Alfred was a little anxious to move around the room, and sometimes the slightest sound outside made his heart beat faster.

The Kosencha army had entered the city, and although he had not seen the Kosencha known as grenadiers, he had heard too much of the legends of the Ottoman pagans that had been beaten by the Ottoman pagans in the Balkans.

Alfred remembered that he would smile and listen to the story of Miss Cosenza whenever he heard someone talk about it, and over time it became known that the prince liked to hear stories about Miss Cosenza, so much so that some servants, in order to curry favor with the prince or for money, would deliberately wait where the prince might pass, and then start talking.

Alfred actually knew the tricks of the men, but he always rewarded the servants with money, because he did like to hear all the stories about Josa.

Now that the person he had always been fond of, and even felt in his heart that he was not worthy of her, had become his wife, which made Alfred feel a great happiness at the same time, and sometimes even a little afraid, because he always felt that it was coming too quickly, so that he wondered if there would be any accident next.

Now it seemed that his premonition was still very strong, and he spent the wedding night in a state of helplessness, and when he heard that there were people who tried to question his regency, and that the supporter behind those people was actually his mother, Alfred suddenly had a feeling of wanting to find Josa, and then hold her tightly in his arms and tell her that now he was the only one in the world that he could trust and rely on.

"Where have the Kosentsa been?" Alfred asked the people next to him a little impatiently, the people who could be kept by him were his closest people, the key was that these people were now tightly tied to him, such as several of his attendants, these people would be his right-hand men in the court in the future, and there were a few officers of the city defense army who were not high, but because they had been sent by him because they had been sent by him, now there were only officers of the city defense army who stood by him, and these people had even been regarded by the rebels as the remnants of the prince who had to be eradicated by the rebels from the beginning. So Alfred believed that they had no way out of the way except to follow him.

"Your Highness, please don't be careful, the princess has already gone to greet them in person." A waiter whispered, seeing Alfred's somewhat sunken eyes, and the waiter handed over a glass of wine, "You'd better rest now, the toughest time is next." ”

Alfred sighed softly, he knew that the squire was speaking hard, to face the queen and her rebel companions.

Upon learning of the queen's plot, Alfred immediately withdrew with his men to the palace on the shore-oriented side of the palace, and at the order of Shosa, his men had built a rudimentary fortification on the way to the main hall of the palace, but Alfred doubted the use of the obstacles made of furniture and toppled statues.

After hearing that the Kosenza army had entered the city, Jossa offered to go out of the palace to meet her grenadiers, although he was reluctant, but Alfred was unable to stop his wife, and Alfred was really worried and moved to see the back of Jossa who was disappearing with a musket under the protection of a group of guards.

However, Alfred did not know that Zhisa, who had left the palace, did not go directly to meet her army, but got into a carriage that had been waiting for a long time and ran towards the lookout tavern.

In the "lookout post", Alexander looked at the torches on the street in the distance that were shaking like a fire snake that kept flowing and smiled with satisfaction, although there were some accidents in some places, but the plan still went smoothly, and even those accidents made what was about to happen so logical, and even seamless.

Baal's voice came from below, followed by footsteps on the wooden staircase, and Offrey silently gestured to a few of the hunters standing in the corner, and a few short muskets were immediately aimed at the wooden door of the attic that led to the roof.

The wooden door opened softly, and Josha stepped onto the roof, and the night breeze blew in her face, ruffling Josha's hair and Alexander's heart.

Alexander, who strode up without saying a word, lifted Josha's body off the ground like a robber, and when the veil that Josha used to cover his head and face fell to the ground, Ofleiyi waved his hand and drove the hunters off the roof.

"My lord, everything is good, that's the problem, tsk tsk......" Ofleiyi shook his head with emotion as he walked down the ladder to the attic, and saw a few officers waiting for him below, Ofleiyi waved his hand casually, "Okay everyone, you all know what you have to do, take the palace according to the order!" ”

"You're jealous."

"I didn't."

"You're just jealous, I can see it."

Jossa and Alexander sat side by side on the edge of the roof, glancing at Alexander from time to time as she spoke, as if to make sure that her guess was right, and then she laughed with satisfaction.

"What will happen to Frederick?" Josa asked suddenly, deliberately not paying attention to Alexander's expression, even though she knew he was sure to ask something.

"Thietolos is not a poison, at least not the kind of poison that people think," Alexander smiled, "Frederick will not die, he will be unbearable because of the pain of eating Tyetolos that causes his heart to beat worse, but for a while he will not have any major problems, but his spirit will become trance and hysterical due to stimulation, which will be considered hysteria or evil, do you know what it means if this situation occurs to civilians?" ”

"Or is it thought to be demonically possessed?" Tsusha's face stiffened slightly, and even though she knew that it was just the result of drugs, she couldn't help but feel a little creepy at the thought of the madness that seemed to have really taken possession of her soul by something evil.

"Of course, a king will not be punished by the church for having such symptoms, but his crown cannot be worn, but speaking of which, his brother Alfonso did not take the initiative to give up the throne to his son and fled to the convent in order to avoid the French, so why can't Frederick do this."

Alexander said and looked at Josa, and seeing that she was still deliberately looking into the distance and refused to look at him, he finally couldn't help but say fiercely: "Maybe I should give the Balkans an order to let them do a little bit of tricks when they rescue Alfred." ”

"Poof," Josha finally laughed, she turned her head to look at Alexander, then took the half-used bottle of green gooey juice from her coat pocket and shook it in front of him, "How many do you think it will take to deal with Alfred?" What makes me strange is that you have so little faith in me, in addition to this potion, you actually have people sew a short knife into my wedding dress, do you want me to kill my husband directly on the wedding night? ”

"If I could, I'd kill your husband right now," Alexander took the potion from his hand, opened it, sniffed it, and asked, "You didn't give him much to drink." ”

"I don't know how much to put in it, but I just poured it into his wine glass as you said, and I found out that you must have done it on purpose to have people nail so many buttons to that wedding dress, and Alfred fell asleep like a pig before he could untie half of it."

"Don't worry, he won't have a chance to untie the other half." Alexander looked at the figures swaying in the streets below, where the Kosenza and Montina armies had already entered the city and were rapidly blocking the intersections.

The takeover of the city, the occupation of the royal palace, and the rapid isolation of the areas where the nobles gathered, all of this was carried out in an orderly manner, and the Neapolitan city defense army, which had already received orders, had to either take the initiative or be forced to accept the command of the army entering the city, and as for those who tried to resist and did not obey the order, they were suppressed on the spot when they showed even the slightest intention to resist, and some were directly executed on the streets!

Coups have been bloody and brutal since ancient times, and countless coups have repeatedly proven that all childish attempts to carry out coups in a benevolent way often end in fiascos.

As Modillo said, the only way out for them was to go into exile, and Alexander certainly didn't want to flee back to Montina or Pisa in disgrace, so he had to use cruelty and blood to open a path to the supreme power of Naples for himself, or for his children.

"You said if I got you pregnant right now......"

"My brother, are you going to fulfill my husband's obligations in place of Alfred last night?" She stood up from the wall and patted the dust off her clothes, she looked at Alexander, who was still sitting by the wall, and then slowly walked around his back, bent down, put her hands around his neck from behind, and whispered in his ear, "My dear brother, I said it was all yours and only yours, so don't worry, we have a lot of time." ”

Alexander smiled slightly, he felt that Jisha sometimes deliberately used the relationship between brother and sister to stimulate him, but just as he was about to speak, a fierce gunfire suddenly came!

The two of them couldn't help but look in the direction of the gunshot, looking at the bright lights that flashed from time to time in the hazy dawn in the distance and the faint gunshots that followed, the two of them invariably spoke: "Palace!" ”

In the palace, Alfred, who was sitting in a chair staring at the door, felt a little stuffiness in his chest, he held the sword tightly by his side, and looked at the few attendants next to him who were also holding weapons and looked nervous, Alfred suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thankfully, Jossa is not here," said the prince, to Count Mordillo, who sat on the other side, with a rather calm expression, "and I was worried that she would go to fetch the Kosentsa, but now it seems that she will not have to be a prisoner with us." ”

Seeing the heartfelt comfort on the prince's face, the Earl glanced at him with a complicated expression.

No one expected that the rebels would attack Alfred's guards directly.

Or rather rather persecution, and after the queen stepped forward and ordered the soldiers to lay down their arms, Alfred's meagre guard in the palace immediately collapsed, and all but a few fled into the coastal palace guarded by Alfred's men, and all but a few followed the queen or obediently stood aside and watched the rebels approach the palace.

However, it was precisely because of this chaos that the Count of Mordillo and the Archbishop of Naples, who had received the news, were able to take advantage of the chaos and escape to the prince with a few of his men, and the seal officer was obviously not so lucky, he was caught by the queen's people, so he was also coerced.

The voices outside the palace were noisy, but a few familiar tones could still be faintly heard, and they were some important officials in the Neapolitan court, who were obviously not optimistic about Alfred, or they did not want to see Count Mordilo gain power, so after a chaotic but purposeful quarrel, these people decided to confront Count Mordillo after the king.

"Perhaps we can talk to Her Majesty the Queen," said the Archbishop of Naples, listening to the mess outside, a little restless, he never expected that there would be so many things to do at a wedding, first the king suddenly fell ill, then he had to hastily declare the regent of Alfred after receiving a hint from the Count of Mordillo, and then the queen suddenly objected to this decision, and now they were surrounded in the house. ”

"My mother won't agree, she's going to be the queen of Naples herself!" Alfred said angrily, staring at the door, imagining the queen surrounded by a group of rebels outside the door, ready to rush in and snatch his newfound power from him.

"We can't negotiate with those people outside, or even say a word to them," said Count Mordillo with a calm expression, "Archbishop, I can't help but remind you that the leader of the rebels outside is the queen, and if we talk to them at this time, no matter what the final result is, His Royal Highness the Prince may be said to be fighting with the queen for the regency, but in fact there has never been such a thing, at least not His Highness, because as the first heir to adulthood, when the king is not able to take care of things, His Royal Highness has an unquestionable complete regency. ”

The archbishop opened his mouth, he didn't know whether to denounce Count Mordillo for his pedantic who suddenly became insane, listening to the noise getting closer and closer outside, the archbishop even rushed up and pulled the earl's collar and yelled at him: "Say these things to the people outside, to the thugs who cut off your head if you hesitate a little, and see what they will say to you!" ”

But the archbishop did not dare, for he saw the heavy sword in the earl's hand, which looked to be much heavier than an ordinary long sword, and he did not dare to rush out of the palace, for he did not know whether the nobles, who had gone mad, would dismantle him without giving him a chance to speak.

Alfred hesitated, but he stood up and walked over to the archbishop.

"Archbishop, please bless me and crown me, I will face those traitors as regent of Naples."

The archbishop looked at Alfred with some surprise, he didn't expect the prince to behave so bravely at this time, and after glancing at the earl and getting Modillo's nod and acquiescence, the archbishop hurriedly began the crown ceremony that had to directly cut out most of the ceremonial under such urgency.

There was a loud noise of chaos, and the people in the palace couldn't help but look at the door in fear, they knew that it was the rebel nobles who had cleared the obstacles blocking the road, and it was also the last barrier they used to protect themselves, and with the sound of heavy footsteps that could already be heard, the rebels had already reached the door.

"I appoint you, the Count of Naples, my chief minister, with the powers conferred on me by the Regency of Naples." Alfred hastily gave the order, which was the first official order since he became regent.

"Yes, ...... Temple"

"Boom!" A loud bang interrupted Count Mordillo's words, and he couldn't help but clench his heavy sword and suddenly look up, and everyone in the hall looked at the door in horror.

The gate was not breached as expected, but the incessant roar came and went outside the door, and it became more and more dense.

"What's going on?" Alfred asked inexplicably.

Count Mordillo frowned and listened to the sound outside, and when the more and more neat shooting sound came, the count slowly showed a smile on his face: "It's a native of Kosenza, this is the first grenadier company of Kosenza." ”

After saying that, the Earl did not wait for the archbishop to open his mouth to stop him, and had already walked towards the gate with a few of his men with his sword.

The guards cautiously opened the door at first, but even then the fierce gunshots, shouts, and screams of the wounded poured in violently, which made the people in the room nervous.

"Open the door." The Count pushed away the guards standing in front of him, kicked the door hard, and with a thud the door slammed open, and the Count strode out.

There was a flurry of gunsmoke in the courtyard, and some people were running back and forth in a panic, and some people rushed towards a smoke-filled clearing not far away, but with a series of gunshots, those people immediately fell to the ground.

"My lord, this is too dangerous!" One of the squires tried to stop Count Modiglo, but he pushed him away, and when he saw the Palm Seal Officer being hijacked by two guards in the panicked crowd, Modillo walked directly towards him through the crowd.

On the road someone recognized the Count, some were stunned, others yelled and rushed up to try to stop him.

At this time, the Count showed his terrible swordsmanship, the heavy sword became extremely flexible in his hand, and as the sword body flipped easily, it easily swung away the stabbing weapon, and with the upward movement of the wrist, the gauntlet poked the opponent's throat fiercely, and when the opponent screamed and did not fall, the Count had already continued to slash the next enemy forward.

When they came to the Sealman, the two guards looked at each other, afraid of both the Count's terrible swordsmanship and his inoffensive status, and after looking at each other, the two guards suddenly turned and ran without looking back.

"Count, I thought I was going to die." Leoford, who was about to collapse, rushed to the Count of Mordillo in embarrassment, he looked at the panicked people running around, tried to lower his voice and hurriedly said, "Let's quickly find a place to hide first." ”

"No, we're going to find someone."

As he spoke, the Earl continued to walk forward, and the Palm Seal Officer looked at his back and was about to stop him, when suddenly there was a burst of gunshots, and there were bursts of whistling and non-stop screams around him, which made the Palm Seal Officer immediately chase after him.

The Count searched through the crowd, and then let him finally see the queen, who was protected by a few guards and hiding in a corner.

Mordillo walked towards the queen, who had cut down the guards who had tried to stop him without even looking, and the count nodded politely as he stood in front of her.

"Your Majesty, I think it's better for you to be protected by me now, you should see that your rebellion has failed."

The queen slowly stood up, her ash-stained face changing from time to time, and just as she saw a few of her comrades who had run by not far away, about to ask for help, a voice that made her now terrified came from the other side of the garden: "I am Prince Alfred, wife of the regent of Naples, and Tsusha of Cosenza, your rebellion has failed, and I order you to stop resisting, or you will be killed!" ”

The queen saw that the comrades who were about to flee stopped, not because they had heard what she had said, but because they found themselves surrounded by the masses.

The gunfire finally stopped, and from the smoke that slowly cleared, the entire squad of Cosenza grenadiers pressed at the rebel nobles with muskets in hand.

Looking at the nobles and their men who had thrown away their weapons, the queen looked at Jisha who was walking slowly in the distance.

"I failed, but it wasn't my failure, it was the failure of the Neapolitan royal family." The queen stared fiercely at the Count of Mordillo, "My husband will die with the crown, and my son may not have this opportunity." ”

In the early hours of 6 July, marked by the capture of the royal palace, the forces of Cosenza and Montina took over Naples.