Gonzalo's next move did not surprise Alexander, or rather, it was his only option.

The naval dockyard at the mouth of the Atlantic Ocean has been blocked, and the road to the sea has been cut off.

In this situation, Gonzalo could only lead the remnants of his army to retreat upstream along the Guadaville River.

The next day, the Castilian servicemen crossed the Corvones River.

Later, after making sure that the Sicilians did not pursue them and that he had established a defensive line on the east bank of the Covones River to ensure that he would not be attacked, Gonzalo and his troops crossed the Guadaville River on 24 April and withdrew towards Córdoba.

The Sicilian army entered the city of Seville on 25 April.

By the time of this day, the Castilian army defending Seville had abandoned the city.

A remaining Castilian force of 300 men surrendered to the Sicilian army.

The Seville defenders made this decision, not only because of Gonzalo's defeat, but also because they themselves were obviously weak enough to resist the Sicilians, but also because of the influence of many people in the city of Seville.

Many of the nobles who did not have time to flee hoped that the defenders would not let Seville suffer from the devastation of the war, while a large group of merchants gathered at the exchange simply offered to pay for the defenders to buy peace from the Sicilians.

At the same time, the merchants made it clear that they would not provide any help or supplies to the defenders in order to save Seville from the fighting.

On the contrary, some Sevillian civilians were agitated, shouting that Sicilians would never be allowed to enter the early capital, and many offered the defenders to take up arms to defend Seville with them, but in exchange for the loss caused by the withdrawal of Castella's army from Seville overnight.

Interestingly, when the negotiators of the remaining troops came to the Sicilian barracks to ask for surrender, they put forward a condition that surprised the Sicilians, but when they thought about it, it made sense.

"The defenders of Seville will only surrender to the Castillians, so unless it is the Duke of Roman Thessia who accepts our surrender, we will fight to the death."

This condition made many Sicilian officers scoff, but Jisha gladly accepted it.

"Rest assured, Seville will not suffer any insults, and I promise that the first to enter the city will be the banner and army of my brother, the Duke of Roman Thesia, and I will respect all the nobles who remain in Seville."

The negotiators were secretly relieved by the promise, and although the merchants had assured them that the duke and siblings would be merciful to the city of Seville, it was not until they heard the queen's promise that the delegates were finally relieved.

Then the negotiators took an opportunity to cautiously inquire about the knight of Don de Klear.

To the relief of the squire, who had stayed on Gonzalo's orders, the knight of Don de Klear was not only alive, but fortunately almost unscathed.

Even when meeting the knight, the squire saw the knight Don de Queliard arguing fiercely with the Duke of Rome Thesia over a drink.

Seeing Gonzalo's squire, the knight Sandro Don de Queliar was a little emotional, and he inquired about Gonzalo's situation with great concern, and when he heard that the Castilian army had withdrawn from the Guadaville River, the knight even said to Alexander, "Behold, duke, it seems that the battle between you and General Gonzalo is not over. ”

Alexander didn't care if the knight Don de Klear seemed to be provocative, he was actually more interested in the knight himself.

The Knight Sandro Don de Quegliar is a dozen years younger than Gonzalo, and at 35 years old, he is still unknown.

But in another ten years, when Gonzalo died, Sandro Don de Quegliar would become Spain's most prominent general.

Don de Kliar was clearly a late bloomer, or rather a monarch who could discover his talent appeared a little late.

Even in Isabella's time, Don De Klear was not ambitious, and interestingly, it was a figure that no one expected to really make use of his talents.

Juana.

Juana's life can only be described as bad, especially since she spent the rest of her life in captivity by her father, husband, and son.

But it was during this time, when she enjoyed a brief period of freedom, that she discovered such a talent as Sandro Don de Queliar.

At that time, Don De Kliar was nearly 50 years old, and in the eyes of many people, he was an ordinary aristocrat who was destined to have no achievements and spend a life of mediocrity.

But Juana unexpectedly discovered his talent, and used what little strength she had to help him gradually gain a foothold in the Spanish court.

Juana proved to have a unique vision, and Don de Klear later became a famous player after Gonzalo.

And by the time Charles V came to power, he was already a key figure in the Spanish army.

It was he who first proposed to adjust the ratio of hot and cold weapons in the Spanish phalanx, so that from then on, muskets became more and more important from auxiliary weapons, until hot weapons finally dominated the Spanish army.

Such a person, of course, intrigued Alexander.

What's more, the man was a Castilian nobleman, which was all the more satisfying.

"We have taken prisoners in this battle," Alexander said, looking at a report at hand, which was the result of the Battle of Seville "422 Castiaria soldiers, of whom about 300 are willing to continue to serve me, knights, I hope you will be their officer." ”

Don De Kliard paused slightly, he hadn't thought of this possibility.

And the argument with the Duke surprised him, and he did not expect that there was anyone more radical than him in the idea that firearms and weapons would change the future of war.

Even he felt that the duke's idea was a little too violent.

As for allegiance to the duke, Don De Klear was still a little hesitant.

He was a Castilian nobleman who once swore allegiance to Queen Isabella.

Although Isabel is now deceased, he remains loyal to the Astamara family.

Although the duke in front of him claimed to be a blood relative of Enrique IV, the status of an illegitimate son made it impossible for Don de Queliar to associate him with the king of Castile for a while.

"Not to me, at least not now," Alexander apparently saw Don de Kliar's hesitation, so he offered a compromise: "You are entering Seville as a Castilian soldier, not as my personal vassal, in order to preserve the dignity of Seville, and I don't think you want to see the Sicilian army enter Seville first." ”

Alexander's words gave Don De Klear, who was still hesitating, the best reason for that, so this time he agreed to the suggestion with only a little hesitation.

A garrison of Castilian soldiers was quickly formed, and the surrendered soldiers, led by Don de Queliar, performed a simple ceremony, and then, under the leadership of Don de Queliar, became the first victorious army to enter the city of Seville, according to the agreement reached between the two sides.

When they saw the Castilian soldiers walking in the front, the locals who stood on the side of the street and watched all this coldly seemed to feel a little better.

But when the Balkan hunters, who followed closely behind this team, appeared, looking at the originally familiar but rather unfamiliar flag, many Seville's feelings became complicated.

On 25 April, the combined forces of the Queen of Sicily and the Duke of Rome Thesia entered Seville.

To the surprise of the Sevillens, the Duke and his siblings entered the city with Pope Alexander VI and the auxiliary bishop, who is said to have disappeared.

When the auxiliary bishop accompanied the pope out of the carriage, the crowd gathered in front of the Cathedral of Seville had different expressions.

For a variety of reasons, the church did not send anyone to greet the brother and sister.

In fact, the cathedral had sent letters to the Sicilians hoping to be invited to an audience with the Queen at the Doge's Palace, but was rejected on the grounds that His Majesty the Pope was about to come and that the Queen could not be rude to be seen before the Pope.

This caused the Church in Seville to panic for a while.

From the Andalusian rebel aristocracy to Gonzalo and then to the Sicilian today, the people of Seville have experienced a lot of turmoil, chaos, occupation and reoccupation in a short period of time.

It is clear that the church did not play a glorious role during this period.

The scene of the rebel army of the auxiliary bishop Yu Don Bavi was still close at hand, but now the auxiliary bishop suddenly hugged the Sicilian thigh, and the sudden appearance of the pope also made the Seville church secretly uneasy.

They vaguely guessed what might happen next.

Alexander VI stood in front of the cathedral with a little emotion, looking up at the square dome of the cathedral that does not have the famous obelisk spire today, but is already brilliant enough.

"Though the clouds will cover the earth, there will come a time when the clouds will open and the fog will disperse, and then the shadow of all people will cast on the earth, and this shadow will be the true side of each of us."

Alexander VI spoke to himself in a voice that was not high, but could be heard by the people next to him.

His words shocked everyone who heard it, and some even quietly looked at the infamous and disguised exiled pope.

It's just that in this situation, no one dares to take the Pope's words lightly.

"Your majesty, your arrival is a miracle that lifts the dark clouds, a gift from God who has heard the prayers of the people of Seville."

The auxiliary bishop, who was standing nearby, suddenly spoke, and saw that the others were all looking at him in surprise, but the auxiliary bishop did not feel uncomfortable in the slightest because of this somewhat embarrassed gaze.

He looked at the men with the eyes of a victor until the Pope spoke.

"Let's go inside, it's getting hotter."

Alexander VI kindly extended his hand to the priests who had greeted him, let them kiss his dry hand, and at the same time blessed everyone who came before him, as if it were not he who had just uttered those words.

The atmosphere around them was lightened by the Pope's mildness, but the clergy were still cautious, knowing that the Pope, who had come to Seville with the power of Sicilian victory, was bound to bring a storm, not the gospel of God.

Sure enough, as soon as he stepped into the shadow of the church door, Alexander stopped, and he turned to look at the people who were looking at him: "The Queen of Sicily and the Duke of Thessia of Rome have entered the city, and I think you all know what happened before, so I also hope that you should understand what to do next." ”

There was a brief and eerie silence among the priests.

The people quietly watched the actions of others, and then everyone seemed to look at the auxiliary bishop in tacit agreement.

An indescribable strange expression crossed the face of the auxiliary bishop, and he first looked at the Pope, and seeing that Alexander VI had completely ignored him, the auxiliary bishop's lips trembled, and at last he spoke:

"Don Bavi had declared his marriage to Sister Alfte, who called herself Princess of Castile, and I declared that it was a blasphemy not recognized by God and the Church, and that I would personally preside over the clarification ceremony in the cathedral to declare this marriage unprotected by the Bible."

People looked at the auxiliary bishop with strange eyes at this moment.

Everyone here clearly remembers that it was in the place where he stood, that the person in front of him presided over the wedding of the "couple", and even announced that the marriage recognized by himself was recognized and protected by the church.

But now, this is the same man who wants to abolish all this promise made by him himself.

Looking at the auxiliary bishop's excited face, people had a faint feeling that tomorrow's clarification ceremony would not be so simple.

When the cuirassiers entered the Doge's palace in Seville, a steward was already standing at the foot of the steps in front of the Doge's palace with all the servants who had not had time to escape, waiting for their new master.

In just one year, the Doge's Palace has changed its owners, and it has never been so "lively" since Fernando III recovered Seville from the Moors and made it the capital of the Old Kingdom of Castile.

Seeing a carriage driven into the courtyard of the governor's palace under the protection of the brigade's heavily armed and brightly armored guards, the steward took the lead and bowed respectfully, while at the same time cautiously and secretly raised his head to glance at the carriage.

The door opened, and a young man, also dressed in a military uniform similar to that of the cuirassiers, stepped out of the car.

The young officer stood by the carriage and glanced at the grand building of the Doge's Palace, smiled, and then turned and stretched out his hand into the carriage.

A smooth, slender hand reached out of the carriage and rested on the young man's arm, and then the figure flashed, and a young woman appeared in front of the door.

The steward's waist was bent deeper, and he saw that the long skirt had been dragged to the ground, and the pattern of the skirt was made of rows of pearls, and the silk lining used to accompany it, and the whole skirt was extremely gorgeous.

"This is the Doge's Palace in Seville?"

A nice young woman's voice came from front of him, and the steward couldn't help but raise his head to look over.

To his surprise, the Queen of Sicily was completely different from the private speculations of the servants, she did not look at all like the rude woman who could fight on the battlefield with men in legends, and her appearance was even more stunningly beautiful.

The steward thought about it for a while, and felt that he could only describe the noble lady in front of him in one sentence: "This is a real queen."

"Now it's your palace."

Alexander whispered in Josa's ear.

"Really, you're willing to give me this palace?" Ji Sha looked back and asked excitedly, and then suddenly lifted the hem of her skirt and ran quickly towards the steps, "Come Alexander, come and see what my palace looks like." ”

The young figure running through the ornate corridors like a happy deer flashed in front of the doors and windows, and sometimes she would open a door curiously to look inside, but more often she would rush past and run to the next place of interest.

Alexander followed her, watching the dragonflies flutter like dragonflies in the flowers, and he couldn't help but stop and smile at the sight.

"Look, Alexander."

Suddenly, she pointed to a room with an open door, where a huge painting greeted her with joy.

The painting is so large that a corner of it can be seen even from outside the room.

Alexander stepped into the room and took a closer look at the huge oil painting that took up an entire wall.

To his surprise, the painting was actually the day Dom Bawi captured Seville.

He saw several familiar voices in the painting, and on top of the head of Don Bavi, who was surrounded by people with his hands folded and preparing to receive the crown of the Consul of Seville, two angels in halos were pouring fragrant petals on Tang Bawi to bless him under the holy light of Jesus Christ.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Zhisa whispered to Alexander, who was standing nearby, "I want to know who painted this picture is." ”

"Do you want this person to paint a portrait of you?" Alexander asked.

"I wanted him to paint a portrait of the two of us."

As she spoke, she spread her arms outstretched, as if to emphasize it.

"It's so big, I'm going to have people record the battle of Seville, because it's the first time we've really fought together, isn't it worth remembering?"

Alexander was touched by his words, and he knew that what he really wanted to write down was the past they had experienced together.

"Actually, it doesn't have to be like this, even the best masters can't show the good times we had."

Alexander hugged him from behind and rested her head on his shoulder: "But if you wish, I will let someone go to this painter, and I will let him paint you the best picture to pass on, so that all future generations will always remember the heroic appearance of the Queen of Sicily, and I have already thought of the name of the painting, which is 'Quesa Cosenza Astamara in Leo'." ”

Alexander's words thrilled Shosha, and she turned to look at Alexander.

"Why not call Alexander and Jossa in Leo, I prefer the name."

Looking at the heat in his eyes that were full of innocence but twinkling with wisdom, Alexander couldn't help but whisper, "If I could, I would prefer to work with you to create a private treasure called the Queen's Bedchamber." ”

"Really?"

Tsusha's eyes immediately narrowed with a smile, she stretched out her hand and pulled Alexander hurriedly towards the corridor, seeing the steward who was blocked by the guards, she hurriedly asked, "Where is the bedroom?" ”

The somewhat surprised steward was just about to reply, when an attendant hurried to report aloud:

"Your Majesty, Vallidot has sent a messenger!"