"Well done! It's Rodrieu. William couldn't help but cheer when he saw that Rodrigo commanded the Second Army and gained a foothold on the eastern walls of Milan.

"Your Majesty, please allow me to lead the infantry of the 1st Guards Regiment into the combat brigade!" Faller. Osborne also looked at the heat in his eyes, and when he saw Rodrigo on the battlefield, he couldn't help but be envious.

"I give your permission, Faller, and I give you permission to lead the 1st Guards Infantry Brigade into battle!" Since his subordinates are eager to fight, William will not stop them, but will encourage them to do so, after all, it is much stronger to be eager to fight than to be afraid of war, and as for his own safety, it is enough to ensure his safety with the most elite knights of the Guards and two brigades of Guards infantry.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" After receiving William's permission, Faller hurriedly thanked William.

Although the Guards Infantry Brigade led by Faller is only about 4,200 people, but the spearmen, arquebusiers, halberders, artillery, and light cavalry are all available, and they have the ability to fight independently.

With no enemy resistance and a fast pace, Faller was about to borrow Duke Rodrigo's siege tower to climb the wall, but before he could approach the wall, a shout suddenly came from ahead:

"The walls are falling! The walls are falling! ”

When Faller heard this, he saw that a large section of the city wall and the city gate tower had collapsed with a bang under the bombardment of artillery, forming a huge gap of more than 20 meters.

"God bless us! Win! ”

Having just come out of the battle with such a surprise, Faller only felt that God was protecting them, and their victory was already predestined.

"Victory! Win! Kill, kill, kill! ”

The walls collapsed so coincidentally that all the soldiers present believed that they had been blessed by God, and rushed towards the gap with high morale.

In the gap in the city wall, the Italian militia and mercenaries in Milan had long lost the courage to fight, and without the protection of the city wall, they seemed to have completely lost the courage to fight, and their will to fight was also lost with the collapse of this section of the wall, and they could not stop it in the face of the menacing 1st Guards Infantry Brigade.

"Ready! Fire! ”

Faller led his soldiers to a halt thirty meters from the enemy's gathering point, and then quickly organized a volley.

Bang bang ... Bang bang ...

The sound of arquebuses firing was like a thunderstorm, and the sound of enemy shots was as dense as the sound of falling raindrops, and in just one volley, the arquebusiers of the 1st Guards Infantry Brigade killed no less than 300 soldiers, and killed and wounded even more soldiers.

Watching their comrades fall under this strange weapon of fire and lightning, the fear of death and the unknown finally broke through the last line of defense in their hearts, and the barely able to maintain the defense quickly collapsed, and countless soldiers fled in all directions in a panic, and no one cared about the gains and losses of the city of Milan anymore.

"Soldiers! Follow me to the heart of the city! Faller shouted.

"Yes!" The officers and men of the 1st Guards Infantry Brigade also shouted in response, and followed their commander Phaleosborne into the city at a brisk pace.

However, it was not only Fale Osborne who saw the collapse of the eastern wall of the city, but also the commander of the Second Legion, Duke Rodrigo, also saw an opportunity. Osborne stole it, much to his anger.

"Knights, rush in with me!"

Duke Rodrigo commanded his command of thousands of Norman knights to launch a fierce charge against the gap, and its speed was not comparable to that of the Guards Infantry Brigade.

Although many Milanese troops tried to stop the Norman knights on the way, they could not affect the more than 1,000 Norman knights led by Duke Rodrigo himself, who were either trampled to death by the horses' hooves of the Norman knights, or fled in all directions in the chaos.

Although Duke Rodrigo's more than 1,000 Norman knights were in Faller. Osborne later entered the city of Milan, but they arrived at Piazza Santa Sepulchre in the center of Milan one step ahead of each other.

Duke Rodrigo, a nobleman close to William, was naturally aware of the importance his Majesty attached to the Lombard Iron Crown, which is said to have been kept in the possession of the Duke of Lombardy, or possibly stored in the Holy See somewhere in the city of Milan.

Rodrigo and others were greeted by a magnificent reddish-brown cathedral, the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, a Roman Catholic church in Milan, Italy, donated by Duke Ezzo II of Lombardy, which was built in 1030 and has been remodeled several times since.

Looking at the magnificent Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, Rodrigo was somewhat convinced that the Lombard Iron Crown could be stored in this Holy Sepulchre.

"Knights, rush in with me!" With a wave of his right hand, Duke Rodrigo immediately took the lead in raising his sword and riding his horse and rushing in.

The Norman knights, not caring whether they would offend the Church, rudely stormed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and began to search for the Lombard Iron Crown in accordance with Duke Rodrigo's instructions.

"Enough, enough! Are you not ashamed, knights of the Normans? Dare to wantonly destroy the sacrosanct Cathedral of the Holy Sepulchre, are you not afraid of the punishment of His Holy Majesty? While the Norman knights were frantically searching, a priest dressed as an archbishop came out with a group of priests and shouted at the Norman knights.

"Shame? Inexistent. We are simply acting on His Majesty's orders. A Norman knight shrugged his shoulders indifferently and waved in reply.

The knight's answer really the Archbishop of Milan, and just as he was about to be furious, Duke Rodrigo stepped forward and said, "Your Excellency the Archbishop of Milan, I'm sorry to disturb you, but we do have an important mission, and we need to find the lost crown in your church, which is the Lombard Iron Crown!" ”

"I know the whereabouts of the Lombard Iron Crown, but you must stop your brutal and feeble actions, exit the Holy Sepulchre, and apologize for your rudeness!" The Archbishop of Milan said proudly to Rodrigo.

"I understand, I will do it, but I also ask you to tell us the whereabouts of the Lombard Iron Crown after we leave the Holy Sepulchre." Rodrigo said with a slight nod.

"I, Ambrose, as the Archbishop of Milan, naturally will not break my word." Archbishop Ambrose said proudly.

"May you keep your word." Rodrigo nodded slightly, then turned to his knights and said, "Knights, all of them, exit the Holy Sepulchre!" ”

"Yes." Although this order contradicted the order they had received, Rodrigo's prestige led the knights to obey his order and withdraw from the Holy Sepulchre.

"I apologize for the faux pas, Your Excellency the Archbishop, and now it's your turn to make good on your promise!" Rodrigo said to the Archbishop of Milan after most of the Norman knights had exited the Holy Sepulchre.

"......" Archbishop Ambrose looked like he was out of the world, and kept silent, as if he had forgotten what he had said before.