Chapter 325： Emperor fell

In the German region of 1500, after the outbreak of the battle in Lyell County, the northern region of Germany had always been very calm. In contrast, the southern part of Germany has been very lively.

The conflict between the Swiss and the Swabian Alliance has not stopped. The Swabian Alliance ’s most powerful emperor, because it has to occupy and digest more than 7,000 square kilometers of Graubingen, has been unable to help its allies. Therefore, the Swabian League has been under pressure by the Swiss.

For more than a year, many Swabian allies have been driven out of their homes by Swiss mercenaries and forced into exile. So they found the most powerful emperor Maximilian I and asked them to send troops to help them regain their territories.

In fact, Maximilian I originally intended to support the restoration of the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforzza, after securing the Graubünden area. At this time the French army had arrived in the Kingdom of Naples and was siege in the territory of the Kingdom of Naples.

Maximilian I always regarded France as the number one enemy and always wanted to limit France's expansion. In contrast, the Swiss issue is less important.

Alas, Maximilian I couldn't ignore his allies. You know, the nobles of the Swabian Alliance were his strongest supporters in the Imperial Parliament.

I happen to be, after more than a year of digestion, Maximilian I has completely controlled the Graubünden area, and can also release his hand. Therefore, after weighing the advantages and disadvantages, Maximilian I finally declared war on Switzerland, and asked the Swiss to return all the occupied Swabian League sites.

However, with the infection of Marin, Maximilian I also learned to be smart. Instead of declaring war directly against the entire Swiss alliance, he only declared war against Zurich, the main enemy of the Swabian Alliance, to avoid stimulating other Swiss states.

But Zurich is not a fool. They are already powerful and have tens of thousands of elite mercenaries. After seeing the emperor joining the war, he also drew allies from the Swiss cantons from the Swiss Union to fight against the Swabian Alliance.

At this time, the Swabian League was in fact disabled by mercenaries in Zurich. The only thing left to confront the Swiss was the emperor's army.

As a result, the remnants of the Swabian Alliance drove to Graubünden to join the emperor's army, let the emperor's army play the main force, and they played the auxiliary.

The army of Maximilian I was much stronger than in the original history. In particular, after sending a few people to learn to line up with Marin, at least in terms of discipline, it was much better than the original state. Even the military discipline of several elite troops of Maximilian I was not worse than the Swiss.

I, especially Bowen Gardner and Haight Basque, who had followed Marin's two hands, have already become the square leader of the emperor's two most elite infantry squares.

的 The squares trained by the two are well-known in the Austrian Army for their strict discipline. However, in terms of tactics, it is still different from Marin's square. The biggest difference is that the two are still using Marin's earliest tactics. For example, long-range firepower is used by archers, not the Spanish squared muskets that Marin now promotes.

But this is no wonder, after all, when the two of them were following Marin, Marin had not yet begun to promote the use of muskets. Therefore, they are using Marin's "version 1.0" square matrix, and Marin has now been upgraded to the "version 2.0" Spanish square matrix, but they have not had time to upgrade. After all, this year's news is backward, and they did not send officers to study in East Frisian like the Spaniards, so it is normal to not know.

What's more, Maximilian I also took care of the mood of the Duke of Saxony. After all, Marin just defeated the Duke of Saxony. Maximilian I insisted on acknowledging Marin's status had offended the Duke of Saxony, and then sent someone to learn new Phalanx tactics with Marin, which is definitely salting the Duke of Saxony. After all, Maximilian I wanted the Saxon aristocracy to vote for himself in the Imperial Parliament.

西班牙 The Spaniards and Teutonic countries are different. They don't make good relations with Saxony. There is no need to watch Saxony's eyes and act. Therefore, they dared to send personnel to Marin to “learn lessons” without worrying about the reaction of the Saxons.

Speaking of which, the 1.0 version of the square matrix learned by Bowen Gardner and Heit Basque is actually very powerful. It is really no problem to deal with ordinary squares.

But times are constantly changing. When Marin came out with the 1.0 version of the square matrix, the Swiss were still on the rise, not so rich, and few soldiers equipped with breastplates.

But six years later, Swiss mercenaries are getting richer. After all, their appearance fees are generally at least twice or even three times that of ordinary mercenaries. So, they saved a lot of money, too, to buy expensive breastplates and helmets.

Therefore, the elite three mercenaries of Switzerland now wear chest plate armor, and are no longer the poor ghost army with a low armor rate.

In the face of the blow of the bow and arrow, the protection of the breastplate and helmet is very good. Therefore, the archers led by Bowen Gardner and Heit Basque are not good at hitting the archers.

马克 When Maximilian I sent a large army north to confront the Swiss, they lost money. Under the Swiss onslaught, Maximilian I's main force was repelled. Only Bowen Gardner and Hite Basque, two squares, stood up tenaciously in the face of the Swiss onslaught. However, their bow and arrow strikes have very limited lethality to the Swiss Phalanx. Moreover, the other Phalanxes were forced to retreat. It didn't make sense for them to stay in front. They had to retreat with them.

That's it. The proud Maximilian I attacked for the first time.

Not only that, the Swiss did not like to see Maximilian I occupying Graubünden. Because the Graubünden area is dangerous and difficult to defend. Occupied in such a good place by Maximilian I, the threat to the Swiss Union is too great.

Taking advantage of the defeat of Maximilian I, the Swiss army began to attack Graubünden. Fortunately, Graubünden has stern customs to the north and west, which can be resisted. Otherwise, Maximilian I's army might not have gone a thousand miles.

Although blocking the Swiss offensive, there were problems inside the Graubünden area. Previously, under the pressure of the emperor, the three main forces that originally ruled the Graubünden area-the House of God Alliance, the Gray Alliance, and the Ten Jurisdiction Alliance, saw Maximilian I ate, and they were also very excited ...

之前 Although they were disarmed by Maximilian I before, but this era is a cold weapon era, it is easy to rebuild the spear.

Alas, they organized blacksmiths, secretly built weapons, and re-raised the team in private. Some teams have already begun to attack the Emperor's supply unit in the rear, taking away a lot of weapon armor.

The emperor's armor was basically produced by Innsbruck's military factory. The famous Maximilian armor has been developed and mass production has begun ~ www.novelhall.com ~ But on the way from Innsbruck in western Austria to the Graubünden front, many were taken away by the Resistance. The emperor was furious.

Because of the defeat, the prestige of the emperor also fell sharply. Many aristocratic forces who were originally dissatisfied with the emperor also took the opportunity to embarrass them, secretly giving the emperor a trip. They were both anxious that the emperor lost to the Swiss completely and lost the Graubünden area.

Even Louis XII, who was far away in Naples, reconciled. He heard that the emperor's defeat to the Zurich coalition in Switzerland immediately returned 5,000 Swiss mercenaries and asked them to help the Zurich people. Even commissions are paid by the French.

要求 Louis XII's request was very simple. He asked these 5,000 people to help the Zurich coalition to defeat the emperor and drive Maximilian I out of the Graubünden area.

Once Maximilian I was evicted from the Graubünden region, Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan who retreated to the Telina Valley south of the Mistel Valley, would lose the rear. At that time, the Swiss occupying Graubünden could completely attack the French back and forth, completely destroying Ludovico Sforza's remnants. Even if they can't be eliminated, they can still be trapped.

Because Ludovico Sforza's remnants stationed in the Telina Valley, the current source of supplies was mainly from Maximilian I, who came from the Graubünden area through the Mistère Valley.

In short, the emperor's rash involvement in the Swabian War triggered a series of chain reactions. Because of the defeat, it caused a lot of bad results.

A word-the emperor fell out ...

Also, this time the emperor jumped into the pit on his own initiative. But Maximilian I had to jump. After all, if he did not protect the Swabian Alliance and let it be destroyed by the Swiss, he would have no ally in the Imperial Parliament to speak for him ...