There are many reasons why Chen Jiujing chose Bordeaux as his destination, the most important thing is that the transportation is convenient.

There are several metropolis like Nantes that can reach the river from the coast, Bordeaux is just one of them, but Nantes is the territory of the Catholic Church, and his mercenaries may not be willing to attack.

Besides, if there are rivers, there are navy and shore defense fortifications. Chen Jiujing did not think about going to attack the cities and territories, and he could not defend even after he was defeated. His goal was very clear, just like the French pirates did to the West Indies, and they were just robbed.

"In this way, Bordeaux has a great advantage. It is only two days short of the voyage. You can attack the city walls and retreat to rob the coast. If you really have no choice, you can still retreat to Bilbao."

After the soldiers gathered to sea, Chen Jiujing called several mercenary leaders to the ship to discuss the war.

After the first news that he was going to recruit mercenaries, Carlos found more than 20 mercenaries of all sizes under the Habsburg rule, but the unevenness of these mercenary groups also opened Chen Jiujing's eyes.

Some mercenary groups can only get a sword, and four "cross crossbows" share a longbow, so it is basically difficult to see a muzzle. This is what Chen Jiujing needs to prepare weapons and armor for them in the employment contract, and the corresponding reward is much lower than those well-equipped mercenaries.

Some of them are very morale and well-equipped, and they look like the soldiers are all weathered and frost-like, which is very in line with Chen Jiujing's expectations. After signing the contract, they are preparing to mobilize their troops and found that the army is dragging its long tail behind them.

Hundreds of trucks, more than forty horses carrying luggage and their foals, accompanied by military vendors and his vans, male servants, maids, children and servants, officers and wives, followed prostitutes looking for business and rioters who exceeded the number of military rioters.

A mercenary group is equivalent to a moving small town in Europe.

"Our marching is guaranteed to make a lot of money from me within one month. All the materials I plundered are divided into 70% of the six mercenary groups, and I only want 30% of them. So don't think about letting my wife and children drink Bordeaux wine."

Although Chen Jiujing forcibly restrained the family of the mercenaries and the servants were left in the port before departure, in order to prevent them from exercising their power in the subsequent battle, he sat on the deck and said, "It's not too late to bring them back and drink."

Chen Jiujing is trying to accept the use of mercenaries as a means of war by Europeans. Although they seem unruly, the commanders do not have any means to restrain them except for their salary, but fighting on the enemy's territory is very effective. The most important thing is to die or lose the battle, and it doesn't matter.

It's just money.

The rulers of Europe all believed that whoever has money was the winner of the war; the commanders also believed that war required three things: money, money, or money.

At this point, as long as Spain's Fei Laoer is willing to give Ming Jun this platform, Chen Jiujing has an overwhelming advantage.

It is not only Chen Bazhi's privilege that his father can defeat his country.

"This is the first time we fought together, and you are not familiar with it, but I think the rewarding war will make you get used to it very quickly."

Chen Jiujing raised his hand and ordered: "General Carlos, please inform all the generals of the Xiyong Camp's combat plan and military order."

As the mercenary recruiter of the General of the Xiyong A camp and Chen Jiujing, Carlos's deliberate humility made him look less like the captain of the mercenary but like Chen Jiujing's entourage. After hearing the order, he took the map and said to everyone on the deck: "First of all, General Juan, who had the most troops, led his Xiyong Bing Battalion to dock at Suston, and was responsible for raising military rations along the way."

As he said that, Carlos pointed to Juan, dressed in a beard and musketeer, and said, "I will mark the distance and location of the four villages and towns along the way on your map. The distance on the map is marked with Mingli, and there are nine Mingli in one li."

"This route is 200 miles long, and you have eight days."

After saying that, Carlos took out another picture and handed it to General Franco, saying, "The well-equipped General Franco, with his camp of Xiyongding, will disembark with Juan, and will travel sixteen miles eastward along the main road to sweep northward, defeat the garrisons in the monasteries and villages along the way, and will reach the north in ten days two hundred and forty miles."

"You might meet the troops sent by Bordeaux on the way to the western harbour. From the news they received were ready to leave the city and raided a hundred miles to get here for two and a half days. If they had fewer troops, kill them."

Juan had no objection to this, and nodded slowly and said, "Where are there many troops?"

"Don't worry, my Xiyong A camp is forty miles west of you. If everything goes well, at this time my A camp, Salazar's B camp, Aji's Wu camp, Guzman's Ji camp have gathered forces to capture the port. The biggest possibility is that Bordeaux's troops have already fought with us."

"If this is the case, you have to be careful and cut off their retreat; if they are slower, you can beat you, and if you can't beat you, retreat westward. No matter what, try every means to get the rider to pass the news back first."

"Once this battle begins, no one can rob the enemy again. The most important thing is to defeat the enemy. Never violate the orders. No one can get a salary if anyone violates the orders."

"It is said that there is a word in General Chen's hometown called "List of Power", which means that after setting up an order, waiting for the first person to violate it, and by implementing punishment, others will know that the order is true and effective."

Several leaders looked at Chen Jiujing and agreed!

Is there any more comfortable military order than this? This is simply a ship to send them to France to make a fortune. No regular army of any country would issue such an order, and the pirates could not pay such a high salary to hire them, only Chen Jiujing.

They didn't care about monasteries and other things. The southern part of France is the territory of Protestantism, and they are all enemies of the church. They used to have Spanish military backgrounds. Not only did they not have any psychological burden, they also thought it was extremely glorious. If they were willing to hand over one tenth of the harvest to the church, they would be simply the hero of the church.

"This battle will definitely take place outside Bordeaux, and the time left for us is ten days. If they are solved within ten days, we will have time to try to attack Bordeaux; if we cannot capture Bordeaux within twenty days, we must return to the ship and leave the port."

"Henry of Naval is recruiting troops to start a war in the north. He may attack Kaor City, only four hundred miles away from us. Let us pray now not to meet him."

Chen Jiujing looked at Carlos with satisfaction and read the combat plan to everyone. At this point, he clapped his hands and served some wine, raised his glasses to everyone and said: "This is the response of the Eastern Military Office of the Ming Empire and King Philip of Spain of Habsburg to the French pirates chattering and harassing the Caribbean Sea... I wish you all return with a full load!"

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