The Rise of the European Emperor

After all, Juan III was young, and he couldn't hold back the noble councilors of the Kingdom of Castile. Mainly, lack of prestige. In desperation, after discussing with his wife Margaret, the couple took a carriage overnight and rushed to Zaragoza to seek help from their father Ferdinand II.

Although Ferdinand II was not the king of the Kingdom of Castile, he had co-ruled the Kingdom of Castile with Isabella I for a long time, and he was definitely more prestigious than Juan III.

However, after arriving in Zaragoza, the couple discovered that there was also trouble in the Kingdom of Aragon...

Baron Novara, the French envoy, was also a ruthless man. He tried his best to be beaten to death by the Spaniards, and in a daze provoked the anger of the two kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula. Therefore, when returning to Toulouse, Novara sang while lying on the carriage. And what he left to the two Spanish kingdoms was endless anger...

In Europe, nobles are very particular about honor and dignity. Even old foxes like Ferdinand II and Maximilian I cared about honor very much, even if they were shameless in private.

If Novara only expressed contempt to Ferdinand II, Ferdinand II might endure it for the sake of the overall situation and block the news. However, this grandson is too wicked, he ran to the gate of the noble council to provoke publicly, and he also spoke in Spanish, obviously because he was afraid that everyone would not know...

In this way, if Ferdinand II wanted to block the news, he couldn't do it. And this era was the era when the feudal nobles and kings ruled the world together. The king couldn't hold back his anger at the nobles!

How to do it? It is irrational to order Gonzalo de Cordoba to storm the city of Naples. However, it seems difficult to appease the nobles' anger...

The father and son discussed there for a long time, while Queen Margaret looked over the previous information there. After looking through the details of the French conquest of Naples, Queen Margaret suddenly smiled:

"Father, Juan, I have a solution!"

"What way?" The father and son asked in unison, their eyes full of surprise and expectation.

"Look, this is the battle report of the French conquering Naples..."

Queen Margaret showed the battle report to the father and son, pointed to the information and said:

"You see, this is the process of the French besieging the city of Naples... In order to avoid casualties during the storm, the French specially hired 22,000 Italian mercenaries who originally served Duke Ludovico, and used them to consume the ammunition of our defenders... ...Even, they caught a lot of local youths on the way, pretending to be soldiers and rushing to the top of the city,

In order to consume our army's ammunition..."

"I'm wondering if we can also learn from the French, using the Italians as vanguards to launch attacks and consume the enemy's ammunition. In this way, we can not only consume the enemy's ammunition and avoid casualties of our army, but also I can give an explanation to the great nobles in the country..."

"Good idea!" Ferdinand II slapped the table immediately and shouted happily.

Then, the next day, Ferdinand II and Juan III jointly issued a public order ordering Gonzalo de Cordoba to fight the French bravely "like a man"...

But at the same time, they secretly sent spies to secretly send a letter to Gonzalo de Cordoba, ordering him to get some Italian mercenaries or strong men to come over, let those Italians be cannon fodder, and launched a grand but meaningless campaign storm……

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After receiving two orders with completely different meanings, Gonzalo de Cordoba immediately knew what to do. From the 60,000 army, he divided 20,000 horses and marched to several other cities in the Kingdom of Naples to occupy those cities and capture the Italian mercenaries stationed there.

Soon, those weak-willed Italian mercenaries were captured by the Spanish army. During this period, the French also tried to take advantage of the decrease in the Spanish army to launch a surprise attack. As a result, he was successfully repelled by Gonzalo de Cordoba, who was as steady as a dog.

No matter how brave the French knights were, it would be difficult for them to break through the immoral trenches with wooden pickets created by Marin. And the artillery group that France is proud of, because the caliber is too small, the small shells can't blast the low earth wall that Gonzalo de Cordoba asked his men to build up the city at all.

Therefore, despite the superiority in numbers, the French just couldn't break through the defense line of Gonzalo de Cordoba's 40,000 army. Even, many elites were lost in the attack. In desperation, the French had no choice but to retreat into the city and wait for the opponent to attack.

Soon, less than 15,000 remaining Italian mercenaries who were originally used as cannon fodder by the French were taken outside Naples by the Spaniards and forced to attack the city again as cannon fodder.

Now these Italian mercenaries quit, wanting to resist this tragic fate. As a result, a group of Italian mercenaries who took the lead in the resistance "stabbed their heads" were beaten into a sieve by the Spanish musketeers just like Xu Wenqiang...

Seeing that the comrades who took the lead in the resistance turned into blood-sieved companions under the rain of Spanish bullets, the remaining Italian mercenaries could only succumb.

But the Italian mercenaries were obviously not willing to be cannon fodder, so the Italian mercenary leader Pastor stood up and asked Gonzalo de Cordoba to allow him to go to the surrounding villages again to catch local young men as cannon fodder to replace them die...

Of course Gonzalo de Cordoba didn't care about this, but the Naples general in the Spanish army quit. They all entered the army to serve Spain after Spain ruled the Kingdom of Naples. However, after all, they are all from Naples, and some of them are from the countryside around the city of Naples. How can they tolerate seeing the people in their hometown being used as cannon fodder to block bullets?

So a local general named Leonidas protested loudly:

"Since it is to die, why not let the French go? We Naples are also loyal to the two His Majesties of Spain. Please, Mr. Gonzalo, don't ignore their lives! Because they are also the subjects of the two Majesties!"

Gonzalo de Cordoba thought to himself, yes. We are not invaders of the Kingdom of Naples now, but defenders. It is true that we cannot let the locals die. And let the French die instead of the natives...seems like a good idea...

It is ironic to use French methods against the French. However, the Spaniards are very fond of it. After all, they won't feel sorry for how many French people die.

So, Gonzalo de Cordova called Morientes, the fleet commander of the Kingdom of Aragon, who was on standby at the pier, and gave him an order:

"You lead the fleet and thousands of troops to the southern coast of France and capture the local strong men. I will be useful!"

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Then, while preparing, the Spanish army waited for news from Morientes. It didn't take long for Morientes' fleet to escort two or three thousand French coastal farmers to the dock at the port of Naples.

"Hurry up, hurry up, while you have time, let the local women sew a batch of clothes similar to Spanish military uniforms for them! You, go get some broken doors as shields, and equip these French farmers. Then, let them climb the city wall! "

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