Vol 4 Chapter 170: Determination for war

Romagna in August is very charming, at least Calgino thinks so, he feels that if he stays here, he may never want to leave again.
But in fact, he is facing a very bad situation, the supplies that his army is carrying are almost going to run out.
In fact, as long as they entered the Romagna region, the Genoese adhered to the most common practice of the current army and maintained the cost of the entire army by collecting supplies, which allowed them to be more convenient and flexible than carrying large amounts of supplies.
Because of this, the Genoese were able to quickly cut off the connection between Montina and Alexandria.
If it were not for the Montina army to have a marching speed that was beyond common sense, and O'Leary could make such a quick and decisive decision to support Alexander, the end of the battle might be a completely different look.
"If so, maybe we are drinking wine comfortably in the castle of Montina, and then in the afternoon we can have a good night's sleep, instead of worrying about what to eat in this wilderness." Calgino turned to him. A few of the attendants said that when they saw their faces ugly, Calgino waved his hand unconsciously. "I know this is all my fault, but now we really should n’t complain, so please talk about your suggestions."
After the defeat, Calgino knew that his life would not be better.
Sure enough, rumors of impeachment in the Parliament came from Genoa, and if it was not his governor's uncle who tried his best, he would be severely reprimanded even if he would not be dismissed.
This is certainly not good news for Calgino himself. At this time, he has turned his attention to the seat of the Genoa Parliament. As long as he returns to Genoa, his identity can be changed from a pure soldier to a politician.
But now he has lost the battle, and even if he tried to cover it up, the heavy casualties in the battle caused shock and anger among the Genoese masters.
Calgino would like to let those noisy parliamentarians who have been in the parliament all day to come to see Romagna in person, and write to tell them "If you think my command is incompetent, then I suggest you come to experience it yourself How it felt when facing the Montina Cannon. "
It's just that he knew that if he really wanted to write that, his situation would only be worse.
Just when he was suffering from the censure of the Genoa Parliament, an unexpected news helped Calgino get rid of the predicament.
Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, suddenly sent the messenger.
The news had nothing to do with him at first, but soon he found an interesting thing from the news.
Milan's Ludviko Sforza is a famous rival with the French, or as the culprit of bringing the French into Italy, but Ludviko himself is the French's most staunch opponent.
This is because after accepting Ludovico's invitation to send troops to Italy, Charlie not only failed to help Ludviko fight his mortal enemy Venetian as promised, but on the contrary, Charlie also announced that Milan was under his rule.
This made Ludovico feel that he became the biggest fool. In order to avenge the French's betrayal, in the later battle with the French, Ludviko Sforza was more desperate than other city-state monarchs who rebelled against the French.
However, these have nothing to do with Calgino, he is concerned about Ludovico and his uncle as governor of Genoa.
Ludvik made a proposal to Genoa to form an alliance, and the conditions they proposed were also very generous.
That is because the Venetians violated the decree of the Holy See before, so according to the Vatican's decree, Venice has been deprived of all the right to pray, and any prayer in Venice during this period will be regarded as an offense and challenge to the Holy See.
This excuse is boring, and even a little funny, because everyone knows how the first husband of Lucrezia, Giovanni Sforza, died, but this did not affect Ludviko ’s use of the Holy See to attack him. Old enemy.
The reason why Ludwig is so eager to compete with the Venetian is how much it is related to the new French king who will be enthroned.
The ancestor of the Duke of Orleans was a side branch of the earlier Duke of Milan, which was enough to give too much excuse for the future Louis XII. If Charles VIII was purely a clever take, then Louis XII was to take the Duke of Milan for legitimate reasons. The crown is gone.
Ludvik felt the danger, he hoped to get rid of this crisis, and his only chance was to get the support of Emperor Maximian of the Holy Roman Empire.
Maximian is also very willing to help Ludovico, he can not watch the French so calmly eat Italy, but since Ludviko is so active, Maximian will naturally have to raise the price.
Attacking Venice together became a condition for Maximian to support Ludovico, and Ludviko put his hopes on the Genoese.
Ludovico spent a lot of money on Genoese parliamentarians. As for Calgino ’s uncle, as a Genoese governor, the benefits were even greater.
The result of this move was that the Genoese not only enthusiastically agreed to the proposal of attacking Venice with the Milanese, but even accepted the conditional alliance with the Empire.
For Maximian, this unexpected benefit is obviously greater than letting Ludviko encourage Genoa to attack Venice together.
Maximian is convinced that the French will make a comeback, so he urgently needs to build a huge anti-French sacred alliance again, and the Venetians ’competition with him in Hungary and Bohemia also annoys him, so The alliance with Genoa was a double reward for him.
During this period, Luo Weilei's attitude attracted many people's attention.
Rovere ’s close relationship with the French is well known, and this alliance with the empire actually means that he will soon become an enemy of the French, and it is no secret.
The situation of the Rovere family has become unavoidable, especially when Rafo de la Rovere, who happened to be back to Genoa, learned that the parliament passed the resolution of the alliance with the empire almost unanimously, even as the Rovere family, he I have to accept this fact.
But if you want to wage war against Genoa, you must first pass Montina, who has just fought.
Calgino did not know whether the Genoa Parliament and the Governor regretted the hurried decision that led to the complete breakdown of relations with Montina.
But he knew that, in order to remove the obstacle in front of him, the Parliament had to continue to use him to deal with Alexander.
As for rumors, his uncle proposed to marry him with the Barrendi of the Rovere family. This is a family matter, and Calgino is not very concerned.
"We can't attack Montina, that's purely stupid." One of the men said, seeing that everyone around him nodded, he paused and said carefully. "And we don't have much supplies anymore. The food expropriation had to go further, and the soldiers who walked farthest were said to have even encountered the city defenses from Pisa. "
"Wait, what did you just say?" Calgino suddenly pointed at the man, his cheeks moved, and then suddenly looked excitedly at the man's finger and nodded. "Yes, it's pizza, I didn't expect this. "
Calgino said as he quickly put a few cups in front of him, and then picked up the two cups and signaled to his opponents.
"This is pizza, this is Montina." Calgino said as he picked up the third cup and put it between the two cups. "This is us, what you see now, an empty, almost undefended city." "
Calgino said he patted the pizza cup!
"Order the whole army to dress up as soon as possible, we are going to pizza." Said Calgino took the glass and drank the sour wine in his mouth, and then spit it out. "We will not have to drink this kind of thing anymore, and the soldiers I can also eat meat and have a good rest. I think that the one that should be uncomfortable at that time is the Gombré. "
Imagining Alexander ’s frustration after learning that Pisa was lost and Calvino in good mood immediately issued an order, and with a subpoena, the Genoese army, who had been rested for a week, woke up like a daze from nothing. The beast could not help starting to be restless.
Alexander didn't know that Calgino would suddenly hit Pisa's idea. At this time, all his attention was on Genoa.
He hoped to know what happened to Genoa as soon as possible. At the same time, he had to send someone to send a letter to the old Rovere in Rome. While telling him that he had entrusted Barenti to manage the territory, he also politely asked the old man in the letter. Luo Weilei raised questions.
"If you think my marriage contract with your daughter is detrimental to the interests of Rovere ’s family, please allow me to remind you that Rovere ’s family has obtained enough benefits in the process of maintaining this contract. This is my proof that I can Lundi-like proof, so I was surprised and even angry at the decision of the Archbishop of Genoa, because the Archbishop ’s move was undoubtedly undermining the marriage contract. He seemed to think that I could tolerate this humiliation. I wonder what made him have This ridiculous or even stupid idea, or this is your decision? This really makes me feel unbelievable, so Cardinal hopes that you can give me a satisfactory answer as soon as possible, otherwise I will regard Tony Della · Bishop Loweley brought only untrue rumors without giving any response. "
Alexander remembered that when such a severely worded letter was sent out, Balenti watched his eyes change.
Balenti saw the contents of the letter. When he saw the merciless satire given to Rafael de la Rovere, Balenti immediately glared angrily at Alexander.
"I must make everyone understand my attitude in this matter," Alexander explained. "I want to let those people know that when they decide to be enemies with me, they must bear the consequences."
"This also includes my father?"
"Especially your father," looking at the gloomy Barenti, Alexander said seriously, "Although I did inherit Montina for your sake, we all know that this is our engagement." In some of them, I am not attached to the Luo Weilei family. On the contrary, the benefit of our free trade union formed by our marriage contract is common to both of us, so I will not passively accept or terminate this marriage contract. Uncle obviously ignored it before, so it is necessary to remind them. "
Balenti was completely silent. She knew that such a letter would definitely cause an uproar after being sent to Rome, but what kind of consequences it would bring was not something she could think of.
Alexander did not care about arguing with Barenti about the letter. According to Barenti ’s suggestion, he selected a group of soldiers from the Genoese army to supplement Montina ’s army, and then ordered to send them all to To the northeast of Montina, the border between Romagna and Venice.
The selected soldiers are young people who look young and not so old. Many of them seem to have not yet reached adulthood. However, if you look closely, you can see that these soldiers have undergone very formal training.
"It must be admitted that the Genoese are much better than us in training new recruits."
Hearing Alexander's emotion, Aufrei nodded in sympathy.
He knew that the perfection that Alexander said was not a training method. At least in this respect, Aufrei can be very proud to say that the Montina army is probably the most well-trained army in this era.
Especially with the Genoese fighting experience, the Montina army is rapidly changing. If the army was always young and energetic before, but because it has not experienced a real battle, it has not cultivated a firm The new army of fighting will, after finally experiencing the trials of blood and fire, the Montina army is already a real army.
"After all, we are still short, so we can't establish an effective training foundation from a very early time," O'Freil said to Alexander. "But if you said that the school can be established as soon as possible, maybe everything will be much easier . "
"No, even then it can only train a group of middle- and lower-level officers," Alexander looked at the Genoese. "Most of them were trained at a very young age. They are no different from others except for the usual training. Once a call is needed, a group of citizens or farmers who usually participate in training can be transformed into qualified soldiers in a short time. This requires a territory or a system that the country has formed for a long time. What we lack now is This one."
Alexander said helplessly that his foundation in Montina was still too short, even though the Montina army defeated its opponents by relying on training methods and tactics that were much stronger than the Genoese. It will soon be exposed.
"So we must defeat Calgino as soon as possible. I must make sure that he cannot gain a foothold in Romagna. Only in this way can we take the initiative in future negotiations."
Orpheus listened silently without opening, he knew that what was behind Alexander was obviously not for him, but was thinking about what to do in the future.
However, from these few words, Ofrei still keenly realized Alexander's thinking about the upcoming new battle.
A clean, rapid attack that can pose a real threat to the enemy, so as to completely shake the opponent with a fatal blow.
O'Leary secretly described the meaning in Alexander's words.
"When can our army depart?" Alexander asked.
"We will do it as soon as possible," Ofrei looked at the Genoese soldiers. "We need them to keep up with us as soon as possible. Time may be delayed."
"We don't have much time," Alexander shook his head. "Leave Dan Fu and let them organize the Genoese as soon as possible. Our main force must leave early."
"But lord, we don't know where Carno is," Ofrei had to remind Alexander "Maybe the Bohemians should be sent to find them first."
"No," Alexander pondered, but in the end he rejected the offer of Aufrei. "I said that I want to defeat Calgino as soon as possible because the cardinal must make a decision. Do you understand?"
Aufolai froze for a moment, then nodded silently.
No one knows what the unusually harsh letter of Alexander will bring, but one thing is for sure, the outcome of the war in Romagna will largely determine the decisions of many people.
What would Old Rovere think?
Alexander believed that he would choose the side that was in his favor.
Only a week after the last battle, the Montina army was dispatched again.
This time, in addition to the Bohemian cavalry and the Agri army, which is the core of the entire Montina, there is an artillery unit commanded by Gompati himself.
Perhaps it was the taste of the last time that the artillery bombardment of the infantry phalanx was used. This time, Gompati brought 12 times more eagle guns than the previous one.
Compared with the powerful and powerful artillery, the eagle gun is much smaller in caliber and power.
This makes many soldiers who are passionate about artillery not so concerned about how to use the eagle gun, but the last battle gave Gompati a new revelation. After the battle, he once tirelessly found other people to ask right. The feeling of the artillery, even for more details, he found a lot of Genoese who had been shelled before, hoping to learn more from their personal experience.
In the end, when he left Montina with all the falcons he had searched for with great effort, he wobbled all the way along. Gompati wrote such a short paragraph in a book with very crappy fonts:
"After combat experience tells us, when choosing to engage the enemy in the wild, we must consider the full use of the power of the artillery, and try to let the enemy produce huge casualties before rushing to the formation In order to achieve this goal, the enemy's military heart should use the artillery to maximize the concentration instead of dispersing the direction of the bombardment, so that it can exert sufficient destructive power and deterrence. "
Looking at this passage, Compatillo squinted his eyes intentionally. He suspected that he might have written a piece of valuable advice for future artillery generals, but after thinking about it, he felt that it seemed to be less. what.
So Comparti thought hard, and finally remembered what he said a while ago.
"As a soldier who values ​​honor and bravery above all else, I personally despise compromise and negotiation. Whether it is about to win or to be in adversity, these actions are nothing to me. So I prefer to use cannons. Give an opinion to my enemy. "
After writing this paragraph, Compatidi finally filled the small book into his carry-on leather bag with satisfaction.
On August 2, Alexander led the army to leave Montina.
What he didn't know was that on the same day, Calgino led the Genoa runner to march to Pisa.