Chapter 1037: Make the Spaniards eye-catching

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Morocco is located in the northwestern part of Africa, bordering the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The climate in Morocco is not humid and dry, with annual precipitation of a few hundred millimeters and the seaside area not exceeding 800 millimeters, which is equivalent to the precipitation of inland provinces of China. Moreover, this precipitation is very unstable, maybe this year is high, and next year is low.

As a result, some rivers that originated in the Atlas Mountains have very unstable flows. The difference between rich and dry years can be more than 5 times.

However, don't underestimate Morocco. Because Morocco is the most drought-stricken area in North Africa. In places like Egypt and Libya, I don't want so much precipitation yet. If Egypt did not supply water from the Nile, it would be almost as dry as the Arabian Peninsula.

In Morocco, the sun is abundant and the temperature is high. The agricultural irrigation water is used for more and less time. When there is more harvest, when there is less, it depends on the mood of God.

Moreover, the crops here are not rye popular in Central and Eastern Europe, but barley. Barley has a short growth cycle and is easier to serve than wheat. As long as the wheat is not served well, the yield will be low. Barley is much more extensive. As long as there is enough water to irrigate, the yield will not be much worse. So, now in Europe, barley is popular in the south, and rye is popular in the north and eastern Europe. Moreover, barley is also an important raw material for brewing beer.

In addition to barley, Morocco is also popular for growing olive oil and squeezing very popular olive oil. The Spanish army coveted barley and olives from Morocco.

Although the taste of barley is far less than that of wheat, barley is a good waiter. In this era of backward agricultural technology, barley is an important grain in southern Europe. Basically, ordinary people are very popular with barley as the staple food, just like the Germans eat rye. Of course, rye is also very popular in Spain because it is cheap. But rye mainly depends on imports, while local produce mainly barley and oats. If you grab enough barley, you can save a lot of food expenses.

In order to seize Moroccan barley, the Spaniards have long understood the situation in Morocco. The barley producing areas are mainly located in the Umrebia and Sebu rivers with the estuary in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, and the Muluye on the Mediterranean Sea in the northeast. The area along the three major rivers.

To this end, the Spanish special soldiers divided into two routes, respectively from the north of Melilla and the west coast of Morocco, launched an attack on the mainland of Morocco.

Melilla was a colony that Spain had acquired long ago, and it was easy for the Spanish army to land here. On the west coast of Morocco, Spain has no foothold. To this end, Spain had to turn to Portugal for help, and bought the coastal port stronghold of Mazar Gang's Jadida from the Portuguese as a foothold for the landing of the army.

Spain and Portugal had previously reached an agreement in Rome to divide Africa. Africa is now North Africa, including Morocco and Western Sahara and South West Mozambique. Other regions belong to Portugal.

According to this agreement, Juan III directly funded the acquisition of the coastal strongholds such as Ceuta, Tangier, Mazagang de Didy and Agadir, which were acquired by the Portuguese before the Portuguese. Moreover, the focus of the offensive was placed on the Mazar Gangdedidai at the mouth of the Umrebia River and Melilla near the Mouluye River. Because the two river basins near these two cities are important agricultural areas in Morocco. As for the Seb Estuary, because there was no Portuguese stronghold, the Spaniards planned to send warships into the Seb River and find an opportunity to send troops to the shore to grab food ...

Moreover, in order not to affect the autumn harvest in Spain, Juan III ordered the army to set off in batches and attack Morocco. The first batch of troops on the Moroccan territory was the 20,000 German mercenaries hired by Margaret of Austria from Germany. The German mercenaries who accompanied the landing were recruited by 10,000 Spanish herders. The recruitment of herdsmen has affected the autumn harvest in Spain. The herders also brought many Spanish horses, including Andalusian horses, to provide 20,000 German mercenaries. Of course, instead of letting them go out to fight, but riding horses to grab food ...

The main task of these 20,000 German mercenaries was to grab the food while consolidating the city defenses of Melilla and Mazagangdedi. After all, these German mercenaries may not be able to adapt to the local dry and hot climate at once. In addition, the main Spanish army and the supply of heavy goods did not arrive, and these 20,000 German mercenaries could not go alone to pick up the 20,000 or 30,000 scimitar cavalry in Morocco.

As for the other 30,000 Spanish troops and another 40,000 Spanish civilians, they will not be able to land in Morocco until the Spanish autumn harvest ends. And when 30,000 Spanish troops landed in Morocco, it was also when Spain officially launched a general attack on Morocco ...

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Marin frowned at first when the Spaniards had already started to work on Morocco. But soon, he became happy because the Spanish military action attracted the attention of all of Europe. And Marlin secretly sent troops to plot Siena's actions unnoticed. Originally, he was also worried that the arrival of 25,000 troops in Italy would attract the attention of interested individuals. But now, the Spaniard is making a splash, attracting the attention of all of Europe. As a result, Marin's actions were obscured by the Spanish.

In order to make Spain attract more attention, Marin, who was in the dark of his heart, specially asked the father-in-law Julius II to publicly express his appreciation for the Spanish people's act of "restoring the territory of the ancient Roman Empire". King Juan is really young and promising ...

Sure enough, with the attitude of the Pope ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Europeans' attention was further focused on the Spaniards. Many countries sent envoys or spies to Madrid to explore Spain's actions. As for the quiet movement of troops by Marin, nobody paid attention. Moreover, it is the autumn harvest season, everyone is very busy, who has time to care about those things that have nothing to do with themselves? For those who are poorer than the nobles, it is reasonable to spend a lot of time while the autumn harvest is complete ... These nobles are no different from those of the college students of Marin's previous life. When the autumn harvest was finished, they made them the most generous. At that time, then they started to squander ... Then when the next summer began, they had no money at hand, and began to wait for the autumn harvest in a hurry ... And at this time, they are like students who have run out of living expenses at the end of the month, they are very It is difficult to borrow money from the banker. At the end of the autumn harvest, in addition to spending money, they also had to repay their debts ...

In addition to asking the pope ’s father-in-law to publicly commend Spain ’s “righteous act” of attacking Morocco, Marin also arranged for his spies to speak in a pub in the Italian region, comment on Spain ’s attack on Morocco, and further attract people ’s attention. Especially in the Siena area, Marin sent a lot of spies to guide the public opinion and attention points in the taverns, so that they forget their own danger.

Then, Marin dressed up as a food merchant and went to Siena to conduct investigations in person ...

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