Chapter 45: Ambush (middle)

的 On the night of September 6, after a heavy rain during the day, the sky seemed to be much clearer. Although there is still a bit of cloud cover, it is already very thin. Plus the moon is hanging in the sky. Therefore, there is still a little visibility at night, although it is very low.
When the French army ran, they were afraid of alarming the Italian coalition and the Swiss who did not know they were abandoned. Therefore, the French did not light the torch. Because the torch is too conspicuous at night and can be seen from afar. If everyone in the 8000 French cavalry held a torch and looked at it from a high place, they would find the movement of the French army all the way.
马 In the middle of the night, horses cannot run because they are invisible. If the enemy army runs with the infantry, it may not be slower than the heavy cavalry. If you are bitten by the enemy, you can't escape. In the dark, cavalry is not as good as pikemen. Moreover, Charles VIII abandoned the Swiss mercenaries without authorization. At that time, Swiss mercenaries may not be willing to help themselves.
So, Charles VIII's order was that at least you must leave Furnovo and not see any light from Furnovo before you can ignite. Before that, the French army could only rely on the faint starlight and the faint moonlight blocked by dark clouds.
山 This mountain road is not suitable for walking vehicles because of the steep in some places. It can only pass horses and pedestrians. Therefore, pedestrians on the road are limited, and there are still a lot of grass on the road, which have not been completely flattened. It is precisely because of the existence of these grasses that the road after the rain is better than the bare Roman avenue by the river.
Marin is teaching everyone how to scare the French, but Sauer hurriedly hurried back and told Marin:
"Sir, here is the French!"
Marin was startled, and her heart started to tense. But in order not to affect everyone, I still pretended to say easily:
"The Frenchman is here, big guys, remember, after the battle has begun, you must catch Charles VIII alive! Whoever caught Charles VIII alive, I reward him with 10,000 gold coins!"
"10,000 gold coins ..." A lot of mercenaries who were soldiers for money drove out of control. Stimulated by Marin's heavy award, many people have forgotten their nervousness and only have money left in their eyes ...
As the French got closer and closer, Marin let everyone climb to the hillsides on both sides. As for the foot of the mountain, only French trenches, wooden pickets, horse traps, and horse trips are blocked from the front ...
In fact, Marin originally intended to take people directly to the array below, forcibly blocking the French army. That way, although there is a great chance to block the French. However, the French were desperately desperate to fight hard. Because they have no choice but to go this way.
However, the 1,100 people under Marin are all novices who have never fought. Let him let them fight desperately with the 8000 French Cavaliers in the first battle, too demanding. If you lose, you may die here.
Marin regretted a bit, did not find a weak opponent in advance to practice gall, see blood. Because, only the veterans who have practiced guts and blood have dared to die. The recruits who fought for the first time did not dare to fight to the advantage of the enemy, and they did not have the confidence.
Moreover, Marin had previously talked with Swiss officers in the army and knew that the Swiss mercenaries were not only spearmen but also a large number of halberds. The reason for using the halberd is to catch the knights wearing plate armor with the halberd and bring them down. Because the spear does not pierce the plate armor. If a lance with a spear alone is used to resist the charge, there will be limited casualties. The Swiss often use a halberd to hook the knight and then poke it slowly with a spear, or use a mace or other weapon to kill or hurt the knight who fell to the ground.
However, Marin only has a spearman and no halberd, and the bow and arrow are not harmful to the plate knight, and Marin does not have a musket now. Really straight-line armored knights' decisive charge, the square array is easy to be broken. Therefore, Marin had no choice but to ambush the French on two high slopes. Even if there was an ambush problem, it was difficult for the French to rush up the high slopes on both sides.
Even if the French knight dismounted, it was difficult to climb high slopes because he was wearing heavy plate armor. Even if he climbs a high slope, it is easy to be pushed down by the spearman. But if you take off your plate armor, you can easily be killed by a spear when you climb uphill.
Therefore, as long as you occupy the high slope, you will be invincible. Although it is not impossible for the French to break through Marin's defense, it will take a long time.
The problem is that Charles VIII was running away and had no time to entangle with Marin. Therefore, Charles VIII's attention should be to clear the traps on the road, rather than desperately with Marin's men.
Suddenly, Marin's task was to cause a lot of injuries to the French before the French cleared the traps on the road. At the same time, try to create chaos for the French army.
While Marin was thinking about how to respond, Kohler suddenly came over:
"Master, I want to ask for an errand."
"You said!"
"I want to go back to that group of Italian farmers!"
"What?"
让 "Let them pretend to be reinforcements!"
"This ... it's a good idea!" Marin reacted, and he made a better effect with living people.
"Where have those farmers gone?"
"Just let Tara take someone to the nearby village for the night, and I'll recover them."
要 "If they don't like it?"
"It's all right, some timid farmers. The young master gave me 20 people, and I promise to take them all back."
"Okay, organize the thousand Italian farmers as soon as possible. You take them around the French, with more firearms, and the formation is a bit thinner. It looks like a few thousand people. Then, when you approach here Let them yell 'Charles VIII alive' together to scare the French. "Koller was reminded ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Marin also immediately thought of a solution.
"What if the French send someone to fight? These farmers can't beat the French." Kohler was a little worried.
"Rest assured, you gather your team, bring enough torches, two for each person. When the team is a certain distance away, stop, don't speak out. Wait until I see signs of the French breaking the line in front of them Later, I will use the artillery to remind you that you immediately bring someone to the ignition and start to rattle. "
"Master, but I'm worried that the French will send off troops to stop me ..."
"Are you stupid? After the break, the troops want to intercept, but also intercept us. Because if they go to fight against you, we can break their way."
"Yeah ..."
还有 "Also, I will send someone to smash more large stones behind the French army to block their path. The French are escaping their lives, and may focus on clearing the stones in front, not necessarily taking care to clear the back."
"I'm relieved, sir, I'll go!"
"Well, I'll give you 50 people, lest you can't stop the farmers."
谢谢 "Thank you, Master!" Kohler took 50 soldiers to Tara and the village where the Italian farmers were located. Tara itself took 10 people, plus Kohler's 50, to a total of 60, enough to crush the 1,000 farmers.
But Kohler needs to hurry and make a torch. Marin asked, and each person would take two torches to frighten the French as much as possible.
Then, let the 2,000 torches go loose and out of the position of thousands of troops to confuse the French ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Welcome the book readers to read, the latest, fastest and most popular serial works are in ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Please read for mobile users.