Chapter 46: Ambush (Part 2)

When the French returned along the original road, when they passed near Fornovo, they slowed down and tried not to make a loud noise so as to avoid alarming the Italians in the Italian army camp near the river.
At the same time, Charles VIII retrieved several French knights who had been investigating near the coalition camp:
"What's happening to the Italians?" Charles VIII asked.
"Underneath, nothing happens." Several French knights have been near the Italian camp and found nothing unusual.
Charlie VIII, who was at ease, took his men at ease and embarked on the mountain road with a small slope. The road is wide enough to take 10 French knights side by side. The problem is not a big deal for horses.
The French knights, in order not to alarm the Italians, covered each horse's mouth with a cloth strip to prevent them from hissing. Then everyone silently walked up the mountain road and hurried to the northwest.
Alas, because the torches were not ignited, their visibility was limited and their speed was not fast. They didn't reach Marin's ambush until around midnight.
When I got here, the French began to relax a little. Because it is more than a dozen kilometers away from the Allied Forces Camp, we no longer need to guard against the Italians' detection. As a result, the French knights began to talk and laugh. Even Charles VIII discussed with some aristocrats how to arrange for their return to Paris.
In general, if it were not for the syphilis epidemic, France would still be very profitable this time. After all, that big Naples kingdom was taken down. You know, Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples, at this time, were the most developed regions in Europe.
Italy is volcanic, volcanic ash is an important natural fertilizer. Europeans did not understand the use of manure, but the Italians knew how to use volcanic ash as fertilizer in Roman times. Therefore, southern Italy has always been the richest region in Europe in the Middle Ages. Sicily, in particular, is called the "Golden Basin" by Europeans. Of course, Sicily was snatched by the Spaniards, and the French grabbed Naples, which is slightly worse than Sicily, and it was also very good.
However, just when they were relaxed, they did not know that they had entered the ambush circle ...
The 10 French knights who were at the beginning of the trance didn't even notice that many traps were laid on this low valley avenue. As a result, they were all tripped over by a very low-level death stump ...
For a while, the French turned their backs, and the knights behind the front row could not stop for a while, and a row of seven or eight rows of knights collided together. Many war horses and knights fell to the ground.
I realized that the front knight of the French had already been recruited, Marin no longer hesitated, and shouted:
"Attack!"
As soon as the words fell, the rows of stones on both sides of the mountains began to smash down ...
"what……"
"咴 咴 ..."
All of a sudden, many horses were struck, and their hoofs were broken by stone injuries. The French knights on horseback were also thrown off the horses and pulled them.
At the same time, 100 archers under His Majesty also took arrows to open their bows. For a time, the arrows were raining ...
"what……"
"咴 咴 ..."
Is again a lot of French knights and horses, but in general, the most unlucky ones are those horses. Because the horse was without a horse armor, it was unable to bear the impact of bows and arrows.
For a while, the French were in chaos ...
敌 "enemy attack! Enemy attack!" French officers began to shout, demanding that the knights defend.
But how does this defend? Because the blows came from the sky ...
But Charles VIII was surrounded by many knights, and his expression was astonished:
"What's going on? What's going on?" The French ran away this time, but they were fully prepared and the Italians were not dispatched. They were monitored by French scouts throughout the process and shouldn't show up here ...
"Is it a German?" Guessed an Earl beside him.
"I think so, it seems that 15,000 Germans did not participate in the previous battle ..." another French nobleman said. The French also knew that Count Alfred led a 15,000 army behind and did not participate in the battle.
It was for this reason that Charles VIII was in a hurry to leave. If trapped by the other 35,000 troops, he would be too late to escape. The Germans are not this group of Italians. The Germans are still martial arts. There are many high-strength wandering knights in the folk. If entangled by the German army and assisted by the Italians, the French would have been underpopulated and would certainly be overwhelmed. Therefore, Charles VIII chose to run very bonelessly, but did not want to entangle with the Italians and waste time.
I didn't expect that they had just left the barracks and were planning to run. Here, they were blocked to go ...
In the middle of the night, everyone can't see clearly and don't know how many enemies there are. As a result, 8,000 French knights were embarrassed by more than 1,000 German mercenaries. Moreover, the opponent was on the high ground on both sides, and the French knights could not go at all.
世 Charles VIII first panicked for a while, but calmed down quickly. Because panic is useless at all, it will only end you. He calmly commanded the French army to contract the defense, leaned together, and put the horses that were killed and wounded on the outer periphery to stop the stones on the sides of the hill.
"Fryer, you bring people to the left side of the hill!" Charles VIII ordered.
His Majesty, "Our Majesty, our horses cannot go up!" Flair, Count Toulouse, looked bitter.
"Stupid, who made you climb the mountain on horseback? When you take 1,000 people off the mountain, you must occupy a commanding height. At least, let us stop throwing stones on the slopes near our army!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Fryer quickly took the lead, with 1,000 plate knights, wearing a full set of plate armor, holding a two-handed sword, and started climbing the left slope. Coincidentally, the place where he chose to attack was exactly where Marin ambush ...
"This idiot, let them crawl!"
"Master, what if they come up?"
"Slowly smash the stones, leave some stones, and the archers will continue to shoot the French front."
"Also, yell at me!"
"Yes!"
Soon, the strange screams of "Surprise (French)!" And "Charlie VIII is dead (French)!"
爵 Earl Fryer, who was leading the mountain climbing, was taken aback. He quickly stopped the mountain climbing, mounted the horse, and returned to his team to see the situation of Charles VIII ...
"You stupid, why come back?" Charles VIII was furious.
"My minister is worried about the safety of Her Majesty!" Fryer was loyal.
"Fool, that's the enemy making a rumor!"
哦 "Oh ..." Fryer pulled his head back and went back to organize the climb ...
But after such a trouble, Fryer's desperate momentum suddenly disappeared. Even the French front, because it was too long. Those people near Charles VIII knew that His Majesty the King was all right. But those who are behind do not know. So in the second half of the French army, many people began to panic ...
Count Fryer, who was in charge of climbing the hill and occupying the commanding heights, just led someone to climb up to the top, but saw Marin's wretched smile ...
"Hey, now, you climb short and it's not fun to smash ..."
With an order, the stone that had already been built for a long time was smashed into the head of the Frenchman lying on Banpo ...
For a while ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The seven or eight hundred French knights lying on Banpo all hit and fell down ...
The French knights themselves are wearing thick plate armor and stoned down. Where can they stand? So they fell down like dumplings ...
However, this hillside is tens of meters high, which is equivalent to a dozen floors. Is it still good to fall down? Therefore, most of the French knights in the stroke, fell down, or die ...
As for Earl Fryer, good luck. Because when he fell, a fat knight underneath served as a meat pad. Then, when he fell down, he was covered by a few unlucky eggs in the middle, which slowed down the falling speed. So, when he finally fell to the ground, he did not magically die, but broke his left leg ...
"Oh, it hurts me ..."
Soon after, the unlucky Count Flare was carried to the face of Charles VIII, who was so embarrassed ...
"What a waste!" Charles VIII scolded angrily.
However, he has no way to shamelessly throw stones at people on the mountain. So he turned around and instructed Count Tour:
"Matthews, take someone to look forward and see how many German troops are ahead." From Charles VIII's point of view, since the other side has set an ambush, there must be a lot of troops in front.
But soon, Matthews, who led the team, returned:
"Your Majesty, there seems to be no enemy troops in front, but there are many traps, many pits, unable to ride through ..."
"It turned out to be this way, I thought a lot of people were blocking the road ..." Charles VIII was also a little stunned ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Welcome the book readers to visit, the latest, fastest and most popular serial works are all in ~ www. EbookFREE.me ~ Please read for mobile users.