Conquer the Dawn of Heaven

The season of flooding in autumn is always sentimental and melancholy. Poets will write some famous poems that are well-known and sad for autumn. Artists can also find inspiration they have been unable to find from the falling leaves. As far as farmers are concerned, as long as the season is not bad, there will always be a harvest.

In short, there are various reasons for not liking autumn, and those who like autumn also have their own reasons.

But for an army, such a season is the least they want to encounter.

The misty rain does not see the sunny days, and it is wet everywhere. When you want to find a place to rest, once you sit down, the cold and cold air will soon pour into your stomach from the soaked pants, which will immediately make people feel unbearable abdominal pain. , Really not tortured.

If you stand up and walk, then the cold wind mixed with cold rain will blow in from the gaps in the armor, dangling between the skin and the armor, and when the cold wind is finally warmed up, they fly from other gaps. After going out, another group of "guests" arrived unexpectedly, which made the whole body chill and tremble.

Marching in this season is really annoying. Looking at the soldiers struggling in the quagmire, Gonzalo once asked himself more than once whether it was a wrong decision to start a war at this time.

But in the end he convinced himself.

Gonzalo did not experience the 1500 Fa-Austrian War, but this did not prevent him from understanding the course of that war.

What surprised him was that although he had only been away from Italy for a few years, nearly earth-shaking changes had taken place on the European battlefield.

At the beginning, everyone thought that the incredible winter offensive frequently appeared on the battlefield in 1500. The two sides abandoned the winter camp, but launched a field battle regardless of the cold. This seems like Gonzalo, who was commanding the anti-French coalition a few years ago. It's like a fantasy.

The changes brought about by the new war situation on the battlefield are obvious. Even Gonzalo now dare not confidently say that if he is allowed to face the French again, he can still defeat Louis XII like Charlie.

The war in Iberia was the same. Before departing from Madrid to the military camp on the border to take over the troops, Gonzalo received a joint order from Alexander and Ruosa.

Their intention is clear, that is, to attack Aragon first before entering the late autumn.

In the order, Alexander explained the situation outside the battlefield to Gonzalo. He must be clear about what purpose the war needs to achieve. As a commander-in-chief, Ruosa carefully analyzed the choice to launch at this time. Various reasons for the war.

This made Gonzalo himself deeply recognized that this choice was correct.

Now he is facing self-doubt about this choice.

As a qualified soldier, Gonzalo knew very well that at this time, he must be firm in his conviction, and a slight vacillation could lead to disastrous consequences!

Gonzalo has sent a large-scale scout force, many of them are Aragonese, which makes them very familiar and sophisticated in inquiring about the local terrain or going deep into the village, and the reports they brought back, It also gradually stabilized Gonzalo's already anxious heart.

There will be several large-scale rivers that flow into the Ebro River in Aragon. The Alga River, which originates from Navarre, is the largest.

It was also the injection of this river that made the upper reaches of the Ebro River, which flowed slowly after entering Aragon, and the only natural dam that could be used appeared. The Romans built the first water conservancy in the Iberian Peninsula here. engineering.

Gonzalo’s goal is the old town of Alfaro where the Alga and Ebro rivers converge.

The entire town of Alfaro can be said to be built on the ruins of ancient Roman projects, and even the stones used to build houses and pave the roads in the town were collected from the ruins of the original Roman projects.

Therefore, the town of Alfaro inevitably has traces of the Roman era everywhere, so it is called Alfaro, which is the Roman town according to the local idea.

The town of Rome is a small city built along the rugged terrain along the Ebro River. Because of the large terrain drop, the entire small city seems to be built on a huge staircase.

From the head of the town to the end of the town, the entire period is composed of terraces stretching downwards. The terraces are connected by steps that have been gradually hammered out after years of construction, and because the Ebro River is not small in this area. The twists and turns, so the entire Roman town also looks twisted.

The forward of the Aragonese army, ordered by Ferdinand himself, sometimes met with the Allied forces of Cassie in the valley near the town of Rome. It was a pure encounter. The two sides suddenly fell on the terrain without expecting it. Bumped head-on in the valley.

After a brief confrontation due to an accident, the two armies who had no time to start a formation started a **** battle in this rocky valley.

The Aragonese triumph over the crowd, while the coalition forces are well equipped.

From the beginning, the battle between the two sides turned into a chaos completely because of accidents. The two armies, with no tactics at all, first slowed down a little after a short encounter, and then each looked for terrain to rely on to try to defend. .

But then the Aragonese discovered that the long-range mutual shooting was obviously at a disadvantage under the suppression of the opponent's superior firepower.

So the commander of Aragorn issued a decision that was later regarded as the stupidest by countless people.

He ordered to come out from behind a small sloping field used for cover and actively attacked the enemy.

Seeing the enemies jumping around in the valley full of rocks and having to go around those difficult places, the Sicilian's face was full of joy.

Even Rakush did not have time to sigh for the decline and fall of the Cold Weapon Age at this time. He put away the knight sword and drew a musket. After aiming at an enemy who looked like an officer, Rakush issued an order. Shooting order.

As a savage Balkan man, Lakush obviously did not know the rule of not shooting at officers on the battlefield, and this so-called rule has never been truly followed on the battlefield.

On the contrary, people with gorgeous armor and bright armor will always be the first targets on the battlefield, so Alexander once suggested that Ruosha should be low-key on the battlefield and not "seduce men."

It was not the officer who was shot down first, but he was clearly one of the first dead.

Because the road in the valley is difficult, the Aragonese army cannot rush to the enemy quickly. They can't even maintain the formation, and can only form small groups to advance slowly among the rocks.

This gives the Sicilian the best chance. The Sicilian soldiers are like training on a training ground. They reload, tamping, fixing the flint, aiming and shooting, and then stepping back to make room for their companions behind. .

More and more Aragonese were shot down. When dozens of soldiers fell in a pool of blood, the Aragonese finally began to retreat.

The complex terrain in the river valley also prevented the coalition forces from pursuing them. They could only watch the Aragonese gradually leave just like that, jumping around, leaving only a dead body.

This battle started inexplicably and ended in a wonderful way, and even when Kuras asked his clerk to write a battlefield report for him, he felt that he did not know where to start.

So he simply asked the clerk to write everything he could think of to Gonzalo, and then threw those annoying questions to his superiors.

After Gonzalo received the report from Lakush, he was only slightly surprised at first, but he was ecstatic recently.

Actively declare war on Aragorn, and then launch an offensive despite the flood season that has already entered the autumn flood season. The purpose of all this is to force Ferdinand to have to rush to fight.

But now that after discovering the intentions of Cassie's coalition forces, Ferdinand did not hesitate to waste his troops to send an army to the upper reaches of the Ebro River to block the coalition forces, which made Gonzalo realize that their plan had indeed succeeded.

Ferdinand did not hesitate to send an army to deepen alone, obviously to contain Gonzalo in order to organize an army in the country to counterattack in time.

But this is obviously not so easy. Ferdinand is now trying to gather the army against the clock, so he would rather send this army at the risk of dividing the army.

Realizing this, Gonzalo couldn't hide his excitement. He knew that Alexander's plan had succeeded.

"This will not be a long war."

The promise of the Queen of Sicily lingered in his ears again, and Gonzalo now had a completely different understanding of this sentence.

"Any war is not just a contest on the battlefield. You can often get things that are not available on the battlefield at the negotiating table."

Gonzalo used to disagree with Alexander's words, but now he is seriously considering whether all this is exactly what Alexander said.

The occupation of the town of Rome was only the beginning for the coalition forces. Neither Kuras nor Gonzalo wanted to pursue the defeated enemy.

The former was because the terrain of the town of Rome prevented the coalition forwards from fully exerting their anger. The previous battles in the valley were more luck. The wrong decision of the enemy commander led to their defeat.

However, if they were replaced by a more experienced and more stable opponent, they would make full use of the complex terrain of Roman Town to deal with the coalition forces, which would not be of any benefit to Kurashi, who was lonely in depth.

For Gonzalo, his goal was to eliminate the main force of the Aragonese army, and it was a waste of time and strength to delay the enemy that was obviously not threatened because of defeat.

The cold water of the Ebro River felt a little tingling on his face. Gonzalo squatted by the river and slowly washed his face. He needed to stimulate with the cold river water to calm himself a little bit.

The defeat of the Aragonese forward did not make Gonzalo too excited, he knew that the next step was the key.

Ferdinand will never tolerate Zaragoza’s throat being choked by the Castilians, so his only choice is to retake the Roman town area at all costs.

"It's going to fight a big battle..."

Gonzalo looked at the flowing river and muttered to himself. The coldness of the river did not extinguish the hot feeling in his heart. He finally got up on his knees. Gonzalo exhaled towards the surface of the Ebro River, and then pulled. I opened my pants and poured water into the river as much as I wanted.

Ferdinand looked gloomy, even staring terribly at the ministers standing below.

He didn't know who had leaked the news of the defeat in Rome!

Although he knew that it was impossible to hide it for too long, he did not expect that the lie would be exposed so quickly. Chase the book

When someone reported to him that it was rumored that the battle in Rome was actually a fiasco, Ferdinand's first thought was that the damned soldier had leaked the news.

But when he was angrily wanting to know what that person said to whom, he accidentally heard of a late-night hunt in Zaragoza.

Ferdinand immediately keenly sensed that this incident seemed to be related to the soldier, because the men he sent to send the man had not seen him come back.

If he didn't care about an entourage in the past, after hearing about the incident that night, Ferdinand immediately thought that something might have happened.

He immediately sent people to find the entourage, but no one had seen him since that night, and because he was ordered by the king to leave the city, other people would not inquire about his whereabouts casually.

So no one thought that the entourage actually had an accident.

Ferdinand immediately sent people to search around, and soon his people found out what happened that night, and also knew that the last person who saw the soldier was an officer guarding the city gate in Zaragoza.

It's just that when Ferdinand's people broke into the man's house, they saw the empty house.

The owner of the house had disappeared two days ago, and his family and several servants were missing with him.

And the soldier, with the disappearance of the officer, completely lost his whereabouts.

Ferdinand smelled an obvious scent of conspiracy, but he didn't know who was acting against him in secret.

If it was said that Gombre did all this, Ferdinand would never believe it. He knew that if that was the case, he, the King of Aragon, would soon end up.

But Ferdinand did not believe that Gombray would have the ability to make trouble directly in Zaragoza.

But because of this, he was even more angry and alarmed.

Because it means that in Aragon, in the court of Zaragoza, a force is secretly trying to plot against him.

And it is certain that no matter who these people are, they obviously have enough power and influence.

From the late-night chase, it was only after the rumours of the defeat in Rome were spread that it was discovered that everything that happened in the middle of the night was obviously deliberately concealed.

Being able to do this has shown how huge influence those people have, and his people quickly found out that the officer who absconded was a local nobleman who was born and raised in Zaragoza.

It’s just that he couldn’t find anything useful from those related to him. His relatives and friends were surprised that he was involved in the trouble, and his colleagues in the army were not even more surprised. Known.

This not only made the clues of the investigation almost completely clueless, but also made Ferdinand realize that there are likely to be a group of enemies in Zaragoza that he has never noticed. They now obviously feel that the time is right and want to take the opportunity to cause trouble. .

His enemy is probably among the seemingly respectful nobles in front of him.

Ferdinand wondered in his heart, and now he began to feel that he was lucky to be the king so peacefully for many years.

But as long as he thinks about it carefully, he can still detect signs that he has never noticed in the past.

When Isabella chose him as her husband, Ferdinand once imagined that Isabella would marry him as a queen rather than a co-owner.

For this reason, he secretly carried out activities and bought several important cronies around Isabella at a high price, asking them to lobby for him in front of Isabella.

At that time, Ferdinand was almost about to succeed, but no one thought Isabella would suddenly change her mind, and in the next few years, those Castilians who secretly flirted with Ferdinand all Exiled and banished for various reasons.

Ferdinand always believed that his plan was unintentionally leaked, and it also attracted a fierce response from Isabella.

But now he began to suspect that maybe someone had secretly told Isabella about his plan at the time, and unless so, it would be impossible to explain that those people were gradually eliminated.

It doesn't matter what the truth of the past is, now he is facing doubts from the nobles of Zaragoza.

"Then you think I should apologize to you," Ferdinand stared at the nobles with a gloomy face. "Just because you ate and drank all night in my court for nothing, I must apologize to you, and you were How many people really care about what is happening on the front lines."

"Your Majesty, you are a bit too much to say so," a noble replied stiffly. "We have the right to know what happened on the battlefield. After all, this is related to our army."

"It's my army!"

Ferdinand suddenly roared in anger. He stood up and walked towards the nobleman, poking his fingers **** his chest.

"Don't forget that I am your king, and don't forget that I exempt you from many taxes and obligations. The only condition is to provide me with the army I need. So you are not qualified to complain to me!"

The noble face met Ferdinand's gaze with a stern face, he seemed to want to say something, but as Ferdinand stared sternly, the noble's expression gradually became uneasy.

"I am your king," Ferdinand raised his hand and pressed it on the shoulder of the nobleman and gradually applied force. "If you still admit this, kneel in front of me and ask for my forgiveness."

The nobleman glanced at the hand on his shoulder, his cheeks trembled slightly and seemed to be struggling, but in the end he slowly knelt down.

"Please forgive me my majesty."

Ferdinand secretly satisfied with that aristocrat's desolate look, but he was a little disappointed.

Not this person, he thought to himself.

Then he cast his gaze on the silent nobles, and seeing them look helpless despite their annoyance, he wiped out a few suspects in his heart.

Ferdinand guessed that the enemy would not be stupid without revealing himself at this time, they must be hidden deep, and they must be someone he never thought of.

So who will it be?

While Ferdinand couldn't help but wondered how to deal with the embarrassing situation before him.

A king was forced to use lies to maintain his confidence among the nobles, which in itself is a very shameful thing, not to mention being caught upright.

But at this time he could not take much care of it. On the contrary, Ferdinand finally breathed a sigh of relief when the lie was exposed.

He suddenly discovered that it didn't seem to be very difficult to expose everything to everyone.

"I need your army, knights, and experienced officers," Ferdinand said like those nobles. "If you don't want a Neapolitan woman, or simply a Castilian to sit on this throne, You leave the army and your own destiny to me."

The nobles looked at each other. They knew that neither as a courtier nor an Aragonese could not refuse Ferdinand's request. That would make them a traitor to Aragon.

And Ferdinand’s words really moved them deeply. They couldn’t imagine how a foreign monarch would rule them. Even though they didn’t like Ferdinand as well, they still chose him instinctively.

Under the leadership of a general, the nobles handed the inverted hilt of the saber representing their power to Ferdinand one after another. Seeing that he symbolically grasped every hilt of the sword, many people did not flash in their hearts "I wonder if this is right or not." "Wrong" thought.

While people were still agitated for the failure of the town of Rome, there was a lot of discussion in the court of Zaragoza.

Ferdinand suddenly ordered the appointment of a group of relatives around him as imperial courtiers. Although this post seems nothing special, careful people will find that these new ministers who have just taken office are given the important responsibility of protecting the court.

At the same time, Ferdinand re-appointed the commander of the defense forces of Zaragoza.

Although this may not be able to completely eliminate the threat of secret enemies, at least Ferdinand has been aware of and prepared.

This may be able to prevent his enemies from acting rashly because of caution, and this time gained is what Ferdinand needs most urgently now.

The changes in the court did not hide from the archbishop's eyes.

This made the archbishop realize that Ferdinand should have noticed the danger hidden around him. U U Reading www.uukanshu.com

In the Cathedral of Zaragoza, the archbishop wondered how to deal with Ferdinand as he strolled slowly, until a priest came away and stopped a few steps away from him and bowed to salute.

"My lord, I'm back."

Seeing that the priest archbishop's eyes lit up, he lowered his voice and asked when the priest held his hand and kissed: "Then what news are you bringing back?"

"My lord, Archbishop Paul of Valencia greets you," the priest replied respectfully. He noticed that the archbishop was still waiting, so he continued, "In addition, the Duchess of Gandino also asked me to bring you what she said to you. Regards, the Duchess wants me to convey a word to you."

Speaking, the priest straightened up and looked at the archbishop slowly but clearly said: "Inspired by God, the second sentence of the second verse of 1 Timothy is the truth."

"Prayers and blessings for the king and all reigns, so that we can live godly, righteously, and peacefully."

The archbishop nodded slightly, with a clear smile on his face.