When he came, Marin's army was all by sea. Mainly because Marin didn't want people to know about his troops. After all, in the middle of the ocean, it's hard to spot the coastline and major shipping routes.

But when I went back, it was different, and now that the Siena War was over, Marin didn't have to hide anymore. Therefore, the mountain infantry corps simply chose to return home by land this time. However, Marin left behind 3,000 soldiers to serve as guards for the Bank of Siena and as a thug for debt collection. The remaining 11,000 (who lost thousands of people in the war) followed Marin by land.

It was Saqqara's Fourth Army, because he wanted to go back to England, and he had to take a boat anyway, so he simply took a boat back to Newcastle. In addition, Marin sent a fleet to transport the treasure.

In this capture of the Republic of Siena, although the millions of gold coins stolen from the Bank of Siena were sent back, because they unearthed the treasures of more than a dozen financial families in Siena for hundreds of years, they also reaped a bumper harvest, and actually benefited more than 1.5 million gold coins (including more than 100,000 yuan distributed to the soldiers). In addition, in several important towns such as Grosseto and Radicofani, which were important cities in the Republic of Siena, relying on the methods taught by Marin to find secret rooms, Marin's army looted gold, silver and various valuables worth 500,000 gold coins. There is no way, the Republic of Siena has not fought for hundreds of years, and it is a famous commercial country, so it is purely normal to be able to accumulate so much wealth. If Marin captures the Republic of Venice now, it is estimated that more than 10 million gold coins will be able to grab the wealth. After all, the annual revenue of the Republic of Venice is one hundred thousand gold coins, which is stronger than that of France.

The reason why I chose to use a ship to transport gold and silver to China was that in addition to convenience, I was afraid that it would be too eye-catching. You know, the wealth worth two million gold coins is definitely eye-catching in Europe. Even the richest of the Republics of Venice has a little worse annual revenue.

Think about it, the annual fiscal revenue of Huaxia in later generations is more than 10 trillion yuan...... If you escort so much money to swagger through the market, won't people be crazy with jealousy or even have bad thoughts? Not to mention escorting more than ten trillion yuan to swagger through the market, even if you carry a sack of money, it will make people extremely red-eyed......

Therefore, Marin thought about it, and still let people hurry back to the country and mobilize a trustworthy fleet to transport money, instead of letting the mountain infantry regiment carry boxes of gold and silver treasures on the land.

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To be honest, when he sent troops south to help the Papal States attack Siena, Marin didn't think about making a profit, he just wanted to make a profit at a loss. But I didn't expect that Siena, which had not fought for hundreds of years, actually hid so much wealth. The training to find the secret room, which was originally carried out on a whim, actually achieved such great results. If you don't dig through the secret rooms that have been hidden for hundreds of years, Marin can find more than 300,000 gold coins at most, which is about the same as the estimate before the army. Then there are all kinds of large items and works of art worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

However, in order to gain favor in the Holy See, Marin donated all the stolen artworks, leaving only non-art property. Mainly, art is very popular and sought after in Italy, but in Germany, these works of art are not valued at all. Because, the Germans prefer simple and practical things.

For some reason, Italians were obsessed with luxury living and art from around the end of the Roman Empire. Then, the once mighty Roman Empire began to degenerate, and its combat effectiveness began to become rubbish. In later generations, although they were descendants of Roman warriors, the Italians degenerated into a comic for art and pleasure. And the poor and simple Germans became the representative of Europe's fighting power.

Speaking of which, the Ming Dynasty is similar. When the whole country was good, the Ming Dynasty, which had overthrown the Mengyuan Empire, also became synonymous with weak chickens. It seems that literary and artistic youth are not very suitable for war. Because, in the bones of literary and artistic youth, they lack the bravery (or barbarism) that they have to be a soldier.

Therefore, Marin liked to go to the mountains of southern Germany to select simple and fierce mountain people to serve as soldiers. Because, these mountain people don't know how to play tricks, and it is easier to obey orders and fight. In addition, he has been walking the mountain road for a long time, and can bear hardships and stand hard work, and he is definitely a crack soldier. The Swiss are also a group of mountain people, fierce and powerful.

But what Marin can't understand is that Italy is also mountainous, and mountain people are everywhere, so why can't they become elite soldiers? Could it be that the mountain people who are too literary and artistic are not good? Marin didn't understand something......

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Heading north from the Duchy of Milan and passing through the Graubünden region of southeastern Switzerland, Maximilian I suddenly wanted to ask Marin for help and lead an army to raid the resistance in western Switzerland, but Marin refused.

Just kidding, where is the Swiss Resistance in western Switzerland, it is clearly a coalition of Swiss and French. Even, the French army was superior in numbers.

Marin is not afraid of offending the Swiss, but he is afraid of offending the French. If this resistance army is destroyed, it will be tantamount to offending France to death. Therefore, Marin refused the invitation of Maximilian I and hurried through the Swiss region and continued north......

Helplessly, Maximilian I had no choice but to accumulate his own strength, anyway, he now had 30,000 gold coins from the sale of Luxembourg iron ore and 300,000 gold coins from the Bank of Siena, which was enough to consume with France.

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Just as Marin was busy returning home with his army north, the Spaniards also made significant progress in the war in Morocco - Gonzalo's army finally broke through the Moroccan capital Fez and achieved a major victory.

Fez and Marrakech are the two famous royal capitals of Morocco. As for the capital of the future, Rabat, it will still be a small place in the countryside.

However, during the siege, the Moroccan Sultan of the Wattas dynasty, Abu Abu. Abdullah. Burtucali. Ibn . Muhammad took advantage of the night to rush out of the north gate with 8,000 elite cavalry, and then fled south to the old capital of Marrakech. It will take time for Spain to eliminate Morocco.

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After the end of the Spanish autumn harvest, Gonzalo crossed the sea with 30,000 Spanish troops and 40,000 or 50,000 people, and joined the 20,000 German mercenaries who had crossed the sea.

However, Gonzalo did not rush forward, but surrounded the important town of Tetouan in northern Morocco, and did not fight. The reason for this is because Gonzalo wants to encircle the point and send reinforcements.

The tactic of "encirclement and reinforcement" was mentioned once by Marin when he was teaching Gonzalo the "Marin phalanx" (Spanish phalanx). Gonzalo was very interested in him, and it just so happened that Gonzalo was worried about how to deal with the highly mobile Moroccan scimitar cavalry, so he simply surrounded the city of Tetouan, waited for the Moroccan army of the Wattas dynasty to come to the rescue, and then took the opportunity to fight a decisive battle with it......

The origin of Tetouan City actually has a lot to do with the Spaniards. In 1492, the two kings of Spain (Ferdinand II and Isabella I) united to destroy Granada, the Allahist state on the Iberian Peninsula.

After the destruction of the country, the Moors of Allah on the Iberian Peninsula fled across the sea to Morocco. These people, known as the Andalusian Moors. When they arrived in northern Morocco, they gathered near Tetouan and rebuilt the ruined city, turning it into a fortress. The Moors of Andalusia, who fled from southern Spain to Morocco, mostly gathered near Tetouan.

After Gonzalo besieged the city with an army of 50,000, the Vatas dynasty of Fez hurriedly gathered all the soldiers and horses of the country, gathered 60,000 scimitar cavalry, and slaughtered it violently.

But Gonzalo had already prepared, and he had 30,000 Spanish soldiers form multiple "Marin phalanxes" (Spanish phalanxes) to withstand the onslaught of Moroccan scimitar cavalry.

At the same time, 20,000 German mercenaries were placed on the two wings. After the 30,000 Spanish troops of the Chinese army withstood several rounds of charges from the Moroccan scimitar cavalry, Gonzalo suddenly commanded 20,000 German mercenaries on both flanks, as well as several thousand Spanish cavalry, to fight from both sides and charge the Moroccan battle formation......

Morocco rushed several times to no avail, and its morale had plummeted. Suddenly, he was attacked by the fierce German mercenaries and Spanish cavalry, and suddenly the formation was in chaos, and he fled in defeat.

But unfortunately, the main body of the Moroccan army is cavalry, and even if it is defeated and fled, the losses are not large. There were more than 60,000 scimitar cavalry, and the number of people who fled back reached 50,000, so it can be said that the losses were small. Moreover, knowing that the Spanish army outside Tetouan was not easy to mess with, the Vattas dynasty in Fez simply did not send troops to the rescue.

In desperation, Gonzalo got serious and captured Tetouan, then moved south again, besieging the capital of the Wattas dynasty, Fez. At this time, the Wattas dynasty had no way to retreat, so it could only fight hard with Spain.

Relying on the tall and sturdy walls, the Vatas dynasty resisted for several months. However, the Moroccans did not have strong walls, mainly because they did not have the skills to build them. After several months of strong attack, the Spaniards finally broke through the city of Fez.

Originally, Gonzalo had a chance to decide the outcome of the battle. However, because the Spanish army and the hired German mercenaries did not cooperate well enough. As a result, the Sultan of the Vatas Dynasty found a weakness and rushed out of the north gate with tens of thousands of the most elite royal cavalry overnight, and rushed straight to the junction of the Spanish army and the German mercenaries.

Although he lost 2,000 elite cavalry, Abu. Abdullah. Burtucali. Ibn . Muhammad finally escaped with 8,000 elite scimitar cavalry and fled south to the old capital, Marrakech, where he intended to continue his resistance. If Gonzalo wants to eliminate the Moroccan Wattas dynasty, he must continue south and conquer Marrakech. Moreover, he must capture or kill the Sultan Abu of the Wattas dynasty. Abdullah. Burtucali. Ibn . Mohammed, otherwise, the Sultan is still there, and the resistance of the Moroccans will not stop......