The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, Marin also knew that it was not kind to do so. However, he couldn't help it. Although it is necessary to pretend to be miserable and to pretend to be defeated, but if the soldiers and horses of the Beihai Kingdom headquarters are to be feigned defeat, there will be big problems.

What's the big deal? That is - the invincible self-confidence of the Beihai army!

A person's self-confidence is very important, but the self-confidence of an army is even more important. With self-confidence, the soldiers can charge forward without hesitation without fear. If there is no self-confidence, it is easy to be afraid of the battle, and even be defeated like a mountain.

Just like the frontier army of the Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian cavalry, is the gap between them really that big? As long as the soldiers of the Ming army dared to fight for their lives, even if the infantry were no match for the cavalry, the superiority in numbers was there.

But that's not how the account is calculated. On the battlefield, the confidence to win is often more important than the numerical advantage. The Mongolian cavalry were confident that they could completely torture the soldiers of the Ming army, so they dared to charge forward even if they were few. The frontier army of the Ming Dynasty, because of the many failures, has lost its courage. Even if they saw more than a hundred Mongolian cavalry rushing over, thousands of Ming troops would be overwhelmed with fright.

The most exaggerated thing is that Japanese pirates invaded Jiangnan during the Jiajing period, which frightened tens of thousands of soldiers in the Ming army and guards in Jiangnan so that they dared not move. Can those guards beat those dozens of Japanese pirates? Certainly not. The point is that there were rumors at the time that those Japanese pirates ate people's hearts and livers and were the incarnations of demons. Then, he frightened the Jiangnan Ming army too frightened to move. But after reacting, they sent people to chase them out to sea again to save face...

Therefore, the army cannot lose self-confidence if it loses anything. And the self-confidence of the army is an important part of the so-called military soul, and it is indispensable.

Because self-confidence is so important, in later generations, whether it is the German army, the devils, or the People's Liberation Army, they are desperately promoting themselves as "invincible", and they will never say that they cannot win. The same is true for Lao Mei. In the recruitment promotional video, various aircraft missiles frequently appear on the scene, telling you-our weapons are advanced, and we can beat people instead of being beaten...

Therefore, although Marin wanted to feign defeat and let the enemy relax his vigilance, he was unwilling to break the myth of "the army of the North Sea State is invincible".

So, how to solve this problem? It's easy to handle, find someone to take the blame...

And looking at Europe, who is more suitable for this blame than Italian mercenaries?

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In fact, Italian mercenaries were not as bad as Marin imagined. To say that they are bad is also compared with German mercenaries. However, the Italian mercenaries of this era are by no means as funny as the Italian mercenaries during World War II...

The Italian mercenaries of this era may be a little less disciplined now, and their individual quality is not as good as that of the German mercenaries, but they are not so bad that they can't even beat African blacks during World War II.

Moreover, before that, King Louis XII of France also hired more than 20,000 Italian mercenaries to fight Spain. If the Italian mercenaries were bad, the French wouldn't hire them either.

However, in that war, the French army was defeated because Gonzalo de Cordoba used the Marin phalanx (Spanish phalanx) and a large number of muskets.

After the war, in order to shirk responsibility, Louis XII threw the blame on the Italian mercenaries, thinking that they dragged down the French army. After all, the French also want to protect the self-confidence of the French army. Therefore, we can only use Italian mercenaries as a fig leaf...

Afterwards, the word-of-mouth of the Italian mercenaries plummeted, and their business suffered a lot. The Swiss mercenaries, because they were defeated by Marin's army, were captured many times. Then, as the Habsburgs invaded Switzerland, the Swiss mercenaries fell silent for a while. After all, people are also busy resisting the Habsburg family.

The Italian mercenaries took a big scapegoat from the French, and the Swiss mercenaries were busy rebelling against the Habsburg family. Therefore, during this period of time, the most nourishing life was the German mercenaries.

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Marin didn't want to destroy the "invincible" character design of the Beihai Army, but he wanted to feign defeat. Then, anyway, the Italian mercenaries who had taken the blame from the French,

It just happened to be used as a blame - anyway, I have already lost to the Spaniard once, and it is okay to lose to the German again...

Moreover, if these Italian mercenaries lose, Marin can not only lose the follow-up commissions. At the same time, it can also avoid the collapse of the confidence of the Beihai army. After all, it was not the North Sea Army that was defeated, but the Italian mercenaries who had a bad reputation...

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Out of guilt, before the Italian mercenaries went to Oldenburg, Marin entertained Palgani and his Italian mercenaries with an extremely grand banquet. Of course, it was Schwartz who came forward to entertain.

Then, Schwartz also promised on behalf of Marin-the materials that the Earl of Oldenburg hid in the city of Oldenburg will be called by them. This promise surprised Palgani and his men.

However, they did not expect that this promise was useless at all...

Because, once the city of Oldenburg is broken, these materials will be robbed by the Eight-Power Allied Forces and will not be left to the Italian mercenaries. So, this is a blank check. However, before the city was broken, it could give great encouragement to Italian mercenaries. After all, guarding the city of Oldenburg is equivalent to guarding their property...

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But as soon as he turned his head, Marin arranged for spies to inform the princes of the eight countries...

Tell me what? Naturally, it is to shake off the details of Palgani...

Marin was afraid that the Eight-Power Allied Forces would abandon Oldenburg, where Italian mercenaries were stationed, and come to attack East Frisia. Therefore, he will arrange spies to tell the eight princes that this Palgani is a "constantly defeated general" in Italy, and his level is very poor. Moreover, most of the materials and treasures of the Earl of Oldenburg are accumulated in the city of Oldenburg...

In this way, the princes of the eight countries can be ruthless and fight the Italian mercenaries in the city. Then, buy Marin a lot of time...

When seeing off the Italian army, Marin hid in the carriage and peeked at the Italian mercenaries heading for Oldenburg.

Among them, an interesting picture attracted Marin deeply—the 800 mercenaries of Palgani's "Gentlemen's Mercenary Group" seemed to each wear a black iron helmet, and it was the one with the brim. A kind of iron helmet, somewhat resembling the steel helmet of later generations.

However, when they set off, the 800 mercenaries of the "Gentleman Mercenary Group" did not wear those black iron helmets on their heads, but carried them on their backs with straps... After all, iron helmets are heavy, and wearing The head is quite pressed, and the back is on the back, so it can be much easier...

"Why is this a bit of a scapegoat, and it's on your back..."

If Ma Lin realized something, he laughed loudly and rolled in the carriage...

"My lord, what's so funny about this? Their military appearance is very neat. Although their combat effectiveness is not very good, they look good..." Kohler was a little puzzled. However, Kohler obviously didn't know the stalk of "backing the blame", so naturally he couldn't get a laugh...

Then, Marin saw that Palgani was also carrying a "black pot" on his back. However, his "black pot" is more gorgeous. Moreover, it looks like there are gorgeous bird feathers inserted on the top of the hat...

"Hey, let you take such a big scapegoat, you really deserve to be the 'king of scapegoats'..." Marin looked at the high-spirited Palgani Zhile through the window of the carriage...

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