Rondolba Barbareg has been in Trotino for some time.

He had been prepared from the moment he decided to abandon Vicenza, even to the point of intimidating his men who tried to resist him with a killing spree.

He did not give any chance to some generals who tried to create a rebellion, and in order to make the effect of deterrence better, he did not hesitate to choose the most drastic way to execute those traitors.

Compared to the soldiers who had been whipped before, the rebel generals were less fortunate in not only being pronounced to death, but also deprived of their last dignity.

As the men were pressed against the stumps of freshly cut down trees with new textures, the soldiers and officers who were ordered to watch the execution were horrified by the brutal style of Londoba Barbarig.

Several severed heads were roped and dropped by the camp gates, and the bodies were buried in a cemetery outside Trotino.

The summer heat immediately gave the heads a disgusting smell, but Rondolba Barbareg didn't care.

After such a brutal suppression, the army was temporarily calmed, and everyone knew by this time that little Babareg was in no way inferior to his uncle, and even more feared than his uncle in terms of cruelty.

However, Rondoba Barbarig also knew that although the turmoil had subsided for the time being, if he could not get in touch with the Austrians immediately, perhaps it would not be so easy to deal with when there was a mutiny among the soldiers.

It's just that the messenger he sent to Milan has not heard from him for a long time, and he not only does not dare to contact Venice at this time, but also does not want the Venetians to find him.

Unbeknownst to Rondoba Barbarige's officers, he sent some of his cronies out of Trotino and ambushed them on the road to Vicenza.

These people had only one purpose, and once they found an envoy from Venice, they would mercilessly intercept and kill them halfway.

Little Babarego knew very well that if there was an explanation for his abandonment of the rescue of Mestre and his transfer to Vicenza, then his simple withdrawal from the Veneto would not be forgiven by the Venetian nobles in any case.

So if the emissaries sent by Venice found them, the first thing they would do was undoubtedly to remove him from command.

What awaits him afterwards is likely to be a merciless punishment.

Little Babarig believed that there must have been many people who wanted to see him taken back to Venice and then tried in public before the public.

So he decided not to give the envoys the opportunity to meet with him altogether, and as he inquired in Trotino these days, he also found signs that perhaps the Austrians were planning something else.

In Trotino, not only did the Austrian troops who should have arrived not be seen, but the news about Milan became less and less good.

The supposed merger with the Austrians did not take place, and the news of what appeared to be an invasion of Milan by the French grew.

Little Babareg could not bear it any longer, and knew that he could not continue his retreat northward, for after crossing the river that flowed north of Trotino, he entered the branch of the Alps.

Even if it was summer, he would not have been able to cross the Alps with such an army.

After all, he is not Hannibal.

And the army is clearly not going to allow him to do so.

If there is another mutiny because of this, it will be difficult to deal with it so easily.

And the attempt of the French to occupy Milan also kept Rondolba Barbarig from the situation.

If there was a chance that he would be able to get away with the charge of running away afterwards, the only way to stop anyone from taking Milan was to find a way to prevent anyone from taking Milan.

The Venetians, of course, did not want the Roman-Thesians to get Milan, nor would they allow France or Austria to take possession of the Lombard capital.

Thinking about it this way, Rondoba Barbarig suddenly felt that perhaps Constantin Rovere was the only candidate to become the Duke of Milan and be accepted by all sides.

This thought made little Babarig's mood suddenly turn bad.

He didn't think he had the intelligence of his uncle, and his interest was more in the battlefield than in fighting the old men in the noble house.

Just as a member of the Barbareg family, and more importantly, the hope of the family after his uncle, little Barbareg knew that as long as he did not die on the battlefield or was killed by the conspiracy of political enemies along the way, he would one day follow his uncle's example and strive to become the governor of Venice of the Barbareg family again.

So he was very concerned about the situation in Lombardy, and he was also well aware of the many struggles that took place outside the battlefield.

When the Duke of Rome Thessia had publicly expressed his support for his brother-in-law to become Duke of Milan, Londoga Barbarig, like many others, believed that Alexander had done so purely because of family values.

Constantin de la Roverre's past behaviour had already shown that it was completely difficult for him to retain the title of Duke of Milan.

In particular, his abandonment of the city and his escape without waiting for the arrival of the French completely proved that he was not up to the task.

But Alexander still insisted on supporting Konstantin, which led many to consider it the first and worst mistake he had made so far.

It's just that Rondoba Barbarig suddenly discovered at this time that Constantine was actually the most suitable candidate for the Duke of Milan.

Because whoever it is, it seems, can accept him.

The French, the Austrians, Venice and the Holy See, if you think about it, you will see that the Rovere family has a deep or shallow relationship with all the nations.

And the favorable position of the Duchy of Rome and Thesia, which originally bordered Lombardy, gave them the reason and convenience to intervene in Lombard affairs at any time.

And in a situation where almost no one can allow anyone else to monopolize Milan, it is precisely the emergence of a figure who can do everything to break the deadlock.

"It would be terrible if this was something that the duke had already considered."

Little Barbareg muttered to himself, although he kept telling himself that he was just thinking too much, but deep down he knew very well that all this should be the plan of the Duke of Thesia.

Knowing that it was a grave crime to evacuate the Veneto without permission, the only chance he had to avoid the Senate was to prove to the Venetians once again that he was useful before the messenger arrived.

After a short rest, the Austrians, who could not wait for the younger, ordered the army to turn around and move south.

Once again, he set his sights on Milan, but this time he intended to march from north to south, and whether or not he could threaten the French, he had to make a gesture of fighting for Milan.

Otherwise, he would probably end up in two ways, either to be convicted by the Venetians or to be forced to flee to a foreign land.

Little Babarig was not willing to be a fugitive, so he had to give the Venetians a reason why they could not punish him.

The road from Trotino to Milan was not easy, and although the peninsula was not separated by the Apennines as in the south, the large hills and lakes still made his march difficult.

During this time, the scouts he sent out also brought back new information about Veneto.

What Barbarig did not expect was that the eastern and western legions of the Roman Tescian army did not delay after he withdrew from the battlefield, but quickly turned back before him and occupied Padua again.

Then the Roman army remained in Padua as if it could not do it all at once.

They established two parallel fronts before Padua and the Po.

Once again, the Ofleuil army faced Venice and was ready to attack.

The Gompati corps, on the other hand, once again followed the upper reaches of the Po River and made a new march towards Lombardy.

Listening to the scout's report, and thinking about the situation in Lombardy that he had deduced earlier, it was only then that Barbareg Jr. realized that perhaps the goal of Rome Thesia from the beginning was not Milan, at least not Milan until now, but actually Venice and the Veneto region.

This made little Barbareg secretly marvel at the ambition of the Duke of Rome Thesia, and at the same time, he couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he had made the right choice.

At the end of May, a story that seemed to have little to do with the war clouds of Lombardy reached Italy.

After capturing the Hungarian city of Pelape, the Wallachian army did not stop, but continued to move westward, trying to capture Kurshhaug, a silver-mining region in southern Hungary.

This move finally angered Maximian, and he sent an emissary to Northern Bosnia, intending to form an alliance with Helva, so that Northern Bosnia would contain Wallachia first.

It's just that this move was exchanged for Helva's unexpected refusal.

Herva would have rejected Maximian at this time because he himself was now in a lot of trouble.

Friction between southern Bosnia and his kingdom grew, and Archduke Karl of Caniola on the eastern border was on the move, while the same Rwa who was competing with him for the crown of Northern Bosnia?? The remnants of the forces are also stirring up domestic opposition to him to revolt.

However, it was the strength of the Wallachian army that really made Herva decide to be cautious.

The strength shown by the Wallachian Forces of Valachia in their invasion of the city of Pelape impressed many who saw it.

When descriptions of the fierce battles of the musket units on horseback, and the light cavalry cannons that seemed to be able to follow the cavalry around the battlefield and then fire heavily at the enemy, inflicting heavy casualties, the king of Northern Bosnia finally chose to "see first".

No one could have imagined that Kurshhaug would turn into a place that would mean so much to both sides.

It was a Hungarian nobleman who guarded Kurshhaug, which was not originally significant.

The point is that the Hungarian nobleman also had a rather prominent title in Vienna, which made it natural for Maximian to place an Austrian army here despite the opposition of Ladislas II.

Although the city of Pelape was captured, the Wallachian army never fought the Austrian army.

Now in Kurshhaug, for the first time, they face the Austrians alone, who had defeated Ladislas II.

Despite all the claims, according to the information sent back by the Pratoists, the battle began in the morning.

Surprisingly, both sides paid a very high price in this battle.

Eventually, the Austrians, after suffering more than 800 casualties, had to abandon Kurshhaug.

The new Wallachian army, in order to seize the largest silver mining city in southern Hungary, paid the price of nearly 500 men.

At the beginning of the battle, neither side had thought about what this confrontation meant.

When the battle was over, as the Austrians were forced to evacuate and the Austrian flag was trampled under the feet of the Wallachian soldiers who had stormed the city, an unexpected result occurred.

A Bohemian emissary, who followed the Wallachian army and had been observing the whole battle, wrote in a letter to Ladislas II after the battle:

"Your Majesty, I have been ordered by you to observe the Wallachian army to see if they have the strength to ally with us, and what I can present to you now is that this is a powerful ...... that is fully capable of challenging any enemy."

"Their soldiers are very well trained, I have seen them train for up to six hours a day, and they do so almost every day, their soldiers are very disciplined and courageous, and the key point is that I found that they have a large number of junior officers in their army with a lot of combat experience, which is rare in any army......"

"The Wallachians paid about 500 men at the cost of the Battle of Kurshhaug, which does not seem to be a very proud achievement, since there is not much difference in casualties between the two sides, but allow me to explain to you that the vast majority of these 500 men were lost during the siege, whereas in the previous field battles they had suffered much less losses, while in contrast the Austrians suffered almost all of them in the field."

"From this I can conclude that this is a fledgling army with sufficient strength, and that the Austrians are doing so badly that the Wallachians can be trusted in terms of their ability to fight alone."

No one knows what Ladislas II thought after receiving such a report, but the King of Bohemia, who had only sent troops to assemble on the border with Austrian-controlled Hungary, suddenly gave his generals an order to recover Hungary.

In mid-June, just as the hottest season of the year finally arrived, a war broke out in Hungary, which connects the Balkan Peninsula to the interior of Europe, for a long time.

The Prague League, with Bohemia and Wallachia as its allies, launched an attack on Hungary, which was controlled by the Austrians.

The Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke Maximian of Austria, had long been prepared, sent his famous "military bishop", Cardinal Rod Belpoled of Eisenstadt, against the Povan coalition.

A big war that affected countless people in Europe finally broke out.