If we talk about why Queen Mother Anne and Bishop Mazaran were very afraid of this Prince Condor, Louis understood a little. Although he had not yet officially participated in government affairs, he could still obtain enough information from some raving servants and maids - at least for him now, it was enough.

As I said before, when Prince Conde and the twenty-one-year-old Duke of Angian, the most fierce battle between Spain and France took place in Rocluy. The Spanish army had 26,000 soldiers, led by a veteran of the battlefield named Don Francesco de Mello, and went deep into France and came to Paris. At that time, Louis XIII went to see God, and Richelieu even left this noisy world a year ago. Only Mazaran, who was still unstable at the time, and the Queen Mother of Austria, remained in Paris.

Anne, the young king Louis XIV, and the younger brother Philip, the Spaniards even believed that they could break through Paris and capture the French king. This idea was not regarded as whimsical. At that time, Paris was clearly at a disadvantage, including the imperial guards controlled by Gaston, the Redsy leader Richelieu, and the Royal Musketeers. The first two were untrustworthy, the latter could not leave the palace, and the only general was the young Duke of Angian, who had no combat experience.

Just as any craftsman with outstanding craftsmanship always starts with apprentices, people at that time also believed that a trusted general should stand out from battles again and again - Louis was still young at that time, but he knew that the situation was critical. When the Duke of Angian came to say goodbye to him, Potier, the personal priest of the Queen Mother, even performed a blessing ceremony for him. Although he said so, everyone at that time knew that he was afraid that if he died in the battlefield, he would not have time to do the sacrament of death.

The facts were contrary to people's imagination. The Duke of Angian knew that he was despised by the Spanish, so he also took advantage of this despise. The Spanish general at that time, May, was slightly interested in introducing the French army into a trap. Rocluy was surrounded by forests or swamps, with only a narrow road. Once they entered, it was difficult to get out of trouble. For this reason, he even withdrew his soldiers and did not attack when the Duke of Angian led his army into Rocluy.

The next day, the two sides first launched shelling, and the Spanish musketeers suffered considerable losses. Then, on that night, the Duke of Angian attacked the Spanish left-wing front-line troops at night, and then defeated the second-line troops. The Spanish cavalry all fell into the bag of the French army. Unfortunately, the Spanish most proud infantry troops did not suffer any losses, and there were also the eighteen cannons in the infantry camp. Neither the French infantry nor the cavalry could do anything to them. After a whole day of confrontation,

Torture each other, the Spaniards proposed negotiations. If the negotiations were successful, the Spaniards could at least surrender gloriously (without disarming). But how could the Duke of Angian be willing to easily let go of the victory at will? While using hypocritical words to perfunctory the Spanish envoys, he sent the main cavalry force to slowly circle the rear of the Spaniards from the forest, waiting for the infantry of reinforcements (nearly 4,000) to be in place. When everything was right, he rode his horse to the negotiation site, but was shot by the muskets of the Spanish infantry.

The victory of the soldiers was not only suitable for the East. The soldiers of the Duke of Angian suddenly fell into furious and rushed towards the despicable enemy like a tide. At the same time, the Duke of Angian also attacked the Spanish from the back. The French artillery also made a roar that resounded through the world. The Spanish encountered such a rapid and fierce blow when they were unprepared and were dizzy. The traps set by the Spanish General Meiliu for the enemy were also given a head-on blow-on-the forest and swamp slowed down their escape. In the end, the Spanish officers had to pounce at General Angian's feet and beg for mercy, and they were able to escape from the fierce French soldiers.

In the battle, the Spanish died eight thousand people, six thousand were captured, twenty-four artillery pieces were lost, and the main general Meili died; the French died two thousand people, wounded nearly six thousand people, and lifted the siege of Paris, which was a brilliant victory.

Of course, no one knew how the Duke of Angian could keenly detect someone shooting at him, and avoid that shot without any injury. Although there were people in the palace who kept criticizing him for his demeanor and manners in such a despicable manner, for France, which became increasingly vulnerable in military terms, such a talent with combat talent was even more cute than an angel.

In a hundred years, France has never had such a victory. François I was better at negotiating than fighting, Henry IV was too tolerant. Nantes's Edict was made by him. When Louis XIII was in power, the so-called victory achieved by the French were too lazy to report even the most exaggerated tabloids. It was not that they were willing to be negligent, but because the successes followed were failure.

Later, the Duke of Angian won the two cities of Philipsburg and Mainz for France in a battle with the Germans, and conquered Dunkirk after Gaston, the Duke of Orleans, evacuated Flanders. This made the French excited. People kept singing legends about him - from being able to sleep soundly on the battlefield and needing others to wake up to prove how calm he was, to how he threw his marshal's scepter into the enemy's trenches, then drew out his sword to command the army to attack, and picked up the scepter to prove how bold and brave he was... For a moment, his name was shining brightly, unattainable, and no general could compare to it, and the bishop and the king seemed to have been forgotten.

The more respected and loved he is on the battlefield, the more annoying he is in the palace.

Prince Conde was also very clear, but he was still a young man after all, and a young man who had not yet received setbacks. He brought the skin of a Serbian werewolf. It is hard to say that he really wanted to show his gratitude to the king or had a prank mentality. However, he had been shirking the blame and unwilling to face the mobs for the sake of the Queen Mother and the King. This is an obvious fact.

Bishop Mazaran and Queen Mother Anne had to give in to this. They asked Prince Conde to sit beside the king, and asked the Minister of Finance to change clothes for Prince Conde instead of his servants, and so on, and fulfill every request made by Prince Conde. As mentioned in the previous chapter, in order to supplement the army, the Queen Mother took off the diamonds on the crown and fired many servants. The Princess Henriett of England was sick and fever, and there was no good doctor to treat her. Louis had to order the servants to cool her with a towel soaked in the river.

The werewolf skin that Prince Condai gave to the king was placed under his seat, and everyone who met the king could see it - although most people didn't know that it was not a wolf skin.

After delaying for a few weeks, Prince Kong Dai had to take the 800 soldiers to fight.

It is ridiculous to say that although the High Court, which caused the riot, has always claimed to be honest and respectable, and is fair in its affairs, and only national interests are love, when facing the royal army, they did not hesitate to blackmail the twenty judges appointed by Bishop Richelieu to extort "forgiveness fees" of 150,000 livres each, confiscated the royal family's property equivalent to 1.2 million livres (one livre is equivalent to a pound of silver), recruited 12,000 troops, and ordered each household to allow wealthy people who traveled with carriages to provide one person and one horse (this army is called the carriage door cavalry), and Archbishop Collins' private soldiers, about 800 people, and was called the Collins regiment and was requisitioned by the High Court.

There were also Parisian citizens, holding crude muskets, long knives, sticks and forks taken out of their homes, wearing bands issued to them by the High Court, and feathers on their hats, and happily joined the army against the king, so Prince Conde thought he was facing a hundred thousand enemies.

But whether it was the soldiers recruited by the High Court, the Knights of the Car Door, the Collins regiment, or the citizens of Paris, they had no desire to fight with Prince Conde and the real army. They walked from downtown Paris to the outskirts every day, and then turned back, and their clothes were not stained with blood except for dust. As Prince Conde's eight hundred soldiers gradually approached Paris, in the last day or two, even this kind of ritual expedition was gone.
Chapter completed!