When the French returned along the original road, they passed by near Fornovo, and tried not to make loud noises to avoid disturbing the Italians in the Italian coalition camp by the river.

At the same time, Charles VIII took back several French knights who had been reconnaissance near the coalition camp:

"What's going on with the Italians?" asked Charles VIII.

"Go back to your Majesty, there is no movement." Several French knights have been near the Italian camp and found nothing unusual.

Charles VIII, who was at ease, took his men and walked on the mountain road with a large slope. The mountain road was wide enough to walk 10 French knights side by side. However, the slope issue was not a big deal for horses.

In order not to disturb the Italians, the French knights sealed the mouths of each horse with cloth strips to prevent them from neighing. Then, everyone quietly walked up the mountain road and rushed to the northwest.

However, because the torches were not lit, their visibility was limited and they were not fast. They did not arrive at the ambush point in Marin until around 12 o'clock in the evening.

When the French arrived here, the French began to relax a little. Because it was more than ten kilometers away from the coalition camp, everyone no longer had to be wary of the Italians. So the French knights began to talk and laugh. Even Charles VIII discussed with several nobles how to arrange it after returning to Paris.

In general, if it weren't for the syphilis epidemic, France would have made a lot of money this time. After all, all such a large kingdom of Naples had been taken down. You should know that Sicily and the kingdom of Naples were the most developed regions in Europe in this era.

Italy is volcanic, and volcanic ash is a very important natural fertilizer. Europeans do not know how to use manure, but Italians knew how to use volcanic ash as fertilizer in the Roman era. Therefore, southern Italy was always a prosperous region in Europe in the Middle Ages. Especially Sicily, it was called the "Golden Basin" by Europeans. Of course, Sicily was snatched away by the Spanish, and the French snatched Naples, which was slightly worse than Sicily, which was also very good.

However, just when they were relaxing, they didn't know that they had entered the ambush circle...

The 10 French knights who were leading the way didn't pay any attention to it. There were many traps on this low valley avenue. So they were all tripped by the very low-level dead trip Marso...

For a time, everyone in the French were overturned, and the knights in the front row could not stop. The seven or eight rows of knights collided together, and many war horses and knights fell to the ground.

Realizing that the front of the Frenchman had been hit, Marin no longer hesitated and shouted:

"attack!"

As soon as he finished speaking, rows of stones on both sides began to smash down...

"ah……"

“Yu…”

For a time, many horses were hit and their hooves were broken by stones. The French knights on the horse's back were also thrown off their war horses and horses.

At the same time, the 100 archers under Malin also set off arrows, and for a moment, the arrows fell like rain...

"ah……"

“Yu…”

Many French knights and horses were hit, but in general, the most unlucky ones were those who pulled horses. Because they didn’t have horse armor, they were hit by bows and arrows and could not bear it.

For a moment, the French were in chaos...

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" French officers began to shout, asking the Cavaliers to defend.

But how to defend this? Because the blows fall from the sky...

Charles VIII was also surrounded by many knights, looking panicked:

"What's going on? What's going on?" The French fled this time, but they were well prepared, and the Italians did not go out. They were monitored by French scouts throughout the journey. They should not have appeared here...

"Is it the German?" a count next to him guessed.

"I think so, it seems that 15,000 Germans did not participate in the previous battle..." Another French nobleman said. The French also knew that Count Alfred led an army of 15,000 behind and did not participate in the battle.

It is precisely because of this that Charles VIII was in a hurry to leave. If he was trapped by the other party's 35,000 troops, it would be too late to escape. The Germans were not this group of Italians. The Germans were martial, and there were many wandering knights with great martial arts skills among the people. If they were entangled by the German army and the Italians assisted, the French would have few people and would definitely not be able to bear it. Therefore, Charles VIII chose to run away with the backbone, just because they didn't want to get entangled with the Italians and waste time.

But unexpectedly, they had just left the military camp and planned to run away, but here they were blocked...

In the middle of the night, no one could see clearly and didn't know how many enemies there were. So, 8,000 French knights were in a mess under the attack of more than 1,000 German mercenaries. Moreover, the other party was on the high ground on both sides, and the French knights could not get up at all.

Charles VIII first panicked for a while, but soon calmed down. Because panic was useless and would only make himself doomed. He calmly commanded the French army to shrink their defense, leaned together, and placed the horses that were smashed and injured at the outermost periphery to block the stones smashed on the hillsides on both sides.

"Frier, you will lead someone to attack the hillside on the left!" Charles VIII ordered.

"Your Majesty, our horses can't rush forward!" Freir, Earl of Toulouse, looked bitter.

"Idiot, who asked you to ride a horse and climb a mountain? If you take 1,000 people and get off the horse and climb the mountain, you must occupy a commanding height. At least, don't throw stones on the hillside near our army!"

"Yes, your majesty!" Flair quickly took the order, wearing 1,000 plate armor knights, wearing a full set of plate armor, carrying a sword with both hands, and began to climb the left hillside. Coincidentally, the place where he chose to attack was where Marin was ambushed...

"These idiots, let them crawl!"

"Sir, what if they climb up?"

"First, slow down the stones, leave some stones, and the archers continue to shoot the French main formation."

"Also, yell at me!"

"yes!"

Soon, strange screams of "Surrender and not kill (French)!" and "Charles VIII is dead (French)!" were heard on both hillsides.

Earl Fryer, who was leading the team to climb the mountain, was shocked, stopped climbing the mountain, rode his horse, returned to the formation to see what happened to Charles VIII...

"You idiot, why are you back?" Charles VIII was furious.

"I am worried about your Majesty's safety!" Flair was loyal.

"Idiot, that's the enemy spreading rumors!"

"Oh..." Flair hung his head and went back to organize the climbing...

But after such a fuss, the desperate momentum of Flair's thousand men disappeared immediately. Even the French army's main formation was too long and the people close to Charles VIII naturally knew that His Majesty the King was fine, but the people behind did not know. So, in the second half of the French army, many people began to panic...

Earl Fryer, who was responsible for climbing the hill and seizing the commanding heights, just led his men to climb to the part near the top, but saw Marin's wretched smile...

"Hey, now, you're short and you're not satisfied with hitting..."

With a command, the stone that had been built up had been smashed to the head of the Frenchman who was lying on the slope...

For a moment, seven or eight hundred French knights lying on the slope were hit and fell down...

The French knights themselves were wearing thick plate armor, and they could not bear it when they hit them. So, they fell down one after another, like dumplings...

However, this hillside is dozens of meters high, equivalent to more than a dozen floors. Is it better to fall down? Therefore, most of the French knights who were hit will either die or be disabled if they fall down...

As for Earl Fryer, he had good luck. Because when he fell down, a fat knight was acting as a meat pad. Then, when he fell down, he was blocked by several unlucky guys in the middle, slowing down the falling speed. So, when he finally fell to the ground, he magically did not fall to death, but just broke his left leg...

"Oh, it hurts so much..."

Soon, the unlucky Earl of Flair was carried to the face of Charles VIII, who was covered in dark face...

"What a waste!" Charles VIII cursed in annoyance.

However, he had no choice but to the shameless act of throwing stones by the people on the mountain. So he turned his head and ordered Earl Toul:

"Matthews, take people forward and see how many German troops are ahead." In Charles VIII, since the other party has set up an ambush, there must be many troops blocking ahead.

But soon, Matthews, who led the team to explore the way, received a reward:

"Your Majesty, there seems to be no enemy troops ahead, but there are many traps and many pits that cannot be passed by on horseback..."
Chapter completed!