Vol 7 Chapter 109: cost

Louis XII sat on a stone, holding in his hand a letter just opened.
The content of the letter has not yet begun to read, but he can roughly guess what is written in it.
All day on the 17th, the French army spent their hearts in fear, even a little movement can make the entire barracks instantly tense.
Although the main force of the enemy's encirclement circle was concentrated at the north and south, the French did not try to break through.
This is because of the terrain of the ruins of the city of San Giraniano.
It is impossible to break through to the north and south, then there are only two directions, but the east faces the high mountains of the Apennines. For the French army to retreat into the mountains, it seems that you can temporarily avoid a disaster, but just think a little If you think about it, maybe this is exactly what the enemy wants them to do.
The barren and desolate mountainous areas will trap the French army between those steep and difficult valleys. When this kind of clothing and medicine is cut and the road is broken, this is really looking for the way to die. .
The retreat to the west is not a good choice. The coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea has been blocked by the fleet of Genoa nobles who are entrenched in Sardinia. If you want to retreat to Genoa along the coastline, you must risk it. The danger of being cut off by the army transported from the sea.
Staying in the ruins of the city of Giragnano has now become the only option for the French army, and their only hope is that the French forces in Pisa and Montina will be able to draw close reinforcements to them in time.
So I was very happy that the coalition did not launch an offensive on the 17th. Louis XII was puzzled, but now he has received such a letter, so he believes that things may not be so bad.
"Dear France and the King of the French, I would like to pay high respect to you here. This respect is not only respect for your identity, but also praise for your tenacity and excellence, and at the same time, to your loyal and brave army ... "
Looking at this rather formal beginning, Louis XII looked up at the noble named Eugene de Weasline across from him, and then he continued to watch.
"I think we all already know the current situation very well, so there is no more detail. I just want to remind you that what you are facing is already a very important choice. You and your army are already surrounded. , Your army in Pisa and Montina is also being hit hard, so here I hope you can face the current situation with a frank and pragmatic attitude, so I hope you can make a wise choice. "
The fingers of the Dharma King were tapping lightly on a broken table in front of him. On the table were placed two tin pans containing several pieces of bread and some dried meat, a bottle of opened wine and a full wine glass.
Noticed that Eugen de Weasline looked at the food on the table, the king made a "sit down" gesture to him, and then pointed to the food on the table.
Eugen de Weasline immediately could n’t wait to sit down and grab the dried meat and bread into his mouth, then raised his glass and took a sip.
Although he did not suffer any crimes from the Neapolitans, he did not receive any preferential treatment. The fighting last night was hungry. After stuffing something to feed his stomach, the whole night passed and now it is already hungry.
"The Naples didn't give you something to eat?" Louis XII looked at the person and asked, "Or is their food enough?"
"No, your majesty they have a lot of food, but I only had time to eat a little before," Weasline replied vaguely. "I have been taking care of my brother. He is now in the injury camp on the Naples side."
"How are their casualties?" The king asked, putting down the letter he hadn't finished reading. He hoped to hear the enemy's truth from this man's mouth. "Tell me everything you know, even if you don't know the truth." . "
Weasline, who was busy eating, stopped for a moment. He saw the king ’s eyes slightly strange, and then put down the wine and dried meat in his hands and swallowed the food in his mouth. He said very fixedly to the King, "Your Majesty, that The Queen of Naples seemed to know that you would ask me these questions, so she allowed me to walk around in her barracks. I did see a lot of things, but I do n’t know if I should report them to you. "
"Oh? Why," Louis XII was not angry because of the noble's words. "Because she saved your brother and did not cut your head?"
"Your Majesty, it's because I don't know what kind of impact these things will have on you." Weasline shook his head, and seemed to think about what to say before continuing. "Let me talk about their casualties first. Maybe you do n’t want to hear this, but I have to tell you the truth. Their casualties are much smaller than ours. Many soldiers were only slightly injured. I saw about a hundred people receiving treatment. Maybe there are more people but We ca n’t compare.

Seeing Weasline glancing at the screaming injury camps in the distance, Louis XII nodded silently. He knew that this man was not lying. The casualties of the coalition forces were much smaller than the French. Everyone knows it, but it ’s not about him.
"You said you didn't eat much, so tell me that their soldiers have food?"
"Your Majesty, in fact they are congratulating the victory, I saw the soldiers have wine, meat and bread, and even good fish," Weas Lane recalled everything he saw "their morale is very high, Especially the unit they called the Grenadier is said to be the elite of the Queen of Naples. They are obviously very loyal to the Queen. When they are full, they will sing. It is a tribute to the Queen of Naples fighting the Ottomans. It is said that in that battle the queen led the grenadiers to defeat an important Ottoman general. "
Louis XII listened carefully, he was not annoyed by this man's words about Zuosha's beauty, if it were before, maybe he would think these praises were too much, but now he thinks he should seriously re-examine this A strange opponent.
Louis XII never thought he would meet a queen on the battlefield one day and then be beaten by the queen, so he felt that he should reflect on his past arrogance.
As of now, after reading only the opening letter in his hand, the Dharma King was slightly relieved.
When Weasline returned with the letter, Louis XII's tense spirit had been relaxed. Although he hadn't read the letter yet, he knew that the queen opposite was fortunate.
The paranoid woman is terrible. He was really worried that the woman would be desperate if she started crazy, but now that there are correspondences, then it seems that things may have changed.
"... The Austrians have surrounded Milan and the Venetians have joined in. Your expedition has only brought you failure so far. What I want to tell you is that a devaluation of the Ladia gold coin is happening in your country. The turmoil caused by this, I believe you have heard about it, but please believe me, you still hear enough, I can assure you that if you continue to be a poor soldier in Rome, then your trouble is not just on the battlefield. The soldiers will be defeated, but it may threaten your throne ... "
Louis XII looked at the letter with a low expression, except for the groaning of the wounded soldiers faintly heard, no one dared to make a noise.
This is a letter of persuasion, and Ruosha gave Louis XII the condition of demanding the other party to surrender.
Dissolved 70% of the French army on the spot, paid off all the artillery, and asked the French army to pay 120,000 Florin ’s compensation for military expenses.
Looking at this number, Louis XII's mouth twitched, and the military expenditure he brought with France totaled 170,000 florins. This number was not a lot, because at the time it was considered that in addition to paying the soldiers' early military pay and purchasing various Materials, once they arrive in Italy, can be used to plunder to support the war. Lombardy is rich enough to support the cost of a large army. Because of this, 170,000 florins are actually enough.
The success in the early days of the war was indeed as expected by the French King. The wealth looted from Milan allowed him to support the high costs of the previous period, but now with Milan being siege, a lot of the wealth previously looted has been shipped back to France. Local, so now Louis XII is very tight on hand.
The ingenious figure of the compensation proposed by Ruosha is that the remaining money is just enough to cover the travel expenses of the French army after the abolition.
In this way, Louis XII felt like a beggar standing naked before the enemy after being stripped. The other party knew everything about his family, and even left him with so much money that he would not be hungry. Back to France are considered.
Louis XII began to doubt whether there were anti-French alliance spies around him, but now is not the time to consider these, the Queen Naples sent someone to send such a letter at this time, so that Louis XII saw a trace hope.
Lu XII believes that any war can be resolved by negotiation in the end, and it may be possible to die with the pagans, but even after the British and French as a feud, after experiencing a century of war, they are finally at the negotiating table. Solve the trouble that has troubled both sides for too long.
And although knowing that the current situation of Charlene and Bowwicken may not be better than themselves, when Louis still holds a hint of illusion about whether they can promptly reinforce themselves, then now it seems that perhaps the negotiation is a good opportunity to delay time.
Just let the French King not think of it, just when he began to wonder how to start a prolonged bargaining with the other party, he suddenly saw a sentence at the end of the letter that made him dumbfounded!
"Dear Your Majesty, considering that you and your generals may not be aware of the current situation, please allow me to inform you formally here, regardless of whether you agree with my conditions, the coalition will be at noon on July 18. Launch a general attack on your army until you send someone to propose a truce, and may God bless you and your army. "
Louis XII looked at this passage in disbelief. He understood what the sentence meant, but he never thought that the Queen of Naples would do so.
Then he suddenly realized something and suddenly looked up at the sky.
The sun is empty, the time is noon!
At this moment Louis XII finally realized what was about to happen.
"Go to the order, the enemy is about to attack!"
The king suddenly stood up, he knocked over the table in front of him, the food was all over the floor, and his shout also caused a riot of people around him.
Louis XII continued to shout loudly to warn others, but his voice was suddenly covered by a violent explosion.
The explosion came so suddenly that the king saw a huge curtain of mud rising from the camp in front of him.
And the curtain that could not be lifted was moved in the direction of the king with the second explosion that followed the first explosion.
Allied artillery began unprecedented fierce artillery preparation at this moment.
"Don't begrudge the shells, hit them, hit them all!" On the position of Roma Thesia, Compatiti shouted at the artillery commander under him. "Remember, I want you to put them in the first shelling. 'S artillery made me dumb. If after the attack I saw that the enemy had a shell landed on top of my soldier's head, I would thrust you into the cannon and hit it. "
"The artillery of an adult may be unbearable," the artillery officer said with confidence. "The artillery will explode. Even if the artillery can withstand it, what will we do? If the enemy's reinforcements come, we will not have so much ammunition. "
"If we win today, we can seize all the artillery of the enemy, but if you fail to keep the artillery, it is useless, so go work." Gompati patted the shoulder of the artillery officer hard, and then stepped on Climbing up a branch with a ladder and looking at the direction of the French position in the distance "Let's see what the French are doing."
The French are running away, or just running blindly.
Unprecedented fierce shelling completely defeated the French army. They had never encountered such a blow. At least they had not encountered such a barrage volley that seemed to be as tight as a leg.
The French troops, squeezed from the north and south ends and squeezed toward the middle, gradually gathered on the broken streets in the middle of the small ruins of the ancient city, but this gave their enemies a more convenient target.
"Shoot at those obelisks, yes, that is the place," a few Naples artillery rushed to correct the firing distance of the artillery. They were somewhat strange to the strange tool in their hand. In a triangle on a wooden board, there is a concave goniometer full of scales, and the gunners mechanically flipped the shooting table full of various values.
"It seems that our soldiers need a lot of training," Ruosha, frowning at the clumsy artillery from afar, but she knows how skillful the first Gompati of Alexandria was in using artillery, which made her start to wonder Did you ask Alexander to lend Nagumpati for a while to help train the Naples artillery unit? "Tell them that despite the continuous shooting, I can do as long as they can defeat the French."
Zuosha's words made the generals next to make a laugh, now they can easily accompany the queen to tell some jokes, and now they are thinking about how to win more beautifully.
"Your Majesty, are you going to destroy the French army completely?"
Came from a voice that seemed slightly out of date at this time, and Ruosha turned her head to look at Skop, not far from her. She thought about it and asked, "So what do you think should be done, Count?"
"Your Majesty, if the French were completely defeated, and even Louis was killed in this battle ..." Skop lowered his voice, and he looked at Rusha in a puzzled expression, feeling a little puzzled.
Skop always believed that the queen was an incredible ruler, even though there was a tacit understanding with Alexander, but after the Naples army approached Rome, it was the queen ’s wisdom and bravery that made him make the final decision. .
But now he does n’t understand, ca n’t the queen see that with the failure of the French, the original allies may become new enemies, especially now that the Principality of Rome Thesia has just been established, maintaining an ingenious balance It should be the most important.
But now Ruosha and Gompati's decision seems to run counter to this purpose, which makes Skop a little worried.
Skop's future territory is Parma, so he knows his situation in the future, and his territory will become a buffer between the north of Rome and the Principality of Lothesia between the north and Lombardy. Then it is Lombardy's future that determines whether he will be safe in the future. situation.
"I know what you are worried about," Ruosha looked at the ruins of the ancient city with smoke. "But any great cause needs to be risked. If Louis died in this battle, it is his destiny, but you have to know here In the war, Roma Thesia and Naples have paid enough, so only enough rewards can compensate for the previous efforts. "
Skop glanced silently at the Queen, and he knew that dissuasion was meaningless, and, as Rosa said, the greatest price paid so far in this war was the coalition of Roma Thesia and Naples. More compensation, but also to deter new enemies in the future, this battle is obviously inevitable.
The violent shelling was finally over. The horn and the shout sounded, and the coalition forces began to attack the French army that had been beaten dizzy.
The entire line of Musketeers walked in the front, they were majestic and murderous, followed by Lin Spearmen and compact Sword and Shieldmen, the Pope and the Naples Army were like slowly closing iron The pliers slammed towards the enemy, and on the north side of the front line, the Bohemian light cavalry began to penetrate into the scattered French crevices in the ruins. They quickly divided the French army and used a short musket in the distance. Shooting, then wielding a saber and quickly slashing towards the top of their heads.
The French army collapsed quickly. When more and more troops began to leave the battlefield, the generals and knights finally gave up their last hope.
They saw the king's king flag moving towards the north. Many French troops involuntarily followed the direction of the king flag and began to retreat. More and more officers and knights joined the retreating team.
Came a distant song, which appeared so abrupt on the battlefield, but the Naples soldiers who heard the song looked at it enviously, and then sang along with it.
This war song that was originally known as "The Queen's Praise" gradually spread across the battlefield, and the song was heard in the French army's ears as if death was calling him to them.
The Siena-Gilagnano battle is nearing its end, and the defeat of the French has become a reality.
"We won your majesty." An officer shivered a little because of the excitement. If the victory on July 15th established Naples' dominance in the southern part of the Italian peninsula, today's actually much shorter battle has already been watched by many people. To another vision of the future.
"No, not yet."
Surprisingly, Ruosha was not so excited at this time. She looked at the distance as if she was waiting for something in the distance, and even seemed a little uneasy in her expression.
A cavalry ran from afar, his sweat-soaked top clinging to his body, and when Ruosha's guard warned him, the cavalry shouted desperately: "The enemy, the French, they come Now! "
All the people looked at Luo Sha instantly.
Unlike the officers who were slightly nervous, Ruosha exhaled as if she was relaxed, and then whispered, "Finally came ~ EbookFREE.me ~ July 18th, afternoon The main force of the French army, which suffered successive defeats in the battle of Siena-Giragnano, finally broke through the northern front defended by the army of Roma Thesia after paying a tremendous price Department meet.
But waiting for the French army is another worse situation.
The alliance of Venice and Ferrara appeared behind them, and the route of the French withdrawal north was cut off again.
That night, a Frenchman crossed the front line and came to the Naples camp.
Looking at this familiar Frenchman, Zaosha, who was already preparing a costume, smiled at him: "I have waited for you for a long time, respected knight, I think we can talk about it now."
Looking at the even naive smile of Queen Naples, Charlene gave a helpless sigh in his heart.
"Go talk with them, no matter what conditions they put forward, I will leave this place as soon as possible. There is no honor and wealth to pursue here, only death and greater trouble, so I can accept their harshness as long as they can tolerate condition."
Thinking of the king's trust before leaving, Charlene took a deep breath of the sultry air at night.
"Your Majesty, we all know that you need a negotiation as we do, and we did pay a sufficient price," Charlene bowed to Ruo Sha. "So please state your terms, I think this time it should be No more cannons will disturb us. "
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