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Chapter 39 Night combat training

Marin is an ambitious person, unlike Count Alfred, who is clearly a guy who is waiting to die. In order to realize his ambitions, Marin must have outstanding performance in the war.

Therefore, from the time he arrived in Italy, Marin began to plan various matters. In fact, Marin knew the course of the war in history and could also propose some targeted plans.

However, Marin did nothing and did not show himself before the commander. Because he was afraid that his intervention would lead to a change in the course of the war. In that case, his foresight would be useless.

So, Malin didn't say anything, just watched the alliance princes discuss and quarrel. Seeing these princes, Malin suddenly remembered the plot of the eighteen princes against Dong Zhuo...

The scene in front of him is very similar to the 18 princes who oppose Dong Zhuo. The same "heroes" gathered together, the same spirit, the same failure to oppose Dong (France)... Even Charles VIII and Dong Zhuo ran away safely...

Every time the officers' meeting was held, Marin, as the lowest-level phalanx leader who attended the meeting, sat in the corner, wandering around the sky, and said nothing. And Count Alfred didn't know what was going on, and he had no desire to show off at all. He let the Venetians and the Mandovans show off, and he sat silently on the side to make soy sauce...

Marin seemed to think that he was at a Milan fashion show, and a group of Italians were pretending to be there... Moreover, Marin could not understand their Italian. Marin only understood German, English, Latin and Frisian (very close to English, taught by Madame Mary), but for Italian, he had a seven-pointed or six-pointed ones... Although Latin and Italian both come from Italy, the two belong to two dialects with very different times and are difficult to communicate with each other. Therefore, Marin could only silently watch the group of Italians pretending to brag in Italian dialect, just like when he saw Hong Kong people talking in Cantonese in movies in their previous life, he couldn't understand...

Marin didn't have the time to listen to the Italians bragging, but recalled the specific plot of the Battle of Fornovo, the only major battle between the coalition and the French army.

Marin remembered that during the battle, the French army had 8,000 heavy French cavalry and 4,000 Swiss spearmen. However, when Charles VIII marched before, he threw all the heavy artillery, but he was reluctant to leave gold, silver and treasures.

But Charles VIII was not an ordinary person. When he found that the French army was blocked by 20,000 to 30,000 coalition forces, in order to prevent the enemy from relying on their numerical advantage, he resolutely scattered gold, silver and treasures on the left and right wings of the French army. Sure enough, when 6,000 coalition light cavalry were surrounding them, they saw the gold, silver and treasures on the ground. They didn't bother to attack the French army, but dismounted to pick up gold, silver and treasures. Then, the coalition forces failed to attack the French army, and the French army escaped the fate of failure.

Marin doesn't care about the problem of gold, silver and treasures. He is a mercenary to earn titles, not money. Besides, if he wants to make money, he is still a modern person who is afraid that he has no idea?

Therefore, Marin secretly decided that he must make great contributions in this battle to exchange titles with the emperor...

According to memory, during the battle, the Swiss blocked the impact of the Venetian infantry, while the light cavalry of Milan and Mandova were busy picking up treasures. However, Charles VIII was unwilling to fight with the coalition forces, so on the night of July 6, he left 4,000 Swiss spearmen behind the temple, and he took 8,000 French heavy cavalry to escape overnight.

Moreover, Marin recalled that it seemed that it had rained heavily that afternoon, and the road was definitely not easy to walk. If Charles VIII wanted to run away at night, he would definitely not be able to walk the path. Because his heavy cavalry was not suitable for walking the path.

Then, Marin was sure that that night, Charles VIII's heavy cavalry group must have escaped along the road. But at night, no one could see clearly. Marin thought about whether he could fish in the troubled waters and even stopped the French cavalry group...

After repeated speculation, Marin felt that he could take the opportunity to stop the French cavalry group...

At present, Marin also has 1,100 soldiers in his hands. Although he is incomparable to the 8,000 cavalry of the French, he cannot attack him. However, it is still barely possible to defend the intersection and block the French army's retreat.

The most important thing is that the French lost all the artillery. Without artillery, the cavalry could not break through the spear formation. In addition, they could also arrange double trenches and pointed wooden stakes, which could completely block the French army.

Of course, it is impossible for me to destroy the French army with 1,100 people. Therefore, while I blocked the French army, I also had to ask for help from the coalition forces. If the coalition forces could send troops to attack the front and back, the French would not be able to fail.

To this end, when Marin was training, he started training and started night battles, and added many subjects to combat heavy cavalry...

For example, heavy cavalry are covered with plate armor, and it is difficult to stab them to death with spears. If the French heavy cavalry give up their horses and dismount their horses and fight in the field, the spearmen will be a little troublesome.

So, Marin thought about it and selected 100 strong men from the square formation. Under the leadership of Kahn, he formed a "Warhammer Team". No matter how thick the plate armor is, he is afraid that the hammer will be smashed. After all, the shock force of the hammer can completely knock out and injure the heavy armored knight. If it hits the head, it can even kill with one hammer.

To this end, Marin acquired a group of blacksmith hammers and replaced them with long wooden handles, allowing the "Warhammer Team" to start training. In addition, Marin also selected a group of people with good verbal skills in response to the situations that they could not see clearly at night, and asked them to simulate the sound of thousands of troops to scare the French.

It is indeed dangerous to use 1,100 people to block 8,000 French "iron bumps". If the French know their background, they will not kill themselves? Therefore, in other directions, pretending to be a thousand troops and scaring the French is also a good way.

A few days ago, Marin personally presided over the night battle training. But a few days later, Marin handed over the night battle training to Schwartz. He himself took Schal and Kahn to Fornovovo for field investigations and depicting local topographic maps.

Then, Marin returned to the Venetian station with a thick stack of parchment paper. The parchment papers were all the topographic maps of Fornovo drawn by Marin, and all the contour lines were drawn.

In the days that followed, Marin trained soldiers at night, slept in the afternoon, studied maps in the afternoon, and thought about combat plans...

What the unlucky Charles VIII didn't know was that before he evacuated from Naples, someone in Venice began to plot against him. Moreover, the most fundamental 8,000 heavy cavalry in France were plotting against him.
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