and by the open place that thei shal leave, all the
carriages and unarmed menne must go out, and place
themselves on the backe of the battaile. Then
the rome in the middeste beyng voided, and every man
gone to his place: the five battailes, whiche
I placed behinde on the armie, must make forward in
the voide place, that is betwene the one and the other
flanck, and marche towardes the battailes, that stand
in the hedde, and three of theim, muste stande within
thirtie yardes of those, with equall distances, betwene
the one and the other, and the other twoo shal remain
behinde, distaunte other thirtie yardes: the
whiche facion maie bee ordained in a sodaine, and commeth
almoste to bee like, unto the firste disposicion,
whiche of tharmy afore we shewed. And though
it come straighter in the fronte, it commeth grosser
in the flanckes, whiche giveth it no lesse strength:
but bicause the five battailes, that be in the taile,
have the Pikes on the hinder parte, for the occasion
that before we have declared, it is necessarie to make
theim to come on the parte afore, mindyng to have theim
to make a backe to the front of tharmie: and
therfore it behoveth either to make them to tourne
battaile after battaile, as a whole body, or to make
them quickly to enter betwen thorders of targettes,
and conduct them afore, the whiche waie is more spedy,
and of lesse disorder, then to make them to turn al
together: and so thou oughtest to doe of all those,
whiche remain behind in every condicion of assault,
as I shal shewe you. If it appere that thenemie
come on the part behinde, the first thyng that ought
to bee dooen, is to cause that every man tourne his
face where his backe stode, and straight waie tharmie
cometh to have made of taile, hed, and of hed taile:
then al those waies ought to be kept, in orderyng
thesame fronte, as I tolde afore. If the enemie
come to incounter the right flancke, the face of thy
armie ought to bee made to tourne towardes thesame
side: after, make all those thynges in fortificacion
of thesame hedde, whiche above is saied, so that the
horsemen, the Veliti, and the artillerie, maie be
in places conformable to the hed thereof: onely
you have this difference, that in variyng the hed of
those, which are transposed, some have to go more,
and some lesse. In deede makyng hedde of the
right flancke, the Veliti ought to enter in the spaces,
that bee betwene the horne of the armie, and those
horse, whiche were nerest to the lefte flancke, in
whose place ought to enter, the twoo Ansignes of the
extraordinarie Pikes, placed in the middest: But
firste the carriages and the unarmed, shall goe out
by the open place, avoidyng the rome in the middest,
and retiryng themselves behinde the lefte flancke,
whiche shall come to bee then the taile of the armie:
the other Veliti that were placed in the taile, accordyng
to the principall orderyng of the armie, in this case,
shall not move: Bicause the same place should
not remaine open, whiche of taile shall come to be