The roar of the trebuchet sounded again, and a huge stone ball with a diameter of nearly two meters appeared again, flying from the top of the city with a whistling sound.

What makes the soldiers more nervous than hearing is the visual pressure. Unlike at night, during the day all the soldiers can see the stone balls moving rapidly with terrifying shadows. This threat caused the three infantry lines to shake instantly. Most of them

The inexperienced officers were no different from their subordinates. They raised their heads and stared at the sky. Only a small number of officers performed their duties and asked their subordinates not to raise their heads in the formation and to maintain formation.

After all, the infantry still huddled together. This was the result of several lectures on military law conducted by Ladislaus and Old Colonna after seeing the trebuchet. Without relevant preparations, thousands of people would have dispersed in one fell swoop.

It's not impossible, the Italian city-state's troops are really weak.

The performance of the "hand-and-half-sword" cavalry was much better. Although they had never seen such a trebuchet, everyone was familiar with how to deal with the high-level arcana when the acting archduke released it. Kessell-Vitting only

He observed the trajectory of the stone ball at a glance and led his men away in a safe direction.

The stone ball finally hit the edge of the first row of infantry, crushing the two unlucky guys, and then impacted a certain distance. However, the second row of infantry was not crushed. The better the stone ball is polished, the further it can roll.

, but this cost is very uneconomical.

Not only is it uneconomical to polish, but just releasing the "Tan Shuer Advanced Aiming Technique" requires thousands of talers of magic materials. Coupled with the price of stone balls, such a hugely expensive shot only wiped out two people.

As a soldier, he really lost his money from a financial perspective.

However, from a tactical point of view, Consul Petrucci still had reason to be satisfied. This stone ball not only preserved the morale of the defenders, but also made La La, who did not know that there was actually only a thirteenth-level mage in the city who could only perform a precise shot,

Dislaus decided to withdraw his troops.

However, Ladislaus is still undoubtedly the winner today, having severely damaged the opponent's cavalry, which was already at a disadvantage. Now the Siena defenders have basically lost the ability to go out of the city to invite battle.

Old Colonna also arranged a small banquet that night to celebrate Ladislaus's first battle. Although alcohol was prohibited in the military camp, they still had a good meal.

Old Colonna graciously left today's spoils entirely at Ladislaus' disposal.

Of course, this is just a good sale of Old Colonna. A dozen war horses and a dozen sets of armor were basically obtained by the mercenaries of Kessell-Vitting. Although the other party still expected the employment of Ladislaus,

After all, it’s not easy to overdo it.

Most of the usable armor and uninjured horses were left by Ladislaus to Kessell Wetting, and the remaining armor and injured horses with relatively large damage were asked to be handed over to Ladislaus, and

He also received a certain reward. Ladislaus used his authority to compensate Kessell-Vitting with 300 civil servants.

With civilian husbands, mercenaries don't have to set up camp, mow the grass, or clean up horse manure themselves.

Ladislaus's order to dig latrines no longer made them complain. Public toilets are still very beneficial, especially if they don't have to dig them themselves.

Although these peasants had to camp, cut grass, clean up horse manure, and dig toilets, they no longer had to fill in the trenches.

Kelal did not go to serve "Half Sword", but he did not have to continue filling the river.

Things turned out well for this peasant, and he met his fate, and now he became a member of the "Archbishop's Guard" directly under Ladislaus.

Although the Black Continent trade entrusted to Lasiris has not yet seen any benefits, Ladislaus decided to try his best to form a force that would directly take orders from him.

This team is organized as the Ligurian Church Guard. Currently, including the captain Sirica, there are only nineteen people in total.

Eight former Roman soldiers, three outstanding Siena civilians, and seven former Austrian-born "half-sword" mercenaries, Ladislaus equipped them with as many weapons and equipment as possible.

Kelar was the only civilian husband who achieved results when the insurance team attacked. He cut down a cavalryman and was therefore awarded the position of deputy captain. This was of course quite tempting for the civilian husbands of Siena.

A hint of strength.

As for the excuse of poaching, Ladislaus did it under the guise of "dedicating himself to God", and his steps were not very big. He only recruited so many people in total, so it was natural for Old Colonna and Kessell-Vitting not to care too much.

, after all, obstructing An Ri's cause is too big a hat, so there is no need to cause trouble for these few people.

For the time being, these people were responsible for inspecting and supervising the performance of the workers who filled the moats every day. There was nothing they could do on the first day, and when they assessed the work next, Ladislaus decided that it would be better to just hold it in his hands.

These nine people, no matter where they were born, were promised thirty acres of fertile land in Siena after the war. The eldest Sirica was chasing his own knighthood, and he was very motivated.

From then on, until New Year's Day in 1527, thousands of civilians continued to run to death under the command of Ladislaus, but the Siena defenders never attacked again, or used trebuchets, or even

The revolving crossbow basically no longer fired.

Of course, bows and arrows and magic missiles alone were not powerful enough. On January 2, 1527, the moat was finally completely blocked.

The experience points rewarded by the task "Filling the moat within ten days" gave Ladislaus about one-fifth of the white in his experience gauge.

The civilian husbands who were still alive finally had a belated Christmas and New Year's Day. Each of them was given enough black bread and a little bacon. The following work was relatively less dangerous, which was just transporting military rations and cleaning the military camp.

Assist craftsmen in building siege equipment and other tasks.

The civilian husbands who died in the war also received pensions, and their wives and children were allowed to go home. However, most women would not be able to live after losing their husbands. If old Colonna had not sent military judges to repeatedly strengthen military discipline, these few days would have been impossible.

There were many Roman officers who were having fun in the military camp. However, even if the military judges temporarily drove away the women, these women would inevitably fall into the hands of the invaders eventually, if they could succeed in the invasion.

Of course, the fate of the family members of the civilian husbands who were executed for trying to escape was even more tragic.

Sirica fulfilled his master's declaration unceremoniously and exchanged these women and children for grain, grass and weapons supplies. Venetian merchant ships loaded various military supplies directly to the port of Siena to unload, and then loaded these slaves and shipped them there.

Black continent.

Although the countries in Europe generally hate the nomads on the northern edge of the Black Continent and the Barbary pirates based there, the Venetian merchants do not care about their moral conscience as long as they have gold coins to earn.

This is of course not an accusation. It is precisely because it has the least conscience that the Republic of Venice is now the most prosperous city-state in Europe.

The outer port in the west of Siena is very busy these days. Not only are Venetian merchant ships coming in, but the Spanish "Burgundy Cross" battle flag also frequently appears here.

For the quick and successful completion of the "Filling of the Moat in Ten Days", although more thanks to the enemy's incompetence, Ladislaus received the additional reward of a Spanish fleet delivery of supplies on behalf of the Emperor, originally planned to be sent to Corsica

The island's supplies to support the noble rebels were partly allocated to the Siena battlefield because of Ladislaus's rapid filling of the city walls.

The naval commander received an order that the supplies must be handed over directly to Ladislaus. Obviously, the emperor's dissatisfaction with the contemporary pope became more and more obvious.

With the right to distribute this large amount of supplies, Ladislaus's voice on issues of siege and post-war partition was greatly strengthened.

The naval commander's work was not in vain. Ladislaus gave the most beautiful girls collected during this raid to His Excellency the fleet commander. Of course, a little thought of five hundred talers was also indispensable.
Chapter completed!