Seminala, southern Italy.

July 12, 1492. This is Aubigny's camp.

That's right, after 10 days of confrontation, the French also knew that they had been facing off against the numerically superior Castilians and Neapolitans for so long in the southernmost part of the Apennine Peninsula, next to Aragon's more than 100-year-old possessions, and the farthest place from mainland France - the city of Lezzo on the east coast of the Strait of Messina!

As the commander of the French army in the south, Aubigny actually knew the overall strategic decision of the French army, and the French king slipped north, could it be that the French army in the south wanted to stay and really use Naples as an overseas territory of France? It's impossible, how lacking do you have to be to do such a thing?

So Aubigny's ultimate goal is to get out of Italy!

Of course, it is safe and sound, so that the French army in the north and the French army in the south will go back with all arms and legs!

Therefore, it is dangerous to confront the enemy in the city of Lezzo, on the eastern shore of the Strait of Messina.

So, the French troops retreated to Seminara.

But here's the problem!

How is he going to go back now?

Just now, while Aubigny was suffering from malaria, he learned of the outcome of the Battle of Fornovo!

Oh, my God!

Now how is he going back?

From Seminala to the north, you have to cross most of the Kingdom of Naples, the Papal States, Florence and the northern Italian states!

Aubigny's body trembled, contemplating the future path of the French army in the south.

He was painfully aware that the French army in the south was in danger of total annihilation.

Even if Aubigny did have the confidence to defeat the Spaniards, he knew that at least the Spaniards would certainly not be considered parallel goods, after all, they had wiped out the Kingdom of Granada.

The Italian coalition in the north was also a difficult enemy to deal with.

The Italian states, including Naples, are now outraged by the bad behavior of the French! So the populace was revolting against the French occupation.

More critically, the French army was already seriously short of ammunition and food!

If he gets another piece of news, he'll probably fall headlong to the ground.

On the same day, 4,000 Aragon troops landed at Krotone – this has already been mentioned, but don't forget that July 12 was six days after the end of the Battle of Fornovo!

That is, Ferdinand was also watching the course of the Battle of Fornovo. Seeing that history was always running on a favorable track for him, he fell to promote the course of the war.

On the same day, Aubigny was on the other side of the Apennine Peninsula, still unaware of it.

So, is the Spanish going to hit the French army hard?

No!

So, just watch the French slip away like this?

No!

The answer is that Ferdinand and Gonzalo decided to implement - guerrilla warfare!

The reader may shatter his glasses, but this is a historical fact.

After his defeat in the First Battle of Seminara, Gonzalo finally tossed Aubigny to the point of fleeing back to France with only a few of his own soldiers, relying on guerrilla warfare......

The Calabrian militia, as well as militias recruited from all over Naples, it is not possible to fight head-on, with cold guns in the back...... ⊙ ⊙! , they also don't have guns...... In short, guerrilla warfare was waged on the ground, disrupting the already unsustainable logistical supply of the French army, and holding back the military operations of the French army.

The purpose was to drag the French army to the Kingdom of Naples and consume them alive.

Worse still, the King of France himself may still have a little illusion about war!

That's right, at this time, despite the consciousness of defeat and retreat, Charles VIII still did not completely give up his dream of spring and autumn, and when he divided his troops, he also hoped that the southern French army could defend the Kingdom of Naples for him!

The French king believed that the Neapolitan subjects who had surrendered to him should still be loyal to him, and that France could use Naples as a bridgehead for Italy.

Ahem! If they were loyal enough, where would the French take Naples so easily?

It is not to say that the Neapolitans have a low value of discipline, the problem is that the French are the invaders! And the French, again, were not the winners. The reason why he opened the door before was because his own king Ferdinand played too much (Ferdinand of Naples), and the French were even worse than Ferdinand!

Thus, throughout the territory of Naples, the French were caught in the sea of the people's war.

After the French retreated and the Aragonese army landed at Crotone, the guerrilla warfare was in full swing, leaving the French exhausted!

The Spanish regular army also sent detachments to attack French warehouses and strongholds in various places.

The French, who are short of supplies, can only intensify their looting! Looting!

But they couldn't grab much anymore, and they only angered the local population even more.

The festival value of these two sides is like the B station that has been repeatedly attacked by hackers! Nothing has changed, it's just that the exercise value is falling down like water!

"The victory of the Italian war was won by the Italian people with a hoe!" Ferdinand couldn't help but praise him.

As for the French army in the south, Ferdinand planned to besiege it without attacking it, and slowly deplete the living force of the French army in this part of Naples.

The Castilian army moved north, cutting off the French northward breakthrough, while the Aragon and Neapolitan armies held back the French in Naples.

The effect is very obvious!

Historically, the Neapolitan French were not able to move slowly north from Seminala until October 1495 (three months after the Battle of Fornovo). In the process, the French were still fighting the western army for the towns of Naples, and by the spring of 1496, the Spanish would have won a series of important victories, and Gonzalo then turned the tide of the battle by killing more than 200 infantry and cavalry, dozens of officers, and capturing more than 20 nobles at the Battle of Terra. By July 1496 - a year after the Battle of Fornovo! Ferdinand II returns to the city of Naples to take the crown.

And the final withdrawal of the French from the Kingdom of Naples – just the Kingdom of Naples – was in December 1496!

It may seem like a testament to the bravery of the French, but the question is, how many more can you go back to this point? How much did France lose by fighting this war for so long?

At least, the kings of England and Aragon, who had been sacked comfortably on the Atlantic coast, said I had made a lot of money!

Finally, as mentioned earlier, it was not until 1497 that Aubigny returned with a few of his own soldiers. This is what he has been suffering from malaria for two years. Then soon after returning home, he died with a whimper!

What a tragedy! Let's observe 3 seconds of silence for the French......

Of course, this means that we will not be able to keep an eye on this endgame in the southern part of the Italian peninsula for the next two years, and only occasionally mention it sporadically, so here is a rough outline of the future southern battlefield. The war lasted two years, and the French lost their territory, lost their wealth, lost their reputation, and gained nothing. They withdrew from Italy in disarray.

However, the spark of the Italian war has been ignited, and in fact, the next 300 years of continental hegemony began with this headless and embarrassing invasion of Charles VIII! The countries of Europe were involuntarily involved in the raging war! The great empires of the future, Spain, France, Britain, Germany, Russia, and even the United States in the womb, began to gradually conceive, germinate, and grow......