The Rise of the European Emperor

Both of them have loud voices and their Arabic is very authentic. So, hearing their shouts, all the Berber cavalry and Arab cavalry who were waving Arab scimitars and preparing to counterattack were stunned...

Ayum is the first lieutenant general of this army and a famous general of the Vatas dynasty. Once, General Ali, who was locked outside the city, was the number one general in Morocco. But General Ali is old, over 60 years old. So, the old man turned into a behind-the-scenes... no, he turned into the commander-in-chief behind the scenes...

Then, Ayoum, the fierce general brother in his thirties of the new generation, replaced General Ali and became the number one fierce general in Morocco. Not to mention being famous within the Watas dynasty, even the Saad tribe knew the great reputation of the bearded Ayum. Before, when the two armies converged, Ayumhe accepted the request of many warriors of the Saad tribe to compete. Without exception, the warriors of the Saad tribe were all defeated. Therefore, General Ayum is not only famous among the more than 10,000 troops of the Watas Dynasty, but also has a great reputation among the 8,000 cavalry sent by the Saad Dynasty this time. His death dealt a huge psychological blow to the soldiers of the Moroccan coalition army...

Afterwards, many Moroccan warriors who listened to the shouting really started to mess up, running around like headless chickens. But there are also rational ones. They try to squeeze forward, wanting to see the truth and avoid being deceived.

Of course, there is another kind of people. They were near Ayum and witnessed the whole process of Ayyum being beaten to death by the Spaniards on the roof. So they were angry:

"Damn the Spaniards, they murdered Master Ayum! Brothers, let's go to the roof and kill them!"

Then, a group of Moroccan warriors jumped off their horses and walked aggressively towards the gate of the tall building where Gonzalo de Cordoba was, intending to rush in, climb to the roof, and kill Gonzalo de Cordoba one line.

However, when they came to the gate of this building, they were surprised to find that the gate was blocked from the inside...

They tried their best to kick the door, but the back of the door was full of furniture and various sundries, and they couldn't open it at all...

Gonzalo de Cordoba smiled while standing on the roof, and said in his heart:

"Don't you have any common sense, old man? Will you wait on the roof to kill me? How stupid..."

In fact, in order to prevent Moroccan cavalry from entering the house and killing Spanish soldiers on the roof, last night Gonzalo de Cordoba ordered the gates of all houses on South Street to be blocked from the inside to prevent Moroccan warriors from entering the house. Kill them and hurt the Spanish soldiers.

In fact, General Ali, the leader of the Moroccan coalition forces, was right. If the Moroccan warriors were given the opportunity to face off with his soldiers, the Moroccans might not lose. After all, Moroccans are barbarians who are good at playing with knives, and their personal combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of Spanish farmers.

Under normal circumstances, if the city was breached, the Spanish soldiers who were peasants in the city would only be massacred by this group of Moroccan warriors holding machetes. Only the Spanish knights in halter-backed outfits were able to confront them head-on. After all, knights have practiced martial arts since childhood, no worse than these nomads, and even better martial arts. But the number of Spanish knights is very small, unlike Moroccan warriors, each tribe has a bunch. The city was really broken by the Moroccans, and indeed only the life of being massacred.

But Gonzalo de Cordoba has learned a few hands from Marin, the number one in Europe. At the beginning, Marin had specially done deduction in this regard with Gonzalo de Cordoba. Then, after abandoning his sense of honor, Gonzalo de Cordoba decided to use it in actual combat...

The city of Fez was once the capital of the Watas dynasty in Morocco. The city is tall and strong, and there are many buildings in the city. Especially on South Street, where commerce is flourishing, and many shops are built of stone buildings, which are very suitable for this kind of tactic.

And after deploying this kind of tactics, even if the Moroccan warriors have high personal fighting ability, so what? First of all, you have to find the enemy before you can fight the opponent...

There is a way to find the enemy, that is, in the streets and alleys. However, after the Moroccan warrior dismounted and rushed in, there were not only a large number of obstacles inconvenient to charge in the narrow alleyway, but also a row of spears poking at him without thinking...

The alley is only so wide that it cannot accommodate a large number of people walking. Although it can't reach the level of "one man guards the gate, ten thousand men can't open it", it is really inconvenient to attack.

If you encounter European heavy infantry, holding a shield, you may be able to attack by force. However, the Moroccans are mainly scimitar cavalry, not even armor, nor bows and arrows.

No shield, no armor, not even a bow. A Moroccan warrior with a machete has nothing to do with a Spanish pikeman in an alley.

On the roof beside the street, 1,500 Spanish musketeers and 500 crossbowmen were not idle. They kept shooting and firing arrows into the street, and unlucky Moroccan cavalrymen were always hit.

Not to mention, there are still a large number of Spanish soldiers without muskets, bows and arrows on the house. They used the bricks and stones that had been prepared a long time ago and smashed them down. Some unlucky Moroccan soldiers were smashed to the ground.

Moroccan warriors are all melee cavalry, they can only cut people with machetes, they don't even have long-range weapons, so they can only be beaten passively. In desperation, in order to avoid being hit by muskets, arrows and bricks, they could only run around in the streets.

They couldn't open the door, didn't dare to enter the alley, and could only be happily attacked by the Spaniards on the roof...

Of course, there were also smart Moroccan warriors who picked up the bricks and stones thrown by the Spaniards on the street, including arrows, and threw them on the roof as a counterattack.

In the beginning, some Spanish soldiers really didn't pay attention to the trick. But after paying attention, it's all right again. After all, the Spanish soldiers could back off, out of sight of the Moroccan soldiers. But the Moroccan warriors on the street could not hide from the sight of the Spanish soldiers...

In this way, after being beaten for a long time, the morale of the Moroccan warriors who were unable to fight back collapsed...

Of the 20,000 Moroccan coalition forces, of the 15,000 who broke into the city, only 5,000 were former regular troops, and most of the other 10,000 were irregular troops composed of herdsmen.

The tribal cavalry formed by the herdsmen were not bad in fighting with the wind, and they were very fierce. Once encountering such a headwind without the ability to fight back, it is easy to collapse.

No, after being beaten for a long time, thousands of herdsmen cavalry took the initiative to drop their scimitars, squatted down with their heads in their hands and begged for mercy loudly. There are only more than 3,000 remaining soldiers of the regular army, still trying to throw stones at each other with the Spaniards on the roof...

Gonzalo de Cordoba saw that the time was ripe, and immediately asked his Arabic translator to shout:

"Surrender without killing!"

"Surrender without killing!"

At the same time, he ordered the musketeers and crossbowmen to focus on attacking those diehards who were still resisting...

...

It was not until the evening that those diehards were basically wiped out. Then, the surviving six or seven thousand Moroccan herdsmen cavalry were captured by the Spaniards...

Outside the city, General Ali of the Watas dynasty and General Sheikh of the Saad tribe saw that the general situation was over, so they had to flee with the remaining scimitar cavalry of less than 5,000.

In this regard, Gonzalo de Cordoba has nothing to do, after all, he doesn't have so many cavalry to chase. And the reason why he took the risk of putting the enemy in an ambush in the city was because the infantry had nothing to do with the fleeing cavalry. Only by putting the enemy's cavalry into the city and cutting off their retreat can they be guaranteed to stay...

However, although 15,000 enemy horses were eliminated this time, because of the indiscriminate attack for victory during the attack, more than half of the enemy's 15,000 horses were killed or injured, which made Gonzalo de Cordova very distressed . Because, in the end, he only captured more than 6,000 intact Moroccan Berb war horses. The rest of the horses were either accidentally killed or injured in the chaos, and could no longer be used as war horses...

Fortunately, after this battle, both the Vatas Dynasty and the Saad tribe were severely injured, and it was difficult to recover for a long time. In this way, during the period when Gonzalo de Cordoba left Morocco, it was difficult for these two forces to pose a threat to the Spanish-controlled area in northern Morocco. And Gonzalo de Cordoba can also safely go to Italy to clean up the mess there...