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Xiang Wang crosses Huai, and there are more than 100 people who can ride it. King Xiang went to the Yin Tomb, lost his way, and asked Yitian's father, and Tian's father said "left". Left, is trapped in the middle of the great ze. The old Han chased after it. King Xiang led his troops to the east, and when he reached the eastern city, there were twenty-eight horsemen. The Han cavalry chased thousands of people. Xiang Wang can't take it off. It is said that his cavalry said: "I have been eight years old since I started the army, and I have fought more than 70 battles. However, I am trapped here, and the death of this day is not a crime of war. Today, I am determined to die, I am willing to fight quickly for the kings, and I will win three victories, break the siege for the kings, behead the generals, and cut the flags, so that the kings will know that the heavens are dead and I am not the crime of war. ”

- "Historical Records"

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At the time of Ferdinand's enclosure campaign in the province of Valencia and his rescue from the Forbidden City, Queen Isabella was still in Barcelona and was concerned about the Italian war.

Not...... The First Italian War, by 1496, was still fought!

In fact, after the sea route of the French army in the south was cut off by Venice and some Aragonese warships, how to retreat of the more than 10,000 French soldiers in the south became a big problem.

It is true that the French army is quite capable of fighting, and in history in the first Battle of Seminala, the Castilian army and the Neapolitan army were severely defeated, although this battle did not take place now, but the French army did not necessarily lose the wind in a frontal battle.

However, both in history and now, in the southern battlefield of the First Italian War, the Spanish army did not rely on frontal stubbornness to defeat the French army. Gonzalo knew that the Spanish army needed to be changed, but in this war, he did not intend to defeat the French head-on. Even if it is possible to do so now, and with the passage of time, it will become more and more likely, but why pay too many casualties to defeat the French at the minimum cost?

And Ferdinand also agreed, after all, the French will still plot against Naples in the future, if they are left with the impression of "I am killed on this day, it is not a crime of war" as left in history, then the French will continue to despise the Spanish army, and finally overturn again in the battle of West France for Naples. If the French army had been beaten too hard, perhaps they would have a better memory, and it would not be so convenient to deal with it later: after all, it was much easier for the French knights who dared to charge fearlessly into the trenches than to retreat into the city or confront the Western army steadily.

Of course, we can't be too confident, as if Spain is "showing great mercy" and temporarily letting the French "glorify" for a while, pinching to death whenever they want...... Ferdinand also had to perfect the new tactics he had developed. The Spanish phalanx played best in the hands of the Spaniards, but it took time to develop good fighters who would adapt to this tactic. In addition, according to the experience of Marin in the "Rise of the Emperor", the production of flintlock pistols has the possibility of being imitated, although Ferdinand took a more high-end technical route to produce brown Bess flintlock pistols (and ether to extract artemisinin, etc.), but the production is limited, and he is also considering whether the revolver and spring muskets can be properly recharged. In short, it is better not to let the French "know too soon" that it is powerful......

However, at this time, the Castilian army and the Neapolitan army in the Kingdom of Naples, in terms of quality and technology, except for the Hongyi cannons that were transported over, there was really nothing that could let the French know how powerful, including the Aragon army that landed in Naples only used arquebuses. Gonzalo was so bad at the end of his mind that he came up with a way to deal with the knights of the edict, but there were two versions of his method, one was a hard version and the other was a consumption version. Now, he intends to slowly wear down the French army.

The French army was too ill-prepared for this expedition, and was attacked by syphilis in the city of Naples, and there were epidemics of plague, malaria and other epidemics, even the commander Aubigny was not spared. And the plundering of the French army aroused the general hostility of the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Naples.

As mentioned earlier, Gonzalo mobilized the rural population and the recruited Neapolitan militia, with the assistance and support of the Castilian army and the Aragonese army, to wage a large-scale guerrilla war. The attack on the French soldiers was not the most important thing, but the important thing was to seize the food of the French army and not let the French army get food from the Naples countryside. After the Battle of Fornovo between the French army in the north and the allied Italian army, Gonzalo's ambition was further expanded, not only to force the French army to retreat, but also to leave most of the French army in the southern theater behind.

Indeed, the victory of the Italian war was won by the Italian people with a hoe.

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After the Battle of Fornovo, the Aragonese army landed at Crotone on the southeast coast of the Italian peninsula and advanced westward, expelling the French army from the eastern Naples countryside, and the Castilian army moved north, blocking the French army's passage from the Kingdom of Naples.

The Spanish army could be described as cowardly in battle, and Aubigny sent part of his army to the east to attack the Aragonese army, and although the Aragonese army was superior in numbers, he decisively retreated to the city, and went to the same time as Gonzalo, and then set up the red cannons and watched the French stare dryly. It's not that nothing has been done, at least the French food convoy has been largely slaughtered by them. A large number of civilian troops were active in the countryside, which made the French exhausted.

Eventually, the French army retreated more and more towards the perimeter of Naples. The West French army surrounded various towns and villages, fighting for months.

One of the major problems that Gonzalo reported to Queen Isabella was that the Spanish light cavalry was somewhat influenced by the pattern of fighting the Moors in Granada, and the heavy cavalry was not enough in number, and was weaker than the French royal knights.

However, time is the best medicine, and Queen Isabella expressed her support for Gonzalo's request to train new cavalry and increase the number of heavy cavalry, of course, light cavalry still dominated. The next time for Naples was to be felt, the French would have tasted the might of the Spanish cavalry.

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By the beginning of 1496, the French army's food supply had fallen sharply, disease continued to rage, ammunition was running low, and the ammunition supply for artillery was increasingly depleted. The Castilian army was supplied with food, ammunition, and weapons, and Gonzalo continued to implement the policy of guerrilla warfare, plunging the French army into the vast sea of people's war. At one point, Aubigie lost control of his emotions and angrily sent a letter to Gonzalo, asking for a personal duel with him. Although Obini, who had malaria, was probably not Gonzalo's opponent, Gonzalo naturally refused and continued to play black guns "shamelessly".

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