Chapter 1474： Way of balance

"What? During the pursuit, the French suddenly turned around and attacked our army. Our army lost more than ten thousand?" Gonzalo de Cordova almost vomited blood after receiving this report.

But after the anger, there was fear in my heart. What he was thinking at the moment was that-it was, the flaw of the Spanish phalanx was discovered by the French!

Gonzalo de Córdoba ’s square is not the same as the original Marin ’s square, although there are trenches filled with wooden spikes, but they are different elsewhere.

Of course, this does not blame him. Because, when learning the square matrix with Marin, the square matrix of Marin had only a bunker. Later, Gonzalo de Cordova was a genius wizard, inventing a method of stacking trenched soil into a wall against French cannonballs.

It stands to reason that such a powerful phalanx is invincible. This is also true, but there is a premise, that is-the Spaniard must be in a defensive state.

That is to say, this policy, once moved to chase the enemy, there will be no cover of trenches and earth walls at once, and it will face the enemy's impact. In particular, in the face of a large-scale heavy cavalry raid of a cavalry power like France.

In previous battles, the Spaniards always played the defensive side, and naturally this weakness was not exposed. Of course, in the eyes of the French in this era, they can't see it.

Only Marin, the "original" of the Phalanx, knows the flaws of the Spanish Phalanx-immobility, weak sides and back ...

This is also impossible. Once the Spanish phalanx begins to move, the powerful bunker will be lost. Moreover, it is also the tradition of the European army that mercenaries place the most powerful veterans in the front row, and the weak and new recruits in the back and side.

But they did not expect that this time the French actually knew **** a carbine, and, after rounding back to the side of the phalanx, they attacked ...

This approach is too chicken thief, and it is not in line with European style in this era. But as a famous star, Gonzalo de Cordova quickly found a prototype in his memory-

"Mongolian Cavalry Warfare?"

That's right, this is the Mongolian cavalry tactic that swept the Eurasian continent-pretending to retreat first, attracting the enemy to chase. When the enemy was chased and the formation was chaotic, he suddenly killed a carbine, and suddenly used the cavalry of the left and right wings to attack the ribs of the enemy's battle array and inserted a knife ...

Of course, the Mongols cooperate with this set, and there is also a classic "Mangu gangster" tactic, which is to shoot back arrows while running away, so that the chasing party is very temperless.

However, the Mongols were also lucky and faced the European heavy cavalry in iron cans. Although the European war horses have high thighs and long legs, they are more explosive than Mongolian horses. But the problem is that heavy cavalry is put on pack, and heavy horse armor is still on his body, even if he faces Mongolian horses with short legs, he can't catch up. Therefore, the Europeans were mistreated at the beginning. If the Mongolian Khan suddenly collapsed, the Western Expeditionary Army was busy going back to fight for the Khan position. Maybe Germany and France would be flattened out. After all, the Mongolian cavalry had already killed Hungary. Further west, it is the German region.

Of course, the Mongolian cavalry is not really completely invincible. When they encountered the Mamluk cavalry (descendants of the Turks) riding on Arabian horses, because the horses were no match for their opponents, the Manguju kite tactics failed and they were defeated. No way, Mamluk cavalry is all "sports cars" (Arabian horses), "drag racing" can't beat others ...

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To be honest, Louis XII did not want to adopt this very non-European tactic. However, John Rafi cited the example of the Mongolian cavalry, and cited the "Battle of the Saiyo" as an example of the European Union's defeat by the Mongolian cavalry.

Louis XII took Gonzalo de Córdoba helplessly, and had no choice but to agree to try this tactic. As a result, it really received a miracle and wiped out tens of thousands of Spanish infantrymen at once. Although most of them are recruits and weak, this war has been regarded as a glorious victory. After all, the French cavalry lost only hundreds of people in this battle, but annihilated tens of thousands of enemies. It was definitely a brilliant victory.

After this campaign, the Spanish army, which originally had 60,000 troops, lost tens of thousands. If it were not for the rain to stop, it is estimated that thousands more people would be lost.

After returning to the city, Louis XII was very happy and took the feast to celebrate the victory. And John Rafi, who offered his strategy, Louis XII directly doubled his land in good mood. Moreover, Louis XII promised that if France finally occupied the Kingdom of Naples, the title could be promoted ...

For a moment, John Laffey was thinking-I just had to mix with Louis XII ...

However, thinking that if his true identity is exposed, he will definitely be rejected by Louis XII, or even be jailed. Therefore, he can only suppress these unrealistic ideas. Moreover, Marin may promise-afterwards he was given more land than the French ...

Of course, Marin didn't say that those fiefs were in America ...

The Americas are a wild land now, and the land is not valuable. Even if he gave John Lafite a land of 2,000 square kilometers in size equal to the size of the Bo Kingdom, Marin didn't care. After all, the Americas lack land for nothing.

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In the following days, both sides fell into peace and started the Cold War confrontation mode. The French wanted to repeat the old tricks and went out of town on a rainy day to lure the Spaniards to chase them down, but Gonzalo de Cordova ignored them. Anyway, as long as the large French army does not leave the city, he does not matter.

Moreover, Gonzalo de Cordova has been studying the solutions to the defects of his phalanx these days. After all, if you do not solve this major flaw, you will still suffer a lot from the French in the future.

How to ensure that the enemy's large-scale heavy cavalry's assault from the side and back direction is indeed a big problem. Even a famous general like Gonzalo de Cordova, it is difficult to come up with a countermeasure if he wants to break his head. Moreover, this is also a world-class problem in ancient times.

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Of course, in Marin, the traverser, it is not a problem at all. Marin's own ability is limited, but there are many ancestors in ancient China. That ... who coughs, Qi Jiguang, a famous general who has not been born yet, knows how to use the sidecar to counter the sudden attack of the Mongolian cavalry on their march ...

Moreover, this is not Qi Jiguang's first invention. In fact, as early as the Western Han Dynasty, the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty expedition to Mobei in the battle of Mobei, the Han Dynasty general Wei Qing, did the work of enclosing the heavy carts in a circle to prevent the impact of the Huns. In the end, the Han army defeated and defeated the Huns.

Those who can come up with these methods are all super superstars in the history of China. And his Marin was just standing on the shoulders of giants.

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In fact, the war itself was provoked by Marin. His purpose was also to consume the power of Spain and France. For Marin, the unilateral consumption of Spain's strength is obviously not in its interest. It is better to weaken the two sides together to be in line with the balance.

So, Marin was prepared for this ...

"What? An Italian businessman presented me with a chariot?" Gonzalo de Cordoba, who was thinking hard about how to deal with it, was a little stunned.

Soon, an Italian businessman named Giovanni came to the door and presented Gonzalo de Cordova with a highly imitated Yu Dayou chariot commonly used in the North Sea Army ...

"General, please see, this is a type of chariot equipped by the Beihai Army when I was doing business in the Beihai Kingdom ~ www.novelhall.com ~ It is said that it came from a distant China. This kind of chariot is very light, but it transports The cargo volume is not small. Moreover, the most important thing is that it can insert 4 spears on the top. Once the parking is stopped and the direction is outwards, the enemy cavalry wants to rush up, and it is easy to be killed by the 4 spears on the top of the tank ...... As long as a large number of such lightweight chariots are placed on the side of the battle array, in this way, you will not be afraid of the impact of enemy cavalry during the march ... "

Gonzalo de Cordoba nodded after hearing it, and finally said with emotion:

"Duke Marin is really a genius, I am not as good as him! You are very good, really a friend of Spain! Rest assured, I will ask your majesty for your help! Alas, such a good thing, Duke Marin did not tell me ... "

This Italian businessman named Giovanni wanted to laugh, because he was actually a North Sea spy sent by Marin. Its task is to balance the French army and the Spanish army. He doesn't care about the credit, because his names are all pseudonyms. After completing this task, he should flash people ... and the Spanish army has such a chariot, so it is not afraid of the French carbine tactics ...

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