On January 6, 1789, the Prussian army landed in Helsingør, north of Copenhagen, and on the same day, a Danish fleet appeared near the Prussian landing ground.
The intercepted Danish fleet was indeed a big fish, this fleet was arranged by Frederick VI to transport royal property, this fleet consisted of four large merchant ships and six medium-sized merchant ships, when Dessau boarded the first merchant ship and entered the cabin, he saw that the cabin was full of boxes, and Dessau opened one of them at random, full of golden light, these things contained jewels and jade, and gorgeous carpets, exquisite pocket watches, and a dazzling variety of ornaments and books filled the entire cabin.
"Yes, you're doing a great job."
In the face of such a great gain, Dessau did not hesitate to praise these admirals for their great achievements, although for reasons of time, most of these navies were made up of Danish prisoners.
On 7 January, Helsingø surrendered, and Dessau led the Prussian army south into Copenhagen, where the convoy was to carry the 2nd Prussian Division to Mecklenburg.
At this moment, the city of Copenhagen is in chaos, people are frantically rushing to the edge of the dock, hoping to take a ship to leave the city, but how can there be a ship, most of the ships in Copenhagen have been requisitioned by the dignitaries in the city, and these nobles are like scavengers who carry all the family property to the ship and transport it away.
Soldiers struggled to maintain order on the docks.
But the situation changed when a nobleman got out of the carriage and spat contemptuously at the people who were blocked out.
An angry crowd kept piling up a wall of soldiers.
"I'm a member of the Kingdom Council, and these untouchables dare to rush at me, it's just the opposite, shoot!
Get rid of these untouchables for me at once!
” The nobleman first panicked when he saw the sudden anger of the crowd, and then commanded loudly to the soldiers guarding the docks, but before the soldiers could carry out this order, one of the officers leading the group immediately said: "No shooting" As he spoke, the officer turned to the stunned Highlandon and said: "Your Excellency, the docks are messy enough.
Please also get on board as soon as possible and don't create contradictions here."
When Highlanden heard the officer's words, his face turned red, and he took the cane in his hand and drew it at the officer, and cursed in his mouth: "What kind of thing are you, it's a matter of minutes for Lao Tzu to kill you, a pariah dares to play prestige in front of me, blind your dog's eyes!"
After being pumped by Highland.
The bruises on the officer's forehead jumped, and the movement here had caught everyone's attention, including his soldiers "Councilor Highlanden, I warn you that your actions are a provocation against the Wang ** team......"
"Warn your mother, what qualifications do you have to talk to me.
What are you?"
Before Highlandon finished scolding, the officer stepped forward and knocked Highlandon to the ground with a punch, and after being knocked down, Highlandon wailed and screamed loudly: "I'll get him up, hey.
Don't hurry up yet!
” With that, Highland's attendants surrounded the officer.
Facing a dozen or so attendants from Highlanden, he heard the officer shout: "Immediately remove the guards at the dock, all the soldiers let me go, it is because of these wastes that we Denmark will be reduced to this point today, Lao Tzu will not give these waste masters their lives, everyone will stop doing it!"
As soon as these words were finished, Highlandon and his dozen or so attendants lying on the ground obviously couldn't believe their ears, this little officer actually dared to do this, wasn't he afraid of being cut by those big men with a thousand knives.
Just when they were still shocked, they saw the officer pull out a pistol from his waist and aim it at Highlanden, and under the threat of the pistol, none of the dozen or so attendants of Highlandon dared to move a single step.
I saw that the officer calmly stuffed the chamber with ammunition and aimed at Highland "No..........
Bang!
” A gunshot rang out, and Highlandon, who was like a fat pig, became a dead pig completely, and at this moment, the people outside the dock suddenly rushed to the dock, and the soldiers who were caught off guard were scattered by the tide of the crowd, and they did not dare to shoot, because there were also their relatives and friends in the crowd.
Because of the crowd of the people, the dock was in chaos in an instant, and the materials that had not had time to be carried on the ship were robbed by the people, and those noble lords who were high in the past became rats crossing the street, and when a nobleman's attendant killed a civilian who tried to get on the ship, the anger of the commoners was ignited.
The frenzied crowd poured onto the boat, which had not yet left the docks, and eventually a bloody conflict began between the commoners and the nobles, with one side trying to board the ship and the other side not allowing the commoners to board.
Bloodshed is inevitable.
Suddenly, with the sound of a cannon, it seemed that the whole world was quiet, and people turned their eyes to the direction where the cannon sounded, only to see a heavily armed navy suddenly appear on the sea.
A hideous cannon was pushed to the gun emplacement of the ship's hold "Look, that's the Richel!"
Although they were familiar ships, they had changed hands at the moment, and when they saw the Prussian flag flying high on the masts of these ships, everyone could not help but start to be afraid.
As the Prussian Navy approached, everyone on the dock desperately wanted to escape from the dock, but the nobles and planes of the previous two sides were now united, and everyone was fleeing from the dock.
Soon the riots at the docks and the arrival of the Prussian navy reached Brand's ears, and the general, who had been entrusted with the important task, first sighed when he heard the news, and then sent someone to contact the Prussians, apparently Brand gave up, in fact, he could not give up, and it was a hopeless dead end to hold Copenhagen, after all, when he was left behind in Copenhagen, he had already been sacrificed.
The surrender of Copenhagen on 10 January 1789 was a day of celebration for Prussia, and although Dessau learned that the Danish royal family had fled Norway, it did not affect Dessau's mood in the slightest.
Although it seems that the Danish royal family and government still exist, they have lost Copenhagen, the government that has lost the capital is undoubtedly on the verge of extinction, and Norway is a little precarious in the face of the Swedes, and now with the Prussians, the fall of the Danish kingdom is just around the corner.
On January 20, 1789, the Danish royal family and government were captured in western Norway by Prussian and Swedish armies, and King Christian VII of Denmark became the first Prussian king to take prisoner.
On 10 February, the Danish royal family was escorted back to Brandenburg by Scharnhorst's 3rd Division, and in Brandenburg, Wilhelm held a grand triumphal ceremony, and when the Danish king's family appeared at the triumphal arch, the whole Brandenburg resounded with great cheers.
According to Prussia's previous secret treaty with Sweden, Prussia would occupy the Danish Jutland Peninsula, the islands of Funen, Zealand, and the Baltic islands of Lorland and Morn.
Sweden received the former Norwegian territory, while Greenland and Iceland were ruled by the Prussians.
Sweden did not raise any objections to this agreement, you must know that Prussia contributed the most in the war, and naturally accounted for the majority of the results of the war, and the Swedes did not suffer, and the Swedes longed for nearly a hundred years of Norway to enter the arms of Sweden, which is undoubtedly the greatest achievement for Gustantif.
Strangely, the Russians did nothing but protest against Prussia's forcible occupation of Denmark, which surprised William, who was already secretly on guard, knowing that Prussia's occupation of Denmark meant putting a big lock on the neck of the Russian polar bear.
Russia has only two outlets to the sea, one in the Black Sea and one in the Baltic Sea, but both seas have a limitation: the Black Sea needs to be connected to the Mediterranean Sea through the Bosphorus, and the Baltic Sea needs to be connected to the North Sea through the Kattegat Strait and the Skagerrak Strait.
Needless to say, the Bosphorus is the territory of the Ottoman Turks, although the two countries have reached a peace agreement for more than ten years, but everyone knows that this agreement is not reliable, and although the Ottoman Turks' army is not on the table, but the navy still has some bright spots, which also makes it impossible for the Russian Black Sea Fleet to achieve a decisive advantage in the Black Sea.
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With the exception of the Black Sea, Russian trade was carried out basically through St.
Petersburg to the Baltic Sea and from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea and then to the rest of the world.
But now the Prussians could cut off Russian sea transport from the outside world at any time if they wished.
And even if it didn't cut off the route, Prussia could bleed Russia by imposing high taxes on Russian merchant ships, which now have Prussia and Sweden on the Baltic coast.
William believed that the empress must have seen the disadvantages of the Prussian occupation of Denmark against Russia, but why Russia had not acted for a long time made William puzzled.
In fact, William would not have been so suspicious if he knew the reason, although the Prussian spy force in St.
Petersburg was very strong, but only a few people knew about this secret.