In the middle of the night, Marin sent his men to cross mountains and ridges overnight, bypassed the camp of Siena reinforcements, and came to the mountain road leading to Grosetto in the southwest, and rushed to the southwest to contact Saccarat in advance to form a cooperation.

The next morning, after a journey in the middle of the night, Marin's messenger finally met the Fourth Legion who was marching...

"What? An enemy reinforcements are confronting the Grand Duke? I need to lead my troops to encircle? Okay, the whole army should pay attention and accelerate the advance!"

At noon, the Fourth Legion finally arrived a few kilometers away from the southern gate of Siena, blocking the retreat of Siena reinforcements...

After resisting tenaciously for a long time, at night, the retreat was blocked and the enemy was very strong, and the commander of the Siena reinforcements, Karamosi, who felt hopeless, had to order surrender.

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Marin attached great importance to the surrendered Karamosi because he wanted to use Karamosi to trick Siena into opening the gate...

But the Siena defenders were too smart. When Kalamosi brought a "remnant 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 the rejection was very simple - the city gate was blocked...

Then, the defenders expressed that they were willing to put the basket and take them into the city...

However, except for the few leading soldiers such as Karamosi, the rest are all the troops of the Beihai Kingdom. If they were pulled up by a hanging basket and didn't recognize them at first sight, they wouldn't be killed by random knives? So Karamosi had to take people back in disappointment...

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Marin was very disappointed and was no longer enthusiastic about Kalamosi. Kalamosi knew that he had already boarded Marin's pirate ship and it was difficult to get off the boat, so he simply helped Marin think about it with all his might. Because he thought that this time the Holy See sent such a large army, the Republic of Siena would definitely be over. It was only a matter of time. If he made great contributions before Siena's demise, when Siena was finished, he could continue to help the Holy See and keep his wealth... So he offered his own strategy to Marin...

"What, you said you were going to open the gate of Radikofani?" Marin was a little surprised.

"Yes, Grand Duke, the defenders of Siena were personally commanded by the Governor Pandov and Petroch. The Governor has always been cautious and suspicious, so it is not surprising that we failed to cheat the city. But General Sarimoe, the guard of Ladikofani, is different. This general is very wise and not so suspicious. If you use the clever plan of cheating the city gate in the middle of the night, the opponent will most likely be deceived. Moreover, I was originally one of his most important generals. If I personally led people to cheat the city, the opponent would be fooled!" Karamosi said confidently.

"Did Radikofanie..." Marin touched her chin, but fell into deep thought...

If others don't know, Marin must know it in her heart. Although Maximilian I, outside the Radikofani Pass, is coming in full force, they are actually acting, not fighting. Even if they are put inside the pass, it is useless. Because His Majesty the Emperor is not stupid, he will not really put his strength to help.

Moreover, with the steep terrain of Siena, even if there is another 20,000 troops, it is actually useless. In other words, even if you defeat the Siena army guarding the pass and put the emperor's army in, it seems that it will be of little help...

"No..." Marin suddenly thought of a problem - although the emperor's army would not really help with the war, if the Siena army guarding the pass was eliminated, it would definitely be a major blow to the defenders of Siena!

You should know that the defenders in Siena are probably also expecting more than 10,000 defenders in the Radikofani Pass. If they learn that Radikofani's defenders have been wiped out, they will definitely feel desperate and their morale will plummet...

In the end, Marin made up his mind to lead his troops to defraud the Siena border Radikofani, and cut off the hope of the Siena people...

So Marin handed over the task of continuing to siege Siena to the Fourth Legion, and he led his army, Karamosi and other surrendered generals to Radikofani Pass.

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After Marin left, Sakala took over the duties of the mountain infantry army and began to continue besieging the city of Siena. Because the Fourth Legion came on the main road, all the artillery was brought with it. So Sakala simply ordered the artillery to be set up and began to shell each other with the enemy troops on the three city gates.

Moreover, the purpose of Saccarat's shelling was not to destroy the city gate. After all, he brought a 6-pound cannon, which was impossible to destroy the cast iron gate of Siena. He ordered the artillery to directly bombard the Siena defenders on the gate tower, especially the artillery positions. The purpose of this was actually to consume the gunpowder of the defenders in the city. Because Saccarat got a news from the captured Siena reinforcements that the defenders in the city not had much gunpowder. This was mainly because the Siena people were not prepared for the war and did not have time to reserve enough gunpowder. Therefore, Saccarat simply bombarded each other with the other to consume the gunpowder of the other.

Moreover, in order to protect the artillery, Sakala ordered the artillery to carry 6-pound cannons and change the place with one shot, so that the defenders on the city cannons had no time to aim. Of course, in order to consume the gunpowder of the artillery on the city cannons, the artillery of the Fourth Legion waited for the other party to evacuate the original position. The so-called scheduling means that the first shot of the artillery is generally inaccurate and needs to be adjusted again. In the era of smoothbore guns, it often takes several adjustments to hit the target (except for flat shooting). Although there are artillery on the city cannons.

The advantage of being condescending and long range is that it cannot directly shoot directly. Because, if the muzzle is lowered, the iron ball shells in the smoothbore gun barrel are easily rolled out. Therefore, the cannons on the city need to be fired. The cannons under the city need to be fired upwards. Of course, the bending of the cannons must also be considered, but they are much better than the cannons on the city. The characteristic of the cannon on the city is that the closer they are, the more difficult it is to aim. Unless you hit a crowd, the direction of the muzzle is right, you can always kill a group of unlucky guys...

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! If you shoot at close range with the artillery under the city, the artillery on the city will be a little bit blind. The smooth-bore cannon cannot shoot down from a large angle. If it is far away and at a small angle, the shells will not be easy to roll out. The artillery of the Fourth Legion is supported by the First Legion, and they are all old artillerymen, and they are very familiar with the characteristics of city defense artillery. So, they came directly to the distance of 100 meters below the city, which can not only avoid the other party's bows and arrows (they also wore chest plate armor), but also easily hit the artillery on the city, and it also makes the artillery on the city uncomfortable and cannot be directly fired. The artillery of this era is fixed and cannot be moved casually. Only the artillery of the Beihai Kingdom was pushed and ran around because Marin invented a movable artillery mount, making the artillery on the city unable to aim, and it is even more impossible to wait for them to slowly fire...

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After three days of marching, Marin finally brought Karamosi and other surrendered Siena soldiers to the city of Radikofani. According to Karamosi's introduction, because it is in the pass, the northwest gate of Radikofani has very little defensive power. Moreover, the city gate did not block, so it is easier to open.

In the middle of the night, Karamossi brought several surrendered Siena officers and more than 100 real Siena surrendered soldiers to the front, and brought more than 2,000 North Sea soldiers disguised as defeated soldiers to the gate of Radikofani.

"Open the door quickly, I'm Karamosi!" When he arrived at the city gate, Karamosi took the lead and raised his head and shouted loudly.

The officer guarding the city gate saw that he was indeed General Karamothi. However, as the city gate officer, he was not qualified to release people into the city in the middle of the night. After all, although the Italian army had poor military discipline, there were still basic rules. So he quickly reported it to General Sarimoe.

Sarimoe was woken up in the middle of the night and was very angry. But Karamosey led his troops back to Siena and fled back, which scared him very much. So he came to the city gate and asked:

"Piero (Caramosi's full name is Piero de Caramosi), haven't you gone back to the city of Siena? Why are you back? The enemy is very powerful?"

"Yes, sir, we encountered the enemy army attacking the city of Siena. They were German mercenaries, not ordinary Italian mercenaries. They were probably the 7,000 North Sea mercenaries guarding Rome! We were defeated and had to escape back! Fortunately, the mountain road was narrow and the other party could not use it, otherwise we would not be able to come back alive!" Karamothi said loudly according to the "script" he developed with Marin.

General Sarimoe thought, it seemed that it was true that there were indeed Marin Hoffmann from the North Sea Kingdom of Rome in the city of Rome, and the combat effectiveness of the 7,000 mercenaries provided to the Pope was indeed stronger than that of Italian mercenaries. However, he was still a little confused about Karamothy's army being returned in the middle of the night. So he asked:

"Why did you run back in the middle of the night? Can't you wait for the day?" Of course, Sarimoe was not suspicious either. Because in European history, there was no precedent for such a city fraud in the middle of the night, so he naturally would not be vigilant.

Karamosi had a solution, he replied:

"Sir, the enemy will chase you from behind! If I hadn't been running back with people while the night, they would have been chasing them. Tomorrow morning, they found that we gave up the camp and ran away, and they would have caught up!"
Chapter completed!