Vol 6 Chapter 159: Duke of Romagna-Tuscany

Alexander knew that with the proposal to re-arm the Papal State, he had already made a choice between Alexander VI and Old Rovere.
This choice is not just to choose one between the two elders, but he will bet on who will rule Rome in the future!
He made a very clear decision to choose Alexander VI.
Will choose the infamous Borgia, rather than the future God of War Pope Luo Weilei, Alexander was thoughtful.
First of all, Old Rovere ’s ambition is too big, or that he is a person who wants to swallow everything by himself and not to share with anyone. This fundamentally determines that there will be an inevitable conflict between them in the future.
This conflict may be later, but maybe it will happen soon. This will inevitably contain Alexander ’s energy and strength. In the next plan, Alexander ’s eyes have been turned to Iberia, which makes him must Choose between the elders who will bring him different threats in the future.
The other is the contact over the past few years, which made Alexander feel disgusted against Old Rovere from the bottom of his heart.
Alexander VI was also greedy, insidious, and cruel, preferring his son-in-law, but he still loved his children at least.
Old Rovere was a man who regarded everyone as a tool for his personal ambition.
In order to expand his power, he can ruthlessly calculate his daughter, and in order to talk about the conditions, he can let his son venture out of Montina. When he heard that his cousin was burned into slag, he never even mentioned it to others. After the name Tony Della Rovere, the multitude of facts made Alexander deeply feel that this person was ruthless and uncontrollable.
It can be said that Old Rovere is a person who will not have any scruples at all. No matter whether it is affection or other things, he can't prevent him from resorting to any means to suppress interests.
This makes this person very dangerous, because apart from worrying about possible retaliation, there is no limit that can prevent him from doing extreme things.
Alexander was always very wary of Old Rovere. He believed that as long as needed, Old Rovere could not only start against him without hesitation, but even black hand on his own daughter.
These are all important reasons why Alexander decided to support Alexander VI, but there is one more crucial point that made him finally determined.
Alexander VI, from Iberia.
Rodriguez Borgia was born in the distinguished aristocratic family of Valencia on the Iberian peninsula. This family has a long history and can be traced back to the ancient origin of close marriage with the Aragonese royal family.
Although this family has taken root in Rome because of two successive generations of popes, as a large noble of Valencia, the Borgia family is not only in Valencia, but also in Aragon and even Iberia. The peninsula has a deep influence and status.
This is obviously very important for Alexander, who is about to launch the Iberian plan.
It is for these reasons that Alexander made his choice.
The first thing he did after his decision was to grab ahead of the old Rovere and form the Swiss Guard for Alexander VI.
The reason why Old Rovere would later be called the Pope of God of War, in addition to his frequent wars, even if it was not early, he almost unified Italy several centuries earlier in the early 16th century. There is also a big reason for his formation The famous Swiss Guard.
This army, composed entirely of Swiss people, has faithfully guarded the Vatican for centuries. Their fanatical faith, near-stubborn loyalty, and persistence in responsibility have earned them a reputation.
This paranoid sense of responsibility and the pursuit of honor were later brought to France by the Swiss. After more than two centuries, these Swiss paid a heavy price for this honor.
Now Alexander wants to make the famous Swiss Guard appear in this era in advance. Although this does not actually make a long difference, as the owner of this team changes, everything will be different.
Although he did not immediately agree, the seemingly hesitant look let Alexander know that the Pope was indeed tempted.
The establishment of an army of the Papal States was originally the plan and ambition that Alexander VI had been working hard on, but he had put these on Giovanni and Caesar before, but now with the death of his two sons, the prisoner, Alexander VI had to try to do this himself.
It is obviously impossible to directly command the army, so the only option for Alexander VI is to give the army to some trusted cronies.
But Alexander did not expect the Pope to choose himself. He knew that Alexander VI had a deep vigilance against him, which is why he was hesitant to rebuild the army, so he would never choose to command the Pope. If that is the case, it means that the Vatican surrendered to him.
"I think you might become the flag officer of the future Vatican," said Alexander in the corridor to Nomelo, who was walking alongside him. "You are the most trusted person of the pope."
Nomelo did n’t look surprised, he just smiled slightly, and said after seeing that Alexander did n’t mean to continue,
I know what I should do, but I will always protect His Majesty ’s interests, you should know For me, everyone in the Borgia family is like my family. "
Alexander stopped and silently looked at Nomelo for a while, then nodded slightly, and then went on.
On February 2nd, the Second Balkan Regiment of the Montina Army formally accepted an order from Pope Alexander. In the order, the Pope announced that someone had tried to rebel before, and many people of the Protestant Army had already been involved. Gia was seriously injured by the rebels, and in such a critical situation, the Pope had to order Alexander ’s Montina army to station in Rome to quell the rebellion. At the same time, until the Holy See was re-armed, the Montina army would have been responsible for the safety of Rome and the Vatican. Until the new pope took over Rome.
This order undoubtedly found a legitimate reason for the Montina army to enter Rome, and shut up everyone's mouth, and at the same time found a reasonably reasonable reason for Caesar's disappearance.
As for how many people believe this flawed statement, no one cares too much.
People only know that before the Holy See was re-armed, the fate of Rome and the Vatican was in the hands of the Earl of Montina, and with the current situation many people realized that the Principality of Romagna-Tuscany is now ready to come out.
The era of Alexander Juliant Gumbre has arrived.
Unlike the Romans speculation that the sentiment was different, the response of the old Luo Weilei to the announcement that Alexander VI lied to the face was very calm. He did not even give the cardinal meeting when the pope issued a statement.
Rovere Lao now focused all his attention on his son Constantine. He sent people to keep sending messages between Rome and Forli, keeping abreast of the progress of the war against Forli.
Constantine is a very orthodox soldier. Compared with his father, he is more suitable for the army than the court, so he immediately became active as soon as he returned to the barracks.
After leading the army out of Rome, he immediately marched north along the coastline. His march was very fast. Although it was in the winter, it only took less than a week to approach Foley, and he successfully occupied on the 7th day. Urbino, just over 20 miles from Forli.
When he heard the news, the old Rovere, who had been secretly raising his heart, was finally relieved.
Although Urbino is south of Forli, it is actually very close to the lower plain of the Po River, which was regarded as its natural power by the Venetians. Because of this, old Rovere has been in constant contact with the Venetian emissaries in Rome during this period. At the same time, all the promises were made, and the only hope was that the Venetians would acquiesce Constantine's military action against Forli.
But the Venetian's attitude was always ambiguous, which made the old Rovere seem calm and anxious in his heart. He knew that if the Venetian thought Constantine's move threatened their safety, once the Venetian sent troops, the Rovere family has now lost From the support of Genoa, Constantine is likely to suffer a fiasco.
Did you ask Alexander for help? The old Rovere had not thought about it, but he was quickly thrown aside.
Not to mention whether Alexander would still risk offending the Venetian under such circumstances, even if Alexander was willing to help his uncle, Old Rovere did not intend to give him this opportunity.
Old Rovere had already begun to be very wary of the rapid expansion of Alexander's forces, and letting his son take advantage of Forli was a reaction to this expansion.
Forli is a good joint connecting Venice and southern Italy, although compared to the future principality of Alexandria, which almost cut the Italian peninsula from the middle, the occupation of Forli only opened up a very narrow border on the Adriatic coast. The land corridor, but in the view of Old Rovere, this corridor is very significant.
He did not hesitate to compromise with the Venetian for this.
Now it seems that his efforts have finally paid off. With Constantine occupying Urbino and the Venetians not responding, Old Rovere knows that his previous efforts have finally succeeded.
On February 9, Constantine sent an emissary to Forli. He gave the Forli one day to consider whether he would surrender, and the response he received was an ear of the emissary sent back.
Foley's tigress Catalina Sforza answered Constantine in this cruel and way: No way!
Angry Constantine immediately ordered an attack, and on February 10 the next day, Forley's offensive and defensive battle began.
Old Rovere paid close attention to Forli's movements. Although he had received the tacit consent that the Venetian would not intervene, he still dared not take it lightly.
Fortunately, Constantine was indeed a very good soldier, and his performance on the battlefield was enough to make Old Roveray proud. Although the Forli tigress was known for being fierce and fierce, but after two fiascos, Catalina Sforza had to lead the army to retreat into the city, trying to block the attack of Constantine's army with the wall of Forli.
At the same time, she sent someone to Milan for help.
It was in this situation that the emissaries of Milan came to Rome to see Alexander.
Along with the Milanese, there was also a letter from Alexander ’s Plenipotentiary, Normezi.
In the letter, Normezi reported to Alexander on the progress of the Milan peace talks and the results so far. Looking at the series of nonsense, Alexander nodded in satisfaction and saw that Normezi did a good job.
Ludviko Sforza ’s letter of appeal was much more direct. He asked Alexander to intercede with the Pope, and on the premise of ensuring that Catalina ’s son would continue to rule Foli, he was willing to persuade Foli to surrender.
It ’s just that this letter, rather than asking for help, looks more like a perfunctory letter of assistance. It did n’t arouse any interest in Alexander. He did n’t care whether Forley was in Constantine ’s hand. As for the famous tigress, in Lukre Zia heard that the Milan messenger had arrived and immediately ran to the Palace of Marino, and then stared at him with a watchful eye for a long time, Alexander also showed some kind of indifference.
Old Rovere may think that the occupation of Forli is tantamount to opening up a channel connecting North and South Italy on the land, and even when some necessity may abandon stereotypes and cooperate with the Venetians, but Alexander does not care about these calculations of Old Rovere.
Because although the time seems to be later than in history, from the information obtained, the Venetian's greatest threat is coming soon. By that time, the Venetian is too busy with himself, and it is impossible to collude with the old Rovere.
At the beginning of January 1500, the legendary Ottoman empire general Kemal Reis gathered a fleet of approximately 70 ships of various sizes toward the west of the Aegean Sea, who had just been taken away from the Venetians by the Ottoman army. The small islands advance, his purpose is to send reinforcements and supplies to the Ottoman troops stationed on these islands.
Regarding the Ottomans' movements, the Venetians were worried and did not want to launch a decisive battle at sea. So for a whole month, the Venetians watched the Ottoman transport fleet moving between the Aegean Sea and the back. Between those islands, a large number of weapons and reinforcements were sent, and then the island fortress was reinforced with artillery.
This strange stalemate was finally broken after a fiasco at the end of January, and the protagonist of this fiasco was Gonzalo.
After leading the Aragonese army all the way to the Aegean Sea, Gonzalo was warmly welcomed by the Venetians. In order to satisfy this powerful reinforcement commander, the Venetians gave blood and kept asking for help. With the help of the fleet of Venice, Salou not only recovered several islands that were previously taken by the Ottomans, but also captured the important bases of the Ottomans on the island of Kefalonia in the Eastern Mediterranean in early January 1500 .
Gonzalo was in a flash of enthusiasm for a while, and the soldiers pointed invincible.
However, his good luck soon came to an end. As the Ottomans strengthened the defense of those islands and the supply of reinforcements continued to come, Gonzalo ’s actions on the Aegean Sea became more and more difficult, especially with Kay Gorzalo ’s life became more and more sad as the fleet of Mars Rhys was no longer satisfied with delivering supplies and troops, but began to approach the East step by step.
Finally, shortly after entering January 1500, in the battle of Zakynthos Island not far from the Greek coast, the Aragonese army of Gonzalo was well equipped, and its strength was several times that of his elite Ottoman defenders. The counterattack was fierce, and then worse, the base he had previously ventured to build on Kisila Island was also taken by the Ottomans.
Then the Ottoman army attacked the city with the support of Kemal Reis, and Gonzalofi's advantage in establishing the Aegean Sea almost disappeared overnight.
This result not only left Gumpati's face sullen, but he also attributed all of this to the Venetian's passive avoidance. After he ran to Venice and sent a temper to the old fox Barbarig, Gonzalo Threatening the Venetian, if he does not stop the Ottoman Navy's actions, he will lead the Aragonese troops out of this annoying war.
Gonzalo ’s threat obviously played a role, and the Venetians did feel the danger from the Ottoman navy. After all, if they avoided passive wars, they might be completely blocked in the Adriatic Sea. Faced with this situation, Venice decided to fight back!
Alexander got the news a little later than the Venetians, but the details of the intelligence were much stronger than them.
After Bayesert II was seriously injured and lost control of North Korea, the Ottoman Empire is now facing a decisive battle between Selim and Ahmed for the future Sultanate.
Kemal Rhys was the general of the Selim faction, and now he is so aggressively provocating against Venice in order to create more advantages for Selim in the upcoming battle for the throne.
Alexander knew that the Ottomans had won in this future naval battle, and after this war ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The Venetians had almost lost all their colonies on the Mediterranean alone.
But he did not intend to help Venice, especially this time.
Since mid-February, several notable events have continued in Italy.
First, after almost a week of siege, Fore finally couldn't resist Constantine's attack and announced his surrender. Then the Duchess of Fore, the famous Fore tigress Caterina Sforza, was imprisoned and released to Rome.
Immediately afterwards, the peace talks held in Milan did not even have a trace of sincerity in the parties involved, and finally declared defeat. In fact, the French and Austrian troops who had already taken this opportunity to rest and dispatched once again declared war. Normezi can say After successfully completing the mission given by Alexander, he returned to Montina.
Then, at the end of February, on the Greek coast not far north of Kefalonia, which was once again occupied by the Ottomans, Venice and the Ottoman Navy launched a maritime battle that was not very large, but was of great significance to both sides. decisive battle.
After a day of fierce fighting, the Venetian gradually lost after losing a dozen ships of all sizes, and the Venetian Navy Commander Grimani had to be forced to order the fleet to withdraw from the battle.
At this point, the Ottoman Navy blocked the Venetian in the long and narrow Adriatic Sea in one fell swoop.
These disturbing events not only dazzled the Italian peninsula, but even shocked the whole of Europe.
But among these turbulences, one thing is particularly striking.
On the last day of February 1500, Count Alexandra Juliant Gumbre was crowned by the Pope Alexander VI as the Duke of Romagna in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
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