In the German region in 1500, after the outbreak of the Battle of Lyle County, the northern region of Germany has always seemed very calm. In contrast, the southern region of Germany has always been very lively.

The conflict between the Swiss and the Swabian League has never stopped, and the strongest emperor in the Swabian League has never been able to help his allies because he wanted to occupy and digest more than 7,000 square kilometers of Glaubingen area. Therefore, the Swabian League has been suppressed and beaten by the Swiss.

Over the past year, many nobles of the Swabian League were driven out of their hometowns by Swiss mercenaries and forced to go into exile. So they found the strongest emperor, Maximilian I, and asked him to send troops to help him recover the territory.

In fact, Maximilian I originally planned to support the restoration of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, after consolidating the Graubinden area. At this time, the French army had arrived at the Kingdom of Naples and were conquering cities and territories in the Kingdom of Naples.

Maximilian I always regarded France as the number one enemy and always wanted to limit France's expansion. In contrast, the Swiss issue seemed less important.

However, Maximilian I could not ignore his allies when they asked for their homes. You should know that the nobles of the Swabian League were his strongest supporters in the Imperial Parliament.

Just so, after more than a year of digestion, Maximilian I had completely controlled the Graubinden area and could free up his hands. So, after weighing the pros and cons, Maximilian I finally declared war on Switzerland and asked the Swiss to return all the occupied Swabian League territory.

However, when Marin was infected, Maximilian I also learned to be smart. Instead of declaring war on the entire Swiss alliance, he only declared war on Zurich, the main enemy of the Swabian League, to avoid stimulating other Swiss countries.

But Zurichban is not a fool. They are already strong and have tens of thousands of elite mercenaries. After seeing the emperor joining the battle, they also won over allies from several states such as Algheim from the Swiss Alliance and fought against the Swabian Alliance.

At this time, the Swabian League had actually been crippled by the mercenaries of Zurich. Only the emperor's army was left to confront the Swiss head-on.

So, the remaining soldiers of the Swabian League drove to Graubinden, gathered with the emperor's army, and let the emperor's army take the main force, and they took the auxiliary.

Maximilian I's army was much stronger than in history. Especially after sending a few people to learn how to arrange troops with Marin, at least in terms of discipline, it was far better than the original state. In fact, the military discipline of several elite troops of Maximilian I was not inferior to that of the Swiss at all.

Especially Bowen Gardner and Heit Basque, who had learned from Marin, have become the phalanx of the two most elite infantry phalanxes under the emperor.

The square formations trained by these two people are famous for their strict discipline in the Austrian army. However, in terms of tactics, there is still a difference between them and Marin's square formation. The biggest difference is that these two people are still using Marin's earliest tactics. For example, long-range firepower is the archers used, rather than the muskets of the Spanish square that Marin now promotes.

However, it is no wonder. After all, when they followed Marin, Marin had not started to promote the use of muskets. So, they used Marin's "version 1.0" square array, and Marin has now been upgraded to the "version 2.0" Spanish square array, but they have not had time to upgrade. After all, in this era, the news transmission was backward, and they did not send officers to East Friesland like the Spanish, so it is normal not to know.

Also, Maximilian I also had to take care of the Duke of Saxony. After all, Marin had just defeated the Duke of Saxony. Maximilian I insisted on admitting Marin's status had offended the Duke of Saxony. If he sent someone to learn the new phalanx tactics from Marin, he would definitely be putting salt on the Duke of Saxony's wounds. After all, Maximilian I also hoped that the Saxony nobles would vote for themselves in the Imperial Parliament.

The Spaniards and Teutonic countries are different. They do not have a good relationship with Saxons, so there is no need to see the Saxons' expressions. Therefore, they dare to send personnel to Marin to "seek the scriptures" without worrying about the Saxons' reactions.

Speaking of which, the 1.0 version of the square array learned by Bowen Gardner and Heit Basque are actually very powerful. It is really okay to deal with ordinary square arrays.

However, the times are changing constantly. When Marin created the 1.0 version of the square array, the Swiss were still in the rising period, not so rich, and there were very few soldiers equipped with breast plate armor.

But now six years have passed, Swiss mercenaries are getting richer and richer. After all, their appearance fee is usually at least twice or even three times that of ordinary mercenaries. Therefore, they have saved a lot of money and have the money to buy expensive breast armor and helmets.

Therefore, the first three rows of elite Swiss mercenaries are basically wearing chest plate armor, and they are no longer the poor troops with low armor rates before.

In the face of the blow of bows and arrows, the protection of the chest plate armor and helmet is very good. Therefore, the square formation led by Bowen Gardner and Heit Basque, the blow of the archers is actually not good.

When Maximilian I sent a large army north to fight the Swiss head-on battle, he suffered a loss. Under the fierce attack of the Swiss, Maximilian I's main force was repelled. Only Bowen, Gardner and Heit Basque had stubbornly resisted when facing the fierce attack of the Swiss. However, their bows and arrows had very limited lethality to the Swiss phalanx. Moreover, the other phalanxes were forced to retreat, and it was meaningless to continue to push forward, so they had to retreat together.

In this way, the proud and satisfied Maximilian I made his first attack and ended in a hurry...

Not only that, the Swiss were actually not happy to see Maximilian I occupy the Graubunden area. Because the Graubunden area has a dangerous terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Being occupied such a good place by Maximilian I poses too much threat to the Swiss League.

Taking advantage of the defeat of Maximilian I, the Swiss army began to attack Graubinden. Fortunately, there were steep passes to the north and west of Graubinden that could be resisted. Otherwise, Maximilian I's army might collapse thousands of miles away.

Although it blocked the attack of the Swiss, there was a problem within the Graubinden area. Previously, under the pressure of the emperor, the three major forces that originally ruled the Graubinden area - the God House Alliance, the Gray Clothes Alliance and the Ten Regional Alliance. Seeing that Maximilian I was defeated, they were all ready to move...

Although they were disarmed by Maximilian I before, this era was the era of cold weapons, and it was still easy to rebuild spears.

So they organized blacksmiths to secretly build weapons and privately re-engage. Some teams have begun to attack the emperor's supply troops in the rear and snatched away a lot of weapons and armor.

The emperor's armor was basically produced by Innsbruck's military factory. The famous Maximilian armor has been developed and mass-produced. However, on the way from Innsbruck in western Austria to the front line of Graubinden, it was taken away by the rebels, which made the emperor furious.

Because of the defeat in the war, the emperor's prestige also plummeted. Many aristocratic forces who were originally dissatisfied with the emperor also took the opportunity to attack and stumbling over the emperor openly and secretly. They all hoped that the emperor would lose completely to the Swiss and lose the Graubinden area.

Even Louis XII, who was far away in Naples, got involved. After hearing that the emperor was defeated by the Swiss Zurich coalition, he immediately repaid 5,000 Swiss mercenaries and asked them to help the Zurich people. Even the commission was paid by the French.

Louis XII's request was very simple. He asked these 5,000 people to help the Zurich coalition defeat the emperor and drive Maximilian I out of the Graubinden area.

Once Maximilian I was driven out of the Graubinden area, Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan who retreated to the Telina Valley south of the Mistel Valley, will lose the rear. At that time, the Swiss who occupied Graubinden can attack the French from the front and back and completely eliminate Ludovico Sforza's remaining troops. Even if they cannot be eliminated, they can still be trapped to death.

Because the remaining troops stationed in the Terina Valley, Ludovico Sforza's current supply source is mainly sent by Maximilian I from the Graubinden area through the Mistyre Valley.

In short, after the emperor was rashly involved in the Swabian War, it triggered a series of chain reactions. Moreover, due to the defeat, it caused many evil consequences.

In one sentence - the emperor fell into a trap...
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