Chapter 1426： Entering Italy

Under normal circumstances, in order to deter the enemy, the party sending troops will falsely report the number of troops and deliberately exaggerate to scare the opponent. Among them, the most classic one is that Cao Cao took two hundred thousand troops to the south, claiming to be 800,000, and scared urine from Dongwu up and down. If it weren't for Sun Quan's knife to cut down the table, Dongwu would have surrendered up and down long ago, and there would be no later classic battle of Chibi.

However, the French did the opposite this time. In order not to alert the Spaniards, France, which apparently summoned 60,000 troops, declared it to be 30,000 troops.

The size of 30,000 troops is used to attack the Principality of Milan. But Louis XII couldn't help it. He couldn't say it was 10,000? 60,000 troops and 80,000 civilians, a total of 140,000, can you say that 10,000 troops take out 10,000 civilians? When people count so badly? Therefore, he said that there are only 30,000 troops, which is already the limit.

In order not to stimulate Spain, Louis XII publicly declared that this is a matter for the Principality of France and Milan, and hope that other countries will not interfere. Of course, France does n’t want to be too much ...

This statement seems to warn other countries not to intervene in this matter, but it has also become relatively foreign claiming-Lao Tzu has seized the Principality of Milan, don't provoke me ... This is actually tricking Spain in disguise-look, I will treat Milan Interested, rest assured ...

The Spaniards were really relieved, and of course, they did not completely lower their guard. For example, they still let the garrison of the Kingdom of Naples be more careful. But that is all.

Mainly, it ’s so coincident recently that the attention of the Spaniards has been attracted by the gold of Zimbabwe. I really do n’t care about anything else. Now, the Spanish court has been clamoring for the sake of dividing up the interests of the Zimbabwe Empire.

No one is stupid. Once the Zimbabwe Empire falls into the hands of Spain, it must produce a huge amount of gold every year. According to estimates by Spanish settlers at the mouth of the Save River, the annual gold used by Zimbabwe to trade with Arab merchants is estimated to be worth tens of thousands of gold coins. Adding the value of ivory and copper ore, there will be more. It is a pity that Zimbabweans did not understand the true value of the goods, and they were fooled by Arab merchants with cheap cloth, glass and other commodities. The expensive sands also sold cabbage prices.

According to a spy report that penetrated Zimbabwe ’s spying intelligence, the production technology of the black people in the Zimbabwe empire was extremely backward. Taking gold mines as an example, the gold production of the Zimbabweans is still at a very backward level of gold mining. Most of the gold ore is not fully utilized and developed. Because, Zimbabweans do n’t know how to use gold ore to smelt gold ...

Similarly, Zimbabwe ’s domestic copper resources are very rich, but they do not know how to smelt copper. Therefore, they can only trade copper ore with Arab merchants. Moreover, the copper ore that comes out for trading is rich ore, which makes the population flow ...

After discussion, the Spanish government and opposition agreed that if Spain seized Zimbabwe and used the gold ore that the locals could not use, it should be able to produce more than 300,000 gold coins a year. In addition, Zimbabwe ’s abundant copper mines can also be used to smelt large amounts of copper. Because the current copper price in Europe is very expensive, it is very cost-effective to develop the Zimbabwe copper mine. Not to mention, Zimbabwe still has rich ivory resources.

Of course, Spain is currently not a centralized state, but divided into two regimes of the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon. Moreover, the kings of the two countries are different. At present, King of Castile is Juan III, while King of Aragon is the father of Juan III, Ferdinand II.

In addition to the difference between the monarchs, there are differences of interests between the court officials of the two countries. For example, on this issue concerning the rights and interests of Zimbabwe ’s gold mines, the ministers of the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon almost fought.

The nobles of the Kingdom of Castile believed that the great sailing of Spain was driven by Queen Isabella I. The Kingdom of Aragon was just a ride. Therefore, Zimbabwe ’s interests should be attributed mainly to the Kingdom of Castile.

But the nobles of the Aragon Kingdom are not doing it anymore, they strongly demand equal sharing of benefits. Moreover, their leader Ferdinand II had a great influence on King Juan III of Castile. For this reason, the nobles of the two major kingdoms in Spain are currently busy arguing for the sake of dividing up the future interests. With regard to the French military operations, we paid a little attention.

Then, Louis XII happily found that his own entry into Italy was not disturbed by the Spanish ...

This time, because of the dispatch of more than half of the French military power, Louis XII also put himself on the battlefield in preparation for the expedition. In any case, Louis XII did not think that his 60,000 army would fail this time.

Moreover, before leaving Paris, John Lafite followed Marin's instructions and presented a strategy to Louis XII-bluff ...

Because Louis XII took most of France's elite, Paris, France at this time, is actually very empty. If England seizes the opportunity to invade, it will certainly cause great harm to France. Even if it can't beat Paris, it can harm a large part of northern France.

Therefore, John Lafite suggested Louis XII to call for 20,000 civilians and leave some loyal noble generals. Under the simple training of these 20,000 civilians, do the appearance ~ www.novelhall.com ~ stationed outside the city of Paris, locked in the military camp, to deter the enemy.

The Habsburg family in England and the Netherlands saw that the "20,000 troops" were stationed outside Paris, and they naturally did not dare to invade easily ...

Louis XII was overjoyed when he heard it, and took the advice of John Lafite, and made the Count Durte to stay in Paris. He was responsible for leading the 20,000 pretending civilians, plus 4,000 real defenders, and controlled Paris. In this way, Louis XII can safely lead 60,000 troops to the south and head straight to Italy.

This time, Louis XII fully learned the lessons of the first two march into Italy. He ordered the soldiers to go to Italy not to find women, so as to prevent the entire army from contracting syphilis like the one on Charles VIII's expedition. If it weren't for syphilis, that time, Charles VIII had already controlled the Kingdom of Naples.

As for the second expedition, the French army lost to Gonzalo de Córdoba's rifle phalanx. This time, Louis XII also made full preparations-he took full cannon fodder infantry to attract the enemy's firepower. The most precious French knight, he intends to use it at a critical moment. If it is in the wild, it is used to charge from the side without a musketeer, to avoid the enemy of the plate armor-the musket ...

Louis XII, surrounded by 20,000 French knights, came to Lyon, the largest city in the southeast, waiting for other soldiers to come and join. Once all the soldiers and soldiers arrived, the army would march east, preparing to cross the Alps and enter Italy ...

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