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August 12, 1496, north of Naples, former frontier fortress, Castle of Monte San Giovanni.

It is a standard medieval fortified fortress, built in the eleventh century. The fortress is a standard medieval heritage, with five quadrangular towers and pentagonal towers and fortified walls forming the main body, which has remained virtually unchanged since it appeared on the list of 11th-century forts, and has maintained this individual structure for more than 300 years – of course, there are necessary repairs, such as a new double-width patrol walkway and a communication corridor within the walls......

There was even a splendid palace that was frequented by frustrated bigwigs. As a former frontier town on the northern border of the Kingdom of Naples, it has been imprisoned by big names such as Thomas Aquinas for two years. Ahem...... Thomas Aquinas, however, was imprisoned here by his family...... Trying to persuade this guy to change his mind and not to go to some Shinto "God's Hound" evangelistic meeting......

The Count who came here as a guest was also the Count da Aquino and others, but this is not the focus of today, and the "distinguished guest" here today is the Governor of Naples appointed by France - of course, according to the political correctness of the Spanish side, it should be called the pseudo-Governor of Naples, Count Gilbert Montpensier!

I have to say! The aristocratic spirit and chivalry of this era are getting weaker and weaker! It's even about to disappear!

At least! Count Gilbert Montpensier felt the need to send himself this MMP!

After all, he was once an earl...... No, it is still the same, although Atallah in the province of Potenza was captured alive in a not-so-honorable way - of course, considering that the nobles were captured on the battlefield a thousand times, and that Gonzalo used such a "shameless" tactic, it does not seem so dishonorable......

Well, it was not the issue of reputation that made Count Gilbert Montpensier most dissatisfied...... In fact, I am still dissatisfied with my own treatment.

Although he was a prisoner, as a French nobleman, especially a semi-royal family, Count Gilbert Montpensier felt that even if he could not get very good treatment, he would at least have to arrange a decent environment!

However...... Couldn't the Castle of Monte San Giovanni please him? The palace here is not at all inferior to the average size of an earl......

Well, that's in the past, and the reason why it's a former border fortress in Naples is because it's battle-hardened. In the era of knights, in the Middle Ages, the castle once resisted a siege that lasted for seven years and was known as the fortified northern gate of Naples. However, the fortress, which could accommodate more than a thousand defenders – if the same number of Spanish phalanx veterans behind the breastop was enough to repel tens of thousands of French infantry – it took only eight hours for Charles VIII's invasion of Naples to be overshadowed by French man-portable artillery (not heavy artillery...... It became two lonely main towers, three surviving gates, a pile of ruins, and more than a thousand corpses.

It is not for nothing that the French demon is known as the French demon, and the 25,000 French soldiers who are not highly conscious have not only achieved a brilliant victory here, but also slaughtered 700 residents who had no power to resist.

The massacre here had a profound effect, the other inhabitants of Naples were frightened for a while, and the poor rule of Ferdinand II made the French army encounter almost no new resistance, so that Naples obediently knelt down and sang of conquest, but the seeds of hatred were planted, providing a mass base for Gonzalo to wage a guerrilla war......

However, the Count of Gilbert Montpensier complained not only about the current living conditions, but before that, he had almost been killed because of the "prison conditions......

Although from the point of view of taking the ransom, the Spaniards did not have the slightest need to kill Count Gilbert Montpensier...... However, Ferdinand had not yet had time to improve the treatment of prisoners in the Castilian army, and he did not have the heart to improve it at present, and it was too late to improve the battlefield medical treatment of his soldiers...... So Gonzalo, as soon as he was careless, arranged for the count to be sent to Pozzuoli, a seaport in the Campania region. The harbour was not a remote place, but the problem was that next to the place where the Count was held was a swamp where many of the bodies of the malaria dead were abandoned......

Thus, the Earl's life should have been four months after his capture, and he was mourning......

Now, due to Gonzalo's more active actions in the later years of the Kingdom of Naples, actively pursuing the weaker French army and achieving greater progress and success, the northwestern part of Naples was liberated ahead of schedule, and as a result, Count Gilbert Montpensier was imprisoned for only a month before being transferred to the relatively dry and comfortable Castle of Monte San Giovanni. He should have thanked God.

Touching the Order of St. Michael, which he had worn on his chest for thirteen years, the nobleman of France gazed affectionately at the northwest, his gaze as if he could penetrate the mountains of the Alps.

“ conformément à la conviction que je ferai ce qu'il faut pour servir mon pays， même au prix de ma vie， indépendamment de la fortune ou de malheur à moi！ (By my faith, I will serve my country, even at the cost of my life, whether it is good fortune or misfortune)"

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While Count Gilbert Montpensier was babbling and complaining, Gonzalo was escorting King Ferdinand II of Naples for a grand re-entry into the city.

Although Spain was fighting better than in history, Ferdinand II's performance was even worse than in history, and in the context of the reconstitution of the Kingdom of Sicily, he still had a lot of fun eating and drinking in the royal palace of Sicily - regardless of whether this was still Ferdinand's palace......

Ferdinand did not stay in Italy for long, and was also affected by the disgust of the relatives of the same name. However, when I thought that people had already had syphilis, I was immediately relieved, the Neapolitan royal family was so unbearable that they took jujube pills, and they would not collude with France to do it five years later.

Ferdinand II, who didn't know that he had already become a dish on the table in the eyes of his relatives, was full of joy at returning to his homeland in the face of Naples City at this time - he could finally eat meat, drink and play women more unscrupulously! It seems that hugging the thighs of relatives is still very successful, and it seems that it is not bad to be an Aragonese dog, do you see that someone sent a general of Ferra over, and didn't they also beat the French away?