Vol 6 Chapter 109: Sicilian enemies

Gonzalo looked at the woman who was packing her clothes not far away, holding a glass of wine. He lay lazily on the bed and took a sip of wine, then closed his eyes slightly tired.
A little old, this is Gonzalo's idea of ​​his own body now.
Now 46 years old, he was no longer the strong, energetic young man who had recovered the war of losing ground. He had participated in too many battles. His rich war experience and noble identity were exchanged for large and small wounds on his body. Yes, this sometimes makes him have to compete with those pains in the body late at night, so he needs to drink a lot of alcohol to relieve the pain, and the trouble caused by drinking in addition to making the body load heavier, but also His temper is getting worse and worse due to the stimulation of wine.
Gonzalo is an outstanding soldier, but he is not the kind that most of them can only show on the battlefield, but when they are in the court, they become a fool of others. He can walk smoothly between nobles, and at the same time Can be keenly aware of the changing wind direction in the palace.
It's just that Gonzalo's bigger wish is to build a strong army, regain the lost ground and temper him, and the Italian war gives him a new understanding of war.
He has been preparing for the past two years, and is also closely watching the large and small wars that are constantly erupting on the European continent, including the conflict between Alexander and the Genoese, and the recent spread to Iberia All the rumors about the battle of Bucharest on the peninsula.
From those battles, Gonzalo was more certain that his vision was correct. In today's war, firearms have become more important than before, and may even become a decisive weapon on the battlefield in the future.
And as firearms are gradually used in wars, new tactics, new ideas, and new experiences will gradually form, all of which are unprecedented, at least Gonzalo can be determined to be an ancestor before their time None of us can really provide a precedent for how to build a firearms unit.
This will be a very troublesome task, because there is nothing to learn from, and I do n’t know how to avoid mistakes that may be very low-level, but these mistakes have to use blood and life on the battlefield to prove their fallacy. .
Gonzalo did not care about the price, but he cared about the troubles that failure might bring him.
The first was that he had promised to the queen that he would build a powerful army that could compete with any powerful country in Europe. He did not want to disappoint the queen who had always appreciated and trusted him because of his mistakes. Second, although Gonzalo had always been intoxicated by the military, But he was not just a reckless soldier. He was keenly aware of the disturbing disturbances that occurred in the palace of the Double Kings, and he also felt a submerged current against him.
Because of the queen ’s appreciation, Gonzalo has always been the darling of the Castilian court, and Ferdinand ’s trust makes him seem to be the biggest darling in front of the kings, but Gonzalo knows that things are not so simple.
Although the conflict between Castile and Aragon was suppressed because of the marriage of the two kings, it does not mean that there is no conflict between the two countries.
Especially the Castilians, they are very worried that they may be annexed by Aragon in the future, because the opposition has never disappeared since the marriage of the two kings, and now even their children have grown up and married, but can oppose The voice of the two countries' merger is still very strong.
Gonzalo is a person trusted by both kings, and it is inevitable that while enjoying a double rebirth, he is also suffering from double slander and hostility.
Some Castilians think he betrayed his country, while some Aragonese think that the prospect of letting such an outsider take control of Aragon ’s army is worrying. Both parties are squeezing him and they are trying to keep this hand in hand. The powerful person hopes that he can become a member of his camp.
The queen was obviously aware of the troubles, so when her husband proposed to appoint Gonzalo as the commander of the expedition to Italy, Queen Isabella immediately trusted and agreed, and she also got one for Gonzalo from her husband. The power to levy war costs freely during wars means that Gonzalo can legally plunder as long as he pays a share of the income to the king.
The benefit of this seems to be that Gonzalo can play his role to the fullest extent, but the queen's purpose is to hope that this way will send Gonzalo to distant Europe to avoid the limelight , Avoiding those guys who have been staring at him.
Gonzalo is very aware of the Queen ’s intentions and is very grateful for the Queen ’s love, but he also knows that the Queen can help him so much. Those who have been staring at him in China have not necessarily left Iberia. Then it became more calm.
So he must stop the mouths of those people with continuous wars and exposure in Europe. He must let those people see that he cares more about how to win and get more loot. What he wants to play is an intoxicating battlefield. And the reckless man who has no interest in politics, otherwise, once they feel that he has begun to be interested in fighting in the court, those people will not deal so well.
Gonzalo was drinking while pondering, and he didn't think he was thinking too much, as can be seen from the behavior of Mrs. Gong Xiang who came with him on the boat.
Mrs. Gong's maiden family is a prominent aristocrat of Castile. Although it may not be as popular as Gonzalo, it is respected because of its long history.
But suddenly, such a family started to be unlucky as if they were out of luck. First, the important person in the family fell out of favor in the court, and then the family was accused of participating in the conspiracy against the double kings. It was so fast that they did not know who was going to deal with them. They had been stunned by successive blows and many people were sent to prison.
And this is not the most terrible. What's worse is that many people have been implicated, and some people have even been directly escorted to the religious tribunal.
In Iberia, everyone knows what a religious ascension means. On this peninsula, which has been condemned with pagan Moors for hundreds of years, a strong religious atmosphere that has become extremely fanatical because of its tragic history. Even the messengers from the Vatican felt uneasy, and the Religious Tribunal was one of the most terrible of all.
Even nobles, once sent to religious trials, rarely come out safe, or no matter who they are, once they enter here, it means a change in their destiny. Even if they are lucky enough to survive, they will be in the future. Gradually collapsed under heavy pressure.
Mrs. Gong Xiang made all kinds of explicit hints to Gonzalo along the way, but Gonzalo did not respond with cleverness. He knew that even if a little promise was made at this time, it might cause Mrs. Gong Xiang Wrong understanding, more importantly, it will make many people mistakenly believe that this is a signal that he is going to participate in this cruel competition.
This was something he had avoided as much as possible, and the Queen did not want to see it, so Gonzalo would bring troops to Sicily at this time. What he needed now was a war.
As far as he knew, he was indeed about to deal with a powerful enemy soon.
The French commander in Naples was the well-known Charlene, and he still had some impressions of this man Gonzalo.
In Gonzalo ’s mind, Charlene was not a true knight. Perhaps he was indeed brave on the battlefield, but he served twice as commander of the occupation army, instead of following the king to fight the enemy in the field. This is enough to make Gong Salou classified him as a politician who was not a soldier.
However, Gonzalo did not intend to despise this person, especially now that the situation in Naples is very delicate, he felt the need to take every change seriously.
Gonzalo, who is now in Naples, is already aware of it. From the moment when he discussed the role of future firearms on the battlefield with his own residence in Rome, Gonzalo knew that this young man had nothing his contemporaries had. A keen eye, and then they started a business together, and now Gonzalo can not care about the benefits that can be obtained in the court and compete with others for a rich territory, and everything is beneficial. Get involved in that man's business.
But the most important thing is the series of winning records that Alexander created on the battlefield.
Gonzalo discovered quite unexpectedly that when he was working hard in Iberia on the army he wanted to experiment with, Alexander had turned their ideas that had been heatedly debated into reality on the battlefield. Although some of these things are completely different from what they envisioned, this did not surprise Gonzalo, because when he himself trained those soldiers, he also discovered that some of the things discussed were not realistic. He believes that when the new tactics he created with the help of hot and cold weapons matching the auxiliary appeared on the battlefield, Alexander would also be greatly surprised.
According to Ferdinand ’s order from the beginning, Gonzalo ’s mission was to announce that he would not recognize the King of Naples after arriving in Naples, and then depose the royal family of Naples. At the same time, he wanted to reach a brief peace with the French The next step was to pull the skin away from Ferdinand and Louis XII who were far away in Iberia.
However, the royal family of Naples unexpectedly retreated to Billy Shelley, and the city was completely thrown to the French. When the Aragonese army arrived in Naples, they inevitably clashed with the French for the control of the city of Naples.
What surprised Gonzalo even more was that after Sicily, he knew that Queen Naples had detained her uncle because of the arrest of Flamenca, and had declared war on Sicily.
In this way, not only did Ferdinand's previous attempts to use the Naples to seek help to send troops to invade the Kingdom of Naples, he had been taken without knowing where it was skewed before the start. What was more troublesome was the original simple divide and rule The development of the three-party melee.
Gonzalo hasn't realized that all of this is Alexander's plan, or even knowing it doesn't make much sense to him.
Although both the family and the opponent believed that he would rely on the trust of the two kings and the great influence in the army to play a role in the court, in fact, Gonzalo had always wanted to be a pure soldier.
So for him, although the situation in Naples is a bit overwhelming, as long as he continues to follow Ferdinand's arrangements, there will be no major problems.
There are not many things that can really make Gonzalo care, and the Ottomans' actions on the Mediterranean are obviously one of them.
Gonzalo has heard about the emissaries of Venice, and unlike Flamenza, he is very concerned about the Ottomans' movements at sea.
It is not up to him to decide whether to go to war with the Ottoman Empire. All he has to do now is to take a rest in Sicily as soon as possible and then send troops to Naples.
It's just that Gonzalo's idea was shaken by an invitation.
Gonzalo was a little surprised by Camuelli's invitation. He had heard of this old man, especially his experience of participating in the Hundred Years' War had made Gonzalo interested in his youth.
But now Camuelli is not only in the eyes of Gonzalo, but also an old slipper who has no sense of honor at all.
So when he received the invitation, Gonzalo refused inwardly until he saw a map sent by Camille.
It was a geographical map about the possibility that the Ottomans might land in various places on the west coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Not only are they markedly marked on all ports that may be invaded by the Ottoman army, but they also use different colors to indicate the size of the attack This rather unique way of expression certainly made Gonzalo refreshing, and more importantly, from this map he saw the threats that the European continent may face.
Among them, Sicily does not seem to be the main direction of the invasion of the Ottoman navy, but looking at the clearly marked cities along the Italian coast on the map, Gonzalo realized that Sicily, who seemed to be outside, was facing a big Crisis.
Because of this, he accepted Camuri's visit.
Camusuri's banquet only invited Gonzalo alone, and after his family had left after attending the dinner, there were only two guests left in the hall.
Camuli asked the servant to push himself closer to Gonzalo, which made Gonzalo guess that the real topic might begin this evening.
Sure enough, Camille's words confirmed his conjecture.
"The Ottomans suffered a defeat in Bucharest, but for them it was only one of the two fists that was hit hard. Ottomans have a strong navy. If Venice is defeated, what will be waiting for Sicily," Camuelli I asked Gonzalo this way,
I ’m almost 90 years old. I ’m too old for a person to live, and I do n’t want to see the most undesirable scene in my life. Sicily has been around for a long time. I ’ve been ruled by pagans before, and I do n’t want to see Ottoman flags appearing on this land anymore, so I ’ll die. "
Gonzalo was lost in contemplation as he listened to Camille's vague tone, half listening and half guessing.
Reason tells him that this old man will suddenly behave like a hero who bravely resists the pagans. This does not seem to be normal. After all, all his "deeds" about his smooth life have been heard even in the Castilian court.
So his generous speech now seems somewhat abrupt and unreasonable.
Despite this, Gonzalo knew that Camuelli was right.
Venice is Sicily's barrier against the Ottomans. If the Venetian navy encounters a devastating annihilation, then Sicily will inevitably face up to the sea invasion from Ottoman.
"The map is just a small guess, maybe nothing will happen, but maybe that is just the beginning," Camille said slowly. "So what do you think, leader?"
Gonzalo groaned a little, then suddenly asked: "Consul ~ EbookFREE.me ~ I just want to know, who made the map for you."
Hearing Gonzalo's inquiry, not only did Camuri not get angry because of this obvious question, but instead gave out a burst of seemingly interesting, gasping laughter.
"Do you want to see that person, commander?" Camuli looked at Gonzalo with a mischievous look, then he shook his head and said, "It's not good now, but you can rest assured that you will soon I may meet. As for whether it is in the court or on the battlefield, I do n’t know. "
In mid-September 1199, the Ottoman fleet crossed the center line of maritime forces that had always been a tacit understanding between the two sides and launched an attack on the Venetian colony on the Aegean Sea.
At the same time, an Ottoman fleet landed at Cape Elazar in northeastern Crete, establishing a bridgehead to attack Crete.
For a time, the sails of the crescent moon flying on the Mediterranean Sea were covered with trees and covered the sky!
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