The Rise of the European Emperor

Just as Saqqara entered the city of Grosseto with the soldiers of the Fourth Army, Kahn, Stad and others also led 15,000 mountain infantry over the mountains and arrived at the small valley village of Yala where Marin was hiding. Ni village.

Although the local terrain is complex, Marin specially selected an infantry army composed of mountain people, walking on mountain roads as if walking on flat ground. If not for everyone carrying a big bag, it is estimated that they will arrive in less than two days. After all, the road is only 70 kilometers away. Even with heavy packages on their backs, it took only 3 days for the army to arrive.

After the army arrived, Marin did not rush to attack, but let everyone take a good rest. Anyway, the Siena defenders in the city don't know the existence of this army yet, so the time is not urgent. What's more, the mule team is still behind. The musketeers in the army still need the gunpowder carried by the mule team.

Taking advantage of the time, the army was rectified and counted. At this time, in this army, only 4,000 pieces of rhinoceros leather armor were made. Marin rewarded the 4,000 pieces of rhinoceros leather armor to the veterans in the front row. Of course, the officers also have one piece, including Marin himself. As for the others, they are wearing wooden armor, which is the legendary mahjong mat...

There is no other way around this. In Senegal, Eschwein and Royce have tried their best, but they only hunted seven or eight hundred rhinos. Mainly, the territory of the West African black rhino is too large. A West African black rhino has a territory of 10 square kilometers, and 800 rhinos, that is, 8,000 square kilometers. It has caught up with the area of ​​the Republic of Siena and is twice the size of East Frisia. Moreover, the territories of these black rhinos are not close together, but scattered. In order to hunt these rhinos, Royce's men and horses were divided into more than 30 groups and searched tens of thousands of square kilometers of land, only to hunt and kill less than 800 rhinos, and made 4,000 sets of rhinoceros leather armor.

In desperation, the other 11,000 people could only wear wooden armor. Fortunately, there is a layer of iron sheet on the outside of the wood chip armor. Although it is relatively thin, the protection is not bad. The key is lightness. As long as it's not facing muskets, it can still make do with it. It just so happened that the Siena army did not have an organized musketeer, and it was enough to wear this kind of armor. Of course, the city of Siena does not have musketeers, but it has artillery. If you are hit by artillery, it doesn't matter what armor you wear. However, there are not many cannons at the top of the city of Siena, and they are concentrated on the three gates.

The reason for this is determined by the layout of the city of Siena. The shape of the old city of Siena is very strange, like an inverted triangle. The three sharp corners are exactly three city gates.

This is because the city of Siena was originally built on three small mountains. The old city is just surrounded by three hills in the southwest, north and southeast. And the three city gates happened to be the gaps left when the three hills surrounded them.

Therefore, the city of Siena is a natural Jedi—the north, southwest, and southeast sides are naturally hillsides, and the city walls are built on the hillsides. The terrain is extremely dangerous. And the three city gates with the same gap are the only entrances and exits. Siena's army, as long as they guard these three gaps and gates, they can resist the enemy's invasion. So, the cannon of Siena,

They were also arranged on the upper floors of the three city gates. With such a dangerous terrain, as long as the large-scale attack of the enemy forces at the three city gates is repelled, the safety of the city can be kept.

What? You say the enemy will climb the wall on the hillside? That is nothing to worry about. It is true that there are capable people in this world who can climb the city wall on the hillside, but that is definitely rare. If you find out, send more soldiers and horses to kill them. Besides, there are very few enemies, so what if they climbed the city wall on the hillside? Can you really let the army follow suit? If the army can't climb up, it's a waste of time... A few climbing masters will soon be submerged in the wave of gang fights...

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While rectifying the soldiers and horses, Marin also ordered the construction of siege ladders. Although it is unlikely to be used, it is better to be prepared a little bit, maybe it will be used...

The next day, the mule team finally arrived, and the team was completely complete. After repairing for another day, on the morning of the third day, the army set off again, heading towards the city of Siena in the east.

However, the army did not start until after four o'clock in the afternoon. The reason for this is because Marin wants to attack at night...

No way, a natural Jedi like the city of Siena is extremely difficult to conquer. If there is a strong attack, God knows how many people will die. Use these veterans of many battles as cannon fodder to attack the city? Marin is not that extravagant...

Therefore, launching a surprise attack at night is the most sensible choice. Although it is unjust, it is more affordable. Besides, Marin started his business by attacking Charles VIII at night, and his reputation has long been lost, and it is difficult to restore it. Therefore, Marin simply "goes all the way to the dark". Moreover, the sneak attack is indeed very affordable...

As for being upright? There will be in the future. When Marin's strength is strong enough to walk sideways, and there are enough cannon fodder soldiers, he will choose to face the enemy upright.

Why do you say that? this is the truth. Only those with strong strength hope to fight with others in an upright and square manner. Because this is the most beneficial to those strong. And those powerful people who have manipulated power and public opinion will make a lot of publicity - the upright and positive is the kingly way...

In fact, only fools would believe such nonsense. why? Because dignified and upright is only beneficial to the powerful! For a weak person, to pursue something dignified is definitely kicked by a donkey.

Here is a realistic example - the Red Army fought against Chiang in the Hunan and Jiangxi regions in the early days. When using Taizu's guerrilla tactics, it was like a fish in water and won frequently. Because Taizu knew very well that his army was a group of poor men who didn't even have enough ammunition. If they had just confronted the bald army, they would have been wiped out long ago. But after Wang Yiming and Bo Yigu, who like to be upright and upright, came to power, they listened to the nonsense of Li De, the two swordsmen, and fought some upright decisive battle. Soon, the 300,000 army was crushed by the bald-headed million-dollar army...

Therefore, for a commander-in-chief, when you are strong enough to beat everything, dignified is the best choice. Because this is not only safe, but also can make a name for yourself. But your strength is insufficient, but you like to speak upright... Sorry, the cemetery has already reserved a place for you...

Moreover, those ruling classes who hold political power and the right to speak will also trumpet what is upright when propagating. For example, in ancient Europe, what kind of chivalry was advocated...

Why are they promoting it like this? It's not that I hope those stupid rebels will just face them. But how did the strength of the rebels compare with those of the rulers? All rebels who confronted the rulers were defeated or hanged...

All in all, for a qualified commander, when you are powerful, you should choose an upright style of warfare, and fool those rebellious fools to fight you upright. In this way, you are very sure to defeat or even eliminate it...

And if you are weak... don't hesitate, Taizu's guerrilla tactics are the truth you should pursue... If you want to win, you have to rely on surprise to win. Because, just face-to-face, you can't...

Of course, winning by surprise is very risky. Because, if it fails, it may be over. Just like Marin's raid this time, the initial plan was too risky. If the sneak attack fails and the food is gone again, they can only starve to death. Without the enemy to attack, I collapsed because of lack of food...

Therefore, Marin later transferred the Fourth Army to send supplies by road. In this way, even if the sneak attack fails, there is still a way out, and it will not be over...

It got dark early in winter, and when Marin led the army and the mule team loaded with food out of the valley to the outside of the mountain, the sky was already getting dark. Before 7 o'clock in the evening, Marin led the army and quietly arrived at Clark Village in the west of Siena, which is the location where Marin initially decided to store food...

In order to keep it secret, the army did not light a torch, but quietly rested on the ground in Clark Village for a while, and temporarily put down everyone's packages and stored them in the village, and began to take out maple sugar compressed biscuits and water bottles, and began to eat dinner...

At around 10 o'clock in the evening, seeing that people were asleep (the ancients had no entertainment at night and went to bed early), Marin ordered the army to concentrate, and quietly touched under the city wall southwest of Siena...