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The French did have reason to believe that the anti-French alliance was "victorious", and the French defeated the pursuing enemy even in retreat, and with relative success passed through the territory of the Italian state and retreated back to France. Gonzalo's victory at Atra, with his absolute superiority, was seen as a tragedy for the French warriors when the heavens were not favoring him.

The war was also a much more than a victory for the Italian states in the Holy Alliance, the French army inflicted far more casualties on the Italian coalition than its opponents, and the French quickly conquered Naples, and stubbornly supported in the Battle of Fornovo, retreating for the most part, allowing all of Europe to witness Italy's weakness and ease of conquest. The European nations were ready to use their armies or mercenaries to dominate the rich Apennines.

However, after the Battle of Atra, in southern Italy, there was really no way to support it.

By June 1496, despite Gonzalo's cautious and slow attrition strategy, how he ensured that his losses were as small as possible and ruled out the possibility of overturning, after losing more than 2,000 French troops at the Battle of Atra, and having learned more about the poor supply and health of the French army through the battle and questioning of prisoners, Gonzalo had determined that he could now go and attack the French army in the city of Naples head-on. He was confident that the Spanish army would win this time.

In the more than a year since the Spanish army went to Italy, although it has not fought any large-scale battles except for the Battle of Atra, it has fought small and medium-sized offensive and defensive battles with the French again and again. Gonzalo relied on strongholds to fight the French army one by one, using light cavalry to surprise French supply lines and try to encircle and annihilate small French forces. The operation of the light cavalry to cut off the battlefield was a great success, and it would help to neutralize the heavy cavalry superiority of the French army in a frontal battle in the future.

In addition, Ferdinand's farming operations began to reap some benefits. For example, although I value the local troops very much, after all, after fighting for so long, the Ducat, who has a bus in his hand, can't spend it, so why not invite some mercenaries from the German region? So for the first time, the Spanish side ate crabs and recruited 4,000 mercenaries from the German region, again based on the experience of the "Rise of the Emperor" (no way, I think these ideas are too high), half of which came from the Rhine Black Forest region. However, it should be noted that due to the different focus of the business, Ferdinand could not follow Marin's example and send these people to the Americas as soon as possible - after all, wormwood and pyrethrum were not fully prepared, and the low-grade version of penicillin under consideration wanted to use ether for more efficient extraction due to Ferdinand's inexplicable arrogant thoughts (in fact, the author was embarrassed to copy it, so he had to use another extraction method) - ether has basically not been seen. In addition, the combat effectiveness and combat experience of mercenaries / hunters from the Black Forest region also need to be trained.

In addition, it took a long time to recruit people, and by the time this group of mercenaries was ready, in fact, the fleets of Columbus, Americago, Alonso de Córdoba and others had already gone to the Americas......

I didn't catch up with the first flight, so I had to do some training first.

Ferdinand soon found a place for these mercenaries that was very suitable for the title of the chapter—the 2,000 mercenaries who had been arranged to assist in the southern Italian battlefield naturally arrived in southern Italy via Milan, where they were under the unified command of Gonzalo and prepared to launch the final campaign.

The 2,000 men from the Black Forest region were first assigned to Corsica, the third largest island in Italy, that is, "the sacred and inalienable territory of the Kingdom of Aragon since ancient times".

However, according to the experience of the Celestial Empire in later generations, if the words "since ancient times" and "sacred and indivisible" are added, then the region must have some "backbone" or be invaded and claimed by other countries. Of course, Macau is a wonderful existence, and a certain wonderful movement has created a strong patriotic atmosphere, so it is difficult to say more.

The Celestial Empire claims that it is "sacred and indivisible" "since ancient times", and it can indeed be called "inherent territory", and the Kingdom of Aragon and Corsica have nothing to do with each other since ancient times, except for a papal edict...... And not so long ago, Genoa was able to surrender Corsica more open-mindedly. Not only because of the carrots and sticks of the Kingdom of Aragon, but also because the islanders of Corsica are a little disobedient.

Although the Genoese themselves are responsible for this pot, the Corsicans themselves are not jointly and severally responsible...... Your Majesty Louis XVIII, is it good for Emperor Napoleon to be re-elected?

The islanders of Corsica, although Ferdinand had already taken measures to pacify and suppress them at the same time, and sent troops from Sardinia and the mainland, forcing the "last rebel army" to surrender. But in fact, the undercurrent is still surging. The plan to open religious schools in Corsica to promote Ferdinand's cult of personality had not yet been formally implemented, and several more violent incidents had occurred. It can be seen that there are people who are not very sober and want to die. And the Spaniards were not Genoese, especially the Spanish army from Sardinia...... Presumably, these people must have to hide in the mountains and forests again.

Mercenaries from the Black Forest region in the north to places like the West Indies must have been greeted with a collective illness...... It is better to find them a stopover for their skills, and go to the Corsica mountains and forests where the Mediterranean is hotter (and of course, it is shameful to be compared to places like the Cuban rainforest) and practice their skills with the Corsican rebels.

"By the way, I don't know which of the rebels in Corsica or the indigenous Indian tribes of the West Indies is more resistant?" The islanders of Corsica should be a little more "civilized" and use better weapons, but in the case of Aragorn's blockade of the island and strict control of hot weapons, they can basically only fight with cold weapons (although the islanders use the ordinary or low-level versions of the arquebus, which is not necessarily much better than the cold weapons), although the cold weapons may still be more advanced than the Indians, but considering that they do not have as much experience, mobility and survivability as the Indians, The mountains of Corsica were not as dense, hot and dangerous as the rainforests of the West Indies, and it was not necessarily more difficult for the German mercenaries to deal with them than the Indians......

As for which one is actually more resistant to beating, it naturally has to be tested in practice. Thus, in 1496, when many European countries were hot-headed, the first wave of hot-headed Corsican islanders had just opened up the first Corsican revolutionary base in the mountains and forests, and 2,000 German mercenaries who were eager for money and wealth and familiar with the forest environment could not wait to welcome the men......