"What? During the pursuit, the French army suddenly turned around and attacked our army, and our army lost more than 10,000 yuan?" After receiving this battle report, Gonzalo de Cordoba was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
But after being angry, he felt fear. What he thought at the moment was that the flaws of Spain were discovered by the French!
The square formation of Gonzalo de Cordoba is different from the square formation of the original Marin. Although there are trenches filled with wooden pickets, they are different in other places.
Of course, it was not his fault. Because when he was learning the square formation from Marin, Marin's square formation had only the trench as a bunker. Later, Gonzalo de Cordoba was a genius and invented a method to pile the soil from the trench into earth walls to fight against French shells.
Logically speaking, such a powerful square formation is invincible. It is true, but there is a prerequisite, that is, the Spaniards must be in a defensive state.
In other words, once this policy is moved to pursue the enemy, it will be completely covered by trenches and earthen walls, and will face the enemy's impact directly. In particular, facing the raid of super-large heavy-armored cavalry from a cavalry power like France.
In the previous battles, the Spaniards have always played the defensive side, so naturally they did not expose this weakness. Of course, from the perspective of the French in this era, they could not see it.
Only the "original creator" of Marin, the square formation, knows the flaws of the Spanish square formation - the inability to move, the side and back are weak...
This is also impossible. Once the Spanish phalanx starts to move, the powerful bunker will be lost. Moreover, it is also a tradition for European troops to place the strongest veterans in the front row and the old and weak and the new soldiers in the back row and the side.
But they did not expect that this time the French actually knew how to kill a retaliation, and they turned around to the side of the phalanx and launched an attack...
This approach is really too terrible and does not conform to the European style of this era. But as a famous general, Gonzalo de Cordoba quickly found the prototype in his memory-
"Mongolian cavalry tactics?"
That's right, this is the Mongolian cavalry tactics that swept across the Eurasian continent back then - pretend to retreat first to attract the enemy to chase. When the enemy was tired of chasing, the formation was also chasing. Suddenly, he killed a rebel and used the gang of cavalry on both sides of the left and right to attack the enemy's battle formation, and stabbed the knife hard...
Of course, the Mongolians cooperated with this set of other classic "Manguda" tactics, which was to shoot arrows back while running away, making the pursuit party very weak.
However, the Mongols were lucky, and they were facing the European heavy cavalry. Although the European war horses were tall and long, their explosive power was better than Mongolian horses. But the problem was that they carried heavy cavalry and were wearing heavy horse armor, even if they faced short-legged Mongolian horses, they would not be able to catch up with them. Therefore, the Europeans were abused very badly at the beginning. If the Mongolian Khan had not suddenly passed away and the Western Expedition Army was busy going back to compete for the Khan throne, perhaps Germany and France would have been pushed away. After all, the Mongolian cavalry had already reached Hungary at that time. Going westward, it would have been the German region.
Of course, the Mongolian cavalry is not really invincible. When they meet the Mamluk cavalry (descendants of the Turks) riding Arabian horses, because the horses are not as good as the opponent, the Manguda kite tactics fail and they are defeated. There is no way, the Mamluk cavalry is all "sports cars" (Arab horses), and "storm racing" cannot be beaten...
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To be honest, Louis XII did not want to adopt this very European tactic. However, John Rafi cited the example of the Mongolian cavalry that year, and listed the example of the European coalition "Battle of the Seyot River" that was defeated by the Mongolian cavalry.
Louis XII happened to have nothing to do with Gonzalo de Cordoba. He had no choice but to agree to try this tactic. As a result, he really achieved miraculous results and eliminated tens of thousands of Spanish infantry in one go. Although most of them were recruits and old and weak, this battle was already a brilliant victory. After all, the French cavalry lost only hundreds of people in this battle, but annihilated tens of thousands of enemies, which was definitely a brilliant victory.
After this battle, the Spanish army, which originally had an army of 60,000, lost tens of thousands of people. If the rain had not stopped, it would have costed thousands more people.
After returning to the city, Louis XII was extremely happy and held a banquet to celebrate the great victory. John Lafite, who offered his plan, was in a great mood and directly doubled his fiefdom. Moreover, Louis XII promised that if France eventually occupied the Kingdom of Naples, its title could be increased...
For a moment, John Lafite was thinking-I might as well mess with Louis XII...
However, thinking that if his true identity was exposed, he would definitely be disliked by Louis XII and even imprisoned. Therefore, he could only suppress these unrealistic ideas. Moreover, Marinno - afterwards gave him more fiefs than the French...
Of course, Marin didn't say that those fiefs were in America...
America is now a wild land, and its land is not worth much. Even if it is given to John Lafite one or two thousand square kilometers, which is equivalent to the size of the country of Beth, Marin did not feel sorry for it. After all, America lacked 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 same trick, and went out of the city to lure the Spaniards to chase after him on a rainy day, but Gonzalo de Cordobali ignored it. Anyway, as long as the French army did not leave the city, he didn't care.
Moreover, Gonzalo de Cordoba has been studying solutions to the flaws of his square array these days. After all, if this major flaw is not solved, he will still suffer a great loss in the future when encountering the French.
How to ensure that the enemy's large-scale heavy cavalry attacks from the side and backwards during the march is indeed a big problem. Even famous generals like Gonzalo de Cordoba are difficult to come up with countermeasures if they want to break their heads. Moreover, this is also a world-class problem in ancient times.
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Of course, it is not a problem for the time traveler Malin. Malin himself has limited ability, but there are many great people in ancient China. Who... cough cough, Qi Jiguang, a famous general who was not born yet, knows how to use side vans to fight against the sudden attacks of the Mongolian cavalry during their march...
Moreover, this was not Qi Jiguang's first invention. In fact, as early as the Western Han Dynasty, during the Battle of Mobei in the Western Han Dynasty, Wei Qing, a famous Han general, had done a circle of ox carts transporting supplies to guard against the attack of the Huns' cavalry. In the end, the Han army won a great victory and defeated the Huns.
All those who can come up with these solutions are super famous generals in Chinese history. And Malin is just standing on the shoulders of giants.
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In fact, this war itself was initiated by Marin, and his purpose was to consume the strength of Spain and France. For Marin, unilateral consumption of Spain's strength was obviously not in line with its interests. It would be best if both sides weakened together to meet the way of balance.
So, Marin was prepared for this...
"What? An Italian businessman offered me a chariot?" Gonzalo de Cordoba, who was thinking about a solution to his response, was a little stunned.
Soon, an Italian merchant named Giovanni came to Gonzalo de Cordoba and presented a high-quality imitation Yu Dayou chariot commonly used in the North Sea Army...
"General, please see, this is a kind of chariot equipped by the Beihai Army when I was doing business in Beihai Kingdom. It is said that it comes from far away China. This chariot is very light, but the cargo volume is not small. Moreover, the most important thing is that 4 spears can be inserted at the top. Once the car is stopped and the direction is outward, the enemy cavalry will easily be stabbed to death by the 4 spears on the top of the chariot... As long as a large number of these light chariots are placed on the side of the battle formation, you will not be afraid of the impact of the enemy cavalry during the march..."
Gonzalo de Cordoba nodded after hearing this, and finally said with emotion:
"Mr. Marin is such a genius. I am not as good as him! You are very good, and you are really a Spanish friend! Don't worry, I will ask Your Majesty for you! Alas, why didn't Master Marin tell me such a good thing..."
Chapter completed!