Marin suddenly felt a little guilty, blaming himself for not remembering this earlier. If he had remembered it earlier, he could send ships to transport a batch of artillery to the Persian Safavi Empire.

Now, less than five months after the Turks sent troops, he could only send people to report to the Persians in advance. But if Ismay I believe in the great power of artillery, then God will know.

But Marin still responsibly gave a good way to deal with artillery - to avoid frontal attacks...

The artillery of this era did not have the mobile artillery mounts learned from later generations. They were lifted from the car and arranged on the ground. Turkey's artillery was no exception.

In this way, the artillery position cannot be moved easily. It is also very simple to avoid the coverage of Turkish artillery - go around to both sides to attack...

After all, the Turkish guns were fixed and did not carry wheels. It was very time-consuming to disassemble them and load them onto the car and then transport them to the side. When the guns were transported to the side, they might have been finished.

However, Marin was still worried that Ismayi, who was only 27 years old, would underestimate the enemy in his lifetime. This guy was too smooth before, and he would inevitably underestimate the enemy, and even think that he was invincible in the world.

After thinking about it, Marin still asked someone to bring a few mesh guns over, so that the guy can first see the power of the firearm. The mesh gun has a small target, so it is not troublesome to carry a land in a box. Unlike artillery, it is extremely difficult to transport by land. Maybe, after seeing the power of the musket, the guy will wake up...

In short, Marin's Middle East strategy is to try every means to encircle Ottoman Türkiye, and not allow it to successfully annex Egypt and destroy Persia. Once this happens, the suffering of Europe will come...

You should know that in this era, Turkey was not the powerful empire in later generations that often sent troops of 200,000 to 300,000 troops to besiege Vienna. Turkey only sent more than 60,000 troops to attack Persia in 1514 and the war with the Egyptian Mamluk Dynasty in 1516. Although there were already many people in the eyes of Europeans, compared with the army of more than 200,000 troops during the reign of Suleiman I, Turkey is obviously insufficient in national strength.

But if it is allowed to annex Egypt, Türkiye will soon have the ability to mobilize more than 100,000 troops. Therefore, Marin is not happy to see a too strong Türkiye appear.

However, at the same time, Marin was also worried that the Persian Safavi Empire would be too powerful and replace Turkey as a threat to Europe. Therefore, he was very conflicted, hoping that Ismay I could listen to his opinions, but not want the other party to listen. It would be better to listen halfway, and then Persia and Türkiye tied, with heavy casualties...

But this matter is not something he can control. The only thing he can do is wait for news...

Although Persia may not have time to provide assistance, Egypt still has time to provide assistance. After all, the main road of the Dabik Grassland Battle in history broke out in 1516. Two years have been enough for Marin to provide enough Rumi guns to the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt...

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This era is turbulent and wars are endless, especially in Europe and the Middle East, where wars often break out. In the Kurdish region in the eastern part of Asia Minor, Turkey and the Persian Empire are already tense. Italy is even better, and it has been fighting directly for more than half a year...

The French and Spanish troops seemed to be in a stalemate in the city of Naples. The Spanish shouted at the city of Naples all day long:

"If you have the guts, you will come out!"

And the French in the city shouted in a lewd manner:

"If you have the guts, come in!"

...

This unnutritional call has lasted for several months, but both sides are very restrained and no one is willing to take the initiative to attack.

But in general, the French are more anxious because the French have cut off supplies and can only rely on the food stored in the city.

Although the city of Naples was filled with food by looting many areas of the Kingdom of Naples, there were many French soldiers and consumed a lot. According to estimates, it was estimated that food would be out of stock in half a year...

Therefore, the French hope to fight the Spanish in half a year to get rid of this huge war as soon as possible. After all, the French are not rich...

But the problem is - it seems that the old fox Gonzalo de Cordoba also seems to know the difficulties of the French, and he is not willing to fight to the decisive battle, and he is exhausted.

Spain is supported by huge profits in the spice trade, so it is naturally not afraid of consumption. France is more miserable, relying solely on domestic territorial output and scarce industrial and commercial taxes, its ability to fight lasting is not as good as that of the Spanish.

Therefore, in the early conflict, Marin would secretly stand on the side of the French and give them confidence. Moreover, Marin would hope that the French would win some battles to retain confidence in conquering Italy.

As for Spain, because of its abundant wealth, it is not afraid that Spain will not be able to show its strength to fight against France in the future. If a relatively poor man like the French cannot win in the early stage, then there is no way to continue in the future.

...

At this time, something shocking was happening in the Spanish camp outside Naples - Ferdinand II sent someone to announce the imperial edict. Moreover, the content of the imperial edict was to transfer the commander of the Spanish army, Gonzalo de Cordoba...

This is the effect of counter-espionage...

In fact, this matter has been quarreling in Spain for several months and has never been successful. Until recently, Ferdinand II suffered a serious illness. There was a great horror between life and death, probably because he was afraid that he would suddenly burp, and then his son was undermined by Gonzalo de Cordova, who held the main force of the country's troops, and even replaced... Then, Ferdinand II made up his mind to replace Gonzalo de Cordova...

According to the suggestion of John Lafite, after Louis XII began to implement counter-espionage in Spain, a large number of Spanish nobles who were jealous of Gonzalo de Cordoba's achievements were bought and began to speak bad things about Gonzalo de Cordoba in front of the two Spanish kings.

It was okay for Juan III. Although the young king had a weak ear, he had a powerful wife who could dissuade him from making wrong decisions.

On Ferdinand II, at first, Ferdinand II didn't care about the slander of the nobles. Because he understood that the best commander who could lead his army to win tens of thousands of French troops was Gonzalo de Cordoba...

...

In fact, when Gonzalo de Cordoba had just won the French army in Italy and annexed the entire Kingdom of Naples ten years ago, Ferdinand II was even jealous of Gonzalo de Cordoba's great prestige.

However, because the Spanish phalanx in this life was not invented by Gonzalo de Cordoba, but "invented" by Marin, Gonzalo de Cordoba just went to learn.

Therefore, Gonzalo de Cordoba's prestige in Spain has not yet risen to the point where Ferdinand II was blinded by jealousy. Therefore, Gonzalo de Cordoba's fate in this life has changed. He was not transferred from his idle position by Ferdinand II, but instead gained the trust of Ferdinand II.

However, the rumors spread by the French in Spain were too heartbroken. The deeds of the dwarf Pippin are very classic. However, the reason why Ferdinand II reused Gonzalo de Cordoba was also helpless. After all, Spain lacked such famous generals...

Therefore, after a few months, Ferdinand II did not waver in his trust in Gonzalo de Cordoba, which made the French almost desperate.

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The turning point occurred in spring. In early March, when Ferdinand II went out for a spring outing, he was infected with a cold and caused a serious illness and almost died...

This serious illness made Ferdinand II very scared. He was afraid that he would die suddenly, and then, he would really be like the slander of the great Aragonese nobles - Gonzalo de Cordoba held his own troops and underestimated his son Juan III. He even learned from the dwarf Pippin and replaced Juan III...

To be honest, Ferdinand II was a cold-blooded person. However, he only did not cool down on his son, but instead placed great hope. After all, his son was the continuation of the family dynasty, and his daughter could not.

Originally, when Prince Juan died of illness, he was suspected of having an incurable lung disease in Europe at that time, which was probably contagious. Queen Isabella I, the mother, dared not approach Prince Juan. However, Ferdinand II, the usually cold-blooded father, cried bitterly while holding his son's body.

Of course, this is a typical European aristocrat who attaches great importance to male heirs. In history, the famous Henry VIII even turned against the Holy See just to give birth to a son, get married and divorce several times, and even turned against the Holy See. In the end, he gave birth to a son, Edward VI. However, the child was in poor health and could not live to adulthood and died at the age of 16. Later, his two half-sisters, Bloody Mary and Elizabeth I, became the Queen of England one after another...
Chapter completed!