To the west of Granada is an open plain, and to the east is a series of hills. The city is built on a hill, and the Alan Buda Palace is located on high ground and is protected by the strongest stone fortresses. The commercial and residential areas of the city are divided according to religious beliefs on hillsides and flat land, and are divided into Tianfang Christian, Jewish and Christian settlements. A semi-circular wall encloses these three areas, and the west side of the wall connects to the Alan Buda Palace.

The land within the stone walls is now the last refuge of the Celestial Cultists in the Iberian Peninsula. The city was crowded with Celestial cultists who had fled from all parts of the Granada Sultanate, and since the sea and land routes were cut off, the capital of the Granada Sultanate was the only place they could go.

Arriving in Granada were of course not only commoners, but also a large number of Moorish nobles. Like the Christian countries on the Iberian Peninsula, Granada was actually a feudal state ruled by a military aristocracy, and the backbone of the military force was a group of Moorish lords who owned estates.

At this time, the armed forces of the Christian countries were knights and mercenaries. And the countries of the Heavenly Sect generally do not use mercenaries very much, but the configuration of the master and slave soldiers. The Mamluk dynasty, which is now in full swing, is a group of turned slaves - the Mamluks are boys bought from the Caucasus and the Kipchak steppe by the sultans of the Heavenly Sect, and they are strictly trained from an early age, turning them into skilled warriors. And the Mamluk Dynasty is a legend of a group of dick warriors counterattacking the upper position. Of course, the dicks who succeeded in the counterattack have also become masters, but they are all first-generation masters who are particularly capable of fighting, and because they are slave soldiers, they also know that the army must have strict discipline. He is also accustomed to obeying the command of his superiors and can put on a decent formation. Therefore, it has become the pillar of force in the world of the Heavenly Sect.

And the old men of Granada. They are all Moorish nobles who have been rich for an unknown number of generations, and they don't fight much. I'm used to living a comfortable life. Now that he has suddenly entered the battlefield, it is conceivable what virtues he had. However, their main enemy, the Christian Alliance, is much the same, a bunch of unorganized, undisciplined lords!

"Seriously, the war!"

"Stand up for me, this is the battlefield, how can I sit on a blanket, and there is food and wine! Count, do you think it's a picnic? Put away this mess quickly. Put on the chain mail! ”

"No loud noises, no fights! You two fools, you have the strength to fight the Heavenly Sect disciples......"

Prince Fernández, the crown prince of Castile, dressed in chain mail and riding an Andalusian horse, was patrolling the positions of the Castilian royal army, and kept shouting and scolding to make the Castilian royal army look a little in shape, but the effect was very unsatisfactory.

The army of the King of Castile was not always composed of the king's direct or attendant knights, and most of them were members of the great nobility. Those barons, viscounts, counts, and marquises are all bosses in their own territory, and they are accustomed to freedom, and they are all in front of the back on the battlefield. There are their own direct knights and attendant knights, and a large number of servants are waiting - the knight lord fights, where can there be no one to serve?

This time, the 100,000-strong army sent by Castile, Aragon, and Portugal were all knightly armies. The mercenaries were not spent, because the mercenaries were done by the Aztec Green Banners. Of course, these 100,000 troops can't all be knights. There weren't necessarily that many knights in all of Europe. Of the 100,000 men, there were about fifteen thousand knights and attendant knights. The remaining eighty-five thousand were servants and attendants. The main job of a servant and squire was to serve the knights, take care of the horses, and take care of logistics.

The knightly army is equipped with its own weapons, horses and logistics, and unlike the Ming soldiers, who had to purchase weapons and armor according to the prescribed size and shape, the weapons they use and the armor they wear are all varied. Those who have money wear good armor, and those who don't have money are armor-piercing. Others had participated in the Crusades, and their armor had small boxes containing "relics" - mostly rotten wood and rusty nails or rags, said to be part of the crucifixion of Jesus or part of the Shroud, which possessed magical powers to protect the knights from invulnerability on the battlefield.

These knights are okay to look at individually, but when fifteen thousand knights get together, they don't show the slightest strictness. Coupled with the servant attendants several times that of knights, it is even more chaotic like a vegetable market.

Moreover, these knights ignore the orders of the crown prince, at most they reproduce on the surface, and as soon as the prince leaves, how to play and how to play. There is also an earl who is even more exaggerated, actually spread a blanket on the battlefield, put food on the table and have fun with a few friends, and simply does not regard this place as a battlefield.

In stark contrast to these chaotic old men is the 5200 Aztec Green Flag Army. That's called a strict elite! 5,200 people wore one-color (green) military uniforms, lined up in a square formation like knives and axes, and looked straight horizontally and vertically! And these 5,200 people stood for a long time, and no one sat down tired, let alone made a loud noise. There was no need for Chen Chongguan to shout loudly to maintain order.

"No, no, how can such an army fight!" Liang Chongru was also in battle with Chen Chongguan, but his attention was not on his own army, but on the royal army of Castile. After looking at it for a while, my head kept shaking.

"Why can't you fight? The other side seems to be about the same. Chen Chongguan just smiled, pointed to the Heavenly Sect army on the opposite side and said-Granada Sultan did not choose to trap the fortified city, but wanted to rely on the city to fight. I want to rely on the city wall to take advantage of the field battle under the city, and then wait for reinforcements. So today, two armies that were in chaos like a vegetable market were set up under the city of Granada.

Liang Chongru glanced at the Heavenly Sect on the opposite side, it was really half a catty, no wonder the two sides could fight for decades!

"Now it's the Heavenly Sect, if you change to the Mongols......"

"Actually, it's okay......" Chen Chongguan is an expert, of course, he doesn't just look at the surface, he has carefully observed the army of the indigenous people of Europa these days.

He said slowly: "Their knights all have good martial arts, and they are all capable of killing people on the battlefield, which is much stronger than the Aztecs' martial arts that knock people out. And they are all very good at kung fu immediately, and the Eight Banners of the Ming Dynasty are similar to them. In addition, their horses are good, tall and strong, and can carry the armored knights on large sprints. As for discipline and organization...... It's not that they don't know the truth, the natives of Europa also have well-disciplined and well-organized mercenaries. It's just that a group of knights are not very good at strict training. If you encounter a Mongol, you can use the knights as steel-armored cavalry, and then hire infantry with arquebuses, spears, and swords and shields. If there's one thing the natives of Europa don't have, it's that they don't use bows and arrows. ”

"Can it really work?" Liang Chongru frowned, and rarely doubted Chen Chongguan's words. After all, the other party has only been a teacher in the military academy and Tiandao Academy all these years, and has not been on the battlefield much. The title was also obtained for the contribution to the establishment of the Beijing Tiandao Academy, and the major general came from the seniority.

Chen Chongguan just smiled: "It's just a matter of coping with it, it's not easy to defeat Kublai Khan." If he integrated the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate, two or three hundred thousand Mongol elites would be able to pull out. Moreover, the Rus' kingdoms have long been subjugated to the Mongols, and the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire is the old man of Abaha and Nahai, and the Eastern Rome still has great contradictions with Venice and the Ecumenical Church, and the possibility of falling to the Mongols is not impossible. Other than that...... The Mamluk Sultan and Kublai Khan may not be in an alliance! ”

This analysis immediately made Liang Chongru look at Chen Chongguan with admiration. He nodded and said approvingly, "Time is running out for Christianity!" If Kublai Khan had known that we had arrived, he would not have given Christianity much time. If the Holy Roman Empire and the Ecumenical Church could not quickly take up their responsibilities, I am afraid that the Mongol iron cavalry will be able to step all the way to the Pyrenees! ”

"If that's really the case...... The Iberian Peninsula, the British Isles, and the Irish Islands must be controlled, and the Mongol forces must not be allowed to break through into the Atlantic! ”

While the two men were talking, several knights galloped towards them, starting with Josan, the prince of Castile. He is the younger brother of Crown Prince Fernández and is very tall and has blonde hair. However, the teenage boy has been walking on the battlefield in chain mail for two or three years. is an excellent knight.

"Your Excellency the Ambassador, Your Excellency the Vice-Envoy, Your Majesty the King, please attack." He loudly conveyed Alfonso X's orders—not orders, but pre-agreed orders. The knights are difficult to command, they are all masters with strong martial arts, and they generally don't listen to others. So the way to fight the war is one word: "Rush!" "The horse team charged over and over again, either crushing the enemy or crashing first. The most important thing in commanding a war is to decide who comes first and who comes last.

And the Aztec Green Banner Army, because of its muskets and six three-bow crossbows unloaded from the "Maya" class, was of course the first in the formation - they didn't need to rush, they just shot with muskets and three-bow crossbows to weaken the morale of the Celestials. When the Celestial Cultists began to disorganize, it was time for the knights to attack.

"Okay, leave it to us, let His Majesty launch the total in an hour, by which time our musket team should have put the Celestial Cultists in chaos." After Chen Chongguan finished speaking in Latin, he smiled at Liang Chongru in Chinese, "Ambassador, let's see how the Aztec Green Banner Army of the lower officials has made great achievements!" (To be continued......)