When he came, Marin's army was on the sea route. The main reason was that Marin didn't want to let people know about his troops. After all, it was difficult to be discovered as long as the vast sea was far away from the coastline and the main route.

But it was different when I went back. At this time, the Siena War had been fought, and Marin did not have to hide anymore. Therefore, the mountain infantry army simply chose to return home by land this time. However, Marin left behind three thousand soldiers as the escort of the Siena Bank and the debt collector. The remaining 11,000 people (the war lost thousands), followed Marin back home by land.

However, the Fourth Legion of Saccarat was going to go back to England and was going to take a boat anyway, so he simply took a boat back to Newcastle. In addition, Marin also sent a fleet to transport treasures.

This time, when the Republic of Siena was captured, the millions of gold coins stolen from the Bank of Siena were sent back, the hundreds of years of treasures from the Siena financial families had been harvested, and they actually benefited more than 1.5 million gold coins (including more than 100,000 yuan distributed to soldiers). In addition, in several important towns such as Grosseto and Ladicofani, the important cities of the Republic of Siena, relying on the methods of finding secret rooms taught by Marin, Marin's army plundered gold and silver worth 500,000 gold coins and various valuables. There is no way, the Republic of Siena has not fought for hundreds of years and is a famous commercial country, so it is purely normal for him to accumulate so much wealth. If Marin conquered the Republic of Venice now, it would be estimated that wealth of more than 10 million gold coins could be obtained. After all, the Republic of Venice has an annual fiscal revenue of more than 1 million gold coins, which is better than France.

The reason why I chose to use a boat to transport gold, silver and wealth back to China was not only convenient, but mainly because I was afraid it was too eye-catching. You should know that wealth worth two million gold coins is definitely jealous in Europe. Even the richest Republic of Venice, the annual fiscal revenue is slightly worse than this one.

Think about it, China's annual fiscal revenue is more than ten trillion yuan... If it escorts so much money to go through the market, it will not make people jealous and even have evil thoughts? Not to mention escorts more than ten trillion yuan to go through the market, even if it carries a sack of money, it will make people extremely jealous...

So, after thinking about it, Marin still asked someone to return home quickly and mobilized a trustworthy fleet to transport money, instead of letting the mountain infantry army escort boxes of gold, silver and treasures swaying on the land.

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To be honest, when he sent troops south to help the Pope attack Siena, Marin never thought of making a profit. He was just trying to make a profit with the intention of making colonial authorization in America at a loss. But he didn't expect that Siena, who had not fought for hundreds of years, actually hid so much wealth. He was a training to find secret rooms on a whim, but he actually achieved such great results. If he didn't turn over the secret rooms that had been hidden for hundreds of years, Marin could find at most more than 300,000 gold coins, which was similar to the estimate before sending troops. In addition, there were all kinds of large items of wealth and art worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

But in order to gain favorable impressions in the Holy See, Marin donated all the artworks he stolen, leaving only non-artistic property. The main reason is that artworks are very popular and sought after in Italy, but in Germany, these artworks are not valued at all. Because the Germans prefer simple and practical things.

For some reason, the Italians became obsessed with luxury life and art from the late Roman Empire. Then, the once brave and powerful Roman Empire began to fall into depravity, and their combat effectiveness began to become trash. In later generations, although they were descendants of Roman warriors, the Italians degenerated into funny people who were obsessed with art and greedy for enjoyment. The poor and simple Germans became representatives of European combat power.

Speaking of which, the Ming Dynasty was similar. After the whole country was good at writing, the Ming Dynasty, which once overthrew the Mongol Yuan Empire, became synonymous with weak chickens. It seemed that literary and artistic youth were not suitable for war. Because the literary and artistic youth lacked the courage (or barbarism) that they had in their military service.

Therefore, Marin likes to go to the mountainous areas in southern Germany to select simple and tough mountain citizens to serve as soldiers. Because these mountain citizens do not know how to be sloppy and are more likely to fight by obedience. In addition, they can endure hardships and work hard for a long time, and are definitely elite soldiers. The Swiss are also a group of mountain citizens, strong and powerful.

But what Marin couldn't understand is that Italy is also mountainous and there are mountain people everywhere, so why can't we become elite soldiers? Could it be that the mountain people who are too literary are not good? Marin doesn't understand...

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When he went north from the Principal of Milan and passed through the Graubinden area in southeastern Switzerland, Maximilian I suddenly wanted to ask Marin for help and led his troops to raid the resistance troops in western Switzerland, but Marin refused.

Just kidding, the Swiss Resistance Army in western Switzerland is not the Swiss Resistance Army. It is clearly a coalition force composed of the Swiss and French. Even the French army is still superior in number.

Marin was not afraid of offending the Swiss, but was afraid of offending the French. If he destroyed this resistance army, it would be equivalent to offending France to death. Therefore, Marin refused Maximilian I's invitation and hurriedly passed through the Swiss area and continued north...

The helpless Maximilian I had to accumulate strength by himself. Anyway, he now has 30,000 gold coins sold for the Luxembourg iron ore and 300,000 gold coins loaned from the Bank of Siena, which is enough for consumption by France.

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Just as Marin was busy returning to China with his army north, the Spanish war in Morocco also made significant progress - Gonzalo's army finally captured the Moroccan capital Fes and achieved a major victory in a phased manner.

Fes and Marrakech are two famous capitals of Morocco. As for the later capital Rabat, it is still a small countryside place now.

However, during this siege, the Sultan of the Vatas dynasty of Morocco, Abdullah Burtukali Ibn Mohammed, took the night with 8,000 elite cavalry and rushed out of the northern gate, and then fled south to the old capital Marrakech. It would take time for Spain to destroy Morocco.

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After the Spanish autumn harvest ended, Gonzalo brought 30,000 Spanish troops and 40,000 to 50,000 people across the sea, and gathered 20,000 German mercenaries who had originally crossed the sea.

But Gonzalo did not rush to advance, but surrounded Detuan, an important city in northern Morocco, and did not attack. The reason for this was that Gonzalo wanted to surround the site and attack the aid.

Marin mentioned the tactic of "surrounding the point and fighting aid" when he taught Gonzalo's "Marin Square" (Spanish Square). Gonzalo was very interested in it. Just so happened that Gonzalo was worried about how to deal with the Moroccan scimitar cavalry with strong mobility. So he simply surrounded the city of Tedouan, waiting for the army of the Moroccan Vatas Dynasty to rescue, and then took the opportunity to fight against it...

The origin of Tetouan is actually very related to the Spanish. In 1492, the two Spanish kings (Ferdinand II and Isabella I) jointly destroyed the Allah country on the Iberian Peninsula - Granada.

After the country was destroyed, Allah on the Iberian Peninsula taught the Moors to cross the sea to Morocco. These people were called Andalusian Moors. After they came to northern Morocco, they gathered near Tedouan, rebuilt the once-destroyed city and built it into a fortress city. And Andalusian Moors who fled from southern Spain to Morocco that year basically gathered near Tedouan.

After Gonzalo led an army of 50,000 to siege the city, the Vatas dynasty of Fes quickly gathered troops from all over the country, gathered 60,000 scimitar cavalry, and came over with great momentum.

But Gonzalo had already prepared, and he asked 30,000 Spanish soldiers to form multiple "Marin square formations" (Spanish square formations) to resist the impact of the Moroccan scimitar cavalry.

At the same time, 20,000 German mercenaries were arranged on both wings. After the 30,000 Spanish troops in the middle army withstood several rounds of charge from the Moroccan scimitar cavalry, Gonzalo suddenly commanded 20,000 German mercenaries on both wings and thousands of Spanish cavalry to break out from both sides and rush into the Moroccan battle formation...

Morocco rushed to the battlefield several times but failed, and his morale was already falling sharply. Suddenly, he was attacked by the fierce German mercenaries and Spanish cavalry. The formation was in chaos and he was defeated and fled.

But unfortunately, the main body of the Moroccan army was cavalry, and even if they were defeated and fled, the losses were not large. More than 6,000 scimitar cavalry, and the number of people who fled back reached 50,000, which could be said to be small. Moreover, knowing that the Spanish army outside the city of Teduan was not easy to mess with, the Vatas dynasty in Fes simply did not send troops to rescue.

In desperation, Gonzalo became serious and captured Detuan, and then rushed south again to surround Fes, the capital of the Vatas Dynasty. At this moment, the Vatas Dynasty had no choice but to fight hard with Spain.

Relying on the tall and strong city walls, the Vatas Dynasty resisted for several months. However, the Moroccan walls were not solid enough, mainly because they had less skills in building the city walls. After several months of fierce attacks, the Spaniards finally broke through the city of Fes.

Originally, Gonzalo had the opportunity to fight to the death. However, because the Spanish army and the hired German mercenaries did not cooperate well enough, the Vatas sultan found his weakness and rushed out of the north gate with tens of thousands of the elite royal cavalry overnight, rushing straight to the junction of the Spanish army and the German mercenaries, and really struck a bloody road.
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