The siege of Cahors lasted less than an hour, but the ensuing battle was very difficult for Bourbon Henry.

In the French court, the cowardly Charles IX always called this cousin who seemed to be unenterprising and only wanted to have fun as 'his wild boar' when he was king, and experienced the frenzied massacre of the Huguenots by the Catholics led by the royal family and the Duke of Guise at the wedding.

The bloody wedding of Henry Bourbon and Marguerite of Navarre was the largest massacre in French history, with more than 2,000 Huguenot worshippers killed in Paris that night, and the massacre that spread throughout France over the next two months, killing more than 70,000.

The corpses were piled up in the river so that no one dared to eat the fish in the river.

The Huguenot leaders were also killed, and Henry of Navarra and Henry, Prince of Condé, were the only ones left, and in order to save their lives, they converted to Catholicism in front of the king and Guise Henry, and with the help of Marguerite, they were saved from death.

As Charles IX jokingly called Navarre during his lifetime, the battle was repeated in Cahors, and the defender, Count Vizan, was killed by Viscount Tirrenne of Navarre on the first night, but this only provoked the courage of the defenders and militia.

The people repeatedly tuged at the twenty street corners of the city of Cahors, and every day, Huguenot warriors, holding allegations of sky blue on a white background, hats and helmets with red feathers, captured every street, square, and street corner; Every night, the defenders tried again and again to regain the important ground lost during the day.

After the death of the defender, Count Vizan, the garrison was also lost in the fierce street fighting, and now the main force defending the city is the citizens of Cahors.

Cahors' defenders, militia, and townspeople, all Catholics, were outnumbered by the forces of the Kingdom of Navarre, and although they were outnumbered, there were more than a thousand musketeers out of 2,000 men, giving them an advantage in narrow street fighting.

But the people were clearly more feared by religious fanaticism, and they went from room to room, firing cold guns, throwing torches, and even tearing down houses to throw stones and wood at the invaders.

Under the banner of a large gold chain of Navarre painted on one side and a golden lily with a three-toothed rake on the other side of the blue coat of arms, the besieging army retaliated with a tooth for a tooth.

At every window, they were willing to stretch out five or six muskets to fire at the same time, and at every door, they were eager to bombard a cannonball with the breech whirling cannon that the Ming Dynasty called the Franc machine.

However, they only had four field guns, and the gunpowder they carried was not enough to bombard them frequently, so they suffered heavy casualties.

The king was so frightened that his face turned pale, but again and again he forced himself to take the lead in the face of dizziness, and in a few days he was involved in as many as ten battles alone, and even once carried the flag himself in the repeated battles in the streets, and the banner was rolled so that his helmet was so obscure that he could not see anything, and insisted on standing at the forefront of the battle formation.

His flag was so badly shattered that if it weren't for the best quality plate armor on his body, he would have died a long time ago.

During the five days and nights of street fighting, the Huguenots tried to retreat more than once, relying almost entirely on the courage of Henry Bourbon and the valiant battle of the nobles of the court, almost all of whom became knights of the horses, and there was not one of the best horses.

Sir Mornay, whose humerus was also Henry's teacher, was hit on the head by a large stone that had been thrown down from the second floor, and his helmet shattered and almost died; On the fifth day of the battle, Sir Schop, who had led his army to the aid of the victorious base, had his breastplate shattered and was extremely dangerous.

The lover of Queen Margot in the Navarre nobility, Viscount Tirenne, who had the courage to dare to cuckold the monarch in battle, was shot in the shoulder, but he killed the guard.

The dream of musket bullets coming at him from all sides woke King Bourbon Henry, King of Navarre, who sat up on the cold tiles of the city walls, and leaned against the battlements with his aching arms from swinging his axe.

The night wind crept into the cracks in his armor, and the cold sweat-soaked back made the king shiver, and he looked out of the city, and it was pitch black.

Darkness was the best news for him, which meant that Marshal Billund's counterinsurgency army did not come.

Half of the city of Cahors had been crumbled by five days and nights of repeated tug-of-war, and the torches burning in the streets reflected the ruins in the dim light.

When he turned around, the able-bodied envoys of the King of France stood beside him, as they had shown in the previous battle, with a guard of honor representing the King of France.

The teacher Mornay leaned on the battlements and looked into the distance, the wound on his head was only wiped away with a damp cloth, but the new blood came down again and scabbed, and in the dark he looked like a strange man with half of his face covered with dark birthmarks; Sir Schop patrolled the city with torches in his damaged cuirass.

From below the city, the voice of Viscount Tirena was heard, and when he looked down, the Viscount, with an unnaturally hanging arm, was leading the guards to supervise the people to repair the city gates.

As if hearing the voice beside him, Sir Mornet turned his head: "Your Highness, we have received the queen's dowry, there is enough food and water in the city, we still have two thousand soldiers who can fight, as long as the city gate is repaired, even if Marshal Billon comes over now, we can guard it for half a month." ”

"You have reaped the loyalty of Viscount Tirena with your generosity, and this battle has also strengthened the faithful in Protestantism with bravery, and the soldiers have said that it is God's arrangement, so that you will be unscathed in the rain of bullets."

"My heart is very damaged." Bourbon Henry knew that it was not the gods who had arranged for him to remain unscathed, but the expensive armor he had ordered from Spain, but he also spoke his mind: "I'm scared. ”

"I'm not good at swordsmanship, I'm neither brave, I'm not tall, and my heart trembles when I hear the sound of muskets and cannons, and it's a miracle that I've survived again and again."

Henry wiped his face and stood up with his axe, and he was indeed not very tall, but also a little shorter, as he said, and he was apprehensive: "They are the bravest citizens I have ever met. ”

The defenders were killed on the first night, but the defenders and citizens fought with them for five days and five nights in the lonely city...... Not to mention the citizens, even the mercenaries who ask for a lot of money don't have this combat power.

"Not only bravery, but also because this city is surrounded by rivers on three sides, and only the north is flat, and we attack the city from the north, and they have nowhere to run if they want to, so they can only fight us."

Bourbon Henry blinked, as if that was indeed the case.

He shook his head and said, "No matter what, do we still have a war horse that can stand up?" Now it's time to send scouts to see where Marshal Billon and his army have gone, who swore to hang all the Huguenots. ”

"Condé and the others in the north will not obey the orders and will soon be defeated, and this battle cannot be continued, and I intend to return to Montauban to gather my army, and fight Marshal Billon as far west as possible near the coast, in order to keep the city of Cahors...... They. ”

King Navarre paused and looked at the endless darkness outside the city: "Those Ming Empire troops, I asked Margo for help, but will they join us?" ”