Chipes looked at the bohemian standing in front of him with a curious gaze.

He had little affection for the Bohemians, either in the Prague court or in the wilderness, which always reminded him of Ladislas II.

But the man in front of him piqued his interest.

But the most important thing is that this person is Sophia's nominal adoptive father.

Nashan wiped the slightly upturned whisker tip of his lips with his hand, he was as surprised as Zha had just heard about the situation, they would never have thought that they would be able to reach Bucharest smoothly, but they did not expect to crash into the battlefield all at once.

The Anatolian cavalry that encountered the Shosha was met head-on almost at the very first contact, and several Ottoman light cavalry were beaten into a sieve by the oncoming rows of projectiles without even seeing what the enemy looked like.

The other Anatolian scouts in the distance were taken aback, some of them quickly drew their sabers and swooped down on the top of the slopes, while others turned their horses and ran swiftly in the way they came, and they were to report to Sisuggu that they had encountered an enemy of unknown origin in the southeast of the city.

The cavalry that rushed towards the enemy was not meant to fight, but more to find out the strength of these enemies.

But what made them feel terrible was that when they had not yet rushed down the slope, the number of enemies above seemed to increase considerably, and to their surprise, there were also shaking figures on the side of the hillside, and those who seemed to be not moving very quickly, but were very decisive The enemies who surrounded them from both sides stopped far away, and then raised their muskets one after another.

It's all musketeers!

The thought had just crossed the minds of some of the Ottomans, and the sound of gunfire from almost simultaneously in three directions had already poured into their ears.

The grenadiers were still nervous, after all, this was only their second battle.

And, unlike the army led by Alexander, these grenadiers encountered the famous Ottoman army in the second battle.

The shots, which were not in a neat order due to the tension, seemed to be layered, but even so, the dense and intertwined barrage still weaved a web of death in the clearing below the hillside.

All the charging Anatolian light cavalry had not even been able to fully penetrate the concave net, many had been beaten into a sieve, and the horses that had lost their masters kept running forward, while the corpses of some of them still hanging from the stirrups and being dragged forward and rolled forward left a long trail of blood on the green grass.

The Anatolian Scouts opened a chapter in the history of the First Grenadier in Kosenza with a near-total annihilation.

However, after the battle, Jisha immediately became nervous.

She didn't know how she had come across the Ottomans in this far away part of Bucharest, although it was not clear how many enemies there were, but it could be surmised that they were just spearheads or scouts, which meant that they might encounter the Ottoman army next.

Khosa immediately ordered the party to retreat north, and then, after some consideration, she had Nashan rush to Slobozia with a few men to find out the news.

The reason why Slobozia is believed to have not fallen is because there were no locals fleeing along the way, although it is also possible that the refugees did not flee in the direction of Constanta, but it is unlikely that the city has fallen into the hands of the Ottomans.

Nashan entered Slobozia without any problems, and to his surprise, he did not expect to meet Chipes here.

"Is Sophia okay?" Nashan asked the Grand Duke that he had made no secret of his concern for his daughter, and that he believed that Chipes knew that Sophia was his own daughter, "a long time since I saw her." ”

"She's fine, or a little too proud." Chipes couldn't help but complain, since Alexander arrived in Bucharest, Sophia had almost forgotten everything around her, everything she did seemed to be related to Alexander, which inevitably made Chipes a little disappointed: "She is with the Count of Montina now, and I have heard that the Patriarch has blessed their marriage." ”

"I knew it was going to be bad," Nashan clenched his fist a little annoyed, "that Cambrai was her nightmare." ”

Chipes thought for a moment and asked tentatively, "Tell me about the Count of Montina, I think he seems to have come to Buchareste for a purpose, to tell me what this man is all about." ”

"Well, that lad," Nashan thought for a moment but shook his head, "if you want to know more, you'd better ask someone who really knows him, just outside the city, his sister, Countess Cosenza of Naples, who has a good relationship with Gombray, and you can ask her." ”

"Why, has the sister of the Count of Montina also arrived in Bucharest?" Chipes asked, stunned.

"Yes, and I would like to warn you that this young and uneasy lady is not so easy to deal with, but in fact the family is not a fuel-efficient lamp except for their mother, who is beautiful but a little silly."

This advice made Chipes look at Nassan, speaking of which the relationship between Nasan and the Queen of Bohemia was nothing new, and even the king himself had heard of it, but it was only because the queen was a princess of Naples that Ladislas II simply pretended to be deaf and dumb about this matter and ignored it.

However, Nashan's words aroused Tzepes's curiosity, and the fact that he had heard that Tsuisa seemed to have brought a powerful musket unit made Tseppes want to meet the countess of Nakosenza sooner.

Almost at the same time that Chipes got the news, Sisugu also received information from the scouts who had fled.

This surprised Sisugu, who repeatedly described the battle they had seen, and was surprised at first when he heard that almost an entire group of scout cavalry had been killed almost completely before they could reach the enemy, and then suddenly walked up to the top and looked at the city of Slobozia in the distance.

"We have to find that army, we have to find them as soon as possible!" Sisugu suddenly ordered, "Send cavalry to them, and we must not let that army contact the people in the city of Slobozia, otherwise we will be in big trouble." ”

Sisugu, who was already suffering from the complicated terrain of Slobozia, realized that he might encounter more trouble, and if that strange army was really as the scouts described, it meant that if they were to unite with the city's Chipes and borrow the terrain of Slobozia, he might face an extremely difficult battle.

An Ottoman army, led by the scouts, immediately marched southeast of the city to search.

According to Sisugku's orders, after finding that strange army, stop them from approaching Slobozia at all costs, and annihilate them in the field if possible.

"That army relied on the power of a large number of firearms when used intensively, but if they were in the field they could not stop the cavalry charge, but if they entered Slobozia, then they could rely on the strong buildings of the city and the obstacles formed by the narrow waterways to make the most of the power of firearms, which would be fatal to us."

Xi Sugu made an accurate judgment in a very short time, and although he didn't know the origin of that army, he still immediately discovered the threat that the other party might pose to him.

The cavalry quickly advanced to the southeast, and this time Sisugu ordered his cavalry generals to attack quickly and without hesitation if they spotted the enemy.

"Don't care if you don't have time to form a team, I want you to rush up as soon as you see the enemy's shadow, tear them apart, disrupt them, and don't give the enemy any chance to form a concentration of fire."

Xi Sugu was a little excited and excited when he gave the order, and he surprised his subordinates like that, because even in the face of the most powerful enemy, they had never seen such a gaffe from the general.

"It's a genius, or a fool, but whatever he is, I'd like to meet that man," Sisugu explained to his men, "knowing that this man has the audacity to use an army that has always consisted entirely of musketeers, if this man is either insane or has a unique set of tactics that perhaps no one knows yet." ”

Listening to Xi Sugu's excited and inexplicable words, a scout who had been standing silently next to him hesitated for a while before he said carefully: "Master, maybe I have seen the person you said." ”

"Did you see him?" Xi Sugu immediately asked urgently, "Have you seen their commander, are you sure that person is the commander of this army, and not just a captain or some unimportant officer?" ”

The scout was a little overwhelmed by the series of questions from Xi Sugu, and it was not until he was questioned again that the scout replied with a little confusion: "I don't know if that person is the commander of this army, but because she is so special, I still noticed that person even though she was far away." ”

"Wait, you're talking about 'her'?" Sisugu finally noticed the most wonderful part of the scout's words.

"Yes, my lord, it's 'her', a woman, far away, but I'm sure it's a young woman who commands the musketeers."

"Muskets? Woman? Xi Sugu stared at the scout's face for a long time, and finally burst out with a sentence, "Tell me, are you crazy or am I crazy, or is the woman you said is crazy?" ”

The scout looked at Xi Sugu with a blue face in a daze, and his heart trembled, and he couldn't help but say, "Maybe it's all crazy......

As the convoy kept moving north, it was evident that there was some kind of danger, a strange sensation that I couldn't even tell, like an animal's instinctive vigilance against predators, or a woman's intuition.

This instinct told her that she might be in danger if she didn't get out of that place sooner, or that when she saw the Anatolian light cavalry charging towards her, she realized that the nearby terrain was unfavorable to her.

The plains without any cover were too suitable for cavalry charges, and the agility of the Ottoman hussars was by no means something that a convoy could stop.

The reason why they were able to almost wipe out all those robbers so easily last time was only because the other party didn't know their details.

But now it was the Ottoman army that he had to deal with, and he would not think that the infidels would be foolish enough to make the same mistake twice, and since this was undoubtedly the right choice.

It is impossible to move fast just because there are too many captives.

Resolutely, he ordered the release of all the captives, and threw the saber hanging from the saddle in front of the bandit leader, who had just been untied, whether the man could understand or not, and shouted:

"If you're lucky, you'll be able to run away!"

She threw a shiny object at the man, and ran towards the front of the convoy with her feet in the belly of the horse.

"That woman is really delicious," a robber walked up to the leader and licked his tongue as he looked at the distant back, "I've been thinking all these days, if this woman can become my wife, I can even convert her." ”

"Shut up, how dare you joke with such a thing." The leader angrily scolded his companion, looked at the saber in his hand, and then released his right fist.

In the palm of his hand is a shiny gold coin with the goddess Athena holding a shield in her left hand and a musket in her right hand.

"Let's go, as she said, if you're lucky, you can run away." The leader began to shout at his companions to gather the women and children who were running in a hurry, and they must flee before the Ottomans arrived.

The convoy moved forward rapidly, and in order to avoid being overtaken by the Ottomans, Jisha had ordered unnecessary things to be thrown away, and although she was in a hurry, she ordered the convoy to keep the formation of two rows as much as possible.

"If you really can't get rid of it, you can only form a car formation defense in place." After thinking about it carefully, she made this decision: "As long as we hold on, we can wait for reinforcements from Slobozia. ”

"But how did we know that the Slobozia army would come to our aid, and perhaps they would not dare to come because they were afraid." A maid turned blue with fear, and she poked out of the carriage with a half-smiling face and asked her master nervously, "And maybe it would be better if we didn't let those robbers go, after all, they are also Christians, and they should be able to fight with us." ”

As she rode forward, she tilted her head to look at the frightened maid in the carriage, her eyes calm but cold, until the maid bowed her head in uneasiness.

"If Nashan had seen the commander of that army, that man should have known how much of a threat they would be if they didn't come to our aid, if these firearms we were transporting fell into the hands of the Ottomans," Tsusha decided to be patient, after all, she still liked the maid very much, so she didn't mind saying a few more words, "As for the robbers, I let them go because they could hold the Ottomans back for us." ”

The maid listened in a daze, first she didn't understand, and then her mouth opened as if she was being stretched out by something!

Jisha looked back into the distance, and when she saw those Hussites running blindly back and forth on the grassland, she couldn't help but shake her head slightly and sigh softly.

If those robbers were the only ones, they might have a chance to escape, but they dragged their families with them.

Knowing that the men would not leave their women and children behind, they wasted their precious time gathering and caring for them.

In this way, those people would become bait to attract the Ottomans.

"God forgive me, these people could have been good slaves," Jisha whispered to herself, then raised her head and ordered in a loud voice, "Speed up, if you don't want to be overtaken by the Ottomans, run quickly!" ”

The Hussites were running incessantly in the wilderness, and many of them were women and children, so a lot of time was wasted in gathering them.

By the time most of the people finally fled in the direction they had come from, a cloud of smoke and dust had risen on the horizon in the distance.

"Run, run!"

The leader shouted as he turned and ran back, and the men ran out of the group, some struggling to break free as they ran, clutching at the women who refused to let go.

"Don't go! You're going to be killed! The woman was dragged to the ground, but she still clung to the man's clothes like crazy and refused to let go.

"Run, little fool." The man let out a low shout, then gritted his teeth and punched the woman in the face.

The woman screamed and fell to the ground, and when she got up, the man's figure had disappeared into the distance.

The Ottoman cavalry had already appeared in front of them, and they began to look a little confused, as if they did not know whether to attack this inexplicable group, but in a moment they began to run against the Hussites.

The shiny saber that flew like snowflakes was so dazzling at this moment, and when he looked up at the oncoming blade, the beautiful woman suddenly flashed in front of the bandit leader's eyes.

"What a smart woman."

The leader had a strange smile on his face, he knew that he had fallen into the trap of that woman, but even then they could not back down, because behind them were their own relatives.

The Ottomans on the opposite side had already rushed in front of them, and the leader gave a shout!

"It is the pious who return to the dust, and the soul will ascend to heaven!"

The last shout of the leader erupted with the sound of the hooves of the oncoming Ottoman horsemen striking the ground.

But then the sound was swallowed up by the whistling of the sabers of the Anatolian cavalry.

Josha's hand gripped the musket, she could feel her heart pounding, she didn't feel guilty about her decision, and in fact she didn't have any sympathy for the Hussites.

The fate of those people was sealed when she was captured, and if all went well, she would send them all to the plantations of Crete, where they would work under the scorching sun and the erosion of the sea breeze, which was already a headache because of the turmoil that had caused a massive loss of population on the island.

Now her only concern was how long the Hussites could hold off the Ottomans.

A dense forest in front of her caught her attention, and she immediately ordered the convoy to drive into the dense forest.

There was a cry of panic from the back of the group, and Shosha suddenly looked back to see a cloud of smoke and dust drifting rapidly in their direction.

"It's the Ottomans!"

The maid in the carriage screamed, and her cry immediately caused a panic, and the coachmen desperately drove the carriage forward, and the convoy that was originally two rows parallel appeared to be scattered in an instant, and even the whole formation showed signs of disarray.

"Shut up!"

With the sound of a gunshot, the butt of the short musket in her hand shook violently on her shoulder, and the force of the counter-impact made her slender waist shake, but then she sat down on the horse.

"Hurry up into the woods!" Although there was a hint of panic on her face, she immediately tried to calm herself down, she grabbed her mount and looked behind her, and couldn't help but murmur, "Didn't those Hussites even hold back for such a short time?" ”

The smoke and dust in the distance got closer, and the people in the convoy stared nervously ahead, and Jisha rode his horse and patrolled back and forth along the edge of the convoy.

The dim light in the woods made it impossible to see outside, but Tsusha didn't expect to escape the Ottomans in this way.

Looking at the figures of the cavalry getting closer and closer, Jisha told every soldier passing by: "Don't panic, remember your usual training, they are just those targets and prey you shoot, look at their horses, and then shoot, it's as simple as that." ”

"Miss, I'll probably be killed."

A young soldier's lips trembled and he raised his head to say to Jisha, his face was full of horror, and this fear seemed to infect the people next to him for a while, and people couldn't help but look at Jisha.

"Trust me, we can all live."

Jisha shoved a gold coin into the young soldier's hand, "Take it, this is one of the first gold coins my brother minted, when this is all over, you come to me with this gold coin, I will redeem it with 100 florins." ”

The young soldier nodded violently, then slipped the gold coins into his pocket.

The figure of the cavalry finally broke through the smoke and came into view, and Tsusha dismounted from his horse and held his short musket to his shoulder.

She actually knew that her musket would not be useful at such a distance, but she still had the habit of raising her gun to aim at the shadowy figure in the distance.

Then she straightened her waist and pulled a slender saber from her waist.

"Grenadier, Ready~"

“La sparatoria！”

The distinctive command of the young girl and the majestic countess sounded again, and the fierce gunfire burst out from the woods towards the plain in an instant, resounding through the sky.

Many years later, a small statue was erected on the square near the town hall in Slobozia.

The material used is not the stone or copper used to shape the statues, but the rare iron, and the sculpture is not a well-known hero or a legend of religious mythology, but a broken saber.

Under this statuette, which stands tall in front of the pool of the square, there are two rows of inscriptions in Cyrillic.

"To commemorate the battle that took place in the city of Slobozia on May 11, 1499."

"Miss Josa Cosenza, Count of Cosenza of Naples, who once bravely resisted the Ottoman invaders here."