PS: In today's chapter, the author fully realizes the importance of the number of water words! This chapter, excluding the author's words, has a total of 2013 words, but what does this chapter say? Therefore, the number of water words is indeed a very important ability! It plays an indispensable role in preventing eunuchs, diluting the plot, and changing ideas! There are various reasons for the long break before, but the lack of a knack for the number of water words is also a very significant factor. Even if it is a chapter of water a day, it is much better than breaking. However, so far, despite learning many excellent examples, the author has not been able to understand the meaning of water and the true meaning of water - therefore, it is difficult for the author to make every chapter as well as this one, which is very regrettable for the author and needs to be studied hard.

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For the rebellious islanders of Corsica, if they had the opportunity to choose again, they would no longer be hot-headed, armed with the Aragonese army, and then retreat back to the mountains and forests to support themselves!

After all, in the past, the corrupt and incompetent Genoese could hardly have had any strong suppression of their rebellion. After changing the Aragonese army, although they were given a few resounding slaps in the face as soon as they came up, crushing the first wave of resistance of the Corsican islanders, after all, it did not hurt to the bone marrow, and it was not enough to "hurt the heart". Of course, the exchange is obviously cheaper than Aragon, but if the Aragonese people keep taking human lives and consuming each other with the Corsican islanders, even if the exchange ratio is good, it will be a little unbearable!

Don't forget, Aragon has a population of only 1 million. It may have increased in recent years, but it could only be more than a hundred thousand more (of course, with the population of Sicily and Sardinia, the Italian territories, the total could be much more, but it would still be two or three times worse than Castilian).

As a result, Aragon used a simple and crude but particularly effective way to maximize the advantages of the direct Ducat, hiring 2,000 German mercenaries from the Rhine Black Forest to suppress the ...... To be precise, it is to level up and earn points, preparing for the mercenaries' "further study" in the West Indies in the future......

And the Corsican islanders, it has become a very ideal sparring partner, to say that the ugly point is an experience package, just waiting for people to brush, there is a certain degree of difficulty in clearing the customs, but the danger factor is not too big, at the same time, there is no need for employment costs, inexhaustible, do not need you to take a photo, they will be sent to the door by themselves, very pleasant......

And if one day, these humanoid experience packs are cleaned, those mercenaries are probably already out of the army and go to the Americas for further study. Moreover, the experience packages are gone, the islanders are completely honest, and the brainwashing and security work is almost the same, Corsica is also clean, and it can be built and developed without scruples, and it will become another big "modern industrial and agricultural park" of Aragon in the western Mediterranean after Sardinia, and promote the further development and construction of the country.

As for the money...... The only place to lose is money...... However, at the moment, the problem of money, anything that can be solved with Ducat, is not a big problem for Ferdinand......

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The islanders of Corsica said that the pressure was great, but even more pressure was on the French army and its commander Orbigny, who were defending the city of Naples at this time.

Although Orbigny was also fooled to some extent, believing that the Spanish army was not good at fighting a tough battle head-on, he fully recognized the cleverness and ruthlessness of Gonzalo's strategy, and the French army was not able to use its strength at all, but was consumed by the enemy little by little. Especially after the Battle of Atra in the province of Potenza, Spain brought in mercenaries from Germany, and even if you don't count the Neapolitan army, in southern Italy, the French army was already inferior to a very dangerous point of three to one.

Normally, in the absence of a generational difference, a double force advantage can already decide many things, even a war genius like Napoleon, in the face of a double force advantage is also a lot of pressure, the Battle of Leipzig will not collapse...... And now the French army is no longer able to support it, no matter how heroic it is, and it has the advantage of defending the city. Although the defenders could have fewer troops, the French army ran out of food! And the nightmare of syphilis and plague still haunts Naples. In addition, the French army was running out of artillery ammunition, while the Spanish side prepared more than a hundred artillery pieces ready to surprise the French.

In July 1496, Gonzalo assembled his army in the province of Potenza, including the newly arrived 2,000 German mercenaries, a total of 17,000 Spanish troops and a comparable number of Neapolitan troops, a total of more than 30,000 men, more than 100 artillery pieces, including 90 Hongyi cannons. This army was to lay siege to the city of Naples.

By this time, the Spaniards' superiority had ensured that Gonzalo could blast open the gates of Naples in his "dishonorable manner of a clown and a thief", and Gonzalo finally had a chance to destroy the main French army in at least a "relatively frontal" engagement, restoring his bad reputation as a "guerrilla general", and the French army was finally cornered and annihilated......

However, in history, this battle did not fought.

And this time, the city of Naples also did not ring out artillery fire.

It all started on a dark and windy night at the end of June......

That night, Aubigny stood alone in the Governor's Palace of France, the original owner of which had been the Count of Montpensier, had just received news that he had been captured by the Spaniards in Atallah.

That hateful cunning opponent, Gonzalo, had already broken and scarred the French army, and when they came, the Swiss pikemen and the knights of the Imperial Decree were majestic and unstoppable, and now the French had only artillery without artillery and shells, and ordinary cavalry who had not had enough to eat, and ordinary soldiers who were originally peasants...... The French garrison of Naples was about 6,000 men, only about half of the original strength.

The Neapolitans were also completely disappointed with the French army, who had welcomed the French into the city, but now they had become synonymous with robbers and rapists, otherwise Gonzalo would not have been so easy to launch a widespread guerrilla war in Naples, plunging the French army into a sea of people's war.

And now, the other side has gathered three times its own strength, and has mercenaries and cannon fodder clusters, ready to bury the French army here with the "advantage of the sea of people".

Aubigny believed that it was a small shame for him to be captured and humiliated, and that it was nothing to be punished by the king, and that it was the greatest misfortune of the country that the French soldiers were reduced to dead bodies or prisoners!

As a proud and honorable French nobleman and general, how could Aubigny watch the French army be destroyed in such senseless ways?

Retain a little strength at this time, and have a little more strength for counter-offensive in the future!

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So, it's time to make a decision!

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Aubigny raised his head and muttered to himself in a low voice.

"Death and shame should not have befallen these innocent French soldiers!"

"The reason why our army is facing such a difficult situation is entirely due to my responsibility!"

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"So, shame, let me bear it alone!" Aubigny's face was solemn, his eyes staring into the distance, and his deep eyes gradually lost focus......

"It's time to retreat!"

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