The season when autumn rain is flooded is always sentimental and melancholy. Poets will write some famous poems that are popular and sad about autumn at this time. Artists can also find inspiration they have never been able to find in the fallen leaves. For farmers, as long as it is not very bad, such a season can always be rewarded.

In short, there are various reasons for those who don’t like autumn, and there are also their own reasons for those who like autumn.

But for an army, such a season is the least they want to encounter.

The rain is continuous and sunny, and it is wet everywhere. When you want to find a place to rest, once you sit down, the cold and wet air will quickly pour into your stomach from your wet pants, which will make people feel unbearable immediately and will be very tormented.

If you stand up and walk, the cold wind mixed with cold rain will blow in from the gaps in the armor, swaying between the skin and the armor. When the cold wind finally warmed up, they flew out from other gaps, and then another group of "guests" came unexpectedly, which made the whole body feel cold and tremble.

Marines in this season are really annoying. Looking at the soldiers struggling in the mud, Gonzalo once asked himself more than once whether it was a wrong decision to start a war at this time.

But in the end he convinced himself.

Gonzalo did not experience the 1,500-year French-Austrian War, but this did not prevent him from knowing the process of that war.

What surprised him was that although he had only been away from Italy for a few years, almost earth-shaking changes had taken place on the European battlefield.

At that time, the incredible winter offensives that everyone thought appeared frequently on the battlefield in 1500. Both sides gave up the winter camp and launched field battles regardless of the cold. This seemed like a fantasy to Gonzalo, who was commanding the anti-French coalition a few years ago.

The changes brought about by the new war situation on the battlefield are obvious. Even Gonzalo dared not confidently say that if he was allowed to face the French again, he would still be able to defeat Louis XII as if he had defeated Charles.

The same is true for the war in Iberia. Before leaving Madrid to take over the troops at the military camp on the border, Gonzalo received an order from Alexander and Ruosha.

Their intention was very clear, which was to launch an attack on Aragon before the late autumn began.

In the order, Alexander explained the situation outside the battlefield to Gonzalo, and he must be clear about what purpose the war needs to achieve. Ruosha carefully analyzed the various reasons for choosing to start the war at this time as a commander.

This made Gonzalo himself deeply recognize that this choice was correct.

Now, he is facing self-questioning of this choice.

As a qualified soldier, Gonzalo knew very well that he had to firmly believe in this situation. A slight wavering could lead to catastrophic consequences!

Gonzalo had sent a large scout unit, many of them were the Aragonese, which made them extremely familiar and sophisticated in searching for information, and the reports they brought back gradually stabilized Gonzalo's already anxious heart.

In Aragon there will be several large-scale rivers flowing into the Ebro River, among which the Alga River originated from Navarra is the largest.

It was also the infusion of this river that caused the only natural dam that could be used to appear in the upper reaches of the Ebro River, which had a smooth flow rate after entering Aragon. The Romans built the earliest water conservancy project on the Iberian Peninsula here.

Gonzalo's goal is the old town of Alfaro where the confluence of the Alga and Ebro Rivers.

The entire town of Alfaro can be said to have been built on the ruins of the ancient Roman project, and even the stone used in the town to build houses and pave the pavement were collected from the ruins of the original Roman project.

Therefore, the town of Alfaro inevitably has traces of the Roman era everywhere, so this place is called Alfaro, and according to the local pronunciation, it is the town of Roman.

The town of Rome is a small town built along the rugged terrain along the Ebro River. Because of the large terrain gap, the entire town seems to be built on a huge staircase.

From the beginning to the end of the town, the whole formation is composed of a long downward platform, which is connected by steps gradually chiseled out after years of construction. Moreover, because the Ebro River has these considerable twists and turns in this area, the entire Roman town also looks twisted and twisted.

The vanguard of the Aragonese army, ordered by Ferdinand himself, sometimes met the Cassi coalition in the valley near the town of Rome. It was a pure encounter. Both sides suddenly bumped head-on into the valley with a short terrain without expecting it.

After a brief confrontation due to an accident, the two armies, which had no time to develop their formation, launched a bloody battle in this rocky valley.

The Aragonese won because they were crowded with power, while the coalition forces were well-equipped.

The battle between the two sides turned into a chaotic battle from the beginning because of an accident. The two armies, which had no tactics, first took a short-term short-term connection and then took a little rest, and then they looked for the terrain to try to defend.

But then the Aragons discovered that they were shooting at a long distance, and obviously they were at a disadvantage under the opponent's superior firepower.

So Commander Aragon made a decision that was later regarded as the stupidest by countless people.

He ordered to come out from behind a small slope used to cover and launch an active attack on the enemy.

Seeing the enemies jumping around in the rocky valleys everywhere and having to bypass those difficult places to move forward, the Sicilians were filled with joy.

Even Rakush had no time to sigh at the decline of the Cold Weapon Age. He put away his knight's sword, drew out a musket, and after aiming at an enemy who looked like an officer, Rakush gave the order to shoot.

As a barbaric Balkan, Rakush obviously did not know any rules that did not shoot at officers on the battlefield, and this so-called rule had never been truly followed on the battlefield.

On the contrary, people dressed in gorgeously and distinctively armoured will always become the first target to be caught on the battlefield, so Alexander has advised Ruosha to be low-key on the battlefield and not to dress so much as "seduction" for men.

The first officer was not the officer who was shot down, but he was obviously one of the first people who died in battle.

Because the roads in the valley were difficult to move, the Aragonese army could not quickly rush to the enemy. They could not even maintain their formation, but could only form small teams to advance slowly among the rocks.

This gave the Sicilians the best chance. The Sicilian soldiers were like training on the training ground, calmly loading, tamping, fixing flint, aiming and shooting, and then retreating to give up their positions for their companions behind.

More and more Aragonese were shot down. When dozens of soldiers fell in pools of blood, the Aragonese finally began to retreat.

The complex terrain in the valley also prevented the coalition forces from pursuing. They could only watch the Aragons jumping around and gradually leaving, leaving only a body that had lost its lives.

The battle began inexplicably and ended in wonder, so when Kurash asked his clerk to write a battlefield report for him, he felt that he didn't know where to start.

So he simply asked the clerk to write to Gonzalo all the time he could think of, and then threw the annoying questions to his superiors.

After receiving the report from Lakush, Gonzalo was only a little surprised at first, and he was ecstatic recently.

He actively declared war on Aragon and launched an attack despite the flood season that had already begun. The purpose of all this was to force Ferdinand to respond hastily.

Now that Cassi's intentions were discovered, Ferdinand wasted his troops and sent an army to the upper reaches of the Ebro River to block the coalition forces, which made Gonzalo realize that their plan had indeed been successful.

Ferdinand was so willing to send an army alone to go deeper, obviously in order to restrain Gonzalo, so as to organize troops in the country in a timely manner to fight back.

But this is obviously not that easy. Ferdinand is now trying to gather the army against time, so he would rather send this army at the risk of division of troops.

Gonzalo, who realized this, could not hide his excitement. He knew that Alexander's plan had been successful.

"This will not be a long war."

The promise of the Queen of Sicily lingered in his ears again, but Gonzalo had a completely different understanding of this sentence at this time.

"No war is just a battle on the battlefield. You can often get things that cannot be obtained on the battlefield at the negotiating table."

Gonzalo once disagreed with Alexander's words, but now he began to seriously consider whether all this was just as Alexander said.

The occupation of the Roman town was just the beginning of the coalition forces. Neither Kurash nor Gonzalo wanted to pursue the defeated enemies.

The former is because the terrain of the Roman town made the coalition's forward unable to fully exert their power of their anger. The previous battles in the valley were more of luck, and the wrong decision of the enemy commander led to their failure.

But if they change to an experienced and more stable opponent, they will make full use of the complex terrain of the Roman town to deal with the coalition forces, which will not be of any benefit to the lonely Kurash.

For Gonzalo, his purpose was to destroy the main force of the Aragonese army, and wasting precious time and force on the enemy army that was obviously not threatened by defeat.

The cold Ebro River water stroked his face with a slight tingling feeling. Gonzalo squatted by the river and slowly washed his face. He needed to use the cold river water to stimulate it and calm himself a little.

The striker who defeated the Aragonists did not make Gonzalo too excited, he knew that next was the key.

Ferdinand would never tolerate Zaragoza's throat being strangled by the Castiles, so his only choice was to retake the Roman town area at all costs.

"It's going to be a big war..."

Gonzalo looked at the flowing river water and murmured to himself. The coldness of the river water did not extinguish the hot feeling in his heart. Finally, he stood up with his knees. Gonzalo exhaled to the surface of the Ebro River, then pulled his pants and watered the river with his "rattle" and "rattled" in the river.

Ferdinand's face was gloomy, and he even stared at the ministers standing below him with a terrible look.

He didn't know who leaked the news of the defeat of the Roman town!

Although he knew it was impossible to hide it for too long, he did not expect that the lies would be exposed so quickly.

When someone reported to him that it was rumored that the battle in Rome was actually a crushing defeat, Ferdinand's first thought was that the damn soldier leaked the news.

But when he was angry and wanted to know what the person said to whom, he unexpectedly heard about a late-night hunt in Zaragoza.

Ferdinand immediately realized that this incident seemed to be related to the soldier, because the men he sent to send the man had never come back.

If it were in the past, he wouldn't care about a follower, but after hearing about the incident that happened that night, Ferdinand immediately thought that something might have happened.

He immediately asked someone to find the follower, but no one had seen him since that night, and others would not casually ask about his whereabouts because he was ordered by the king.

So no one thought that the follower had actually had an accident.

Ferdinand immediately sent people to search everywhere, and soon his people found out what happened that night, and also knew that the last person who saw the soldier should be an officer guarding the city gate in Zaragoza.

But when Ferdinand's men broke into that man's house, they saw the empty house.

The owner of the house disappeared two days ago, and his family and several servants were missing with him.

But the soldier completely lost his whereabouts as the officer disappeared.

Ferdinand smelled the obvious conspiracy, but he didn't know who was secretly fighting him.

If all this was done by that Gombrey, Ferdinand would never believe it. He knew that if it was true, he, the King of Aragon, would be about to end.

However, Ferdinand did not believe that Kombre would have the ability to make trouble in Zaragoza directly.

But because of this, he became even more angry and frightened.

Because this means that in Aragon, in the palace of Zaragoza, there is a force that is secretly trying to engage in a conspiracy against him.

And it is certain that no matter who these people are, they obviously have enough power and influence.

From that late-night chase, it was only after the rumors of the defeat in Rome that were discovered that everything that happened in that late-night was obviously deliberately concealed.

Being able to do this shows how huge the influence those people have, and his people quickly found out that the escaped officer was a local aristocrat born and raised in Zaragoza.

But he couldn't find anything useful from those who were involved with him. His relatives and friends were surprised that he actually got involved in that trouble, and his colleagues in the army knew nothing about it.

This not only made the clues that continued to pursue were almost completely lost, but also made Ferdinand realize that there were likely a group of enemies he had never noticed in Zaragoza. They now obviously felt that the time was ripe and wanted to take the opportunity to cause trouble.

His enemies are likely among these seemingly respectful nobles in front of him.

Ferdinand thought in his heart that now he began to feel that he was so lucky to be king so safely for many years.

However, as long as he thinks about it carefully, he can still detect some signs that he has never noticed in the past.
To be continued...