Chapter 1052： Fraud switch

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In the middle of the night, Marin dispatched his men to cross the mountains overnight, bypassing the camp of the Siena reinforcements, and came to the mountain road leading to Grosseto in the southwest. Contact to form cooperation.

The next morning, after a hurry in the middle of the night, Marin's messenger finally met the Fourth Army on the march ...

"What? Is there an enemy reinforcements confronting the Grand Duke? Need me to join the army? Well, the whole army pays attention and accelerates!"

At noon, the Fourth Army finally arrived a few kilometers away from the south gate of Siena, blocking the retreat of Siena's reinforcements ...

After resisting stubbornly for a long time, at night, the retreat was blocked, and the enemy was very strong. The Siena reinforcements commander Karamosi felt hopeless and ordered to surrender.

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Marin attaches great importance to the surrendering Karamosi, because he wants to use Karamosi to deceive Siena ...

But the Siena defenders were too shrewd, and when Karamosi took a "residual soldier" to the south gate in the middle of the night and asked to enter the city, the defenders in the city refused to open the door. The reason for refusal is simple-the city gate is blocked ...

Then, the defender expressed-willing to put the hanging basket to take them into the city ...

However, this "remnant soldier", except for the few leading ones such as Karamosi, are all the troops of the North Sea country. If it is pulled up by the gondola, can it be seen without knowing it, and still not hacked to death? Therefore, Karamosi had to retreat and retreat ...

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Marin was very disappointed, and he was no longer enthusiastic about Karamosi. Karamosi, knowing that he had gotten into Malin's thief ship at this time, was difficult to disembark, so he tried his best to help Malin consider it. Because, he thought-this time the Holy See dispatched such a large army, the Republic of Siena must be finished, it is only a matter of time. If he made a great contribution before Siena's demise, he could continue to help the Holy See and save the rich ... Since Siena was finished, he offered his own strategy to Marin ...

"What, you said you would swindle the gates of Radicofani?" Marin was surprised.

"Yes, Grand Duke, the defenders of Siena City are personally commanded by the Governor Pandolf Petrucci. And the Governor has always been cautious and very suspicious, so it is not surprising that our fraudulent city failed. But Radico Fani ’s general, General Salimoe, is not the same. This general is average in intelligence and not so suspicious. If you use the grand duke to pretend to be a soldier and call the door in the middle of the night, the other party will be tricked. I was originally one of his most important generals. I personally took people to cheat the city, and the possibility of the other party being fooled is extremely great! "Karamosi said from himself.

"Did you swindle Radicofani ..." Marin touched his chin, but was lost in thought ...

No one else knows, Marin must know it in his heart. Do n’t look at the 20,000-strong army of Maximilian I outside of the radi Kofani customs, but they are actually acting, not fighting. Even putting them in the gate is useless. Because, His Majesty the Emperor is not stupid, will not really try his best to help.

Moreover, with the rugged terrain of Siena City, even if there is another 20,000 troops, it is actually useless. That is to say, even if the Siena army defeated the guard, putting the emperor's army in, it seems that it will not help ...

"No ..." Marin suddenly thought of a problem-although the emperor's army would not really contribute to help the war, but if the Siena army that guarded the gate was eliminated, the defense of the city of Siena was absolutely important The blow!

You know, the defenders in Siena City are also expected to look forward to the more than 10,000 defenders passed by Radicofani. If they learned that the defenders of Radikofani had been wiped out, they would definitely feel desperate, and then their morale plummeted ...

In the end, Marin still made up his mind to lead soldiers to swindle Siena to sift off Radicofani and cut off the hope of Siena ...

So, Marin handed over the task of continuing the siege of Siena City to the Fourth Army. He took the army and the generals such as Karamosi to the Radicofani Pass together.

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After Marin left, Saqqara took over the duties of the Mountain Infantry Corps and began to siege the city of Siena. Since the Fourth Army came by the main road, all the artillery that had deteriorated was brought. So, Saqqara simply ordered an artillery to begin shelling with the enemy troops on the three gate towers.

Moreover, the purpose of the Saqqara shelling was not to destroy the city gate. After all, he brought a 6-pound gun, and it was impossible to destroy the cast-iron gates of Siena City. He ordered the artillery to bombard Siena's defenders directly above the gate, especially the artillery position. The purpose of this is to consume the gunpowder of the defenders in the city. Because, Saqqara got a message from the captured Siena reinforcements-there is not much gunpowder for the defenders in the city. This is mainly due to the Siena people's insufficient preparations for the war, did not have time to reserve enough gunpowder. Therefore, Saqqara simply bombarded each other to consume each other's gunpowder.

Moreover, in order to protect the artillery, Sakala ordered the artillery to carry a 6-pound artillery and to change the place with a bombardment, making the defending artillery on the city head too late to aim. Of course, in order to consume the gunpowder of the city's artillery, the artillery of the Fourth Army specifically evacuated the original position after the other school fired. The so-called school shooting refers to the fact that the first shot of the artillery is generally inaccurate and needs to be adjusted again. In the age of the smoothbore, it often takes several adjustments to hit (except for flat shots). Although the artillery on the city head has the advantage of high range and long range, the only problem is that it cannot shoot directly. Because, if the muzzle is lowered, the iron ball shell inside the barrel of the smoothbore gun can easily roll out. Therefore, the artillery above the city needs to be projected. The artillery under the city was not so troublesome to shoot from the bottom. Of course, the trajectory of the artillery shell should be considered, but it is much better than the city head artillery. The characteristic of the Chengtou artillery is that the closer it is, the harder it is to aim. Unless you hit the crowd, as long as the muzzle is in the right direction, you can always kill a group of unlucky eggs ...

If it was shot at close range with the artillery under the city, the city's artillery would be a bit blind. A smoothbore can't always shoot at a large angle. If you shoot at a small angle from a far distance, the shells will not roll out easily. The artillery of the Fourth Army was supported by the First Army. They were all artillery from the old fritters. They were very familiar with the characteristics of city defense artillery. As a result, they came directly to a distance of 100 meters under the city, not only avoiding the opponent's bow and arrow (they also wore chest armor), but also easy to attack the city's artillery, and also made the city's artillery difficult to shoot directly. . The artillery of this era is fixed and cannot be moved casually. Only the artillery of the North Sea State invented a movable gun mount because of Marin. Keah pushed and ran everywhere, making the artillery of the city head unable to aim, and even less likely to wait for them to slowly shoot ...

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After three days of marching, Marin finally brought the Siena soldiers who surrendered, such as Karamosi, to the city of Radicofani. According to Karamosi's introduction, because it is Guannei, the defense force of the northwest gate of Radicofani is very small. Moreover, it didn't block the city gate hole, it was easier to open.

In the middle of the night, Karamosi took several surrendered Siena officers and more than one hundred Siena surrenders to the front, and brought more than 2,000 North Sea country soldiers disguised as soldiers to the city gate of Radicofani. under.

"Open the door quickly, I'm Karamosi!" Came to the gate, and Karamosi took the lead and shouted loudly.

The officer guarding the gate looked at it—oh, it was General Karamosi. However, as a city gate official, he was not qualified to put people into the city at night. After all, although the military discipline of the Italian army is not good, there are some basic rules. So he quickly reported to General Sarimoe.

Sari Moe was awakened in the middle of the night and was very angry. However, Karamosi led his troops back to Siena, and actually fled back, frightening him. So he came upstairs to the city gate and asked:

"Piero (Caramosi's full name pays Piero de Caramosi), didn't you go back to Siena City, how come back? The enemy is strong?"

"Yes, sir, we encountered the enemy who attacked the city of Siena. They were German mercenaries, not ordinary Italian mercenaries. It is estimated to be the 7,000 North Sea mercenaries who guarded Rome! We were defeated ~ www .novelhall.com ~ had to escape and had to return! Fortunately, the mountain road was narrow, and the other party could not start, otherwise we would not be able to come back alive!

General Salimoe thought, as if it were, the city of Rome did indeed have the 7000 mercenaries provided by the Maritime Hoffman of the North Sea to the Pope. The combat power is indeed stronger than the Italian mercenaries. However, he was still puzzled about Karamosi's return in the middle of the night. So he asked:

"Why did you run back in the middle of the night? Wouldn't it be possible to wait during the day?" Of course, Sari Moai was not suspicious. Because, in European history, there is no precedent for this kind of fraud in the middle of the night, he will naturally not be vigilant.

Karamosi had a countermeasure, he replied:

"Sir, the enemy will chase after you! If I were to take someone back to take advantage of the night, they would probably be chased behind them. Tomorrow morning, they found that we gave up the camp and would definitely catch up!"

Karamosi answered no questions, and the more than 100 people standing in the front row were all familiar faces. After thinking about it for a long time, Sari Moai ordered the opening of the city gate and let it in ... So, Marin's army finally successfully defrauded the gate of Radicofani Pass ...