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There are many reasons why Chen Jiujing chose Bordeaux as his destination, the most important being the convenient transportation.

Bordeaux is just one of several metropolises like Nantes that can be reached from the coast into the river, but Nantes is a Catholic territory, and his mercenaries may not be willing to attack it.

What's more, where there is a river, there is a navy and coastal fortifications. Chen Jiujing didn't think about going to attack the city, and he couldn't defend it even if he defeated it. His goal is very clear-just like the French pirates did to the West Indies, just plundering .

"In this way, Bordeaux has a great advantage. It is close, and the voyage is only two days. It can attack the city wall if it advances, and plunder the coast when it retreats. If there is no other way, it can return to Bilbao."

Chen Jiujing called several mercenary leaders under his command to the ship to discuss the war after the soldiers assembled and went to sea.

After the first news that he wanted to recruit mercenaries, Carlos found more than 20 mercenary teams, large and small, under the rule of Habsburg. However, the degree of good and bad of these mercenary groups also made Chen Jiujing open vision.

In some mercenary regiments, only a few people can be assigned a sword, and four 'crossbowmen' share a longbow. It is basically difficult to see a matchlock gun. This is because Chen Jiujing is required to prepare weapons and armor for them in the employment contract, and the corresponding remuneration is also relatively high. Those well-equipped mercenaries are much lower.

There are also some with high morale and excellent equipment. It seems that the soldiers are also weather-beaten, which is very in line with Chen Jiujing's expectations. After signing the contract and preparing to mobilize troops, they found that this army has a long tail behind it.

Hundreds of wagons, more than 40 pack horses and their foals, an army peddler and his wagon, menservants, maidservants, child servants, officers' wives, prostitutes and more than the army rioters.

A mercenary group is equivalent to a small mobile town in Europe.

"Our marching and combat must be guaranteed within one month. You will make a lot of money with me. All the supplies plundered will be divided into [-]% by the six mercenary regiments. I only need [-]%. So don't think about letting your wife The child is drinking Bordeaux wine."

Although Chen Jiujing forcibly restrained the family members and servants of the mercenary regiments to stay in the port before departure, in order to prevent them from dying in the ensuing battle, he sat on the deck and said: "It's okay to bring them back and give them a drink." Not too late."

Chen Jiujing is trying to accept the Europeans' use of mercenaries as a means of warfare. Although they seem rebellious and the commanders have no means of restraining them except for their salaries-but fighting in enemy territory is very effective. The most important thing is It doesn't matter if you die or lose the battle.

It's just money.

The rulers of Europe believed that whoever had money was the winner of the war; the commanders also believed that war needed three things: money, money, and money.

At this point, as long as Fei Laoer of Spain is willing to give the Ming army this platform, Chen Jiujing has an overwhelming advantage.

It is not only Chen Bazhi's privilege that his father can defeat the country.

"This is the first time we have fought together, and you are not familiar enough, but I think the rewarding battle will make you get used to it very quickly."

Chen Jiujing raised his hand and ordered: "General Carlos, please inform the generals of the Xiyong Camp about their combat plan and military orders."

As the general of Xiyong Jiabattalion and Chen Jiujing's mercenary recruiter, Carlos's deliberate humility made him look like Chen Jiujing's retinue instead of the mercenary captain. After hearing the order, he took the map and said to everyone on the deck: "First of all, General Juan, who has the largest number of troops, led his Xiyong C Battalion to dock at Souston, and was responsible for raising rations along the way north."

Speaking of which, Carlos pointed to a few places on the map to Juan, who had a beard and was dressed as a musketeer, and said: "The distance and location of the four villages and towns along the way will be marked on the map given to you, and the distance on the map will be marked in Mingli. , one league and nine miles."

"This route is two hundred miles long, and you have eight days."

After all, Carlos took out another picture and handed it to General Franco, saying: "The well-equipped General Franco and his Xiyongding Battalion will disembark with Juan and march eastward for sixteen years." Sweeping north along the main road, defeated the garrisons in the monasteries and villages along the way, and reached 240 miles to the north in ten days."

"You may meet the army sent by Bordeaux on the way to the western seaport. It will take two and a half days from the moment they receive the news that they are preparing to leave the city and rush hundreds of miles to get here. If their strength is small, kill them."

Juan had no objection to this, nodded slowly and then said: "How many troops?"

"Don't worry, my Xiyong A camp is forty miles west of you. If everything goes well, at this time my A camp, Salazar's B camp, Aji's E camp, Guzman's own camp The troops have been assembled to capture the port, and the most likely thing is that the troops of Bordeaux have already engaged us."

"If this is the case, you have to be careful and cut off their retreat; if they are slow, you can beat them if you can beat them, and if you can't beat them, you can retreat westward. No matter what, try to get the riders to pass the news back first."

"Once this battle begins, no one can rob anymore. The most important thing is to defeat the enemy. Don't disobey the order. Whoever disobeys the order will not be able to get paid for the entire mercenary group."

"It is said that in General Chen's hometown there is a word called Liwei, which is to set up an order and wait for the first person to violate it, and to let other people know that the order is true and effective through punishment."

Several leaders looked at Chen Jiujing and agreed unanimously!
Is there a more comfortable military order than this?This is simply to send them to France to make a fortune. No regular army of any country will issue such an order, and the pirates can't offer such a high salary to hire them, only Chen Jiujing.

They don't care about things like monasteries. The south of France is the territory of Protestantism, and they are all enemies of the church. They all have backgrounds in the Spanish army in the past. Not only do they not have any psychological burden, but they also think it is extremely glorious-if they come back, they are willing to take the harvest Give one-tenth of your money to the church, that is simply a hero of the church.

"This battle that will definitely take place on the outskirts of Bordeaux leaves us with ten days. If we solve them within ten days, we will have time to try to attack Bordeaux; if we cannot capture Bordeaux within 20 days, we will You have to get back on the ship and leave the port."

"Henry of Navarre is raising troops to go to war in the north. He may attack Cahors, which is only four hundred miles away from us. Now let us pray-don't meet him."

Chen Jiujing watched Carlos read the battle plan to everyone with satisfaction, and after clapping his hands, some of his subordinates served drinks and toasted everyone: "This is the battle between Chen Shuai, the Eastern Army of the Ming Empire, and King Philip of Habsburg Spain against France. Pirates blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah!”

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)