At this time, there was chaos in the city of Florence. The fierce shouts of killing sounded from the East Gate were so harsh in the quiet midnight. So the entire city of Florence was alarmed.
Seeing many Florence citizens running out, Stadt felt nervous. Because he remembered the bloody night in Emden. On that night, Emden City citizens fought with Marin's army one after another. Many people still went forward bravely, causing Marin to have a lot of trouble. If it weren't for the absolute advantage of troops, there might have been big problems.
At present, Stade's army is only 2,000 more than the mercenaries in Florence, and his troops do not have much advantage. If he meets a group of fanatical and desperate citizens... it will be bad...
However, what surprised Stade was that many citizens of Florence came out, but most of them were watching the fun. Although they saw Stade's army wearing the flag of the Pope, their eyes were full of indignation, but not many people really dared to stand up and fight to the death.
This is also the difference between Germans and Italians. Germans are martial, and they pick up weapons and fuck you if you don’t like them. Italians like to talk more. Those Italian citizens with resentment want to rush up to debate with Stad for 300 rounds...
Unfortunately, these soldiers were all Germans and couldn't understand Italian...
Of course, Stade's army's clear goals and strict discipline were also important reasons why the citizens of Florence did not resist. Under the guidance of the leading party sent by the Medici family, Stade's army first attacked the mercenary camp and three city gates in Florence. At the same time, some troops were divided to capture the top leaders of the Republic.
You should know that although the Republic of Florence is large, the core senior management is all in the city of Florence and live in groups. Therefore, Stade sent 800 people to block the exits of the residential areas of the powerful and powerful. He rushed in to get people when the battle between the barracks and the city gates ended.
Stad divided the main force into two, and he personally led 4,000 troops to attack the mercenary camp in the city. The other 1,200 people went to seize the other three gates in order to prevent anyone from escaping.
The four troops were progressing smoothly. Although the mercenaries in the camp fought bravely, there were less than 2,000 people in the camp. When the mercenaries who went out to pick up girls saw the danger, they simply changed their clothes and pretended to be passerby armor, and stopped showing up. In this way, only less than 2,000 people in the camp fought against Stad's 4,000 veterans, and the ending was already destined...
When Stad broke through the mercenary camp and captured the Italian mercenary leader, good news came from other directions.
The 800 people who controlled the powerful area successfully blocked the exits of the powerful area and blocked the top leaders of the Republic who were trying to escape. The teams that controlled the other three city gates had already succeeded. Only the north gate, it seemed that some Italian mercenaries were trying to escape from the north gate, and happened to have a fierce battle with the 400 people who were trying to seize the north gate, and the stalemate was there for a while.
Stad quickly sent elite troops to the north gate, defeating and capturing the Italian mercenaries who were trying to seize the city gate and running away.
Just when Stadt thought the overall situation was decided, there was a problem with the powerful area...
It turned out that many civilians in the powerful area were motivated by the top leaders of a certain republic and had conflicts with the army blocking the streets...
Stade quickly led his army over, but saw a group of Florence citizens holding kitchen knives and wooden sticks, shouting slogans such as "For the Republic!" and "Fight with them!", and confronting the soldiers who blocked the blockade.
Before Stad arrived, the soldiers guarding the block had already repelled a wave of citizens' attacks.
At this time, a voice suddenly came from behind the citizens and said loudly:
"Citizens, we founded the republic for freedom and the people. Now, the evil Pope army wants to take away our power and turn us into slaves again. Are you willing to do this?"
"Not resigned!"
"Not resigned!"
"We want freedom!"
In the street, the passionate citizens who were motivated raised their kitchen knives and wooden sticks, raising their arms and shouting...
At this time, it was already dawn, and Stadt felt that the one who incited the people to resist behind his back must be a big fish. So he found an Italian translator provided by the Medici family and asked:
"Who is that guy who incites the people? Can you recognize it?"
The Medici family translator who had a middle-parted hair listened to it for a while and said:
"It seems like the Secretary of State Machiavelli..."
"who?"
"Machiavelli, Secretary of State, Chief of the Second Office of State, is responsible for diplomacy and military..."
"Damn, I almost forgot about the big thing!" Stade patted his head, and suddenly remembered that Marin asked him to tie a man named Machiavelli in Florence back to East Friesland. Moreover, the request was Machiavelli intact. At the same time, Marin demanded that he should treat this person and his family well.
Obviously, his boss Marin fell in love with this man named Machiavelli. Just like when Kahn followed Marin and brought back an old Italian man named Da Vinci. Now, that old man is very favored...
Thinking of this, Stadt shouted:
"All soldiers obey orders and find out the guy who spoke, but don't hurt him!"
"Yes!" the soldiers shouted together, instantly suppressing the momentum of the rebel citizens.
Then, thousands of soldiers launched an attack on the group of rebelling citizens. However, the purpose of dispersing the other party, not for the purpose of killing and killing.
When the regular army became serious, the citizens holding kitchen knives and wooden sticks were obviously not opponents. So the citizens' team was quickly dispersed.
However, when the soldiers dispersed the citizens' resistance team, they did not see the man named Machiavelli...
"It's okay, let's go to his house to find it." At this time, the party leader stood up again and expressed his willingness to lead the army to Machiavelli's house to get people.
Machiavelli did run home. Before, he encouraged the citizens to resist, which was actually a last-minute effort. However, he could see that the army opposite was too strong. Moreover, from their conversation, it could be heard that the other party was in German. Because, he had been a diplomat of the Republic of Florence for several years, he not only understood German, but also spoke. Obviously, it was a group of German mercenaries, which were not something that the Florentine citizens could resist. So, when Stade ordered an attack, he ran home secretly...
However, just when he ordered his family to clean up the fine lines and plan to change out the noble clothes and pretend to be civilians to get involved among the civilians, Stadt had already surrounded Machiavelli's home under the guidance of the Medici Party.
Machiavelli's home was obviously not a fortress. The soldiers rudely smashed the door with big stones, and then surrounded Stade and broke in. The two bodyguards arranged by Florence for Machiavelli were both frightened and did not dare to resist at all. They obediently surrendered.
Then, Stad saw Machiavelli, who was carrying luggage with his parents and his wife...
At this time, Machiavelli had already changed into aristocratic clothes and looked like a civilian dress. Obviously, this guy wanted to get into a civilian area first...
Stad called the Chinese translator and pointed at Machiavelli and asked:
"Is it him?"
The Chinese translation read and nodded:
"Yes, it's him!"
Stad nodded with satisfaction, and suddenly remembered the famous plot that Kahn had told him about "knocking Leonardo da Vinci away". So he turned around and ordered several of his guards:
"Knock this guy unconsciously and take it away!"
"Ah?" Several guards looked at each other. They also knew the plot of Kahn "killing Da Vinci fainted and taking away" him. However, they were not familiar with the business of knocking people out...
"Execute the command!"
"yes!"
Several guards gritted their teeth and came to Machiavelli, who was frightened, and held Machiavelli down. Then, according to Kahn's legend, the guard Armor hit Machiavelli's neck with a knife...
"Aowoo--" Machiavelli didn't faint, but screamed in pain.
"Why can't you pinch it? Shuang, come..."
Then, the guy called the dick was another hand knife...
Machiavelli cried out again, but he didn't faint...
"Step! It's so hard for you guys to knock someone out? I think Kahn is so relaxed..."
Machiavelli also understood German. It turned out that these guys hit the back of their necks to make themselves faint... Could it be... the other party has the habit of knocking people out and taking them away?
When the third guard stretched out his hand of sin, he was frightened by being beaten and did not believe in the "professional level" of these guards, Machiavelli quickly said in German:
"Stop hitting, I'm dizzy!" Then, Machiavelli screamed inexplicably, tilting his head, as if he had really fainted...
Several guards were stunned - we hadn't started yet, why did this guy faint... But don't worry about him, tie him up first... It seems like this is how Lord Kahn deals with Lord Da Vinci...
After tied up Machiavelli, a guard asked:
"What should I do with this guy's family?"
Before Stadt could speak, Machiavelli "wakes up" from pretending to be dizzy and begged in less skillful German:
"Don't hurt my family, especially my wife!" Obviously, Machiavelli was afraid that the big-headed soldiers in front of him would give him his young and beautiful wife. After all, the military discipline of mercenaries is generally not good now.
"Don't worry, I won't treat your family badly." Stad promised. Stad was already sure that this guy would become his colleague in the future, so how could he bully his family?
Chapter completed!