Chapter 1397： Shit Club Marin

However, no matter how eager Yi Yi XII wants to do with Italy, he will not choose to do it before spring cultivation. After all, this era is the era of agriculture, and France is an agricultural country. Louis XII was crazy before he gave up spring cultivation and went straight to Italy.

After all, the logistics of the 60,000 army requires at least 60,000 civilians. Even this time, more than 80,000 people may be used. Why? Because the proportion of French knights is too high. 20,000 plate armoured knights, the logistical pressure is never smaller than 40,000 infantry, or even greater.

For example, war horses eat five times more grain than ordinary soldiers every day. As for the pack horse used by the knight, it is not necessary to use the whole course. However, it consumes more food than ordinary infantry.

Moreover, choosing to send troops after spring cultivation also has logistical considerations. The reason is very simple-the grass grows after spring cultivation, which can be described as "aquatic grass is beautiful". At this time, the soldiers can eat grass and feed as supplements. Even war horses can eat fresh grass and replace a lot of food, which is very economical. If large-scale cavalry is dispatched in the withered grass in winter, because grass can not be used to replace part of the food consumption, the consumption of food and grass is simply unbearable ...

Such huge food consumption has caused France to have a huge explosive potential, but it dare not call too many soldiers to fight. Without him, there is a shortage of grain and grass ears. If there are more than 50,000 troops, even the King of France is prone to bankruptcy.

Fortunately, this time the Venetians hated Spain and provided France with a large amount of funds, which allowed Louis XII to dispatch 60,000 troops including 20,000 plate armor and heavy horses this time. Otherwise, Louis XII really had no confidence.

Fighting a national war is not easy. Louis XII had the lessons of the blood and tears left by Charles VIII's unlucky predecessor. Naturally, he was too cautious. In addition to dispatching 60,000 troops to enter Italy, Louis XII also ordered the southwest region and the region bordering the Kingdom of Aragon to prepare for the invasion of the Kingdom of Aragon. To this end, local lords have made plans to recruit more than 10,000 soldiers and horses. Of course, their task is relatively simple. They do not need to repel the Spanish army. They only need to defend many cities and fortresses in the southwest. After all, in this era, in order to ensure that the supply line is clear, no army will bypass the stronghold of the city, so that the logistics supply line of the army is not cut off. As long as the important cities and fortresses in the southwest are well guarded, Spain's possible counterattack can be held back.

On the other side, the Venetian was not idle. In order to drag the 20,000 Spanish troops in Morocco, the Venetians provided a large number of weapons and materials to the remnants of the Moroccan Vatas dynasty, and encouraged the remnant troops of the Vatas dynasty to attack everywhere in order to drag Spain to station in Northern Morocco 20,000 troops, making it impossible to support the Italian battlefield. Moreover, the Saad tribe south of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco has also received funding. Anyway, as long as Spain dares to transfer the 20,000 troops stationed in northern Morocco to the Italian battlefield, the two local Moroccan forces of the Vatas dynasty and the Saad department will take the opportunity to attack northern Morocco, so that Spain ca n’t look at each other ...

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But so far, the Spaniards haven't even realized that the French are going to deal with them. why? Because the Spanish intelligence personnel in Paris were cleaned ...

Speaking of which, this matter also has an important relationship with Marin. Since the training of a number of official spies, Marin's intelligence personnel have become more professional and more powerful.

Then, a dozen professional spies dispatched to Paris, while gathering intelligence, suddenly found a group of colleagues-Spanish spies ...

Of course, the Spanish spy is not professional, and the professional level is still at the level of ancient fine work, and the degree of confidentiality is not very good. The professional spies in the North Sea country easily found out several Spanish spy dens in Paris.

In order to prevent the French from being stunned, Marin deliberately let the spies of the North Sea in Paris, through John Rafi, sell the Spanish intelligence to the Earl of Durte, the professional in charge of intelligence in the Kingdom of France. In this way, several spy dens in Spain were uprooted by the French. The Spaniards, for a period of time, may be difficult to control the actions of the French.

In this way, it guarantees that the French will be relatively smooth in the early stage once they start the Italian kingdom of Naples. However, the Spaniards with rich financial resources, such as the later period, reacted, and the French certainly could not get a bargain. After all, the Spaniards now have enough money to gather a large army to fight the French because of the huge profits from the Indian spice trade.

Moreover, the Spanish are currently very strong in the army. If there is preparation in advance, even if the French move more knights in vain. Because the Musketeers of the Spanish Infantry are particularly suitable for defending the city. Do n’t take the time when France sends out a large army and ca n’t even take down a big city. In that case, the fun is bigger.

After all, Marin's original intention was to weaken France and Spain at the same time through this war, and it is best for both sides to fight for many years. Therefore, there must never be a situation where one party is beaten. The best thing is that both sides have suffered great losses.

As a result, Spain cannot obtain information in advance. Otherwise, with the strength of Spain's current army power (Spain is really a bug in this era, the army is very strong, the navy is also very strong, looks like the protagonist), plus Gonzalo de Cordoba The famous general, Tie Ding will pack the French into grandchildren.

And France, only under the premise of winning the Kingdom of Naples, will have a greater chance to come and go with Spain. After all, once the French occupied the city first, the Spaniards had no choice but to make the army strong. Because, after all, the defender's side is more advantageous.

what? Are you worried that France will hang Spain? That's unlikely. Not to mention that the French military is strong, but the tactical thinking is backward, and the number of people is not very useful.

What's more, Spain now has a monopoly in the spice trade, which has money in hand. Not to mention that Spain's current military strength is at a disadvantage, but as long as it is willing to throw money, it is not a problem to gather tens of thousands of troops. Not to mention, there are tens of thousands of Italian mercenaries waiting to be hired. The existence of the famous star Gonzalo de Cordova and the existence of the Spanish phalanx now called the "Marin phalanx" ~ www.novelhall.com ~ put Spain in an invincible position. Even if the bad luck is in the early stage, it will always be found in the later stage.

It's really not possible, even if the early loss, Marin will help Spain. How to help? Of course, it is recommended that Spain "encircle Wei to save Zhao". Your French army is powerful, right? No problem, I can't beat Naples, so I changed to attack the core area of ​​France.

Anyway, the Spanish Navy has an absolute advantage over France. At that time, whether it is Siege of Marseille or Bordeaux, it is very convenient. Even if England is willing to cooperate, it is okay to send troops directly to siege Paris. In this way, the heavy soldiers that the French accumulated in Naples lost their meaning-if they lost their homeland, even if they occupied the Kingdom of Naples, what was the point?

Anyway, Marin has decided to act as a **** stick. At that time, no matter which side occupies a larger dominant position, Marin will secretly support the weaker side, try to ensure that the two sides are evenly matched, torn on the Italian battlefield, it is best to hit the wild and old ...

This is the stunt of the Englishman who is known as the "European **** stick" in later generations. However, at this time, the man who acted as a **** stick became Marin, and the time was a few hundred years earlier. Perhaps it will be written in the history books of later generations of France and Spain-Marin Hoffman, that is a "European **** stick", doing all the lack of virtue ...