The Montina army began to attack Ferrara, which many people did not expect.

Even Caesar was shocked by the unexpected news when he heard that the Montinas, who had already withdrawn some distance from outside the city, had not only re-entered the positions they had previously built, but had even begun to place artillery outside the city.

Caesar's life in Ferrara was not very good during this time, although he conquered the city, but then he was besieged, not to mention, and even cut off from retreating.

His only way back to Rome now was to venture north, and if he could enter the Venetian territory without being driven and blocked, he could move to Lombardy and then join the French.

Caesar believed that once he and the French army met, all difficulties could be overcome, and the Montina people should not dare to attack the French army directly, although throwing themselves on the French side at this time would inevitably offend many city-states, but it was better than being besieged in the city of Ferrara.

However, Caesar's subsequent withdrawal from the position made Caesar seem to see hope, and although it is uncertain that this was what his father, Alexander VI, had done to save him, Caesar believed that his difficulties should have passed.

So although he was trapped in Ferrara in the later days, he was still at ease, but he did not show the giving and giving of a conqueror as he imagined, which made him somewhat regretful.

Suddenly, however, the peaceful days were shattered, and without warning, the Montinas began to prepare for the siege, and when Caesar, who had only thought that the other side was bluffing again, discovered that the enemy had set up artillery, he realized that things might have really turned bad.

Caesar ordered the fortification and tried to send someone to the Montina on the opposite side to inquire about the news, but the men he sent were soon driven back, and according to the messenger's report, the Montina showed no sign of negotiating at all, and they only "wanted to enter the city".

In addition to the surprise of Caesar, this statement also really frightened the people of Ferrara.

Even the Ferrarans, who did not know much about military affairs, could see that the Papal army was clearly no match for the Montina army, and just looking at the artillery erected outside the city was enough to make people eat in fear every day.

And when it comes to eating, there is news circulating in the city that makes the people of Ferrara even more uneasy, as all roads leading to the outside of the city are blocked, especially after a river to the Adriatic Sea has been blocked by the Montina army, all the passages for supplies from outside Ferrara have been blocked, and if this continues, it will not be long before there will be a famine in Ferrara.

That's what panics the people of Ferrara.

Historically, Ferrara is not a remarkable place, except for being a gateway connecting Romagna to Venice to the northeast, and even the only river connected to the Adriatic Sea can only be passed by a few small boats.

And the Ferrarians do not want to get ahead in this troubled world, they treat everyone who wants to conquer them deferentially, and although the conquerors have been exchanged, Ferrara has always maintained the original appearance.

The locals believed that this was the law of their survival and the magic weapon that allowed them to avoid terrible disasters such as the massacre of the city again and again, but this time they felt fear, because they were being forced to resist an invincible enemy.

"Take up arms, people of Ferrara, this is the domain that belongs to the Pope, one of the closest places to God, and engrave a cross on your weapons, that will give you precious courage and faith." Caesar's encouragement did not give the people of Ferrara courage at all, on the contrary, some of them were already complaining about why they had to face such a thing.

Caesar didn't understand what had caused the Montina to suddenly decide to attack the city, but he was prepared accordingly.

It was only when Montina's cannons made the first loud noise, and with a puff of smoke rising from the walls of Ferrara, that Caesar realized that the siege had really begun.

"General, the negotiations with the Pope have reached an impasse, and at such times I can only make a bold decision to prove my resolve by launching an attack on Ferrara, so this attack needs to be resolute, decisive and courageous, so that the Vatican can see our determination."

This is a letter written by Barendi to Gompati, in which Barendi explains in detail the reasons for the attack, which also makes Gompati somewhat understand the responsibility he is shouldering.

Resolute, decisive and courageous attack, this was what Montina's army was good at, but Gompati understood Barenti's intentions from the letter.

Barentia did not want negotiations with the Pope to break down completely, which is why she emphasized in her letter that it was a determination to be visible to the Vatican, and it was clear that Barentia wanted to put pressure on the Pope in order to force Alexander VI to compromise.

This move can be described as very bold and even dangerous.

After all, although the power of the pope is not as powerful as it used to be over the entire European continent, and can even force the emperor to kneel and beg for mercy, the influence of the Vatican is still not comparable to that of any secular power.

Even when the French openly confronted the Vatican, it was in the name of supporting their own pope that the Holy See was established, but Barendi was going to directly engage the Papal Army this time, which made Gompati a little worried about her decision.

But Gompati was a soldier, or rather a member of a new military group called Gombray that had been tied to Alexandria because of his experiences.

When he rebelled in Pisa and then joined Alexander's army, Gompati became a member of this group without a retreat, and as a Pisa, his only way out now was to support Alexander's daughter Estelles, and because of this, Barentia did not hesitate to give him the task of attacking Ferrara.

Gompati did not disappoint Barenti, and after pondering for a while, he came up with a plan, according to which he decided to take advantage of this stalemate to bring artillery from Montina and Pisa to show Caesar's Papal army how powerful it was, and whether to launch a fierce siege next would depend on how the situation developed.

Gompati's decision was apparently deliberate, and when the first cannon roared and fired cannonballs towards the walls of Ferrara, he saw from afar the Papal army in disarray.

Gompati smiled with satisfaction, he had noticed some aspects of the Papal army looking familiar when he was on the banks of the Renault River, and he was even more sure that Caesar had copied some of the features of Montina's army, which did not disturb Gompati, but he was still cautious.

However, through the Battle of the Renault, he found that the Papal army had clearly learned the essence of the success of Montina's army, and Caesar apparently thought that with his deep pockets and the seemingly wonderful tactics on the battlefield that he had stolen, he could confront the teacher, but he obviously did not really understand the real reason why Montina's army could stand still in the face of a strong enemy.

The artillery kept throwing lethal projectiles at the city walls, and according to Gompati's orders, Montina's artillery was focused on the city walls, and he strictly forbade shooting into the city, so although it was true that 2 shells flew over the city walls due to the gunner's negligence, but fortunately, they only hit some insignificant things, and there were no casualties.

But even this frightened the people of Ferrara, who screamed in terror and ran about the streets, and fear was obviously contagious, and that panicked appearance caused even greater panic in many places for a while, and if it were not for the fact that Montina's artillery was forbidden to shoot into the city, there would have been some people among the panicked Ferrarians who had been hit by shells for running around.

The nobles who had surrendered to Caesar gathered again, but this time they wanted Caesar to negotiate with the Montinates.

Caesar was also surprised by the power of the Montina artillery, he had seen the French artillery, and in his opinion the two sides might be equal in terms of artillery power, and even the French heavy guns were more destructive, but the Montina man's skill in using the cannon made Caesar stunned, because he found that most of the cannonballs hit the walls of Ferrara one after another, except for a few misses, although the long walls were indeed easy targets to hit in comparison, But thinking about the level of fire of the French gunners he had ever seen, Caesar couldn't help but be surprised by the superb skill of the Montina gunners.

The walls of Ferrara are still very strong, which is more due to the contribution of the rulers of Ferrara to the defense of the city in the early years, so although the Montina army launched a fierce bombardment of the city walls as soon as they came up, they did not easily break through the walls at the first time.

This reassured Caesar a little, and he was worried that the Montina army would shoot at random into the city, and although he didn't mind that it might cause casualties to the Ferraras, he was worried that the Montina might take advantage of the chaos in the city to launch a siege.

Fortunately, the Montinas did not want to do so, and their main target was still the city, so although the walls looked crumbling under constant bombardment, Caesar was able to quickly reorganize the army that was on the verge of collapse due to the first round of shelling.

But what Caesar didn't expect was that the Ferrarians would take the initiative to find him.

The Ferrara nobles, who had surrendered to him not long ago, were cautious, but in the end they made their intentions clear.

"Let me surrender to that Cambrai, it's impossible!" Caesar rejected the Ferrarans' offer almost without thinking, angrily denouncing them as cowards and wall-to-wall grass, and threatening to arrest them and tie them up outside the town hall for public display: "My father is the Pope, he is the only person in this world who can receive God's revelation, and I will let my enemies know what will happen to my son who offends the Pope." ”

While Caesar was angrily denouncing the people of Ferrara, Lucrezia wrote her first letter to the Countess of Montina in rather harsh terms.

"I cannot tolerate everything you have done to my brother, the Borgia will not turn a blind eye to the danger of their loved ones, so please stop the attack on Ferrara at once, otherwise I will have to personally write to General Gompati asking him to cease the war, please do not forget that I am still nominally regent of my daughter, Estles, Duke of Pisa, and I have the right to order the general of Pisa to obey my orders."

Lucrezia's words were not only strong, but even had a strong smell of gunpowder, and the letters she sent to her to write to Alexander VI showed that she was indeed a Borgia.

"My dear father, I have made a request to you that you should consider the suggestion from Montina, which is the result of my own reasons, but I beg you to believe that your daughter cares equally about her relatives, so I have written to the woman to warn her, and I want you to promise that if Caesar's safety is not guaranteed, I will personally go to Ferrara to stand with my brother," Lucrezia assured Alexander VI in her letter, but then she changed her tone and wrote in a pleading tone. But I also ask you to be fair to all your children, and not to be biased by your expectations of Caesar, you know that Caesar's behavior makes me angry, he tries to covet Alexander's Romagna, and you refuse to judge him fairly, can you imagine how sad I am when you know this, am I not your daughter, am not Alexander a Borgia, then why do you show so much love to Caesar, And do the same to your other children? ”

Lucrezia's letter was written with emotion and even tear-jerking, but when Alexander VI received it, it was the end of the letter that really moved him.

"Dear father, if you think that Caesar's victory can bring you honor and pride, then I can proudly say that your daughter can also achieve all this honor for you, although I do not like Barentia della Rovier, but I want you to assure you that I can solve the problem before you, as she stubbornly emphasized, Romagna is, and can only be Alexandria, and I also draw your attention to Caesar's actions, which caused more than Montina's displeasure, You know that the French have just defeated Milan again in Lombardy, and this seems to have caused the displeasure of the emperor, so do you think that King Louis would have been in favor of causing unnecessary disputes at this time? ”

Alexander VI, who had previously resigned himself to Caesar's actions because of his greed for Romagna, was completely shaken by this statement.

The Pope knew that Lucrezia had not come up with this on his own, and although he thought that his daughter was indeed very smart, the Pope also knew that her pretty little head clearly did not contain these things.

So who instilled these things in her?

That promising little daughter of the Rovere family?

Alexander VI had a rare compliment on his old enemy, but he then reversed the idea.

Barendi della Rovere may have been a very intelligent person, even better than many men.

But Alexander VI did not assume that Barentia had this knowledge.

This is not because he despises Barondi's wisdom, but because the Pope knows very well that in order to have such insight, in addition to a clever brain, it is necessary to have enough experience and experience.

And the girl who has just turned 19 years old in the Luo Weire family seems unlikely to have such a vision.

So was old Rovie the idea for her?

As soon as he thought about this, Alexander VI immediately rejected this conjecture.

The Vatican knows how ambiguous the elder Rovere was in Romagna affairs, and how Tony della Rovere died.

And the infighting in the Rovere family became the biggest joke in Rome during this time.

"I hope that the letter has been delivered," Alexander VI remembered the letter he had asked Nomelo to write to Alexander about the black state of old Rovere, "and perhaps this will alleviate this bad situation." ”

While Alexander VI was suspicious of Lucrezia's strange letter, in the vaults of the new castle of Montina, Barondi was humbly listening to the teachings of an old man.

"Obviously, Countess, you need to cooperate with the French."

A smiling Master Ficher said this to Barondi.