In the Swiss region, after sufficient preparations, His Majesty the Emperor decisively ordered troops to be sent. This time, the Habsburg family gathered 32,000 heavy cavalry, 25,000 infantry from Frenzberg, and 5,000 newly formed heavy swordsmen in leather bags and steel plates, composed of the children of down-and-out knights without horses, and a total of 62,000 troops were heading towards Bern in a mighty manner.

Originally, Maximilian I planned to attack Bern in two groups. One of them headed south from Basel, arrived at Orten through a mountainous area, turned to the southwest and headed straight to the north of Bern. The other one set out from Lucerne in the middle and headed from the east towards Bern.

However, after obtaining the reference to the topographic map provided by the Beihai Kingdom, the new young player Adolf Mueller, under the emperor, suggested giving up the offensive route on the east road and mainly taking the North Line Basel road.

Why? Because the terrain in the north is flatter! It is true that Switzerland is a mountainous country, but it is high in the south and low in the north. The Alps are naturally high in the south, while the north is not very flat, but it is much flatter than the southern region. At least, from Olten to the southwest, there is a very wide valley that is obliquely southwest. Only when you get to the near Bern, you will encounter uneven mountains.

If the Habsburg family gathered more than 60,000 troops, if they follow the eastern line, they are all rugged mountain roads and are still narrow. The strength advantage of the large corps cannot be used on the narrow mountain roads. The so-called cavalry advantage is not an advantage at all. Only in the relatively wide and flat canyon zone in the north can the cavalry have room to deploy.

After discussing with the generals under his command, the emperor recognized Mueller's suggestion. However, in order to distract the Swiss Resistance Army, the emperor arranged 1,000 heavy swordsmen wearing leather bags and steel armor, and brought 5,000 infantry and a total of 7,000 people to launch a feint attack from the east in the direction of Lucerne to confuse the Swiss Resistance Army. Moreover, this team was not responsible for attacking the fortress, but only for building momentum. If they encountered a large Swiss Resistance Army, the emperor allowed them to withdraw to the city and defend the dead. The main force had 55,000 people, including a large number of people who were forced to conquer on the spot, then the north route.

After the Habsburg family army set off, Adolf Mull became busy. With the cooperation of a large number of heavy swordsmen, Adolf used force to recruit many farmers in the Swiss mountain village near the marching route to help transport food and supplies. Among them, farmers with stonemasons and masons' skills became the key targets for recruitment.

His Majesty the Emperor was extremely cautious in this march. After all, the 55,000 army was finally pieced together by the poor Habsburg family. If you miss this opportunity, the Habsburg family probably won’t have the chance to gather tens of thousands of troops. Nothing else, Habsburg is too poor and cannot afford to hire so many troops...

Adolf Muller also shined on the march and became a star in the Habsburg family army.

During the march, Adolf Muller used the forced nimble mountaineers as a guide to explore the way ahead. The main purpose was to detect whether there were ambushes on the nearby hillsides, and to act as cannon fodder for traps, so as not to fall into the Swiss traps.

This method really worked very well. The ambush arranged by Zieg and the traps arranged by people along the way were basically cracked by these old mountain people. There was no way to think about setting up ambush on both slopes of the mountain road, but I was just the mountain people who were exploring the road to find out...

What? Do you think those mountain people are forced to cooperate because they are forced to cooperate? This question is very simple. Adolf Muller chooses men with families. If they do not cooperate, their families will be in danger...

When camping every night, the construction battalion under Muller's command was also very outstanding! This time, the Harbor army marched very slowly, only advancing 20 kilometers a day. Then, the construction battalion quickly began to build the fortress.

In order to ensure that the camp is not attacked by night, whenever the army stopped and started to set up camp, Muller ordered the people to dig trenches around the camp. At the same time, the civilians with bricklayer skills were arranged to use soil to burn acre bricks to build walls on the edge of the camp.

What? Don’t you know what acres of bricks are? This is very simple. It is to knead the soil into a brick shape, and then roast it hard on a fire, and a acres of bricks will be formed...

You said that this kind of acres is not strong? Indeed, this thing is not very strong. If you encounter a cannon, any small cannon that can fire two or three pounds of shells can break through the earth wall made of this kind of acres.

but……

This time, the Habsburg family army faced not the French army with many artillery, but the very poor Swiss Resistance Army. Although the French also supported some artillery of the Swiss Resistance Army, because of their small number, they were generally used for the defense of the city of Bern.

Moreover, the Swiss are crisscrossing across the mountains and transporting artillery is very inconvenient. The Swiss are not Marin and do not know how to put the wheels of the gun mounts with ball bearings, and there are not even the gun mounts with wheels, so it is extremely inconvenient to transport artillery.

Therefore, the Harbor army was not worried that the Swiss Resistance Army, which raided the camp in the middle of the night, would carry artillery. In this way, the walls made of acres would only face some mountain people with backward weapons, which was completely enough.

Besides, outside the earth wall, there are at least two trenches blocking them. The bottom of the trenches are filled with wooden spoils...

In addition, those acres of bricks were mixed with thatch as "muscles and bones" before the fire was burned, similar to the walls of adobe houses. There were thatch as "muscles and bones", and the hard acres of bricks were strong. In addition, there were trenches blocking the outside, so there were no wrecks to rush into the camp. However, inside the camp, building bunkers was not that fast. After all, bunkers needed to use stone and required to be strong, not as fast as the acres of bricks built on walls. Fortunately, there were trenches and walls blocking them. At the beginning, the army could live in the tent first.

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Sure enough, this simple defense measure was very effective. The mountaineers of the Swiss Resistance Army under Zieg wanted to attack and harass the camp of the Habsburg family army in the middle of the night. However, facing two trenches and brick walls filled with wooden stakes, the mountaineers were helpless.

They came up with a way to fill the trench with mud bags, but as soon as the mud bags were thrown into the trench, the defenders on the earth wall were immediately alarmed. Then, the night attack was left alone...

Then, the army stopped moving in the next few days. Every day, the heavy swordsmen and some cavalry escorted the stonemasoners to the nearby mountains to collect stones for building bunkers. Only after the bunkers had a certain scale did the army start again...

Before leaving, the Habao army left behind a thousand defenders to protect the stonemasons in the camp to build bunkers. At the same time, the bunkers here also became a transit station for military supplies to prevent them from being attacked.

After the army moved forward 20 kilometers, it was about ten in the afternoon. Before it was dark, it stopped again and began to dig trenches, roast the earthen bricks, and build the walls...

Under the command of His Majesty the Emperor, the Habsburg family army seemed very patient. They were not in a hurry to pounce on Bern, but instead made steady progress and secure a group of people!

Zieg personally rode a horse to the front line to observe. On the hillside, watching the Habsburg army that was so stable, Zieg's scalp was numb - what happened?

As for the sneak attack of the supply team bypassing the army? Sorry, because of the too many troops, the Habsburg family divided into tens of thousands of heavy cavalry armoured in leather bags and steel plates to escort the supply team. The Swiss Resistance Army had only a few people, and could send them to bypass the harassing troops of the Habsburg family army, at most a few thousand infantry, and they would not dare to provoke tens of thousands of heavy cavalry.

In desperation, Zieg had to order the destruction of the roads and bridges along the way, and delay the marching speed of the Habor army. However, this Habor army was different from the ordinary European army of this era - it had an engineering army!

Under the command of Adolf Muller, the destroyed roads and bridges were quickly restored. Zieg could only watch the Harbor army advance steadily. The desperate ambush was also discovered by the Swiss mountain people who were forced to recruit by Adolf Muller. Because their family was hostage, these mountain people dared not hide the facts. Even if there were a small number of mountain people who were willing to sacrifice their families, they could not resist the disagreement with them!

After discovering the ambush on the hillside, the Habao army stopped immediately, and then carried out cannons to bombard the hillside...

Zieg was so upset that he had no temper at all, so he had to order his troops to retreat. At the same time, he destroyed all the bridges along the way and dug the road to Bern.
Chapter completed!