"Whoa!"

A delicate vase from the East was smashed to the ground.

Then, an intricately carved marble statue was pushed to the ground, the heavy statue smashing two cracks in the ground, and the statue's raised arm being smashed into several pieces.

Giovanni was furious, he felt betrayed, and the person who betrayed him was still the closest to him.

Giovanni always considered himself the true heir to the Borgia family, and although Caesar was most favored by his father, Caesar, who held the priesthood, would be the pope even if he could reach the top, and he could only be the successor to the secular power of Borgia.

As for Jeffrey, Giovanni never saw him as a threat to himself.

In addition to the fact that Alexander VI suspected that Jeffrey was not his biological son from the beginning, more importantly, Jeffrey was a bear child.

Jeffrey's squeaky and unacceptable impulsiveness doomed him to be a bear child for the rest of his life, and his reckless and easy-to-act temper made Alexander VI have a bad feeling for Jeffrey from an early age, leading Giovanni to believe that their father would never consider Jeffrey a good heir.

Everything was so good, and although Caesar was sometimes jealous and aggressive towards him, Giovanni still believed that as a member of the family, one day their family would become the most respected family under the joint impetus of the two major forces, the secular and the ecclesical.

But he never imagined that Caesar would one day openly declare war on him!

Although he didn't offer to fight him for anything, Giovanni's sudden renunciation of the priesthood surprised Giovanni and made him extremely angry!

Even the most prominent families, but still can not have unlimited wealth and territory, many children can eventually inherit the territory and wealth of only a few people, since ancient times, even the big nobles, the young children are often the result of entering the monastery to become monks and nuns, and the fate of illegitimate children is even more bleak.

Giovanni was the heir to the secular power of the Borgia family, but that was in the past, and when Caesar renounced his priesthood, Giovanni knew he was about to face a dangerous enemy.

Giovanni still clearly remembers how he came to be Duke of Gandino, who inherited the title of his half-brother Louis Borgia who died in battle, and married his brother's fiancée, so that Giovanni, who might have only had a small piece of territory, suddenly became a duke with a duke, and he quickly replaced his brother's position in his father's mind and became the rightful future master of the "Borgia dynasty".

But now that everything was ruined by Caesar, Giovanni believed that Caesar must be jealous of the worldly power he had, perhaps he was careful that he could only spend his life in a legal robe, even if there were a group of illegitimate children, but they could not justifiably assign them the territory that originally belonged to the Borgia family, so in the end Caesar decided to give up the cardinal throne that had been within reach, and simply put on secular clothes again and compete for secular power.

But this was a disaster for Giovanni, and the thought of sharing the rights that belonged to him alone with his brother, who was also his father's favorite son, felt that Caesar was not only hateful, but also hated him.

"Traitor, thief," Giovanni kept walking around, his emotions so excited that Xia San's dissuasion later became a source of suspicion, he walked over and grabbed Xia San's arm and stared at her eyes, "Tell me why you spoke for him, I know you've always had a relationship with him, haven't you, I, Caesar and Jeffrey, you're so kind to everyone in our family." ”

Xia San's face flushed, she didn't expect Giovanni to be so excited about Caesar's renunciation, let alone that he would be so blunt and sarcastic about himself.

"Do you think I'm going to do with Caesar?" Xia San angrily shook off Giovanni's hand, "Don't forget that I am Jeffrey's wife, and isn't your current move infringing on the power that belongs to him, what right do you have to accuse me?" ”

Xia San's words angered Giovanni, and also aroused the desire in his heart, he suddenly reached out and picked Xia San up despite her struggle and resistance, and walked towards the bedroom: "Okay, I'll violate Geoffrey's power again now, just see if you can forget that you are Geoffrey's wife!" ”

Giovanni's roughness scared Xia San a little, she kept struggling but couldn't fight the man holding her, she was thrown on the bed, and then her skirt was ripped again, Xia San tried to resist, but the struggle quickly turned into a rough caress that immersed both of them.

The two kept biting and kissing each other on the bed, and when the unspeakable anger finally found vent in the woman, Giovanni lay on the bed in a daze, staring at the patterned ceiling above his head in silence.

"What are you worried about? Caesar? "Didn't your father decide to send him to Naples and let you command his army?" This proves that he still prefers to believe in you. ”

"You think so?" Giovanni glanced at Chassan, he knew that the woman next to him was actually not very smart like her husband Geoffrey, and if you looked closely, she might not even be as smart as Joanna, the former queen of Naples, "I know that my father is planning to marry Lucrezia to your brother, and only in this way can I deal with the threat of Spicy Milan, but I always felt that Caesar would not be so easy to go to Naples just for this reason." ”

"And what do you think he wants to do?" Xia Sang said and lowered her head and kissed Giovanni's chest, seeing that the man's body trembled lightly because of this, she simply jokingly kept pulling the man's thick chest hair with her teeth, "Don't worry too much, your father will arrange everything for him, he will find a good family for him, and then give him a small piece of territory, and then it depends on his own ability, he will not be a threat to you, you are the Duke of Gandino, and the only heir to the Borgia family in the future." ”

"I hope so, I hope everything is as you say." Giovanni's eyes glanced out the window.

At the window, a few budding roses are gently swaying in the warm breeze, and the warmth of spring is already strong.

Unbeknownst to Giovanni, in a corner of the garden, a pair of eyes were staring at the two men in the bedroom through the window, until the two men in the room began to fight each other again, and the owner of those eyes quietly left.

Although the Milanese army had crossed the Maggiorasca Pass into the traditional Romagna region, Ludvico Sforza was very cautious, and after receiving conclusive information from the front, he did not let the army continue to advance, but stationed in a small town called Royalo, through which he continued to the southeast to be a small plain of the same name, and Ludvico did not let his army rashly cross this Raino plain, but began to build simple outposts on the edge of the plain, Watch vigilantly for movement from the direction of Rome.

However, the Milanese army remained firmly on the road to the Machoraska Mountains, and the German mercenary cavalry he sent went west to the shores of the Delenian Sea, blocking the coastal road from the peninsula to the interior.

It is clear that Ludviko is trying to press steadily and steadily, and in the current situation, as long as the road to the interior is blocked, then all the initiative is in his hands.

When the news of the arrival of the Milanese in Reialo reached Rome, the Romans, fearing that war would break out immediately, were finally relieved.

In the eyes of many people, Ludvik's move is of course putting pressure on the Holy See, but since they made this gesture instead of killing them without ignoring it, then everything is okay.

Alexander VI sent another emissary to Milan, but before that he sent Caesar, who had just renounced his priesthood, to Naples.

In Caesar's bag, in addition to a letter from Alexander VI to Frederick, king of Naples, there was a portrait of his daughter Lucrezia.

Everyone was watching to see how rumors of a possible blockade of Rome's roads to the interior by the Milanese were spreading, to the point where even the general population was starting to feel uneasy.

At the same time, another news circulated among the aristocracy and wealthy merchants, that is, a certain lady seemed to be able to hoard enough food through some special channels, as well as all kinds of materials that would definitely be bullish in the event of a war.

Orgala's residence on Via Manzoni became lively, and the nobles and wealthy began to pay a courteous visit to the newly emerging lady in Rome, while more people began to inquire about who was behind the beautiful woman.

Only Alexander seemed to have something in mind when he heard the news that the Milanese were stationed on the edge of the Plain of Reial.

But he was in Gonzalo's palace at the time, watching Gonzalo jump around among a large pile of carved wooden dolls.

Watching Gonzalo instruct his servants to place the puppets with spears and axes in different positions according to his orders, and as he arranged a large model of the phalanx that was beginning to take shape, Alexander couldn't help but ask himself if he had done something stupid.

"The musketeers should be arranged in a ratio of 9:1 or 10:1, of course there can be less, I think there should be more sword and shield soldiers," Gonzalo picked up the wine glass on the table next to him and poured it into his throat, which was a little dry because he kept talking, "The muskets may be more powerful than the bow and crossbow, but they are much less useful against a disciplined enemy, I don't see how you did it in Appio, but believe me, if it weren't for the captain of the Hausenbach heavy cavalry who died in battle at the beginning, You won't pick up anything cheap, and you might even lose money. That's why I think it's more important to have a solid formation than to be able to shoot the enemy from a distance. ”

Gonzalo chattered, his hand waving from time to time to strengthen his tone, and when he saw something dissatisfied, he would immediately scold the servants to disrupt the puppets that had already been photographed and rearrange them.

"There should be a larger horizontal team, so that the enemy will not easily threaten the flanks, but if the horizontal team is too large, it may make the whole team look bloated and unmobile," Gonzalo used a sturdy cane with a silver beast's head to draw a vague horizontal line between the figures on the ground, "The team should be divided into more detail, or the battle team should be expanded." ”

Alexander looked at Gonzalo in deep thought, imagining that this man would one day lead his famous Spanish phalanx across the field, but for a moment an inexplicable fighting spirit suddenly rose in his heart.

Although the man in front of him is famous for his extraordinary military genius, he doesn't know much about Gonzalo's innovation in military technology in the future?

In that case, who knows better than you how to deal with this person?

Why, then, should we fear being his enemy?

Gonzalo may be terrible because of the future behemoth of Spain behind him, but Alexander believes that as long as he is not so unlucky to die early, or unfortunately fall into the hands of Isabella, he will one day be able to fight this man on the battlefield.

"It must be tighter," Gonzalo suddenly fluffed his cane and knocked over a puppet in front of him, "and must be able to resist the cavalry's charge, and be able to completely suppress the enemy when confronting the same number of infantry." ”

Gonzalo walked back and forth through the chaotic pile of puppets, kicking the puppets in his way and sweeping them together with his cane.

"Be tighter in the queue, make your enemies think they're facing a moving castle and not a bunch of stupid farmers, everyone must be part of the others, and make sure that when the enemy cavalry rushes up, there are at least a few spears to greet the guests." Gonzalo kept talking, and then he grabbed an apple from the table next to him, "If you have to say how dense it is, it has to be like this, you have to make sure that no matter where you throw an apple at this formation, the apple will be poked at the tip of the spear, not on the ground." ”

As he spoke, he tossed the apple in his hand upward, then quickly grabbed the long sword placed on the table and stabbed it upward.

The apple smacked to the ground and knocked down several puppets, while Gonzalo stood stunned in the middle of a pile of crooked puppets with his sword raised.

"Anyway, that's what it means."

Gonzalo coughed, bent down to pick up the apple, and with a "vicious" puff of it, stabbed it on the tip of his sword and shook it at Alexander.

Looking at the apple that was stuck in the tip of the sword and kept shaking, Alexander couldn't help but feel a little trembling.

It was at this time that he heard the news of the presence of Milanese in Ciudad Roare.

When he heard the news, Alexander vaguely felt that something seemed wrong.

The thought lingered in his mind, and as soon as he returned to Marino Palace, he had a map brought to him.

After staring for a while at the location of the Milanese-entrenched city of Roare on the map with a puzzled look, Alexander's eyes unconsciously glanced at the place where his finger was pressing.

It is located on the eastern edge of the Loare Plain.

And the peak of the Milanese army could cross the Loare Plain at any time and occupy it.

Seeing that place, Alexander finally understood why he always felt that something was wrong.

At the same time, looking at the castle symbol on the map under his palm, Alexander suddenly felt the urge to shout at Ludviko Sforza.

The castle was called Château Montienaueuvé.

Unfortunately, this is the domain of Alexander's titular fiancée, Barentia della Rovere, and it is the new home of the two of them after they got married.