I Am Louis XIV

The bishop's plan is not without reason. Although he has vowed to abandon the secular world, cut off relatives, and serve God wholeheartedly, we all know that even the most devout priests will care about blood relatives, let alone Bishop Mazaran. Mister Bishop more worldly than worldly. What's interesting is that he doesn't care much about his poor family, but cares about those who helped him when he was still in trouble, such as Particherry Emery, the former financial director, and even In the Mancini family, where he was about to become famous and invested decisively, he even wanted to introduce the boys of the Mancini family into the court, but as we know, although he did, poor Felipe was sworded by the king Piercing, and two boys, one died of a previous riot, one died of a disease while studying - only a few people know that he died of a dishonorable murder.

So when Mr. Bishop found that no one could inherit his achievements, he decided to hand over to someone trusted by the king like Richelieu before him. In terms of finances, he pre-selected Fouquet, but then he was disappointed. , the new treasurer was not only greedy but also stupid, and could not see that the King's indulgence was really trying the noose with his neck; then his eyes fell on M. Colbert, but this The candidate is not very suitable, or in other words, he can only take on part of the current work of Mr. Bishop.

So who should he hand over the most important rights in his hands? There is no doubt that this unknown power is a double-edged sword, whether it is for the controller or the king, until the king decisively killed Felipe. Of course, Mr. Bishop does not want to praise this behavior, after all Felipe's last name was Mancini, but he really didn't like this idiot who was always talking too much - he just didn't have a choice.

After the initial anger had passed, when the bishop was finally able to calmly think about this matter, he suddenly realized that the king's handling seemed reckless, but it was the best. In view of the impact of this scandal, the best way is to die. Of course, the king will not let his younger brother die, so only Mancini will die, and he will do it himself, which also ensures that Mr. Bishop will not be angry because of this matter. Anybody—he can't punish a king.

But what he appreciated more was the king's subsequent concessions to the Mancini family. Yes, it sounds a bit frustrating, although what Felipe Mancini did was enough to allow him to be on the inner world and the table at the same time. The court of the world, but he is also the eldest son of the Mancini family, even if he is really stupid - some young people can't help complaining and full of resentment, but the king accepts this matter very calmly, Mr. Bishop pay attention In the past, he would complain to Marie, but now he rarely mentioned the Mancini family in front of Marie.

Generally speaking, Mr. Bishop thinks, there are only two possibilities for him not to mention a name, one is that he thinks the name is trustworthy, or important enough to be forgiven anyway; Value, dismissively.

It was hard for him to think that the king would prefer the first type, but whether it was the first or the second type, Mr. Bishop decided to leave his most important inheritance to the king instead of others.

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The generosity of Mr. Bishop really made Louis happy. No one can understand how important the intelligence network is, but to establish an intelligence network, firstly, money is needed, a lot of money, and secondly, time is needed. For the time being, he None, Mr. Bishop is willing to gradually hand over the power in his hands to him, it is indeed a pleasure. He can't help but look forward to seeing the gentleman, but the reason why Mr. Bishop said to wait a few more days may be because of the imminent relationship between the war .

On the eve of the war, any stranger would be regarded as a target that needed to be watched closely. As a secret agent, he would not be so reckless when life and death were not at stake.

The day of the battle was a clear summer day. The Spanish and French armies lined up parallel to the coastline. Louis stood on the highest point of the town, holding a telescope on the clock tower. When the telescope was first invented It can only see three times as far away. After an Italian scholar Galileo Galilei knew the technique, he manufactured a telescope that could see eight times as far away a month later, and he could see eight times as far away after a few months. Twenty times away, it is said that the telescope he made can see the uneven surface of the moon-the telescope in Louis's hand is thirty times far away, here he can see the shoulder straps on the soldiers, he turned the mirror The cylinder was transferred from the Anglo-French allied forces to the Spaniards. From here, we can see that the Spaniards still adopted the customary large phalanx, that is to say, a phalanx of about 100 spearmen, each of the four corners of the phalanx There are nine musketeers in a group, and some scattered musketeers wandering in the middle of the phalanx - the king roughly estimated that there are sixty groups of this kind of phalanx, so that means that there should be seven groups of Spanish allied forces here. Eight thousand soldiers, there may be some cavalry and reserves, but basically the number is similar to that of the Viscount Turenne.

He saw that Viscount Turenne unceremoniously ranked the British New Model Army in front. Their bright red coats clearly distinguished them from the others. They did not have an advantage in terrain because the Spaniards occupied the high ground. Although on the beach, this high ground is only a relative term, but everyone knows that in combat, no matter how small an advantage is an advantage-it can almost be said that according to the usual practice, the artillery goes first, and when the artillery roars, the smoke has not yet dissipated At that time, the New Model Army began to attack. Their courage and experience were indeed not comparable to the current French army. It took almost only a few minutes for them to close the distance to the point where they started shooting each other.

At this time, each other's courage is to be tested. People often jokingly say that musket shooting in the seventeenth century is similar to mutual suicide face to face. It is considered lucky that a hundred bullets can hit an enemy, and you can only use a dense formation to ensure the hit rate; secondly, it is impossible to protect yourself by lying down, shielding or other methods, because the aiming and charging of guns at this time They have to stand up, not to mention that during the attack, the soldiers have to follow the drums and team flags, instead of staying fixedly in one place to shoot; in the end, also because of the limitations of guns, the range of thermal weapons at that time was only six From ten feet to a hundred feet, it usually only takes a few seconds to rush to the opponent at such a distance... Many times, when the ammunition is exhausted or the officer realizes that the distance is too close, they will raise their long knives With a shout, all the soldiers will follow him and charge with their swords instead of standing there stupidly and shooting.

So the smog only lasted for a few minutes. The king saw the soldiers in red clothes climbing up the sand dunes like violent ants and rushing towards the Spanish phalanx. The Spanish musketeers immediately hid among the spearmen , and those spearmen immediately put down their spears. From a distance, it looked like a porcupine suddenly exploded with thorns all over its body, and it was like this in all four directions. Louis is not surprised how the Spaniards have been able to rely on this phalanx to cross Europa for nearly half a century.

But if the previous confrontation was a test of the courage of both sides, then what is presented to people now is the courage of the British New Model Army. They rushed desperately, broke through the spearmen in the front line, and broke into the phalanx , so that the phalanx was in chaos, and the soldiers broke up and fled to the bottom of the sand dunes.

"Ah!" cried the king nervously.

"What?" asked the Bishop.

"Their line is too long," said the King, handing the Bishop the telescope. Mr. Bishop watched him clenched his fists amusedly. After all, he was a young man, he thought, putting the binoculars in front of his eyes. In just a short while, the situation on the battlefield changed. The left wing attacked, sweeping the battlefield like a massacre: "That's...the king's army," Mr. Bishop distinguished from the shoulder straps and flags: "The army of the Duke of York."

That's no wonder, those New Model Army and Wang Jun are simply life and death enemies, they even left the Spaniards behind, only caring about entanglement, killing each other to the death.

"The Viscount Turenne sent cavalry to support him," said the bishop again.

The king immediately took back the binoculars, and he saw that the French cavalry wearing bright red shoulder straps had already moved towards the place where the battle was most concentrated, while the Spanish cavalry was a step slower—the same as the Spanish large phalanx, The French imperial knights also galloped in Europa for nearly a hundred years, but in the Battle of Pavia in 1525, although the French imperial knights defeated the Spanish heavy cavalry, they received heavy blows from the musketeers of the Spanish phalanx. Frustration——At that time, the Spanish musketeers were equipped with muskete matchlocks, a large-caliber musket that was powerful enough to penetrate heavy armor, and the knights were killed and injured countless times in that battle.

But when the Spanish musketeers had been defeated, the imperial knights were still extremely brave when facing the British and Spanish cavalry. battle formation attack.

Now all the colors are mixed together, the king only felt dizzy for a while, and when he put down the binoculars, he found that his back was so tense that it almost hurt.

"I'll ask Bontang to bring some tea, and rest for a while," said the Bishop, without persuading the king to leave the tower, let alone the king, nor did he want to.

Note: Louis was born in 38 years, so he mistaken the age of his younger brother Philip before, the Queen of Sweden visited in 56 years, Henrietta was 12 years old, the younger brother was 16 years old, the king was 18 years old, now it is 58 years old, so There is nothing wrong with the King being 20 years old.

Also, when Mr. Bishop mentioned the age of the king, I accidentally typed it wrong... I have changed it.

Sorry, sometimes the code word is too fast, so it is negligent.