Chapter 1707： Borrow gun

1515 is an unusual year. In the original history, this year, Louis XII crashed. At the same time, the French and Switzerland turned their faces and hired German mercenaries to unite the Italians to defeat the invincible Swiss spearmen. Forced the Swiss League to declare permanent neutrality.

The battle of Marignano, which changed history, announced the decline of the Swiss spear array and also symbolized the rise of the French artillery. The Swiss lost 11,000 in World War I, and since then withdrew from the mainstream European battlefield stage, becoming a supporting role.

Of course, in that war, the French faced not the main force of the entire Swiss army, but only the coalition of eastern Switzerland. The Swiss canton led by Berne, because of its closeness to France, was bought by France with 700,000 gold coins. A total of 12,000 Swiss mercenaries withdrew from the battlefield, leaving only 20,000 Eastern Swiss mercenaries to fight with the French, and was defeated in World War I. Lost the name of the Swiss mercenary.

However, because of the crossing of Marin, this war is doomed to be impossible. Because, France and Switzerland have not turned their backs. Under the intervention of Marin, the weak chicken of the Habsburg family actually occupied half of Switzerland. As a result, the Swiss cannot be as arrogant as they were in history, and they dare not turn against France. Even, it had to rely on the power of France to seek to expel the Habsburg family's army in Switzerland.

Since the return of 10,000 Swiss mercenaries to the Swiss battlefield, the Swiss battlefield strength comparison has changed. Although there are more Habsburg family troops, field battles are really not Swiss opponents. Even the famous generals such as Frensberg, because the soldiers of their soldiers are too weak, can not compete with the Swiss Resistance.

The 15,000 horses in the headquarters trained by Frensberg personally use the North Sea training method, and the fighting power is naturally not under the Swiss mercenaries. However, the other half of the soldiers and horses are ordinary German mercenaries gathered and hired. Their combat effectiveness and fighting will are not very strong, and it is difficult to compete with the Swiss. Therefore, despite more soldiers and horses, the Habsburg family army had to fall into the disadvantage and was forced to take a defensive position.

Fortunately, Marin took care of the Habsburg family, provided a large amount of cement, and built dozens of cement forts on various roads in the Swiss mountains, which were easy to defend and difficult to attack. In addition, the defenders are also equipped with a lot of matchlocks, so that the defense ability of the fortress is greatly increased.

At this point, the weakness of the Swiss was exposed-the Swiss mercenaries mainly use spears, although they are strong in the field fight, but their ability to attack is very poor.

Marin helped dozens of cement fortresses built by the Habsburg family, guarding the main roads of the Swiss mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Therefore, even if the Swiss Resistance Commander Sieg is very capable, there is nothing he can do about it. No way, who called Switzerland full of mountains? Just find a few pass in the valley and build a cement fortress that is larger than the devil's gun tower, you can resist thousands of troops, and make the fierce Swiss spearman helpless.

In fact, the "Lübeck Battle" before the Swiss mercenary defeat had already exposed the weakness of Swiss mercenaries-fear of firearms.

But the Swiss still did not pay attention, and in that battle, Marin used too many means to make the Swiss mercenaries lose a little confused, but did not pay attention to the restraint of the firearms against the Swiss spearman.

After all, Swiss mercenaries are just a group of mountain people. They do n’t know a few characters, and they do n’t know anything about "arms restraint." Just like the Swiss spearman, he relied on the advantage of the spearmen to restrain the plate knights and defeated and killed the "daring Charlie" of the Duke of Burgundy.

Since then, the Swiss have become extremely confident, confident that their spearmen can solve all their opponents. But I do n’t know that muskets and artillery are the natural enemies of the Swiss spearmen ...

Historically, Swiss mercenaries have suffered two major setbacks-one was the Battle of Marignano, which originally occurred in 1515. In that battle, French artillery fired in groups of 70 artillery, which defeated the Swiss spear charge .

And another scene that made the Swiss completely withdraw from the stage of history was Frensberg, who was originally known as the "father of German mercenaries", took the German mercenaries and used a dense musket in the battle of Bikoka. Repelled the Swiss spearman's charge and won the final victory. Subsequently, in the Battle of Pavia in 1525, the German mercenaries who used a lot of muskets directly defeated the French and Swiss mercenaries. Western mercenaries (Eastern Swiss mercenaries have been defeated in the battle of Marignano. ), And even captured the French King Francois I.

After the battle of Pavia, the Swiss mercenaries completely withdrew from the mercenary stage. Because, German mercenaries replaced them. The German mercenaries showed stronger fighting power, and the commissions were cheaper (in fact, the Swiss commissions were too high), which naturally replaced the Swiss mercenary status and robbed their business ...

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But now, at a different time and space, the Swiss mercenaries have not withdrawn from the stage of history. Because they have not yet been devastated. Even if the Swiss battle was defeated in Lübeck, Marin did not kill a few Swiss mercenaries. Therefore, the Swiss are still there. In addition, Marin is good at conspiracy and tricks, which has led the Swiss to always think that they lost to conspiracy and tricks, rather than lagging behind in tactics and tactics.

For example, now, with more than 20,000 Swiss spearmen, Sieg is thinking about how to attack the more than 30,000 Habsburg family troops who are guarding the fortress ...

Strange? The 27,000 Swiss spearmen actually thought about how to break the fortress guarded by the 35,000 Habsburg family army. Obviously, Swiss self-confidence is not generally strong.

But no matter how ferocious they are in the wild, the Swiss are at a loss in the face of the concrete fortress. Then they thought of French artillery ...

Originally, King Louis XII of France planned to send a large army to help Switzerland defeat and expel the Habsburg family in Switzerland after the autumn harvest.

It is a pity that because of the autumn harvest rain disaster in eastern and northeastern France, the lack of military food. As a result, the French plan to help the Swiss attack the Habsburg family army was stranded. Louis XII can only helplessly say-say next year.

Moreover, Louis XII also discovered that it seems that the German mercenary general Gudendorff, who was forced to accept his hire, did not listen to himself. For example, Louis XII let Gudendorff lead the army to attack the Mistel valley, and took advantage of the situation to enter the Graubünden region of Switzerland ~ www.novelhall.com ~ attacking the army of Frenzberg from behind ...

As a result, Gudendorff ’s army did not work, it seemed to be attacking, but it was only a few hundred soldiers and horses that had been lost for several months (actually the hundreds of people lost were deliberately hidden by Gudendorff) Obviously it looks like ...

Not only Louis XII saw this, but Sieg also saw it. This also made Zieg realize that the French can't count on this year and must rely on themselves.

The Swiss are not willing to wait until the end of the year. Who knows what will happen at the end of the year? After all, the French army and the Spanish army are confronting Naples and may not be free to support Switzerland.

Therefore, Sieg finally made a decision to borrow guns from the French in order to use artillery to bomb off dozens of fortresses on important roads and clear obstacles for the Swiss army to march east.

Sieg fought many battles with the French and knew how powerful the artillery was. If more artillery is mobilized, it should be able to break through the small fortresses on those mountain roads. At that time, the road to the east of the march was cleared, and Sieg could take the soldiers and horses behind the enemy and cut off their supply line.

As for the enemy will be out of the city to obstruct? When did the Swiss mercenaries fear field battles?