Colonel Li Anye has been under a lot of pressure recently. Even though he is indeed a very talented person, he feels exhausted both physically and mentally.

He is a civilian legend in the Kingdom of France. The eldest son of a Vendée pig butcher refused to accept the pork shop left by his father. He generously left all the inheritance to his younger brother and gave up everything to serve the greatest God.

After serving God devoutly for twelve years, he heard God's urging in a dream, left the monastery and joined the army of the Kingdom of France, serving the Kingdom of France with his own warrior power.

In the past thirty years, from the Mediterranean islands to the Pyrenees, from the Rhine River to the Alps, wherever the French Lily King flag pointed, Li Anye fought hard.

With one knife and one shot, he climbed to his current position step by step. The butcher's son became a unique figure in the Kingdom of France. He donated an orphanage to his hometown and repaired many roads and bridges. He could also call the shots in this Ligurian city.

But in the dead of night, the respected and feared Colonel Li Anye would be afraid, afraid of losing it all.

He is a confidant of the Duke of Bourbon!

This put his career in jeopardy.

Maybe he was a pure and simple man when he entered the monastery, but after seeing the shameless insidiousness and obscenity of the Dark Sun Priest, that young man no longer existed. The "urge of God" may indeed exist, but that is the kind of person in the monastery.

The seeds of passion deep in his heart.

Rely on the skills learned in the monastery to fight and camp.

How many times did he try to figure out the traps and how many times did he rack his brains? It was not easy for him to get on the big tree of the Duke of Bourbon.

How could a civilian become such an important official if he didn't become the person in the opponent's pocket?

Life was once so beautiful, and the general's position was within his grasp. Although his relationship with the church was a problem that prevented him from getting married and having offspring blessed by the true God, the Duke of Bourbon also promised to arrange a knight's position for his illegitimate son.

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But who would have thought that the majestic King of France, the Queen Mother and her son would use such despicable methods to seize the Principality of Bourbon.

In the blink of an eye, the big tree of the Duke of Bourbon fell.

Although Colonel Li Anye still had family and parents in Paris, he had no hesitation in supporting his benefactor. However, the perfect knight Bayar's reaction was too fast. The Duke of Bourbon asked Li Anye to respond to his letter to launch the rebellion.

Arriving at the city of Liguria, the Duke of Bourbon was forced to flee to the shelter of the Habsburg family.

A few days after Li Anye's troops left the Ligurian city, news came that the Duke of Bourbon had been defeated. The "Cruelty Rebels" could only transform into the "Qinwang's Division", relying on the experience of working with Bayar for many years.

With experience, Li Anye gave up the army and went straight to the main camp of the French army alone, winning the trust of the other party.

Although Bayar is brave and loyal, he lacks experience in dealing with this kind of problem. Although the Duke of Guise insists on removing Colonel Li Anye from his military power, the Bayar knight is reluctant to bear the situation that the Duke of Bourbon finally opened in the Republic of Liguria. Once the situation is solved,

If this leader removes his military power, it is very likely that the last bit of the French Kingdom's many years of success in running Italy will be lost.

Finally, Knight Bayar persuaded Marquis Lautec to let Colonel Li Anye continue to be in charge of Ligurian affairs.

He hurried back to the Ligurian city, just in time to retreat to Corsica with the French army before the last Habsburg army came to the city.

After the Habsburg army retreated and Marshal Doria regained control of the Ligurian city, although he kept his position, Paris inevitably sent a large number of new people to the Ligurian city. The two thousand French troops were being slowly but inexorably defeated.

Reversely, little by little, the troops belonging to the Duke of Bourbon's line were brought back to the mainland to be reorganized, company by company, and replaced by new companies led by officers loyal to the French King.

Colonel Li Anye's deputy minister is currently taking over his power step by step. It is obvious that once Paris thinks that his experience is enough. Or there are very few troops loyal to Colonel Li Anye, then Colonel Li Anye's career will come to an end and he can only go to

As the owner of his country manor, he is lucky enough not to be settled by his wife.

The power of a powerful party, the exotic beauty of Liguria, Colonel Li Anye had it all with great difficulty. How could he allow himself to give up so easily everything that condensed his blood, sweat and wisdom?!

But Li Anye had no choice. If he wasn't born into a noble family, he wouldn't have a blood relationship network. If he wasn't born into a noble family, it would be difficult to make his subordinates who were born into noble families completely loyal to him. His control of the troops originally relied heavily on the authority of the Duke of Bourbon, and he couldn't do it at all.

Organize the new deputy and the local ambassador to slowly weaken his wings and deprive him of his power. He can no longer resist.

So when the weird man with the terrifying eyes came to contact him with a letter from his old master, although he was willing to respond and open the city gate for the Austrian army, he was not sure how many troops he could control, and his deputy also

I was very careful never to give him a chance to get angry.

If you want to fight openly and openly, and the opponent has the support of an ambassador representing the Dharma King, it is very likely that once he starts, he will be killed immediately.

But this trouble is not a problem for Ladislaus.

Although he failed to use the old army of the Duke of Bourbon as an inside agent to capture the city of Liguria in one fell swoop, Ladislaus still obtained quite accurate information precisely because he understood the abundant food and grass in the city of Liguria.

In the end, Ladislaus gave up more ambitious goals, such as rushing into his prosperous hometown to make a fortune, and was content with the small benefits provided by Marshal Andre Doria.

Marshal Andre Doria is willing to support his nephew's new Vienna municipal construction plan with 200,000 thalers, but Ladislaus has one more thing to do besides withdrawing his troops, and that is to remove the evil tentacles of the Kingdom of France, Li Anye.

The colonel's troops were cut off.

Marshal Doria is not very clear about the internal situation of the French army in Liguria. Although he understands the secrets of factional struggle, Li Anye, who is unwilling to expose his weak state, will certainly not let him know his predicament. Every time he meets the colonel,

In front of the marshal, he acted as if he had the trust of His Majesty François.

Other French officers and diplomats would not expose this internal struggle so easily.

Although Marshal Doria can be said to be the commander of the French Mediterranean Fleet, he is actually unable to intervene in personnel and training. Even his wartime command authority is barely adequate, which is very inconvenient.

On the contrary, because of his unreliable power, all French politicians were more cautious about him, so that Marshal Doria was deaf and blind to the inside story of the political struggle in the Kingdom of France.

It’s not that Marshal Doria doesn’t want to go deep into the internal political struggles of the Kingdom of France, but he doesn’t want to get in and devotes all his energy. After all, if he is too enthusiastic, His Majesty François may even doubt whether he intends to annex France.

As for the fleet, besides, he is more concerned about how his family and the Republic of Liguria can gain complete freedom.

Marshal Doria finally decided to let Ladislaus deal with these French guys.

He was just a little worried that his sudden change of attitude and his active request to fight would not arouse any suspicion among the French officers.

Therefore, Milo Doria met with Colonel Li Anye for a preliminary preview and test: "According to reliable information, the Habsburg Army will gather 50,000 troops this time. With nearly a hundred warships, I think the city of Liguria will still be defended this time.

Can’t live.”

Ladislaus sent 20,000 "reinforcements" and Milo-Doria sent "25,000 reinforcements." Now, in addition to the 5,000 Austrian troops, there are 45,000 invisible and intangible troops besieging the city.

The army.

"What? Fifty thousand troops?!" Colonel Li Anye looked very shocked, "Then we must immediately withdraw to Corsica before the Spanish fleet arrives. However, the French army must still give priority to retreat as last year."

'You bastards, you French people are human beings, but we Italians are not human beings?!' Cousin Milo cursed fiercely in his heart: "That's of course. That's of course, God's heavenly soldiers are natural

We must retreat with all our troops. Otherwise, how can we demonstrate the strong and unshakable friendship between the French people and the Ligurian people?"

"Okay, okay. Please." He said this, and Colonel Li Anye felt anxious. Last time, the Doria family was secretly scolded by the local nobles of Liguria because the French prince was arranged to go first in the order of retreat.

How come you are so easy to talk to this time?

Colonel Li Anye never expected that the other party would not give a reply at all.

Milo wasn't very talented in conspiracy, so he didn't think of how to get the opponent to fight in turn.

The two of them were far less heated than Marshal Doria and Ladislaus, and they were actually at a loss for words.

Fortunately, Lurna also came with us today. This beautiful trickster has now become Milo's mistress and advisor, and she plays her own role at this time.

"Your Excellency, Colonel. Although retreating is a prudent choice, the Spanish fleet was slow to react when we retreated last time. They may not let us go peacefully this time."

"What do you think we should do, Ms. Lurna?" Li Anye could no longer pretend at this time, and he acted very eagerly.

"We should go out of the city to invite the Austrian army!" Miss Lurna waved her hand with a manly wave of her hand. "Currently, the Spanish main force has not yet arrived. There are only 20,000 Austrian troops outside the city, and they are guarding various city gates. If we gather the main force to attack from one direction,

.It is very possible to completely defeat the Austrian army."

"Yes, yes, if we win a big victory, I think 80% of the Spanish army will not dare to besiege the city. Even if they fail to win, it will not be too late to retreat by then." Milo was quite satisfied with his mistress's performance. This woman is very useful.

It's big, but the ambition is not small either. It's just that her noble-born wife symbolizes the important alliance of the Doria family, which she can't shake.

"That's true." Li Anye considered how to propose separate operations with the Ligurian army in order to directly defect.

"It's just that most of the Ligurian army are militiamen or sailors. They can't compare with the real elite of France. They can only take on some diversionary tasks. After attracting the attention of the Austrians, we still need to ask you, Colonel, to lead the army to attack from the most dangerous dock area.

Strike at the heart of the enemy." It was Lurna who proposed a solution again.

"Of course, we, the French elite, will naturally take on the most dangerous tasks." Regardless of the French army's history of repeated defeats and escapes, Colonel Li Anye said, patting his chest. "It's just that you know, there are always so many individuals in the army.

I rush to take credit quickly, and no one is seen in a tough battle, so at the joint military meeting, I asked Marshal Doria to endorse me."

"That's for sure, that's for sure, long live the friendship between France and Lili."

"Long live Farley friendship."
Chapter completed!