Just as 15,000 mountain infantry advanced from the village of Eric to the city of Siena, the soldiers of the Fourth Legion, under the command of Saccarat, also launched a landing war along the coast of Grosseto Province.
However, the landing point of the Fourth Legion and the Mountain Infantry Legion is different. The landing point of the Fourth Legion is in a larger port near the city of Grosseto - Taramone...
Taramone is the sea outlet of the province of Grosseto and the main sea outlet of the Republic of Siena. Generally speaking, imports and exports of the Republic of Siena are through the port of Taramone, then through the city of Grosseto, and through the only mountain road to connect the capital city of Siena...
But at this time, because Maximilian I's army attacked Ladikofani, the troops from all over Siena were transferred to the southeast front.
At this time, there were only 2,000 mercenaries in the province of Grosseto, most of which were stationed in the city of Grosseto, guarding the only mountain road leading to Siena. The only soldiers left in the port of Talamone were only more than 100, which was completely decorated...
Under the powerful attack of the Fourth Legion, the port guards of Talamone were soon defeated and surrendered...
After capturing Taramone, the Fourth Legion's army began to land slowly, rather than wading in the water like the mountain infantry legion.
This is because the port of Taramone is enough and there is no need to wading in the water. In addition, the Fourth Legion's mission is not in a hurry. Their mission is to transport the baggage to the city of Siena. Grosseto is only 80 kilometers away from Siena. If you march normally, even if you walk on the mountain road, you will be almost there for three days. Of course, they must first take down the city of Grosseto, which is blocking the intersection...
In addition, the Fourth Legion occupied Taramone, which is of great significance. Because as long as the port of Taramone is occupied, the possibility of the French reinforcing Siena through sea is Taramone. As long as the port is controlled, there is no need to worry about the French sending reinforcements.
Even if the French army sent reinforcements, it would be useless if they landed in other areas. Because if they wanted to go to Siena, they would have to take the only mountain road where Grosseto was located...
After controlling the port of Taramone, Sakara left two thousand Friesian sailors to guard the port of Taramone. And he himself led the main army, the civilians and the five thousand Friesian sailors to march towards the city of Grosetto...
However, Sakara's behavior was very strange. He first asked the five thousand main forces and five thousand Friesian sailors to escort the baggage and food and walk slowly behind. Then, he personally led the five thousand main forces to lightly fight, and walked around the city of Grosseto in a small way, as if he was going to sneak attack Siena, completely ignoring the 2,000 defenders in the city...
The Siena general Pinayati who guarded the city of Grosetto was in a fog, but Pinayati was very cautious. Although he was worried that the army would lose the attack on the city of Siena. However, he did not dare to lead troops out of the city to pursue him. Because he had few soldiers and could not defeat the opponent. After all, he only had 2,000 people, and there were 5,000 enemies passing by under his nose... In fact, Saccarat originally wanted to bring more people, but he was afraid that the Siena people would not dare to go out of the city to chase him, so he only brought 5,000 people...
For security reasons, he sent people to Taramone for reconnaissance. However, all the spies he sent were intercepted. The spies sent to the northeast returned the revenge-the enemy showed no sign of staying at all, and seemed to be in a hurry to rush to Siena...
After repeated consideration, Pinayati confirmed that the 5,000 troops were going to attack Siena. Moreover, the other party was not worried about sending people to report the news. Because there was only such a mountain road to Siena...
Although there was no intelligence coming back from the southwest direction, Pinayati didn't care about so much at this moment. If Siena was really unprepared to be attacked, the Republic of Siena would be over.
So, he made up his mind and personally led 2,000 mercenaries to open the city gate and chased the northeast. As for the city of Grosseto, he arranged for the Minzhuang in the city to be responsible for defense... If something went wrong, he could send cavalry to chase and notify himself... Although those Minzhuang had poor combat effectiveness, it would be fine to stay for two or three days before his army returned to the aid...
In this way, General Pinayati, with two thousand soldiers, chased Sakara's army...
But he did not expect that the spies in Grosseto had been monitored by the scouts of the Fourth Legion. The difference between the spies between the two sides was that the spies in the Fourth Legion had telescopes, while the spies in Grosseto had a naked eye to observe...
So, shortly after General Pinayati chased him out with two thousand mercenaries, Sakara got the news...
Then, Sakala was learning from the original Marin on the mountain road and deliberately set up an ambush...
As a result, General Pinayati, who was eager to rescue, was ambushed...
In fact, Pinayati was relatively cautious. While pursuing, he kept sending cavalry to reconnaissance in front. However, his whereabouts of his scouts had long been exposed to the eyes of the Fourth Legion scouts with telescopes.
Then, Sakala made a plan - Sakala personally led three thousand men to ambush on the hillsides on both sides during the night, but erased the traces of the ambush. The remaining two thousand people continued to march northeastward with great fanfare...
The mountain road was narrow and there was only one road. The scouts sent by Pinayati could not judge how many enemies there were on the mountain road ahead, so he replied that the enemy was still rushing forward desperately...
Then, the unlucky General Pinayati brought his men into the ambush circle...
When General Pinayati entered the ambush circle with two thousand soldiers, for a moment, rolling stones and arrows fell on the hillsides on both sides of the road, causing the Siena army, who lacked armor protection, to cry (you can't drive the mountain road if you wear armor).
After only more than an hour of fighting, Pinayati's two thousand Siena army collapsed and began to flee in the direction of Grosseto...
Saccarat slowly led the army to chase after him. But what Pinayati didn't know was that halfway through, a man was wearing tattered Italian costumes (simulating the outfit of a defeated soldier), and also took advantage of the chaos to sneak into the defeated team of Siena's army...
Because Saccarat was chasing him tightly, Pinayati had no time to stay and count the defeated soldiers, so he could only run away with the defeated soldiers until he retreated into the city of Grosetto...
But before Pinayati breathed a sigh of relief, before she finished her supper, Saccarat's army entered the city of Grosseto. It turned out that dozens of Fourth Legion soldiers who had mixed in with Pinayati's defeated soldiers gathered together during the supper time, seized the gates in the northeast of Grosseto, and placed Saccarat's army into the city...
That night, General Pinayati and hundreds of defeated soldiers under his command became prisoners of Saccara. The next morning, the other 5,000 soldiers and civilians from the Fourth Army arrived outside the southwest gate of Grosseto...
Chapter completed!