Warlock Royal Family

() On the evening of June 1524, 6, regardless of the humidity and heat, the Ligurian nobles gathered on the "horse face" on the tower to watch their troops leave the city.

This is a battle that will determine the fate of the city of Liguria. This battle is extremely dangerous. Ten thousand Ligurian warriors will challenge the fifty thousand Habsburg army. At least the so-called "informed people" who are close to the top of the Doria family Tell the other Ligurian nobles.

At the beginning, many nobles thought that there was no need to fight another battle this time. After all, the commander of the Austrian army outside the city wall was the nephew of the Doria family. There are quite a few people who can get along with Ladislaus here. Maybe the nephew can let the uncle go.

But when it comes to military and national affairs, it seems that that bit of kinship is not of much use.

In addition to leaking crucial military information, those "informed people" also leaked the emptiness of Liguria's treasury. Several transfers and rebuilding of the city walls have exhausted Liguria's once full treasury. Now the soldiers who go out to fight to the death in the city don't have any special expenses, especially the French who don't have money and they don't want to fight to the death.

There are quite a few people who can get along with Ladislaus, but there are also many people who offended Ladislaus when he was unsatisfactory, and now the ruthless Ladislaus is determined Open the city, and then have revenge, this is not the time to save money.

In order to feed these damned Frenchmen, the nobles of Liguria spent a lot of money, especially those guys who had neglected the Habsburg cardinals, they just refused to give their soldiers their lives. Out.Anyway, according to "informed sources", they are also responsible for the task of diverting the attack, and the tough battles still have to be fought by the French.

So in the end, Marshal Doria had to dig out his own pocket and give each of the soldiers two talers.

It’s not that the prudent nobles in the old city think that the stormy military action spread before it even started is actually Marshal Doria’s smokescreen, and it may be a precursor to another major retreat. Although Marshal Doria organized the retreat very orderly last time, But leaving home will always cost a lot of benefits, it would be best if you can not escape.

By the morning of the 25th, all the information was very clear. Marshal Doria did not run away this time because he was indeed going to a decisive battle.

Those nobles who didn't want to escape were a little worried at this time. There were 2 Habsburg troops a few miles outside the city, although the Spaniards might not have arrived.But there are at least [-] experienced and extremely elite Austrian troops.

But this time, I heard from family members who served in the army that Admiral Doria was very determined, and he slapped the table with several French judges who opposed the battle, and forced them to fight in the style of the French admiral.

Since the last retreat, these shameless Frenchmen have not entered the city and directly camped in the dock area outside the city wall, saying that the French elite do not need the protection of the city wall, and what else is there to protect each other with the city? , In fact, it is not yet determined to retreat by sea and land if something goes wrong.

Marshal Doria is still tough.

Now that it is impossible to change the military strategy temporarily, they can only gather on the city wall to pray for the army. Although it is suspected of leaking the military plane, Milo Doria doesn't care about them.

Ladislaus had been reporting from Frenzberg since noon.Sentinels observe people praying on the Ligurian walls.

"Don't give up vigilance. My uncle is not the kind of person who can't adapt to changes. If he seizes the opportunity, he doesn't mind swallowing us and the French." Marshal Ya wore a pair of trousers, but he was still careful to guard against the other party, just as the other party was also guarding against him.

"Is Colonel Li Anye really preparing to attack?" Marshal Doria asked Lu Erna, who was in charge of monitoring.

"That's true. The soldiers have received double the military pay. He didn't take all the benefits." Lu Erna's judgment was based on strong evidence. If he wanted to preserve his strength, Colonel Li Anye would definitely not pay him.

"It's just that His Excellency the French Ambassador has been asking to see you day after day, and I want you to be serious and not fight. Do you want to meet?" These days, Milo has been dealing with the French ambassador who is already in a hurry.

"No." Andre Doria directly rejected his son. "Just be careful with him."

There is another thing that bothers Lurna, that is, there are voices in the French army these days that Colonel Li Anye is a member of the Duke of Bourbon, and he insists on fighting because he is actually looking for an opportunity to sell the city to Ladislaus.

She hesitated whether to report this unfounded rumor. She knew Marshal Doria's plan. Seeing that Marshal Doria didn't care about the ins and outs and only considered her own plan, she decided it was better to keep silent. Anyway, the Doria family The elite has long been deployed in the dock area.Even if the French colonel really changes, there is absolutely no chance of success.

Marshal Doria has a plan, and Ladislaus naturally has a plan.

After the sun went down, it was time for the "feint attack" agreed by Marshal Doria and him to begin.

"His Royal Highness. The enemy army has left the city through the north and west gates as agreed." Boss Silica's subordinates and rangers have long occupied the commanding heights outside the city, and they are constantly going back and forth between the front line and the center. The military station delivers the message. "As agreed, all the Ligurian cross flags were dead, and no lilies on a blue background were seen."

"They've stormed our empty camp and are chopping down flags and cheering loudly."

In fact, Milo-Doria was quite well prepared, and even got a few corpses of dead prisoners from the prison to increase the authenticity of the "set".

The Austrian soldiers also made calls under the command of the officers, pretending to support the friendly troops in the camp at the gate of the city.

When the Ligurians cheered, Colonel Li Anye also led the French army out of the dock area. In the front were about 700 cronies that he could still fully control, and behind them were those deputy who had doubts. Controlled more than 1000 people.

What was left in the dock area was not an empty camp. In the camp were hundreds of Ligurian peasants who had been coerced from several surrounding entities temporarily. After rushing into the camp, Li Anye and his subordinates were relieved when they found that they were civilians with no combat effectiveness. Tone, although Ladislaus passed on the cooperation method to him through Shar's church, how can this kind of thing be completely at ease.

Now seeing that there are indeed panicked civilians everywhere as agreed, Colonel Li Anye is more or less relieved, but although he remembers Ladislaus' request and tries to restrain his subordinates from killing civilians indiscriminately, this army is originally Bourbon After Duke Bourbon failed to betray the duke's team, the hearts of the team fell apart. Of course, the team was not easy to lead.

There were also some soldiers hacking and killing, but this also had an unexpected effect, successfully paralyzing the French army behind.

The chaotic and noisy camp caused the French army behind to rush in unsuspectingly. In their view, the mobile forces of the Austrian army should have been transferred to deal with the Ligurian army.

So when the Austrian cavalry led by Old John rushed to their rear, the French army immediately fell into a panic.