Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 771 Addicted to Sneak Attack
Olinda, the main city of Pernambuco, is really a city built on a hillside, and it is also on a hillside surrounded by mountains.

This kind of terrain is the most easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Because the army can't spread out in this kind of mountainous area at all, and there are only a few roads to reach the city. The rest are hillsides, and the army can't pass at all.

The mountain where Olinda is located is still a small mountain, and people directly circled the mountainside, enclosing the entire mountain, and it is impossible to climb to the top of the mountain and rush in condescendingly.

How can this kind of city be taken down?
On a high mountain top five or six miles north of Olinda, Luo Sigong, Carlinio, De Sierra and others were lying there scanning the mountain city with binoculars.

The mountain they were on was much higher than that of Olinda, so they could see the situation inside and outside the city clearly.

Luo Sigong frowned and scanned for a while, then put down the binoculars, and sighed slightly: "It's really difficult to take down such a city silently."

Take it down silently?

This means another sneak attack!

Are you addicted to sneak attacks?
Hearing this, Desiera couldn't help but secretly sighed.

He really couldn't understand why such a powerful Ming army always wanted to carry out sneak attacks.

Carinho heard the words, but he asked curiously: "Do we need to attack the city? Just like last time, the governor's order was issued directly to lure the lord here to the port wharf and take it down first. This city will not be destroyed. Is it equivalent to taking it?"

Luo Sigong shook his head slightly and said: "I'm afraid this move won't work, because the port here is more than ten miles away from Olinda.

Moreover, at this moment, the anti-Habsburg alliance army is in Bahia, which is next to Pernambuco. The lords here are afraid that they will accidentally lose this fortress, so they dare not leave the city at all.

I have sent a scout team to watch here for many days. No matter what comes to the port, the defenders here will not care about it. Basically, it is sent by people from the port.

It is basically impossible for the lord you want to deceive to run more than ten miles to meet you. "

Uh, this.

Carinho is at a loss. He is not a genius commander. Facing such a fortress, he really has nothing to do.

De Sierra thought for a while, and then suggested: "Lord Luo, how about I take someone pretending to be someone from the port to deliver the goods, sneak into the city, take down a city wall secretly, and then you and I will lead the army to rush in ?”

Alas, this one is not so fake.

Luo Sigong shook his head slightly and said: "No, there are only a few dozen people in their port guards, and every time they come to deliver goods, they are all these people, they must know each other, you can't impersonate them."

By the way, you can pretend to be someone they don't know and sneak into the city.

Luo Sigong suddenly had an idea and said: "Judging from the situation here, they probably don't know that Paraiba has been captured by us.

Moreover, after such a long time, they did not send anyone to Paraiba to contact them.

I estimate that their attention is focused on the anti-Habsburg alliance army in the south, and they probably don't understand the current situation of Paraiba at all.

We can use this to make a fuss.

Do you have any customs in Portugal?For example, when you get married, do you want to hold a grand wedding, do you want to invite relatives and friends to celebrate? "

This one.

De Sheila thought for a while, then shook his head slightly and said, "Generally, people don't get married as grandly as Daming, and they don't invite too many people to celebrate."

Luo Sigong thought about it carefully, and then asked again: "Lord Andre of Paraiba is not an ordinary person, you should be able to marry many women, right? He is married, can't he invite the lord of Pernambuco? "

De Sierra thought for a while, then shook his head slightly and said, "If he married the daughter of an ordinary minor noble family, he wouldn't spend a lot of trouble sending people to travel hundreds of miles to invite the lord of Pernambuco, the lord of Pernambuco Generally, they don't go that far to celebrate.

The situation in Pernambuco is so tense at the moment, it is even more impossible for people to go to celebrate, unless he is marrying the daughter of the duke or the princess of the royal family. "

Isn't this simple?

Luo Sigong said without hesitation: "We can lie to people that Andre wants to marry a royal princess, but they can't verify it anyway.

Moreover, we don't really want to invite them over, we just want to sneak into the city and wait for an opportunity.

Think about it, is there any royal princess waiting to be married in Europe who may marry Andre. "

Uh, this, I was born as a commoner, so I don't understand those nobles at all!

When Carinho heard the words, he had an idea: "I thought of a princess who might marry Andre."

Luo Sigong quickly asked: "Oh, which country is the princess from? Do you know the name and approximate age?"

Carinho said without hesitation: "It's Aragon's little princess Isabel, who is about sixteen or seventeen years old, almost at the age of marriage."

Uh, Aragorn?
Is there such a country in continental Europe?

Luo Sigong was a little puzzled and said, "Is there a country called Aragon in your continent? Why haven't I heard of it?"

Carinho quickly explained: "Aragon is a country with a history of thousands of years. In fact, Spain did not exist in Europe.

Spain was formed from the amalgamation of the ancient kingdoms of Castile, Aragon, León and Navarre.

Strictly speaking, the King of Spain at the moment belongs to the line of the Castilian royal family, and the line of the Aragonese royal family is almost dying.

In this case, it is possible for their princess to marry Andre, who also has royal blood. After all, Andre has a territory and some personal weapons. "

Oh, I see.

Hearing this, Luo Sigong nodded without hesitation and said, "Okay, it's just Princess Isabel of Aragon.

Desierra, when the time comes, you will bring people to pretend to invite the lord of Pernambuco, and then wait for the opportunity to take down the northern city wall. Is there any problem? "

Uh, you are so messed up!

Will a 50-year-old princess marry a [-]-year-old earl?
To be honest, De Sierra really didn't understand the affairs among the nobles.

He thought for a while, and then asked carefully: "My lord, how many people should I bring into the city?"

Luo Sigong reckoned: "There are only a thousand defenders in this city, and you may be able to bring a hundred people into the city at most. If you bring too many people, people may become suspicious. There are only six or seven hundred artillerymen in total.”

Hundreds of people?

De Sierra couldn't help worrying: "After we take down one city wall, if the defenders of other city walls come to support us, I'm afraid we won't be able to withstand it!"

this problem.

Luo Sigong thought about it, and then said decisively: "Then do it at night, you find a way to stay in the city for a night, and when everyone else is asleep, you can touch the city wall quietly.

Pay attention, first prepare a few piles of firewood near the other three walls, and order people to watch.

If your actions are discovered, let the firewood guards light the firewood, and then shout indiscriminately to attract their attention. "

Uh, there is another trick?

Hearing this, De Xie La couldn't help being dumbfounded.

These people are really experts in sneak attacks!

In the afternoon of the third day, a long queue appeared on the mountain path leading to Paraiba north of Olinda.

There were about a hundred people in this team, and five carriages.

However, only one of the five carriages actually has a carriage, and the others are flat carriages.

The flatbed carriage seems to be filled with pots, pans, food and tents. As for who is sitting in the carriage with carriages, I don't know.

It seemed that such a team was sent by a certain lord, because the farmers at the moment were not so wealthy, not to mention five carriages, and not many farmers could make up five horses.

Moreover, it is impossible for the farmer to have so many well-equipped soldiers.

These soldiers were all wearing Portuguese military uniforms, and all of them looked Portuguese. The defenders on the city wall did not suspect that they were coming to attack the city, and the city gate was not closed because of this.

It wasn't until they arrived at the gate of the city that the officer in charge of guarding the north gate approached and asked, "Where did you come from, and what are you doing here?"

The door of the carriage opened in response to the sound, and Desierra, who was wearing the captain's uniform, jumped out of the carriage and said with a smile on his face: "We came from Paraiba, and our general Andre is about to meet Isabel Princess of Aragon. to get married, so I was specially ordered to invite His Excellency the Earl of Greyrose to the wedding."

After speaking, he took out a glittering golden invitation from his pocket and stuffed it into his hand.

It was precisely because they were rushed back to prepare the invitation that they were delayed for a day, otherwise they would have come here yesterday.

Of course, Andre didn't know which princess of Aragon he was going to marry, and Desiera's cronies only asked him to sign his name on a blank piece of paper, without saying anything else.

Andre, the lord of Paraiba, seems to have some brain problems. He is obviously an earl, but he prefers to be called a general.

Pernambuco is just south of Paraiba, and the two lords belong to the same family as the Duke of Braganza. Before the war, the two lords still had frequent exchanges. Naturally, people here have heard of this His Excellency's strange hobby.

The officer guarding the city gate did not doubt his identity. Of course, it was impossible for him to enter the city just like that. He had to send someone to ask the lord for instructions.

After thinking about it, he still ordered someone to take the invitation and rush to the lord's mansion to ask the lord for instructions.

The lord Greyrose here received the invitation, opened it, and couldn't help but snort.

This guy Andre is probably out of his mind. He is at war right now, yet he still wants to get married!

And this princess of Aragon, who seems to be very noble, is actually a fart.

The royal family of Aragon has long since declined, and it is estimated that the title of the royal family will be revoked in a short time. What is the use of marrying such a princess?

To put it bluntly, the royal family of Aragon is not as strong as their Duke of Braganza.

They may want to take this opportunity to win over their family of the Duke of Braganza but fight against the royal family of Castile!

You pig brain, the Castilian royal family is a close relative of the Spanish royal family and the Holy Roman Empire royal family, can we fight against it?

You pig, you are bringing disaster to us Duke of Braganza, do you know that?
Greyrose was really furious when he saw the invitation. If everyone was not a lord, and they were cousins, he would really drive away the people sent by others.

Alas, forget it, let's call someone over and ask about it.

He sighed secretly, and then said helplessly: "Let them enter the city, let their leader come over."

(End of this chapter)