Vol 7 Chapter 216: Invite you to a decisive battle

James sent up the river and reported to Alexandria and Zuosha that the sender who had blocked the Castilla fleet in Sanlucar de la Valmeda was the rosacea.
With James's letter and two companions, the rosacea advanced along the Guadalville River, and he passed the interrogation of the Castilian army on the road, but eventually sent the letter to Alexander.
The good news brought by the rosacea made Zuo Sha overjoyed, but in Alexander's view, what made him happy was not the blockade of the Castilian fleet, but the control of the lower Guadalville River.
So he immediately decided to change his plan. The original decision to fight with Gonzalo was postponed. After a night of talks with Zuosha, Zuosha announced to the Sicilian officers their new plan. .
The Sicilian army began to move southwest along the south of Seville.
The blockade of the Grand Knight's Castle still allows the city of Seville to be divided into two halves in an invisible way. The Castilians once carried out two violent attacks on the castle, but they all came back.
In addition to the dangerous terrain, the Grand Knight Castle is more important in the early years of war experience, so that after Serbia was the capital, two major repairs were carried out.
The former Castilian monarchs at that time used all the means they could think of to strengthen the castle.
The auxiliary forts built on both sides of the main fort played an important role in subsequent wars.
In the later war to recover the lost ground, the Moors and Castillas who had occupied the castle successively made major repairs and reinforcements to the two auxiliary castles.
The two auxiliary forts and the main fort form a triangular interdependence, and the forts set on the three forts pose a huge threat to the Guadalville River twice.
Gonzalo had envisioned sending people to attack from the upper and lower reaches at the same time to bypass the Grand Knight Castle, but he soon discovered a strange phenomenon.
It is the Sicilian army that seems to be intentionally or unintentionally cooperating with the Catalans in the Grand Knight Castle.
They blocked the Castilian army on the river. With the help of a horse-drawn artillery that seemed to be less powerful but easier to transport, the Sicilian snipers on the river repeatedly tried to cross the river. Of the Castilian army.
The caliber of the artillery mounted on the specially designed artillery was not very large, but it was very dexterous. In his report, Gonzalo soon discovered that the enemy's artillery seemed to be specially assigned to each unit. Kind of support firepower.
And according to the fact that he was shelled soon after encountering the enemy, Gonzalo was surprised to find that the Sicilian artillery allocation of combat units should be smaller than he suspected.
This means that the number of enemy artillery is likely to be more than he guessed, because only in this way can the Sicilian troops armed along the river receive artillery support so quickly.
And because the enemy is defending the river bank, only a few important landing sites need to be guarded to effectively block the Castilian army, which is much larger than theirs, which makes Gonzalo worried. The battle may become a pure strangulation battle.
There are about 4,800 troops that the Castilians can participate in.
This is already the largest number of troops Gonzalo can organize.
Occupying the city of Seville means that you must divide your troops to guard all important parts of the city, including both the Doge’s Palace and the Cathedral, as well as those critical buildings that may lead to the attacks of the Andalusian rebels.
For example, in the Colonial Exchange, Gonzalo could hardly understand why he wanted to distribute valuable troops to protect such a meaningless house, but some local nobles who had surrendered and were temporarily appointed by him to stay with them to share the rule of the city, strongly demanded Protect the exchange with heavy soldiers.
In this way, Gonzalo's strength was divided, and when he heard that the Sicilian army was almost completely indifferent to Seongnam, he realized that the problem was serious.
So he tried to collect all the troops that could be mobilized, and at the same time tried to launch a war across the river to Henan.
But the result of the temptation disappointed him. Gonzalo has gradually realized that the strange rapport between the Sicilian army and the Catalans in the family may contain the possibility of worrying him.
Gonzalo knew that if he had really guessed it, the forces of both sides, which were originally evenly matched, had actually changed dramatically.
The total force of the Castilian rebellious army is about 6,000, while the Sicilian force was originally slightly inferior to them.
But if those Catalans collude with the Sicilian army, then the Sicilian is likely to be more than his army.
And now he can use it, in fact, less than 5,000 people.
The grim situation in front of him gave Gonzalo the idea of ​​turning to defense for the first time.
Although knowing that this will inevitably be met with fierce opposition, neither the army nor Ferdinand, who is far away in Valladolid, will accept his proposal, but after some consideration, Gonzalo announced this. Decide.
Just not waiting for him to face the fierce opposition of his men, a bad news that made him have to change his mind suddenly came.
The Castile fleet was blocked in the port of Sanlucar de la Valmeda. This nightmare-like accident shocked the entire Wang Jun at once. Even those who did not have any affection for the navy, they knew this. What does the message mean.
At almost the same time, the officers rushed to the governor's palace, and they asked Gonzalo to immediately send troops to cross the river. Even at the greatest loss, they must defeat the Sicilian across the river.
Because once the Sicilians took advantage of the opportunity to divide their troops and occupy Sanlucar de la Valmeda southward, there was a danger that the entire fleet of the Kingdom of Castile would be captured by the enemy.
For the Castilians, the strong naval fleet is their pride today, which involves all kinds of grudges with Aragon. They can hardly imagine the scenario of relying on the Aragon fleet in the future, so these army officers Temporarily abandoning the aversion to the navy, eager to save his fleet.
At this time, Gonzalo also knew that his plan to switch to defense had died before the start. No matter Ferdinand or anyone, he would never agree to his plan at this time. On the contrary, in order to block Barria In the mouths of the nobles of Riddock, Ferdinand would be the first to ask him to attack as soon as possible and destroy the Sicilian.
Once again, the messenger was called, and Gonzalo listened carefully to his report. When he heard that the fleet was completely blocked in the home port, Gonzalo gently waved his hand so that the man would not have to go on.
"Is it Portuguese?"
"Yes, it's a Portuguese."
The reporter reportedly looked at Gonzalo strangely. He didn't know why the general asked this question.
Is there anyone other than the Portuguese who do this?
Gonzalo stood up and walked slowly, he always felt that things did not seem to be as simple as this person said.
The Portuguese fleet may indeed have blocked the home port of the Castilla fleet, but this timing seems to be too coincidental.
Gonzalo could not help but doubt that this may also be one of Alexander's plans, and the purpose of this plan is probably not just the Castilla fleet.
"He wants to force me out of town to fight him."
Gonzalo suddenly thought of this possibility, and at the same time he could not help revealing a slight consternation on his face.
Gonzalo believed that until he realized this, he vaguely felt that Alexander had some kind of inexplicable fear of him.
Regardless of the previous interactions between them, or the arrangements after the meeting on the battlefield, Gonzalo could vaguely feel that Alexander had a much deeper sense of alertness to him than others.
He carefully maintained some kind of bad relationship with himself, and as long as there was a chance, he would try to persuade himself to leave the Isabella couple.
Now think about it, even when the queen was still alive, that Alexander Juliant Gumbre was already trying to move herself as much as possible.
Even in Sicily, Alexander’s hard and soft purpose was to force him to stay away from Sicily and Iberia, for which he even offered himself the opportunity to send troops to Crete.
And the purpose of all this is just not to let yourself get in the way.
Even after the attack on Sevilla has begun, the Sicilian army has always maintained a strict defense, which can be seen from the fact that they would rather give up the looting of the city temporarily rather than divide the troops.
This once made Gonzalo secretly proud, even if he realized that the situation might not benefit him, he switched to defensive tactics, but only to refocus his troops in exchange for time.
Once the forces were regrouped, he would immediately turn to attack.
At that point he believed that even as the Catalans had surrendered to the Sicilian army, as he had guessed, he had the confidence to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.
But now things have changed unexpectedly.
Alexander took the initiative to challenge him.
Gonzalo thought of something, and he immediately ordered someone to investigate the movement of the Sicilian army on the other side.
When it was getting dark, the scouts sent out came back.
The officers who had already been waiting impatiently urged immediately, while Gonzalo brought wine and meat patties to the few tired scouts.
Gonzalomer waited patiently as he watched the scout gorging on food.
His calmness also affected his officers, and everyone waited quietly.
"Adult," the scout who swallowed the last bite of the patty finally delivered the food with wine, and then immediately said nervously, "The Sicilian is moving southwest."
"Oh?" Gonzalo walked over to the map. He listened to the scout's report while guessing the movement of the Sicilian army on the rough map.
"Their army is marching towards the wetlands," the scout said hurriedly. "Our people have followed them for a long time, but they don't seem to be worried about being discovered. They just swayed through the south of Sevilla."
"It seems that they want you to know their movements," Gonzalo glanced at the scout, and then looked at his officers. "What do you think, those two people have challenged us, Duke of Thesia It may even bet his crown on this battle."
Gonzalo's words caused many officers to laugh.
But he also noticed that some people did not laugh.
All along, Gonzalo has maintained an indifferent posture for the sudden throne of Castile.
But this does not mean that everyone in his army does not care about this.
He knew very well that some of his officers were closely related to Bariari Dodd. As for the noble groups these people belong to, he did not want to inquire.
He is now interested in how Alexander suddenly had the idea of ​​a decisive battle against him.
Is it already considered an advantage in terms of strength, or is there any detailed plan.
Gonzalo did not despise him because he tried to avoid war, but in fact he responded more cautiously to this cautious attitude.
Speaking of this, just a few years ago, when he first landed in Italy, Gonzalo also suffered a disastrous defeat by the French because of his underestimation.
During that time he had to avoid the French edge with the same care, until he finally seized an opportunity in Naples and beat Charles VIII.
So for Alexandria, Gonzalo always paid attention, as long as he did not show signs of total loss of confidence due to failure and cowardice, Gonzalo would not take him lightly.
Now Alexander suddenly showed a decisive posture, which made Gonzalo immediately alert.
Because according to his understanding of Alexander’s previous experiences, although sometimes he seemed very reckless, and even more times it was more like luck before he finally won, but Gonzalo did not believe that it was really only luck. Good explanation.
In Bucharest, in Rome and Lombardy, every time it seems to be counterattacked when the enemy is pushed to despair, is it not because he also pushed the enemy to the end of the road?
If you think about it this way, Gonzalo suddenly feels that perhaps the Castile fleet is blocked, which is also part of Alexander's plan.
"He's forcing me to fight him in Andalusia," Gonzalo suddenly looked up at the officers. Seeing that the men didn't seem to fully understand, Gonzalo shook his head with a smile. "Go and prepare, We are leaving Seville."
"Leaving Seville?"
The officers showed surprise. Some of them were purely surprised, some were angry, and others immediately listened to Gonzalo's words, seeming to be afraid of a little omission.
"The Sicilian army is waiting for us. By this time, do you really think that the Catalan hot men are selling their lives for Don Bavi?"
Gonzalo's words silenced the officers.
In fact by this time everyone knew that the Catalans were acting strangely.
They sent someone to tell the Catalans about the death of Don Bavi, but in exchange for the messenger and the ridicule who was kicked back.
Even after dedication, the employers have already gone to heaven, and their subsequent commissions have not fallen. The Catalans are still stubbornly guarding the Grand Knight Castle, and even more so, this is not normal.
"Catalan and Sicilian colluded?"
Someone tentatively asked.
"Or they might have hooked up from the beginning."
Gonzalo remembered that in the recent Italian war, there seemed to be a large number of Catalan mercenaries working for Pisa, and Estes, the Duchess of Pisa, was Alexander's daughter.
It's just that the Catalans, like the Swiss, have never worked specifically for a certain monarch. They are fighting for this today, and they will be helped by that tomorrow. They never ask who the employer is, just how much money they give.
Because of this, Gonzalo did not notice any anomalies in the actions of the Catalan mercenaries at the beginning, and even they also blocked the Andalusian rebels, but he was only worried that he might make the king army Take the opportunity to cross the river.
But with the signs of the next few days, Gonzalo began to doubt the purpose of the Catalans.
By now, everything seems to have been revealed.
As if to prove Gonzalo's guess, while the officers were still suspicious of his conjecture, a soldier suddenly rushed into the room.
"Adult, Grand Knight Castle!" The soldier gasped and shouted, "The flag on the castle has changed!"
"What happened." Gonzalo asked anxiously, although he had already vaguely guessed.
"It's King Castilla," the soldier answered with a strange look. "But it's not King Banner, because it's different from King Banner."
Hearing the soldier's incoherent answer, Gonzalo was a little puzzled, and then he woke up to think of something.
After hearing the report, several officers had hurried out before Gonzalo ordered.
They mounted horses and ran towards the Grand Knight Castle.
Obviously, if the soldier said, then this matter is probably more than just a castle suddenly changing its flag.
Sure enough, when crossing the city of Seville and rushing to the river, the officers saw a scene that made them dumbfounded.
Although the sky was completely dark, it seemed that the people in the castle intentionally let the other side see that the flag standing on the height of the castle was filled with torches, which made the flag jump even across the river. Mesh.
It's just that after all the distance is too far, the red bottom flag can't help waving in the night breeze, but it's not very clear to see the pattern on it.
"What happened there?"
An officer hurriedly grabbed a busy soldier who was huddled on the shore and asked.
"We don't know the adults, but they and their people began to yell, we thought they were going to attack, and then we found that they seemed to be greeting someone, and then the city changed the flag."
"Who do you see what the flag looks like?"
"It's Wang Qi, but it's not like..."
"I saw a crown on it~EbookFREE.me~ But it seems that it is not a king's flag, but two castles..."
Listening to the plausible answers from the soldiers, the officers had to narrow their eyes and carefully looked at the other side of the river, which indeed looked somewhat similar to the King of Castile flag, but there seemed to be a very different flag.
"It's Gombray."
I don't know when Gonzalo also led his hand down to the river. He looked at the knight's castle on the other side and breathed lightly.
"Gombray is on the other side, he is waiting for us."
Listening to Gonzalo, Castilian officers fell silent for a while.
Just as Gonzalo watched the movement across the river, on the walls of the Grand Knight Castle, Alexander was raising his right hand, raising his thumb and ten-finger arm upwards, making a shooting motion towards the opposite bank.
"Gonzalo."
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