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However, before leaving, Frenzberg asked Maximilian I to prepare more horses for him......

This was so because Frenzberg wanted to learn from the battle in which Marin attacked the city of Oldenburg. As long as the movement is fast enough, the enemy army will not have time to react.

Of course, now the number of French troops in the Duchy of Milan is not large. According to the intelligence of the Sforza family, there were now only 3,000 French troops in the city of Milan. Moreover, 2,000 of them were all Italian mercenaries. The real French army, only 1,000 people.

Therefore, as long as the army can quickly reach the city of Milan and find a way to open the gates, the army in the city will not be able to resist. The worst result was that the gates of Milan were not opened, and the defenders of the city were in a stalemate. In this way, the French will have time to mobilize reinforcements. However, looking at the current situation, the French will not be able to send reinforcements. Because, they were not in good condition on the Naples front and could not divide their forces.

In addition, on the mountain road leading to the city of Milan, the French also placed an army, about 1,500 men, to monitor the remnants of the Sforza family in the Telina Valley.

Therefore, if you want to capture the city of Milan, there are two main enemies - one is the 1,500 enemy troops lying across the marching route; The other is the gates of the city of Milan. As for the 3,000 defenders in Milan, as long as the city gate is broken, it will not be a problem.

The reason why the 1,500 enemy troops on the mountain road south of the Telina Valley were counted as great enemies was because Frenzberg was afraid that the attack on the 1,500 men would leak secrets and give the city of Milan a warning. In that way, his sneak attack plan was exposed.

Therefore, he first had to deal with the 1,500 enemy troops. Then, when the road was wide open, he would lead the main army, mounted on horseback, and marched all the way to the city of Milan......

However, unlike the city of Oldenburg, the distance from the Telina Valley to the city of Milan reached 160 kilometers. When Marin attacked Oldenburg, the distance was only 40 kilometers.

Therefore, it is very difficult to reach the city of Milan at night and carry out a night attack. A single man on a single horse can march a maximum of eighty or ninety kilometers in a day. If there is more, the horse will easily run to death.

So, after much thought, Frenzberg decided to lend the emperor the horses and Ludovico. Sforza owned a total of 10,000 horses, all of which were used by 5,000 elites, so that these elites could have two horses per person. In this way, the whole army can march more than 120 kilometers in a day and night without sparing physical strength. Of course, 160 kilometers can be run down. But if you do that, you will hurt the horses very much, and it is easy to kill a group of horses.

And, most importantly, even if they run to Milan, the soldiers will not have the physical strength to fight.

Therefore, Frenzberg's plan is to have 5,000 elite people run 120 kilometers on the first day, and then rest. The next night, run another 40 kilometers and take advantage of the night to enter the city of Milan and kill the defenders of the city.

In response to this, Frenzberg specially organized the army and practiced night battles. As for the 2,500 men who had followed him from East Friesland, night combat training was a basic training program, and it was normal to be woken up in the middle of the night by an emergency assembly post......

However, other armies are training in night battles, which is really bad......

Frenzberg selected 2,500 elites from other armies to train with his 2,500 men in night combat. As a result, the 2,500 new arrivals on the first day were a mess, and if it hadn't been for the forcible suppression by Frenzberg with his men, maybe these fools would have blown up the camp......

After many days of training, these people slowly adapted to marching and training in the middle of the night......

At the same time, Ludovico. Sforza was not idle. Following the method he had learned from Marin, Frenzberg decided to send someone to Milan to help the army open the gates. For this purpose, Frenzberg commissioned Ludovick. Sforza sent men into the city of Milan to prepare to open the gates from the inside.

The Sforza family ruled the city of Milan for decades, where it became deeply entrenched. Although it is impossible for the Sforza family to pull out tens of thousands of troops to fight with the French now, it is still possible to find a group of thugs and open the city gate at night. Right now, the Sforza family still has a lot of eyeliner in Milan. It's just that now that the French are powerful, these people from the Sforza family are lurking, waiting for Ludovico. The day Sforza came back.

So when Frenzberg made Ludovico. When Sforza sent people to lurk in Milan and help open the city gates, Lao Lu agreed without thinking about it. It wasn't a big deal for him. After all, the Sforza family's decades-long rule over Milan was no joke.

After more than ten days of night training, and finally paying off, Frentzberg finally attacked......

The first target, of course, was Primadio's 1,500 French troops outside the Telina Valley......

Of course, it would be wrong to say that they were French. Because those 1,500 people were all Italian mercenaries hired by the French......

Frenzberg had no doubts about defeating this army, and the only thing to do was to prevent Primadio's army from slipping through the net and running back to Milan to report the news.

Therefore, before the operation, Frenzberg sent two hundred cavalrymen to make a detour to the road leading to Milan by Primadio, ready to intercept any messengers.

This trick was learned by Frenzberg from Marin during the attack on Emden. Intercepting and killing messengers can fully ensure that the message will not be leaked. In this way, when the army attacks the next target, it is done suddenly.

Even, Edessard I and his wife, who escaped from the tunnel, were stopped by the cavalry who intercepted the messenger, which can be described as extremely effective.

On the night of 29 October, a force of 200 local cavalry, after receiving orders from Frentsberg, went around the west and south of the town of Primadio by small road, ready to intercept the enemy and the messengers on horseback who had slipped through the net.

At 4 o'clock in the morning on October 30, when it was almost dawn, the Italian mercenaries of Primadio Castle were at their most sleepy. Even the sentries on the wall fell asleep.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Frenzberg decisively ordered his soldiers to quietly carry the ladder forward, and before the defenders could react, dozens of people went up......

Then, these dozens of people withstood the counterattack of the Italian mercenaries and held this section of the city wall to the death. Then, more soldiers climbed up the ladder to the top of the city......

After about two hours of fierce fighting, half of Primadio's 1,500 defenders were wiped out and half chose to surrender......

When the fierce battle began, sure enough, the city sent a messenger in the direction of the city of Milan. However, he was easily stopped by two hundred cavalry.

This battle can be described as an easy and unusually easy. The hapless defenders, because the sentries were asleep, allowed the attacking troops to easily control a section of the wall. Then the defenders were tragic.

In this way, with only more than 30 casualties, the 5,000 soldiers led by Frenzberg easily took out the defenders. Of course, this is also because the defenders in the fortress are too trapped. Attacking them at this time would be terrible for the defenders......

After a day of repairing, Frentzberg personally took 5,000 elites, one person and two horses, and set out on the road to Milan. And Ludovico. Sforza, with 3,000 men and horses, marched gracefully behind, waiting to go to Milan to receive the fruits of victory......

At the end of the first day of the march, Frenzberg chose to reorganize the army, and then, with some of his cavalry, arrested all passers-by and prevented anyone from going to Milan to report the news, so that the enemy could be prepared.

Then Frentzberg took the army to rest for a day.

The next night, Frenzberg set out again with the army......

At about 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, Frentzberg's army finally reached the most loosely guarded West Gate of Milan (the West Gate was of course the most loosely guarded in the direction of France......

Shortly after the birch whistle for communication was blown, shouts of killing were heard from within the city. Then, the west gates were opened by a group of Milanese residents who hung their colors - all of them were valued followers of the Sforza family.

Frenzberg didn't have time to greet these warriors, and he didn't know Italian. So, after letting the warriors who opened the door get out of the way, Vrenzberg directly swarmed in with an army of 5,000 and rushed straight to the palace in the city. At the same time, Frenzberg also divided 2,000 troops to control the other three city gates.

By daybreak, the Italian mercenaries at the four gates had been cleared, and the two barracks in the city had been removed.

It's just that the royal palace of Milan is extremely strong, and Frenzberg can't take it for a long time. And it was 800 of the 1,000 French troops who guarded the palace. Relying on a strong royal palace, the French army chose to resist stubbornly......

Frenzberg was not in a hurry to capture the palace, but sent people to besiege the palace first, then take over the whole city, and sent men and horses to the countryside to take over the collected grain. As long as the food was controlled, the French army would run out of food on the Naples front. As an officer who followed Marin very early, Frenzberg remembers that Marin often said that "the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first". As long as the Duchy of Milan cut off the supply of food and grass to the French army, the French would inevitably be demoralized and even cause chaos. Losing to Spain is almost a sure thing.

At that time, the Duchy of Milan only needs to prevent the fleeing French army from grabbing food. For this reason, Frenzberg decided to bring all the grain harvested in the autumn of the Duchy of Milan into the city. Then, when the French army broke and fled through the Duchy of Milan, it was strictly guarded to prevent the French army from grabbing food......

Three days later, Ludovico. Sforza finally arrived at Milan with the remaining 3,000 soldiers and horses. Seeing the grand welcome of the die-hard organization of the Sforza family, Duke Ludovico was overjoyed.

Standing at the head of the city of Milan, Ludovico. Sforza shouted in high spirits:

"I, Ludovico (Luhan III), are back!"