King of Mercenaries

Chapter 47: Charles VIII flee (Unedited)

"How is this? The enemy does not want to stop us?" Charles VIII is somewhat puzzled.

"Maybe, there are not many other people. Or, they dare not fight hard with the powerful French knight?"

"Maybe..." Charles VIII paused thinking and began to observe both sides...

After observing for a while, he also discovered that the enemy does not seem to be a lot...

"Matthews, the enemy seems to have only two or three thousand people..." Charles VIII speculated. In fact, he still overestimated the number of people under Marin. After all, according to common sense, there are no two or three thousand people, and they dare not provoke 8000 French knights.

"That's good, sire, let's eliminate this gang," said Earl Matthews excitedly.

"Idiot, where do we have enough time? You don't want to think about it. If they open the game here, can they not inform the Italians? If the Italian reinforcements arrive, we can't run away! And, God knows that more than 10,000 Germans Where is the man!" Charles VIII does not want to fight hard. If the Italians came over, it would be hard to get rid of it. What surprised him even more is, where is the main force of the Germans?

"Then, squat, what do we do next?"

"Matthews, you take the 2000 Knight, dismount, and open up a safe passage in front! Remember, at any cost!" Charles VIII said with a bite.

He does not want to be captured. If he is surrounded by enemy forces, he will certainly not escape the captured misfortune. Imagine if he was captured and where did his face rest?

In the future, who is going to say who is going on? Besides, after being captured, being humiliated is certain. Maybe he will be forced to be imprisoned for a year or two like King Richard I, and then have to pay a huge ransom (Richard I paid a ransom of 150,000 marks to the Emperor Henry VI), and he was forced to be forced before leaving. Loyalty to an emperor (Richard I was forced to swear allegiance to Henry VI)...

All of this was unbearable for Charles VIII, so he decided that he had to run away anyway. Even if you dispose of the army, you will not hesitate. After all, the army is gone and can be recruited again. If he is gone, then the fun is big.

Matthews also felt the determination of Charles VIII, so he took the 2000 French brawny, armed with two-handed swords, and smashed the stones from time to time, and began to cut off those dead horses. At the same time, use the two-handed sword as a shovel and start digging the soil to fill the pit...

However, how can the two-handed sword compare with the engineer? That efficiency, the old nose is far away... So, Matthews is very slow and slow...

An hour later, Charles VIII was a little impatient, and he recruited Earl of Tours:

"Matthews, how are you?"

"Your squat, the speed is a bit slow, and the two-handed sword fills the pit too slowly..."

"Then don't think about getting the whole road done, first specializing in a narrow passage."

Charles VIII didn't want to wait any longer. In his opinion, the enemy on the hillside must have informed the Italian battalion. If it is waiting for an hour or two, maybe the Italians will come over and he can't wait.

After receiving the order, Matthews changed the way and began to dig only one passage that could only pass through a horse. In this way, the speed is indeed a lot faster...

Marin looked at it above, so it doesn't work. So he started to make noise:

"The reinforcements are coming, the reinforcements are coming, we have to catch Charles VIII and cut him into pieces!" This sentence is also French. Many of his men have worked in France and will speak French at any time.

After Marin shouted, the bottom of the stick also followed the noise. Charles VIII was shocked by a big jump - Nima, this mob, to hack the king? Do you know that Europe is not allowed to kill the nobility? However, if you accidentally kill yourself on the battlefield, it is not illegal. The rule in Europe is that it is not allowed to kill the aristocrats who surrendered, but did not say that they are not allowed to kill the aristocrats in the battle. Can surrender, Charles VIII will not choose. Because that is too insulting...

Matthews took the 2000 French knight and played with his life to fill the pile. Even if he was killed by 300 people, he would not stop. Marin has already seen that the Frenchman is eager to escape.

So he waved his hand and recruited Kahn:

"Kahn, you bring people to move more big stones!" Marin decided to use a large stone to block the narrow passage that the French dug out...

Speaking of it, because the French people are wearing thick plate armor, the bow and arrow effect is also general, but it shoots a lot of armor without armor. When Marin saw this, he simply let the archer slow down the firing rate.

Through the telescope, he observed that the French were stoned to death, but only five or six hundred people. In addition, before the climb was smashed down and fell, the French people were only seven or eight hundred people. Like a small stone to the French knight, the most painful, or injured, can not die.

Seeing this, Marin simply let the archers stop and let them go to move the medium-sized stones. Medium stone can kill people and move. Unlike big stones, you can only push it down, you can't throw it down, and the people in the middle are purely looking for luck. The kind of stone that can scare and kill the enemy, at least the size of the brick.

Marin's general defense against the French knight's tortoise shell was also tangled with a toothache. He finally knew that he used a large firearm instead of a bow and arrow for the Spanish square. The bow and arrow hit the infantry without the plate armor effect, used to shoot the board knight, no effect at all. Just now the archers shot so many arrows, causing the number of casualties of the French army, no more than 100 people, far less than the stone's lethality.

Marin can be sure that if he is on the plains, his team with no practical experience can't stop the French knight's impact at any cost.

Fortunately, he sent people to ambush on the mountain, and it is difficult for the French to climb the mountain.

After a while, after Matthews lost 800 knights, he finally opened a wide-ranging passage in a dense trap...

"Your Majesty, Chen finally opened a passage!"

"Are you sure there are no traps in front?"

"Yes, the vassal sent someone to check it out!"

"Okay, rush over!"

"Yes!"

Then the hordes of French troops gathered and rushed to the very narrow passage.

However, the passage can only accommodate one person and one horse, so the efficiency is surprisingly low...

After an hour, only 1,500 French knights were passed, including Charles VIII and Earl Matthews, and other confidants of Charles VIII...

But at this time, the team led by Kahn moved a lot of big stones and piled up on the hillside...

At the same time, Marin released three fireworks that he made himself:

"Bang"

"Bang"

"Bang"

"What is that?" Earl Matthews looked up curiously at the sky.

"Not good, that is the enemy is calling for reinforcements!" Charles VIII changed his face.

Kohler, a few miles away from the south, saw the signal and immediately ordered:

"The two torches are put on, and one person takes two, spread out, but keep the formation. Brother, you arrange them to stand!" These torches are all the wooden sticks that Kohler is in the village. The simple torches that were tied to the rags that were soaked in grease could not be burned for a long time, but they did not need to burn for too long.

When everyone's torches were ignited and stood up, Kohler began to order:

"Several of you who speak Italian, tell these Italian farmers to scream in Italian, 'Catch Charles VIII, destroy the French!'"

Then, 1000 Italian farmers, with a sparse formation, shouted and slowly walked to the ambush...

"Your Majesty, not good, the enemy reinforcements came to the south, fearing that there are thousands of people!" The scouts who stayed behind the South Hall quickly ran to the front to report.

"What? Who is it?"

"It seems to be an Italian, and across the distance, I hear them shouting 'Destroy the Frenchman', and... grab you down..."

"What..." Charles VIII's face was blue.

But the thing that made him even bigger is still behind. At this time, Kahn and other strong men carrying the big stones in place began to push the stones down the mountain, the direction of is the narrow path that the French open the passage...

Hundreds of large stones roared down and blocked the path that the French cavalry passed...

At this time, the French cavalry through this passage was less than 2,000. The unlucky broken leg, Freire, happened to be stuck in the valley...

"What to do?" Matthews was a little panicked.

The French thought that the main force of the Italians had arrived. If they were surrounded, they could not escape.

Charles VIII gnawed his teeth for a while, then he sent someone to climb the stone and told Count Fryer who had broken his left leg:

"When you leave, you take the people behind the temple and block the Italians. If you can't resist it... you can surrender... You will spend money to redeem yours..."

Earl of Freire stunned, and he knew that he was abandoned by His Majesty... Although Charles VIII promised to redeem him, a captured aristocrat would become a joke in the aristocratic circle...

Looking at the dusty Charles VIII and about 2000 French knights, Count Fryer's confidence collapsed. With the pain from the left leg, he has lost confidence in resistance... and, Charles VIII also allowed him to surrender...

Under his chaotic command, the Frenchmen who stayed in the valley were even more chaotic...

The escaping Charles VIII, in order to lightly go into battle, ordered the men to take off the plate armor and squat the horses of the horses, just to be able to run easily...

According to the instructions of the guide, go further to the north and enter the plain area. At that time, he can not walk the road, and he is not worried about being ambushed again. On the plains, infantry can hardly ambush the cavalry. In particular, the French took off the plate armor and the stables. It was a light-loaded battle. It was not a problem to escape one or two hundred miles in one breath...