels panic, and this emotion is transmitted to the war horses, something big may happen. Therefore, Commander Jurgen slapped the slap in a very decisive and timely manner.

"Next, it depends on us!" Commander Jurgen rolled over the horse, pulled out the 65-type cavalry knife, and ordered all the Cossacks guarding the pontoon bridge to get on the horse.

As the highest commander of the West Bank bridge guarding, the commander of the First Cossack Cavalry Regiment, Jurgen ordered:

"The Fourth Cavalry Regiment continues to guard the bridge and block all enemies who dare to approach. The First, Second and Third Regiments, all come with me!"

Three Cossack cavalry regiments had 1,500 people responded loudly, and then they picked up spears...

Right, it's not a saber, but a spear...

The Cossack cavalry did not only use sabers, but also used spears. Of course, the spears they used were not cavalry and lances that could charge at high speed, but the most ordinary infantry spears.

As for the saber, it will only be pulled out and continued to slash after the spear is removed...

For the Cossack cavalry, the spear is the weapon of the first charge. After the spear penetrates the enemy's body, it often has no time to pull it out. Therefore, after the first round of charge, the Cossack cavalry often decisively discarded the spear, and then quickly drew out the saber to continue to chop and kill.

Sometimes, in order to break the enemy's formation, the spear is often thrown into the enemy's formation by the Cossack cavalry as a javelin, causing damage to the enemy...

For example, in this first round of charge, except for the commander, each Cossack cavalry held the most ordinary slender spear more than three meters long.

Moreover, in this era, the Cossack cavalry of the spear team was very important. Because the European infantry they faced were often good at spear formations. If they rushed forward with a sabre, they would easily be stabbed into a hornet's nest by the enemy. Therefore, the Cossacks often chose to use spears to deal with the infantry formations...

"Run!" 1,500 Cossack cavalry rushed up with "disposable" inferior spears. The commander of the Eight-National Princes coalition was shocked when he saw so many cavalry rushing over. So he shouted:

"Array! Array! The spearman suddenly stepped forward and raised his spear to block the enemy cavalry!"
Chapter completed!