Chapter 43: Battle begins

For a few days, Marin arranged for Schwartz to lead his soldiers to practice digging and ambush adaptation training in the hills on the west bank of the Tarot River. And Marin himself, with Sauer, riding a horse, each with a telescope, quietly investigate near Fornovo.
Because of the telescope, Marin and Sauer do not need to approach for investigation. They just need to stand on the high of Hexi and use a telescope to detect it.
Moreover, for convenience of investigation, Marin and Sauer each did not wear heavy armor, each carrying only one rapier and a telescope.
一 大 On the early morning of July 6, Marin arranged for the All-Family Generals to continue to rest, and he kept his spirits, while carrying Sauer, continued to investigate.
The weather is good in the morning and the roads are relatively dry. After waiting for a while, Marin finally waited for the French army on the south bank of the Tarot River and the Italian coalition on the north bank ...
"Great, finally here!" Marin was very excited. He endured for a long time, did not dare to interfere in the Italian military affairs, but was afraid that the battle of Fornovo could not be fought. Today, the two sides are still fighting in Fornovo, proving his "prophets and foresights" are useful and exciting.
"Master, do you know they are going to fight here?" Sauer was surprised. Because he had a feeling that Marin seemed to know that the two sides were going to play here.
In fact, Sauer guessed right, Marin really knew that the two sides would fight here. The problem is that Marin was afraid that this little butterfly would affect the battle. Fortunately, the battle went on as scheduled.
I decided that the two sides would start the war as scheduled, and Marin couldn't wait. He left Sauer to continue observing on the high slopes of the West Bank, while he himself planned to return to camp.
As for how to prepare? Of course, I was going to dig the road along the river along the northern bank of the river ...
The French army fled during the night. If he walked this road in the plains, Marin couldn't stop the French. Because beside this road, besides the Tarot River, there are farmland. You cut the road, and the French can walk through the fields.
So, Marin's plan was to directly dig the embankment of the Tarot River, flood the road, and the nearby farmland. In this way, the French cavalry would not be able to follow this path, otherwise it would sink into the mire. The heavy cavalry is already heavy. If the horseshoe is caught in the quagmire, it is very difficult to escape, and the danger is very great.
As for the excavation time, Marin is tentatively scheduled for noon. Because, according to records, there will be a heavy rain in the afternoon. At that time, the soil will become soft and easy to dig. At present, the soil is hard and digging is laborious.
After I returned to the camp, Marin took a break first and let Schwartz call him at lunch. After all, he would take someone to ambush the Frenchman in the middle of the night and have to rest, otherwise, dozing off in the middle of the night would affect the fight.
As for poor Sauer, it is necessary to continue to observe the battle between the French and the Italian coalition. At the same time, before the break, Marin arranged a group of people to go to both sides of the mountain road facing northwest in advance to arrange an ambush.
山 This mountain road is not a mountain road, it can only be a road in a hilly area. There are many hills and hills on both sides of the road, which are suitable for ambush on both sides.
Marin has seen many war movies in the past, the ancients most like to throw stones and fireballs down the hill. However, it is going to rain in the afternoon, don't think about throwing fireballs. Because firewood is definitely difficult to ignite under heavy rain. So Marin directly intended to use stone.
For this reason, the team sent out was responsible for collecting small and medium-sized stones in the entire hilly area, and using unicycles to carry goods in the Marin march fashion to the high slopes on both sides of the mountain road in the ambush site.
Of course, Kohler is not stupid. Instead of letting all his 100 soldiers act as coolies to move stones, he sent these 100 soldiers to catch 1,000 Italian farmers in nearby villages to help collect and move the stones. In this way, Kohler fulfilled Marin's order well with the least effort.
At noon, Marin woke up, and Kohler returned to report and completed the task of moving stones by himself.
"So fast, Kohler, won't you fool me?"
"How can you, master, I sent these 100 people to the nearby village to catch 1,000 Italian farmers doing this. How can the soldiers do this, so fast?"
"I have you, I didn't expect it ..."
"Master, you are thinking about big things, such small things, the little ones are the best to do." Kohler slaps.
"Don't shit, are those farmers still there?" Marin suddenly thought, since he can use Italian farmers to move stones, why not let them help dig the road ... If you let his 1,100 men dig the road in the afternoon, dig for a long time, At night, who has the strength to fight the French?
"Will prepare to dismiss them ..."
"Don't dismiss, Kohler, you can give some farmers something to eat, and there is work to do for them in the afternoon."
"Yes, Master!" Kohler quickly sent someone to retain the group of Italian farmers and distributed some inferior black bread.
In the afternoon, the sky really started to rain. Sauer came back to report once. The two sides are currently dispatching troops, but they have not yet started fighting. It is estimated that they will start in the afternoon.
Marin settled down, knowing that things were not out of control. So after the rainstorm, when the rain was a little bit lighter and the two sides were about to come into contact, he sent someone to hold the peasants, with the engineer's and the farmer's shovel and iron pick (Italian agriculture was the most developed in Europe at this time, The farm tools here are highly metallized), began to dig the river embankment on the road that is not visible behind the coalition ...
Begin, UU reads www. uukanshu.com Those local farmers are unwilling to dig the river bank. Because if the riverbank is dug, some of them live near the riverbank, and the acres of the manor will also be flooded.
But forced by the spears of the soldiers, they had to obey Marin's arrangements and began to dig the river embankment ...
威尼斯 When the Venice infantry crossed the Tarot River and confronted the Swiss mercenaries of the French army on the south bank, Marin took the Italian farmers to dug the embankment of the Tarot River ...
When the Swiss mercenaries repulsed the Venice infantry, Marin finally dug the embankment. Then, due to the torrential rain, the water of the Tarot River, which had already risen, washed up the riverside avenue and rushed directly into the fields by the river ...
After the Luan River flooded the riverside avenue and nearby fields, Marin did not stay, but led his troops to press the farmers, and went to the ambush site in the hilly area to dig a pit.
Since it has labor that does not need money, it is reluctant to let its soldiers dig hard. Then, the poor Italian peasants continued to be detained towards the mountain road, reached the ambush site, began to ditch and trapped horse pits, and under the command of Italian-speaking soldiers, laid out a simple stumbling horse.
The place where Umarin chose to ambush was about ten kilometers away from the battlefield, and the sides of the road were full of hills and mountains. French people must pass here if they want to go mountain. Moreover, this distance is also beyond the detection range of the French Scout without a telescope.
马 When Marin instructed the Italian farmers to dig trenches and trap horse pits, it was already seven or eight in the evening, and it was already dark. At this time, the news came from Sauer. In the French camp, the French cavalry had just finished dinner and fed the horses, and they seemed to be preparing ...
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